Parsha Perspectives for Today (Mishpatim, 5783/2023) - It Matters to Hashem

thank you okay thank you for bearing with us your patience I don't know what's going on with the internet and hopefully we'll stay connected and if not we'll record it and uh and post it online the pressure is generously sponsored by Becky and I'll be cats and family in memory of David Grossman is sponsored anonymously dedicating commemoration of 30th year instead of Calvin Raph come and demera Cohen by his daughter and son of Lewis and Rabbi Richard bealer thank you to the builders thank you to all the sponsors this morning also this morning share is dedicated and loving memory of Esther til ambassador of government of course Allah shalom whose family remains very much on our minds and our hearts as they're in the midst of sitting shiva for the tragic loss of their daughter page 416 the Arts girls these are the laws that Moshe placed before the Jewish people it's talking about this that many times in the past the Verve the Ayla is this working still not working the valve is uh continuing just like the original we're given in our Sinai so to all the laws all the details in partials mishpatam were given at harsinai as well Rashi says a shirt the laws of our passion the laws of the Torah are described that are placed before you Rashi says like a set table that's placed before a person ready to eat and that's the origin of one of Joseph Caro named his wonderful set of swarm when he named his famous books the code of Jewish law was based on this Rashi these are the laws that are placed before the Jewish people what really nourishes us what really gives us life is not the food that we eat it's not the physical or material things around us what gives us eternal life of course is learning Torah living Torah is keeping Allah is studied him in the people of the book you could find it online his life his legacy his influence why did he Merit what became the authoritative work of Jewish law the writes quote of God all she is Jewish people specifically at that time and in this place needed a code of Jewish law now is not the time to go all the way back I think we've done it before but from the gemara which is talmud bablu it's movable it's all mixed up it's all disorganized terribly and that's by Design because really our Torah is supposed to be a torch about pet really it's supposed to be orally transmitted one to the other raveena ravashi following the model of review danasi showed tremendous courage in writing down something that was supposed to remain oral-wide they do it because it was getting distorted it was being forgotten however by doing so they violated the manner in which was meant to be transmitted specifically interpersonally a person had to have a rebbe people had to gather to study as a community it was meant to be able to Foster and to cultivate and to support a notion of a community of Learners and its transmission so how do you preserve the notion of community and transmission in Arabi all while writing it down and recording it cesra footner that's why it's the talmud babli it's all mivobal it's all mixed up can't make heads or tails you can't find anything in it it's not organized like an encyclopedia it is intentionally and by Design disorganized so you still need a rebbe you still need to be in a sheer you still need to be able to come together for its transmission one to the other the back of the gamara the Russia Usher was the first to write the commentary exclusively following but he wrote it based on the organization of the Shahs of the gemara he still don't know where to look if you're curious what does the rush say about do you know to look in that's the majority of the Russia's comment because in Musa which is about vows and Oaths there's a passing section about the laws of family Purity and that's where the Russia elaborates on the laws of Nita but you wouldn't know it because it remains terribly disorganized so the rush had a son of Jaco have been Usher who comprise the tour he said let me organize it not according to the saddaram according to the mistakes of Shas let me organize it thematically as an encyclopedia and he created four columns the four Columns of the arbuturium evidence as their four columns four categories of Jewish law he created columns and then the base Joseph Caro says your columns they support my house he wrote a commentary on the tour called the basio safe the 16th century called the basio safe then reveal circus came along a later contemporary and he said you're you're commentary is pretty good but mine is better so what did he name his commentary Tobias hadash there's a new house in temp so rabbinic Trex talking going on over here so is the basio safe and then the bach name says you know where'd the tour come to these conclusions he went through the gamaras he organized it all into four columns four categories of Jewish law how did he arrive at these conclusions so let me give you the background the whole commentary of the bay so safe is the background tracing from the Gamora all the way through the business they found that people were not learning is safer as frequently as he wanted so he summarized his basil safe into a work that we learn more often it's called this is my base Joseph my house of Yosef being held up by the four columns the arbor tourum of the son of the rush who wrote a commentary on Allah it's being neglected so let me summarize it into the and when he writes what does he write his wish is that people will learn and how often he broke it into 30 parts of Jews would complete and review the entire every 30 days every 30 days and if you look in memo you'll see it says there what does it say until here day 21 no one understood that that has nothing to do with the actual commentary that he's writing so why was it inserting there until here day 21 so the SMA right there it has nothing to do with the actual he's writing Allah isma says you know why it says until you're day 21 because every Jew should be reviewing the entire every 30 days wow mind-blowing mind-boggling it's an incredible incredible commentary summary of Allah and it indeed becomes the code of Jewish law and the reviews of Carol gave us a great gift called the gave us a set table so you don't know about Allah should look like when you choose it or whether your sucker qualifies as being