CBI Boca Livestream Shabbat Morning Shabbat Hazon Teaching

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Deuteronomy Nostalgia And Shabbat Chazon

SPEAKER_04 0:18

So this was, of course, the beginning of the book of Devarim, the Book of Deuteronomy. And I I always get nostalgic when we get to the book of Deuteronomy, because that's what my bar mitzvah was. I think, yeah, it was, I think my bar mitzvah was Parashatva Ethanan. I'm in fact I'm almost certain of it. And I think that that that might be next week. I didn't chant my my my, but I can if you want.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

Well, the canteral.

SPEAKER_04 0:49

The cantor will chant. So, but this is also a very special Shabbat. It is called Shabbat Chazon. Does anybody know the word chazon?

SPEAKER_01 0:58

Vision.

SPEAKER_04 0:59

What is it? What is it?

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Vision.

SPEAKER_04 1:01

Vision, precisely. So this Shabbat Chazon is the Shabbat of vision, which, unless you know what we're talking about, it's like, why is it a Shabbat of vision? It happens, it falls on the Shabbat before Tishba of. So we have to understand Tishba of, because there's not a lot of Western Jews or Reformed Jews that really observe Tishba of. So what is Tishba of? The ninth of Av. What is it?

SPEAKER_02 1:36

The day both temples were destroyed.

SPEAKER_04 1:39

Right, the day

Tisha B'Av And Two Temple Destructions

SPEAKER_04 1:40

both temples were destroyed. The first temple was destroyed by the Babylonians, 586 BCE, I think. And the second temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 of the Common Era. Okay. The tradition is that the prophet Isaiah had a vision. And his vision was that the temples would be destroyed because of the people's sins. Okay? Now, there are lots of ideas about why the temples were destroyed, but the Bible has its own specific ideas. And it's all one of the ideas, a very important idea, and the mid-Rashim are loaded with this, is something called Deuteronomic theology. So when you go to the beach today and they say, What did you learn? You can say, We talked about Deuteronomic theology. What is Deuteronomic theology?

SPEAKER_00 2:47

Theology from Deuteronomy.

SPEAKER_04 2:49

That is absolutely correct. But that that's that's like saying, What's a circle? Well, circle's round. So it's an accurate answer, but what is it? Have you ever heard the term?

unknown 3:00

No.

SPEAKER_04 3:01

Oh, good. Then had I come to this yeshiva just to teach that, it would have been worth it.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

I would imagine myself for the fact that Deuteronomy was discovered a thousand years after the rest of Torah, and it was very priestly orientation.

SPEAKER_04 3:19

You are right, but that's not Deuteronomic theology. No, but no, but you're absolutely right. It was found during the the reign of King Josiah. But that that's a whole other lesson. But thank you. No, that's good. There was a question. Okay. Deuteronomic theology is this. And you actually see it in the Viahafta in the paragraph that we don't read.

unknown 3:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:49

No, no, no, no. I didn't leave it out. She left it out. Actually, your minha custom, your custom left it out. And I'm not, I'm not sure why, but it doesn't matter. There's a whole I'm sorry?

Deuteronomic Theology In Plain Words

SPEAKER_04 4:02

No, Robin doesn't. I make mistakes. No, absolutely. There's a whole section in the Viahafta that is not in the Reformed Prayer Book. Did you know that? Okay. Here's what it says. If you do good, you will get rain in your seasons. And if you screw up, you're doomed. That's Deuteronomic theology. If you basically, if you sin, everything's gonna go south for you.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

I thought it was part of uh what we had in the record where they say the English translation went something like that in your days and the days of your children may go maybe many uh you know things granted to you.

SPEAKER_04 4:58

Yeah, that's the first part of the paragraph. The first part of the paragraph is if you do good and you follow God's commandments, it's gonna be great for you and your children, but don't blow it. Okay, that's what's called Deuteronomic theology. Isaiah, after whom this Shabbat, after whose vision this Shabbat is is named, said the Jews are they're they're they're they're blowing it. They're what?

unknown 5:29

Doomed.

