Which Gentile Does Hashem Love? with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom everybody welcome back to the M welcome home to Torah a very warm welcome I'm glad you're all here because tonight's class is another absolutely fundamental you know foundational yic you know fundamental principles of Judaism that I believe every Jew and every non-jew every righteous Gentile needs to know and uh it's based on the clear car as of course we use the clear car as the the um the basis for our discussion the clear in Paras AEV okay and we're going to be in chapter 7 and really it's verse 12 now we do encourage you to all learn Hebrew so in the description box below is a link where you could find the the um the sore sheets the Hebrew sour sheets for that particular para for this particular para if you're interested in getting the English Source sheets basically I just add English translations to some of the sources that are quoted here to make it easier to look up um you don't have to Fumble around although it's always good to see them in the original another uh concept that I want to mention is that uh especially in tonight's class I always encourage you to look at and uh listen to the other classes on this para um we're not covering the whole Para we usually cover just a few verses however tonight's class is picking up it's almost like part two of a previous class uh where we're going to go more in depth towards let's say part two the second part of the class we're going to go much more in depth so down below there'll be a link to what we call the first part of this class although I will give you I'm hoping like in two or three minutes I know it won't be two or three minutes um some background okay so if you notice in Source One in the English I mentioned that the previously the emphasized in the beginning of pares AEV that the word AEV is translating or it's hinting to the idea of theim are a type of Mitzvah there's two typ let's just say you can always divide any subject into two parts so there are mitv there are Commandments that are called kimim would be the mitzvas that are not b based on logic and reason they're more of religious nature and the Misha are let's say civil laws between man and man things that Society needs to run and uh the the important lesson that the clear gives over is to emphasize this idea that one should perform theim which are mitzvas without necess without reason just like you would with the with the Mish meaning these are things that you know are right there's you know right and wrong you know it's right or wrong you know that there's I'm going to even call benefit for society and for the world that's what the mishpatim are theim are decrees from God without reason you should do them because God um because God commanded you basically an even playing field I'm going to get into a little bit more and vice versa meaning that the Mish you should do because God decreed it theim are more religious nature and you should do the Mish even though they make sense and they feel good when you do them you should do them because God commanded you now that's for the Jews okay and we're going to say that even a Ben no is going to learn a tremendous amount of wisdom there a non-jew who wants to I'm going to use the words observe the Torah for them their motivation should be and you'll see why I'm saying saying this that when they do the seven no laws when they do the whatever they're obligated to by the way it's not just seven there's seven principles and any logical um moral Mitzvah that's in the Torah they're also obligated in okay so the Clear Car really goes out of his way to emphasize that theim should be done and performed just like the Misha the mishpatim should be performed just like you do theim and for the reasons we mentioned uh earlier so that for sure view the previous classes on that on that issue okay Rashi had mentioned on verse 12 that why is the word a have used what does it mean it literally means to heal but if you will heed the minor Commandments or in Hebrew it'sot theot that what usually people are they usually trample them with their heels and that is what the Torah is warning you you should um you shouldn't treat them as of minor importance okay so it's very important that we equate the two and again you'll enjoy the previous class so we're going to pick up in the middle of T Shing yud that would be 710 in the clear and halfway down the page he says what does it say at the end of thean so if you go back to um chapter 7 verse so in verse 9 you must know that Hashem your God he is the god the faithful God who safeguards the Covenant and the kindness for those who love him and for those who observe his Commandments for a thousand Generations that's unbelievable that's incredible now verse 10 and he repays his enemies in his lifetime we have no idea what that means who are God's enemies if you read verse 9 you understand that God loves those who observe his Commandments for a thousand Generations so who does he not love that would be the enemy again it's very it's it's very um vague he repays his enemies in his lifetime to make him perish he will he shall not delay for his enemy in his lifetime he shall repay him now what I'm about to tell you you don't really see in the words until you really examine them carefully in the Hebrew hasem will pay to those who hate him to their face to cause their destruction to uh how did they translated here um perish okay that's a good translation no he he doesn't delay he will pay them quickly let's say elav again to his face yes sh very I would say vague because we don't understand exactly what it means God's enemies okay so this idea of God hating somebody who in the world are these people and that God will what does it mean that he will not delay in paying in paying them okay so Rashi actually says what it means meaning during his lifetime God will pay him good reward what is going on here talking about God's enemies he's going to reward them but what does he do why is he rewarding them now in this world in order to cause that person to be lost from the world to come there will not be any reward in the world to come there there won't even be the world to come for such a person unbelievable so who is this person that God is going to bless in this world and like I said in the beginning I believe every Jew must understand the principles and every god-loving Gentile should understand these principles as well okay because we're going to talk about the basis for a righteous noide a I'm going to say in Hebrew the the one who the ones amongst the Nations who are truly righteous and you got to like be prepared for this so that's at the end of last week's para then we turn the page and we go right into this is the reward for those who hearken to these ordinances we already said the word reward here