kosher or how to give a get or more importantly how to get married how to do condition you don't know Juggernaut says here I set the table for you it's all here Laura Mao lives a little later than lives in Krakow he says previous account did a good job he did a pretty good job I'm fat it's fast in the North of Israel he visited shul it's grave today did a pretty good job the problem is it represents as far to custom here in Krakow Poland the Rama says we do things a little bit differently so reviews set the table put on top of it a mapper a tablecloth the commentary of the Rama is called the mappa it's the tablecloth and revealsifkaro's set table which is in the house of the basil safe not as new as the house of Dubai's that is on The Columns of the tour of the yak of Menasha and all their names of their works there's a little a little a little stick of stock going on back and forth over here but kennels all to promote a sense of scholarship and Torah why am I sharing all this here because it's the opening Rashi it's the opening this is the opening Rashi the law of the Torah and Torah living Torah law is given as a set table like a set table so going back God Almighty determined the Jewish people needed a set table a set encyclopedia organized tradition that in that generation the capitalist in the north of there were three rabbis qualified to have authored what would become the authoritative work of Jewish law they are rabiosif who is he Jose he lived in Portugal then Italy and Salonika he wrote he was one the second is the base of safe the third is the Maori benleigh married he was born in turkey and then he moved to Salonika ALS faradam and within us was the one who was determined why what was special about was he the smartest most mystical greatest Campbell's greatest character most top what was so special about him that's right shuckled the most what was so special he was the most humble he was the most humble because he was the most humble that's why he became the conduit he was the one responsible for organizing and transmitting cashier as you see from his farm that is the tradition of the hidayah why reviews of Carol Meredith and in fact that is a tradition that we have about all of Torah mishna says in perkiavos we just read last week and when again this week in Paris mishpatim is a sort of second version a new version updated version of Kabbalah Satora what should it say moshiki baltoro busy night should say Moshe received the Toro where geographically what were the coordinates what did you put in ways when Jewish people were looking for where to show up for the receiving of the Torah the Sinai they put our Sinai so why does it says what do we know about arsinai was the lowest of all the mountains wasn't special didn't have magnificent flora and fauna didn't have magnificent landscape it was humble and modest and simple and that's why Hashem chose it the commentaries on period was say where he got it it's not important how do we know it's unimportant we don't even know where it is we don't gather we don't go there there's no pesach program there there's no circus program there there's no summer program there there's no summer camp there now someone's going to try to find it they just realized I want a commission if you figure this out but our Cena doesn't play that role nobody's going to harcina moshiki Bell Torah not busy nightora missinay he received the Torah what Torah did he receive he receives the Torah of how to receive the Torah and what's the Torah of how to receive the Torah you have to be a vessel a humble modest simple vessel because the prerequisite to receiving the Torah is not superimposing or projecting onto the Torah your thoughts your honor your glory your view of the world it's to become a blank slate to be willing to receive the Torah of the Torah engraved on our hearts not to engrave our Torah not to engrave our predisposed Notions onto the Torah itself the naked Joseph says the following so these are the first laws given after event in all human history the giving of the Torah at harsinai Jewish people are high picture your greatest in the ELO with your greatest comsitz with your greatest simcha with your greatest Shir you ever heard with the greatest Muslims you ever heard combine in all one and nothing compared to arsenae Revelation Hashem spoke to us directly Revelation people were on a high it's incredible and one of the very first laws God gives after us while I have your attention I'd like to give you my Torah while you're on this incredible spiritual High while you're singing and dancing and you feel connected to each other and to me I want to give you the first set of laws and what are they says they're a nation that are still feeling the impact of 210 years of slavery we are 75 years after Holocaust and at the end of the takufa of the Merit of having Holocaust Survivors and we still feel its impact still feel it second generation third generation it's still leaving its impact its impression on the even the neurobiology of those who descend from those who survived who are impacted on our behavior and our conduct they were who used to live here as a daughter who studied who studied actually chemistry and studied the brains of second generation see I was how it was impacted growing up in the home of those who survived the worst atrocity in all of human history so this slave Nation just because Hashem took them out 10 plagues splitting of a sea stood in harsinai they weren't done they're still recovering they're still coming out they were taken out of Egypt Egypt is still being taken out of them they're still bruised in battered they still have scabs and wounds they're still limping and suffering is so what's the first Allah gives after our Sinai Harris when you go by a slave six years they work for the seventh year they go free if they say I want to stay you pierce the ear on the door we all know the laws ever can only the different laws that govern slavery servitude want this review really just come off this high it's incredible comes it's this amazing fabrang in this one egg singing and spiritually connected in his Buddhism and the first laws are given the laws of Slavery to a slave Nation still bruised and battered physically emotionally psychologically different how deep how profound hashem's understanding of the human psyche foreign