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Shalom Sellom, and welcome back to Kosher's and Torah Talk.
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This is your host Ashi Jik.
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And I'm here with a special shop, a little special
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episode thirty eight we do. I want to talk this
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week about Sinai, about the giving of the Torah, which
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was a sort of marriage covenant between Yan and we're
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gonna consider a simple and profound question, what does faithfulness
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look like when we're under pressure? What does faithfulness look
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like when Israel is.
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Under pressure and the nation's arranging at Sinai. Israel answered
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with one word of commitment, not as say we will do.
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And this echoes the traditional marriage vow of modern Western marriages,
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where the bride and the groom each look at one
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another and say I do, sealing their vows. So let's
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get into it. The Hebrew word of the week is
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an assay we will do. And the root of this
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word is osa or usa, meaning.
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To do, to make, to create, to do something.
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And by putting that noon in the front, it's saying
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we are going to do this thing, we will do it.
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But in Exodus twenty four to.
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Seven, twenty four to seven, it's written all that Adnai
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has spoken, we will do in here all that Adoni
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has spoken, we will do, we do. This is a
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marriage covenant. This is a marriage valve being spoken aloud.
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And the interesting thing is when we look at the
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root of this word, at the Paleo Hebrew root, we
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have three letters as very often as the case almost
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always two or three letters. Here we have a yen, sheen,
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and hay. And the yene we've seen many times in
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the Paleo Hebrew. It is it's an eye, it's it's
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representing the idea of watchfulness, of knowing, of comprehension, of observation,
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to observe, to watch, to see something. And the sheene
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is the teeth. It's dividing, it's transforming, it's consuming a thing.
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And then the hay is of in the Paleo Hebrews
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a little man with his arms upraised, and it holds
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the meaning of revelation, of looking at something with the
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purpose of revelation, of breath of worship of Awe and
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unlike that which Yah creates, and it says beshek barra
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Barrah is the idea of creating something x nilo, creating
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something from nothing.
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He can also asa.
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He can also create from what's already been created in
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a way we're recreating. Anytime we assa, we're doing something
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that's already using things, our bodies, our voices, our resources
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that Yeah has made to make or to do something else.
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But unlike what Ya has created x Nilo, what he's barrad,
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not everything we as human beings create is automatically good.
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You remember in the account of Genesis in Belshet, everything
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he makes, it's followed with, and he saw that it
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was good. But not everything we assah is good. So
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the question is, how do we make or do How
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do we assah in righteousness? How do we make rightly?
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How do we do righteousness? And in order to do
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this we must comprehend, Okay, the yeen miscomprehend. We must see,
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We must know the division the sheene between right and wrong,
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good and evil, and then ask for continual revelation. So
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there's those three ingredients comprehension, right, dividing, and revelation, and
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without those we cannot assah correctly. We must comprehend the
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division and ask for continual revelation. And this is exactly
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what the Torah does for us. It helps us to comprehend,
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to see, to know, to know how to observe His
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beautiful instructions, and it divides between right and wrong, good
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and evil. It tells us where to divide the day
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and the night, how to divide the year and the
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seasons in the calendar, and it provides revelation, continual revelation.
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Revelation is not something we receive and then it's a
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done deal. It's something that's an ongoing process of revelation.
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So Chavuot remembers not only revelation but respond because Sinai
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was not merely revelation. It was a commitment to continue
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to see and observe, to continue to respond positively when
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we fail to respond with repentance with shuva. And so
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you know, when we look at the headlines this week,
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there are two things I really want to touch on.
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One is during this Chavo holiday, whether you're keeping it
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or kept it on the Hillel calendar, or are keeping
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it today for some of you, some of us on
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the Aviv calendar or however, and whenever you observe it,
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it's around this time. Right now, we're in the season
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of Chavuote and during this time, it's no coincidence that
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there was an anti Israel conference, and this is really
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just a reflection of that rising hostility toward Israel. But
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this particular event actually had a hexagram.
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In the center.
