Mishpatim - Accessing the Miraculous

you're listening to the weekly parsha podcast with our Eagle drag recorder with us jams never-ending assistance in Rome a pitchman Israel 5780 2020 this is far as purchase Mishpatim and before we get into the crux of what I want to speak about which is something which is mentioned in our part show which is the idea of shemitah the idea of six years we work the ground seventh year we stop six days up we work 7 days Shabbos those two concepts are stated one next to the other there are juxtaposed in a parsha before I get to that I want to just give like an overview of what's going on in our Prussia it's really important to understand because it's easy to miss it because when we read the beginning of the parsha we are reading we're starting in the middle of a narrative we're starting the middle of a story the tories told us last week how the Jewish people receive the Torah non sign we heard the Ten Commandments in this week's part should we get all these mesh bottom all these different laws many many laws have to do with it every you'd have to do with so many different details of human interactions and then the Torah turns to the narrative of our see 9th and tells us how much Rubino was commanded and there's a kingdom and the elders to come to certain locations to come up close and the Jewish people said now sevenish man they will receive the Torah and the Moshe Rabbeinu went on to Mount Sinai for forty days that's the end of our partial it's important understand as the Rambam learns and the ibanez rrah that this is a continuation of the narrative meaning a college boy who God spoke to the Jewish people in Mount Sinai then the the laws were given over there Mela hamish bottom these are the laws this is all part of the different a British this is all part of the Covenant is these obligations another Mahavira between man and man between Benidorm lahmacun between us between us on occasion burro who this is all part of the bris cruiser the covenant that was made between the Jewish people in God at Mount Sinai and it was signed so to speak when they said no sevenish man and they said we will do and we will listen it's important to have that understanding of the partial because easy to miss and with that I want to jump into the to departure into the specific laws you know as I've mentioned numerous times whenever I look around for something to say whether it's in the real-time Friedlander Lou Levitz or in the command room ban wherever it is I'm always looking for something which touches me which is something I feel like I could borrow who God is showing me because I'm always looking for what is God trying to tell me in my life in my day-to-day and I always in trying to find something that pertains to that in the parsha or in the difference form that I look at in order to prepare this DVAR Torah and the thing that was coming up for me this week very much already over the last two weeks was something which I've been reading about I learn every single day concepts to be talking in my dragon saw a dumb and another saber Batak wash em we have our be talking group men mean on Sundays women meet on Tuesdays and I'm always thinking about the idea be talking one thing that I read this week in my tragus Sodom and the altar of Navarre liqu he says that there's a very interesting thing in the circum it's not an art parsha but it's related over here we'll read soon from our parsha but the Torah tells us the idea of shemitah and he tells and it tells us that there are six years you work in the sixth year you get enough you get triple blessings with CBC's rákóczi ashan promises you get triple blessings in the sixth year that will last and there will be enough food for you for a year six years seven and your aid until you have already started and gotten your crops up and you're receiving the crops so you have enough you have a tremendous blessing that comes out when you keep shmita this is a promise it's an amazing thing i just heard today and this year for my russia shiva on the topic will be talking grab a pair that it's an amazing thing Hashem made a promise the Jewish people were living with the base some English first base I'm making a second made some English for over 800 years between the two of them and the Jewish people were keeping shmita every seven years the entire country came to a standstill he gives a whole description of what happened you know about thirty years ago when Americans sold 20 million bushels of wheat to the Russians that every was a whole thing and it caused a rise in prices even though there's 480 million bushels being produced every year in America but that's small now being missing cause cause the rise in the prices you imagine if the entire country would stop for a year a full year and you can see it's not like one you know this part can do one year this part does a different year at the entire country would would stop and so tremendous thing unbelievable thing unbelievable mitzvah no human being could have commanded this only I could assure borrow who only God the one who is in charge of the crops in charge of the rain in charge of the produce could make such a promise but Akhilesh one who makes this promise and the author of Navarre points out that it's important to understand that the terrace says to you in paramagnetic about shanachie is if you're gonna say what am I going to eat in the seventh year don't worry a sham says I'm gonna bet CVC aspra costs I'm gonna give you triple blessings but he says what is the person asking this question when is a person saying what am I gonna eat in this in the seventh theory if he's lived through shemitah he knows there's triple blessings is it only the first time that person asks this