ask anyone who works in the field of abuse and Trauma and you will find how many people who are abusers were themselves the victims of abuse how many people who pay forward abuse and harshness and all kinds of traumatic behaviors themselves were victims but they don't know that's all they know of course not intentionally of course not with malice of course not trying to cause the next person the pain they themselves endured but somehow in the human psyche will we experience what we are victims of often we then become the perpetrator even though one would think it should be the opposite if you suffered if you were a victim of something you'd be incredibly sensitive extraordinarily Vigilant and careful not to pay it forward you'd think that's the way it would go but yes if we were raised in cruelty and harshness we were raised with abuse it's very hard to climb out from underneath that shadow that Cloud to know another type of behavior to not be caught in what becomes a vicious cycle told us why is this the very first law seems anticlimactic and appropriate we'd never guess it we would never have chosen it first law because the first thing Hashem says is break the cycle don't pay it forward you don't like the way that you were parented you don't like the way you were treated you don't like your teacher bathed you don't like who your boss was don't pay it forward break the cycle the first law he's sickness let me tell you does one come from a pillow your evidence gets it not you that's Allah there's one bed you're sleeping the couch your Avid gets it not you because this is not a chance for you to pay it forward this is an invitation to break the cycle someone recently was sharing showing off to me when they were a kid and they grew up with absolutely nothing and they made it and they broke through they were a kid they worked for a certain business and uh they weren't treated so wonderfully and when they finally broke through they bought the business and now they're the boss of the same people that were their boss and they're letting him have it I I wasn't impressed if the punch line was I bought the business now I'm their boss and I'm showing them how a boss should behave I'm showing them modeling for them what it should be like I would have said unbelievable come sit next to me during the parish this year unbelievable it's the human psyche I'm not even blaming this person it's the human psyche so much so says the mega Joseph that's why the parachute Begins the law of every don't pay it forward don't pay it forward don't behave that way again why the ear we've studied this in the past I'll just leave you with some questions so you listen to the Past or you come up on your own but Wendy pierce the year if the slave says I want to say why do you pierce the ear s Cooney has an amazing comment this we never studied before those are closer to ourselves says you know I appears to ear where do you appears to the ear on the doorpost and you pierce all the way through the ear it leaves a mark on the doorpost you know some people on the doorpost they have the different heights of their kids at different ages different stages right you see how tall they are when compare so the Kuni says if a slave ran away you took him back how did anyone know it was your slave you take him up against the doorpost and you'd see how tall were they and does it match up the hole in their ear with where the indent in your doorpost was that's why you pierce the ear against the doorpost because soon he says it was purely functional pragmatic it was a way of tracking they didn't have apple tracking devices then how did you know it was your slave when you got him back put him up against the doorpost to check if it matched up ultra plus I thought it digs up stuff nobody ever saw her new unbelievable the classic reason given by hazal the same year that I heard that I've seen I don't steal he stole because the evidence the person who stole and doesn't have the funds to compensate and make the victim whole so he goes to work for him so the same year that her don't steal install now has the ear pierced same year that heard of them were slaves only to Hashem and not slaves to other slaves of Hashem now gets to your peers so famously famously the question is asked so when should the ear get pierced right away what are you waiting for the sixth year why do you wait till the slave says I want to stay that's not what he stole that's not what he neglected what he heard at our Sinai so why don't we pierce the ear right away so that he walks around during that term of slavery how long he has to work in order to earn to pay back why don't we do it right away so we've discussed that in the past I'll let you look it up and figure it out then we move on to a Litany of laws civil law tort law to personal laws damages loans partial Miss proxim seems like a random collection compilation of laws there's nothing random about it you have to work on we're not going to now what are the themes and what is the order and what is the sequence what is the messaging that comes out but here the Torah tells us tension conflict fights between people unfortunately is nothing new growth when a person strikes another with a stone or a fist below you must he doesn't dive enough he's injured I have to tell you you know we're living it's mind-boggling I just heard of Russia Weiss just said yesterday he said it's hard to believe that right now the most unsafe place for a Jew in the world is how could it be this wave of Terror is wave of Terror nebuch six year old the eight-year-old boy father still desperately needs artillos fighting for his life yesterday a soldier every day turn on the news in Israel how can it be yerushalayim how could it be and there's so many questions but one question I have and maybe we're not entitled to ask from this side of the ocean we all should be not if but when we will be there but we're watching this wave of Terror people killing Jews and we're watching Jews metaphorically and please God never literally killing Jews in Israel the fights over the judicial reform and other things that's not to say these aren't important conversations important matters important debates they are here every Jewish Community people are arguing shouldn't it be a little bit of a wake-up call dafka while we're being targeted while there are funerals