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It was it was a muganda vid to star of David,
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but it had been placed in a circle with a
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line through it like the you know, like the nose
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smoking sign over top of it, and so it made
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it into this this hexagram, which when it's used that way,
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is used in many, many occult settings. I personally try
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to avoid anything with the Mugandavid in a circle myself.
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It's a very easy, simple to put in a circle,
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and I know it's very harmlessly used that way in
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some contexts, but it's also been perverted and used in
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a lot of occult symbolism, just like the hexagram in
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that way, and so I personally steer clear of that.
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And this poster had that front and center in the
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very center of the page, and it very brazenly called
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itself the anti Israel Conference. It is finishing up today
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today is the last day, and we've just been praying
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very actively against it, for confusion in the camp of
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the enemy, for that that event not to go smoothly,
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for the attendees to have conviction in their heart for
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what they're doing, coming against the Jewish identity and the
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Jewish people. But when we think about the fact that
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this was taking place during the shallow holiday, during the
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time when Yao is giving his instructions, we are left
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to ask, how are we as covenant people to respond
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when hostility arises. And we really can tie this back
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to Annas say Na say that we will do that
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we're to remain faithful, that we're continuing to walk in
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His instructions, and that we're to respond with wisdom, with prayer,
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with a firm rebuke and the spirit against this religious
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spirit of anti Semitism that's taking hold in these Christian pastors.
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So that's what Sinai is really all about. It's all
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about faithful response before reaction. We'll get a little bit
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more into all of that in the Torah talk portion today.
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But the other headline that I wanted to discuss today
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you aside from like I said, that global pressure on
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Israel and that anti Semitism in this cultural hostility that's
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just ongoing and continual, is the ongoing attacks on President Trump,
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and it's largely for his stance on Israel. And I'm
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not saying he's a particularly likable fellow. He's certainly not
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afraid to make enemies by standing for what he believes
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is the facts in the matter and the truth in
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the matter. And that's one of the things a lot
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of a lot of the voters who voted for him
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appreciate about him, is that he is very bold, and
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he's unabashed, and he's not playing the game of political correctness.
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He's trying to do the things that are in the
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best economic interest and national security interests of America, and
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at times that really goes against the grain of what's
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considered to be politically correct. And Israel is one of
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those points. And it's interesting because you have people on
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both sides of the isle who support Israel, but you
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definitely have a lot of vehement anti Israel rhetoric coming
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from the left as well. And as we've seen at
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this conference, you have on the hard right some of
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the you know, fundamentalist Christians that are buying into the
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lie of these aren't the real Jews, and that Zionism
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is evil and the Zionists are controlling Hollywood.
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And all of these stories.
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And you know, I think the thing here to keep
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in mind is we had this you know what I'm
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leading into here, is we had this attack, this shooting
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on in the White House again or on the White
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House lann at the gates of the White House, where
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this deranged individual was bent on attacking President Trump. And
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it's kind of a reflection these continual attacks, these continual
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assassination attempts. I mean, it's like we can't go more
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than a few months without another one coming up in
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some form or another. And they really they're a reflection
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of the hatred and the desperation that the enemy feels
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when faced with the strength and the inevitability of Ya's
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plan coming to fruition. It's written that Israel will be
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upheld in this last day, that that Yao will send,
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you know, seven shepherds to protect her, that Yao will
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overlook her and even in her hardship, that she will
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be brought out, that a remnant will be brought out
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and protected through it all. And we are approaching the
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time of Jacob's trouble now more than ever. We see
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the things that unfolded on October seventh, and I think
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that was very much a preview of the things that
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are to come on the world stage against the chosen
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who have grafted themselves into Israel and against Israel itself.
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The more there's these two things going on, we have,
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you know, this positive, beautiful rededication of America to biblical principles,
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and a crowd around the world people returning to that
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that root, that foundation of faith and realizing that Torah
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and the time keeping of Yah and keeping his covenant
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feasts is the key that unlocks the blessing and brings
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us closer into intimacy with Ya. And at the same time,
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we have the enemy who's increasingly inflamed by this.
