Jason Hensley – The Gospel of Peace – Class 4 – Eye for an Eye

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So this is the 2023 Manitoulin
Family Bible Camp.

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Our speaker for this session is
Brother Jason Hensley from the

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Simi Hills, California Ecclesia.
His theme this week is the

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Gospel of Peace.
This is his fourth class and the

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subject for this class is eye
for an Eye.

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Brother Jason.
Good morning, everyone.

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Whoa.
All right.

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I got to do this carefully.
OK, there we go.

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All right, it’s very good to see
you.

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Hey, you’re here.
You’re not the sorry.

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Yeah, OK, sorry.
I didn’t.

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I got.
I got excited.

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All right, so here we are class
class #4I for an I.

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This OK, so I told you yesterday
that I was most excited about

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yesterday’s class.
That’s because that was

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yesterday and now I’m most
excited about this class.

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So here we go.
Take a look at this eye for an

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eye.
I think this is this is most

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exciting to me because it really
it was very paradigm shifting

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for me.
So we’re going to look at

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exceptions people as exceptions
and principles, not exceptions.

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Now you’ll notice that those
first two sections, they have

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question marks, right?
So it’s like exceptions or

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people as exceptions, you know,
is it that?

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Is that how it’s it how it is?
And the answer is no, it’s not.

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So we’ll see that that that’s
not actually how it goes.

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We’re not looking at exceptions.
Now we want to go over the core

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message from our past few days.
So core message for day number

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one was peace matters.
That’s right.

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So peace matters.
Good.

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How about day #2 all shades of
peace are interconnected.

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Very good.
OK.

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Day three.
What was that?

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Yes.
Well, you’re close.

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You know what?
And I’m standing here now and I

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can’t remember it.
Uh oh.

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That’s not good.
Peace is universal.

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That’s right.
There you go.

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Thank you.
Peace is universal, man.

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That’s bad.
OK.

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Peace is universal.
Here we go.

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I always, you know what, the
same thing happened with me on

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the teens too.
I apparently need to fix that

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one.
OK, here’s our one for today.

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The Law of Moses taught peace.
Now, that’s a big one because so

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often we look at the law and it
doesn’t look like that at all,

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and it looks violent.
You know, this is one of the

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things I get confronted with
when I’m teaching at university,

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right?
My students will say to me.

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What’s the deal with genocide in
the Bible?

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Like explain that to me.
And I’m sorry, we’re going to

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talk about that tomorrow, but
but for now, we’re just going to

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lay the foundation, right?
So what I want to suggest to you

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is in fact, we we have kind of
missed the big picture, or maybe

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I should say I missed the big
picture for a long time.

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And then in fact, I think what
God was trying to do was he was

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trying to teach the Israelites
peace via the law.

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Now there’s a couple of things
that I need to say first.

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First off, we know that the law
was good, right?

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Holy, just, and good.
So we know that for sure.

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I want to acknowledge that at
the beginning, I’m not saying in

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any kind of way that the law was
bad.

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I think the law fulfilled
exactly what it was supposed to

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do.
However, I think what it was

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supposed to do is perhaps
different than maybe what we

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sometimes think.
I’m going to.

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Suggest to you that the law was
supposed to teach that law is

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broken, that law does not work,
and I think God puts this system

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in so that people.
Who are working through it would

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say, wait a minute, this doesn’t
work right?

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Have you ever, have you ever
looked through the law of the

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sin offerings?
This is Leviticus chapter 4.

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Have you ever looked through the
law of the sin offering?

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Let’s just do it now.
Actually, let’s let’s go ahead

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and open up to Leviticus,
Leviticus chapter 4.

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Look at this and see if you
notice a common theme here.

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Leviticus chapter 4.
I’ll go ahead and read these and

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look for what all of these
instances have in common.

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So under the law, different
people had to offer different

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sin offerings depending on who
you were in society.

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So just take a look now at verse
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Leviticus 4, verse two.
So this is the first instance.

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Leviticus 4 two says, speak unto
the children of Israel, saying,

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If a soul shall sin through
ignorance against any of the

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commandments of the Lord
concerning things which ought

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not to be done, and shall do
against any of them, then et

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cetera, they will bring a sin
offering.

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OK, that’s the first one.
Now take a look at verse 13.

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Verse 13 says and if the whole
congregation of Israel sinned

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through ignorance and the thing
be hid from the eyes of the

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assembly, it goes on, they need
to offer a sin offering.

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Then take a look at verse 22.
Verse 22 says when a ruler has

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sinned and done somewhat through
ignorance against any of the

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commandments of the Lord, is God
OK?

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Verse 27 next scenario, verse 27
says, and if any one of the

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common people sinned through
ignorance.

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Do you notice what’s in common
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Every situation was a sin
through ignorance.

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Now if you are a person who
thinks about the law and who

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tries to put it together right,
just imagine this.

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You are an ancient Israelite and
you sin.

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You then have to try and figure
out is this a sin through

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ignorance.
Now let me just ask you, can you

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remember the last time you
sinned accidentally?

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Sinning accidentally is not a
thing.

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Like, I mean, what, what is it?
Like you, you have an arm spasm

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or something and you whack
somebody like they’re not going

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to be like, that was a sin or
something like or, or what, Like

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somebody’s wallet accidentally
sticks to your hand, right?

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Like this is not you don’t have
accidental sins.

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And So what you have in the law
is you have this system that

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people would look at it and
they’d be like, oh, good sin

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offerings like this is how I can
be, you know, this is how I can

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get pardoned.
And they look at that and they

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think, what, well, what do I do
if I got mad at my brother and I

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punched him in the face, right?
There is no offering for that.

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This is why when you come to
Psalm 51, you remember what

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David writes about in Psalm 51.
He says sacrifice and offering

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thou what is not right.
Now we take that and we take it

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sort of as a general kind of
thing.

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And we say, look, it wasn’t
really about the sacrifices and

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offerings.
And that’s right.

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But I think we missed the nuance
of what David’s saying.

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He’s writing about the fact that
he committed adultery and that

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he killed his friend.
And he’s saying, I’m looking at

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the law and I’m realizing I
can’t offer anything.

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I’m dead.
That’s David’s point in Psalm

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51.
He says, there is nothing that I

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can do.
I’m in trouble.

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And I think that is what
everybody was supposed to come

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to.
They were supposed to open up

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their Torah and say.
Oh, oh, I’m in trouble and they

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were supposed to look for
something else.

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So I want to suggest to you that
God builds the law.

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Specifically so that throughout
someone’s life they would run

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into these instances where they
would say, but I can’t do that

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or but that’s not going to work.
I’ll give you another one,

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Exodus Chapter 12.
You can go there if you want.

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Exodus Chapter 12 is the story
of the Exodus.

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Obviously, it’s the story of
Passover.

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So it’s the story of the first
Passover.

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Now here’s an interesting
question for you.

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Story of the first Passover.
What day of the month were they

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supposed to get their lamb?
10th, right, 10th day of the

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month.
When were they supposed to

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sacrifice the lamb?
14th day.

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Now it’s very interesting.
They’re supposed to get it on

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the 10th.
They’re supposed to sacrifice it

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on the 14th.
Now when God comes to Moses, he

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says get your lamb on the 10th,
sacrifice it on the 14th.

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The only problem is, is that if
you go back one chapter, you

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will find out that an Exodus 11,
Moses tells Pharaoh that tonight

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at midnight the final plague
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What does that tell you about
what day it is?

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It’s the 14th day.
In other words, God approaches

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Moses and God says to Moses.
OK, Moses on the 10th day of the

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month, get a lamb.
And Moses is like, but God, that

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was four days ago, right?
Like how am I supposed to do

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that?
And so if you read through the

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chapter, what you will find is
that Moses when he brings the

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commandments to the people,
guess what he leaves out?

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He doesn’t say get a lamb on the
10th day because they couldn’t,

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it was impossible.
God gives them.

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The first commandment that they
ever receive as a nation, they

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can’t keep.
This is what God does.

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Right.
He’s constantly giving these

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commandments so that people
would look at them and say, wait

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a minute, what do you mean I
can’t do that?

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And God says exactly that’s the
point.

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So here’s your why.
Question why don’t we follow the

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law today?
I think often we’ll say things

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like, well, the Lord Jesus
fulfilled the law, and that’s

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true, He did.
But I think in addition, it’s

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because we realize that it’s
impossible and that that’s what

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God wanted us to see.
And then instead he was trying

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to teach principles from the
fact that you could not follow

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the law.
So let’s take a look at how this

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works out.
So we’re going to walk through

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these exceptions, question mark
and then people as exceptions.

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So I want to just show, I think
how sometimes we approach the

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law and why that doesn’t often.
Work, so take a look.

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Exception #1 priests on the
Sabbath.

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So we know Exodus 31 verse 15
that you would work for six

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days. 7th day you rested.
And if you did not rest on the

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7th day, what happens?
Death.

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OK, so it’s pretty
straightforward.

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Now again, remember this is how
law works.

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So law is law.
You read what it says, you do

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what it says.
It’s it’s an easy thing to

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understand.
So therefore, when you get to

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the book of Numbers, consider
this Numbers 28 verse nine.

