Ki Seitzei: The Earthshattering Insight of Chasam Sofer - Don't Underestimate Yourself or Your Soul

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay again arab shabbos so we're going to speak about the subject today uru wake up you slumberers from the slumber the gemara tells us in sanhedrin david wanted to serve idols david david came to the summit that he would bow down to god vain refers to idolatry the hood salma and the image reishi di dahaftav its head was good gold the hine lacrosse was coming toward him his garment was ren earth on his head what are you thinking you're going to serve idols you hear such a gemara don't tell anyone you learned this gemara by the shabbos table um you could say some of one one or two of the vardalk we said in the earlier share but don't say gemara that david wanted to serve idols he wanted to serve idols for shalom but after me to kill me what are people going to say about that they're going to say it's hashem why would god allow a righteous person to be murdered by his own son people will question the ways of hashem so david says i have a great idea i'll serve idols and this will justify what has happened what is going to happen to me in the eyes of people and people will not question the ways of hashem because david could not wrap his mind around why god would allow it to happen to him that he would be murdered by his own son and david figured probably everyone was thinking the same so david wanted to serve idols so khushayaki said people are going to say a king like you is serving idols and david says then what is better for me to serve idols and for god's name to be publicly desecrated he said what are you talking david everybody knows why i have shalom's running after you to kill you umar mai tai ma kanna savasi fast tire david why do you marry the a fast tire so david no one's going to have any questions why god is allowing your child to run after you to kill you because everyone knows you're married to you fast tayar and you're going to have a ben sora omora and therefore you don't need to survivals david we understand perfectly why this is happening to you now just as an aside what does it mean david wanted to serve idols for some he actually wanted to serve idols some learn it means he wanted to leave arat's israel because living in khutsa as the gemara says it's kamish it's as if you don't have a god really now the gemara doesn't say that if you live in khutsa arts is as if you don't have a pizza store because when you live in khusa aren't there a lot of pizza stores and it doesn't say if you live in khutsa arets you don't have good chinese food there's very good kosher chinese food saras and it doesn't say if you don't live in khutsa you won't have schools there are a lot of shows on all it says is if you live in khutsar it's like you don't have a god that's all you're missing that's it you could have everything else except for the rebuttal shalom so i believe rabianis and ibishit says that when hazal says wanted to serve idols it means he was going to move to but there are a few interesting things on this gemara first of all this is of course cited by rashi and we referenced it earlier in the first year that the hector of marrying than sarah mira of excuse me marilee fast tayar is for the reason of loyd dibra torah ella negative if god does not permit it you're going to ultimately marry her biser but if you do marry her you're going to hate her like it says afterwards ki siena le ish and you can have it ben sarah moira and that's the juxtaposition by the way the balaturum says the gematria of soy rare is so there you have it if you wanted to know when dove and married of shalom's mother the that that was the reason that it produced the ban ceremony absolument of it comes the hassam soifer and some surfer asked two bumbas two atom bombs on the on these debris number one david didn't know rashi say come on rashid came later you know you know rashid came from david but in all seriousness and number two this is the this is the atom bomb over here here you have a guy he's going to battle his passions are flaring and we say don't worry we understand you we understand your temptation go live with her that was something so difficult like that the torah would never ask her go marry her so he marries her and nine months later he's at the the brisbane lobby kari shimobi israel bansara and he thinks he's going to be the next goddaughter and he takes him when he's three years old to lick the honey off the aleph days in the heder and at 13 the kid is you know a ra is a masked arm robber he's he's holding up banks and he's eating big uh three pound steaks every night and they have to kill him and the the guy says i don't understand what happens we say oh we told you you shouldn't have married the ben the you fast tire so the guy says what kind of trap did you lay for me when i went out to battle you tell me oh we understand your temptation so go back marry the fast taya and then 13 years later my whole life is messed up because lloyd what's the big boy dibru tyrella kalasha ala kennegadi zahara i mean is this really the torah showing understanding to