Teztave/Zachor 5786: Yehoshua Fights Against Giving Up

How is it that Yahosua is the specific answer for Amalik? And why is it that Mosha's hands are too heavy to fight without turning towards Yeshua? And what's the really big deal about Malik? Anyway, welcome to the sha for this week, but it's and we'll focus on the fight between in every generation. So we see in the laning that we will lane on purum that's in parasal that is the very thing that we're supposed to recall this shabas that Amal came and fought with with Israel in Rafiden and then Mosher Rabenu said that go Yoshua and choose warriors and Mosha's arms were were heavy. There seems to be some deficiency it would seem so to speak in Mosher Raenu that he cannot fight against Amalik without having to turn to Yoshua. What is that about? But moreover, how do we understand Amal's itself? How do they fight with Kalisrael when they saw all of the great miracles that happened? Although the Reb doesn't state it like this, we know that Yos saw the miracles and he responded one way and now Amalik saw all the very same things Yamamsu and they saw the the the uh the makos and now they're going to fight with Krail. How does that work and why is this war going on for all the generations? The Rebi explains that there's a difference between this moment and all the moments before. We know that Khazal Darian they learned out from the name of the city where the fight takes place in Rafidim that there it was a place where that Israel had relinquished their hand from their proper service of Hashem for their prop proper relationship with Torah. What led to that? What's going on here? So here is the idea. Reb says that Mosha Rabenu is the Doa. He's the generation that is about knowledge of Hashem, about Torah, about clarity. Here is the generation already emerging as the generation of what needs to happen is the service through our own way. And let's explain this. The miracles of including all happened is they happened. The rebon was the one who brought that into being so to speak without any help from Cla Israel. However, here already in the the moments that will be the precursor of Spherus Omar and already of course have within this Zman the Sheff of Spherious Omr. This is the time between and getting tarsi that cla has to apply themselves. They have to apply themselves and therefore the work is being done by those who will apply themselves. However, Kazal tell us actually Saram tell us that what happened is they had a riff. They had a relinquishing of their hand because of the pagan and brisk because of the impurities that they had caused themselves because of indulgences in the sensual realm as teach us in par where it says that he cooled you down on the way or that he happened upon you. However, there are three rashi happened upon you cooled you down and also that ka means mash and from the word carry that there's an impurity have become impure through their own indulgences and we know and so says the when a person fails against the great attempt of the is not simply to get him to sin because for the sin he'll do chuva but the greater attempt says the about the about sinning is that he's going to depress us. He's going to get us lead us to a moment of riffon of giving up on ourselves of not believing in ourselves. And that riffion of not believing in ourselves when it was our time to apply ourselves is what was going on here because of the deficiencies they had created through the mistakes they had made. And if that was the case, Mosher Raenu said the door day of the generation of knowledge, generation of the generation that is not him in simplicity. It's the wrong generation to fight. Moshe didn't have so to speak that to do it. So he said to Yeshua because because the P said in Yeshua in all the days of Yeshua Kasra served Hashem. In fact the Reb in Paris Pinas in an epic piece talking about Carbonos explains that it was only once Yoshua had been established as a leader of Kalisrael that we find in Paris Pinas that there the Torah teaches us about the carbonos because the Yoshua's door was the door of Avoda. Mosha's door was the door of of Dea. And here what's necessary at the moment of riffune is avoda. My own understanding of the Reb's words here means as follows. Sometimes I become down and out about my service of Hashem. I feel like I can't do it anymore because I always fail. In that moment, what it's called for is not so much thinking, but more doing. It's going and performing the mitzvah even though I feel like I can't. that ash which is the which is the which is the spiritual energy of the generation of Yeshua is what's called for here. So, so Mosher says to take people that you know who the people are to theem and then through that aod we can recapture our attitude of victory and that's what they did but this goes on in every generation this is the kipa of a malik it never goes away a malik is always trying to be matial into us to just to put that venom into us that makes us give up on ourselves but that's not the that's not the way for Jews we We don't give up on ourselves. We believe in ourselves. We know that the reonish will help us and we serve Hashem even when we might otherwise relinquish our hand because of our own depression around our failures. The Reb says here in several other places that shabas is the opposite of Malik because is on the one hand remember that. And shabas show remember the yabas to sanctify and what this is the very reality of shabas and we should feel that every single shabas I know many of us do that a malik wants to make us feel that we should give up on ourselves you fail and you'll fail again you shouldn't even try says a malik but shabas comes and reminds the even though I may not have lived up to my potential all week it's shabas kesh I'm reminded of what I can be here Here in our community, I often say that in this world, there is a war between the body and the soul. And in that competition between the body and the soul of who will be who will have supremacy, the body has homec court advantage here in Olum Haz in this world of temptations, the world of difficulties. But on Shabas and Yontiff, suddenly the yoma, the soul, the nama has that has wrestles back that homefield advantage. there's a tilt towards the ability of the soul to take over and to be that way. And that's the beauty although I know it's very hard especially on the on the on the Jewish mothers out there. It's very hard to make a three-day which we have coming up pes but a three-day is three consecutive days of homefield advantage for the soul of victories coming easily of what it means to be a ye being on the front of my of my feelings not using the shabas to simply indulge in physicality of fancy foods or long naps but to bee excalance through the shabas that's shabas remember the shabas that's what fights back and reminds even though I may have failed I can rise Again, this is the aod of the aod of Yeshua. This is the fight back against Malik. That Zakar and this are corresponding and they are equals. Let's use every shabus and let's penetrate through any moment that we feel I can't to say even though sometimes I don't live up to my greatest potential, I'm not going to let a mulch really get me. I'm going to live up to my potential through a vote to serve Hashem the way it's supposed to be. And then everything will fall in line and will rise and rise and rise until the level of hari. Have a great chabas.