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On the Sabbath day make an
offering of two lambs a year old

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without defect, together with
its drink offering and a grain

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offering of 2/10 of an EFA of
finest flower mixed with olive

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oil.
OK, so we know six days you

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work, 7th day you rest, if you
don’t, you die.

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God then says, on the Sabbath
day, make sure that you offer an

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offering of two lambs a year.
Old with that defect.

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Now, I can imagine there were a
lot of priests who did not want

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to do that because that was the
end of your life.

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I mean, if you’re following what
the law says, right, you don’t

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work on the Sabbath.
So they had to figure out a way

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around this.
Now I’m going to suggest to you

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this should have been
immediately an instance of oh

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look, the law is contradicting
itself.

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Right, that must mean
something’s going on.

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But instead, it became an
opportunity to look for

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exceptions.
So consider this, this guy up

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here, Rabbi Shlomo Benitsak, he
is often referred to as Rashi.

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Anybody here heard of Rashi?
I know.

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I know You have, Martha.
Yeah.

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We we talk about Rashi.
So Rashi is the big deal, right?

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If you are, if you are Jewish,
you you really pay attention to

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what Rashi says.
He’s a major Jewish commentator.

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In fact, his words are
considered so influential that

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they are appended to most
Talmuds.

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That gives you a sense of of
Rashi.

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So here’s Rashi.
Here’s what he says about it.

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He says Exodus 3114.
That’s the verse that we just

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looked at.
He says everyone that profaneth

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it, the Sabbath shall surely be
put to death, which apparently

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is in contradiction with Numbers
28 verse 9.

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Right.
So he notices.

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And on the Sabbath day you shall
offer two lambs a command

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necessitating actions which,
look at this, if done for any

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other purposes on the Sabbath,
would involve a profanation of

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that day.
Do you see what he just did?

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He just said, but it’s an
exception.

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Right, We know that God
commanded this, God commanded

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this.
There can’t be a contradiction.

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So therefore we’ll just say it’s
an exception.

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Now that’s fine, right?
It’s fine to take it as an

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exception.
The only thing is, is that when

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you open up the door to
exceptions, notice what happens.

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There were two straightforward
commands, right?

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Law was easy at this point.
Don’t work on the Sabbath, offer

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offerings on the Sabbath.
So those are our two commands.

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Problem is is that we have to
try and figure out how they go

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together and when we go the
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Look at what happens.
We get.

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Do not work on the Sabbath
unless you’re a priest and a

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priest who’s supposed to offer
the weekly offering, right?

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If you were just a priest, well,
you couldn’t work on the

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Sabbath, you know, you couldn’t,
like, go garden.

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You had to be the priest who is
the one designated to offer the

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offering.
OK #2 offer offerings on the

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Sabbath, but only if you’re a
priest and the priest who’s

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supposed to offer the weekly
offering, right?

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It suddenly gets way bigger.
Now, you might be thinking, OK,

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but that’s like, manageable,
right?

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No big deal.
You just figure that out.

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Well, it’s not manageable
because this is what the Talmud

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is.
Right.

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The Talmud are it’s all these
conversations about how do you

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take the Torah and implement it
in this situation and in this

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situation.
So let me ask you this.

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What do you think?
Do you think the Talmud is

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bigger or smaller than our 66
book Bible?

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Any thoughts?
Yeah, Huger.

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Right.
Anyone know how many volumes are

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in the Talmud?
42?

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It takes up an entire bookshelf.
Not like like a whole bookcase.

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It’s 42 volumes to describe.
Remember our books, our Bibles

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have 66 books.
They have 5.

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They have taken the commandments
of the first five books.

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And the Talmud goes on to
explain all of the commentary on

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all of these, right?
42 volumes.

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This is what happens when we go
the exception route, right?

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And if you look at it, you know
right now that there’s something

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called Daphiomi, which is it
reads, you read one page of the

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Talmud every day, right?
So I, so I do this.

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Maybe I shouldn’t admit that
that’s kind of kind of weird.

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But don’t worry.
I also do my daily readings in

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case you’re, you know, so I do a
lot more Bible than Talmud, but

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Dafyomian right now they’re
walking through Geton.

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Is this this section of the
Talmud and what it’s all about?

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It’s called Geton because a get
is the bill of divorcement that

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a husband was supposed to give
to his wife when they were going

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to get divorced, right?
It’s called a GET.

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And the entire book, right, so
one whole book of the Talmud is

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dedicated to what is a get,
right?

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Like it’s things like what kind
of paper is it supposed to be

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on?
Who can deliver it?

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And, you know, if you send the
wrong person, like if it’s a

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slave who’s only this old and
you know, all these kind of

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things, well then it’s not
actually valid.

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And so, you know, you could have
been living as a divorced person

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for years and years, but
actually you’re married, you

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know, like it’s, it’s all kinds
of stuff like that, right.

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This is what happens.
When we go the exception route,

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we start to create more rules
and more rules and more rules

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until we have 42 volumes of
rules so.

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Here’s the other piece.
Now, if I were to ask you, OK,

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well, if you take this as an
exception, well, what’s it

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teaching, right?
What do you learn from this?

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Well, here’s what you get.
Here are the big lessons.

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Priests can break the Sabbath,
right?

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But only if they’re offering the
weekly offering.

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That’s our application, right?
Is that going to change your

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life?
No, I mean, who cares?

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What’s what’s that going to do?
OK, now I let me give you

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another example of how some of
the the Talmudic sages or not

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not the Talmudic.
Sages, this is, this is just

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medieval Jewish sages, how
they’ve taken it.

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So this Shiskuni is a book
written by Rabbi Hezekiah Ben

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Benoah in the in the 1200s.
This is what he says about it.

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He says all the offerings are
described as being offered with

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either the word assa, something
being carried out, or with the

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word hakharov, something being
presented.

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Seeing that basically such
activities as offering

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sacrifices are forbidden on the
Sabbath, the Torah avoids the

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use of these terms in connection
with the communal offerings that

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are mandatory on the Sabbath.
Nonetheless, I know I read that

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fast, so I’ll tell you what he’s
saying.

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He mentions those two Hebrew
words.

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Those are both.
Those are verbs.

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And what he’s saying is,
whenever you offer an offering,

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you have to offer it, or you
have to.

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Burn it or make it or something
like that.

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And he says, amazingly, that
verse.

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Doesn’t have a verb.
And he says, look, that was on

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purpose.
God doesn’t have a verb because

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that way you don’t violate the
Sabbath because you’re not

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working right like so you’ll
actually see this in the Jewish

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publication society version of
this verse.

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Look at this.
There’s no verb on the Sabbath

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day colon two yearling lambs
without blemish, 2/10 of a

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measure of choice, flour with
oil mixed in as a meal offering

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with a proper libation.
It doesn’t say offer because.

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That would be violating the
Sabbath.

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So you can see again how this
becomes just all about rules.

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Here’s another one for you.
So here’s our next exception.

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Again, these are things that
should have caused people to

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say, wait, this doesn’t work.
But instead, look at what

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happens.
This is Leviticus 1919.

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It says keep my decrees.
Do not make different kinds of

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animals.
Do not plant your field with two

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kinds of seed.
Do not wear clothing woven of

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two kinds of material.
That’s what we want to notice,

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clothing woven of two kinds of
material.

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Deuteronomy 2211 gets a little
more.

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Explicit, it says.
Do not wear clothes of wool and

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linen woven together.
So no wool and linen.

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So two kinds of material was not
allowed, specifically wool and

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linen.
Now that’s really interesting

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because you might recall that in
Exodus 28, God details the the

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clothing of the high priest.
And notice what he says.

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He says make the ephod of gold
and a blue, purple and scarlet

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yarn.
Well, guess what yarn’s made out

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of wool.
Right, OK, and a finely twisted

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linen.
Now that’s interesting.

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Deuteronomy 2211 says do not
wear clothes of wool and linen

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woven together.
So you actually have a

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contradiction once again.
Now, in fact, the rabbis of the

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Talmud notice this, right?
They’re very bothered by this

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fact because you’re not supposed
to have the contradictions so.

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They talk about it in the
Talmud.

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Here’s what they say, everyone
is obligated in the mitzvah of

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ritual fringes.
So our context here is the

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fringes that they would have on
their garments.

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So that’s another another piece
where this kind of came in and

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they were trying to figure this
out how the fringes go with this

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idea of not having multiple
kinds of, of cloth, they say,

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including priests, Levites and
Israelites.

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The Gomorrah asks, isn’t that
obvious as if priests, Levites

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and Israelites were exempt from
the mitzvah, who then is to be

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obligated?
Mitzvah means commandment.

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Who then, is to be obligated?
The Gemara answers It was

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necessary for the bright of the
mention that priests are

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obligated to fulfill the
mitzvah, as it may enter your

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mind to say as follows.
Since it is written, you shall

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not wear diverse kinds, wool and
linen together.

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You shall prepare for yourself
twisted cords upon the four

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corners of your covering.
Only one who is not permitted to

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wear diverse kinds is obligated
in the mitzvah of ritual

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fringes.
OK, I know that’s a lot of stuff

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like to try and put together.
In other words, what they’re

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saying is this is an exception,
right?

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They say you have, you can’t
have these two different kinds

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of materials, but you are
allowed to if you’re allowed to,

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basically.
They then go on with regard to

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these priests, since diverse
kinds are permitted for them

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when they perform the temple
service, right.