the eight sahara we say yeah no problem marry you fast time the only thing is it's gonna ruin your and that doesn't sound very accommodating to me yeah you can marry her it's just you're not gonna have any nachas you're gonna end up being a witness to kill your child i mean that doesn't sound very fair ask is it proper to say that such a stumbling block would come from selling the torah explicitly allowed akshar shaddhavar keno here's the root of the matter of nachman you know the wife of rav nachman her name was yalasa we have over there commando rahman ah whatever the assad sharolin rahman the torah matar corresponding to it you can't drink blood or you're allowed to have chopped liver men boston you can't have milk meat you could have the order of an animal damnido damn taya what it why the zelda manchester is want to give in everything the a little piece to the eight sahara that sometimes we give in other words by being able to eat a cacao you'll be able to handle not eating basil by having dam taya you could refrain from damtame by being able to have chopped liver you could overcome the temptation of blood and that's the concept of the sar hamishta and that's why we eat era of yom kippur now dibro torah negotiates a harassing muhammad s when someone is on the battlefield battlefield and they see a goya it is impossible to overcome for some people after 30 days she sits in his house and she cries and then this way you could overcome the athar in general now do you really think that this temptation is impossible for anybody are there any sadhikim that could overcome the temptation there this is definitely true for a simple person who doesn't have the ability to overcome the it'sahara the torah needed to permit it and listen carefully someone who has such a strong sahara that the torah needs to matter a guy who honestly cannot overcome his yatsuhara he's going to marry this goya and he's going to have a child and the child is going to bring him great nachas the child is going to be a future god will be israel the child is going to be amana manager israel david said my heart is hollow within me which means i don't have a yatar she is never told someone like david go marry a fast taya because david had the ability to overcome his yetzara and about such a person who says well since the torah mattered to the weaker person to marry the fast tayar well i'll take advantage of the hetero i always wanted to live with the guy and now is my chance even though i could overcome the itsahara but i'll take advantage of the license the torah gave to others then for that the torah wrote a smukhim if you take advantage of the heter of yufas toyar you will have a bansoryo mara now so what did david hold david thought he couldn't overcome the yates david considered himself lowly he thought about himself he doesn't have the capacity to fight against the eight zahara look in savage toyah therefore he thought that nothing bad would happen to him by magnificent because the torah matters for him and when he had enough shalom elk could not wrap his mind around it and he had no choice he thought other than to serve avoid the zara and khushayaki said david the torah never allowed you to ma to marry your father nobody is going to have questions about you david everyone understands you were capable of overcoming the sahara and therefore you're being punished by having been sorrow mira well the messiah adam goddard really dove it was very very great he could stand up to the sahara therefore he was punished that he had enough shallow now let's think about the following scenario went to sleep before he went to sleep at night he made a hajj he understands that he's running away from his son his son seems to fit the bill of the bansara mara but it did not dawn on david that the reason why he hadn't have shalom is because he married a fast because david thought he really could not overcome is it sahara and khrushchev said there is not going to be any hashem here i know and everyone knows that you're a lot greater than you think you think you're a shuffle we know you're a goddall we know you could have overcome and therefore we know you're being punished and david it didn't dawn on him he's being punished because he really thought he couldn't overcome this is a a magnificent illustration of how a great a person of the greatness and the caliber of davana mellah underestimated his godula underestimated his spiritual prowess we're now in the month of elul and the reason we blow shaiphar the rambam says the function of the shaifer is uru yeshenim wake up slumberers from your sleep what does it mean we're asleep so one shot is we're asleep we sleep a lot you know during covid you don't have to go to drive anywhere to work you get to do everything on the computer so there's more time to sleep so we sleep too much that's one shot uru shayna but what does it mean that we're asleep in tehillim says wake up my glory i will wake up the morning who's david talking to who's king david talking to who's he talking to customer service at verizon who's he talking to you talking to a clerk in the bank ura kavodi david's talking to his kava who's