1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:05,520 Welcome to Judaism Demystified, a podcast for the perplexed. 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:09,320 Join us as we explore some of the most fascinating Jewish and 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,200 Torah related topics with our esteemed guests. 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,560 By tackling some of the biggest questions you likely won't find 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:19,000 addressed elsewhere, we aim to shed light on important issues 6 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,600 and inspire a return to the fundamentals. 7 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:27,440 Enjoy the show. Thank you for joining the 8 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,920 Judaism Demystified podcast. Rabid Grossman, could you start 9 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:36,360 by briefly introducing yourself and explain why demystifying 10 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:39,960 halacha is so important for contemporary Jewish practice? 11 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:46,200 OK, well I'm Avi Grossman. I'm not necessarily a full time 12 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:52,680 demystifier of halacha. I am actually more full time 13 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,520 Coel student, part time publisher of sparring. 14 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,400 I have my own sperm. I'll tell you about it a little 15 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,320 bit afterwards. But why do we want to demystify 16 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:02,800 Haloho? Why? 17 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,480 Why is it important? Because I guess we've 18 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,040 encountered certain malaise in Judaism. 19 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,760 When you have Haloho that's mystified, as you guys would 20 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,280 would put it. It leads to the situation where 21 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,880 you have an elite can can control the masses in I guess a 22 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,480 sinister way. OK, it's like any other any 23 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:29,400 other system where the knowledge is kept or the bit or perhaps 24 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:34,080 the the authority to decide certain things is kept by a 25 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,120 select group, A minimal group of self selecting group. 26 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:42,720 And the the people who should perhaps be deciding on their own 27 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,120 or at least having a say in the decision or at least knowing how 28 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,280 the decision is made. They, they have no say and they 29 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,040 don't even know if they're perhaps being taken the wrong 30 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,720 way. You know about the whole Das Tor 31 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,560 controversy from about 220 years ago or so, right? 32 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:02,520 So if, if Halafa is kept in the realm of only a select few who 33 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,360 can somehow decipher it. So obvious role becomes 34 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,800 paralyzed when parts of Halafa become rusty. 35 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:12,560 So I don't think we're at a loss for certain examples regarding 36 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,320 this. The most important one, which is 37 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,160 now, thank God, we've already gotten past that. 38 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,360 It was an issue that for a while was a major one was holding back 39 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,320 obvious role and actually perhaps even killing obvious 40 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:25,920 role. And I mean that most literally 41 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,680 led to the deaths of millions was let's say halachic anti 42 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,520 Zionism. Let let's let's move back a few 43 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:40,120 years that there was an idea that obvious role should start 44 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,480 its own state in the land of Israel, right. 45 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:44,960 That that seems like a pretty interesting idea for you. 46 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,360 For those of us who grew up in the 20th century and now the 47 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,000 21st century, this is something that we're used to it. 48 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,560 We know about this we we had basic flag waving Zionism as 49 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:57,720 part of our education back in Jewish day school. 50 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:03,280 But let's say 100 years ago, 120 years ago, that idea was almost 51 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,200 far into many Orthodox Jews, right. 52 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,760 Even though you can possibly study Torah on your own and 53 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,160 realize yes, like the right bar him says I'm Segula. 54 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,720 If you want to be a mammoth at Kohanim, that means a Kingdom of 55 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,520 the priests. A Kingdom has its as a country, 56 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:24,200 it has a land, it is a people and its own defined borders. 57 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,960 Those these are basic premises of keeping the Torah. 58 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,600 But because Amy's role was in the diaspora, not as a 59 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,160 functional nation, but as just an ethnic group that kept to a 60 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,240 certain cultural standards, what we call Torah, so they were 61 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,960 distanced from this. And then when those who were 62 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:47,040 detached from the Torah came up with this new idea to perhaps 63 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,720 found, found a state just like any other, any other national 64 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:53,760 group. So this suddenly became into the 65 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,280 realm of Halwaha. And many of those who were in 66 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,400 the know of Halwaha were saying that this type of idea is 67 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,960 forbidden, right? They said that we cannot have a 68 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,160 state. We're not supposed to be doing 69 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,120 any of these things that these secular Zionists were proposing. 70 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:11,680 And what happened? What did that lead to? 71 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,760 Like Rush after said, this led to the mistake that many Jewish 72 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,680 people, especially in Europe, when the threat of Nazi 73 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,640 annihilation was at their doorstep, they still stay put in 74 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:27,000 Europe because they'd put themselves into this box that 75 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,800 we've been told that this whole evacuates to the land of Israel 76 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,320 try to found the state, do something, maybe even create an 77 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,160 army to defend ourselves. All of these things are part of 78 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,440 one forbidden package. And that's that was a big 79 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,320 problem, right. And I think the the analogy 80 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,600 today is we're holding ourselves back from proceeding with 81 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,880 prosecuting critical war because of this. 82 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:52,480 There are many people. We're stuck. 83 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,000 I think the overwhelming, let's say Haredi world, I think 84 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,160 rightfully so to a certain extent, believes that we cannot 85 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,760 be. We cannot join an army and fight 86 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:05,040 for our defence, right? It's either IDF or bust. 87 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,520 They have this false dichotomy. The IDF is puzzle and it can 88 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,760 give you many reasons. I have a list on my computer, 30 89 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,880 reasons right off the top of someone else's head, which I've 90 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,200 added. But we do know that we have to 91 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,280 fight to survive. So we're holding ourselves back. 92 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,280 We're holding ourselves back from hold building a base of 93 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:24,760 mikdash because we've been told the the rabbi's told us you 94 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,800 can't go to Harbias somehow, even though we read the Torah 95 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:33,000 all the time and we're commanded to build a temple and have a 96 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,360 functioning temple service every single day, right? 97 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:38,320 What's the most important classic in the Torah according 98 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:44,520 to ghazal consistency? That's what's the most important 99 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:48,040 classic in the Torah. And the one of the candidates 100 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,480 was lamb in the morning and lamb in the afternoon. 101 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:54,720 So these are basics of Torah. But we're now stuck, right? 102 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,040 Too many, too many Jews, too many rabbis believe that these 103 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,200 are things that are off the table. 104 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:03,120 Somehow the only way, the only way we could 100 years ago get 105 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,240 back to the land of Israel and have a country was somehow or 106 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,640 other a miraculous Messiah would come. 107 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,960 Only the Messiah could bring us to the state where we could have 108 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:13,680 a country. And nowadays, they say only 109 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,040 Messiah could somehow prosecute a war against their enemies. 110 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,800 Only Messiah could somehow let us back to the Temple Mount and 111 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,640 build a temple. And without Messiah, it's off 112 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:23,440 the table. By the way, this is the position 113 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,520 of the now former chief rabbi. He wrote this explicitly, and 114 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:30,520 he, what he's writing is, if not the explicit opinion, it's the 115 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:35,680 implied opinion of the masses of Orthodox Jews as as you know and 116 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:40,440 as you can figure out. So, yeah, the mystified halacha 117 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,040 keeps us paralyzed and demystifying. 118 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,760 The halacha makes other people wake up, makes the masses wake 119 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,400 up too. Perhaps halacha as we know it's 120 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:52,520 there as we perceive it should be different. 121 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,280 I think, by the way, that's one of the things that Rabbi Barhim 122 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:57,680 has been trying to do. He's been trying to get people 123 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,160 to wake up, perhaps think on on their own, or at least go back 124 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:06,760 to the sources, wake up and realize that God wants more from 125 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,360 us. A mystified halafa. 126 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:13,120 Just, well, like I said, you could, you could choose your 127 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,640 paralysis or you can you can escape it. 128 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,480 Can you, you mentioned this Hazal with one of the three most 129 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,880 important sukim, the Torah. I wasn't familiar with this 130 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:25,440 Hazal. This, is this in the Gomara 131 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:26,920 somewhere? Is this something to drop? 132 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,640 It's in the Gomara. Can you, can you just two 133 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:32,280 seconds? Just go through that one because 134 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,920 it's really interesting. Oh, OK, You wanna let let's 135 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:38,720 diverge here. I don't have it in front of me. 136 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,400 It's just so interesting you you brought it up, but I wasn't 137 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:42,520 familiar. And I'm like, wait, I want to 138 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:43,200 hear more about that. I'll. 139 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,120 I'll give you I'll give you to you outside because normally I 140 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:49,000 prepare rushing it on the screen, but that's not one of 141 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,600 the things I have here. I thought that I don't piss off 142 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:53,880 and other stuff. So let let's go through this 143 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:58,520 'cause I'll have sometimes like to simplify things. 144 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,480 They like to give you a list and they give you mnemonics. 145 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,760 The mission itself is a sing song. 146 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,000 I don't mean I don't mean that in any flippant way. 147 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,560 I mean that's the way it's saying that the children would 148 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,040 chant and then adults would continue to sing it over and 149 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,840 over until they memorized it. The mission is shorthand, 150 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,080 Halafa. And from your knowledge of the 151 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,720 mission, of my heart and then your ability to analyze it, what 152 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,080 we call Tom would, you could understand the halafa and that's 153 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,720 the way it existed for quite a few centuries. 154 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:29,400 So as part of the Tom, would we find these shortcuts, Shortcuts 155 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,640 for memory. Rabi Akiva, sorry, then Rabbi 156 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:37,760 Akiva was talking about how, for example, after rare Hakimotha 157 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,559 that Claude Godola Torre Now that's a good that's a good 158 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:42,919 starting point, because once you have that Allah, you could 159 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,520 perhaps derive all the other rules you need to know about 160 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:51,880 Binodum la Avero right base not be Shami, actual Shami. 161 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:55,960 The the people are trying to convert and they asked Shami and 162 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,880 asked Hilo. Shami wanted to didn't have any 163 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:00,520 patience for someone who's telling you, you know, teach me 164 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,640 all the Torrellajas. But Hillel was able to sum it up 165 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,640 and say, you know, once once you understand this general rule, 166 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:11,000 which is a concise rule in the Torah, perhaps you can become 167 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,720 more interested and realize how all the other rules flow from 168 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,440 that. So Khazal had this idea that is 169 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,080 there are there perhaps. And by the way, we shouldn't 170 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:22,720 hold this way Lahala, because then we'll actually take it to 171 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,640 the the wrong conclusions that perhaps certain mitzvotes, 172 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:31,040 certain verses of the Torah are more important than others. 173 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:32,680 Now we certainly don't believe that right? 174 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,680 That's that was a problem with people standing for the 175 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:37,080 recitation of the 10 commandments. 176 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,200 We read about mom and our sea night. 