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That’s the garment that we were
talking about.

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It says as the belt of the
priestly vestments contains

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diverse kinds.
That’s what we were looking at.

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They should not be obligated in
the mitzvah of ritual fringes.

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Therefore, the burrita teaches
us that although the prohibition

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of diverse kinds is permitted
for them at the time when they

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perform the temple service, so
they can wear diverse kinds when

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they’re performed in temple
service, when it is not the time

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of the temple service, it is not
permitted.

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And therefore priests are
obligated in the mitzvah of

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ritual fringes.
OK, I know you look at that and

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you’re like, whoa, OK, I’ll
summarize it for you. 3 original

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commands, right?
Priests wear clothes of multiple

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materials #2 don’t mix
materials. 3 Israelites wear

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fringes.
Those turn into this.

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Priests wear clothes in multiple
materials, but only if they’re

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working in the temple.
Don’t mix materials unless

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you’re a priest working in the
temple, and the mixture can only

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happen on your belt #3
Israelites have to wear fringes

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unless you’re a priest and
you’re working in the temple,

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Right?
But if you’re a priest and

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you’re not working in the
temple, then you can’t wear

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fringes like or then you do wear
anyway.

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Whoa, it’s, it’s like, it’s a
lot of things to try, but this

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is what happens when we start to
make rules, right?

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The rules start to.
Contradict and and you know.

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We’re like, what do we do?
But that’s the whole point,

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right?
That’s what God wanted us to

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see, that this doesn’t work.
OK.

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And by the way, then what do you
learn?

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Here’s your big lessons.
Don’t mix fabrics unless God

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says to and wear fringes, right?
Like those are not helpful

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lessons.
Like what are you going to do?

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Go home and be like, well, I
guess this was the lesson I

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better put fringes on my suit.
Like that’s that’s not the

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point.
But that becomes the point when

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we start going the exception
route.

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I will.
I want to tell you a little

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story here.
Somehow, and I don’t know how I

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got, I got on the mailing list
of a local Habad.

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I don’t know if you’re familiar
with Habad’s, but it’s a, it’s

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a, a subsection of ultra
Orthodox Judaism.

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So in fact, what they’re known
for is they’re known for

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preaching to other Jews, right?
So the, they’ll often drive

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around in vans.
They do this a lot in Brooklyn.

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And then I don’t know if they do
it in Jerusalem too, but I would

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assume they do they, they’ll
jump out of the van when they

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see somebody who’s Jewish,
right?

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And they’ll say, you know, are
you wearing your fringes today?

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And like, if they say no, then
they’ll say, do you want one,

434
00:22:24,440 –> 00:22:26,040
right?
Or like, you know, do you have

435
00:22:26,040 –> 00:22:28,080
your Shabbat candles like that
sort of thing?

436
00:22:28,240 –> 00:22:31,480
And they’ll, they’ll go through
and you know, like try and get

437
00:22:31,480 –> 00:22:33,440
people to follow these things.
Somehow I ended up on their

438
00:22:33,440 –> 00:22:36,720
mailing list and I got a, a
Mailer that goes along with kind

439
00:22:36,720 –> 00:22:39,040
of their ideology of trying to
get Jews to come towards

440
00:22:39,040 –> 00:22:40,680
Orthodox, ultra Orthodox
Judaism.

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00:22:41,640 –> 00:22:43,760
And it said, come and learn
about your roots.

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00:22:44,440 –> 00:22:46,960
Judaism one O 1.
And I was like, oh, that sounds

443
00:22:46,960 –> 00:22:48,800
interesting.
Sure, we’ll go.

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00:22:48,800 –> 00:22:52,880
So Ruth and I went to Judaism
one O 1 sat there as Rabbi

445
00:22:52,880 –> 00:22:56,280
Shlomo talked to us about the
613 mitzvot.

446
00:22:56,840 –> 00:22:59,280
Mitzvot means commandments.
And he was talking about there’s

447
00:22:59,280 –> 00:23:02,040
613 commandments.
We follow all of these.

448
00:23:02,240 –> 00:23:04,440
It’s important.
And so I raised my hand and I

449
00:23:04,440 –> 00:23:07,560
said, can you please explain to
me why we follow them?

450
00:23:08,560 –> 00:23:10,880
You know, why?
Why is it important for us to

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00:23:10,880 –> 00:23:14,000
follow these commandments?
And he said, OK.

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00:23:16,080 –> 00:23:18,000
Have you ever watched the movie
Karate Kid?

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00:23:18,960 –> 00:23:23,080
And I said what?
And he said, have you ever

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00:23:23,080 –> 00:23:26,120
watched the movie Karate Kid?
And I said, I don’t know, maybe

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like when I was little.
And he said, well.

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It’s all about a young man who
wants to learn karate.

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So he goes to his teacher and he
says, teach me karate.

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And the teacher says, OK, I’ll,
I’ll teach you.

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00:23:37,560 –> 00:23:39,720
Here’s what you do.
Grab a rake or something like

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00:23:39,720 –> 00:23:40,840
that.
And he grabs a rake and he

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00:23:40,840 –> 00:23:42,440
starts doing this manual labor,
right?

462
00:23:42,440 –> 00:23:45,000
He’s doing it for a long time.
And he finally gets frustrated

463
00:23:45,000 –> 00:23:46,560
and he says, why am I doing this
right?

464
00:23:46,560 –> 00:23:49,240
I asked you to learn karate.
Why are you having me rake?

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00:23:50,160 –> 00:23:55,600
So the teacher says you do not
understand now.

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Why I’m having you do this, but
someday you will.

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00:24:00,560 –> 00:24:03,520
And he said that’s exactly how
it is with a 613 minutes vote.

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00:24:03,520 –> 00:24:07,600
We don’t know why we do them,
but someday we will understand.

469
00:24:08,560 –> 00:24:12,200
And that’s what happens, right
when we go the exception route.

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00:24:12,400 –> 00:24:15,120
And we do this too.
I think a lot of times we come

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to the law and we look at the
law and we don’t ask what was

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the principle.
We end up just saying, well this

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00:24:19,520 –> 00:24:23,760
is what God commanded or
something like that and we

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00:24:23,760 –> 00:24:25,040
missed the point.
Right.

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00:24:25,040 –> 00:24:27,840
The the point was not where
fringes, because someday you’ll

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00:24:27,840 –> 00:24:31,720
understand why, right?
And yet this, this is very

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00:24:31,720 –> 00:24:34,960
clearly where the exception
route goes.

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00:24:35,720 –> 00:24:38,160
This is from Rabbi Jill Jacobs,
she says to the rabbis of the

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Talmud and later generations.
Shatnes.

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00:24:40,560 –> 00:24:43,440
That’s the idea that you don’t
combine two kinds of cloth.

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00:24:43,960 –> 00:24:49,000
Shatnes was the paradigm of a
hoax, which is a law without any

482
00:24:49,000 –> 00:24:52,280
logical explanation.
And that’s.

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00:24:52,280 –> 00:24:55,000
Where we get right you, you get
to this and you just think,

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00:24:55,720 –> 00:24:58,200
well, I have no idea.
I guess I’m just supposed to

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00:24:58,200 –> 00:25:02,320
wear fringes and that’s the end.
Here’s another one.

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Sleeping with your brother’s
wife.

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00:25:03,400 –> 00:25:04,720
I know that probably sounds kind
of bad.

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00:25:05,400 –> 00:25:09,960
That sounds really bad actually.
But, but let me just let me, let

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00:25:09,960 –> 00:25:12,080
me show you what I mean here.
And again, this is one that the

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00:25:12,080 –> 00:25:15,760
rabbi’s debate over Leviticus
1816 says do not have sexual

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00:25:15,760 –> 00:25:17,600
relations with your brother’s
wife that would dishonor your

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00:25:17,600 –> 00:25:19,000
brother.
That’s very straightforward,

493
00:25:19,000 –> 00:25:20,840
right?
However, it becomes less

494
00:25:20,840 –> 00:25:23,240
straightforward when you read
Deuteronomy 25.

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00:25:23,240 –> 00:25:24,920
Five.
If brothers are living together

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00:25:24,920 –> 00:25:27,560
and one of them dies without a
son, his widow must not marry

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00:25:27,560 –> 00:25:29,800
outside the family.
Her husband’s brother shall take

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00:25:29,800 –> 00:25:32,440
her and marry her and fulfill
the duty of a brother-in-law to

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her.
So you have again, two laws that

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00:25:36,360 –> 00:25:38,080
contradict one another.
Now, you might be looking at

501
00:25:38,080 –> 00:25:39,600
that and saying they don’t
contradict, right?

502
00:25:39,600 –> 00:25:41,680
This is a different situation.
You know what kind of thinking

503
00:25:41,680 –> 00:25:43,920
that is?
That’s thinking of exceptions,

504
00:25:44,080 –> 00:25:46,800
right?
This you got to think about the

505
00:25:46,800 –> 00:25:50,360
laws, right?
Laws are straightforward and so

506
00:25:50,360 –> 00:25:52,400
you take them at face value,
right?

507
00:25:52,520 –> 00:25:57,600
That’s how that’s how it goes.
So these two contradict one

508
00:25:57,600 –> 00:25:58,720
another.
And this is what the rabbi’s

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00:25:58,720 –> 00:26:01,480
noticed.
This is Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman.