dafka wild there's a wave of Terror like historically while they've tried to kill us we don't kill each other when they're not killing us we go back to killing each other but it's an all-new low to be killing each other while they're killing us it's a wake up something's got to change something's got to be different it's a wake up a wake-up kirivuna Hashim this is not talking about non-jews Jews Jews are fighting just break into fisticuffs they break into violence if I see one more headline about this in Israel the challenges around these reforms what they could lead to again they're very provocative headlines hopefully not true God forbid the Civil War the violence reminiscent of the rabbin hero what it could be we have to wake up somebody's got to change something's got to be different and we're not talking about others it begins with ourselves who we are are we babe but we conduct ourselves how we talk to one another we treat one another how we resolve and communicate when we disagree and when we differ halilah can never lead to never ever ever descend to a point something's got to change we got to wake up we gotta wake up so that's so many messages we don't need the messages let's wake up so we don't need these messages the person gets up and goes outside his own power then you come okay last time you have to pay him for lost time lost wages and you have to compensate provide for healing if the compensate for lost wages and for healing and here we have the Total Resource four Drew's becoming doctors the source for the Jewish focus on medicine which is not a coincidence why do Jews become doctors why do we care about science based on this pasta Gamora babakama says this is the license not the medical license the Torah license for a doctor to practice now why does the doctor needed to realize do I need a total license to breathe do I need to throw a license to be a lawyer do you need a total license to be an accountant a Torah license to be a business person to a license to be a chef or any other profession why do you need Torah permission and Torah license in order to practice medicine so Rashi says because you might say doctor how dare you three bonus will this person be sick we don't understand it we can't make sense of it but this is what's meant to be how dare you try to override how dare you interfere how dare you heal and resolve what Hashem has determined is right for that person now that sounds absurd but to a degree it makes a lot of sense if you're a person that lives if we're a person or people who regularly say that everything Hashem does is for our best then why interfere with what Hashem is determined to be the best so Hashem says I want you to interfere I want you to make things better I want you to take initiative I want you to do everything you can do tells us gives a different answer is same as rash but the ramban gives a different tour quotes to ramban who says you know sometimes in order to heal what do you have to do you have to do surgery a surgeon takes a knife cuts a person open let's say the incision was a millimeter bigger than it needed to be they caused pain that was unnecessary or longer healing time there are unintended sometimes there are things that go wrong in medicine not intentionally that's what the Lord not what the lawyers say but not intentionally so you could be Nim says so maybe you'll say why take the risk let someone else take that risk I don't want to do it how could I do that what if God forbid the person suffers because of me Sonam Bond says take the risk Hashem absolves you not negligence negligence is on you but if you do your best and Hashem says the rest is on Me based on the Raman there's another explanation he can't hurt her injure a party can't cause the black and blue marker cause someone to bleed it's a Prohibition of Allah because the ramen doesn't talk only about not only are you not allowed to punch someone else again our parisha but it's atsmo you're not allowed to injure yourself you can't cause bleeding unnecessarily bruising unnecessarily where it's not our body we're stewards over these bodies they're not ours we're just watching over them they're not ours they're on loan tasks they will be returned and we're simply in charge while we have them and because they're not ours we're not allowed to because so cosmetic surgery Asar matter I understand I'm asking in Boca Raton Florida it's cosmetic surgery you know Boca Raton Florida they say natural childbirth in Boca is to give birth without any makeup on it's natural childbirth in Boca Raton so it's cosmetic surgery allowed we give a Hoshi on it's a big discussion it depends if it's pure vanity or is it psychologically a person feels they need to remove a young woman who felt she was struggling in she had a facial feature she wanted to repair and prove that's javaatsmo we give a second share different share another time can Jews become boxers are you allowed to punch out the other person are you allowed to allow them to punch you can a Jew become a boxer there's a long history of Jews in boxing Jews in boxing there's a long even somewhat illustrious history of Jews and and of boxing all based on this rambam so maybe the doctor says I can't treat patients someone else should do it I can't be hovel comes and says Hashem says here's the knife Hashem says scrubbing Hashem says take the risk take the initiative interfere with me now go and practice go and practice medicine another hesitation someone has I don't want to be Michael Shabbos I don't want to there are those not many who successfully became doctors by having Shoma shabba's residency and shomashaba's practice there are those who are able to be doctors and Shabbos never comes into play never comes into play but many most can't so maybe someone will say I'm not going to be a doctor let others become Hashem says don't worry about my Shabbos worry about my Shabbos and there are laws you have to learn to navigate but don't hesitate or be reluctant don't not save lives because you're worried about your Shabbos and my shamas the rappos go and go and be go and be a doctor but here in the oats are close at Torah he says we have evidence how far does it go back to Jews specialize in medicine become doctors foreign the missionary Golem which is describing the practices in the base amigdash this week is parashishkullam