The Eternal Blessing of Ma Tovu Ohalecha Yaakov (Balak)

In this episode, we are learning about Parshat Balak! In it, Bilam says the famous line of mah tovu ohalecha Yaakov, mishkinotecha Yisrael, which Chazal say is the great blessing of having shuls and batei medrash. Chazal also tell us that of all the brachos of Bilam, this is the only one that was not overturned. What is so powerful about this bracha and these places? Why are they so integral to our Jewish life and avodas Hashem? We’ll get into all that and more in this week’s episode!

If you want to follow along inside, it is in Nesivos Shalom on Bamidbar page kuf mem aleph (141). You can find a pdf of the piece here.

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Hello everyone. This is Rabbi Robbie Chernoff, and you are listening to the Hases for Life podcast, the podcast where we learn a deep Hasidic insight every single week and explore how it can lead us to a more meaningful, vibrant, and spiritually uplifted life. In this episode, we are learning about Parsha Bach. Says the famous AKA of which Al say is the great blessing of having shuls and bat Al. Also tell us that of all of the braco of Biam, this is the only one that was not overturned. What's so powerful about this BHA and these places? Why are they so integral to our Jewish life and ultimately our. We'll get into all that and more in this week's episode. If you wanna follow along inside, you can open up the navo Shalom to page K and the piece entitled Matov, or simply go to the show notes for a link to A PDF. But feel free to just sit back, listen, and enjoy the ride. This week's episode is sponsored anonymously for the safety of the IDF soldiers and the people in Israel, as well as the speedy return of the remaining hostages. Thank you so much to this week's generous sponsor. Remember your sponsorships or what make this podcast happen. If you would like to sponsor an episode of the podcast, please email rabbi char north@gmail.com or see the show notes for more details. Alright. With that, let's jump into Parot Bach. We are in, we are in the piece on page. Says when it comes to Biam, Nan says that from the Brahas, that Biam was forced by Haku to give. Right. BAK hires Biam to curse Israel. And from the Brahas, that Biam actually says in place of those klas, in place of those curses, we know what he actually wanted to say So what he really wanted to do was give a Kla to Israel that they shouldn't have shuls and they shouldn't have Bat Mer. And that comes out as ak, who transforms that into mat. How great are your tents, KO and your dwelling places? CLA Israel. And that's a reference evidently to the Bates and the bat show, to the shuls and the bat of Israel. And Rashi says, as says in, he tells Israel that who did a tremendous kindness for you, that he took all of the Ks of Bilam and transformed them into. The Amar that he wanted to give them alu that they shouldn't have by taking a o that they shouldn't have shuls top of the next column. didn't give them the ability to, he didn't give him permission. And he says, instead, mat gamar, and it's the gamar. Very wild. re tells us that all of the klas, all of the curses, which AK who transformed into BHAs, they all reverted back over time into K for KA Israel. Except for the one about the bat. Except for the one about the.'cause it says, what does the say? It says who turned the to who loves you. And so he's Dore from that. That Mo himself says. It doesn't say it says it in singular, the to Aha. Because even though all of the Came out of Beam's mouth as bras. Only one of them remained Aha for all time. And that was the one related to the, and Rashi says there was one that turned to Aha that never went back. And not all of them, not all the rest of them. And seemingly from this top of the next page. We have to understand from the saying of how could it be that this whole from Mo says who turned the into, and It's only on one of them. How could that be? What the S means? How does that express how much loves us? If a KU truly loved us, why wouldn't he make sure that all of the Ks remain brahas for all time? Why just one? How does that show s love for us, which is the end of the S in all the other brahas went back to be in klas. We also have to understand what's so unique about this as it relates to the, that this is the one dako that Aku holds onto and makes sure stays a. Vi, we can explain this based on what he and a previous piece evidently explained in terms of what ALA are, what is a right. This is very much in line of his thinking and thinking of to itself. What is itself is it's. That when a person clings to a then rests upon such a person, VA, and is, feels distant and disconnected from ajo, from clinging to a, then all kinds of denim judgments come upon a person. That anytime anything bad ever happens to Avi. In their life, they're always ku. They've elevated themselves to the point where almost always, they're clinging to ku. If something negative happens to them, it can only happen to them at a time when