(5789) The Light of a Mitzvah in Every Moment

Shalom aleichem and welcome back to our series by Semitic parshas Eikev Tofshin Pey Vov. The Medrash at the beginning of the parsha brings down a halacha which seemingly has nothing to do with parshas Eikev. And yet the Semitic Semitic Tofshin Pey Vov Aleph and in many other places throughout the parsha goes ahead and explains how this seemingly unrelated Medrash which talks about a halacha in Hilchos Shabbos is very much the whole goal of what it means Eikev Tishmau. Zagt the Medrash says the Medrash in Devarim Rabbah Gimmel Aleph halacha Adam Yisrael Minora. A person a Yid who has a Minora Prokim Prokim. And this Minora is made out of various pieces. It's a Minora that could be taken apart and could be built and the Minora doesn't just mean a Minora that they use in Chanukah but in the olden times the Minora used to light up their house. And a person has a Minora a person has a lantern which is made out of various pieces. Ma'al Detotal Ba'Shabbos is it mutar to go ahead and to use it on Shabbos? Shonu Chachomim says the Medrash this is what the Chachomim said a Markiv Chani Minora Ba'Shabbos Chayav Chatos. A person who goes ahead and builds this Minora this lantern on Shabbos he puts all the various pieces of the Minora together is Chayav Chatos. Mishum May Mechayav? Why is he Chayav? He's Chayav Adam Shebana Ba'Shabbos. He's Chayav because of Bana. Person went ahead and took a Keli which is made up of various pieces and went ahead and built it and put it together. A person is going to be Chayav Mishum Bana on Shabbos. Ad Kan Lashon of the Medrash. And the Medrash goes on and continues and discusses the Ma'ala of Shabbos and the Onesh that a person gets and person is not Shomer Shabbos. But that's the halacha that it begins with at the beginning of the Medrash. Zagt the Hilchos Shabbos in the year Tofshin Pey Vov Aleph. What in the world is this Medrash? This Inyan of being Bana Minora Shechuyu is going ahead and building this Minora that's made out of various pieces Chayav Mishum Bana on Shabbos. How is that connected to the beginning of the parsha V'Eikev Tishmau? Zagt the Hilchos Shabbos Ki Hashem Yisborach Bara Keina Olam. The Ribbono Shel Olam created the world L'Ois Mischabrin Hadrokim Al Yedei Adam. The Ribbono Shel Olam created the world so that us Klal Yisrael goes ahead and attaches all of the Briah to the Ribbono Shel Olam. Ach Yaakov Mekurav Lashem Yisborach. Our goal and our job down here in Olam Hazeh, as we go ahead and we walk through our days, is to go out and to be makasher and makhaber everything that we see, and every person that we see, and every item that we're involved in, and every meeting that we have, to go ahead and to be makasher all of them. As Shamashburg, the Ribono shel Olam created everything for His covenant. Everything in Olam Hazeh, as distant as it may look from the Ribono shel Olam, as as much as it may look that it's just something which is gashmi, it's just something which is chomeri, it's just mass u matan, it's just something which is just physical. As the Zohar Hakadosh says, our goal and our mission in this world is to be makhaber and to be makasher everything back to the Ribono shel Olam. Says the Zohar Hakadosh, mitzvas kalos, this is what it means at the beginning of our parsha when it says "V'haya Ekev Tishme'un". Zohar Hakadosh, what's Ekev? Ekev are those mitzvas kalos, those light mitzvos that a person goes ahead and a person tramples on with their heel. Says the Zohar Hakadosh, what does it mean mitzvas kalos? There are there are more important mitzvos and less important mitzvos? Of course not. All mitzvos are created equal. Rather, Zohar Hakadosh says, mitzvas kalos means the davar gam d'varim r'gili. Also those things that are r'gili, those things that are involved in a regular, mundane, seemingly part of a person's life, to be madavik them. Al y'dei she'eina kol rak l'retzonam. Those things that are not inherently a mitzvah, those things that are not seemingly one of the taryag mitzvos, they're mitzvas kalos, they're not part of the regular taryag mitzvos. Our goal and our job and our mission in this world is to go ahead and to attach it back to the Ribono shel Olam. She'eina kol rak l'retzonam. That when a person goes out to work, a person says "I'm going out to work in order to make parnassah, to be able to provide for my family, to be able to have food to be able to eat, to be able to go ahead and to pay to pay my children's tuition bills, to be able to go out and to give tzedakah, to be able to go out and to provide for my wife and children." A person says "I'm working, and the working inherently may not be a mitzvah, but I'm doing it l'shem shamayim. I'm eating." Is eating breakfast a mitzvah? Yes. Zohar Hakadosh says, it's a mitzvah kalah. It's not a mitzvah like one of the regular taryag mitzvos, but it's a mitzvah that the goal and the job of a person when he's eating is to go out and to eat in a way that it gives him koach, it gives him the strength to be able to go ahead and and be able to learn and be able to daven and be able to provide for his family properly. Like the writes in in that a person needs to eat and drink and sleep and do everything that a person's doing to to all of it the same to like this because all of says this there is nothing in the world there's nothing in the world that's devoid of a mitzvah. It's either a mitzvah or it's a either at that moment that you're doing this item this at the moment that you're involved in this activity you either going to get an attaching yourself to the and