of collecting the shekel and what it was designated for and what it underwrote or sponsored or paid for so parakeet Mission Olive says one of the designated people in charge of the base was Ben akhia who was in charge of this is evidence that Jews were in medicine and evidence that Jews have irritable Bell because what was his job what did he specialize in not skin care not the heart the first gastroenterologist Holy places like Moshe at the snap and one who goes on harabayas there's not a lot of wear shoes what was the floor of the basement made out of Stone the winter in USA Line Stone floor gets very cold what did the kiwanami eat what was their diet made up of a lot of meat buchos they weren't allowed to drink wine in the Azara they ate a lot of meat surprised they didn't have gout they couldn't have won so they ate a lot of meat red meat water barefoot Ed and apparently eating a lot of meat and washing it down with water while being Barefoot on a Cold Stone apparently is bad for digestion some stuff for constipation others from diarrhea this is not why you came to the parish this year today but it is a typical Jewish Gathering and conversation was AGI he was a gastrointestinal enterologist thank you the other days Michelle show when they got out of the basement and they ate all that meat and drink all that wine and walked around Barefoot and they were suffering he treated them to Mission Jews and Medicine says I know how to heal every illness in the world with the exception of three shmuel says we have countless who were doctors who understood science and medicine we also find it among the return I want to take all of our time now the rambam for the rambam was a genius was great the ramen one of his letters even outlines his schedule his daily schedule he was a doctor of the sultan which is maybe the reason he didn't leave Egypt we talked about last week or two weeks ago the prohibition to live in Egypt maybe his dispensation was he was in doctor of the sultan he wasn't exactly allowed to leave the rambam it makes it all the more mind-boggling the Roman didn't have a keyboard an internet connection and a word processor he didn't have the ramen produced his mishna torah's and 17 books 17 medical textbooks all while serving all day for the sultan and then ultimately having to flee for his life and being on the Run because of that we only have one of his medical textbooks it's called pirke Moshe the chapters the books of Moshe we have a medical textbook so the rambam 16 were lost in his mission Torah the rambam was unbelievable Torah and mother Medicine Science that combination for the ramama didn't hold them back and the Rama's Mission Torah has learned every Yeshiva on the planet the ramban rambam was a great Mystic but he also was a physician was a doctor he was a philosopher the tubus of the rajbah the Ramba he writes that the ramban was a doctor the svarnow svarna was a great a great doctor the shelter giborim babina Ephraim was a physician a doctor the list goes on and on of the incredible illustrious prominent history of Jews going all the way back to tanoyman who it was not a contradiction to be both the scholar of Torah and a doctor now the gamara does make a comment about doctors now that we talked about how wonderful how amazing how great and how prominent they are and he says the commander condition that pay base says best of doctors go to my kids would say he double hockey sticks Ganon is foreign the the doctor the the first GI they're all going to get hanum what does that mean and doesn't the pasture I pay we were given license to heal we're supposed to go heal he quotes from his father he quotes from his father a great teaching of Mayor parmishlan making this comment because the doctor needs to know who's the real healer who is the real healer Hashem the doctor is just a messenger the doctor is Justice the doctor is just the agent that was not actually doing the healing but too many doctors surgeons in particular this is not me the surgeons I know and learn with are humble and modest and wonderful but it's notorious in the industry that doctors are arrogant and surgeons are the most arrogant because when you save lives the person was about to die and you gave them life what could inflate an ego more than the whole family everybody saw you're amazing you say live what can we do we can never pay you we love you with your hands with your mind you saved a life saved a life insurance so a doctor who thinks it goes to their head they think they're the one who's sealing they're Brilliance their knowledge their practice their Acumen their skill they're the ones who are diagnosing and treating and they're doing surgery so they don't concentrate on the bracha of Rafa you know why because who needs God they're the doctor says they only have how many bracos what's the matter of tov 9 6 and 2. 17. so they don't know they're missing a bracha so because they don't concentrate because they think they're in charge so Tov shibarov him e thinks Tov Tove should borrow from the ghanam the one who doesn't need you're unimpressed by this Gematria this Insight of Mayor Promise Land by mir's office snuck in the back row he likes it it's got a Gematria it's got a mirror from Islam again many other interpretations of what it means not for now all of them revolve around that notion that a doctor needs to never get confused who's the real healer he's just a messenger just an agent he's not really at all he's not really the one who is in charge okay moving right along oh moving from tobsha barofin and refua as healing in the history of doctors so Revival from shlita he quotes a different tradition Rock shifter pretended Friday right now because this is great for turn Friday into arashabis rakshiftane you know all a Jew needs to be healed Shabbos rakshiv toyutain give a Jewish Shabbos is Shabbos is the great healer Shabbos is the ultimate Pharmacy Shabbos is the greatest therapy Shabbos is the C nor it's the pipeline through which every treatment flows um in the seventh you go free going back to the beginning of the parisha is a Jew finds what they need and that's your needs is the holy Shabbos and I'm sure rights foreign skip a lot bodily arm death by an animal Donald self-defense payment for theft the laws of the four shomrim page 430. Hashem person who brings offerings to other gods the