they, for a moment, stop thinking about Q Bjo. Stop clinging to a Q bjo. That opens the doorway. That opens the capacity. The ability for something negative to come and attack them or happen to them. Because when a person is ku, nothing can happen to you. When you're in a reality, when you're actually in a state of Deves with a Q Bku clinging to ku, then nothing bad can happen to you. So, or Avi, who normally is ou if something bad happens is because in that moment they were ak, they were disconnected, they, their mind wandered for a moment from that ves and that what was that allowed it all for the negative thing to happen to them. Um, ham's whole goal was to try to disconnect from their ves with the K and through that he would be able to bring ala to them. The, and that was his whole kavana, the two sins that each, they got them to do the B moor eventually, when he does not succeed at being able to bring aah on them. He can't find a way to get the Kla to get into Ali Israel. So at the very end of the parsha, he gives advice to Bullock before he leaves. You know what, I was gonna leave McCullough. But if you get them to distance from SBA on their own, then all kinds of negative things are gonna happen to them anyway. And so he does that through, that's the last paragraph, the very sad, tragic end of the parsha, that Bach, according to Al, taking EM'S advice, he sends the Bnot Moav, he sends the daughters of Moav to sway the men of Caol to doing acts that are inappropriate. and all kinds of sexual morality and all these things, and also through that, to also get to a vora balor. Why did he do that? It wasn't just for the nature of this in itself, because the main ways that a Jew is able to clinging to O is through the mind. And through the heart. Those are the two strongholds, the two spiritual strongholds through which a Jew is able to clinging to, like we see, for example, by. Hain, right? We see this, for example, in many mi voted in many areas of vote, of Hashem and Torah, Ang. But one example that he brings down is by Fillin, that when a man goes and puts onto Fillin, so he puts them specifically into places, he puts them on the head. The whole goal is, is to literally bind one's mind to, at the very beginning of the day, to draw one's thoughts and to bind one's thoughts and VOS to ku, and then to take the other Fila and wrap it around the arm. But it's, there's aspects of it that are related to the arm, of course, but the main idea is, or one of the main ideas is that it's attached to the arm in a way that's facing the heart. So that way it's really what it's about is facing and talking about the heart that we wanna bind our minds, our intellectual world and our hearts, our emotional world. Those are the two main ways that we connect. I can connect to things intellectually. I can think about them, I can consider them. I can bring them into my life and my worldview, and emotionally, I can emotionally connect to things and feel for them and feel connected to them. Those are the main ways. So again, men often need a more overt and blunt way of doing it. So we literally take scroll and strap it to our minds and strap it to our arms using our hearts, because men are a little thicker. So we need a little bit more of an overt way in order to do that. Great. For women, they don't have necessarily the mitzvah of fill in, but the expectation is, is that there's more an inherent. Capacity and unis to be able to do that. But it goes for all Jews that at the beginning of the day, the goal is, is to focus my mind and my heart and commit myself on all levels of being. To connect to a Q boku with fill or without fill, which fill is, is merely a means to an end generally for guys. But it's just a means to an end. The goal is, is to focus my whole being, all aspects of myself to connect to and cling to a Q'S vertical for the entire day. And that's one example. And Ham's goal was to try to imp purify both the mind and the heart through these two sins. Would not be able to cl to a Kish bur. The sin of ba, which was idolatry, was in the, was in the mind. These negative thoughts in areas of RA that are messing over one's mind to believe in another God and other forces in this world and other capacities in this world. The goal of the avo, Dara, again, it wasn't just the sin, it was the sin that was specifically targeted. At breaking away the minds of cla terel from clinging to Aakash bku and to the imp purify the minds of cla terel in order to let negativity in, in order if he wasn't able to curse them. But bad things are gonna happen to KRA when they do Azar because they are mentally disconnecting from a KB. VA and the issue of the av of sending the daughters of AV to have them sin in a way of sexual immorality that's coming from the desires of the heart, and that again, on top of this in itself was to break away the emotional. Connection and commitment to a Q Bku and allow that to stray into the realm of sexual morality with the Bono moav, and you've disconnected the mind and disconnected the heart from