SPEAKER_04 5:30

Doomed. They're doomed. And as soon as you came in, some of you looked at this whole sheep, and you said, you said, wait a second, this is just like Yom Kippur. And not only is it just like Yom Kippur, but the Shabbat Hazun Haftarah, which is today, is the one we read on Yom Kippur, which is good. That's right. Right? So we're gonna talk about that a little bit. Take a look. I I I included the whole Isaiah portion for you, and we're not gonna read the whole Isaiah portion for it, but you will see this should be very, very familiar

Isaiah's Vision And The Yom Kippur Echo

SPEAKER_04 6:12

to you. Okay. So I'm gonna tell you what I did in in, and I'm not, I can't do it here because there's just too many people, but on Yom Kippur, when I was in New Jersey and also last year, I had a congregant or a professional actor dress up as Isaiah, right? At the Haftarah, and that person would actually come and walk through the congregation reciting this whole portion. And it was it was fabulous because it became very personal. So imagine you're listening to Isaiah, and he says, Hear, O heavens, and give earth, give ear, O earth, for the Lord has spoken. I reared children and brought them up, and they have rebelled against me. An ox knows its owner, an ass its master's crib, and yet Israel does not know, my people take no thought. Ouch. Right? This is a very big ouch, haftara. This is Isaiah's first chazon, his first prophecy. Okay, and and so because this is about the destruction of Zion, another name for Jerusalem, another name for the the anybody been to Israel here, right? You've all been to Israel? Okay, so you've been to Har Zion, Mount Zion. Okay, he is prophesying, you know what? Your sins are going to cause the destruction of the temples. And remember, the temple was the most important part, it was the gravitational center of the Jewish people. Question so far? No? Okay, good. Now, how did our sages understand what Isaiah was saying? Okay, so they're saying, well, if the sins cause, I'm sorry, if the sins caused the destruction of Jerusalem and the exiles of the Jewish people, and there were at least three of them, not just two, but there were at least three exiles of the Jewish people, then how do we repair the relationship with God? What was the answer?

unknown 8:55

Repent back.

SPEAKER_04 8:56

Repent, I'm sorry?

unknown 8:57

Turn back.

SPEAKER_04 8:58

Turn back. And what's the Hebrew word for turn back? To shuva, which means to return. Okay, sometimes we call it repentance. Okay? Now, so now if if if if on Shabbat Hazung, we have to start focusing on repentance so that these next tragedies don't happen to us, it makes sense for us to look at a little bit of repentance. And even though it's not even August, we're gonna do a little Yum Kipper. Question.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

So traditionally, the book of uh Deuteronomy is uh the last 38 days of Moses' life. Right. Okay. And at the end of it, he dies. Correct. And uh he is revamping everything that's gone through the previous four books from the time they left Egypt until we're going through each one of the four uh three other books after except which book? Except Genesis. Right, right, right. Exactly. So yeah, so it's it's really um you know tying that into what you just uh it sounds like this is a preamble for the carnalist.

SPEAKER_04 10:22

It is, and it's exactly what it is, or that's what it has actually turned out to be. Right. No, it's a really good insight, yes.

SPEAKER_03 10:30

And the reason we're doing it today is to prevent the temple from being destroyed.

SPEAKER_04 10:35

So okay, right. I'm glad you asked that because it makes no sense, right? First of all, we ain't got no temple. Okay, we haven't had a temple since 70 of the common era, and not only do we not have a temple, but after the first exile by the Babylonians, what was established right after the destruction of the first temple?

SPEAKER_00 11:04

Rabbinic Judaism.

Synagogue Origins After The Temple Falls

SPEAKER_04 11:06

Which part of Rabbinic Judism? Yes, yeah, I mean no, no, no, no, no, not quite, not quite. No, you're you're talking about the literature. You're getting off the synagogue. And you're saying, what the synagogue? What does synagogue me? What does synagogue mean? I'm sorry? No, that's the that's the Yiddish form of shul. Shuol means school, synagogue means something else.

unknown 11:33

It's Greek.

