Jewish Inspiration Podcast · Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe

You're listening to Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe of Torch in Houston, Texas. This is the Jewish Inspiration Podcast.

Welcome back my dear friends to day number 195 on page
1003 in the treasure for life edition of the Orchezedek and Ways of the Righteous
Negate a fear of heaven, but Olam Yeh Shilonos in this world there are trees
V'asavim, v'peiruz tovos v'roim. There are good and bad trees, herbs and fruits
There are some that are of good odor and
Fruits that are conducive to life and healing and there are herbs roots and fruits producing death
such as poisonous herbs
Right, but Olam Yeh Shilonos v'asavim v'peiruz tovos v'roim
Yeh shehem she yesh lehem reachh tov v'peiruz tovos v'tchiyah l'rafuah
V'yesh asavim v'shurashim v'peiruz l'hamis ki iz v'yisamei ha-moves v'kotz v'dardor
There are thorns and thistles that can really do damage to a person. Ha-tovim nidmul ha-tovim
Those who are good are considered like the good. V'ha-roim nidmul ha-roim and those who are bad are compared to the bad
V'kemosh ha-asa tachas l'aretz. Mi tachas l'aretz to homos v'tit v'refes and just like God created
beneath the earth depths and mud and fire
So did he fashion in man the stomach and the intestines to receive food and drink and just as there's there
Swarm from the mud and mire different kinds of creeping things
So from the mires of the dregs of food and drink in the intestines of man
Do such things swarm short and long great and small and just as he made a gathering place for the waters of the world
So did he make one for urine the urinary tract the bladder and
Just as he made the foundation of the earth beneath it
So he made the foundation of the entire bodily structure the bones and the pelvis on either side
The bones of the pelvis on either side and the two thighs and just as he embedded in the depth smooth stones
From which the waters come forth
So did he create two kidneys from whose ducts?
issue forth urine into the bladder and from which and from the area sperm goes into the testicles and
Just as the depths call to each other as it is written depth calls to depth
So does the stomach call to the intestines to receive the residue of the food and drink and the testicles to the kidney ducts?
which are as
aqueducts for the reception of the urine secretion and
Separated from the food in the intestines for the transference to the bladder and the kidney ducts call to the
orators
To receive those waters for transference to the bladder
Which is analogous to the nether depths the lowest of all the depths
Similarly the colon calls to the stomach to receive excrement and dung and just as God made
Rivers to water the world so he made waterways in man the arteries
Which circulate the blood throughout the body and just as the world is that as in the world?
There is all kinds of waters clear and muddied sweet salty and bitter
So in man his eyes exude salty water his nostrils cold his throat warm his mouth sweet
His ears bitter and his urinary tract bitter and putrid
so we see that we have all of the different functions that you have in the world is all inside a human being a
Human being is an entire world unto its own. It's really a phenomenal phenomenal thing here
We're going to continue here straight to day number 196
Ba'olam yesh ruchos korim v'chamin we know that in the world there is hot and cold winds so too in man
Kisha posayach piv v'nofech az ruachayim kisha soger piv v'nofech az ruach kar
When a person opens his mouth and breathes exhales in the wind is warm when a person closes it and exhales. It's cold
Re'amim ba'olam kol ba'adam just like there are thunders in the world
There's the voice of man b'rokim ba'olam
Adam panav be'irim kibarak just like there's lightning in the world and a person smiles his face lights up like a lightning bolt
Mazalos ba'olam v'hachozim hakochavim yodim mehen asidos kach yesh oso ba'adam
He says we have all of the constellations and the astrologers can predict the future from it
So are there signs in man?
We have our palm palm readers can tell the future of a person there's other ways that people can tell
the future of a man just like there are in the
constellations kish yesh chikuch la'odam b'lo shchin b'lo kino b'lo parosh
B'ze yodim habikim b'chokhmah hazos asidos. He says when man erupts in a rash
Which is not caused by boil or louse or mite
Those who are experts in these things can make predictions from this and they can from the lines of his palm and
from his features
Tell the future
b'chen b'sratute yad ha'adam b'tar panav yodim asidos v'hachokhmah hazos ha'iso b'yad ha'chokham hakanmonim