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And so you have both things rising.
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There's the revival and the return to Yeah, that's rising
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all around the world. And in response and in direct proportion,
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there's the rebellion, the rising rebellion against Yah and against
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that revival. So you know what's interesting here at this
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season of Chavoote is in Exodus nineteen twenty four, and
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we're going to get now into our Torah talk portion.
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You know, Sinai is central.
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And there's this defining phrase and here, you know, when
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Israel is asked, they're given, they're given a choice to
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stand up and you know they they respond not as
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say Venishma that we are going to we we hear
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it and we're going to do it. Okay, But actually
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the doing comes before the hearing, not us say and
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we will do Venishma and we hear. And you know
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that's important because very often, you know, we want to well,
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if it makes sense to me, then I'll then I'll
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obey if it makes if if I it's a convenient,
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if I can fit it in, you know, I'll obey.
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But here we see something else. We see this obedience,
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this commitment to doing. We're doing everything. We're going to
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do everything.
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We're hearing.
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They didn't begin by understanding everything. They began with obedience
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and faithfulness often needs to come before understanding. So when
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headline are provoking fear or anger, the Torrah asks us
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to respond from covenant, not from emotion, but from covenant.
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And you know Ruth, and we traditionally read the Book
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of Ruth during Chavote because she was really a character
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who stood up and she didn't merely speak loyalty, she
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lived it right. She lived that loyalty out. She told Naomi,
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your people shall be my people. So she was demonstrating
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covenant through her deeds. She didn't merely admire Israel. She
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walked with Israel and united herself to Israel through Naomi,
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through her vow. The other thing I want to touch
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on is Ezekiel one and habakak three. Ezekiel one was
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the Hatara portion for Day one, a chevote traditionally. And
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you know, these creatures in Ezekiel are this great enigma,
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aren't they? And they might be literal descriptions they might be,
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or they may be divine attributes embodying the glory of
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Yeah and his fit messengers. In any case, the theme
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here seems to be that some things defy human understanding,
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and yet true revelation has to come forth from reverence,
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from humility, and from obedience, right from submitting ourselves to
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this thing we don't fully understand. And the prayer that
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Habakyeach begins with in Habakyek three, it begins, Oh I
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don't nay I heard a report of you. I feared,
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Oh I don't know your deed in the midst of
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the years, revive it in the midst of the years.
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Let it be known in your anger you shall remember
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to have mercy, And so it's a prayer. It's a
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prayer that he's asking Yah to remember his mercy. And
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you know, in the midst of the years. In other words,
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no matter how much time has passed, no matter how
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much time has passed, revive it, let it be known,
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bring revival, bring revelation, Bring that knowing from us. Say
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again that revival, that revelation from us, Say so that
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I mean to do it. Yeah, bring it. And so
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this pattern of revelation, of opposition to the revelation, and
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of steadfast covenant, faithfulness and preservation, and us as a
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remnant standing in that truth is an ongoing thing. It's
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you know, that idea that we need to continue to
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walk faithfully day after day. We need to continually continually
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say not us, say we will do. And that's really
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our vow, our covenant vow to Yeah Abba, Father, we
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just pray right now for Israel, for the peace of Jerusalem,
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for wisdom for leaders, for wisdom for the IDF commanders
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and officers on the ground, for wisdom guiding these discussions
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that are taking place. Father, for your divine wisdom to
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infuse itself in the participants of these discussions, and for
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their heart to not sit right with a halfway agreement
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from the enemy. That just allows the enemy more time
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to rebuild, more time to plot the destruction of your people.
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But Father, we know that all things have to work
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together according to your perfect plan. And we just thank
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you and we praise you that we can be a
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part of that plan. And we just ask right now, Father,
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that you would give us strength to be faithful, to
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respond faithfully to you in these difficult times. And we
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thank you, and we praise you, and we honor you,
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and we extole you for the opportunity to stand as
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watchmen on the wall. So this shadow oat maybe echo Sinai,
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not us, say we want to thank you for tuning
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in and come back again next week.