AK Bku, and then all of the negativity can start to come in. All the negativity that he couldn't successfully get in by trying to bring ala because they were too connected to a Q Bku. So the cloud didn't work, but by breaking away a claar from a K Bku, then the negativity came in and there's a terrible plague at the end that starts to kill off Clater. Terrible, terrible plague that comes from this disconnection of the mind and the heart from Ku sha because they were, they disconnected themselves in a mind and the heart from VI then can come in, then negativity can come in, then K can come in. And the way to protect ourselves from to these two areas to so what we're defining here is getting to our vo, this. Primacy, this primary role and this significant role that the bat, the, that, the ra and the significance of them. So what we're emphasizing is, is that the whole goal is to clinging to, and stay connected to aakash B and the two primary ways. That we stay connected to a Q Bku is we focus our mind on a Q bku. We focus our thoughts on a Q Bku. We focus our intellectual world on a Q Bjo. Our whole worldview is a godly, Torah oriented worldview, and I focus my whole heart on Aku, my whole emotional world on a k bku. I focus and funnel all my emotions towards godliness, connection with him, excitement to serve him, and to relate to him, and to be with him, and to live with him. That's my goal. And so what he's saying here is what's the uniqueness of the bat? Is that Torah and Fila are the primary ways that we focus our mind on and our hearts on How so? So he says, rah, because Torah purifies the mind. That through the person is able to purify their, their mind, their thoughts, and their, when I go and I sit down and I learn Torah, I'm literally, it's like taking my mind and putting my mind into a mikva. All throughout my day, all throughout my life, I'm taking into myself, taking into my mind all kinds of things that are, IM purifying my mind some on a more intense level and some on a less intense level, some on a more negative level, and some on a less negative level. I'm in purifying my mind on different levels. Through all things that are coming in during the day. when I go and I go to a college class or I go to a graduate school class and I'm learning things that are in certain secular textbooks, certain secular classes. That are part of the curriculum, but they could be things that go against on the surface, a sparkle. It could be that the teacher is teaching biblical criticism. It could be that I'm learning statistics and statistics. It's making me question, wait, how could it be that we can predict certain things that people will do statistically if we have free choice? And how do I work that out? And their answers to that question, and how do we deal with that and how I understand that, but that makes me question, it makes me question certain things, or it just goes off on a rant or whatever it might be. Or I learn about evolution or whatever the case may be. And these things may totally work with Torah. I may not be able to do that in the classroom and they're suddenly starting to mess with my mind. Or I have a study group that I have afterward and when I'm sitting in that study group and I'm with the people who, some of'em aren't Jewish, aren't religious at all, and they're kidding around, they're like, yeah, the religion stuff, like waving off the religion stuff, speaking about it sarcastically, and you feel like an idiot. Why am I the stupid person who still has this ancient belief that there's a God who's like doing all kinds of magical, mystical things in the universe? Like if everybody else does like what's right and you start to question, it starts to get into the mind. There's gonna purify the mind. I see things that I don't even realize creep in through movies that I might watch, through television shows that I might watch all of these conversations, learning, entertainment, whatever it is, they can slowly creep into my mind and on different levels, different gradations can imp purify me on a mental intellectual level. They can degrade my knowledge of and, and the mikva for that. Not the mikvah that removes the impurities, and that which not just removes the impurities, but builds a strength of kida. In my mind, that's Torah. When I sit down and learn Torah, Torah's an incredible thing. Torah's a wild concept. We talk about the concept in life of ultimate or objective truth. The only objective truth that exists is Torah. It's the only one. I wanna tell you, math is math. Facts are facts. Everything that we say and everything that we know that we've learned through our own observation and investigation to the physical world, It is all limited by our subjective human perspective. Even things that are quote unquote facts. I mean, just look back few, centuries ago, right? Everybody thought that Newton was a hundred percent correct. It was physics, Newtonian physics was fact. It was science and Einstein blew it out of the water. He said, no, it's all wrong. Ironically, in what