And the early sages understood these these pieces of wisdom
But in the recent generations, it has been forgotten and and hidden from us
b'chen y'cholon ha'chokhmah layda asidos min ha'ilonos va'asovim
They would be able to tell the future from the trees and from the plants
b'ze o'ma she'omru al rabbi yohonom etzaka y'shahayu yodeh hasichas t'kolem
Rabbi Yohonom will be able to tell the conversations of the little the little
vegetables
The talk of the trees he would understand them
pe'erush ha'yeh baki liruz b'tnu ha'asad kolem u'mizeh ha'yu yodeh asidos
Since they're in the realm of holiness
The way they would react you would be able to see the future of what's going to be happening
v'ekashe yotze mitzador mona person just as the warmth and dues of
Blessing and rains of blessings emanate from the south the right hand side of the world
So warmth emanates from the right hand side of man
From the red membrane of the liver and the residue of the blood also derives from the liver
Which is the right hand right hand side of man
v'khen yotze lachluch ha'dam min ha'kavet she'be tzad yimino shol ha'adamu
K'mo she'yotze ha'kor ve'ha'kerach lo'olam mitzad tzofon ha'olam
k'en yotze ha'kor mitzad smol shol ha'adam
Therefore this is just as the cold and ice comes from the north which is the left side of man
he says from the spleen and from the black bile residing within it and
Just as evil comes to the world from the north. So does every sore and illness and severe illness
Proceed from the black bile on the left hand side of the spleen
v'kashe min ha'mora ha'shkora
ha'shokhenes batchol
b'tzad smol
k'mo she'yotze ha'tzofon she'yotze ha'olam
Midor kol ha'mazikin ve'hazikin ve'hazva'oz ve'ha'ruchoz ve'haborokim ve'hara'omim mitzuiyim
k'ach hu midor ha'mora ha'shkoro batchol
b'tzad smol shemimeno toldes kol kol yira v'koshe
k'mo ha'shakhefes va'kadachas ha'revis
And just as the north of the world is the habitation of all of the ravages and storms
and blasts and winds and lightning and thundering, so is the left-hand side of the man, the habitation
of the black membrane in the spleen, from which there proceeds all sores, severe illnesses
such as consumption, the fourth fever, all kinds of madness, fear, and convulsions.
And just as all the smoke-like clouds rise from the earth,
carrying water from the depths to the atmosphere to rain upon the earth, so does the vapor
arise from the stomach, bringing moisture to the head and mouth, which is the source
of tears, nasal mucus, and saliva.
And just as He created mountains in the world, so Hashem created in man's body the shoulders,
the arm ligaments, knees, the ankle joints, and all of the other limb connections.
And just as Hashem created strong, hard stones and rocks in the world, so He created in man
teeth and incisors, which are stronger than iron and all bone.
And just as Hashem created hard and soft trees in the world, so too He created hard and soft
bones in man.
And just as He created in the world one variety of soil that is thick and hard, and another
that is moist and soft, so did He create man's flesh, corresponding to the soft soil, and
skin corresponding to the hard.
And just as there are some trees and grasses that produce fruit and seeds, and some that
do not, so there are some men who produce and others who do not, meaning that some are
able to have children, some that are not.
And just as He causes grass to sprout from the earth, so does He have men sprout here
on His head and in His beard.
And just as animals and creeping things swarm in the forest and earth, so do living things
swarm in man's head and here.
And just as God created the zodiac in the universe and suspended it in its firmament
from east to west, from one end to the other, and fixed within it the stars and the constellations
to everything else in the universe, so did He create in the body of man the cord of white
marrow within the spinal column that stretches from the base of the brain to the pelvic bone,
and to which the 12 segments of the ribs and all of the bodily organs are attached from
either side.
And just as the year has 365 days, so are there 365 sinews in the body of man.
Right?
Is this amazing or what?
Unbelievable.
So beyond, right?
It's unbelievable.
This is, my dear friends, this is the miracle of our body.
This is the miracle that we are living in such a, the whole entire world, exactly what
Hashem created in the entire world, Hashem created within each and every one of us.
Forget UFOs, Hashem created us for here.
We shouldn't be busy with those worlds.
There are other worlds.
Of course there are other worlds.
All right, this concludes day number 195 and 196.

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