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Please share this with others if it's touched you, And
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we just ask you to continue to walk in open
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Shalom Sellom, and welcome back to Kosher's and Torah Talk.
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This is your host Ashi Jik.
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And I'm here with a special shop, a little special
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episode thirty eight we do. I want to talk this
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week about Sinai, about the giving of the Torah, which
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was a sort of marriage covenant between Yan and we're
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gonna consider a simple and profound question, what does faithfulness
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look like when we're under pressure? What does faithfulness look
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like when Israel is.
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Under pressure and the nation's arranging at Sinai. Israel answered
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with one word of commitment, not as say we will do.
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And this echoes the traditional marriage vow of modern Western marriages,
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where the bride and the groom each look at one
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another and say I do, sealing their vows. So let's
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get into it. The Hebrew word of the week is
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an assay we will do. And the root of this
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word is osa or usa, meaning.
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To do, to make, to create, to do something.
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And by putting that noon in the front, it's saying
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we are going to do this thing, we will do it.
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But in Exodus twenty four to.
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Seven, twenty four to seven, it's written all that Adnai
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has spoken, we will do in here all that Adoni
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has spoken, we will do, we do. This is a
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marriage covenant. This is a marriage valve being spoken aloud.
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And the interesting thing is when we look at the
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root of this word, at the Paleo Hebrew root, we
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have three letters as very often as the case almost
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always two or three letters. Here we have a yen, sheen,
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and hay. And the yene we've seen many times in
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the Paleo Hebrew. It is it's an eye, it's it's
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representing the idea of watchfulness, of knowing, of comprehension, of observation,
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to observe, to watch, to see something. And the sheene
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is the teeth. It's dividing, it's transforming, it's consuming a thing.
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And then the hay is of in the Paleo Hebrews
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a little man with his arms upraised, and it holds
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the meaning of revelation, of looking at something with the
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purpose of revelation, of breath of worship of Awe and
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unlike that which Yah creates, and it says beshek barra
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Barrah is the idea of creating something x nilo, creating
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something from nothing.
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He can also asa.
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He can also create from what's already been created in
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a way we're recreating. Anytime we assa, we're doing something
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that's already using things, our bodies, our voices, our resources
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that Yeah has made to make or to do something else.
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But unlike what Ya has created x Nilo, what he's barrad,
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not everything we as human beings create is automatically good.
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You remember in the account of Genesis in Belshet, everything
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he makes, it's followed with, and he saw that it
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was good. But not everything we assah is good. So
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the question is, how do we make or do How
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do we assah in righteousness? How do we make rightly?
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How do we do righteousness? And in order to do
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this we must comprehend, Okay, the yeen miscomprehend. We must see,
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We must know the division the sheene between right and wrong,
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good and evil, and then ask for continual revelation. So
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there's those three ingredients comprehension, right, dividing, and revelation, and
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without those we cannot assah correctly. We must comprehend the
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division and ask for continual revelation. And this is exactly
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what the Torah does for us. It helps us to comprehend,
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to see, to know, to know how to observe His
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beautiful instructions, and it divides between right and wrong, good
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and evil. It tells us where to divide the day
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and the night, how to divide the year and the
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seasons in the calendar, and it provides revelation, continual revelation.
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Revelation is not something we receive and then it's a
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done deal. It's something that's an ongoing process of revelation.
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So Chavuot remembers not only revelation but respond because Sinai
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was not merely revelation. It was a commitment to continue
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to see and observe, to continue to respond positively when
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we fail to respond with repentance with shuva. And so
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you know, when we look at the headlines this week,
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there are two things I really want to touch on.
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One is during this Chavo holiday, whether you're keeping it
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or kept it on the Hillel calendar, or are keeping
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it today for some of you, some of us on
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the Aviv calendar or however, and whenever you observe it,
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it's around this time. Right now, we're in the season
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of Chavuote and during this time, it's no coincidence that
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there was an anti Israel conference, and this is really
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just a reflection of that rising hostility toward Israel. But
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this particular event actually had a hexagram.