AEV is referring to theim theim are those Mitzvah that are not logical you do them equal to the Mish and then you will observe and perform them Hashem your God will safeguard for you the Covenant and the kindness and that's going to refer to the world to come the promise of uh eternal life okay so now let's just get into the clear right away the CLE car mentioned this verse right he's going to pay to those who hate him to their face to cause them to perish he won't delay that payment meaning he's going to pay now in this world elav to his face meaning in this world yes low he will certainly pay him you will guard the mitz remember there's two types the and the during his lifetime he's going to pay him whatever reward good reward is coming to him so who again who is the who are those that hate that God hates in order to take away in order to trouble them meaning to to take take away from the the the the reward in the world to come now right away the clay card is making a unbelievable assumption but he will take the Assumption and prove what he's talking about and the assumption is it's not just an assumption it's actually a principle the K what's bothering what is bothering the clear if a non-jew fulfills a mitvah doesn't matter which one even and especially the seven law in which he's question mark why is he considered or called hated by God at the time he's fulfilling a Mitzvah it doesn't make sense a non-jew who's doing a Mitzvah Mitzvah means god commanded him he is what he's hated by God at the time he does it trust me if you really thought about this it certainly does not make sense God should love him so now the assumption is like this with absolute certainty since what we're talking about this non-jew I would even say drum R please this is really the summation of what we spoke about as you'll see in in the earlier part of the clear that we only summarized a even at the time at the moment that the person is non-jew is fulfilling a particular Mitzvah amongst what we're going to call the mus The Logical wellth thought out intellectually stimulating or beneficial MIT I'm going to say in this case we were describing the one that God hates he is only doing the Mitzvah or the we'll call the kind the good act whatever that is for a a benefit it could be a psychological benefit could be an emotional benefit it could be an intellectual benefit but he's feeling the benefit at the moment that he's performing the Mitzvah and perhaps because it's that's why he's doing it not a therefore the clear is claiming that this person has the status the den of somebody who basically made his own religion what does it mean he that he pin for himself he made his own personal ruling he decided this is good for me not because God commanded him he's doing it because it's good for him and therefore therefore he will receive reward in this world a I mean was so much that needs to be um explained here you know we said that this person is not going to get the the the reward in the world to come well he doesn't believe in it he doesn't believe in God he's not doing these misses CU God commanded he's doing them only I'm talking about the one who does them only for the sake obviously if a Ben Noah does it because yes it makes sense and especially because God commanded me or him he's not going to fit in this category this is the category where he's doing it only because it makes sense and not because God commanded him but God tells us the Jewish people but you the Jewish people do not do this to Hashem your God God hates this right but rather as as it said in verse 11 you shall guard and do and perform and observe all these Mitzvah ready because I'm the one that commanded you because I commanded you that's why you're going to do it and therefore I want to just add in now when the Ben Noah who wants to be righteous he's doing it because God commanded him and we're going to prove that that that's the case then he gets reward in the world to come God is so kind he's not going to give you something you don't want you don't believe in him you don't think enough that maybe I should be doing it for the sake of God that maybe there is a world to come but you're doing it only because of it's a personal benefit God will give you your reward in this world because that is exactly what you're doing another measure for measure he's giving you exactly what you deserve you wanted some benefit in this world he's going to give you the benefit in this world and he will give it to you now and not later which I'm sure you're not interested in alone meaning to say it's on account that I commanded you that you're observing them that you're doing them and not for your own personal benefit not because of a psychological or a emotional benefit asmaa what comes out automatically as we said in last you know earlier in this par which we skipped over the whole idea is that automatically both the Mish which are the logical mitzvas and the hook which are the illogical the superal above nature Mitzvah they would be equal in your eyes you would be doing them for the same reason meaning because for two reasons well at least the Mish because God commanded you and they make sense and the because God commanded you and through this there's there's a connection therefore we're connecting the first verse in our week's our week's partial which is verse 12 and it will be remember the word is hinting to the idea of the if you listen to them and you do them with just as much seriousness Reus fervor and passion the as you do with the then what will be what will be the then for sure it's absolutely fitting that the prime reward will be guarded for you in the world to come and that's what it means at the end of that verse 12 that God that God will guard for you the Brit and the and the kindness which he swore to your forefathers to give you okay that is first paragraph now next piece goes like this the now I don't think he means the end of the weekly para but the end of these two paragraphs chapter 8 verse 20 now it's really I want you to look at 19 and 20 we're going to really look at 20 in depth but if you go to number four in the sore sheet it says and it will be if you forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship them and prostrate yourself before them I bear witness against you this day that you will surely perish this is no question it's talking to the Jews about idol worship okay verse 20 is very awkward because this is where the Clear Car understands this idea as the Nations that the Lord destroys before you so will you perish since you will not obey the Lord your God so who's perishing the Jew who could be the one we just talked about doing idol worship the clear is going to have another angle but why is it compared to the Nations who are going to be destroyed where did that even come up the cleard is going to