this says his soul is america so that my soul could sing to you and not be silent david is saying to his soul wake up wake up what do you mean the soul doesn't sleep and the answer is sure the soul sleeps says in michelle mayam amukim itza belay this deep waters is the cancel in the heart of man the ish and a wise person will draw forth what does this mean that means in our hearts in our souls is deep deep deep understanding greatness wisdom ennoble ennobling medici the only thing is it's very very deep down and you need to draw it out in deep waters it's as the council in the heart of man deep in our hearts are is incredible late in greatness but we have to draw it forth we need to arouse it we need to wake it up we see that even david ahmed underestimated his greatness knew who he was he wrote it to him is uh his image is on the kisayak but even david did not recognize fully how much greatness rests within him rabbenu yoina and the safer sharia avoida writes that the first step the first key to avoid this hashem happens the first opening the first doorway to avoid this hashem so that the person who serves hakalesh who recognizes his own value the akira mahalo and he recognizes his attributes um and the greatness of his forefathers and their greatness and their importance and their being beloved the estadel vias and one should make efforts and strengthen himself always to establish himself at that level why he says even if you start off small ah your end will be very great and flourishing because you should act in a way that your forefathers would not be ashamed of your sim this way when your person has a desire and you have the want to do something that's not proper be embarrassed of yourself be embarrassed from your forefathers and tell your soul and say someone so great and khrushchev like me i'm ben gadolim i'm ben malche kedam how could i do this evil because if a person doesn't recognize his greatness it will be very easy to walk in the ways of low people one of the main reasons why people do not and don't have the wherewithal to combat the eight sahara is because they have a low esteem of themselves of how important they are in the eyes of hashem how valuable they are how valuable everything they they do is how important they are in creation if a person recognized that every act of theirs of had effects throughout the whole universe they had all the spheroids like we're learning in time of viral would a person ever stoop to do something beneath their dignity and therefore a person should always make efforts laha sig erakoi to achieve your real value and the value of the tsaddikim the hasidim that preceded you you know the rambam writes in gazeros even though blowing the shuffle is in heavenly decree rem as yeshboy there is an illusion meaning even though why do we blow shayfer it's a haik god said to but it also talks to us what does your shoi first say to you keloim uru uru ushayna wake up wake up means the sahara says yeah you could be a good jew you'll learn a little bit you'll dive in a little bit maybe you'll keep shabbos but they said but i want to be i want to be a great jew i want to be meticulous in halacha i want to be very learned i want to be well versed in hummish i want to be well versed in gemara i want to be well versed in allah says now who are you you're just a pasha yeah that's not for you that's for big people the ad khan divided sahara those are the words of the eight sahara that's how we're asleep we're asleep because we sell ourselves short of what we could be the message of the shofar is wake up there's so much greatness at least dormant inside of us the shaffer is telling us wake up and be who you could be but sadiq writes yeah there's a midsummer it's called ammuna you ever hear that mitzvah i think even arts girl has a book about it so that shows that obviously it's a real mitzvah amuna amuna you know god you know that god you ever hear of god he's the one who made us so you got to believe in him there's a mitzvah that's the number one mitzvah in fact we had it we had a shear that some reshine and hold there's no mitzvah in the torah to believe in god say how could that be because it's implicit mitzvah means a command implicit in command is that there is a commander so there are we showing them that don't list a mitzvah because implicit in 613 mitzvos is that there is a masada but sadhuk says the same way the most important mitzon the torah is believe in god kashem adam just like a person needs to believe bashem mitzvah number one is believe in god mitzvah number two is believe in yourself what does that mean believe in yourself god is interested in you that the moment you wake up in the morning you should know hashem is waiting for your tafilah don't think your tufi is not important hashem cannot wait until you come to the base of nessus and put on your talos and put on your fill in and you talk to him he's been waiting for it all night he knows you have to sleep we're only a bust of a dumb but don't think that your tafilah is not valuable he the the second most important concept after believing in god is believing in yourself you're not a fleeting creature