177 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,120 Now, according to our Minug 3 * a year in the synagogues, you 178 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,080 know, whenever the Parshas Visconti's roll around and also 179 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:50,840 on on Shibuyas. But there there is a practice 180 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,840 that may you've probably seen that that that's when the 181 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,080 congregation stands one that there's a slightly problematic 182 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,920 because it might be implying where we're demonstrating that 183 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:03,040 perhaps these verses are more important, so to speak, than 184 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:04,200 others. And there have been heretical 185 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,240 sects throughout history that have made such claims. 186 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,040 And we don't want to do like the heretics. 187 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,520 But there is this idea that Anuchia Shimelo Kefa has within 188 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:17,400 it, such a profound idea for which all the other ideas flow, 189 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:21,480 that in a sense it is more important, at least from an 190 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,400 intellectual standpoint. So there were among the sages, 191 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,520 those who offered what are, what's the, the main versus the 192 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:31,920 Torah, the ones, the, the, the slogans, the ones that can work. 193 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:33,960 So they suggested ones like Shumai Yasral. 194 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,360 You know that why is it that's, that is the declaration of the 195 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:37,640 faith. That's when you're supposed to 196 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:42,640 teach children first. Or like I said, and I like to 197 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,200 hit on the idea that all the all the ideas that were offered 198 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,880 until that point do have a certain centrality. 199 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:50,200 OK. God. 200 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,360 Yeah, Yeah. Well, Kevin Schmeiss role, those 201 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,720 are big ones. But this idea of as a Keva sahad 202 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,360 TA seba Volker with a keva sashnitas Sebi and Harvain offer 203 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,440 the first lamb in the morning and the second lamb in the 204 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,760 afternoon. A reference to the times when 205 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,840 the tambita is offered. That's the daily offering every 206 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:09,320 single day of the year. He's supposed to have a lamb in 207 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,320 the morning, lamb of the afternoon, offered in the temple 208 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:15,520 as a burnt offering. So that also has a certain 209 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,800 centrality to it because it teaches you a lesson of 210 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,880 consistency. In Abu Dadasham, the biggest 211 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,800 test of any Jew is what does he do? 212 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:29,640 Mode say Yom Kippur. All right, after all that chuva 213 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:31,760 Sarasomi, chuva are over. You've been saying sleeps, maybe 214 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,200 some people could say for 40 days. 215 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:36,480 And yet yesterday was the culmination and the day 216 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:38,800 afterwards, suddenly there's no sleepless, there's no no top. 217 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:40,480 And now it's time to get ready for a holiday. 218 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:43,280 Do people show up to synagogue on time? 219 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,040 Also first thing in the morning on the 11th of Tishrei, do they 220 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,280 doffing with the same kavana? No, every single day. 221 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,640 Yom Kippur, the service of Yom Kippur and the service of of 222 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,680 Wednesday are at least identical in this respect. 223 00:11:56,680 --> 00:11:58,840 The first service and the end, the closing service, they're all 224 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,200 the same. Yet there's a lot in the middle 225 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,120 that's specific to Yom Kippur. But the beginning of the end, 226 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:06,520 day in, day out, same time, same place every single day. 227 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,560 That's that's an important principle in in in halacha. 228 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,280 We don't take vacations from from serving God. 229 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:14,680 You know, you don't get a day off to say you know what today 230 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,040 I'm going to sleep late and miss chakras and I'm not going to put 231 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:18,680 on to filling. There's no such thing. 232 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,560 That's why And also by the way you're talking with Torah, 233 00:12:21,560 --> 00:12:23,800 there's no such thing as going a day without studying Torah. 234 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:29,560 Yeah, it could be some sort of emergency, but the law not post 235 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:33,320 facto. You should have taught Torah 236 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,360 study every single day. You should be educating children 237 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,680 every single day and there's no such thing as a day off from 238 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:39,200 Torah study from the for the children. 239 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,120 Even you guys, you guys heard about that, that perhaps the 240 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,600 adults, they can be excused if they don't have time to study 241 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,960 once again on Arab yantis or Arab Shabbos. 242 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,560 But there's no such thing as a day off for tinogos schulbase 243 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:52,000 rabble even to build a base of mikdash. 244 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,240 You don't take time off to teach the students. 245 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,360 I think the Zilberman's is those who followed his tariff. 246 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:00,560 They've taken this to the what the villain believes to be the 247 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:02,440 proper, not the absurd conclusion. 248 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,240 The proper conclusion that there really is no day off for Rishiv 249 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:09,480 except unfortunately T Shabab if it is a fast day and there is no 250 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:14,360 tall to it. Yeah, it seems like, I think to, 251 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:19,680 to echo your point, I think the the point that you're trying to 252 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:22,800 make, I, I hope I understand is basically that when it comes to 253 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:29,720 in order to become a proper, a proper Jew, we have to 254 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,480 understand that it's something that has to be ingrained in our 255 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,120 everyday consciousness in life. It's not something we pick and 256 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,280 choose when or have high moments, low moments. 257 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:39,560 I mean, that comes within a certain right. 258 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:43,200 We have a higher moments and Hagim and but, but there are 259 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,800 it's a it's a way of life. It's a way that it, it's a 260 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,680 dedication. It's a dedication to a certain 261 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:55,560 way of, of life approach. And by doing that, we also it it 262 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:59,320 refines us. Yeah, yeah. 263 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,320 We learned this lesson especially from the quinga doll. 264 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,480 You know, his day he has to work is, is Yom Kippur. 265 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,960 But every single day he's in the temple, the Rambab says he that 266 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,400 says go little fart to every single day he's at the temple, 267 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,920 he's wearing the seam, you know, glorious clothing. 268 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:17,320 Every single day, every single day he's in charge of the 269 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:19,480 service there. There is no difference. 270 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:22,840 By the way, I, I discovered this personally, when you, when you 271 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,240 have children, you have to keep a routine, right? 272 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,040 Even if you want to be slow one morning, you can't do that with 273 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,200 the kids. They're going to need to get to 274 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,040 school or whatever it is. So you can't take off from 275 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,400 there. One of the, one of the problems 276 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,960 that perhaps many men have in trying to develop this constancy 277 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:42,960 in serving God is the multiplicity of options where 278 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,560 you could dive in. Shoppers, how many of you know, 279 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,000 if you live in a good Jewish community, it doesn't really 280 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,880 matter what time you wake up, even on Shabbos. 281 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,680 You can, you can you don't have to set an alarm if you wake up 282 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,560 anytime between 4:00 AM and 9:00 AM. 283 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,200 You could run somewhere and find the minion for shoppers, right? 284 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,200 Absolutely. Thank God you know that it's a 285 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,240 good thing that we even have minion factories now that's a 286 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,520 good thing. However, if you tell yourself 287 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,040 that you were always going to dove in vasikin, let's say, why 288 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:10,080 do they? Why do the Vasikin? 289 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,120 Oh, they're known for they always dove in at sunrise. 290 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:13,960 By the way, that's when they offered the Corbin, Tommy, the 291 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:15,600 base makers, Why are they always dove in at sunrise? 292 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,800 What does that lead to? It leads to this. 293 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:23,560 A person commits himself to keep the Toro, to keep this 294 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:25,440 particular. So every single day, no matter 295 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:29,920 what, you know, the Rama brings an interesting minhook that I'm 296 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:31,800 surprised that people want. Sometimes their sticklers, they 297 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,160 find people, you know, Ramat says it's been a Dashkina's yet 298 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:36,480 to keep to it. The Ramat says that we have a 299 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:38,560 minhug to Davin later on Shabbos morning. 300 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,120 Indeed, that's that's you see, right, That's the minhug. 301 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,680 A lot of shul start at like 9930 because I think of that ramah. 302 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,480 OK, Yeah, or especially in Brooklyn. 303 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,320 I found that in Brooklyn they davin later than they do in 304 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:52,080 Queens, but and in Jerusalem they davin is slightly, even 305 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,360 slightly earlier. Here the late minion on Shabbos 306 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,240 is like 830. That's the late 1 except for the 307 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:01,600 Kabat menu. But you you understand that. 308 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:04,280 Wait a minute, let's say you have a minion. 309 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,240 You always daven Vasiken. How do you keep the ramaz 310 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,680 minhook? The ramaz minhook doesn't fit. 311 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,800 If you daven Vasiken every single day, then you cannot 312 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,400 daven later on Shabbos. And On the contrary, you're a 313 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,520 sika minion on Shabbos. Technically has to start 314 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,000 earlier. Depends on the fine start. 315 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,120 By the way, you're Vasika minion on Shabbos because you have 316 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,800 longer pursue to Zimro and you have Nishmas and even the beer 317 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,800 coast Keshvar slightly longer. You need to give yourself more 318 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,200 time to start If on Shabbos, if you want to hit, you know, 319 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,960 Basiken, you want to hitchhvon estray right at sunrise. 320 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:39,720 So it's it it it they're mutually exclusive. 321 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,840 It's either you keep this, this proper man only by the way, the 322 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,200 diving Basik in the morning among the postgame. 323 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:49,920 Is it a hitter mitzvah? Is it a humra? 324 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,800 Is it a Hasidis or is it Ikradin? 325 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:54,480 You could read the wrong Mama saying this is ikarden. 326 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:58,040 This is the only kilo way to dobb and every other time of 327 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,800 service, either dobbing, let's say 10 minutes before sunrise 328 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,160 because you got to run somewhere or dobbing an hour later. 329 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:07,240 Those are those are only post facto and perhaps not even 330 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,800 justified on a regular basis. So that doesn't work out. 331 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,960 You have to you have to choose Minhag Ashkenaz, as reported by 332 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:18,800 the Ramon, or you have to choose this, this, I guess, this 333 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,560 commitment to want to dove him the way they did in the temple. 334 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:24,760 By the way, it's reported that the only girl himself always 335 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:26,720 dove him Nates. So obviously he didn't keep to 336 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:31,280 this Minnock here. Why consistency and constancy. 337 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,040 So I found that my own. I'm not such a big Sonic. 338 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,280 I'm not I'm not into me dot classy dude, and I don't have 339 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,800 regular Hasidis practices, despite my my genetic roots. 340 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:47,520 But I found that because of necessity, because of the, the, 341 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:52,120 the family necessity and also societal obligations also things 342 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:55,280 relate to work and other commitments. 343 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:59,400 I had to dive in Basiken for a few years every every single 344 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,840 day, including Shabbos. And I found that the benefits of 345 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,720 doing so were much greater than, let's say, keep to schedule 346 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,880 whereby I can go dive in when I, whenever I want to, even on 347 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,240 Shabbos, depending on when I get up and what happens with the 348 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,240 kids, etcetera. Sticking to Basiken. 349 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:19,000 And I even saw this, those who succeed most in scholarship in 350 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,680 learning and Haas model stick to the first thing da vining first 351 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:25,400 thing in the morning right at Vasika time. 352 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,880 And by the way, if you haven't, I encourage even balabatim, you 353 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:32,280 will waste your Shabbos if you're going to da vin American 354 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:34,200 style. Let's say you start at, you 355 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,320 know, like you said, 9:00, you're wasting your Shabbos. 