separate verse 19 verse 20 so according to him right now he only wants us to look at verse 20 and it said like I mentioned in Hebrew like the Nations that God will cause to perish before you so too to see the word a it also means because of because you didn't listen so just take this one verse on its own like the go whoever they are they will perish so just like they perish it's because you did not do theim you didn't listen to the word to the voice of God as a command you were doing it only because it made sense that's in other words the regular guy who's a wise guy and that's not a little thing it's a huge thing a very smart and I'm going to call him moral seemingly allegedly living a seemingly moral life but he doesn't believe in God and he's not doing them because God commanded he only will be um blessed in this world not in the world to come and that's what it means that he will surely perish now the very fact that verse 19 is speaking about idol worship and it uses the word perishing twice the last two Hebrew words is a to so the Jew who worships Idols truth is probably by non-jews as well will perish in this world and the world to come that's why it says it twice whereas the go you're going to you're going to perish like the go who don't listen to my word who don't take my Commandments seriously as a command you'll only have one um to there's only one aspect of perishing and so the distinct distinction here is drum roll please that thank you the The non-jew Who on his own decides This Is My Religion this is my way of life the seven no laws because they make sense to me he will lose his place in the world to come but will be blessed in this world okay now let's go back into the CLE card now that I gave that little bit of an introduction with the last paragraph on page tter 8 ver 20 just like the Nations or the non-jews that is going to cause to perish before you so to you will perish just like them a the word a we know is a hint to theim because you didn't listen to the Beall the The Voice the command of Hashem your God so the clear says this verse without all my explanation would have seemed Superfluous would have seemed not necessary because it already mentions in the verse 19 that you the Jew will surely perish okay that's his assumption because we didn't really understand the verses yet so what does verse 20 actually add that we didn't already know in verse 19 and furthermore he says go and this is a fantastic question because how did the how did the CLE even know that we're going to say that was earlier on uh well let's just say like this how does the clear understand in our verse when I say our verse I'm really talking about the last verses in uh I mean verse 10 it says he repays his enemies in his lifetime to make him perish okay what does that have to do when you look at verse um 8:20 where it says like the goam he's actually making a comparison so he understands it like this here's the question what in the world is a like in other words our verse says the like the go you will perish so why did he even have to say like the go just say you will perish we already saw that you will perish in verse 19 so what does verse 20 say now like the go you will perish what is it to be compare what is the Torah doing what is God trying to tell us what is mosha telling us that like the go so he's telling us with absolute certainty that verse 20 does is not connected it's a separate idea because it would have been totally extra you wouldn't have needed it you're already going to be perishing in this world in the next World what is verse 20 actually add that it actually somehow connects to idol worship I'm to go so he says we already know chat verse 19 in chapter 8 is dealing with ID [Applause] worship as the verse says and it will be that if you forget meaning if you surely forget the Lord your God and you follow other gods and worship them and prostrate yourself before them of course it's talking about aara cuz what other what else can it mean when it says you forgot the Lord your God and regarding that that's why it says the double language a to there's a double perishing as I mentioned the perishing in this world and a perishing in the world to come but he says it himself he says there's a double perishing meaning to say the one that worships Idols he he will lose both he will be perished from both from getting any benefit uh in this world meaning any kind of BR or reward in this world and any kind of BR or reward in the world to come now afterwards it says so in verse 20 it's talking about a totally different type of perishing it's only talking about a perishing in the world to come now I just want to mention before we go further how do we even know that non-jews have a place in the world to come is that an assumption they got a place in the world to come so I want to tell you that the rambam says it and I believe that it's based on a a gor in this is from the r this is chapter 8 well it's Mish 11 it's 11 so listen to these words anyone this is the rambam anyone who accept him this is all about by the way about non-jews anyone who accepts upon himself the Fulfillment of the seven mitzvot and is precise meaning he really makes every effort in their observance is considered one of the pious amongst the Gentiles and what does he say next and we'll have a merit in the world to come but there's a caveat he says this applies only so the world to come as a reward for the pious amongst the Nations who fulfill the Mitzvah because they try is because he and only when he accepts them and fulfills them because the Holy One Blessed Be he commanded them command them in the Torah as well as informed them through mosha that's how we know um and that Noah's descendants had been commanded to fill them previously now he writes something else however if that non-jew fulfills them out of intellectual conviction he's not a res resident Alan we're going to read it in Hebrew that means a nor is he amongst the which we already said gets but rather he's only amongst the wi of the Nations which are the I want to read it in Hebrews so we understand that we're not making any you know mistakes here all that are accepting of the seven mitz and his careful precise loving to do them he is amongst or she is amongst the righteous of the Gentiles the righteous of the of the Nations and they will receive the reward in the world to come and the reason they accept them and they're going to do them is because God commanded them in the Torah which was informed to us through by Moses through the Torah mosu the that even the there was a tradition already going back to Noah that we received them but if you do it only because it makes sense because it's the most logical conclusion they don't have the Merit to live in Israel amongst the Jews and to be part of a Jewish Community as a non-jew which you already