510
00:26:01,480 –> 00:26:04,280
This this guy’s got my favorite
name, but he’s the Rambon.

511
00:26:05,160 –> 00:26:08,160
Or sometimes you’ll hear him
called Nachmanides.

512
00:26:08,480 –> 00:26:10,000
But Rambon, I I like that one
better.

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00:26:10,000 –> 00:26:12,000
He.
I think he was Rashi’s grandson.

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00:26:12,240 –> 00:26:13,000
I’m not.
Do you know?

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00:26:13,880 –> 00:26:15,840
You don’t know?
OK, I’m not sure either, but I I

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00:26:15,840 –> 00:26:18,880
think he might have been anyway.
This is, this is what he writes.

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00:26:18,960 –> 00:26:21,720
So consider this.
There was no need anymore to

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00:26:21,720 –> 00:26:25,520
mention it as an exception, just
as Scripture has not specified

519
00:26:25,520 –> 00:26:28,240
the exception to the rule about
the Sabbath when stating

520
00:26:28,240 –> 00:26:30,720
everyone that profaneth it shall
be put to death except for the

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00:26:30,720 –> 00:26:33,400
service of the offerings, or in
the case of Thou shalt not

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00:26:33,400 –> 00:26:34,920
uncover the nakedness of thy
brother’s wife.

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00:26:35,080 –> 00:26:37,000
Except for a brother’s childless
wife, he says.

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00:26:37,000 –> 00:26:39,160
It’s so obvious that you don’t
need to say that it’s an

525
00:26:39,160 –> 00:26:43,480
exception, because otherwise, I
mean, how does it work

526
00:26:43,720 –> 00:26:45,120
otherwise?
But the point is, is that it

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00:26:45,120 –> 00:26:47,800
doesn’t work.
That was the whole idea.

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00:26:50,560 –> 00:26:53,280
This is again from Chis Cuny.
It says the Taurus strictly

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00:26:53,280 –> 00:26:56,120
forbade marrying the wife of a
brother, but made an exception.

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00:26:56,120 –> 00:26:58,920
Again, exception if said brother
had died without children and

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00:26:58,920 –> 00:27:01,000
encouraged a surviving brother
to marry the widow who had been

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00:27:01,000 –> 00:27:03,120
his brother’s wife in order to
provide him with issue.

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00:27:03,920 –> 00:27:06,320
So you get 2 original commands.
Don’t sleep with your relatives.

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00:27:06,480 –> 00:27:08,440
Marry your brother’s wife if he
dies and have children with her

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00:27:08,560 –> 00:27:11,240
which become do not sleep with
your relatives except your

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00:27:11,240 –> 00:27:13,400
sister-in-law when your brother
has died and they have no

537
00:27:13,400 –> 00:27:16,040
children.
So what do you learn from that,

538
00:27:16,280 –> 00:27:17,720
right?
Like, it gets really weird.

539
00:27:17,920 –> 00:27:20,120
Don’t sleep with your sleep with
your sister-in-law unless God

540
00:27:20,120 –> 00:27:21,560
says to.
Like, is that what you’re

541
00:27:21,560 –> 00:27:23,920
supposed to learn?
Like that’s really strange.

542
00:27:25,200 –> 00:27:27,480
That’s not a good lesson, you
know, to take from things.

543
00:27:27,600 –> 00:27:29,880
But that’s where law thinking
goes.

544
00:27:32,880 –> 00:27:34,640
This kind of thing happens all
over the place, right?

545
00:27:34,640 –> 00:27:36,120
I gave you just a handful of
examples.

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00:27:36,240 –> 00:27:37,760
But what about circumcision on
the eighth day?

547
00:27:37,960 –> 00:27:39,040
Right?
The Lord Jesus brings that up.

548
00:27:40,040 –> 00:27:42,480
What are you supposed to do?
How about rescuing an animal on

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00:27:42,480 –> 00:27:44,120
the Sabbath?
How about saving a life on the

550
00:27:44,120 –> 00:27:46,320
Sabbath?
These are all major Talmudic

551
00:27:46,320 –> 00:27:49,160
debates, right?
In fact, in the 1st century, the

552
00:27:49,160 –> 00:27:52,840
essence, the Pharisees and Jesus
all had a different stance on

553
00:27:52,840 –> 00:27:55,960
this, about how you could save
life on a Sabbath.

554
00:27:56,600 –> 00:27:59,400
Like there were all these
various gradations of what was

555
00:27:59,400 –> 00:28:03,320
allowed and what wasn’t.
So you can harmonize 2

556
00:28:03,320 –> 00:28:06,320
contradicting laws by talking
about exceptions, right?

557
00:28:06,520 –> 00:28:09,440
But when you start to try and
harmonize the entire Torah by

558
00:28:09,440 –> 00:28:12,440
creating exceptions, that’s
where you end up with 42 volumes

559
00:28:12,440 –> 00:28:17,760
of Talmud.
The problem though, I think, is

560
00:28:17,760 –> 00:28:22,320
that God wants us to realize
that we can’t actually harmonize

561
00:28:22,320 –> 00:28:26,000
things with exceptions. 42
volumes is not harmonizing.

562
00:28:27,120 –> 00:28:33,880
That’s just creating more laws.
So what he did is I think he

563
00:28:33,880 –> 00:28:37,560
created situations where you
couldn’t have exceptions.

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00:28:38,680 –> 00:28:42,560
Take a look at this.
This is our people as

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00:28:42,560 –> 00:28:45,040
exceptions.
Look at Deuteronomy 23 verse

566
00:28:45,040 –> 00:28:47,000
one.
No one who has been emasculated

567
00:28:47,000 –> 00:28:49,160
by crushing or cutting may enter
the assembly of the Lord.

568
00:28:49,480 –> 00:28:52,160
Now that clearly excludes some
people.

569
00:28:53,120 –> 00:28:55,040
It’s got to exclude Daniel and
his three friends, right?

570
00:28:55,040 –> 00:28:56,440
They were made eunuchs in
Babylon.

571
00:28:57,840 –> 00:28:59,720
Now you could.
Say, Oh well, they were

572
00:28:59,720 –> 00:29:01,960
exceptions.
You know what the problem with

573
00:29:01,960 –> 00:29:06,080
that is?
Guess how many people were

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00:29:06,080 –> 00:29:07,760
eunuchs that were part of the
congregation of the Lord?

575
00:29:08,920 –> 00:29:10,400
There are four people in all the
scripture.

576
00:29:12,080 –> 00:29:15,080
Now, you can’t say that the only
four people that this applies to

577
00:29:15,080 –> 00:29:16,720
in the Bible are the four
exceptions.

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00:29:17,520 –> 00:29:21,120
That doesn’t work, right?
That that’s that like doesn’t

579
00:29:21,120 –> 00:29:22,840
work with the definition of an
exception.

580
00:29:23,000 –> 00:29:24,280
An exception cannot be the
whole.

581
00:29:25,600 –> 00:29:30,600
So God creates scenarios in
which you either have to go the

582
00:29:30,600 –> 00:29:33,160
exception route or you have to
say this doesn’t work.

583
00:29:34,880 –> 00:29:36,680
And when you go the exception
route, guess what?

584
00:29:37,040 –> 00:29:40,640
That doesn’t work either.
So this is what I think he’s

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00:29:40,640 –> 00:29:42,640
doing.
You see this very strongly in

586
00:29:42,640 –> 00:29:46,840
Deuteronomy 23 verse two.
If you go on, no one born of a

587
00:29:46,840 –> 00:29:49,280
forbidden marriage, nor any of
their descendants may enter the

588
00:29:49,280 –> 00:29:51,240
assembly of the Lord, not even
in the 10th generation.

589
00:29:51,560 –> 00:29:54,080
New King James says one of
illegitimate birth.

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00:29:55,000 –> 00:29:57,720
There’s a little bit of a
discussion here on what exactly

591
00:29:57,720 –> 00:29:59,120
this word means.
It’s mom’s heir.

592
00:29:59,200 –> 00:30:01,520
It’s only used twice.
And when the words not used very

593
00:30:01,520 –> 00:30:03,400
often in the Bible, it makes it
kind of hard to figure it out.

594
00:30:04,520 –> 00:30:06,640
So again, the rabbis of the
Talmud kind of debated on this.

595
00:30:07,280 –> 00:30:11,840
What they often came to was this
word mamser meant anybody who

596
00:30:11,840 –> 00:30:15,960
was born out of a relation that
would have resulted in karat,

597
00:30:16,080 –> 00:30:19,480
which was cutting off, right?
So do you notice that like under

598
00:30:19,480 –> 00:30:22,760
the law where it says he who
does this will be cut off from

599
00:30:22,760 –> 00:30:24,640
the congregation of his people,
right?

600
00:30:24,640 –> 00:30:27,760
So anything like adultery,
anything like fornication, any

601
00:30:27,760 –> 00:30:30,600
of those things, those would all
be considered something

602
00:30:30,600 –> 00:30:33,600
punishable by karat and a mamser
or a person that would be.

603
00:30:33,600 –> 00:30:36,960
Excluded because of illegitimate
birth would be.

604
00:30:38,600 –> 00:30:40,760
One of those people that comes
from one of those unions.