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but it had been placed in a circle with a
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line through it like the you know, like the nose
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smoking sign over top of it, and so it made
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it into this this hexagram, which when it's used that way,
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is used in many, many occult settings. I personally try
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to avoid anything with the Mugandavid in a circle myself.
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It's a very easy, simple to put in a circle,
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and I know it's very harmlessly used that way in
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some contexts, but it's also been perverted and used in
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a lot of occult symbolism, just like the hexagram in
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that way, and so I personally steer clear of that.
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And this poster had that front and center in the
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very center of the page, and it very brazenly called
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itself the anti Israel Conference. It is finishing up today
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today is the last day, and we've just been praying
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very actively against it, for confusion in the camp of
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the enemy, for that that event not to go smoothly,
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for the attendees to have conviction in their heart for
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what they're doing, coming against the Jewish identity and the
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Jewish people. But when we think about the fact that
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this was taking place during the shallow holiday, during the
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time when Yao is giving his instructions, we are left
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to ask, how are we as covenant people to respond
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when hostility arises. And we really can tie this back
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to Annas say Na say that we will do that
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we're to remain faithful, that we're continuing to walk in
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His instructions, and that we're to respond with wisdom, with prayer,
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with a firm rebuke and the spirit against this religious
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spirit of anti Semitism that's taking hold in these Christian pastors.
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So that's what Sinai is really all about. It's all
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about faithful response before reaction. We'll get a little bit
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more into all of that in the Torah talk portion today.
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But the other headline that I wanted to discuss today
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you aside from like I said, that global pressure on
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Israel and that anti Semitism in this cultural hostility that's
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just ongoing and continual, is the ongoing attacks on President Trump,
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and it's largely for his stance on Israel. And I'm
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not saying he's a particularly likable fellow. He's certainly not
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afraid to make enemies by standing for what he believes
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is the facts in the matter and the truth in
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the matter. And that's one of the things a lot
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of a lot of the voters who voted for him
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appreciate about him, is that he is very bold, and
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he's unabashed, and he's not playing the game of political correctness.
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He's trying to do the things that are in the
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best economic interest and national security interests of America, and
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at times that really goes against the grain of what's
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considered to be politically correct. And Israel is one of
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those points. And it's interesting because you have people on
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both sides of the isle who support Israel, but you
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definitely have a lot of vehement anti Israel rhetoric coming
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from the left as well. And as we've seen at
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this conference, you have on the hard right some of
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the you know, fundamentalist Christians that are buying into the
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lie of these aren't the real Jews, and that Zionism
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is evil and the Zionists are controlling Hollywood.
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And all of these stories.
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in mind is we had this you know what I'm
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leading into here, is we had this attack, this shooting
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on in the White House again or on the White
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House lann at the gates of the White House, where
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this deranged individual was bent on attacking President Trump. And
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it's kind of a reflection these continual attacks, these continual
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assassination attempts. I mean, it's like we can't go more
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than a few months without another one coming up in
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some form or another. And they really they're a reflection
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of the hatred and the desperation that the enemy feels
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when faced with the strength and the inevitability of Ya's
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plan coming to fruition. It's written that Israel will be
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upheld in this last day, that that Yao will send,
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you know, seven shepherds to protect her, that Yao will
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overlook her and even in her hardship, that she will
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be brought out, that a remnant will be brought out
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and protected through it all. And we are approaching the
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time of Jacob's trouble now more than ever. We see
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the things that unfolded on October seventh, and I think
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that was very much a preview of the things that
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are to come on the world stage against the chosen
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who have grafted themselves into Israel and against Israel itself.
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The more there's these two things going on, we have,
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you know, this positive, beautiful rededication of America to biblical principles,
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and a crowd around the world people returning to that
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that root, that foundation of faith and realizing that Torah
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and the time keeping of Yah and keeping his covenant
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feasts is the key that unlocks the blessing and brings
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us closer into intimacy with Ya. And at the same time,
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we have the enemy who's increasingly inflamed by this.