way did he prove that it was all wrong? He said, no, it's all relative to my perspective. He proved that everything is actually subjective and relative even in the realm of physics. That's reality. Even things that look like hard fact are subjective. We have one access point. To real objective truth. The only access point to real objective truth that we have is the Torah. God is the only objective vantage point, and there is no way for us to access God's infinite objective perspective. So Koto out of his great kindness and mercy, he gives us the Torah, which is the access point to be able to engage with, learn, and bring in the only objective truth of reality. You're working in a secular workplace and you're not sure what the appropriate thing to do is, what's the right thing to do? What's the asar thing to do? What is the financially appropriate thing to do? What is the interpersonally appropriate thing to do in any particular standpoint? What do I do? I'm just, I wanna know, You read any philosophy book that you want? You read any ethics book that you want. There's only one objective truth. The objective truth comes from Torah. It purifies the mind. It builds DEA and Una. It builds s to a Q Bku on an intellectual level, my mind is melding With a Q Bku, I'm taking a Q B's objective perspective and I'm making it my perspective, and I'm seeing the world that way. I'm living godliness in my mind. It doesn't matter whether you're in school or you're in the workplace, you're at home, or you're with friends or you're in sh, it doesn't matter. The only objective perspective on reality is God's, and the only way to get that is through the Torah, and that's the incredible opportunity The Torah affords us again to repeat the line Sha Torah through the RK of the Torah itself. Ni rah. Your mind becomes a mind of Torah, of objective, truth of godliness. And it purifies my mind and my, and that's the other side of the equation, davening. That purifies my heart. It purifies my heart. Als famously in the. First page of Ma, what is true service of the heart? when it says in to serve God with all of your heart, what does that mean? How do you serve God with your heart? That's davening. That's Fila. Says, pour out your heart. That through a Jew pouring out his heart like water, iTish purifies our heart. Again, in the world in life, there are going to be things that our heart is gonna be impm purified by. I'm gonna see things when I'm walking down the street. I'm gonna see things that I didn't mean to see that my heart is gonna be drawn to when I'm looking at a computer and I'm even looking around on my work websites or whatever it is, I'm gonna see things that pass through on an advertisement, this or that, whatever it is that I'm gonna be pulled towards when I pass by a non-kosher food store and I'm starving and it just, the smell wafts through the air and I just like, oh, I feel I could take a bite. And my heart goes in that direction. I want certain things. I wanna be able to do certain things. My heart becomes, IM purified. If I wanna purify my heart to feel is how I purify my heart, because really, really, really deep down, what does my heart really want? Really all my heart really wants all my emotions, really want, because it's even deeper than my heart. My, my whole emotional world, really all I want is to feel connected. I wanna feel the positivity and the goodness that comes through connection, and my heart can be led astray. If I don't feel connected, then Neha just try to dull the pain by connecting to myself, by indulging in selfish desires to try in dull the pain of feeling disconnected, or I look outwards and I try to connect to things that I shouldn't be connecting to in order to fill that void. The heart desperately just wants to connect. And ultimately those two are really the same thing. It's all really just engaging in selfish desire. Because when I engage in a relationship that's prohibited by the Torah, that's really just engaging with myself and trying to serve myself and using the other person for that purpose. And I go and I get into Tela and I start to talk to a, I talked to a, and I open up that dialogue and I open up that relationship. I realize that the only relationship that truly matters in reality is the relationship that I have with the Qba. There is nothing that can fill that void, nothing. That's why if I'm a person who runs after physical pleasures, you can, you'll spend your whole life running after physical pleasures, and the Kamar tells us, you will die without having fulfilled half of your pleasures in this life, you can't, you can't fill that hole.'cause that hole can only be filled by one thing. It can only be filled by k. And Ra who tells us that he wants us to have De K. And so I have friends and I have social connections, and I have community. Why? Because it's part of my Avo Hashem, but that's part of my vo Hashem and Ra who says that I'm supposed to get married and have kids. And so my relationship with my spouse and my relationship with my kids, that's a