356 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:38,480 You miss so much time for learning. 357 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,600 The Icor of Shabbos is to have, by my calculations, once again 358 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:46,640 within the Rambam, is you should be spending about 9 hours total 359 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:50,440 between chakras, minhkah and base beverage time every single 360 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,440 Shabbos. 9 seasonal hours by the way. 361 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,680 And if you do not wake up from a seek and start the day right 362 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,800 then you will miss out. How many people wake up late on 363 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:03,920 Shabbos and then they go to long Schlep Ebaal baadsh minion and 364 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:05,880 eventually afterwards they're going to eat and they're going 365 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:09,080 to eat some heavy food and maybe even drink something that's 366 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,560 alcoholic with it and then will knock themselves out for a long 367 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,880 Shabbos nap in, you know, that's leading the after. 368 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,200 Maybe they'll learn something or other, but they missed such a 369 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,880 great opportunity to maximize their Torah study. 370 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,360 Whatever that's a that's a different subject. 371 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,560 I find that the constant built into the mitzvos actually our 372 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:27,760 guide. They help us maximize our 373 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,120 potential in Torah study and a question there. 374 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,280 Yeah, no, I was just going to say that this is even a 375 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:36,160 universal rule that the early risers in general and just in 376 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,560 the real world, they they're more successful. 377 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,960 I mean, I don't think there's statistics that show like you 378 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,280 don't, you won't find billionaires who wake up at 9. 379 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:46,800 You know, it's just not. They're all, they're all usually 380 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,680 they're early risers. Success follows early risers. 381 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:55,240 Sorry, whether it's what? Does all of an example of late 382 00:19:55,240 --> 00:20:00,160 risers we're the late risers by the way, this man Kashma you 383 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:04,400 could you could Kashma is up up until the end of the third hour, 384 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,200 right. So has all said, how do you know 385 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,320 that? Because the the the biblical 386 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,600 standard of man Kashma is of Kumar when you get up in the 387 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,040 morning. So. 388 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,360 Regular person Rob says regular people get up at dawn and dawn 389 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:20,600 is an hour and so before before sunrise. 390 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,880 But they're bini Mulakhim. They even wake up later in the 391 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,120 morning and three hours later than everybody else. 392 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,360 So technically speaking, it still is Makrishma. 393 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,720 We're the Bini mulakhim. Bini Mulakhim don't have to work 394 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,480 for a living. So they they they're they're 395 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:35,120 pampered. They don't have anything to do 396 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:36,800 they don't they're not trying to get anywhere in the world 397 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:38,800 because they were giving it on a silver platter. 398 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,760 But for the rest of us, perhaps so we shouldn't be waking up 399 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,920 like Bini Mulakhim, even though all of aamisra are technically 400 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,840 been able welcome to the extent that they have that dignity and 401 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,440 they're deserving to be respected as such and other 402 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,560 other Halafiq naf kaminas, but they're not actually been able 403 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,000 welcome to the extent that they're all incredibly wealthy. 404 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:01,760 So. All right, you emphasize that 405 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:05,920 the entire Torah was always meant to be practiced, even the 406 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:07,200 ones that don't seem to apply today. 407 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,680 How does this concept shape our understanding of halacha? 408 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,960 Well, first of all, we ought to keep the entire halafu, right? 409 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,120 Isn't that? I think Rambam even has it as 410 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:20,600 one of the articles of the faith that you're not supposed to say 411 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,680 that, OK, some of the Torah is now no longer in practice or was 412 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,080 not meant to be, even though the Sages did tell us that yes, 413 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,000 there were some mitzvahs that were not Ledoros. 414 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:36,200 Example you guys read yesterday. There was this rule in the 415 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:40,200 parsha at the end of Massey that it's said that if a woman were 416 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:45,640 to somehow inherit real estate, real, real property from her 417 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:46,640 father. Why? 418 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,200 Because the father doesn't have any sons. 419 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,440 So she's supposed to marry within the family so that the 420 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,880 estate doesn't eventually fall into the realm of another tribe. 421 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,880 All right, that seems to be a pretty, pretty strong statement 422 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:00,680 in the Torah. It seems to be that that's what 423 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,200 Moses commanded the children of Israel. 424 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,120 Yet is there such a halaf on the books today? 425 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:09,240 If you have a man who owns, let's say, quite a lot of 426 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,840 property here in the land of Israel and he passes away 427 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,160 without any sons and his daughters are his sole heirs, 428 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,000 are we going to tell his daughters that they have to 429 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,040 somehow marry within his known family? 430 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,640 Is there such a Aloha? No. 431 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:25,000 So what was going on? What was what was this 432 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,840 commandment there? The commandment was a one time 433 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:31,000 dispensation. But we also know that everything 434 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,400 else in the tour was actually given to be kept in all times 435 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,400 and places. And by the way, this is one of 436 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,000 the, I think one of the major reasons why people like the 437 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,920 Rambam did say that this is a fundamental principle of our 438 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,840 faith, that the Torah is eternal and there's no such thing as 439 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,840 commandments falling, you know, I guess falling into disuser is 440 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,560 no longer applicable is because there was a major offshoot 441 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,200 Jewish heretical sect that became a major world religion 442 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:58,480 that actually made such a claim. That's Christianity. 443 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,480 Christianity basically said now if you want to be, I guess 444 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,440 again, I guess what they call God if you want to get in God's 445 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,400 favor. So what do you what do you have 446 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,920 to do just have to believe and a few other things. 447 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,760 But you definitely don't have to keep the whole slew of 448 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,520 commandments that the children of Israel still keep perhaps 449 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,720 mistakenly according to their claim, right. 450 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:23,480 So we need to keep the entire Allah too much what what I call 451 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,360 public policy Halafa whether it's within Karidi land or 452 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:32,600 religious Zionist community says that the ways for example, once 453 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,160 again, if temple times are not for us, Yeah. 454 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:37,880 Does anybody here keep Tumantara? 455 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,920 What do they call someone who used to keep the laws of 456 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,120 Tumantara within his house? He would eat his food in a 457 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:44,960 ritual purity. They called him a Javert 458 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,520 literally means a friend or a member, a member of a distinct 459 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:54,720 club of scholars or those who are being pies who wanted to 460 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:58,800 keep their their food in their houses up to a standard. 461 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,920 So that Kopani kwanim who have to eat their food within with 462 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,280 impurity, especially if they have true around the house could 463 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,760 also eat of their food and also so that they would be ready to 464 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:13,800 eat of sacrificial foods. Now this practice of keeping 465 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,480 ritual purity within the house was something that persisted 466 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,600 even a few centuries after the destruction of the temple. 467 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,920 It even persisted in places in Babylon, despite the fact that 468 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:28,280 if you're an heir to Amim the the abroad, you're outside land 469 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,280 of Israel. The sages instituted, they 470 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,640 enacted that just being there contaminates you. 471 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,480 Being an heir to Amim contaminates you ritually to a 472 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,080 certain extent all the time. But aside from that, people used 473 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,360 to keep these hollows. This was a critical part of 474 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:44,400 Judaism. Nowadays, most people do not 475 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,760 know or have any concept of ritual purity. 476 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,800 There's one with one 1 1/2 glaring exceptions. 477 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,560 The first exception, the actual exception is to MAF needa. 478 00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:00,040 People still keep this really know that a woman who has had 479 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:04,160 her usual cycles, so she eventually it does have to go to 480 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,320 the mikvah for immersion, the ritual bath for an immersion in 481 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,320 order to remove a certain extent of that impurity. 482 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,920 And there are men who go to mix up for their own reasons, no 483 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,440 personal reasons. But even then they don't really 484 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,200 go to the real mix and they don't try to then keep 485 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,000 themselves ritually pure afterwards, right. 486 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:25,040 That's actually the problem with the with the Hasidic's idea of 487 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:28,960 dunking too much carry every single day, because the point 488 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:33,240 originally was the inconvenience of having to remove the ritual 489 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,600 impurity and going to the ritual bath would keep one from 490 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,800 immediately re contaminating self who's supposed to learn. 491 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,440 Oh, I now want to stay in the state of impurity and perhaps 492 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:48,280 reduce his activity, reduce his activities that would involve 493 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,800 becoming ritually pure. I'm saying this in very, you 494 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:55,800 know, PG type of method. The point was we're supposed to 495 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,880 avoid certain things. They didn't want a person to be 496 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,560 like they say like a rooster. But now we've we've confused 497 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,160 ourselves. We made it easy to purify. 498 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,560 So now there's no reason not to become impure. 499 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,120 And that's not the intention of ghazal or of the Torah. 500 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,560 So these I mentioned that temple times. 501 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,000 Also why do people keep keep themselves ritually pure? 502 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:18,480 So they could involve themselves with temple related 503 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,560 commandments. If you're not a cohane, you can 504 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,920 each room around the house. The only real reason you would 505 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,680 need to maintain ritual purity is that when the holidays roll 506 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,720 roll around you could participate in the consumption 507 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,760 of the sacrifices. Or when you go on pilgrimage, 508 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:36,480 you can participate in the consumption of the sacrifices, 509 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,720 right? But nowadays we don't do it. 510 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,160 It hasn't been done in quite a while. 511 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,480 It wasn't done in Europe. It wasn't done in Morocco and 512 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,120 Tunis. So what's happened? 513 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:48,360 So people, people forgot about it. 514 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,760 And they're even saying that perhaps maybe it should not come 515 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,640 back. Like I, like I told you guys a 516 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,760 few minutes before, they, they make this claim. 517 00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:59,920 So Messiah is not here. Only the Messiah can somehow 518 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,880 bring these Halafas back. But for now, they're not for us. 519 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,280 And they're, they're missing out there. 520 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,040 There are some who make this claim by the way of living about 521 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,800 living the land of Israel and keeping the commandments 522 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,520 concerning the land of Israel, what they call mitzvotat Leo 523 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,760 barets, which are usually the agricultural commandments. 524 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,600 You need a land in order to keep these commandments. 