SPEAKER_04 11:34

It is Greek. So what's it mean? Anyone know?

SPEAKER_02 11:37

Belief together.

SPEAKER_04 11:38

To what?

SPEAKER_02 11:39

Believe together.

SPEAKER_04 11:40

That's pretty darn close. It means a gathering spot. Okay. A synagogue just means is another name for gathering spot. Oh, by the way, um what's what's a what what's the other Greek word for a gathering spot? This is this is my New Testament scholarship. Ecclesia means church. Right? It's exactly the same, it's exactly the same word. It's exactly the same. Maybe it means a place where we all get together. Okay. That's right. That's it. There you go. Right, right, like Saint Mère Eglise, right? Okay, now the synagogue began to get developed in 586 BCE. Actually, that's not entirely precise, but for it's good enough for folk music for today, because it actually started before then. Okay, so the idea is that once the temple was destroyed, we could still do Jewish. Okay. About 70 years, 70 years, 50 years after the temple was the first temple was destroyed, what major thing happened? And this is important. What major thing happened? Okay. A man in what was then, well, uh Iran, okay, Cyrus the Great arose. And what significant thing did he do? Yes, but why was he good to the Jews? What did he do that was good to the Jews? He what? The Romans are much later. Okay, no, it's he allowed them to leave and go back to the land of Israel because he beat the Babylonians. So the Babylonians were no longer in charge of the land of Israel. There's a lot of history behind that. He allows them to go back to the land of Israel to do what? Precisely, to rebuild the temple. And in rebuilding the temple, what happens? Think like a business person.

SPEAKER_02 14:08

More people come back to Israel.

SPEAKER_04 14:11

You you're friends with the Jews, they won't rebel, they'll pay their taxes. Everybody's happy. The Jews go back to build the to build the temple in the land of Israel, but there's a big problem. The big problem is that only about 30% of the Jews in Babylon went back to the land of Israel. Why they had it good in Boca. They had it good. Why would we leave? Remember what we said about the synagogue and the beginnings of the synagogue? They already figured out how to do Jewish without the sacrifices. Oh. And this is where the beginnings of rabbinic Judaism come in. Once I know how to do Jewish without the sacrifices, what do I need the sacrifices? And why do I want to go build the temple? That's why this whole business of the people out in in Texas who are Mashugah who want to build the third temple. Right? Right? And they're raising these red heifers, right? It's like, who's gonna go?

SPEAKER_01 15:34

Yeah, the smell is too bad.

SPEAKER_04 15:35

No, yeah, that's for sure. I mean, are you gonna go and take your goat on Yom Kippur for sacrifice? Of course not, because we have developed a Judaism that is way beyond sacrifices. And in fact, Maimonides himself said that the sacrifices were only a stepping stone, which is remarkable. Okay? So we don't need the temple for repentance. So why do we still observe Tishba of, which is what I'm getting at? Why do we observe Tishba of?

SPEAKER_03 16:09

Well, the first temple was destroyed, I think both.

SPEAKER_04 16:12

Well, they both were. But but if Tishba of is the holiday commemorating the destruction of the temple, and yet we don't want to rebuild the temple, why are we still commemorating Tishabov? Hmm. Good

Memory As The Point Of Tisha B'Av

SPEAKER_04 16:30

question, right?

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Good. We're a people that respect the traditions of our forefall.

SPEAKER_04 16:38

I agree with that. And I would even go further, we respect the idea of memory. It's like a memorial day. So Tishabov has in fact become a memorial day to encompass all of the terrible things that have happened to the Jewish people. Okay? So Tishabov is not simply about what Jeremiah said sitting by the waters of Babylon and weeping about the destruction of the temple. No, it's not simply that. It is about what have we done to have caused this. Okay? And whether or not we accept the Deuteronomic theology is not important. But what it does give us is an opportunity to look at the idea of repentance. Okay? So that's what we're just gonna do. And I'm gonna go, I know that was a big history lesson, wasn't it? Okay, but but that wasn't expecting.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

That was terrific, though.