605
00:30:41,360 –> 00:30:44,440
OK, so let me ask you this.
Who would that apply to

606
00:30:44,600 –> 00:30:45,880
scripturally?
Any thoughts?

607
00:30:46,960 –> 00:30:48,240
Jeptha.
Yes.

608
00:30:49,360 –> 00:30:51,480
So this commandment would
exclude Jeptha from the

609
00:30:51,480 –> 00:30:54,120
congregation.
Anyone else?

610
00:31:00,170 –> 00:31:02,410
So that’s an interesting one.
A lot of people would have

611
00:31:02,410 –> 00:31:04,010
thought it should exclude Jesus,
right?

612
00:31:07,890 –> 00:31:10,170
It also would have perhaps
excluded Solomon.

613
00:31:11,800 –> 00:31:13,800
Now, I want to suggest to you, I
think there’s somebody else that

614
00:31:13,800 –> 00:31:16,360
would have excluded, and this
person’s a kind of a big deal.

615
00:31:18,320 –> 00:31:22,080
Take a look again at Psalm 51.
Psalm 51.

616
00:31:22,480 –> 00:31:25,400
We often read this verse as
though this verse is

617
00:31:25,400 –> 00:31:31,240
specifically about human nature,
and maybe it is.

618
00:31:31,880 –> 00:31:34,760
You know, you can, you can take
it that way, that it’s saying

619
00:31:35,000 –> 00:31:37,480
that, you know, our flesh is
sinful.

620
00:31:38,440 –> 00:31:40,200
That’s all right if you want to
go in that route.

621
00:31:41,440 –> 00:31:45,080
However, I would suggest that
contextually that doesn’t make

622
00:31:45,080 –> 00:31:47,360
sense.
Here’s why.

623
00:31:48,720 –> 00:31:51,560
Psalm 51, verse five and the NIV
reads surely I was sinful at

624
00:31:51,560 –> 00:31:53,800
birth, sinful from the time my
mother conceived me.

625
00:31:54,080 –> 00:31:56,600
In the ESV, which is a little
closer to what the Hebrew reads,

626
00:31:56,760 –> 00:32:00,120
it says, behold, I was brought
forth in iniquity and in sin.

627
00:32:00,120 –> 00:32:03,480
Did my mother conceive me?
Now the question becomes, David

628
00:32:03,480 –> 00:32:05,600
is writing about his adultery
with Bathsheba.

629
00:32:06,760 –> 00:32:09,560
Why would he bring up his birth
story?

630
00:32:10,520 –> 00:32:14,440
Now he might be just saying,
look, I I’m a sinful person

631
00:32:14,440 –> 00:32:18,160
because everybody’s sinful.
That could fit contextually.

632
00:32:18,240 –> 00:32:20,160
I’m a sinful person because
everybody’s sinful.

633
00:32:20,640 –> 00:32:24,920
But to me, contextually, what
makes more sense is David saying

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00:32:26,960 –> 00:32:31,880
this is a sin, adultery.
This is a sin that has followed

635
00:32:31,880 –> 00:32:36,040
me my entire life, right?
I was born out of that kind of

636
00:32:36,040 –> 00:32:40,200
relationship and now I’ve
experienced that myself.

637
00:32:41,840 –> 00:32:43,720
I would suggest that to you now,
in case you’re thinking, you

638
00:32:43,720 –> 00:32:45,800
know, I’m I’m going crazy here
and making all this up.

639
00:32:45,800 –> 00:32:50,280
This is not this is not my idea.
This you you can find this in a

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00:32:50,280 –> 00:32:54,320
number of various writings.
This also, though, I think you

641
00:32:54,320 –> 00:32:56,800
can support it biblically.
I think this explains for Samuel

642
00:32:56,800 –> 00:32:59,400
16.
I think we get pretty used to

643
00:32:59,400 –> 00:33:02,520
first Samuel 16 and we just, you
know, we read it of Oh yeah,

644
00:33:02,520 –> 00:33:04,360
David was left with the sheep,
right.

645
00:33:04,760 –> 00:33:06,360
But Can you imagine?
Just try and play this out.

646
00:33:07,000 –> 00:33:09,440
Here is one of the most
important people in the country.

647
00:33:10,120 –> 00:33:14,600
Coming to your house and says I
want to have dinner with your

648
00:33:14,600 –> 00:33:18,840
family, right?
So you say, oh, good, OK, get

649
00:33:18,840 –> 00:33:21,760
everybody together, we’re going
to have dinner except for the

650
00:33:21,760 –> 00:33:23,720
youngest kid.
They can’t come.

651
00:33:23,720 –> 00:33:25,400
They’re not going to have dinner
with with the family.

652
00:33:25,600 –> 00:33:27,560
It’s really weird.
And then it gets even weirder,

653
00:33:27,640 –> 00:33:30,360
right?
Because Samuel says to Jesse.

654
00:33:30,440 –> 00:33:32,840
I’m going to anoint your kids.
Jesse’s probably thinking, you

655
00:33:32,840 –> 00:33:34,920
know, anointing to be a prophet,
something like that, right?

656
00:33:34,920 –> 00:33:36,840
It’s not kidding because
otherwise they would have gotten

657
00:33:36,840 –> 00:33:38,480
in trouble with Saul.
But.

658
00:33:39,520 –> 00:33:42,080
Samuel says, OK, do you do you
have any more children?

659
00:33:42,080 –> 00:33:44,840
And what does Jesse say?
Jesse’s like, huh.

660
00:33:46,920 –> 00:33:51,040
I do, right.
Like, yeah, I have one that’s

661
00:33:51,080 –> 00:33:53,440
out there with the sheep.
Like, that’s weird.

662
00:33:53,880 –> 00:33:55,400
Like, have you have you ever
thought about that?

663
00:33:55,640 –> 00:33:59,520
Like, but the reason that he
just completely ignores David is

664
00:33:59,520 –> 00:34:02,160
likely because he didn’t think
David was qualified.

665
00:34:02,720 –> 00:34:04,320
Like, why?
Why bring David here?

666
00:34:04,400 –> 00:34:06,480
Because it’s he’s obviously not
going to be the one who gets

667
00:34:06,480 –> 00:34:08,440
anointed.
This explains why David is hated

668
00:34:08,440 –> 00:34:11,920
by his brothers, right?
There’s there’s a whole side to

669
00:34:11,920 –> 00:34:14,760
a lot of these things.
In addition to that, you might

670
00:34:14,760 –> 00:34:19,080
notice that the term son of
Jesse is used as a pejorative

671
00:34:19,800 –> 00:34:23,040
throughout the record.
First Samuel 20 verse 30.

672
00:34:23,040 –> 00:34:25,600
Notice the connection here.
Saul’s anger flared up at

673
00:34:25,600 –> 00:34:28,400
Jonathan and he said to him, you
son of a perverse and rebellious

674
00:34:28,400 –> 00:34:29,840
woman.
Have you ever wondered why Saul

675
00:34:29,840 –> 00:34:31,960
says that?
That’s like a terrible insult.

676
00:34:32,440 –> 00:34:35,719
Like it doesn’t even make sense.
Like you wouldn’t insult

677
00:34:35,719 –> 00:34:39,639
Jonathan, right?
You don’t insult his mom or your

678
00:34:39,639 –> 00:34:43,080
wife.
He he says your mom was fooling

679
00:34:43,080 –> 00:34:45,159
around.
You’re not really my son, right?

680
00:34:45,840 –> 00:34:48,280
Why does he say that?
Because look what he’s about to

681
00:34:48,280 –> 00:34:50,800
say.
Do I know, don’t I know that you

682
00:34:50,800 –> 00:34:52,880
have sided with the son of
Jesse, right?

683
00:34:52,880 –> 00:34:56,480
You’re just like him, he says.
The son of Jesse, to your own

684
00:34:56,480 –> 00:34:59,320
shame and the shame of the
mother who mother who bore you

685
00:35:00,000 –> 00:35:02,280
first name in 2510?
Nabal answered.

686
00:35:02,280 –> 00:35:04,040
David’s servants.
Who is this David?

687
00:35:04,040 –> 00:35:07,360
Who is this son of Jesse, right?
The son of Jesse is used as

688
00:35:07,440 –> 00:35:11,840
essentially a bad word.
Now contrast that then in first

689
00:35:11,840 –> 00:35:15,440
Samuel 24 verse 16, when David
cuts off a piece of Saul’s

690
00:35:15,440 –> 00:35:21,840
garment, you will notice that
David holds up the garment.

691
00:35:21,840 –> 00:35:24,320
Saul comes out of The Cave and
he says, Is that your voice,

692
00:35:24,320 –> 00:35:27,080
David?
My son.

693
00:35:28,880 –> 00:35:32,960
So depending on how he’s feeling
about David, it changes what he

694
00:35:32,960 –> 00:35:38,280
calls him.
That term, Son of Jesse, seems

695
00:35:38,280 –> 00:35:41,560
to be used as a way to minimize
David.

696
00:35:42,440 –> 00:35:44,960
So anyway you can you can do.
What you want with that, that’s

697
00:35:44,960 –> 00:35:46,760
that’s something that I think, I
think it makes the record make

698
00:35:46,760 –> 00:35:49,720
more sense.
There’s there’s numerous like

699
00:35:49,720 –> 00:35:52,040
legends and whatnot that have
developed traditionally about

700
00:35:52,040 –> 00:35:54,200
this.
But you know, you never know.