said that is the righteous Gentile that goes to heaven or has a portion the in the world to come may but rather only amongst the the wise the wise of the uh the non-jews okay so there's one more piece I wanted to go to the gamar it says s hedrin mishna it's the chapter 11 in in uh in St hedrin it says all the Jewish people even Sinners even Sinners amongst the Jews and those who are liable to be executed by the way so the previous chapters before mentioned the different types of death penalties for Jews once you're guilty and you're put to death the person's put to death they executed then through um through the the death process and perhaps whatever has to take place in a short period in geham the person will then go TOA as it says hasn't Shar in the world to come and I kind of want to skip some of this but it says there are exceptions so not every Jew in other words it says all the Jews and then it gives you a whole list of Jews who don't now so who are the exceptions who do not have a share in the world to come one who says Ain there's no such thing as what as resurrection of the Dead Min Torah okay we're not going to go into that one but the next one is who's an exception a Jew says a Tor that the Torah is not from heaven so this applies to a Jew as well a Jew will lose his world to come if he doesn't believe that these Commandments are from God okay now what I didn't quote here the mishna later on but by the way there's a few other exceptions a different types of attitudes um but there are um there's a list of four three kings and four common folk in the list of the common folk we call hot billum is listed why is billum listed the whole mission is about Jews all Jews have a role to come call and then it Miss exceptions for the Jews allegedly I think once you see the word billum is listed and this I'm not making this up this is clearly uh accepted amongst many B was not Jewish and therefore that's proof that all Jews have a place in the world to come and only select non-jews okay non-jews have a portion of the world to come as well bill billum is an example of of a non-jew not getting so in other words when once you list a non-jew that's not getting then you understood that non-jews can not all but there's there right and there's no doubt in my mind that everything I learned about the rambam and what we we hold by the seven no laws that if you believe that God commanded them then you go to the heaven if you don't you're lonely listen amongst the wise of the Nations and there's no world to come waiting for you I I I hope this really um penetrates those people especially the Jews of course that we do the Mitzvah theim and we understand we're doing the because God commanded and the Mish don't forget God commanded them as well do them also for the same reason CU God commanded um but importantly for the non-jew to really come and be you know let it sit well with you this understanding examine the Torah come to believe that the Torah is from heaven or or or deny it but in other words investigate it okay check it out so going back into the Clear Car the last thing we read was that the the uh the idea that uh in verse 19 was said twice that was talking about a v Zara so the person loses both this world and the next World and then afterwards verse 20 is only talking about one oade one type of loss and that would only be the loss of so that's where we pick up third line down five words from the end The Who if someone is not fulfilling the word again is a hint to the idea of theim theim again are those that are not obvious benefits since the benefits of the mitas are not obvious or perceived in this world like not wearing shess picking up a log whatever it is things that are eating then what happens is most likely even what one does fulfill from the MIT that he would only be doing it for some kind of benefit and that is what the verse is talking about in chter 8 ver 20 like the Nations hem only causes to perish in one way meaning in the world to come but not in this world he he'll better he'll he'll give you the reward for doing the mitzah in this world and he's referring to this is exactly what it means in chapter 7: 10 meaning the last couple verses of last week's para that God says that God will pay he'll pay to those who hate him to their face to destroy them to cause them to perish that's that is from the world to come to so too you will perish meaning that's in verse uh 20 that's the extension just like the non-jews who don't take my word seriously they will perish in the world to come so to you you the Jew as well like ramb says and now we're going to give a reason for this idea when it says what is a is the theim you're not listening to you're not taking seriously just says we said it means it's since you're not listening you're not taking seriously the Mitzvah that are hinted in what does that infer that infers the one who does take seriously the one who does fulfill theim and again for non Jew a righteous Gentile all the Mitzvah that are that are logical do them because God commanded you to do them it's going to make a huge difference for eternity I hope that lesson is getting clear so he says right someone who fulfills those Mitzvah like theim as if they're doing for sure the Jew so they're going to eat the fruit in this world meaning there will be some benefits because God will bless the person in this world and the principle the prime reward will be waiting for the person in the world to come and that's why it says here right in the end of our our verse um 12 that God will guard for you the Brit is the Covenant the promise and the the kindness and that's awaiting for you in the world to come okay so the clear card is going to continue he's so he's going to point out a few things in verse 12 God will guard for you the Covenant which he swore to your forefathers so the cart points out the word okay what does it mean he says that the word is actually coming to answer God's going to guard for you the Brit the Covenant it's going to guard for you what he swore to your forefathers now let me ask you something God swore to our forefathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob you're received will inherit this land you guys are very special you're unique is this conditional and other words no matter how we behave no matter how we Act is this unconditional love that God will no matter what provide you with a no we already know we already saw there's exceptions it's mamish individually so let's see how he explains it he actually asked a very good question hello Tony is it not this this oath that God swore us wasn't it um it was not unconditional I mean he's really asking a rhetorical question you mean even if if you didn't Merit it that God would or would not like is it dependent on what you do cuz if you don't Merit it you think H's going to fulfill