girl don't want to oppress a stranger or convert Because We Were Strangers in the land of of Egypt We Were Strangers in the land of Egypt that's Applause again foreign in fact the most often repeated Mitzvah in the whole Torah is how we treat the convert The Stranger to be sensitive and mindful and careful to not remind them where they came from their Beginnings he feels like an outsider he feels alone and singled out feels like he doesn't belong and therefore we have to be careful because we knew what that was like we've lived that way throughout our history we understand what it means to be immigrants and refugees what it means to be Outsiders and strangers it's not a political comment it's a Jewish comment all of us should know what that means how that impacts policy is a different question but our Humanity should impact and the love and sensitivity we show says if we have to be careful we have to be strict we have to understand this is one of the scariest people in the entire Torah foreign a widow and an orphan do not abuse do not aggravate do not aggrieve the incredibly sensitive caring loving supportive of a widow and of an orphan why because image so if in fact you are harsh you're cruel you're insensitive to them Hashem says if they call out to me they cry out to me you cause them pain and they turn to me so I want you to know I'm gonna hear you know what's going to happen when I hear when I turn an ear and I listen to them I'm going to kill you and then your wife will know what it's like to be a widow and your children will be orphans it's the scariest person I think more than the whole Torah Hashem says he doesn't hold back at all this is like the most gentle sweet parent but if someone messes with their child you'll see that parent become an entirely different person Hashem is kind and loving compassionate but he says you mess with my Widow my my orphans I'm coming after you and your spouse and children will know what it's like to be a widow and orphan unbelievably powerful the imagery is horrific means Widow Mecklenberg says almana doesn't just mean Widow it means you go to you go to a pizza store in Israel you want to order a piece of pizza what do you ask for means a portion of Peace it means a portion missing a portion it's missing a portion so it doesn't just mean the Widow means a family who's missing a portion we know now in our own Community horrifically what that means when is over you can't forget in Israel how many families have sat Shiva over this last weeks and months Terror events and other tragedies you know it's tragic and articles and moaning and crying and the turnout the support but they are forever almana they are forever missing a portion and we the Torah is telling ourselves to be exceedingly careful and sensitive smart what we talk about and how we talk now we behave and what we complain about and cry about as we go forward when we think about the people around us who are al-mana loved Africa a widow but Amana means missing a portion what do we complain about if we're married and there's someone single desperately wants to be married what do we complain about children if there's someone there is desperate to have children what do we complain to someone who's lost a child and so on and so forth Amana but why the double language why the double language why the double language so again we turn two of shore this is from two years ago and here of shore from two years ago says why the double language just have to find where he says it oh it says up short of I'm sure the following sorry but I'm buying from a diet himself was bothered by this question why the double language so this great bells are ever foreign each human being has their corresponding angel above there's who we are down here below and correspondingly there's someone up above and when a person hurts or pains or injured or harms someone down below you've also injured or harmed the correspond corresponding Angel up above and that says the sashalama bells is why the table double language in the possible is even when the gates are closed the Gates of Prayer of cries of this Widow and orphan they get through those Gates and God hears them be very very careful very very careful but then he offers another explanation and he says the following he says why specifically the Widow and orphan does Hashem have their back and will he meet out punishment and revenge and he says the following says you know if someone is married if they're insulted or hurt or injured that a bad day at work you know what they do they go home and they tell their spouse they lie in bed Pillow Talk they tell their spouse they sit over dinner on the couch a glass of wine and they confide and they're consoled and they get strength by telling their spouse a orphan a child rather who has living healthy parents had a rough day at school they were bullied they didn't do well on the test they didn't get into the school the issued the Seminary they applied to the not going the way they want who they talk to parents they confide they're consoled and they draw strength but this is awesome these orphans they're missing a portion they're missing a person they're missing a subject they're missing someone they can talk to confide and draw strength from so therefore you're you're injuring you're hurting them doubly not only did you hurt them by what you said or did but you also hurt them that they have no one to unburden or to share that pain with so they absorb a double blow of the injury and that's why Hashem will double the Revenge he takes against you unbelievable possum unbelievable possible the double portion the double injury the double pain the value Levin that's gives the same vote but I'm sure it gives the same vort why the double language because they're missing that person so therefore you've doubly hurt them because they can't share the burden of their pain since you doubly hurt them Hashem will doubly hurt such a person and their children and spouses will know what that's like Zion next pair page 434. don't pervert judgment with stay far away it's a very funny formulation Torah obligation responsibility torah's focus on honesty and honesty but it's not formulated the way other what should it say no thank you sugar lots of shocker it should say most of shocker don't lie just like it says don't murder don't steal don't lie doesn't