don't think you're you know what you're going to say yes yeah we're going to say the eight zahara can't wait until we say ah you're a piece of dust and you're gonna eventually become a piece of dust no that's only for a little humility but in terms of recognizing how important everything we do is put can that for a moment realize your mushroom is interested don't think you're like an animal that you know gets hit the animal dies and that's the end of him you have to understand the soul is a piece of akadesh baruch and hashem rejoices and delights when we do his will says absolutely they believed in god what does it mean they believed in moshe moshe encapsulates all 600 000 jews they believed in hashem they believed him now ready for this another lemur from the parasha mamish if i were to ask you what is the holiest jewish object torah say for torah it's written by kadusa it has god's name on it written on a clef how many malkas do we give we give 40. but we know we only give 39. so ramban says why 40 the tamarban because the person violated the torah that was given in 40 days and he also caused punishment to himself the human embryo it takes 40 days to develop so the soy from the taurus moisture says the ramban has offered two reasons for 40 malkas one knegged negativity and one for the 40 days of math and torah what's the nafta meaning between these two reasons says that if the reason we get 40 marcus is for the 40 days of kabbalah torah we know the 40 days of kabbalah were 40 full days they thought it was going to be 39 and change but it was 40 full days you would have to get 40 for macos however if it's connected the 40 days of yutsirus have vlad then you only need to get 39 maukas because the yzera of the vlad is not 40 complete days the first day is not a full day so now the question is if it's 40 malcus can i get giving of the torah 39 can i get it why do we only give 39 malkas malkin shouldn't we give malchus because the person desecrated the torah kim lai bindara babine marv rabbi what's a bigger crime defiling your soul or defiling the torah it's a bigger crime to defile your soul because your soul is holier than the torah that's the worst crime my soul who am i fair i'm a worm i'm nothing does hashem care so much about me are my midsole so important i'm nothing i'm offer of the affair you're telling me that the safer torah in the shul that i stand up for and kiss is not as holy as any jew that's right the jewish neshama is much holier than the torah look because if you sully your soul you could have been a saddic israel the soul of jews you could have been in santic and you're doing the opposite we got to give you 39 marcus because ruining your soul which is 39 marcus is much worse than desecrating the tire which is 40. and therefore the torus says don't give one more don't give 40 then you're lowering your brother you're lowering him you're saying his esteem is less than the time you know to say that a jew is less important than the torah is a disgrace to a jew to say your brother is more important now we understand what rava said how foolish people are that they stand up for a safe return they don't stand up for a great person and the gemara says how wh what in what way are rabbis greater than a safe retired because the torah says you give 40 and the rabbis say 39. what how does that show that the rabbanim are greater than the torah what that shows is that if we only get 39 malchus it's because the crime of desecrating a jewish soul is worse than the crime of destiny in the torah that shows that a jew is that sadiq is greater than the torah mara of course in the month of ello is a time to reawaken ourselves in general from laziness and some of the sluggishness that creeps in throughout the the course of the year especially a year like this where we're very much uh isolated and insulated but more importantly is in life in general we like to allow ourselves to settle on what the itsahara makes us think that we are pasha yiddin and who am i what could i accomplish what can i achieve and the torah which is ripped into every single jew except nobody no exceptions says that we need to shoot for the stars as much as possible and the same way we have to believe in our qadhafi we have to believe in ourselves and the same way we value the sanctity of the torah we more than that value the sanctity of the neshama and the greatness and the kedusha and the yera and the medici that are dormant inside of our souls can be accessed and when you hear the shaifar you tell yourself uru yashena mishinaska and wake up bring out talk to your soul summon forth the ability that bansham has already given us that just has to be accessed and we should be zoiha and this is a grave danger because even davana mellah so to speak was not aware of his own greatness and it was a greatness that everyone saw in david which is another important lesson that sometimes we think oh i have a low esteem of myself like everyone else no in the case of david everyone recognized that david was able to overcome okay my rabbi say have a great shabbos and brah okay thank you you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com