his oath no okay this is what it comes down to yes God has promise the nation the nation call Israel but individuals can lose it if you personally don't Merit it you will lose out even as a Jew like it said like Moses was promised God wanted to destroy the Jewish people and he said I'm going to make up with you look in Exodus 32:10 right so Moses is praying for the uh for the for the atonement for the Forgiveness of the Jewish people God says now leave me alone and my anger will be kindled against them so that I will annihilate them take the Jews out but not all of them cuz he's going to start over with Moses a Jew Moses is part of Israel so he's never going to get rid of the Jewish people never going to get rid of the Jewish people he would start over with Moshe so the individual there's no guarantee there's no guarantee is what he's saying so if you do Merit then you will Merit in this generation to be part of the CL that's why it says now think about the verse think about the verse we're talking about verse 12 so when you look at verse 12 it says is plural and it will be that if you listen right there will be a reward if you listen and you all collectively perform them I'm sorry keep them and perform them and then all of a sudden right away it switches to singular in the mid sentence the beginning is all plural and now it says and God will guard for you individually which he swore to your forefathers so one second the Clear Car points this out and he says the fact that [Music] what from the very fact that is a singular language even though the verse started out speaking to the Harmon to the whole uh plural people nevertheless mid sentence it changes to individually to hint to what even to the world to come the the reward that is waiting for you as an individual in the world to come that there in the world to come will be created an individual living unit for each righteous person on their own now there is a gamar here in shabis 152a which is number seven I'll just read it real quick the gamor interprets the continuation of a previous verse that said and Co literally a person goes to his eternal home what does it mean his eternal home this is in Ecclesiastes Calis 125 ritak said this teaches that each and every righteous person is given a dwelling place in the world to come in accordance with his personal honor what you deserve or what you don't deserve maybe it's Grace and kindness but what you earn so to speak the gor offers a parab parable in which a King enters a city along with his servants so they're all coming into the city a big entourage guess what they all come in through the same gate when they enter they all enter through a single gate however now you're going to go to sleep you think the king's quarters are any different than the Servants of course they are right you got the bed with the mosquito net right nice plush uh pillows you know maybe a go a gold goblet or two but you can just use your imagination when the king is offered his room so when they sleep each one is given a Dwelling Place in accordance with his honor so too although everyone dies we all go to the same gate right not everyone receives the same reward in the world to come it's individual it's customade okay so now we'll continue on with the clear and it's we got two more paragraphs to go verse 14 now this if you thought this was good so far wait till you hear this this is crazy stuff so this is number eight now depends how you want to translate this so the kabad website says you shall be Bess you will be the Most Blessed of All Peoples wait till you see this look at the Hebrew look at the Hebrew and they'll tell me how to translate it me you will be blessed by all the people in other words the blessing is coming from the people every non-jew on the planet will bless the Jewish people what does it say what's the me from now obviously it sounds great you're going to be blessed mostly by you know you're you're your people are the Most Blessed you will be blessed above listen to the Hebrew of the clear he says there's a there's a there's a mid they will bless you you're going to be blessed from them they're going to bless you does that make any sense what benefit is there to Israel to be blessed well that's great that's very nice but what is that all about so there's a little bit of background by the way so this is gor shabas 119b I actually want to spend a lot of time on this um we have a little bit of time the gamor says it's like this let me just tell you what the cleart just sums up in four words there's a a evil angel or a bad Angel has to say Amen now what is this referring to Friday night we come home from sh and we say right we're saying kidish so when we come on Friday night we sing sh and everything's nice believe me if your beds were made and the food was cooked and the house was clean and the kids are all clean and everyone's well fed and they're putting on their nicest clothes and you come home then there's two angels that that um escort you home and one is a good Angel one's a bad Angel and so the good Angel when everything is in order says may next shabas be just like this shabas and the bad Angel says amen meaning he's forced to say amen and God forbid what happens when the house is a mess things not clean the food is not cooked or it's burnt or whatever like you people are not clean and the house is a mess so then the good the bad Angel says may next weak be just like this one and the good Angel is forced to say Amen now that's the background for what the cleard is going to say says like this the the gar in 119b said that said one who prays on chabas evening and recites so that's in two ministering Angels who accompany that person at all times Place their hands on his head and say your iniquity has passed and your sin has been atoned that's an amazing thing when a Jew observes Shabbat as we'll see he is partnering with God in the creation of the world and what happened on Friday of the original week of creation Adam was forgiven his sins were forgiven and shabas came in so it was taught inos Yuda says two ministering Angels accompany a person on Shabbat evening from the synagogue to his home one good angel Angel and one evil angel when he reaches his home and finds a lamp burning meaning it's a good thing there's light and the table set in his bit bed is made that the good Angel says May It Be Your Will that it shall be like this for another shabas and the evil angel answers against his will amen and if the person's home is not prepared for shabas in that manner the evil angel says May It Be Your Will that it should be for another like this another Shabbat and the good angel answers against his will amen now what I want to do there is this uh look my look what I'm holding up this page okay now I actually have that on the right side is the gamor itself which I just read