of my, but it's a meaningful relationship because it's in the context of Maya ura. So all of the things that I'm engaging with in the physical world, I'm doing it in order to enhance my relationship with a QB And all of my relationships, they're all part of my Voes. Emmens, is to connect with the Q Boko ultimately. And so the way in which I most ignite that and engage with that is through Tila. It's through Tila because it's the most direct relationship communication, engaging with a Q Bojo that there is, when I get into shul and I get into it, Fila, even if it's not in shul, he's talking about taking this to, but the Indian is, when I get into Tet Fila. I'm standing there and I'm actually focused and I'm present. And I realize that I'm talking to the omnipotent and omniscient God who controls everything, who created everything, who created me, who gives me every breath of life. He's here. He is given me life out of his kindness. He loves me. He cares about me. He believes in me, and I open up and I start to talk to him, and I'm vulnerable with him, and I talk to him about all the things that I need in my life and all the things that I'm having trouble with my life, and all the successes that I'm having in my life, and all things that I desperately want, and I'm crying my eyes out to him. I'm talking to him from a place that's real and raw inside of me. My whole heart, my whole heart is connected to A QB. My emotional world becomes connected to a QB, and there's nothing else that needed that moment. I have everything I could ever have wanted. I. When I'm sitting there in shul and I'm talking to a Q Bku, there's nothing else that I need. There's no one else that I need, and there's nothing else that I need because my life is filled with the main, central core relationship that is at the core and center of all relationships that I'm supposed to have. That's the Vode shale, that's the aspect of the heart connecting to a QB. Last line on the first column, the rah. That means that the aspects of Torah and. Ham, top of the next column. These are the two main things which bind a person's mind and their hearts to. It's through them that we claim to. And that's the Indian that we're talking about here in this par, the forces to say, how great are your 10, your dwelling places of Israel? That that's talking about the, that is the place of David. That's the place of. Rah and the is the primary place of Torah, and they purify the mind and the heart of a Jew. That through them I clinging to ak. I clinging to ak. It's an incredibly powerful thing. Feel Fila is the main thing that brings my heart to a Kash. And tour is the main thing that brings my mind to a K, but it's so important to also enter into the world. Of the big Knesset and the world of the base me that brings to life the CO of Tila and the CO of Torah in such an incredible and unparalleled way. You know, one would think that it's easier to, you know, say this to guys to go to shul and to go to the base. Me and girls often spend less time, I think on average in even if they Davin in the base, in the beset, and even if they learn in the base. Me. but I'm an introvert. I'm a. You know, card carrying, flag waving, introvert. And so for me, I often struggle with that concept. If I had the choice, I would happily dive in in my house in a quiet solitude room every single day. I'd rather dive in out in the forest by myself every single day, whatever it might be, as long as I'm myself. That's really the main point. That's the key issue, is the no one else around part. Right. and there are some days where I wake up and again, this is my Sahara, you know? You know, like everybody's got each on the world level is that I hear in my head like, ah. Davin at home, stopping at home, it'll be so much easier. you're running a couple minutes late, so you're gonna have to run little faster to get mra. In order to make sure to get Barco, you want Toray and it's a whole hassle. And then like the there, the place I'm gonna go, the Kza shots it so fast that I'm gonna be saying ta when they're on ano and it's like, it's not worth it. It's like just, just aka it's Sit and Davin. And I was like, no, no. There's a caulk of Tila, but there's the caulk of Tila, but Sior and there's the caulk of fil and the big Knesset. And the big cent. It's a tremendous thing. It's a very, very big thing to enter into the world of Tila. And again, if you're a person who doesn't, his main points here is Tila. Anyway, his main point here is Tela, and then also the big esa, which is the B bra that bill gives from Aakash Bur. But to also understand that we're talking on a different level of the feel of the cent of being able to dive in in the Shul to dive in with the sibo. There's a co there, there's a literal cau there of of David with the t that the there, the, the shina comes down in a more powerful way, in a more present way, and it elevates my tah. But I'll, I'll tell you even also in, let's say. I dunno what kind of situation it would be if I'm sick. Sometimes it happens, or if I'm