SPEAKER_04 17:37

Good, good. So let's take a look at Maimonides on repentance. Does everybody know who Maimonides is? You've all heard the name. Okay? Rum bum. Right. Okay. All right. So I I don't know. So somebody want to read The Loss of Repentance? Who wants to read the laws of repentance? Okay, go ahead, please. Big voice, big voice. You know what? Here, let's get to a microphone.

SPEAKER_03 18:01

It doesn't go that far.

Maimonides On Vidui And Confession

SPEAKER_03 18:09

Oh, me?

unknown 18:10

Sure.

SPEAKER_04 18:10

Oh, no, no, we're not behind.

SPEAKER_03 18:12

I was pointing to using.

SPEAKER_04 18:13

Oh, you were okay. Okay, that absolutely, it's fine.

SPEAKER_00 18:19

Mishne Torah, laws of repentance, the obligation of confession, vidui, as the command commanded act.

SPEAKER_04 18:26

You all know the word vidui. We see it at Yom Kippur. Al Khacha Khatan alafana.

SPEAKER_00 18:32

Okay, go ahead if a person transgresses any of the Mitsuta of the Torah, whether a positive command or negative command, whether willingly or inadvertently, when he repents and returns from his sin, he must confess before God, blessed be he. As if a man or a woman commit any of these sins of a man, they must confess the sin that they committed. This refers to a verbal confession. The confession is a positive command.

SPEAKER_04 19:03

So a positive command, you shall, right. A negative command, you shall not. Good.

SPEAKER_00 19:09

How does one confess? He states, I implore you, God, I sinned, I transgressed, I committed iniquity before you by doing the following. Behold, I regret and I'm embarrassed for my deeds. I promise never to repeat this act again. These are the essential elements of the congressional confessional prayer.

SPEAKER_04 19:31

There's congressional prayers too.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

You know where my mouth is. Whoever confesses profusely and elaborates on these matters is worthy of praise.

SPEAKER_04 19:43

Okay. Any questions about this particular halacha? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 19:48

So the wording sounds very much like young kippur.

SPEAKER_04 19:51

Well, it is young kippur, yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. Now, there are many questions that we can have about this. And and one of, and and this is just the first statement in his Hilkote Shuvah in the laws of repentance. That many of the questions are, well, you mean all I have to do is just say that I'm sorry and everything is forgiven. Well, you could promise have a I mean, but that everybody does that. I promise I won't do it again.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

You know, I mean we have cold nitrae.

SPEAKER_04 20:29

There's what?

SPEAKER_00 20:29

We have cold nitrate.

SPEAKER_04 20:32

Well, co I didn't really want to talk about cold nitrate, but cold nitra is not a prayer.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

No, it's a it's a we're asking God to forgive us.

SPEAKER_04 20:43

No, no, no, not quite. Not quite. Not quite. No, no, no, no, that's okay. What is cold nitrate? It's a it's a statement, it's a legal statement. How do we know

Kol Nidre Is A Legal Statement

SPEAKER_04 20:56

it's not a prayer? What's our very first well, that just makes it not a blessing. It's not in Hebrew.

SPEAKER_00 21:03

No, it's an Aramaic.

SPEAKER_04 21:04

It's an Aramaic. It's a legal formula, and what it does is it says any of these vows that I make or that I made in the past year, I need them null and void, which is which is wonderful fodder for anti-Semites. Question, yes.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

Is that why in certain where groups term as a judge as an unleash before the points?