525 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,680 I don't know where you guys are sitting right now, but I do 526 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,120 remember that when I what? We're in New York. 527 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,480 In New York when I was living in New York, I even in Russia 528 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,520 Yeshiva say I remember I was hearing a speech you do not have 529 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,120 to move to Land of Israel because you could keep you could 530 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:39,240 keep all your commandments here in New York and you could 531 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,000 they're not forcing you to do any of eras, but that's not 532 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,840 entirely true. You you can't keep shvita. 533 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,040 You can't can't separate true with some ISIS from your food. 534 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,560 You can't do anything at the Torah actually wanted you to do 535 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,760 here in the land of Israel, and you certainly can't be involved 536 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,920 in the rebuilding of the Temple, which by the way, according to 537 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,640 many who have now actually looked into this and they're 538 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,200 waking up to this fact. We are supposed to be building a 539 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,760 temple even today. Yes, it's a commandment that is 540 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,600 incumbent upon the community and its leadership. 541 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,160 So a guy like me, I can't just do anything about that. 542 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,320 But there are people who are taking concrete steps toward the 543 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,000 reinstitution of the temple of the sacrificial service. 544 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,280 People look at Mahone Mikdash. They think that they're a little 545 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,840 bit kooky, a little bit on the fringe, but they have created, 546 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,880 as you know, Killeen, the actual temple implements for use in the 547 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,280 temple that that's a very good, that's a very good thing that 548 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:32,880 they should do. I know that they're collecting 549 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,320 funds to rebuild the temple and it's. 550 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,680 An amazing place. It's an amazing, amazing place. 551 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,720 I was in Eris, Israel in the summer last summer. 552 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,280 I took my daughter's there and especially my older daughter, 553 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,040 she was, it was like mesmerizing with unbelievable. 554 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,080 You just see it all of a sudden with your eyes and it's like all 555 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,640 of a sudden, like, wow. And it's it's, it's, it just has 556 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,320 some sort of effect. It's hard to explain what, but 557 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,720 it kind of makes you, kind of makes you want to realize it, 558 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,320 you know what I mean? Yeah. 559 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,960 And it's just a theoretical concept. 560 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,760 It's it's there, you know what I mean? 561 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,680 Horror is not meant to be theory, You you'd ask that 562 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,800 always meant to be practice. How does it shape our 563 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,640 understanding? Palafa, if you were just reading 564 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,320 tomorrow for the sake of knowing what the Gemara says, that's 565 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,040 that's kind of good. That's that's considered a 566 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,480 certain to a certain extent with schma. 567 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,600 But the schma also involves the Bode Lasote Ulukayen. 568 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,920 You have to want to be able to put this into practice. 569 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,360 You have to go beyond. OK, so how will this affect me 570 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,200 in real life when you praise God every morning. 571 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:39,000 Oh, Bharkhasham, we learned the Rama serial said your main Torah 572 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,280 study of halafa should first start with the Ramba. 573 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:42,960 You know, beer goes the Torah in the morning. 574 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,400 You're supposed to praise God, say it can say the blessings 575 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,840 before studying Torah. The Rambam formulates that is 576 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,680 one who wakes up early in the morning. 577 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,400 Mashkin will mode someone who wakes up earlier than normal 578 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:55,400 pair of services. Why? 579 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,080 Because if he wakes up, he just has enough time to get to 580 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,280 chakras. So there's no specific blessing 581 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,680 on studying Torah before staying Torah? 582 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:06,360 He's not not to study Torah. Apparently it's covered by the 583 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,800 blessing that immediately precedes Kriya Shima. 584 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,840 Correct. And that's what we see it is, 585 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,240 which more or less so, you know, it involves learning and 586 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,040 teaching and trying to somehow keep these these commandments 587 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,400 and to guard them and pass them on to the next generation. 588 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:26,360 These are all facets that have perhaps been, I, I dare say, 589 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,680 lost on many people. We, we, we've become so 590 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,240 disconnected from certain aspects of the Torah. 591 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,240 So how does it shape our understanding? 592 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:38,400 Palaha, if you, if you open up your Mara and realize that the 593 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,240 sages here we're actually talking most part, unless it was 594 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,760 an, a Gothic passage, they were actually trying to get to the 595 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,840 bottom of what should be done. Halacha is not a word, by the 596 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,400 way. But if I'm not mistaken, it's 597 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,720 not Tanakh, right? Halacha is, is, is comes from, 598 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,000 it's a new Hebrew word, relatively new. 599 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:59,320 It's from, it's a Mishneh Hebrew that comes from the Aramaic 600 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,480 Hilkatah, which is just halacha in Hebrew. 601 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,120 But what what Hilkatah mean to the sages who are using it and 602 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,720 it's from the Apostle. It's the path now upon which 603 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:10,440 they should go. Halakhah. 604 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,720 You can see the obvious Hebrew word there, Hebrew shores, the 605 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,600 root word halama cuff. That's how one walks the Torah 606 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,640 and when, when it refers to commandments and what we refer 607 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,320 to Allah. Let's called also to use the 608 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,480 word Torah, torot or torotav and torotai. 609 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:29,560 The shores there is good Rashang. 610 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,040 It means instruction. What's the difference between 611 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,440 instruction and halacha? Instruction is I guess from the 612 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:38,800 point of view of the one doing the speaking. 613 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,000 Moshe Rabin who instructs us, he gives us, Torrey tells us what 614 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,400 to do. Halacha means when we put it 615 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,080 into practice. So Torah is more of the study 616 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,040 and Halacha is once again how you put into practice. 617 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:55,040 If you disconnect halacha from Torres study then you will not 618 00:31:55,080 --> 00:32:00,000 know what to do ever. And that, like I said, leads to, 619 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,520 once again, paralysis. There are many people they like 620 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:03,960 studying about what to do in anxious role. 621 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,720 But when they just stayed in New York or other places in 622 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,880 Flintstar, it's that doesn't it had never crossed their mind. 623 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,520 Perhaps someone's waiting for me to actually put this into 624 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,280 practice. Yeah. 625 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,720 On the on the topic of practice, you want to get into Mission 626 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,880 ATUR for a minute. I'm going to combine 2 ideas 627 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,240 that you can that you can elaborate on. 628 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:28,400 So can you elaborate on how Harambam's Mishnatura differs 629 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,440 from other Halachi codes, particularly in its approach to 630 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:35,400 describing practices like observing Pasak with a paschal 631 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:36,960 lamb and what to do in its absence? 632 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,840 And also if you can also explain how does the Mishnatura aim to 633 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,840 compete complete code to be a complete code for all 634 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,440 generations and all aspects of Alacha? 635 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:49,320 Well, I think that was Brahmam's goal. 636 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,960 He wanted to include the final bottom line Alacha as understood 637 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,400 from all the Tamudim. By the way, he says how do you 638 00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,080 get to you follow the Rishami, the Bhavli, the Tosefta and the 639 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,920 Mishnah and everything that's post Bhavli is not necessarily 640 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,840 binding. And you also have to know how 641 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,160 the the Gaonim understood these things. 642 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,920 The Rambam's main gaon, his main tradition was that of the riff, 643 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,000 as you know. OK, it was his father learned 644 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,040 from the RE Megash who learned from the Rif, and that that's 645 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:18,200 how that's how the Rahman learned. 646 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,040 So he's trying to make it a compendium of everything that 647 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,960 was ever possible before. And he doesn't leave anything 648 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:25,960 out. By the way, although the 649 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,360 Ashkenazi do possess certain practices that makes you scratch 650 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,400 your head. How is it that these things 651 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:32,920 disappeared among certain groups? 652 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,200 I'm referring to, let's say, reading the other Megillahs. 653 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,280 Everybody has a clan Ester, but there's three other Mcgillis 654 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:39,360 you're supposed to read on the holidays. 655 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,520 And we have a tradition. It's mentioned a set of so from 656 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,760 that's what they're there for. Yet Rambam seems to not have had 657 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:46,960 these things that must have must have been lost. 658 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:52,920 By the way, the Rambam assumes that we will have a Jewish 659 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,840 country in the land of Israel with the Jewish king and a 660 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,480 proper Sanhedrin and also a court system and the temple and 661 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,800 the priesthood. And that's why that's how he 662 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,400 writes it. He writes it and, and as though 663 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,440 that reality is, even though if it wasn't in front of him, he 664 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,159 knew it was going to become something in front of him. 665 00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:12,040 And then only afterwards does he have. 666 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:15,320 But if you don't have such an ideal state, then here's what 667 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,760 you'd do. Otherwise, the best example I 668 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:20,679 found was I remember when I started studying this 14 years 669 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:23,440 ago was Pesach Lacquilo. And this is actually something 670 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,520 that that's close to my heart. The way the Ramam describes how 671 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,000 you should be conducting your Seder, Everybody, everybody 672 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,199 who's Jewish and not Jewish hasn't had an experience with a 673 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:35,800 peace out Seder, right? And we all, we all know that the 674 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,520 basics of the Montes Tana and there's matzo and even bitter 675 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,480 herbs and they're singing, everybody knows the tunes. 676 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,520 But the Rambam does not describe that. 677 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,880 If you open up in Mr. Torro at the last chapter of Hilchlist 678 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,400 Thomas Matzo, he actually describes how to conduct the 679 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,400 Seder in Jerusalem with the Corbin Pesach on the table. 680 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,960 And that's why I realized, you know what, when we have Corbin 681 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:03,600 Pesach, we'll have to get ourselves a new hagadah that's 682 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,120 actually updated. You can't take your Maxwell 683 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,960 House Haggadah, the one that Moses gave us from Sinai, or the 684 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,280 the arts for Haggadah. You can't take those to your 685 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,240 Seder with Corbin Pesav. It actually tells you to do the 686 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:17,200 wrong thing. It's incorrect. 687 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,200 That's what you do when you don't have Corbin Pesav. 688 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,440 And by the way, even in temple times, there are many Jews who 689 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,840 did not have Corbin Pesav and anybody who was outside 690 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,440 Jerusalem and anybody who was contaminated in some way, even 691 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,720 Jews within Jerusalem who did not qualify Corbin Pesav, they 692 00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:32,280 did the Seder that we have done in years past. 693 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,960 But those who actually merited in the state, millions of people 694 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,520 actually did this every year. Those pilgrims who actually had 695 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,600 from Peso, they did a Seder that was entirely different. 696 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,600 That's why I decided to publish such such a thing. 697 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,560 Basically what looks like a standard Ashkenazi Kakadah 698 00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:52,160 trying to keep as many of the texts and hugging and I even the 699 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,360 whole office with which we are familiar, but making it fit the 700 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,120 way the Rambam and others describe how we were supposed to 701 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:03,520 conduct the service if Gordon Pesach is already on the table. 