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There's the revival and the return to Yeah, that's rising
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all around the world. And in response and in direct proportion,
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there's the rebellion, the rising rebellion against Yah and against
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that revival. So you know what's interesting here at this
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season of Chavoote is in Exodus nineteen twenty four, and
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we're going to get now into our Torah talk portion.
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You know, Sinai is central.
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Israel is asked, they're given, they're given a choice to
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stand up and you know they they respond not as
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say Venishma that we are going to we we hear
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it and we're going to do it. Okay, But actually
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the doing comes before the hearing, not us say and
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we will do Venishma and we hear. And you know
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that's important because very often, you know, we want to well,
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if it makes sense to me, then I'll then I'll
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obey if it makes if if I it's a convenient,
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if I can fit it in, you know, I'll obey.
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this commitment to doing. We're doing everything. We're going to
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do everything.
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They didn't begin by understanding everything. They began with obedience
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and faithfulness often needs to come before understanding. So when
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headline are provoking fear or anger, the Torrah asks us
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to respond from covenant, not from emotion, but from covenant.
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of Ruth during Chavote because she was really a character
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who stood up and she didn't merely speak loyalty, she
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lived it right. She lived that loyalty out. She told Naomi,
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your people shall be my people. So she was demonstrating
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covenant through her deeds. She didn't merely admire Israel. She
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walked with Israel and united herself to Israel through Naomi,
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through her vow. The other thing I want to touch
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on is Ezekiel one and habakak three. Ezekiel one was
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the Hatara portion for Day one, a chevote traditionally. And
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you know, these creatures in Ezekiel are this great enigma,
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aren't they? And they might be literal descriptions they might be,
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or they may be divine attributes embodying the glory of
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Yeah and his fit messengers. In any case, the theme
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here seems to be that some things defy human understanding,
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and yet true revelation has to come forth from reverence,
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from humility, and from obedience, right from submitting ourselves to
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this thing we don't fully understand. And the prayer that
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Habakyeach begins with in Habakyek three, it begins, Oh I
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don't nay I heard a report of you. I feared,
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Oh I don't know your deed in the midst of
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the years, revive it in the midst of the years.
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Let it be known in your anger you shall remember
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to have mercy, And so it's a prayer. It's a
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prayer that he's asking Yah to remember his mercy. And
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you know, in the midst of the years. In other words,
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no matter how much time has passed, no matter how
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much time has passed, revive it, let it be known,
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bring revival, bring revelation, Bring that knowing from us. Say
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again that revival, that revelation from us, Say so that
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I mean to do it. Yeah, bring it. And so
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this pattern of revelation, of opposition to the revelation, and
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of steadfast covenant, faithfulness and preservation, and us as a
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remnant standing in that truth is an ongoing thing. It's
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you know, that idea that we need to continue to
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walk faithfully day after day. We need to continually continually
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say not us, say we will do. And that's really
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our vow, our covenant vow to Yeah Abba, Father, we
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just pray right now for Israel, for the peace of Jerusalem,
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for wisdom for leaders, for wisdom for the IDF commanders
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and officers on the ground, for wisdom guiding these discussions
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that are taking place. Father, for your divine wisdom to
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infuse itself in the participants of these discussions, and for
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their heart to not sit right with a halfway agreement
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from the enemy. That just allows the enemy more time
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to rebuild, more time to plot the destruction of your people.
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But Father, we know that all things have to work
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together according to your perfect plan. And we just thank
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you and we praise you that we can be a
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part of that plan. And we just ask right now, Father,
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that you would give us strength to be faithful, to
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respond faithfully to you in these difficult times. And we
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thank you, and we praise you, and we honor you,
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and we extole you for the opportunity to stand as
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watchmen on the wall. So this shadow oat maybe echo Sinai,
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not us, say we want to thank you for tuning
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in and come back again next week.
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Please share this with others if it's touched you, And
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we just ask you to continue to walk in open
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