SPEAKER_04 21:37

It is, it is, it is, that is, that is a really good, that's a really good question. And I would say yes. And I think what you re where you really see that on during the high holidays is a vinu mulcanu, right? And the the idea of uh of God the king, pardon the sexist language, but God the king, God, and then you have the images of God the judge. Remember, there's a beautiful prayer. You know, you are judge and jury, you you consider every soul and all that. So the theme of God's judgment runs through the high holidays. If I get a chance, I'd love to. Teach a whole session on the Kol Nidre because it's a fascinating prayer. And how is it dealt with in Jewish tradition and also in the reform movement?

SPEAKER_03 22:31

You just referred to it as a prayer.

SPEAKER_04 22:34

That was wrong on my part. Thank you. It is it is funny. I mean, that's it, it's in our bones, right? We call it a prayer. It's not a prayer. And in fact, there is a there is a uh version of the old union prayer book. Remember the old union prayer book? Remember the old union? Yeah, do you remember the old union prayer book? For Yom Kippur that did not have the Kol Nitria.

SPEAKER_00 23:01

Because it was different?

SPEAKER_04 23:03

No, because it made it look like Jews make promises that they can that they can uh obviate at the end that they can get out of uh on on Col Nitre night. And then and there and there was such a there was such a brew ha ha that that the the union took all of those prayer books back and pasted cold nitrate on the inside cover. Question. I'm glad we're doing so much text here.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

You have to think about once a year to erase all your sets, why isn't it done on a daily basis?

SPEAKER_04 23:45

It is, and that's a really good question. The question is this if if we can have a way to remove our sins, right, once a year on Kol Nidre, right, and to ask God to erase our sins on Kol Nidre night and on Yom Kippur, why don't we do it every

Daily Forgiveness Versus Yom Kippur

SPEAKER_04 24:04

day? We do. It's in the daily Amidah. It's in the daily amidah every day. So what is the difference between repentance every day and Yom Kippur? Yom Kippur, first of all, is biblical. Okay, they call it the day of self-affliction. Okay? So you I'm sorry?

SPEAKER_02 24:31

That's why you fast.

SPEAKER_04 24:31

And that's why we fast, right? Self-affliction, because Jews don't want to eat on Yom Kippur. But the idea is that on Yom Kippur, the entire day is dedicated to repentance. Okay, and so uh beyond just your own personal repentance, there are so many different layers, not only of what repentance means, but how to achieve repentance. Because repentance is not simply, oh, look at I'm really sorry. Okay, I'm sorry for what I've done. Because the the the there are different layers of now how do you recompense the person you hurt? And what happens if the person says, no, I don't accept your forgiveness, or I don't want your forgiveness.

SPEAKER_03 25:20

No, no, no. I refuse to forgive you.

SPEAKER_04 25:23

Or I refuse to forgive you. Right, yeah, exactly. Or I mean, and and so there there are all sorts of discussions and layers. Well, they're not entire tractates, but there's lots of sugyo about that. And it's a very difficult question, it's not easy to answer. But but repentance is supposed to happen every day. All right, and let's just do the next one because it says, What is complete to Shuvah? Who's ready? Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 25:51

I just wanted to point out that we did not say the prayer for 74.

SPEAKER_04 25:59

See? We didn't do La Sokhpa divray torah. Which is why we need to do it at the beginning of the service, when it's part of the liturgy, and I will bet you any money, any money, that the

Complete Teshuvah And Resisting Temptation

SPEAKER_04 26:17

reason the rabbis put it as part of the liturgy at the beginning of the service was precisely so we wouldn't forget it.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

Okay, so we'll do it.

SPEAKER_04 26:25

Yeah. Right, right. Okay, so let's take a look at the second, the second law, and then I'll take your question.

SPEAKER_00 26:34

What is complete teshuva? Being faced with the same temptation and refraining. Who has reached complete teshuva? A person who confronts the same situation in which he sinned when he has the potential to commit the sin again and nevertheless abstains and does not commit it because of his tuva alone, and not because of fear or a lack of strength. For example, a person engaged in illicit sexual relations with a woman. Afterwards, they met in privacy in the same country, while his love for her and physical power still persisted, and nevertheless, he abstained and did not transgress. This is a complete ba altuva. This was implied by King Solomon in his statement. Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the bad days come, and the years draw near when you will say, I have no desire for this.