jet lagged or whatever it is. And like, crazy unusual situation where I don't wake up for meeting. and on those days also, there's an inherent, I guess, understanding or we haven't learned this piece enough times or learned this of times that like. There's a clock to the base. Me, there's a clock to the be Knesset. And so even on those days, I try very hard and it could be embarrassing and that's okay. I say to myself, good, be embarrassed. And you know, even if I missed, the davening time to go to shul and to put on my fillin and to put on my tallus in the shul and even da, and I feel the difference. And that's not to say that every once in a while, if you're in a situation where you're davening s there's also a tremendous beautiful cock to actually, yes, not having to worry about how fast the media it is. News's talking and people coming in late and people leaving early and all and all the stuff, they get distracted during davening, which if you have a big ma madrea, then they don't bother you. But if you're small like me, they do bother you. Right? There's lots of shame, like you should get to that level, but like there, there is every once in a while to have that experience is also a good thing too. not saying that it's a bad thing every once in a while to have that experience. And again, women, often the main ideas is that often women don't go to shul. And if you don't go to shul but you're diving in, great for you. The goal is to feel, but to recognize for all of us, whatever our issue with shul might be or whatever issue with going to the bacon nesta might be, or inaccessibility to the bacon asset, to whatever opportunity we can where it makes sense. The, the tremendous of just in the shul davening with other Jews, other yen together. Even without them davening in front of the, a kodesh davening with spa and with du and with the, the kadu and the tila in the room, even if the people aren't there, but da, the people are there. The Kaa of Israel and Tela and the Illa and the in the room and there's a minion to da in such a way, in such a place. It's elevating my relationship to a Q Boku. It's elevating the way that I can allow my heart to pour out.'cause a Q Burkus closer.'cause the Tela is closer,'cause the armed K is closer.'cause I'm in the space of Tela. I'm in a mock home of Tela and there's such a strong CO to that. If you're listening to where you're listening to this live here on the Zoom, or you're listening to this on recording, these zooms are recorded in the same space that I learned basically all of the other to I learned during the day, which is in my house, at my desk, in the Melow, with the door closed. Again, I'm an introvert, but to try, and I, and I do make an effort to try at least on Chavez Kodesh, to go out to the shul next door on Shabi and to learn a little bit of my digging in the shul to learn the bake esa. This, for us, it's one of the same, but to learn of the base measure. The co of the base me, the cold tour of the base me, which again, on the one hand sometimes can be distracting when you're going to a base. Me it could be very loud and to have to get used to learning in a place where there's a lot of noise and it's very loud if you're not used to it. or you're somebody who needs to be more focused in a different way. But to just be in such a place, farm'em all around you, the world of Torah surrounding you, your mish, like there's another piece on this that's one of my favorites. Maybe we'll do it when we get to par. No, talking about the Tevas that we have. These ma, he talks about one of the tevas that we have to survive the storms of the world in our day and age is the base mags and the big Knesset. It's a beautiful, beautiful piece that he has there in par, but like it's a Teva. The world is insane. The world is crazy. There's so much and so much. Schmutts and garbage and tooma out there, and you walk into a place where the walls are far and the sounds are Torah, where every word that's reverberating from you at every direction was said by Haku or moss, benu or ov or by the nam or by people with kodesh or by, or by. The more the post. Every word is the word that they said. It's just reverberating around you. You're in a taver, you're, you're in. You are immersed in a world talking about a mikva. You're actually a mikva of words of Torah. To make sure you have that experience every once in a while that you're not just, if you're learning Torah, KA should bless you. It's a tremendous, but to elevate that to the next level and to do it in the base me rush all the time, or at least sometimes to remember the glory and the beauty of the base me rush. Whenever in your life you may have touched it, to make sure you go back and keep touching that, even if it's less convenient and even if it's more difficult sometimes. Even if you have less focus sometimes, because you don't do it all the time. Okay, I commiserate, I sympathize, I empathize. But you need to go and to be in that tavon, to be in the big cent and to be in that reality.'cause it purifies, it's