say from murder stay far away from from uh from murders they far away from stealing stay far away that's more yeshivish way of saying it but it doesn't say that a signal that's almost trying to tell me I was talking to someone recently about the difference between like really yeshivish and sort of yeshivision so he told me he was in Yeshiva in in Lakewood they were serving grilled cheese sandwiches and the guy online in front of him who grew up in America said the cheese with the bread you have more of them that's issues the cheese with the bread you have more that's that's issues so it doesn't say murder you stay away from when his mother was the end of her life and they made a uh a Shabbos meal around her bed so this question is what they were talking about at the meal they made for around her bed at the end of her life MS if you haven't lied you haven't told the truth by staying far away from shekar you come to the truth yeah it's not enough to not lie to arrive at truth you have to be far away from lies to get the truth and then his mother it was her bed they were surrounding she is a beautiful inside of his mother the end of her life with the Shabbos meal being arranged around her bed she gave this shout when the question was aged quotes his mother that she said you don't know it's truth or lie if you're too close to it I mean you have to step back you have to step away you have to have a third party you have to seek advice from others you have to have some distance sometimes it's a big decision to make and you don't know what's right you know what's moral you don't know it's ethical you don't know what's correct you don't know what you're supposed to do and sometimes you're way too close to the situation you're too zoomed in you're too all consumed and you have nigios you have biases that you don't even know you have some if you want to avoid step away step back look from a distance seek advice ask a third party midvar Shecker if you want to avoid Shakir then you've got to be willing to you've got to be willing to step away okay I'm gonna give us another shot but let's keep going a couple more now we get to the Casino again second half is we're back at our Cena again in fact needs to be divided into two parshyas Ultra Plus it was read on two separate chambuses it wasn't all one passion and you can see that when you read it it's really two separate partios that are combined into one the emotions the 70 elders and bow down from a distance arrives alone but they stayed away they didn't go up with him um Moshe came and he told them all the laws and the people responded all the things that you said that Hashem said we will we will do stay with me this is worth ending with we will do all the things that you said we will we will do so vereign we know that all the Jewish people we are guarantors one for the other a rave means a guarantor array also means sweet we're supposed to sweeten one another go back to what I said before doesn't just mean we're guarantors I sign on your loan I have your back you know I could sign on your loan I never met you I could sign on your loan I don't even know you we have someone in common who asked me for a favor sign on the loan I signed to the guarantor we have nothing to do with each other but that's not what our age means it's not what koiselle means that means sweet call Israel Jews are meant to sweeten one another's life let me carry that for you let me bear your burden let me visit you let me make sure you don't feel lonely let me disagree with you but do it agreeably and give you a hug at the end this is this is the total was given it's the press the prerequisite to receiving Torah we know from last week's passion says can honor all of our differences but we have to be together we have to be United and as I said historically when enemies attacked us that's what United us we needed that to unite us now it seems it's not working that's why we're in grave danger something's got to change our learning Torah our living Torah our practicing Torah but our practicing what is the prerequisite to Torah which is actus which is unity and that's this possible six hundred thousand men over the age of twenty two to three million people stood at the base of that mountain for the first time in the history of any Jewish vote they said all in favor and every hand said I you all know the stupid joke but the show president who goes to visit the rabbi in the hospital board voted by eight to seven to wish you were a full moon it's a dumb Jewish joke it's on the list of they give it to you in Smita the list of bad dumb Jewish jokes towards the top but why is it a Jewish joke because there is no unanimous Jewish vote there is never a vote that's unanimous Purim he was ratsoy the Rover I only saved all the Jews of shushan he only saved them from a Holocaust in shushan and right after they took a vote to renew his contract and there were a bunch of people that sat in the back of school and left for the kitchen and they and they now I vote him down now it was only wrote them says two to three million people stood at the base of that mountain Hashem says I have a Torah I'm not imposing it on you do you want it all in favor and every one of them said aye every one of them said I wanted I'm in have one said no not interested too much too hard and that's why we say in our amida avinu we all voted unanimously Let Us return to that give us a taste of that let us go back to that can't we go back to that can't we just get along that doesn't mean that we're uniform Unity is not uniformity that doesn't mean we all agree on judicial reform or Tai minions start or what kind of exiled to serve a child should us we don't have to agree but there were 12 and our Sinai they stood separately under their logo their emblem their flag they dive in their own they had Challenge and all different versions of kirish there were differences but they were cool just like that's not the language that's what the way it was when you gave us the Torah and for us to Merit still having the Torah living the Torah we have to go back to that but I want to end with one last idea a wonderful caduceus Levy beautiful conditions lady so let me end with one more conditions lady go back to the beginning of this repeated to the people all the commands of Hashem it's a very funny language we have all kinds of