attaching that item to the or to all of the these are the things that are all the way down at the bottom the things that are the things that are not inherently a mitzvah yet nevertheless our goal and our job and our mission is to go ahead and to be misdabeach all of the all of the things that we're involved in back to the with is this is a to call all of the to each other and she got even the even those things all the way down at the bottom even the even those things that are not inherently seemingly a mitzvah to go out and to attach all of them to the even all of the to go ahead and to attach all of the to the to go out and attach all of the to the goal and to call to attach everything that we do even the even the things in the bottom even the physical activities that we're involved in to go ahead and attach all of them to the like the this is the between and why what is this menorah is made up of various pieces but the way that you go out and use this menorah the way that you allow it to be able to bring light into the world is you need to you need to be buying it you need to build it you need to take all the various parts and build it together until it's able to go ahead and be a lantern that's able to go out and give light our goal is to look at the as to see the as one big stick of to be able to see to take all the and to be able to attach them some of them will be the base of the menorah some will be the middle parts of the menorah and some will be the top parts of the menorah the the but all of them are connected to one main goal all of them are going ahead and focusing on one main to go ahead and to be to fill up the to finish the the concludes in it all of the all of the this is exactly what means the ability to be able to recognize in everything to and therefore our goal is to be our goal is to build our goal is to attach and to connect everything that we're involved in every activity every person every interaction that we have to be able to go out and to attach it to that menorah to be able to go out and attach it to the to everything to the comes comes from the word which means to connect the which are doesn't mean a lighter means the ability to be able to go out and attach ourselves to the and those things that are those things that are not inherently those things that are the ability to attach ourselves to have a to be able to have a to the and those things those are the and this is the of of a year and that's what it means is is because that's the goal of the year is to go out and to recognize that everything is involved in is part of the binyan that there is no thing that doesn't go ahead and have a mitzvah attached to it and that is that I could have and the next year in tough for Islam and base. This is why this is why I'm Shabbos you're not allowed to go ahead and put this together. Why? We just mentioned in tough for Islam and all of that the is a muscle to it's a muscle to being everything to be able to recognize the whole and everything to be able to attach everything back to its source and tough for Islam and base you don't need to do that Shabbos Gala or a Shabbos is a of the of the and everything Shabbos is the recognition of the of the Shabbos is the recognition of the which is within the whole that you don't need to go ahead and be involved in during the six days of the week it's difficult to go ahead and to attach everything we're involved in to see the things that we're involved in the things that we're involved in to be able to see them as being to attach them to the Shabbos it's very easy Shabbos it's easy because that still is the of person is go to sleep on Shabbos a person is a person is able to see how there is no that's separate and apart from the person is able to see the everything Shabbos is of the and there is no need to go ahead and be involved in this process of being it happens on its own all the person needs to do is connect to Shabbos it's mayor than it's able to go ahead and light up the six days of the week it's able to be go ahead go ahead and light up the that we're involved in during the six days of the week there's an to be this to build this to go ahead and to take piece after piece after piece to take every part of our life to take everything in our life to attach it to the call my Shabbos is a day when Shabbos is a day when it happens automatically the of Shabbos the of Shabbos is like he says the or of Shabbos the pnimius of everything comes revealed and the male of ain't sore. You don't need to go ahead and be involved in this avodah of binyan if a car came and burned it cuz you don't need to go ahead and be involved in things. Things happen on their own. Things are able to be revealed on their own as being connected to the oil of ruchni. This is our ikra avodah throughout the six days of the week. This is our ikra avodah on shabbos kodesh to recognize this or pnimius and this as he says is a tachlis which solely is boruch. Make all of ramah gabarim hashem should help you should be zocheh to build this beautiful menorah sholayis to go and attach all of the parts of our life to ratzon hashem to be able to recognize that there is no moment in our life that's devoid and detached from from from ratzon hashem is boruch and by doing that in the proper way we'll be able to go ahead and build this menorah sholayis and be zocheh to the menorah in the beis hamikdash we'll be zocheh to be able to go ahead and be able to see beholden and the one sholayim and the one sholayim and the and the course is there within everything and we'll be able to the or of pnimius and yom shekulo shabbos.