701
00:35:54,560 –> 00:35:57,160
Legends are not Bible, right?
So that’s why I’m not sharing

702
00:35:57,160 –> 00:36:00,520
any of those.
In addition to that, I think you

703
00:36:00,520 –> 00:36:03,240
can also compare Jeptha.
Take a look at how Jeptha’s

704
00:36:03,240 –> 00:36:06,200
story mirrors David.
Jephthah, the Gileadite, was a

705
00:36:06,200 –> 00:36:07,880
mighty warrior.
His father was Gilead, his

706
00:36:07,880 –> 00:36:10,760
mother was a prostitute.
Gilead’s wife also bore him sons

707
00:36:10,760 –> 00:36:13,200
and when they were grown up,
they drove Jephthah away.

708
00:36:13,240 –> 00:36:14,280
Doesn’t that remind you of
David?

709
00:36:15,240 –> 00:36:17,440
You are not going to get any
inheritance in our family, they

710
00:36:17,440 –> 00:36:19,240
said, because you are the son of
another woman.

711
00:36:20,440 –> 00:36:22,280
So this is the kind of
relationship you see with David

712
00:36:22,520 –> 00:36:24,760
and his brothers too.
OK.

713
00:36:24,800 –> 00:36:28,960
So regardless, maybe David is
included in this, but you?

714
00:36:28,960 –> 00:36:34,080
Have to ask, so these are the
handful of people again, who are

715
00:36:34,080 –> 00:36:37,400
born out of wedlock in
Scripture, and are they just

716
00:36:37,400 –> 00:36:39,480
exceptions?
No, they can’t be because

717
00:36:39,480 –> 00:36:42,520
they’re the only ones.
It’s the same thing.

718
00:36:44,760 –> 00:36:47,880
Here’s one last one for you.
No Ammonite or Moabite or any of

719
00:36:47,880 –> 00:36:49,840
their descendants may enter the
assembly of the Lord, not even

720
00:36:49,840 –> 00:36:52,280
in the 10th generation.
Now, if you read that in Hebrew,

721
00:36:52,480 –> 00:36:54,720
you get even in the 10th
generation.

722
00:36:54,720 –> 00:36:57,800
And then this part here that’s
underlined, which translates

723
00:36:57,800 –> 00:36:59,360
like this.
They cannot come into the

724
00:36:59,360 –> 00:37:01,280
congregation of Yahweh through
eternity.

725
00:37:02,640 –> 00:37:06,640
So this verse, sometimes we read
it, particularly in the KJV, we

726
00:37:06,640 –> 00:37:09,040
read it as though it’s saying
they have 10 generations and

727
00:37:09,040 –> 00:37:10,960
then they can come in.
That’s not what the Hebrew says.

728
00:37:11,400 –> 00:37:14,560
This is saying even in the 10th
generation, like as though, you

729
00:37:14,560 –> 00:37:17,720
know, that’s a really long time.
They can’t come in forever.

730
00:37:18,240 –> 00:37:20,240
They will never enter the
congregation is what it’s

731
00:37:20,240 –> 00:37:24,640
saying.
Now that’s interesting because

732
00:37:25,560 –> 00:37:29,320
that excludes Ruth, David,
Solomon, every single king of

733
00:37:29,320 –> 00:37:32,720
Judah, because they’re all
descendants of David and Jesus,

734
00:37:33,800 –> 00:37:36,760
right?
Like, can you see a broken law

735
00:37:37,120 –> 00:37:39,960
here?
And yet that’s that’s the point,

736
00:37:40,120 –> 00:37:42,280
right?
Ruth, Ruth comes in and people

737
00:37:42,280 –> 00:37:45,680
were supposed to be like, what?
You know what is going on?

738
00:37:45,760 –> 00:37:47,920
Why is a Moabite here?
And This is why.

739
00:37:47,920 –> 00:37:51,520
If you read through Ruth, it’s
constantly calling her Ruth the

740
00:37:52,200 –> 00:37:54,560
Moabite, right?
People are using it again like a

741
00:37:54,560 –> 00:37:56,680
bad word.
They’re like root the Moabites

742
00:37:56,680 –> 00:37:58,560
over there.
Oh, it’s the Moabite woman from

743
00:37:58,560 –> 00:38:00,120
Moab.
I mean, this is what they call

744
00:38:00,120 –> 00:38:02,040
her, right?
Like you don’t need to know that

745
00:38:02,040 –> 00:38:03,440
she’s the Moabite woman from
Moab.

746
00:38:04,560 –> 00:38:07,200
Like, come on.
That’s pretty obvious.

747
00:38:07,200 –> 00:38:08,680
I’m the Californian from
California.

748
00:38:09,160 –> 00:38:11,440
Like it’s, it doesn’t make any
sense.

749
00:38:11,600 –> 00:38:14,920
But they’re doing that because
they know the commandment and

750
00:38:14,920 –> 00:38:17,360
they’re trying to say she
shouldn’t be here.

751
00:38:17,400 –> 00:38:23,080
And God says, yes, she should.
And that’s what we’re being

752
00:38:23,080 –> 00:38:30,120
shown with all these exceptions.
God is creating a law, and he’s

753
00:38:30,120 –> 00:38:35,360
breaking the law to show that
law doesn’t work.

754
00:38:37,960 –> 00:38:40,920
It’s a lot of exceptions.
And the point is, is that it’s

755
00:38:40,920 –> 00:38:44,040
not actually exceptions.
They’re not exceptions.

756
00:38:44,040 –> 00:38:45,880
Instead, what God was teaching
was principles.

757
00:38:47,280 –> 00:38:50,320
So we know that right when we
come to the New Testament.

758
00:38:50,480 –> 00:38:52,600
You have the Lord Jesus.
And he explains these things.

759
00:38:53,520 –> 00:38:55,600
Right, He says in Matthew 12
verses 3:00 to 8:00, he

760
00:38:55,600 –> 00:38:57,840
answered, Haven’t you read what
David did when he and his

761
00:38:57,840 –> 00:39:00,040
companions were hungry?
He entered the House of God.

762
00:39:00,240 –> 00:39:03,040
He and his companions ate the
consecrated bread, which was not

763
00:39:03,040 –> 00:39:06,840
lawful for them to do, but only
for the priests or here it is,

764
00:39:07,120 –> 00:39:08,480
right?
He brings out the contradiction.

765
00:39:08,760 –> 00:39:12,360
Haven’t you read in the law that
the priests on the Sabbath day,

766
00:39:12,720 –> 00:39:14,600
they do their duty in the
temple, they desecrate the

767
00:39:14,600 –> 00:39:17,560
Sabbath and yet are innocent.
I tell you that something

768
00:39:17,560 –> 00:39:20,120
greater than the temple is here.
So now he’s going to explain.

769
00:39:20,160 –> 00:39:23,000
Here’s the whole point.
If you had known what these

770
00:39:23,000 –> 00:39:26,160
words mean, I desire mercy, not
sacrifice, you would not have

771
00:39:26,160 –> 00:39:28,440
condemned the innocent, for the
Son of Man is Lord of the

772
00:39:28,440 –> 00:39:29,920
Sabbath.
Now here’s what’s fascinating

773
00:39:29,920 –> 00:39:31,840
about this.
The Lord Jesus says it was

774
00:39:31,840 –> 00:39:33,800
actually about the principle.
It was about the principle.

775
00:39:33,840 –> 00:39:35,760
I desire mercy and not
sacrifice.

776
00:39:36,200 –> 00:39:37,600
He says that was the whole
point.

777
00:39:37,840 –> 00:39:41,600
Now what’s astonishing about
that though, is think about the

778
00:39:41,600 –> 00:39:46,520
commandment he’s referring to.
He’s looking at a commandment

779
00:39:46,680 –> 00:39:50,640
that says morning and evening
every Sabbath.

780
00:39:50,640 –> 00:39:54,200
What will you do offer
sacrifices and what does the

781
00:39:54,200 –> 00:39:56,920
Lord Jesus say?
The principle is I want mercy

782
00:39:56,920 –> 00:39:59,920
and not sacrifice.
What?

783
00:40:00,760 –> 00:40:03,560
How do you get I want mercy and
not sacrifice from a law that

784
00:40:03,560 –> 00:40:07,600
says make sacrifices?
How does that make any sense?

785
00:40:08,880 –> 00:40:14,200
The way you get it is by
realizing that the law that says

786
00:40:14,200 –> 00:40:20,520
I want sacrifices is broken, and
you realize that it’s not about.

787
00:40:21,960 –> 00:40:27,000
Those words, but it’s about
saying there’s got to be

788
00:40:27,000 –> 00:40:29,440
something beyond the sacrifices,
right?

789
00:40:29,440 –> 00:40:32,600
That’s what you were to be
brought to, to say this doesn’t

790
00:40:32,600 –> 00:40:34,800
work.
I can’t be forgiven for my sins.

791
00:40:34,920 –> 00:40:37,360
I don’t accidentally sin.
Right.

792
00:40:37,360 –> 00:40:38,040
What do I?
What do I?