a MFA for the mind. that's the shul and that's the base medicine. And that's what he's saying here. This is what the whole line is talking about is a place of T. It's again, it's a place that inherently is the base mad. It's a place that is Torah. Purify the mind and the heart of a Jew that through this, their cling. And that's why Bilam wanted about taking a C to batter short. He wanted to give them a clu to remove all the Batik a c, and remove all the batter short. That anytime as long as we still have a cent and as long as we still have a base mad rush, then we're double to automatically no matter what. The, and you can't imp purify the minds and the hearts of, because we, we have a base medicine, we're using it and we have, and we're using it. Then we're connected in our mind, in our heart as to that's the of these place. And that's why he wanted to get rid of them. Va, and that's what it means when Mocha Benu reflects on this parsha in a few parsha from now in ra, when he reflects back on this Parsha, Monu says, transformed the of because he loves you. Meaning that we should always have that forever. The the AK of Torah, the strength of Torah, the illa, and the strength of Tila. Through that, we will always be connected to ak. This is the roots of all Baraka Israel. It's all coming from the base. Mad Rush. It's all coming from the beset. It's all stemming from these places, the bra, because it's creating a reality of s clinging connection in my mind and in my heart to abo. Sha, there's no way for to come upon KA Israel if we're connected to these two places and connected to these two things through these two places connected to Torah, through the base, mad Rush and connected to Fila through the Sha. You. The only way for to get in is when I dispel, when my mind breaks off from a Q Bku. When I space out from a connection to a Q Bku, that's when the CLO can come in. The, the whole meaning none of bill's, klas were able to take effect because this OneLA was overturned. If he wasn't able to destroy the base mag from the beset, then all the calls overturned also. We're to Q and you can throw at me bill and whatever you want, but if I'm do to Q through Torah, through the base rush and I'm, it doesn't matter what you throw at me, there's no way. When Jews have, and the then we're clinging to then has no way to come on us and fixes all the claws themselves in their roots. And the ak, the strength of this concept of that will transform the to aha loves us, meaning through the ko that we can transform this and stay connected to a Gish Boku through Torah and Fila. That's forever. That always has the rah and the, that should never be lost in their children and their grandkids in all generations we can stay close to, and that's because loves us. Because of his love for us. He gives us this advice that through this all the gets turned around and we're able to, which itself is the source of all the biggest thing that we ever had and what we da for all the time we should have and everything. We should come back to Eric Star and then we should have of Mik. The base of Mik was a M home of Torrance, Fila. I was the Malcolm of Tila, Banano, and Fila, and the singing of the Lam and Davening and everybody standing outside and focusing, all of our tila are supposed to still be directed through Sharah Shama, which is through the place of the Mko Mik. That was where the Rin sat. That was where Torah was learned. That was the centralized place, and when the base of Miash is destroyed, we may lose the intensity of that connection. Of all the things that are lost, we lose Banano. Like, okay, fine, make your own Anos. No, it's us. Don't make your own anos. Ah, you need to do, you need to still make for yourself everywhere you are. You need to make for yourself little mini mices. Little mini shuls and little mini bat mer that go with you wherever you go. Everywhere you are, Clara. You have these. It's an amazing concept. No matter where we are, we have these two institutions. They have to be there. They are what will keep us connected to our, no matter what situation, we don't have to be an er l we don't have to have a base of Mikdash. We can still be connected through these things, through these will bring back the base of Mikdash. but we have these things wherever we are. It's the craziest thing. All Jews, no matter where they are, there's always a shul and or a big base med rush. There's a place,'cause the only way that Cloud shell can survive anywhere. Stay close to a kajo, stay connected to a Q brohu. Their children and their children's children should stay connected until we're able to come back to er, Israel, and to the base. The only way that we can stay connected to that level is because a q decentralized it and says, wherever you go, make sure you have a shul. Make sure you have a base mere, because that's where you're gonna be able to connect to me and keep all the kla away. And again, forget the kla. Stay close to me. Keep your minds clear and pure. Keep your hearts and your relationships clear and