SPEAKER_04 27:36

This is a complete this is a completely new idea, uh interpretation of this of the verse from the Song of Songs. Okay, that's not what the Song of Songs verse was about, but Maimonides said, Maimonides said, remember the creator in the days of your youth, because when the bad years come, you'll say, I have no desire of them. And Maimonides is associating that with the concept of repentance. That what you know, I was a Lothario back in my youth. Okay, but I have repented. So that when the bad when the next days come, I have no desire of them because I I have I have repented. I'm sorry? Excuse me. He said she was something in her youth.

SPEAKER_03 28:25

Now he said I was a lotario.

SPEAKER_04 28:28

I was a Lothario in my youth. I was a I I you know, I I was a playboy, you know, right? And I had all of it. I I know that this is online, so I'm I'm talking kind of in the third person here. But you know, that that that you know, we had all of the I did all of these things that were immoral or that other people considered immoral, but I have repented, and now that I am older and I'm faced with exactly the same issue, I don't have to do it anymore because I have repented.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Okay, and these people have to be able to do it. But it's desire.

SPEAKER_04 29:02

They're both. So what does baal chuvah mean?

SPEAKER_01 29:07

It means going back to the beginnings.

SPEAKER_04 29:10

Almost, but what does it what does the actual term mean?

SPEAKER_01 29:16

Yeah, it's something with repentance because you should write this.

SPEAKER_04 29:20

Well, it's repentance, but what what it's not a god. Baal is is is is is a is a is an ancient god, but that's not the use of the word ba'al here. Baal means master. So somebody who is a baal chuva has mastered repentance. I'm a repentance master. You can't tempt me anymore. That's what Baal Chuva means, yes.

SPEAKER_03 29:49

So I'm confused because it looks to me like it's remember your creator in stays of your youth. Because the bad days come. I do say I have no desire for it. It sounds like I'm losing my interest in sex.

SPEAKER_04 30:04

So well, that's I mean, that that's the way it's written in the Song of Songs.

unknown 30:11

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 30:11

Okay, that's that that's the shot, that's the plain understanding. Maimonides is taking it in a different direction. Okay, nice. Okay. Okay. Okay, let's keep going.

SPEAKER_00 30:22

If he does not repent until his old age, at a time when he is incapable of doing what he did before, even though this is not a high level of repentance, he is a Baal Teshuva.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

So using Maimonides' logic or Maimonides' example, which is sexual immorality, okay, even though he's 75 or 80 years old, if his repentance is authentic, even though he could not do nearly what he did before, his repentance, although it's a little bit lower level, it's still okay. Yeah, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 31:05

Yeah. Let's keep going.

SPEAKER_00 31:08

Even if he transgressed throughout his entire life and repented on the day of his death and died in repentance, all his sins are forgiven. Before the sun, the light, the moon, or the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain, this refers to the day of death. Thus we can infer that if one remembers his creation creator and repents before he dies, is forgiven.

SPEAKER_04 31:36

He is forgiven. Question. No, it's not like hang on one second.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

It's a statement.

SPEAKER_04 31:43

What's your statement?

SPEAKER_03 31:44

That v dewee is a bread that you say about when someone is dying is when it's dying.

SPEAKER_04 31:50

The v dewee is done before somebody has died. We don't do it after they've died, but we do it before they die. And that's exactly right. We do a v-dewe. Has anybody ever seen a deathbed v-dewe? Yeah, the deathbed v-dewe is, I'm gonna do this off the top of my head.

Deathbed Vidui And Final Return

SPEAKER_04 32:14

I am so I I know that I am about to die, although I hope for healing. I I I I'm not expecting to recover. How much of my life have I wasted? Forgive me my my sins, the the the moments lost, and something like that. It's actually a very beautiful moment. It can be. And when somebody can't do a Vidui, somebody can do a Vidui on their behalf. So what the what the what the Vidui is, is a very small Yom Kippur. And it really comes from this idea that if you are a th that if you repent the day before you die, that you repent before you die, then you are forgiven. Question? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Yeah, it doesn't seem to leave a whole lot of incentive for a registry.