on the left is the Hebrew comments Down Below in the gamar so I would like to highlight a few points here so in Isaiah 6:7 that's what he's quoting your iniquity shall be removed and your sin shall be atoned for that is talking um referring to the first shabas of um of creation Adam Rishon was forgiven why is it about declaring shabas and how is it that you're becoming a partner with God we know that if you were a witness to something and they're relying on your testimony and you don't show up that then you carry the sin of the person I I mean whether for good or for bad in other words to get them off or to get them convicted you're a witness to something and you need to show up so Leviticus 51 mentions that if a person sins and he accepts an oath to be a witness by seeing or knowing yet he doesn't testify if he doesn't testify no he carries the sin so imagine we are witnessing we are God's Witnesses we know that God created the world in seven days or six days and rest on the seven we know so we're testifying when we keep shabas and we saying kidish we're testifying now the next part where it says P NOA at the time that chabas comes in Adam arish was atoned for for his sin of eating the uh from the um from the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil therefore when you say you become and therefore you're also atoned for just like Adam was atoned for his sin now this gets a little hairy because is there such thing as an evil angel in Judaism we don't believe that so how can we be discussing this in English even the word Mal how does that work out there's such a thing as an evil angel so we don't believe in that so how does that explain so it's if you read along with me number seven every time you do a Mitzvah you're creating a Angelic Force let's say an energy force and uh that comes before a man and one is going to be good what's the good we're calling it good because he's going to be your defensive angel in when you go before the Heavenly court that he's going to declare that you fulfilled the Mitzvah just his presence alone I don't believe the needs to speak I mean the way it says he's going to testify I think his presence is testimony enough cuz he exists you created him through the through the Mitzvah and what does it mean it's not that he intrinsically is RA he's just like the suon the suon isn't ra the suton isn't evil you heard me say it right the he's going to Pro prosecute You by claiming you didn't fulfill it that's why he's called Rah not that he intrinsically he's telling the truth okay now there's some that explain there's some that explain what's written they write we're not actually talking about angels I know that's what is an angel an angel is an energy force and and we talked about when you do the Mitzvah you're creating that energy force right right but there's something behind where did the energy come from we all have within us a y y to God Gave Us free will without free will we wouldn't even receive reward there's no choices the fact that we're able to make the choices so when we choose the wrong thing that's called Rah okay the itself is not necessarily Rah God created it and we have it within us and we can actually use it for good and we have to learn how so L is what he says they say that we're not talking about actual Angels because a when we talk about Heavenly Angels there's no evil angels at all there's no such thing as R therefore the intent is the the to that inclination that God gave us and ready for this I'm sure everyone can relate to this there's inertia right Mitzvah mitzvah so when you do a Mitzvah properly you become it strengthens a person to continue to fulfill Mitzvah and it weakens the opposition which is the Y you do you become more and more righteous so it weakens the inclination to do that evil act in the future okay this is the actual understanding when we say that the evil angel is going to say Amen or the good Angel has to forc to say am to the evil angel what does it mean the good angel that is the BR that the good Angel he's blessing the person with in his house that he should be prepared he's just blessing him the that the nurur should continue you're already on your way you're doing Mitzvah you're right it's a Mitzvah to prepare take a hot shower cut your toenails cut the toilet paper whatever it is right prepare for shabas however even the Mal even that thing that we call the evil angel he's forced to sound made so that's all good meaning he's being subjected subjugated he's being weakened okay you understand the now what about the other side when you're prevented from fulfilling a Mitzvah properly this we this weakens your desire to do Mitzvah properly in the you know whatever is coming up to you and it actually strengthens your your opposition the Y becomes strengthen in in not doing it right so it comes out when we don't when we don't prepare our house if we're not preparing our house for shabas properly so then the Malak that evil angel we call thear he's blessing what is he blessing that even the shabas coming up you should again stumble in the Mitzvah and and not be prepared whereas the Malak is then forced to say amen he becomes weakened or it becomes weakened that the gor actually tells us that every human being is surrounded by Angels meaning these Angelic energy veres constantly always we learn from the pusk in Psalms 9111 look in number 12 for he God will command his angels on your behalf to guard you in all your ways do you understand you are constantly being escorted you're never alone so then he brings down in the name of the Y who explains that these Angelic forces that are mentioned by a person they're constantly they're always uh following a person around it's always you can never Escape you will always have your to and your they're always going to be with you remember those little descri a little red uh talking person on your left shoulder a little you know white person talking you know do it don't do it remember those movies when we were kids right or maybe Jiminy Cricket I don't know poio even the in evil inclination its root is actually good do you understand why because it's only because of him because of it there is the actual possibility to receive reward do you understand his job is actually to create more reward for you you know think about it like this you're running an obstacle course I'm running I'm running I'm running and there's you know an obstacle you have to jump a hurdle well guess what that's too easy so the devil the sutan he's sitting on the side lines I'm going to raise it another inch right you go around the track and he's he will never give you a turtle that you cannot do but you look and say I can't do it you're you're you're messed up in the head we're all messed up in the head we all have very low self-esteem but he's there to test us so he keeps rench