languages to describe transmitting a command we don't normally use Seaport by saper why does it say vaishaper so when was this when was this we just fly through the partial we don't want to stop and ask what should be obvious questions but unless we just heard all about Donald Trump laws of loans and laws of evidence now we're back at our CNA when was this so Rashi says it was before the Torah was given and at first the seven minutes has been a Noah and the myths that were given at Mara we got a smattering of mitsos we got a little four Spice at Mara so we got a little few mitzvahs chronological order and what we're communicating now really happened before the Torah was given the ramban doesn't like it the ramban says the word means that moshes he didn't go into the final cabinet Moshe is coming up with new stuff new material these are new laws Turtle doesn't use the word by separate to repeat misses that had already been given this is new stuff new material he doesn't need to explain because the rashpam the rash bandi Vanessa others all agree so Rashi says this is all before Mata rajbam the benezrae was after how can Russia say it was before the Torah was given what laws did Moshe relay and if in fact it was the few that were given already why are they being repeated now and why does it say by sapper instead of vayatsav so listen to this listen to this holy Buddhism Israel Moshe was not giving the laws he did it already so why are you repeating the mirror he wasn't getting into the minutia and the details and the debates you know what Moshe was telling by saper says you know the missus I already gave you the ones you're already keeping I need to tell you something about them you know what I want to tell you you can't imagine what it's doing for Hashem Hashem is looking down and he's seeing you observe and keep his Torah and he's Mr Shaya you don't understand what it's doing for him gives him the joy the happiness the satisfaction that you're giving him you don't understand the schmuck you're giving him you don't understand but his sapper says Moshe wasn't commanding he was telling him a story the story was you're just down here on Earth and you're not getting any feedback you're making a lot of sacrifice there's a tremendous mysterious nephe to keep Torah you're spending ridiculous money on kosher food and Jewish Education you're giving up Saturday you're doing all kinds of other things and you have no idea does it mean anything is it doing anything why bother says or maybe it's like via sapper Moshe says I have something to tell you what I want to tell you is how much it means to him how it impacts the cosmos how it affects the world how it's changing destiny when you want to mouth off to your parent but instead show them honor when you're attempted to check your phone but in step to kept Shabbos when you are drawn to Tuma but instead remain determined to preserve your Purity to strive for kadusha for Holiness you need to know when you didn't watch that thing on the internet when you didn't look when you were honest with your receipts on your business on your business reporting your business expenses and your taxes when you were Vigilant and careful and cautious and Shabbos you need to know What mattered the sapper it makes a difference we use the term nachas to offer a broken we assume that only human beings get nachas parents and grandparents parashem is also capable of getting nachas he's not Beyond it he's not Beyond it Hashem 's needs in that Dr Wolf Hashem has needs and one of his needs is to get nachas from us what parent doesn't is there a greatest joy or greater happiness in the world if you could win a billion dollars in the lottery or get knocked us from your child all the money in the world doesn't add up to a moment of najas from your child when you see your child gets it when you see your child is accomplishing achieving when you can exhale because you see whom your child has chosen and they're on the path and the trajectory of the life that it's going to continue this Legacy long after you're gone to grandchildren and great-grandchildren Hashem shares with us the very end of his hasharm we just close with this the ramachal ends is magnum opus the last words of Messi who is saying May the blessed is God and His Mercy open our eyes and his story teaches his ways give us guide us on his paths may we Merit to give honor to his name and may we Merit Hashem we think Hashem cares when we donate a building or finished shots to start a new organization or something else that's Monumental he cares that you made it to the parish this year he cares that you made it to the end every moment matters it's hard not every partial share is convenient or easy takes effort sometimes struggle but it matters he made it here it matters when you dive him with a little extra cavana it matters when you're mindful when you said that bracha it matters that you made that phone call I sent that text message or you made that difference It Matters by yourself Moshe wanted them to know it matters it matters no the joy that you're giving Hashem and use that as energy and drive to do it again and again and again it was just with the muskowitzes and so many people have done so many things one person in particular did something in the last minute that was a game changer like Texas you don't understand you gave them life you don't understand what you did for them and that's what Moshe is telling us you don't understand what you do for Hashem he thinks he's so insignificant you think you're so inconsequential you think you're so invisible you think it doesn't matter your Shabbos your broccoli you're diving in your kashas you're khasid you're making it to the parish this year it matters it means something it means something to Hashem it means an enormous amount to Hashem there's a lot more to say about it that's what Moshe wanted to tell these laws I gave them to you already and you're already keeping them but I want you to know the pleasure and the nachas you're giving Hashem and use that to motivate you to do more and more and more may we all get nachos from our families I mean we all give tremendous to Hashem tonight at 7 30 there are 1100 people already registered but there may still be a few seats left 7 30 conversation dialogue around anti-semitism join us at 7 30 Rosenberg and Ben Shapiro second