A Vort From the Rebbe Parshas Chukas Balak Shapiro, Rabbi Leibel Schapiro - 5786

from the this week's para para hookas but we're going to talk about the first secret beginning of paras beginning of pass it says hashem spoke to me and he told them this is the hookah of the this is the law of the and he went on to tell him the mitzvah of the red cow the red heer as they call it in English and he gave him all the details how to do it what it accomplishes etc etc and the obvious question is why does that say this is the law of the it should have said this is the law of the just like by the says when Hashem tells us the laws of the he starts off by saying this is the laws of the so here it should have said also this is the laws of the why does it say this is the hook of the andb says that this teaches us that whatever the is it represents the whole this the is the whole is the of the what does that mean and this what the Reb explains we know in the mitzvah of the we have three categories and are those mitzvah that have a reason and if the would not have given us those mitzvah we would have kept it anyway like don't steal don't kill etc etc. Then you have mitzvah that also have a reason. But if the tra wouldn't tell us, we wouldn't have kept it. For instance, Shabas, there is a reason for the mitzvah of Shabas. Hashem created the world six days, rested on the seventh. So he gave us a mitzvah to rest on the seventh day. That we should keep in mind that the creator of the world is Hashem and he created the world in six days. But if the Tatum wouldn't tell us the mitzvah of Shabas, we wouldn't keep Shabas. Same thing, for instance. There is a reason we understand the reason for film is a Jewish uniform. Is supposed to remind us that the brain with the film is shows that we have to give over our intellect to Hashem film on the hand which is next to the heart that we have to give up our emotions to Hashem and on the hand which represents the actions. So that's a reason for the mitzvah. But if the Torah wouldn't tell us to keep the mitzvah, we wouldn't do it. But then there are mitzvah that if the wouldn't tell us, we wouldn't do it. And even after the tells us, we don't know that we don't understand it. And amongst theim now, not too many, but amongst theim the most greatest, the less understood is the mitzvah of so much so that it says I understood the reasons of all the exceptum. something that's completely beyond reason. And this is what the is trying to tell us with the word. In truth, the whole is beyond our understanding. Whatever we understand, that's not the real true understanding. That's just the surface. Really, it's impossible to say that the and the mitzvah are understood because the is the is the wisdom of hem and the says and his wisdom are one. The mitzvah they are the will of hem and hem and his wisdom are one. If the is one with hashem, the mitzvah are one with hashem and hashem is infinite. How is it possible for our little finite mind, as great as it is, it's finite, to understand the infinite wisdom of Hashem? So really, we don't understand this. Hashem just did us a favor that he gave us understanding of certain things to make it easier for us to do it. But this is not, we have to remember this is not the essence. We do it because Hashem said so. And there's much more much more in it. And therefore in order to remember that Hashem gave us at least one mitzvah which makes no sense whatsoever is the biggest the biggest or we call and that is really the whole so he gave us the mitzvah of and he says this that is which is obvious that it's beyond our understanding we have no connection to the understanding of it that is the whole this is the whole because the whole is really beyond our understanding in truth and That's why the TA doesn't say it's not only the it's the of the whole because gave it to us to show that this is the hook of the whole and the em is that if the tra would be understood completely everything. One might think if it makes sense to me that means my brain is capable of understanding it. Obviously the tra the mitzvah were made by somebody that is my level maybe smarter than me. So he figured it out but obviously it's my level. It's not something so special. The fact that there are things we don't understand that shows that the is given from the supreme being which is beyond understanding which is the so that's why gave us at least one a few we have but at least the main one which is the is to show that the whole is beyond understanding which by the way reminds me I once had a guest for shabas. He came on Friday he sat to learn the whole day he learned gim shabas he learned the whole day shabas morning I told him I give a shir inidus in the morning so I said could you come with you want to come with me to the shir so he says no I don't learn I said to him what do you have against learning means I have nothing against but I just don't understand it and therefore what's the purpose of learning if I don't understand it so I said it's worthwhile for you to come at least one time to learn something that you don't understand you'll realize that the whole thing is whatever we understand is so little of what the ty really is. So at least one thing you don't understand so come. So he said you're right. So he came to the sh to learn to at least learn something that he sees we don't understand and the whole ty is like that. The problem was when I asked him later how was it? He says I understood everything but the idea of trying to learn something we don't understand makes sense and same thing with mitzvah. One mitzvah we don't understand. And that shows that this is really what the and the mitzvah are. And it's saying it's all which is really infinite bleak v beyond our understanding.