793
00:40:38,040 –> 00:40:43,160
Do and to then realize the
principle is I desire mercy and

794
00:40:43,160 –> 00:40:46,040
not sacrifice.
You see the same thing here in

795
00:40:46,040 –> 00:40:48,800
Luke 14 verses one to six.
One Sabbath, when Jesus went to

796
00:40:48,800 –> 00:40:51,240
eat in the House of a prominent
Pharisee, He was being carefully

797
00:40:51,240 –> 00:40:53,040
watched.
There in front of him was a man

798
00:40:53,040 –> 00:40:55,240
suffering from abnormal swelling
of his body.

799
00:40:55,680 –> 00:40:58,320
Jesus asked the Pharisees and
experts in the law, is it lawful

800
00:40:58,320 –> 00:41:01,360
to heal on the Sabbath or not?
But they remain silent.

801
00:41:02,160 –> 00:41:04,560
So taking hold of the man, he
healed him and sent him on His

802
00:41:04,560 –> 00:41:07,200
way.
Then he asked them, If one of

803
00:41:07,200 –> 00:41:09,800
you has a child or an ox that
falls into a well on the Sabbath

804
00:41:09,800 –> 00:41:11,720
day, will you not immediately
pull it out?

805
00:41:11,840 –> 00:41:14,120
And they had nothing to say.
So what do you what do you

806
00:41:14,120 –> 00:41:16,040
think?
What do you think?

807
00:41:16,240 –> 00:41:20,920
Is the principle from this it
looks like he’s saying the point

808
00:41:20,920 –> 00:41:23,720
of the Sabbath was to preserve
life.

809
00:41:24,240 –> 00:41:30,120
Now again, how do you get that
from a command that says rest?

810
00:41:32,840 –> 00:41:36,440
How do you get God loves life
from rest?

811
00:41:37,560 –> 00:41:41,800
And this again is because the
principles are so much bigger

812
00:41:41,800 –> 00:41:45,040
than the individual commands.
From what you were supposed to

813
00:41:45,040 –> 00:41:48,280
do was you were supposed to
learn the principles by looking

814
00:41:48,280 –> 00:41:50,880
at the ways that the commands
interacted and how they didn’t

815
00:41:50,880 –> 00:41:52,960
work.
This is why we see the law

816
00:41:52,960 –> 00:41:55,000
imploding on itself.
With the Lord Jesus.

817
00:41:55,200 –> 00:41:58,680
Right, in Galatians chapter 3,
the apostle Paul says that the

818
00:41:58,680 –> 00:42:01,600
law of Moses was no longer in
effect.

819
00:42:01,640 –> 00:42:04,720
It couldn’t possibly be.
The Law of Moses implodes

820
00:42:04,840 –> 00:42:11,200
because it curses the one who
followed it perfectly, right?

821
00:42:11,240 –> 00:42:16,400
It broke itself, and that’s what
everyone was supposed to

822
00:42:16,400 –> 00:42:17,920
realize.
They were supposed to see that

823
00:42:17,920 –> 00:42:20,680
century after century after
century as they tried to follow

824
00:42:20,680 –> 00:42:24,240
this law and it didn’t work.
And so finally God puts his son

825
00:42:24,240 –> 00:42:27,880
on a cross to show the law can’t
work.

826
00:42:28,200 –> 00:42:31,280
It breaks.
You follow it perfectly.

827
00:42:31,280 –> 00:42:32,800
And what does it do?
It curses you.

828
00:42:37,320 –> 00:42:41,920
So we’ve now spent 45 minutes
talking about the law and you

829
00:42:41,920 –> 00:42:45,160
may be wondering what does this
have anything to do with peace?

830
00:42:46,920 –> 00:42:51,880
Well, the law is notoriously
unpeaceful, right?

831
00:42:51,880 –> 00:42:55,000
This, you know, the, the, the
consequence of somebody does

832
00:42:55,000 –> 00:42:57,400
this and you kill them.
That’s not peaceful.

833
00:42:58,920 –> 00:43:02,960
And I think a lot of times maybe
you’re not this way, but for me

834
00:43:03,720 –> 00:43:07,880
I used this totally as a
justification for being a non

835
00:43:07,880 –> 00:43:09,400
peaceful person.
Right.

836
00:43:09,400 –> 00:43:11,520
I would say, look, God says that
deserves death.

837
00:43:11,640 –> 00:43:14,840
I’m not killing them, right?
So, you know, I’m, I’m being

838
00:43:14,840 –> 00:43:17,600
nice.
I’ll just yell a lot.

839
00:43:18,160 –> 00:43:21,120
Right, like, and this is this is
how we go about it.

840
00:43:21,120 –> 00:43:24,560
We say, see, this shows us that
brings death, that shows us God

841
00:43:24,560 –> 00:43:26,240
hates this.
So we’re I’m going to go hate on

842
00:43:26,240 –> 00:43:29,680
that person who’s doing it and
we use it as a justification.

843
00:43:30,320 –> 00:43:32,760
Now I want to suggest to you
that again, that’s a complete

844
00:43:32,760 –> 00:43:36,440
misunderstanding, because when
we see this bigger picture.

845
00:43:38,600 –> 00:43:43,320
We realized that we shouldn’t be
looking at the commandment, we

846
00:43:43,320 –> 00:43:44,680
should be looking at the
principle.

847
00:43:45,280 –> 00:43:46,680
And so the.
Question is, what’s the

848
00:43:46,680 –> 00:43:50,240
underlying principle?
And a lot of times the principle

849
00:43:50,240 –> 00:43:55,200
is that this law didn’t work and
instead God calls for the

850
00:43:55,200 –> 00:44:00,480
opposite.
Oh, let me show you Exodus. 21

851
00:44:00,720 –> 00:44:02,160
verse 23 to 25.
Here it is.

852
00:44:02,560 –> 00:44:04,800
If they’re serious injury, this
is where it says two men are

853
00:44:04,800 –> 00:44:05,960
wrestling with one another,
right?

854
00:44:06,080 –> 00:44:07,520
And they bump into a woman who’s
pregnant.

855
00:44:07,680 –> 00:44:10,320
If they’re serious injury, you
were to take life for life, eye

856
00:44:10,320 –> 00:44:13,040
for eye, tooth for tooth, hand
for hand, foot for foot, burn

857
00:44:13,040 –> 00:44:15,360
for burn, wound for wound,
bruise for bruise.

858
00:44:16,680 –> 00:44:18,760
Same thing.
Leviticus 2117 to 21.

859
00:44:18,800 –> 00:44:21,000
Anyone who takes the life of a
human being is to be put to

860
00:44:21,000 –> 00:44:22,560
death.
Anyone who takes the life of

861
00:44:22,560 –> 00:44:24,160
someone’s animal must make
restitution.

862
00:44:24,160 –> 00:44:26,160
Life for life.
Anyone who injuries their

863
00:44:26,160 –> 00:44:28,160
neighbors to be injured in the
same manner, fracture for

864
00:44:28,160 –> 00:44:31,160
fracture, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, the one who has inflicted

865
00:44:31,160 –> 00:44:32,680
the injury must suffer the same
injury.

866
00:44:33,000 –> 00:44:34,920
Whoever kills an animal must
wreck restitution.

867
00:44:34,920 –> 00:44:37,040
But whoever kills a human being?
Is to be put to death.

868
00:44:38,280 –> 00:44:42,040
Now, in some cases we look at
that and we think, wow, that

869
00:44:42,040 –> 00:44:45,000
would be a very just society,
right?

870
00:44:45,000 –> 00:44:47,160
You if you kill somebody, you
get killed.

871
00:44:48,800 –> 00:44:51,520
If you injure someone’s hand,
then your hand is injured.

872
00:44:52,640 –> 00:44:57,280
I had somebody say to me before,
well, this would have been fair

873
00:44:57,280 –> 00:44:58,680
because it was done with the
priests.

874
00:44:59,800 –> 00:45:03,960
And, you know, we don’t really
know that, but sure, you know,

875
00:45:03,960 –> 00:45:06,320
I’ll give that to you.
OK, Let’s just imagine that this

876
00:45:06,320 –> 00:45:09,240
is being done with the priest.
So try and play it out, right?

877
00:45:09,240 –> 00:45:11,240
This is what we’re supposed to
do because people were living

878
00:45:11,240 –> 00:45:13,680
under this, right?
So they would have actually

879
00:45:13,680 –> 00:45:16,440
literally been playing it out.
So we should try and think about

880
00:45:16,440 –> 00:45:21,280
how this would work.
Imagine, OK, imagine somebody is

881
00:45:21,760 –> 00:45:24,960
angry at you, right?
So I don’t know what they do.

882
00:45:24,960 –> 00:45:26,680
They come and they they break
your arm or something.

883
00:45:26,680 –> 00:45:27,920
They hit you with a hammer or
whatever.

884
00:45:27,920 –> 00:45:30,480
Sorry, that’s graphic, but
whatever it is.

885
00:45:30,760 –> 00:45:33,920
So then like, what are you
supposed to do?

886
00:45:34,160 –> 00:45:36,200
You’re supposed to go find that
person and what?

887
00:45:36,200 –> 00:45:39,040
Bring them to the priest and
say, OK, priest watch.

888
00:45:39,720 –> 00:45:46,240
Well, I hammer their arm.
That’s not a good system I got.