702 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,560 So that was the that became Pagoda Pesach, which by the way, 703 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,600 you could get some bookstores and you could also get it from 704 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:10,920 me. I'm very proud of it. 705 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,880 Thank God I wasn't. I wasn't a one man show. 706 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,360 By the way, after I put it together, I ran it by Rabin 707 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,520 Moshe Suriel and Rabi Ilya Weber of two rules. 708 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,000 The ball of oats rose. He passed away just this year. 709 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,920 We it's now been 12 months since his passing. 710 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,320 And I want to talk about that too much because it makes me too 711 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:31,640 emotional. And they, they had a lot to say. 712 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:32,840 They they changed around a few things. 713 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,840 They had their additions. There was some back and forth. 714 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:40,320 And we published it right at the beginning of 2020. 715 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,600 And I said that this year we're going to use this about every 716 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:44,880 single year. We've been excited. 717 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,840 It's going to be we almost are this close to Abnorman pass off. 718 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,360 I would think from a strictly halachic standpoint, if we 719 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,720 haven't had Corbin Pesoc, certainly in the last decade, 720 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,520 it's not because of any technical halachic reason. 721 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,800 All the the pieces have been in place according to those who 722 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,720 have been studying the matter. Corbin Peso is something we 723 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:02,960 could go through with. We have Kohanna, we have big day 724 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,640 kahuna, we have a way to build an altar. 725 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,160 The only thing that's stopping us is politics. 726 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,320 Basically the the regime does not let us do it. 727 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,480 They send policemen to stop people from doing it. 728 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,240 By the way, when you read the Rambam and mission to Torah, you 729 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:18,400 see that what he's describing is the seder with Corbin Pesar. 730 00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:20,880 And then he says, and if you don't have Corbin Pesar because 731 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,640 Monaze, you're stuck somewhere. So you do. 732 00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:26,680 And then he describes what you find in your art scroll and Max 733 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,680 with house hagadas. So that shows you that unlike, 734 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:34,080 let's say, if you'd open up the tour or the, the, and all the 735 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:38,280 commentaries on it, including and up to the Mr. Burr and the, 736 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,000 and all of well, I don't have the bookshelf behind me. 737 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,880 Now I'm not on the base matters, but I have a bookshelf behind 738 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,720 me. You know, all those halakhs for 739 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:48,160 him are discussing how to conduct a seder without Korbum 740 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,160 pesos, right. Everybody who's everybody there 741 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:55,560 and, and even everybody's who's a nobody has his own haggadah 742 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,320 shell pesos, not haggadah pesos. Haggadah shell pesos. 743 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,160 You've seen every, everybody's published his own. 744 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,040 They all assume there is no Korbum pesos. 745 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,200 The Rambam doesn't. You also look in Hilko 746 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,720 Sanhedrin. You can open up a Yoridaeo, 747 00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:10,440 sorry, you could open up in a Hosha mishpot, and they'll tell 748 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:14,960 you about how to run Jewish courts, how Jewish courts have 749 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,960 been run since late Talmudic times and throughout medieval 750 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,560 times and times of Shulkin Arkin, even until today. 751 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,200 The route was the world. That's how, that's how a beaston 752 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,120 is wrong. But the way the Rambam opens it 753 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,440 up, what he calls Hilka Sanhedrin, not beaston, he calls 754 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,440 it Sanhedrin. And he talks about the, the 755 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,480 corporal punishment. He even includes that in the 756 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,640 title, the punishments that they're supposed to inflict on 757 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:41,080 people of which they have. 5:00 And then you see that the Rambam 758 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,040 is actually imagining a Jewish community in the land of Israel 759 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,680 with a properly functioning son, son Hedren with minor son 760 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:51,240 hedrens in every town. And from there you could it it, 761 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:55,080 it's basically, I guess it's, it's, it's like a fractal system 762 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,240 that includes law rats. The butt. 763 00:38:57,240 --> 00:38:59,680 They didn't that they have are offshoots and they, they're 764 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,440 working on the authority of what's supposed to be the butt 765 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,200 aiddin and the sun Hedrin within the land of Israel and how every 766 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,680 tribe is supposed to have its own sun Hedrin. 767 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,760 That's how the Rambam starts. And then he gets into it, 768 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,080 Hillcos, Edus, etcetera, just like you could find the other 769 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,120 codes. But for the Rambam, the Khilo, 770 00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:18,120 the starting point is we have a Sanhedrin, and only if we do not 771 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,080 have a Sanhedrin, we don't have proper base batadin in the 772 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,920 cities. Then he talks about other 773 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,000 situations. You look in Hills Mullahrim, 774 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,080 it's also the same thing. What is the Romba's assumption? 775 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,360 Hills Mullahrim, what are you supposed to do? 776 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,640 Jewish people are supposed to have leadership, right? 777 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,920 He doesn't take the approach that a king is perhaps something 778 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:40,080 that's only like Nassib said, perhaps it's fitting for certain 779 00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:44,000 societies and certain places. Perhaps maybe that's a monarch. 780 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,400 If you translate king as monarch, yes, I would agree that 781 00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:49,120 perhaps a monarch is not saying we're supposed to have all times 782 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,360 and places. But if you translate king as, 783 00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,440 you know, central leader, like a yuushua who didn't wear a crown, 784 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,560 it wasn't anointed and didn't have a lot of the trappings of 785 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,480 what we, you and I imagine as a king, then we understand that 786 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,240 yes, this is something that is critical saying that's. 787 00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:05,960 Eminently necessary and only if you don't have a king. 788 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,600 OK, then we have to somehow get along some other way and by the 789 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:09,760 way, it led to another mistake there. 790 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,600 Those who think that in order to conduct a war of defense Amis 791 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,720 role to defend itself from an enemy, let's say a Nazi Germany 792 00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:19,000 or imagine somehow there was Nazi Germany next door to the 793 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,000 land of Israel today that was actually trying to destroy Amis 794 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,680 role a few Nazi Germany's they would there are some people 795 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:27,080 honestly believe that because we do not have a Davidic king, we 796 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:28,800 are stuck. We cannot organize an army to 797 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:34,400 defend ourselves and I with with none due to respect. 798 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,160 I think that's nonsense. I'm always supposed to defend 799 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:38,280 themselves. It's already Halaf and 800 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,640 Shoukhanarov and we are to organize an army if we don't 801 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:42,800 have a king. So we have to have some other 802 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,400 leader to or get us, get us to fight against those who would 803 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,600 try to destroy us and their families and our and our 804 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,280 country. What's ironic, what's ironic is 805 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:56,080 a lot of these, you know, anti Zionist, let's say Haridim. 806 00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,640 I just pose one simple question to them. 807 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:03,040 Why do you observe Hanukkah, the holiday of Hanukkah? 808 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,080 Because it should, it really goes against everything you, 809 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,600 you're saying, right? You're being a hypocrite. 810 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,480 So you know, and, and, and I find that usually that stumps 811 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:11,800 them. That's not something they know 812 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,680 how to respond to because. Well, they could just say, well, 813 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,040 the Sages institute Hanukkah and the Sages haven't instituted 814 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,560 anything else since then. That's the one I got. 815 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,160 Yeah, they can say whatever they want, but the the fact of the 816 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:27,040 matter is a group of people united to create a, a military 817 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:31,400 to take back an occupied, you know, part of the land. 818 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:36,240 And it became a holiday. So before it was, it was given a 819 00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:37,640 stamp of approval by the rabbi's. 820 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,880 This, you know, they did this. Post facto. 821 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,080 It's post facto. Exactly. 822 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,560 I see the Oldham like the Rumbaan says I I tell people if 823 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,600 you do not keep Yomat's mood, by the way, not because I'm a 824 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,520 statist and I believe that there's anything inherently 825 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,000 holding to the state or that people should have unwavering 826 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,240 loyalty to the state. I also make a distinction 827 00:41:57,240 --> 00:41:59,040 between state and government, which a lot of people. 828 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:00,480 Well, that's a different lecture. 829 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,880 I think that if you do not celebrate Yomat smooth and 830 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,280 called Homer, you should not celebrate Hanukkah at all, 831 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,160 especially if you you understand the problem. 832 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,680 And if you do not celebrate Yomer Shalayim, then you should 833 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,600 not be celebrating Perm. And I also know that, you know, 834 00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:18,240 Perm teaches us that when we have mortal enemies like this, 835 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:22,240 who led the battle against Haman and all the other Malachites, 836 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,360 all the other enemies of Jews throughout the Persian Empire 837 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,280 who would have rose up to destroy Amirul. 838 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:30,120 Instead Amirul preempted them. Who led that fighting? 839 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,640 Was there some, was there some? We know that Mordecai was and 840 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,200 Esther were sitting with Akash Ferwich at the time. 841 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:38,360 They weren't the ones who went out and fought. 842 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:41,600 Well, I don't know if Mordecai even killed a single Amalekite 843 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:46,120 and he only he only asked Esther to have Mordecai's sons Hunk. 844 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,800 And it wasn't even Mordecai was involved in the hanging of Hama. 845 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:50,600 But who? Who? 846 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,720 Who led the obvious role in that fight? 847 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,240 The fact that obvious role smoked to their enemies in 848 00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:57,120 Parma? That we have a name of a Jewish 849 00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:58,680 leader or military commander who did that. 850 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,640 No, obviously, but you have to fight. 851 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:03,360 You have to you have to do something. 852 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:04,760 You can't just you have to sit around. 853 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:10,360 So and you look also in the laws of let's say the Rahman has a 854 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:11,880 whole book called say for Abu Dhabi. 855 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,520 It tells you about what Carbanos and also say for Carbanos. 856 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:16,880 They they they're like, they're like a pair there. 857 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,200 I guess it was only because of technical reasons. 858 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,200 Maimana is actually divided the two into two separate books. 859 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,600 And you also have right after that the was of Taro. 860 00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:29,120 How many Jewish people open that up and think of this as their 861 00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,480 Sholton Ara? It's it's not touched on by any 862 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:36,200 of the other codes, anything in Avoda Carmanos and Tara or maybe 863 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,920 just a little bit of, you know, even Nita itself. 864 00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:42,920 The Rambam surprisingly didn't include hill close Nita in safer 865 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,480 Tara. Where do you put it in Kedusha? 866 00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,560 So Kedusha talks about kashmirs. It's kashmirs and and Nita and 867 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,920 the forbidden relations so that you could find in Yoridea, 868 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,600 right, and in Evaneser. But everything else that the 869 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,480 Rama put into these three books, it's not spoken about by 870 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:00,840 anybody. But for the Rambam, this was 871 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:02,680 real. This was something that you had 872 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,000 to do. And by the way, the Rambam says, 873 00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:06,120 say for a vote on that. In one of the first sections, 874 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,040 Silva's based Bahira, he talks about the midst of Mora Mikdash. 875 00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,040 For many people, Mora Mikdash is not a mitzvah. 876 00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,920 That's on the radar. And like I pointed out last 877 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,840 week, I got good news. There was an organization that 878 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,240 called themselves Mora Mikdash to them, Mora Mikdash reference 879 00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:21,800 for the temple. You know what their their shtick 880 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,160 was telling people not to go to higher bias, right? 