rank wrenching it up what wrenching it up and it won't go so high that you will not pass but it's harder each time but the reward is that much greater each time so he's doing God God's will the suan is doing God's Will by helping you and granting you more reward by making the challenges that much more challenging okay and that's what he says right here I just read the words that through your free will your choices that you make go to you are choosing to overcome your Temptations your sub what's the word I'm looking for not temptation but you're the seductions of this world now the writes okay there's this concept of seven planetary orbits the Earth's not included it's the sun it's the moon it's Mercury Venus Mars s Jupiter and Saturn these are this and they all have let's just say energy forces that affect the Human Condition so he says the very last moment or last hour on Friday is ruled by the mael of sedic which is Jupiter and the Mal shal is the name of the uh Angelic force it happens to be a positive force shab so the very first hour that chabas comes in it's under the mael of which is Mars which is red which is more like the Satan more like the negative and he says this is the Malik shal of the S which is the S himself which is a Mal in other words that's how we're describing it now when chabas comes in at that moment that chabas comes in you're being malim by both of these angels that's why it's these two angels that are escorting you to your house by the way before we go on I just want you to know there is a custom a very not well-known custom not to make kiddish when you come home Friday night between the hours of 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. okay not going to get into that usually there's some opinions it's only like twice a year exactly when uh shabas comes in at 6 which is you know what I mean it's only twice a year it's the spring and the and the fall some say that it works according to the Jewish hour it's always the sixth to seventh hour after midday and there are some say which I actually understand that it doesn't apply in ER for good reason we're not under ma they don't affect us but I think this is even stronger than that what he's saying is nothing to do with The KES at that time but when you come home you actually have these two angels they're going to be there it's exactly at that time and you're making Kish at that time so um he mentions here see the Mario in the very fact that these two angels are the two angels that escort you at that time and believe me you're going to say theu most people do not have this custom you're going to say Kish you're going to have this tug of war I guess if you want to avoid that tug of war so you wait till 7 o' to make Kish okay but anyway let's go back to the CLE car so the last thing we mentioned we're about to right that when it says verse 14 that the non-jews are going to bless you he brought in this gamor now the reason I think the gamor fits is because the when we talk about the um this Evil Angel Believe It or Not the arch angels of the non-js basically are these evil angels if you ask me uh basically that's what it's coming down to when you talk about asav the arch angel of asov is the Satan okay so I think that's why it's brought down and he brings down a question by theel and he asks like this what great benefit is there to the Jewish people through all the nations to to bless us so the says I'm going to tell you that God's eyes are on the land of Israel he desires it he loves it it's the apple of his eye the Jewish people and the the land of Israel Now by God's careful observance and looking into the land of Israel who then his eyes or desires spread to the rest of the world everyone is Meaningful but there's something unique and special about Israel the land of Israel the people of Israel and especially when the people of Israel are living on the land of Israel okay so that's where God's eyes are and then I would say drum roll please at this point because he says that all of the other lands all of the other countries yes America Europe Africa Australia Asia all the lands of the world they extract they pull they suck from the energies that are coming all the energies all the spiritual energies enter 2 kilm from here directly above the Temple Mount that's where the souls enter the world everyone's Soul enter the world's there and that is the naval of the world that's the foundation stone that's where the world began and everything extended from there just like it's happened in the beginning that's happening every nanc so all the spiritual flow of energy spiritual energy is coming there and then going out into the rest of the world if that's true wait till you hear this is that then by default it's by necessity it has to be because whatever they're benefiting from it's coming from here it's coming and stemming from the spiritual reality of Israel that the the Peace of Israel right if Jews live in Tranquility then it will extend to the whole world what goes on here goes through goes out and where do I have this look in number 16 it's Psalms 1 22 it's uh verses 6-9 I'm going to ask someone to sing this with me in a second so request the welfare of Y one should you know pray for the pray for the sake of Jerusalem May those who love you Eno TR enjoy Tranquility May there be peace in your walls Tranquility in your palaces for the sake of my brethren and my companions I shall now speak of Peace in you for the sake of the house of the Lord Our God I beg you for kindness for you I shall beg for kindness for you but this is a very deep song we use in prayer um I'm going to try to sing it I'm going only sing it once so I don't torture [Music] anybody you know what I'm going to stop right there I you want to you want to sing it I you don't won't be better than you oh you won't be better than me I there's many different ways to sing it that's not the way trust me okay let's move on the last thing he said was if you right if the Jews have peace then the whole world has peace so of course they're going to bless the Jews and it says in Psalms 119: 1-2 you'll find that on number 13 hallelu [Music] anyway praise the Lord All Nations Lord him all peoples for his kindness has overwhelmed us and the truth of the Lord is eternal Hallelujah okay so that's how that paragraph ends but he says therefore therefore and it's just three lines it's unbelievable what he says in verse 16 verse 16 says for you will devour the Jewish people will devour all the peoples that hasem your God will deliver to you so in war we will what does that mean we will consume them we will actually acquire their wealth let me explain he says right you will consume you will eat all those people that actually it's your own that giving to you whatever monetary and major possessions they own it all stemm from here it all went