889
00:45:46,400 –> 00:45:48,360
I’m sorry.
I’m not trying to be like rude

890
00:45:48,360 –> 00:45:50,400
or I hope that doesn’t sound
blasphemous.

891
00:45:50,560 –> 00:45:53,760
That’s just, it’s not a, that’s
not workable, right?

892
00:45:53,800 –> 00:45:57,280
So now you have two people with
broken arms, and then what’s

893
00:45:57,280 –> 00:45:58,320
that other person going to want
to?

894
00:45:58,320 –> 00:46:01,080
Do to you right they’re.
Going to be like, well, great,

895
00:46:01,160 –> 00:46:04,720
you just ruined my life because
now I only have one arm, right?

896
00:46:05,120 –> 00:46:08,320
So now I’ll show you and you get
this cycle.

897
00:46:08,480 –> 00:46:11,960
This is how human nature works.
I didn’t put these in and I can

898
00:46:11,960 –> 00:46:13,120
talk to you about them later if
you want.

899
00:46:13,760 –> 00:46:20,480
There have been numerous studies
done of how humanity reacts when

900
00:46:20,480 –> 00:46:25,440
attacked, right?
So the question is, when you’re

901
00:46:25,440 –> 00:46:29,440
attacked, what is your response?
So these studies, what they did

902
00:46:29,920 –> 00:46:33,960
is they said somebody’s going to
take something from you, right?

903
00:46:33,960 –> 00:46:35,240
They just, they played it out in
a game.

904
00:46:35,720 –> 00:46:37,360
So you’re going to have, you
know, this amount of money,

905
00:46:37,440 –> 00:46:39,040
somebody’s going to take half
your money.

906
00:46:39,480 –> 00:46:41,320
What do you do?
Here’s your two options.

907
00:46:41,520 –> 00:46:45,240
Do nothing, take vengeance.
What do you think happens,

908
00:46:46,080 –> 00:46:47,680
right.
Humanity takes vengeance.

909
00:46:47,800 –> 00:46:49,400
That’s how we that’s how we do
things.

910
00:46:49,560 –> 00:46:51,480
And so this is what an eye for
an eye does.

911
00:46:51,920 –> 00:46:54,680
And I would suggest to you, the
whole point was for people to

912
00:46:54,680 –> 00:46:59,280
realize, I don’t want to do
that, right?

913
00:46:59,280 –> 00:47:02,640
Do you really want to go and
break somebody’s arm because

914
00:47:02,640 –> 00:47:04,640
they broke yours?
Like maybe you do in the moment,

915
00:47:04,640 –> 00:47:10,720
but you don’t want to start that
cycle because I think what God

916
00:47:10,720 –> 00:47:13,360
was trying to teach them.
Think about this.

917
00:47:13,800 –> 00:47:16,000
You had the choice, right?
You had the choice.

918
00:47:16,200 –> 00:47:18,080
You could say, yeah, I’m going
to go break their arm because of

919
00:47:18,080 –> 00:47:20,960
what they did to me.
Or.

920
00:47:22,920 –> 00:47:30,120
You could go with the scriptural
principle of do not seek revenge

921
00:47:30,120 –> 00:47:33,280
or bear a grudge against anyone
among your people, but love your

922
00:47:33,280 –> 00:47:34,520
neighbor as yourself.
I am the Lord.

923
00:47:34,600 –> 00:47:37,040
I’d suggest you That’s the
contradiction, right?

924
00:47:37,040 –> 00:47:39,320
There’s a contradiction in law.
Can you imagine people sitting

925
00:47:39,320 –> 00:47:40,640
there under the law thinking,
eye for.

926
00:47:40,640 –> 00:47:42,400
Eye tooth for tooth.
And then they read that and

927
00:47:42,400 –> 00:47:45,320
they’re like, what?
What do I do?

928
00:47:46,360 –> 00:47:49,280
How’s that supposed to work?
Do not say I’ll pay you back for

929
00:47:49,280 –> 00:47:51,000
this wrong.
In other words, don’t say eye

930
00:47:51,000 –> 00:47:54,040
for an eye.
Wait for the Lord and he will

931
00:47:54,040 –> 00:47:58,320
avenge you, says Proverbs.
So what God is doing is he

932
00:47:58,320 –> 00:48:01,520
creates a society in which
people actually have the option

933
00:48:02,600 –> 00:48:04,640
to go and hurt the people that
hurt them.

934
00:48:05,160 –> 00:48:10,080
And what God wants is he wanted
the people to say I.

935
00:48:10,600 –> 00:48:19,160
Forgive you, that was the point.
And so that’s why when you get

936
00:48:19,160 –> 00:48:25,440
situations like Matthew chapter
one where Joseph has full right

937
00:48:25,440 –> 00:48:27,760
to stone Mary, Can you imagine
how he felt?

938
00:48:27,760 –> 00:48:33,360
I mean, he would have wanted to
and yet he says, I’m not going

939
00:48:33,360 –> 00:48:37,120
to do it.
I forgive you now.

940
00:48:37,120 –> 00:48:38,880
She didn’t need to be forgiven,
right?

941
00:48:38,960 –> 00:48:41,440
But from his perspective.
And that is why Matthew chapter

942
00:48:41,440 –> 00:48:45,440
one says Joseph being a just
man.

943
00:48:46,360 –> 00:48:50,520
Did not stone her.
That’s the point.

944
00:48:51,320 –> 00:48:52,920
The point was not the
commandments.

945
00:48:53,080 –> 00:48:55,520
The point was that God wanted
you to realize that the

946
00:48:55,520 –> 00:49:00,560
commandments created a non
functional society and that

947
00:49:00,560 –> 00:49:04,280
instead he wanted people to
embrace peace.

948
00:49:06,520 –> 00:49:09,280
This is what I mean when I say
the Law of Moses taught peace.

949
00:49:10,640 –> 00:49:15,000
The Law of Moses was supposed to
teach you that this is

950
00:49:15,000 –> 00:49:17,760
untenable, we can’t continue
this way.

951
00:49:19,680 –> 00:49:24,120
And so instead you had to say
there must be another way.

952
00:49:27,680 –> 00:49:29,360
That’s why the Lord Jesus says
this, right?

953
00:49:29,360 –> 00:49:31,040
The Lord Jesus.
Interprets an eye for an eye for

954
00:49:31,040 –> 00:49:32,920
us.
So here’s what he says.

955
00:49:33,000 –> 00:49:36,560
Matthew 53842 You have heard
that it was said eye for an eye

956
00:49:36,560 –> 00:49:39,120
and tooth for tooth.
But I tell you, do not resist an

957
00:49:39,120 –> 00:49:40,520
evil person.
Is that what you would have

958
00:49:40,520 –> 00:49:42,680
gotten from eye for an eye,
right?

959
00:49:43,080 –> 00:49:45,320
Eye for an eye, tooth for tooth.
Oh, I get it, right?

960
00:49:45,760 –> 00:49:47,720
That means that if somebody hits
me here, I say take this one

961
00:49:47,720 –> 00:49:49,800
too, right?
No way.

962
00:49:50,200 –> 00:49:55,840
Like that doesn’t even make any
sense unless Jesus said you

963
00:49:55,840 –> 00:49:57,880
should have gone through this
process, right?

964
00:49:57,880 –> 00:50:00,120
You should have realized it
doesn’t work, and you should

965
00:50:00,120 –> 00:50:02,400
have realized that the whole
time God was trying to teach

966
00:50:02,400 –> 00:50:04,040
you.
Don’t resist the evil person.

967
00:50:04,360 –> 00:50:06,440
If anybody slaps you on your
right cheek, turn to them the

968
00:50:06,440 –> 00:50:08,240
other cheek.
Also, if anyone wants to sue you

969
00:50:08,240 –> 00:50:10,160
and take your shirt, hand over
your coat as well.

970
00:50:10,280 –> 00:50:12,560
If anyone forces you to go one
mile, go with them two miles.

971
00:50:12,720 –> 00:50:15,040
Give to the one who asks you and
do not turn away from the one

972
00:50:15,040 –> 00:50:17,520
who wants to borrow from you.
The Lord Jesus takes his command

973
00:50:17,520 –> 00:50:19,520
and he says, didn’t you
understand that this meant

974
00:50:19,520 –> 00:50:21,320
exactly the opposite of what it
says?

975
00:50:23,360 –> 00:50:25,680
Because that’s what God was
teaching the whole time, right?

976
00:50:25,680 –> 00:50:28,800
Those are the principles that He
was teaching in the prophets to

977
00:50:28,800 –> 00:50:35,200
love mercy.
So when we bring it all

978
00:50:35,200 –> 00:50:40,600
together, what we see is that
the law of Moses, despite the

979
00:50:40,600 –> 00:50:46,840
violence that we read when it
was put into action, the people

980
00:50:46,840 –> 00:50:52,160
were supposed to realize that it
contradicts itself, that it

981
00:50:52,160 –> 00:50:53,600
breaks when it’s put into
action.

982
00:50:54,360 –> 00:50:56,320
And they were supposed to,
instead of saying, oh, those are

983
00:50:56,320 –> 00:50:59,000
just exceptions, we’ll just make
more rules to try and fix it.

984
00:51:00,440 –> 00:51:04,560
They were supposed to realize,
no, it just doesn’t work and

985
00:51:04,560 –> 00:51:07,440
God’s trying to show you a
better way.