881 00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,400 Just stay away from horribaius out of respect that of 882 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:28,840 reverence. The temple, you can't go there. 883 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,400 Where is the Rambam? What's his definition of Mora 884 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,400 Mikdash? Have you seen this? 885 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,800 He says, yeah, for the Rambam is Mora Mikdash means going to 886 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,080 visit the temple, which he quotes by the even its state of 887 00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,040 destruction like it is now, it's still the temple visiting the 888 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,840 temple and going to the parts of the temple complex which are 889 00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:50,640 permissible. So these are pieces of the of, 890 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:54,600 of Havasa, basic Jewish practice that had been left out of other 891 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:55,880 codes. That's why you have to learn 892 00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:01,440 Misha Torah because you see it. The Rambam, when he begins to 893 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,840 tell you about the law, plus he tells you what is the kafila? 894 00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,920 What is you're supposed to do from the outset, Rabbi Rahim 895 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,800 said says much. Also he said that at least for 896 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:15,480 the future from now and going forward, the Rambam and what he 897 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:20,600 wrote serves as I guess an even better Shulhanar starting from 898 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,240 being the same. We can knight all of I'm Israel. 899 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,440 Yes, perhaps there are certain Olafas that there are major my 900 00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,080 focus in the starting with the Ravad. 901 00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:30,040 Perhaps not every single Olaf is exactly as Rama said, but As for 902 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,320 framework, he's the rush of Shiva. 903 00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,520 So we could we we should begin to study from there. 904 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,480 Yeah, Rav surreal told me he always studied the Rama for 905 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,640 alafa. His son said after he passed 906 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:45,800 away that when they were younger, he made sure that 907 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,400 they've just study as much rhombam as possible, read 908 00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,000 Mishnatura said that we weren't reading other things and he just 909 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,400 made us read. Mishnatura finished Mishitura. 910 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,640 By the way, I don't think Rabbi Barkhim is too wild about 911 00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,840 Kabbad. There's some issues there, you 912 00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:00,360 know. But thank God, I don't know 913 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,720 Kabad next like that. I don't know any messianic types 914 00:46:02,720 --> 00:46:04,880 or anybody who has to show him worships the Rebbe. 915 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,800 But I do know among the good ones, the ones who are not like 916 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,480 that, they also tried to study Mishnah Torah on a regular basis 917 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,800 and they even tried to finish their their study of the entire 918 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,640 halacha, the entire compendium on a yearly basis. 919 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,840 And I'm not telling you you should you should become a Kabad 920 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:21,600 the. Voucher, I'll be instructed, is 921 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:22,840 to see them to do that. Yeah. 922 00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:24,600 So that that's a very good thing. 923 00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,680 I think that yes, aside from everything else, you should be 924 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,840 learning on a regular basis and have a yearly cycle. 925 00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,760 You should study the Mishnah Torah and the Mishnah itself, 926 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,360 the Mishnah Torah and the Mishnah with the Kamats. 927 00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:37,200 Those are all things that you should really put yourself to. 928 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:40,520 I think it's of all that even I tried to study these things and 929 00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,280 there's so many things I forget. It's a shame we didn't do these 930 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,880 when we were younger. You know, I, how can, how can 931 00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,040 you have that? The Jewish school system doesn't 932 00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:52,680 drive these into the kids heads at a young age. 933 00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:54,040 That's what you're supposed to do with machnice. 934 00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,480 That's what you're supposed to do with Tanakh and whatever. 935 00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,320 I'm not going to get against the system, but thank God here in 936 00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,280 art school we do have that as an option nowadays. 937 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,040 You could send your son to a school where they will have him 938 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:10,680 reciting sukim Tanakh, Torah Mishnaeus, and even some 939 00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,440 halakhas. And even this like cool trick, 940 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,760 they have pewdim that encode halakhas and lists of 941 00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,160 information like the target mitzvahs and all that. 942 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,480 I think it's a wonderful thing and I strongly encourage 943 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,000 everybody to get out of there. You should. 944 00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:27,600 It's worth making aliyah for your family's sake just so that 945 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:32,400 your children can be educated in the land of Israel That tell it 946 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:32,960 to everybody. Yeah. 947 00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:33,720 I don't. I don't know what your 948 00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:35,760 considerations are while you're living in America for whatever 949 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:39,160 reason or anywhere else puts large snow for your children. 950 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,200 The best thing to do for them is to send them to study Torah in 951 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,920 the land of Israel and study in Hebrew there. 952 00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:50,120 At least in my own experience, they'll say the fellows who are 953 00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,640 graduating Israeli high school just a regular yeshiva system 954 00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,520 here in Israel, even toy not the non Koradia system. 955 00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,640 They are years ahead of their counterparts in America. 956 00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,000 It's undoubtable. Yeah, it's far, far ahead of 957 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:04,920 them. Undoubtable, and being that we 958 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,040 only have I think about 10-15 minutes more left, I want to get 959 00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,480 to a question which I find interesting here. 960 00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,120 There's a belief that if certain practices are not done anymore, 961 00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:18,320 it must be God's will. How do you address this all and 962 00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:22,800 out of use fallacy in halacha? I think it's human nature. 963 00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:30,040 I've heard it used as a as or as a resort by quite a few Robundum 964 00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:31,400 asked the question why don't we just do this? 965 00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,840 Oh, we don't do that anymore. So I guess we don't do that. 966 00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,960 Yeah it started happening more more frequently after I made all 967 00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,920 the I thought that this is something that's endemic to puts 968 00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:45,000 Lawrence but actually happened even more so since I came here. 969 00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,000 I'm thinking of certain people consciously, you know, that they 970 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,200 said this, you know, like, why why not to Mataro? 971 00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:53,760 I let's get back to the to the mikvah issue. 972 00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,920 I had argued with quite a few of them and there are many who who 973 00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,880 now, by the way, came to this without my intervention. 974 00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:03,840 They realize we have to open up the mikvah oak more. 975 00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:05,760 Why? Because Jews who want to keep 976 00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,760 the olives of tumatara know that you have to go to mikvah on a 977 00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,680 regular basis if you want to be working in agriculture. 978 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:14,880 You want to produce wine and you want to be able to keep that 979 00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,680 wine pure or you're making olives. 980 00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:18,280 Here you have you have an olive press. 981 00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,840 You are the olive producer and you want to be able to give the 982 00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,480 truma to a cocaine. You want your wine and olive oil 983 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,560 to be used in the temple. What do you, what's the first 984 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,280 thing you have to do? Produce that wine and oil? 985 00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:30,960 Impurity, right? That requires people to go to 986 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:32,720 mikvah. That requires also, you know, 987 00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:34,200 people to get the ashes of Pardew. 988 00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:35,560 My God willing, we're going to get in with that. 989 00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,840 If you were want to have people consume sacrificial food, which 990 00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,080 by the way, technically you could do nowadays, if we had a 991 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,200 temple service, we would go through the temple service also 992 00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:49,640 without removing the impurity caused by contact with the dead, 993 00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:51,600 the whole part of human thing, that's also beyond the scope. 994 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,120 But just to know, Rambam isn't the only one who says this, that 995 00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,680 if everybody is contaminated with this two-month mate, the 996 00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,520 contamination from contact with the dead. 997 00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,680 So we just ignore it and we go ahead with the temple service. 998 00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,520 But we still have to remove other forms of impurity, which 999 00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,200 are all removed basically from immersion to mikvah. 1000 00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,880 So I was arguing and I wasn't the only one who said this. 1001 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,480 We have to open up the mikvah for women. 1002 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:14,720 Women need to go to the people just like men. 1003 00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:17,600 They want to consume sacrifices. They want to attend the temple. 1004 00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,560 And this is also for young women. 1005 00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:22,920 Teenagers need to go to Mikva. They have to know this. 1006 00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:29,600 There's a there's a, a policy in place since quite a few 100 1007 00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,320 years ago that we do not allow single women to go to immerse 1008 00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,560 themselves for obvious reasons. All right, all say, oh, there's 1009 00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:37,560 no helpless, you know, now they'll think that this is a 1010 00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,320 chance to sin. But the Sages never had such an 1011 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,360 idea. The Sages used to have private 1012 00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,360 Mikvaugt. Anybody who had a farm had to 1013 00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:49,760 have a mikva so that he and his family could go immerse 1014 00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,040 themselves when necessary. There was no such thing as 1015 00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,240 telling, let's say, a 17 year old girl, oh, don't go to Mikva 1016 00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:58,520 unless you be enticed by sin. We tell her no, you have to go 1017 00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:01,720 to Mikva on a regular basis so that you do not contaminate the 1018 00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:04,320 produce that we we have around the house. 1019 00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:06,720 Or if you're the Cohen's daughter, you have to know to go 1020 00:51:06,720 --> 00:51:10,280 to Mikva so they could eat of trauma like everybody else in 1021 00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,400 the evening. This was part, this was part of 1022 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,080 life. So you had to begin to open up 1023 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:16,920 the Mick vote so people could get back into this. 1024 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,080 I I wouldn't even quote a routine, but a regularity of 1025 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,960 purifying themselves beforehand. It's human nature to say that, 1026 00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,240 oh, we don't do this anymore, so now we're just not going to do 1027 00:51:28,240 --> 00:51:29,880 it. It's too easy. 1028 00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,560 And we could come up with like Rabbi Dr. England says, quasi 1029 00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,640 helic justifications after the fact for what we see on the 1030 00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:41,240 ground. There's AI like to say if it's a 1031 00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:45,000 it's a muscle that turned Tyrannus Rufus brought up to 1032 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,480 Rabbi Kiva. He was the Roman governor, the 1033 00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:51,960 the procurator all right along the somewhere around the coast 1034 00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:55,240 where he lived exactly might have been near in or near what's 1035 00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:58,400 today Java at the time Rabbi Kiva was in Binay Brock. 1036 00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,520 And this Roman fellow used to give Rabbi Kiva a lot of 1037 00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:04,480 problems. As a matter of fact, he might 1038 00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,320 have been involved in Rabbi Kiva's eventual execution after 1039 00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,040 the bar after the bar culpa revolt. 1040 00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,720 So he challenged Rabbi Kiva. He said basically, and this is 1041 00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:16,440 an argument that is echoed in the early Christians and 1042 00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:18,400 continues by the way, for those really from Christians who 1043 00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,440 believe in God rejected the Jewish people, right? 1044 00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,600 We're no longer the, the, the, the, the, the chosen ones. 1045 00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:27,040 So to them we're cursed. We're the wandering Jew. 1046 00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,800 The way Tyrannus Rufus had it was he went to Rabbi Kiva and 1047 00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:34,680 said if the king threw someone in prison, demand that someone 1048 00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,040 be imprisoned. And then there was someone who 1049 00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,480 came and, you know, this guy should also be starved in 1050 00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,800 prison, subsistence only, or maybe even below subsistence, 1051 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:44,080 subsistence rations. There was someone who went 1052 00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:46,280 against the will of king. And when I was waiting to 1053 00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,240 somehow smuggle food to this prisoner, wouldn't the king be 1054 00:52:49,240 --> 00:52:53,720 upset at this person? And he was implying that the 1055 00:52:53,720 --> 00:52:57,480 Jewish people have been exiled, their temple has been destroyed. 