SPEAKER_04 33:08

It doesn't, does it? And that is one of the problems, isn't it? Right? That is one of the problems. And so if if we're going to be, if we're going to be honest about it, we have to say, you know, what are the limits of this? And then why even bother to be good if we can just say a simple formula to get rid of all of our sins? And Jewish

The Incentive Problem And Real Repair

SPEAKER_04 33:31

tradition has dealt with that, and there are all sorts of the there are all sorts of traditions and laws about repentance and about about recompense and so forth. Because I I see, hang on one second. Because there are so many things about agreements and interpersonal relationships within Judaism that something like what was the numbers, something like 60% of the Tolmud has to do with contracts. Because our tradition is about, I mean, isn't love wonderful and all that? That's great. Where's the kutubah? Okay, because the rabbis knew human nature, but you're absolutely correct, and that is one of the critiques, and so Judaism, Jewish tradition had to respond to that. It's a really good point. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 34:25

Well, my colleagues are right. Well, I typically agree with you.

SPEAKER_04 34:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 34:30

Uh I think it's missing what I remember that I do it, which we I actually did for my follow-up.

SPEAKER_04 34:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 34:37

It's known and unknown. So it's really dealing with the unknown. Didn't we sit and did they know what you did?

SPEAKER_03 34:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:45

The time that you didn't do what you could do, it's not necessarily what you knew. And so they're saying, well, go ahead and do what you want to do because you didn't. What you've already done is the generations that survived in the door to door saying your punishment, say things that have been elevated, they're paying for your sins, they're recognizing it to bring you to higher levels. So that we do. It doesn't necessarily just say okay, you've got to do it. No, it's what you didn't done, you're forgiving. And then people who are your generations that are after you are bringing to the elevator to the higher.

SPEAKER_04 35:24

That's a really it that's a really nice drush. I like that. I I like that. That's that's a really nice idea. And you are looking at the V Dewey like the Kol Nidre itself, because the Kol Nidre is saying for acts of omission, for acts of commission, you know, for things that I am aware of, for things I'm not aware of. But I I I like your I like your Devar Torah, that's good. Good. You can get two. One for Cole and one for Nidre. Are there any I mean I know we're running out of time, but are there any more questions or comments or problems? So the issue that for I'm sorry?

SPEAKER_00 36:03

Thousands.

SPEAKER_04 36:04

Thousands. So the issue for Shabbat Chazon is how do we deal with the issue of sin? Because that's what Shabbat Chazon is all about. It's all about sin and how sin destroyed the temple. So, of course, it's going to lead us into a natural question about well, how do you get rid of sin? And that takes us to Yom Kippur, and that's where you get your two stars.

unknown 36:28

Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 36:29

Yeah. Any other questions, problems, comments?

SPEAKER_01 36:31

I just I'm disappointed to think that you know the sin that seems of most importance here is sex.

SPEAKER_04 36:44

Oh, the rabbis are obsessed with sex. Yeah. No, that no, that no, they are. No, um, um and and it's it's a common, yeah, it it yeah, it's a common, it's a common refrain because it's easy to put somebody

Why The Text Fixates On Sex

SPEAKER_04 36:58

in the same sexual situation after they've repented to see whether or not they've repented. And the rabbis knew that the that the sexual drive was was impossible to control. Uh, you know, in young men. I mean, it it is, it just is. And so that's really what he's talking about. But there are plenty of opportunities, you know, like if you find yourself in business, you know, but people don't understand business, you know, the people reading my and remember that Maimonides uh Mishnah Torah was written in very, very simple Hebrew for everybody to understand it, as opposed to the guide to the perplexed, which was written in very difficult Arabic where nobody understands it. And they remain perplexed.