out to the world like we said earlier therefore what are you taking you're taking back which belongs to you anyway cu the verse goes on look at 16 it says you will devour all the peop that hasem your God will deliver to you in Hebrew it says Hashem no God give gave to you he's given to you meaning he's already delivered into your hand under your Authority it's already yours now that makes him strange but there is a verse in numbers 149 look at number 15 on the sore sheep this is um you're going to go into the land of Israel and don't be afraid of the non-jews but you shall not rebel against the Lord and you will not fear the people of of that land for they are as our bread what do we say you're going to eat them the word isn't that in the you you'll eat you'll be satisfied you'll bless the Lord your God you have eaten or you will eat here in this case so in I mentioned the verse 149 in numbers it says they are your bread now just think about the word the to fight to battle is the same word as bread is bread loim is a warrior a fighter combat when we eat we're consuming we're destroying your teeth are destroying and chewing and the bread itself I mean you don't think about it but that is really what's happening while you are eating you are at Battle you're at War and the word it's not coincidence is a war and the root is anyway going back into this idea that now there is such a concept it says here that's only that which God puts in your hand but not what what God does not put into your hand now because there is a concept you're not allowed to steal from Gentiles a Jew may not steal from a gentile there are different rules about Jews and Gentiles when it comes to monetary things but I just want to get this I want to get this point across and hopefully everyone will hear what I'm about to say it's absolutely forbidden for a Jew to steal from a go okay but there are going to be differences give you an example when a Jew loses an object in a Jewish neighborhood obviously we're if if it has all kinds of uh you know names we call Simone it's obviously belongs to somebody then you have to return it when it doesn't have any obvious signs and it was lost in a way that a person would have given up hope of ever finding it even a Jewish property the person who found it remember this is just an overview obviously the details you need to speak to your Orthodox Rabbi when you find something so if it has significant signs it belongs to somebody you you have an obligation to return it when it is missing all that and it was obviously lost in a way that would the person gave up any hope of ever getting it back it's called ownerless and therefore you're not stealing talking about from a Jew because when a Jew loses an object in a Jewish neighborhood he probably expects to get it back even if there are signs on there especially if there signs so there's always a relationship between the owner and the object whenever there's a relationship between the owner and the object if I find it I'm stealing I have an obligation to return it because it still belongs to somebody but if it was became ownerless then it's not stealing and I can keep it okay there's a lot of details I'm not going into them however when it comes to a non-jew if a non-jew in Harlem just using an example lost his wallet even if it had some money it's unlikely they usually give up any hope of getting it back okay so unfortunately that's the way it's been throughout all of society so if a Jew found an object that belonged to a non-jew and I'm talking about just for practical purposes in a non-jewish neighborhood he would not be obligated to return it it's not stealing why is it not stealing because the owner had given up hope of ever getting it back I hope that's clear there was a severance of the relationship between the owner of the object and the object itself as long as there's still relationship it's called stealing I have an I have an opportunity I have an obligation to find the owner cuz there's still a relationship between the owner and the property but once that has been severed so Jews know they that that's an obligation to return lost objects I think that a lot of things has have changed in the last you know two 300 maybe 500,000 years you know with what they call judeo-christian values I believe that you know maybe anyway the gamor actually says that anytime this creates a God forbid a desecration of God's name of course the Jew has an obligation to return it but it's coming from a different angle you have an obligation to return it to sanctify God's name to show how great God is um but not necessarily because it's considered stealing so this is the how the cleard ends by this idea to emphasize that stealing from aoy is forbidden but the reason the Torah says and you will consume them is because it's already yours it was always yours in this case in terms of war God gave it back to you he gave you what was already yours but you can't go and take it from a go okay but if a gave it to you then like in this case of War so then that's how it ends in bakama 113b anyway I hope people have listened to the end I know it was very long it was very good it was very fundamental and I think that we can all walk away trying to understand the motivation behind doing the Mitzvah meaning God commanded us even the word command itself is a connection to God and that he's the one who commanded if I'm doing it only because it's a good idea like there are secular Jews okay there really are there happens to be who don't necessarily believe in God who think maybe the Torah is a good book that was evolved and written by human beings and they do things from a cultural standpoint or because it makes sense but they don't believe in God I understand that they have lost their place in the world to come okay so I'm talking to you Jew right I'm talking to you Gentile as well that if you do the Mitzvah whether it's the seven for the non-jews or the 613 for the Jews because God commanded you as it said in the rambam and it says in gorra s hedin you do it because the toad is from Heaven it's going to make a Quantum Leap I mean a Quantum difference here whether or not and I'm not sure it's important to you but if it if if an everlasting relationship with God is important to you because I know how important it is in this world so if it's forever that's even greater right so therefore my interest is in having that relationship seek it out find out if it's true find out if it's worth making that connection with God forever and Chang your attitude when you do the Mitzvah understand you're doing it also or maybe primarily because God commanded it not necessarily just because it's do good feel good for the moment and you'll enjoy Eternal Bliss and with that I wish everyone a shabbat shalom and a great life and we'll see you next week B [Music] hold