1056 00:52:57,680 --> 00:52:59,560 God has rejected the Jewish people. 1057 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,080 You're trying to help the Jewish people get back on their feet. 1058 00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,800 Isn't that against God's will, so to speak? 1059 00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:09,240 And Rabbi Achiva said we're not God's prisoners, the mushrooms, 1060 00:53:09,240 --> 00:53:13,000 more accurately, what we are God's children. 1061 00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:17,040 If the king threw his son out of the palace one day, you know, 1062 00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,480 out of anger, he didn't really mean to completely disown his 1063 00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:22,720 son. As a matter of fact, if the the 1064 00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:25,440 Prince was stuck somewhere without any food or any shelter 1065 00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,400 and someone came and showed him some mercy and fed the Prince 1066 00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:32,080 and sheltered him that tomorrow when the king calms down and he 1067 00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:35,160 wants his son back, he'll be very happy with this fellow who 1068 00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:39,160 helped his son in the meantime. And that's that's the proper 1069 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:40,520 muscle. That's how I'm that's how God 1070 00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:44,800 looks to omnius role. We look at, let's say certain 1071 00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,480 commandments. You see, Can you imagine a 1072 00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,400 fruitless person would say, oh, those orphans over there, 1073 00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,040 they're left without parents. They're dirt poor and no one 1074 00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,520 takes care of them. Perhaps that's God's will. 1075 00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,360 God. God made them into orphans, so 1076 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:00,760 we should not go out of her way to help them. 1077 00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:03,280 I think there was some people who believe this in the Far 1078 00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:04,160 East. They had this idea. 1079 00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:07,080 They didn't believe in our God or even one God, but they had 1080 00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:12,280 this idea that people who are down, they're the lower, the 1081 00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:14,440 downtrodden, they're meant to stay there. 1082 00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:15,760 You're not supposed to raise them up. 1083 00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,960 You remember hearing about this in India. 1084 00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,480 They had the caste system that those who are in the lower 1085 00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,280 castes are meant to stay in the lower cast. 1086 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:23,280 Those upper casts are meant to stay in. 1087 00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:24,800 They're not supposed to mix. You're not supposed to try to 1088 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,440 bring the people out upon Verdi. That is an idea that still 1089 00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:29,440 exists in the world. Now take this to mitzvahs. 1090 00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,800 There people look at the the commandments and say, well, we 1091 00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:34,720 have not had a temple all this time. 1092 00:54:34,720 --> 00:54:36,800 We have not kept human Tara all this time. 1093 00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,800 Perhaps that is God's will that we are not supposed to have a 1094 00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:44,400 temple and by the way that that loses the distinction between 1095 00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:49,440 God's will and what God allows and what God what God's hayfens 1096 00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,800 is. Gereo Novi says that God wants 1097 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:56,080 someone to have proper behavior, right? 1098 00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,880 God desires certain things. Yes. 1099 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,240 If we see that something has been allowed, we see a murderer 1100 00:55:03,240 --> 00:55:06,120 has taken place. We don't say well, God controls 1101 00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:07,960 everything. It is God's will that this 1102 00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:09,640 person to be murdered other Robin. 1103 00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:14,160 No, God's will is that, On the contrary, people not murder each 1104 00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:15,600 other. Even Gentiles are not supposed 1105 00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:19,240 to be murdering each other. Yet God has done what in this 1106 00:55:19,240 --> 00:55:21,960 world, He's allowed man free will to sin. 1107 00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:23,880 There's the opportunity to sin and to do wrong. 1108 00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:26,440 So if you see that murder has been committed, you don't say, 1109 00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,400 well, this was God's will. It must, it was supposed to be. 1110 00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:31,720 No, it was not supposed to be. It's, it's actually against the 1111 00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:34,240 divine will, but he still allows it to happen. 1112 00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:38,560 So too, with these commandments, maybe that the commandment has 1113 00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:41,480 fallen out of disuse. It may be that God has allowed 1114 00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:44,200 his temple to be destroyed, but that's certainly not what he 1115 00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,240 wanted. And it's actually he. 1116 00:55:46,240 --> 00:55:48,320 He puts the blame on us. He looks at us and say, why 1117 00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:51,080 haven't you rebuilt my temple? Why haven't you come back to the 1118 00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:52,240 land of his? Why aren't you keeping his 1119 00:55:52,240 --> 00:55:54,600 commandments? But too many of us fall into 1120 00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:56,200 this. It's just their basic human 1121 00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,760 nature. We see what is around us and we 1122 00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:02,000 assume that this was meant to be, that this is God's will. 1123 00:56:02,240 --> 00:56:08,920 That's how it does. Look, all of Migila Tehi is, oh, 1124 00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:13,240 I understand the Migila the the lamentations of of of is 1125 00:56:13,240 --> 00:56:19,080 basically longing for the for the temple's restoration and or, 1126 00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:26,720 and blaming the the sins or or. It's certainly not something 1127 00:56:26,720 --> 00:56:29,960 that is that that when you're reading a high, you don't get 1128 00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:33,920 this impression that like this was like God's will in a 1129 00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,720 positive sense. It's it's it's an unfortunate 1130 00:56:37,720 --> 00:56:42,680 consequence of thin of many different human error. 1131 00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:46,200 Human error exactly. And we long God literally. 1132 00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:49,880 Why'd you make me do it? OK. 1133 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:52,840 I wish I didn't have to take out my wrath upon you. 1134 00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:54,080 It would have been much easier. God. 1135 00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,440 God gave us the broth, He said. If you keep the Torah, here's 1136 00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:00,800 here's a whole set of broth. It's actually quite concise, but 1137 00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:04,080 it's also all-encompassing. And if you don't do what is 1138 00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:07,000 right, here's a Tokalas God, cruel so to speak, that he gives 1139 00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:11,840 4049 different forms of punishment in Leviticus and 98 1140 00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:15,840 such punishments at the end of Deuteronomy is because he's 1141 00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:17,600 cruel. No, it's because he's trying to 1142 00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:22,440 tell us that the consequences of our actions, our mistaken use of 1143 00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:26,280 free will, will lead to these consequences, that that's what 1144 00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:27,040 happens. It's not. 1145 00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:28,560 It's not that God wanted that to happen. 1146 00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,880 He allowed it to happen because that's part of the test. 1147 00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,120 If it was there was no test in this world and free will, then 1148 00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:34,800 there'd be no reward and punishment. 1149 00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:38,680 But yeah, it's unfortunate to want punishment more than than 1150 00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:40,600 than reward. We only have a few minutes, but 1151 00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:43,080 this is actually something we have come to notice more and 1152 00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:44,640 more. And the more I speak to people, 1153 00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:48,920 the more I realized how much, you know, we, we talk about free 1154 00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:51,600 will and then we talk about like determinism, right? 1155 00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:56,560 And what I've noticed is, and I've, and I've spoken to a lot 1156 00:57:56,560 --> 00:58:00,280 of people about this, they'll be like, no, no, no, we really have 1157 00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,600 free will. But there's also determinism. 1158 00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:08,080 And I'm like, OK, explain that. And then you start hearing like 1159 00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:12,200 an entire pill pool, like you know this and, and it leads to 1160 00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,040 absolutely nowhere. Because at the end it's like 1161 00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,400 they just kind of circle back around. 1162 00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:21,440 Like you have to understand free will means free will. 1163 00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:24,960 That means no determinism that they're, they're mutually 1164 00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:28,040 exclusive concepts. You can ask how can how can a 1165 00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:31,320 Shem know the future while we that's that's a separate 1166 00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:34,960 question then from saying, you know, my actions don't have 1167 00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:36,800 consequences. It's it's two separate 1168 00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,120 theoretical issues over there. But I just noticed that 1169 00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:43,200 especially in the From community, they're kind of 1170 00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:48,640 misguidingly accepting both notions that don't work, and 1171 00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:52,400 it's kind of just leads them into a hodgepodge of weird 1172 00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:54,960 ideas, right? Like, yeah, we have free will, 1173 00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:59,200 but everything is a sham, right? But, but, but all the sham's 1174 00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:00,360 will. But I have free will. 1175 00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:01,760 But interestingly, interestingly. 1176 00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:02,520 But yes. But no. 1177 00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:06,320 It's not, it's not a, it's not a straight way of thinking. 1178 00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:10,000 But interestingly, they don't see the, you know, emergence of, 1179 00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:14,520 of, you know, post 1948, the land of Israel as the, as God's 1180 00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,120 will for some reason, for some reason that's not God's will. 1181 00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:18,920 You know that that doesn't make any sense here. 1182 00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:25,120 Yeah, it's kind of interesting. Thanks to, I was thinking 1183 00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,160 Einstein in physics, people begun to understand the nature 1184 00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:32,080 of time. OK, Did you notice how there's a 1185 00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:36,320 multiplicity of imaginative literature and other forms of 1186 00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:40,120 pop culture? They actually, they, they, they, 1187 00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:43,800 they explore this concept of time trap, the idea of time 1188 00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:47,080 trap. So my children read novels and 1189 00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:49,720 they tell me about traveling in time, time trap. 1190 00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,400 And you probably grew up with prominent movies that also 1191 00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,920 explore this as a plot device. So for many of us growing up 1192 00:59:57,240 --> 01:00:00,320 where we did, the idea of time travel is, you know, punish it. 1193 01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:02,360 Yeah, if, if you could travel too, time you, you, you'd be 1194 01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:04,640 able to accomplish this and that it would lead to paradoxes and 1195 01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:06,680 things like that. We all, we all speak like we're 1196 01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:10,360 Doc Brown and other other imagined individuals. 1197 01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:13,000 The idea of time travel, by the way. 1198 01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:17,640 But if you look in, let's say literature from before the 20th 1199 01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,680 century, the the latter half of the 20th century, the idea of 1200 01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:22,960 time travel did never existed, right? 1201 01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:25,480 It's not something that people use it. 1202 01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,080 People have been writing imaginative literature and other 1203 01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:32,160 creating all sorts of other culture, entertainment even, and 1204 01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:34,480 they didn't think of this. They didn't they didn't use this 1205 01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:37,240 as a device. You know, war and romance Haas 1206 01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:41,760 vu Shalom have been used as starting points for narratives, 1207 01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:45,440 fictitious narratives and even romanticized versions of how 1208 01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:47,000 actual events in history happened. 1209 01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:49,160 Right. Those are actually the biggest. 1210 01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:54,720 I think that most of our, I guess, literature, at least for 1211 01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,680 entertainment, revolves around these ideas, especially war, 1212 01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:00,080 right? But the idea of time travel is 1213 01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:03,880 not something that you had in humanity or even in Judaism. 1214 01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:06,320 I don't know what they did in the East, but this isn't the 1215 01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:08,240 concept that they even talked about yet. 1216 01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:11,160 For now, it's it for us. This is something that people 1217 01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:12,720 know about. Why would that be the case? 1218 01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:17,320 What happened, What changed? People understood physics. 1219 01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,200 Einstein introduced this idea and now everybody kind of 1220 01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:23,720 piggybacked up. Yes, it became, and even if we 1221 01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:25,640 don't understand physics that well, which we're all a bunch of 1222 01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:28,360 Amaratsu with that, we were told there's a fourth dimension just 1223 01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:30,680 like it could move right to left and up and down and you know, 1224 01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:32,920 forward and backward. I could also somehow do that in 1225 01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:35,280 time. Yet we discovered, like Hawking 1226 01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:38,720 says, that time has an arrow, even though we know there's a 1227 01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,360 backwards and forwards in time, One of the laws of 1228 01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:43,480 thermodynamics, the fact that entropy is always increasing 1229 01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:46,640 means that there's this arrow of time as he described. 