Reply To: Gayvah and the end of days

Moshe Rabeinu was buried by Beis Peor. This was to be a kaparah for klal yisrael for the avon of Beis Peor.
The medrash says that every year during the time that midyan got klal yisrael to sin, the tumah rises up to attack us and make us do aveiros. And every year, Moshe Rabeinu fights for us against the tumah.

Baal Peor was the avodah zara of revealing yourself. Baal Zvuv was the avoda zara for feces.
The midyanim tricked klal yisrael into thinking that what they were doing was mitzvah, by defecating in front of the avoda zara. Klal yisrael fell in the place called “shittim.” Think it is a coincedence? Really, that is how the avoda zara is served, but they thought they were being mivazeh it, so it would be a mitzvah. They covered up our eyes from seeing the emes.
Klal yisrael fell in the place called “shittim.” Think it is a coincedence?

Moshe Rabeinu warned klal yisrael about the problem of baal peor after it happened. This is because the problem would still continue. When the yidden got into eretz yisrael, yehoshua warned again about baal peor, saying it still effects until this day.

So what did they do to us?
1. We don’t realize what we are doing. We don’t realize that what we think is a mitzvah, is actually an aveirah. We may think there is nothing wrong with what we are doing.
2. We were afflicted by znus.
3. We were afflicted by feces related things.

Today, when one wants to curse and use foul language, when someone gets very emotional, what are the words that they would use? If you think about it, foul language is made up of words referencing being intimate, and feces related things. It is literally built into our speech, and we don’t realize it. This not realizing is the problem.
The Tumah pervades our lives.
The world is now in love with poop emojis, poop slippers, in addition to all the shmutz that they were already obsessed about.
I feel that to be involved with any of these things, is giving homage to avoda zara. I used to own a mug that says coffee makes you poop. I threw it out because it is giving kavod to defecating…. which anyways we know is related to the sitra achra, and getting rid of the klipos.
To express admiration of a woman’s body, besides for one’s wife, besides for being nivul peh, I feel it would be giving kavod to a taavah, which is in the shoresh, gaavah.

We don’t realize that a lot of our actions are not just mere aveiros, but are in reality avoda zara related.

The non frum jews that support the gay movement do so out of thinking that it is a mitzvah. There is even a group in montreal, called Gayvah.

When we use foul language, we are giving kavod to an avoda zara.

When we make our bathroom related aspects of life an entire avoda, it is giving attention to avoda zara. The bathroom is a bathroom, to relieve yourself, it doesn’t need to be a fancy shrine. (maybe 🙂 )

We don’ realize that gayvah is showing its face. We don’t realize that a phone, a poneh device, is literally calling itself that. We don’t realize when the navi tells us that the phones are our avodah zara as well.

The final note, something absolutely amazing, and I showed this to Rabbi Finkelman, who was floored:
Tehillim Perek 40:
The beginning of the perek talks about Dovid Hamelech being deep in the waters, and Rashi says this means the ocean. The ocean connects the entire world, like the internet does.

Pasuk 5: Praiseworthy is the man that makes Hashem his trust and does not turn to “Rehavim” and “satei kazav.”

Rashi says that rehavim is gayvah, and satei kazav is what makes a person turn off the path towards avoda zara.

The word Satei, is like site, like a web site.

Then Rashi concludes, and I kid you not, ayin shum to see for yourself, its insane, “satei, Iturnuntz bilaaz.”

Internets………