pure through your davening, through your learning and the base matters and the base ESUs, that's where it's gonna happen. It's a tremendous lean wood from this parsha. It's an incredible parsha. The whole parsha itself is wild. it's a wild concept. We have the story of the journey of Ka show in bar, mid bar in the mid bar of going from Harini to RA and all the 40 years in between. And it's this wild thing where we just shift focus in a way where it doesn't seem that CLA Israel are aware that this is happening. It's not clear that they know what's happening when this is happening. Bak, the King of Moav hires Billum and they try to curse them from outside of the Mahan. They're like, do they even know? It seems that they know because we're told you have to go and kill Biam in the war in the coming par because of what he did to you. So maybe that's when they found out. maybe only some of Klassen knew, but all of Klas found out only in Dvar when Mo was like, by the way, you never knew this, but you know that Billum tried to curse you out on cottage B. Sort all the clubs to, I don't know if they knew. It's like a whole separate side quest, this whole different side story, and it's coming here and showing us the deep, deep love. That even we don't realize that all of these forces are coming to attack us. Everybody's trying to conspire against us. Everybody's trying to destroy us all. The cult of TAH are trying to imp purify us, and Ahu is constantly protecting us. Even when we don't see, even when we don't know. It's the most incredible thing. And not only does he protect us. We have this individual who, a Qba who places as the prophet of the non-Jews who's coming because he has a tremendous AK that KB who gave him. And he goes and he's coming to give a clu to Kal to try and destroy them. And a kara who turns it into aha and such a beautiful, powerful BHA that it's aha, that can't be destroyed. It's a AKA that we still say it's crazy that we start our day quoting Billum Haria with Moto. We start our day by quoting Billum.'cause we're quoting a, we're quoting the Ku loves us and cares about us, and is taking care of us at all times. And that he gives us a gift. He gives the gift of the base, me and a gift of the bees. He gives us places to be surrounded and be in a bubble of Kaa to be in places that automatically give us Vegas to Ade Bku. Even if I only understand Olive base, they don't really understand what I'm saying when I da in. I don't only understand what I'm learning when I'm learning it, but I'm in that place and I'm learning and I'm ing and it's connecting me to a Q Burko around people who are connected and they're drawing me cultural burko, and they're bringing down the, which is connecting me to, and reminding me that in my heart of heart and my mind of minds, that even if I'm not in those places, I'm drawing from those places. As I sit here at my desk every morning, I'm drawing from the big beat me rush that's right next door. I'm drawing from the clock of the BA bed rush, and I sit here and I learn a K's Torah to connect my mind first thing in my day, to connect my mind to a kku, to focus my thoughts and my mind on a. First thing I do in my day, go to shul. If you don't go to shul, it's okay. Wherever you're at in life and whatever your circumstances are, and a lot of'em, again, don't go to shul. But then I start my day and I come to my, literally call it your own big concent kilo, whatever corner of your house that you decide is where you DA in, in your house every single day. If you da in normally at home, that you carve out that space and that becomes Kurdish kion, monish. Like you're walking in like the. Kipp, that's your K Kashian. You're standing in front of the arm. You're standing in front of a Q Burko, you're standing in front of the Peruvian and that's where you stand. And you talk to a Q, it's K Kashian in your house. And to make sure every once in a while, yes, to go to that shul and yes, to go to the base marriage, but to connect our minds and Torah and our hearts and Fah to stick to q. Kako should bless us to hear not the Kla of Biam and not even the bracha of Biam, to hear the BHA and the connection and the love of a kako that he even sent through the mouth of Biam. Show the of having places to connect our ma and arts to commit to connecting our MAs and our heart no matter where we are in our Israel arts. through the base rush, through the and through. Bringing life to that mik, to bringing the Shina into that mid and then therefore into myself able to unite all together to come together in the one ultimate, in the third base. Everybody, Thank you so much for tuning into this week's episode. If you enjoyed the episode, please rate the podcast and hit the follow button and join us every week for a new episode. Once again, thank you so much to this week's sponsor and a reminder that you too can sponsor an episode of the podcast. Email Rabbi turnoff@gmail.com For more info or to share any thoughts, comments, or feedback on this week's episode? See you in the next one.