1230 01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:48,720 We can't seem to go backwards in time, but we do know that 1231 01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:51,120 there's a past, the present and the future, Right. 1232 01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:54,600 And we also talked about God. God is, you know, that perhaps 1233 01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:57,000 his name is encoded. He's he's timeless. 1234 01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:58,560 Yeah. He's beyond time. 1235 01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:01,560 So it was never something that we could actually think about 1236 01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:03,040 moving backwards or forwards in time. 1237 01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:07,520 We're skipping ahead, be able to somehow go to the to the future 1238 01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:10,240 somehow and then have knowledge of what's going to be and then 1239 01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:13,520 come back here with that already acquired knowledge and changing 1240 01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:16,960 the present based on that or going to the past and somehow 1241 01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:20,680 changing the past to affect where we are now, which somehow 1242 01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,120 returning there. Those are crazy concepts that 1243 01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:26,280 most people now because they've read something or they've seen 1244 01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:29,200 some sort of movie, now they have a concept about that and 1245 01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:32,400 that for some reason doesn't affect our free will. 1246 01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:34,240 You know why? Because we know that's just 1247 01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:39,080 science fiction. Many of us know that yes, now 1248 01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:42,400 God has a knowledge of the future. 1249 01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:44,840 It's all a book. He's seen the movie already, so 1250 01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:49,280 to speak, whatever it is, but for our intents and purposes, 1251 01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:51,920 there is just a now. We can't break it. 1252 01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:53,920 We can't break out of the time we're going to. 1253 01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:55,760 We can't go back. We can't go forward. 1254 01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:59,800 We're stuck here now. So being that that's the case, 1255 01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:04,160 we have to use our free will right now to decide what to do. 1256 01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:05,880 We, it's all, it's still resting on us. 1257 01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,160 We still have the, we have to live with the consequences of 1258 01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:09,600 actions. There's still reward and 1259 01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:11,520 punishment. Even these people who believe in 1260 01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:14,560 determinism, when they say that they're when they sort of 1261 01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:17,040 believe in a deterministic idea, what are they really saying? 1262 01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:19,080 They're saying that someone's read the book. 1263 01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:24,200 Someone is aware of the future. God is not a someone that he is. 1264 01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:28,560 He is removed from time. Lamaze said everything you do in 1265 01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:30,200 your life, you are stuck here right now. 1266 01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,400 There's no there's no other being that is timeless, that 1267 01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:35,760 could time travel or that could have any knowledge of the 1268 01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:37,600 future. God's knowledge is not like your 1269 01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:39,760 knowledge. So your determinism doesn't 1270 01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:40,400 really matter. It's your. 1271 01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:42,520 Determinism. Science fiction. 1272 01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:47,320 Exactly, the whole point of of the foreknowledge and the hero 1273 01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:51,080 thing is to basically end up explaining that Hashem doesn't 1274 01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:52,880 know in any way in which we know. 1275 01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:56,240 So the question never starts. You have to the knowledge would 1276 01:03:56,240 --> 01:04:00,400 be something towards how we conceive of knowledge for that, 1277 01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:03,320 for that for that contradiction to to exist. 1278 01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:05,840 But when you understand that God's knowledge is absolutely 1279 01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:09,640 nothing to do with anything that we can conceive, the point is to 1280 01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:11,560 get to a point where you understand that it's a non 1281 01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:13,800 starter, that that's the whole point. 1282 01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:17,600 Instead people just they keep, they keep taking the idea of 1283 01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:21,320 God's foreknowledge and to and kind of putting it into their 1284 01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:23,240 conception of what foreknowledge means. 1285 01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:25,760 And so then they have a contradiction staring them in 1286 01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:27,640 the face. But like, no, the the point 1287 01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:30,040 isn't like you said, the point isn't saying God is not a 1288 01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:32,280 someone. God is not a brain and God 1289 01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:34,400 doesn't know in the sense that we know. 1290 01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:38,520 The whole idea is to basically remove all these understandings 1291 01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:41,560 of God from the picture so that you understand that there is no 1292 01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:44,800 real question here. That's that's the real point. 1293 01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:50,800 Yet this anthropomorphic tendency that we tend to to 1294 01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:54,680 bring into ideas like knowledge of God and what we, we 1295 01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:58,320 anthropomorphize it to a point where then we're stuck in these 1296 01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:04,000 really, really debilitating contradictions that lead to 1297 01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:10,560 strange ideas, strange notions, inaction, all the all the things 1298 01:05:10,560 --> 01:05:14,120 that that you don't want that that, that that's upset of what 1299 01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:18,200 Judaism preaches. By the way, and I'd like to add 1300 01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:20,560 that don't we have prophets? Don't we clean that the prophets 1301 01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:23,240 had knowledge of the future? I think it's a very big mistake. 1302 01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:26,840 I do not believe that God gave knowledge of the future. 1303 01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:30,760 The way we understand it now from our pop culture idea, He 1304 01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:34,240 did not give even to Moses knowledge of the future in that 1305 01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:39,280 in that sense, what he gave to the prophets was promises of the 1306 01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:41,920 future and instructions for the future. 1307 01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:45,080 I'll give you an example, the messianic era. 1308 01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:48,800 The prophets envisioned the messianic era, but they didn't 1309 01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:50,200 actually see what the future would be. 1310 01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:55,240 They were telling us that it is our job to make our lives the 1311 01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:57,400 messianic era. They were telling us to keep the 1312 01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:00,640 commandments so that you bring about this messianic era. 1313 01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:04,560 And they also were telling us that if we do exactly as God has 1314 01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:08,120 told us 100%, then we will merit to have this state. 1315 01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:12,440 But Ezekiel didn't see, let's say flying cars and modern Tel 1316 01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:14,000 Aviv. He didn't see that. 1317 01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:17,640 He was told, Tommy Stroll, if you keep the Torah. 1318 01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:20,040 Well, what was the main thing that Ezekiel did see, by the 1319 01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:20,960 way? He lived in Tel Aviv. 1320 01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:22,080 He lived in Tel Aviv, in Blauville. 1321 01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:25,480 What did Ezekiel see? What was he told to tell people 1322 01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:30,520 about the future, the temple? He totally saw a whole vision 1323 01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:33,120 exactly. Many chapters of here's the 1324 01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:34,600 exact specifications and all that. 1325 01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:38,520 But the Hamim told us and the Ramapaskans this way, that when 1326 01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:40,320 the king time to actually rebuild the second temple, they 1327 01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:42,000 didn't know what he was talking about, so they tried to 1328 01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:43,960 incorporate it. What Ezekiel's telling you is 1329 01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:45,920 this is a goal you're striving for. 1330 01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:50,000 Try to build a temple this way to the best that you can, and 1331 01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:54,360 God will do his part and put his divine presence back in that 1332 01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:57,640 temple. But he didn't see. 1333 01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:00,760 What the actual temple will look like, he's telling, instructing 1334 01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:03,960 you how to do it and how to get a promise and you use that 1335 01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:06,120 principle. Also, Moshe Rabinu was not 1336 01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:09,840 shown, let's say I don't know whatever the messianic era will 1337 01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:12,240 look like. He was told to tell us how to 1338 01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,880 bring about the messianic era and a requirement to do so. 1339 01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:18,520 By the way, this is AI guess, if you could sound, I guess almost 1340 01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:22,000 Zionist people think that you look at the prophecies of the 1341 01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:23,640 Torah and Naveen, they'll come true. 1342 01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:25,000 You know that that's the way it's going to be. 1343 01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:27,280 It's somehow going to come true. So you just sit back. 1344 01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:30,160 No, the prophets were giving you a commandment. 1345 01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:31,160 They were giving you orders. You. 1346 01:07:31,280 --> 01:07:34,800 It is your obligation as an individual and as a community, 1347 01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:38,080 as a nation, to bring about this messianic state. 1348 01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:41,640 That's been important. Yeah, that's fundamental and 1349 01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:44,440 fascinating. Yeah, I really like that. 1350 01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:45,680 I really, really enjoyed that one. 1351 01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:48,880 Well, we, we want to thank you. Sorry that we ran out of time 1352 01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:50,560 and we, we want to do this again. 1353 01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:53,240 There's a lot of topics that we want to discuss with you. 1354 01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:54,400 So hopefully we can do this again. 1355 01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:57,720 Before we go, can you tell everybody how they can find you 1356 01:07:57,720 --> 01:07:59,000 and find your book? Yeah. 1357 01:07:59,000 --> 01:07:59,640 And your books? Yeah. 1358 01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:00,080 What book? Yeah. 1359 01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:02,360 OK, I I guess we'll put that in link. 1360 01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:06,120 If I'm a book, my website israhambenyuda.wordpress.com. 1361 01:08:06,120 --> 01:08:07,920 I guess it's out date people. Some people tell me I have to go 1362 01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:11,200 to the Substack. So send me an e-mail to 1363 01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:15,600 mahoneshiloh.org. I guess office at Mahone 1364 01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:18,680 shiloh.org. But you can also find the line 1365 01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:21,479 and you'll get my contact information there. 1366 01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:23,800 And also you could find the website. 1367 01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:28,800 Just Google Haggadatta Pesa and my name and you'll find a way to 1368 01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:33,359 order a copy of a Gadada peso. It's a very simple and also we 1369 01:08:33,359 --> 01:08:35,920 have YouTube channel, but most of my content now is on the 1370 01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:39,200 Mahon Shiloh YouTube channel. It's also very easy thing to 1371 01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:42,920 find if you know how to use the Internet and you contact me 1372 01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:44,760 through that. And also you should look at the 1373 01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:46,240 videos. I'm not the only one, obviously 1374 01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:48,080 I'm I'm just a minor part of that Channel. 1375 01:08:48,359 --> 01:08:52,040 It hosts, most of it hosts all of Rabbi Barking's content. 1376 01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:55,439 And now there's other other creators and other contributors 1377 01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:58,279 there, especially Jonathan Pollard, who has a lot to say 1378 01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:00,560 about our situation right now. I think you should listen to 1379 01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:02,120 him. And also Doctor England is 1380 01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:03,479 there. Doctor England. 1381 01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:07,040 Thank for for making this between us. 1382 01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:08,560 So, Doctor England, thank you very much. 1383 01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:08,800 Yep. Yeah. 1384 01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:12,479 He he's the smartest Jew I know, so it's worth listening to him. 1385 01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:14,439 Absolutely. We had him on the podcast. 1386 01:09:14,439 --> 01:09:16,640 He's phenomenal. He's yeah and. 1387 01:09:17,319 --> 01:09:21,040 Every time I listen, I just realized how how brilliant this 1388 01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:22,120 man is. Unbelievable. 1389 01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:23,600 Yeah. See, there's a Brock. 1390 01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:26,880 You see, on seeing really wise people, really wise tourist 1391 01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:28,920 ages, you know, there's all. We're joking. 1392 01:09:28,920 --> 01:09:30,680 You're supposed to. You meet these people. 1393 01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:32,680 You're supposed to thank God. You're supposed to praise him 1394 01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:35,000 for creating such great, phenomenal minds. 1395 01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:37,040 Yeah. There you have it. 1396 01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:38,399 Thank you so much. Thank you. 1397 01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:41,279 We hope that you stay safe. We hope that the matzah. 1398 01:09:41,279 --> 01:09:47,279 Should get better and our our hearts and our thoughts are with 1399 01:09:47,279 --> 01:09:49,160 you and with everyone in earth Israel. 1400 01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:51,680 And we hope you have a Shavuot tov. 1401 01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:55,920 And we thank you so much for your time and much success. 1402 01:09:55,920 --> 01:09:59,520 And hopefully we'll do it again. You mean thank you. 1403 01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:00,600 Good. To see you guys.