question and he says that the nature of a person is this is very powerful idea here this very well it's important the nature of a person is that in the first year they're worried oh my gosh was gonna be meat in the seventh year I'm not gonna have any money I need to start putting away now oh so I won't eat my fill right now I won't I won't be I won't use everything that I have now I'll put away a little bit and I'll save up and I'll be able to have enough for the seventh year the alternate verdict says how could this world who says don't think that don't say that trust me trust me don't don't sock I'm gonna send you how much you need in the year in your one I'm gonna send you how much you need in year two don't put away extra for year seven and you will see if you trust me you will see that in year six you'll have a triple blessing but if you don't trust me says the alternative otic in the name of God so to speak if you don't trust me what's gonna happen is that you won't have triple blessings in year six if you put away for yourself Hashem seal Katja mean if God is your shadow you're not gonna have an thing extra in your six you're just gonna have whatever you saved and you know it's gonna happen you're gonna get sick of it because you can't always penny pinch you're not able to do it the next cycle and you're gonna end up not keeping shmita at all that's what the alternative our text says now here's why this thing so profoundly was such a powerful idea for me this week I found it to be so powerful and very soon we're gonna get to our parsha I found to be powerful is that often I have found it to be true and on the beat up a meeting we were talking about it and others have found it to be true that when a person has a certain goal let's say I had a goal which was in my crowdfunding to raise 25 thousand dollars okay I had a hare Gish and parathas because I've seen this to be true in the past I had a hare give shot of feeling that by the end by the by the last day by that time which was around two b'shvat there would be some something would happen and things would switch over something would happen and they would get it would get there it would get there head of hair Gish and someone else who was in the group also described indeed how he had done a crowdfunding for his organization and indeed a similar thing occurred at the last moment and it made me wonder like what's that about like and with me so it was slat as of as of last Thursday the Thursday before the end of the crowdfunding as a Friday so I was at about fifteen thousand dollars of the twenty five thousand dollar goal really I knew there was some other stuff coming but it wasn't I wasn't there and then omatsu Shabbos Hashem sent me and I specifically said could Ashmore who pleased show me send me stuff send me help in a way that's clear that it's not connected to my hairstylist not connected to my efforts and indeed that's what happened I matzah Shabbos a very generous donor from Germany gave five thousand dollars and then on Monday another fifteen hundred dollars the same person amazing amazing so grateful but I saw and I told her and I told and I told the other person was involved in in bringing us about I said you know I asked I could have Baku to show me something and I felt like you guys were his you were his agents it felt like he was beyond what I had done beyond his thoughtless efforts that I put in and that's that's the thing this is this is where I want to go to this is where I want to get to an amazing thing an amazing thing and you see this in the concept of shemitah and you see this parallel concept in six days of the week because it's not just shmita but it's supposed to be every single week here's the second in our parsha partials Mishpatim kerkhof giemo PASOK huge the shoshone tiara aside circus artist wasa for six years you will plant your fields you plant the land and you'll gather in the tool you'll gather in the produce gosh wheeze Tuschman Tanana tosh.dough in the seventh year you got a stop off Leone America interestingly the poor people will be able to come and take from the fields you use from title the use from total crisis said whatever is left will be eaten by the animals came to Silicon Valley this is a sucker you aren't to touch it Tory doesn't give a whole deep explanation of this it just says the halacha just says the law next passuk right okay we know she meters six six years in the seventh year so you know we can think about the fact that it parallels this six days of the week and the seventh day which is Shabbos but the puss it doesn't just leave it to our imagination the puss hook places immediately after that she a scientist a moussaka for six days you do your would you do what you do well why don't I show you Tisch place on the seventh day don't work the manya new offshore cover camera roughly no fish venomous I must call her Gary everyone's got a rest your animals rest your slaves rest etc okay interestingly immediately after that Tara tells us improbable see if we have time to get to this shall I should go and talk likely it's one possible later shoulder should come talk ugly vashanoo it's hamachi dish more keep these three regatta these three holidays Pesach shwoo asuka's the three major holidays on the Jewish calendar hopefully we can get to an understanding of why what the connection is between Schmidty Shabbos and the hugging but before we get to that what I want to see what I want to understand is what is the message here of shmita what is the message and how does it relate to Shabbos and of course we know what his idea of Shabbos hakodesh Bock who created the world in six days each week and we celebrate Shabbos besides for all of the side benefits which is it's nice to be free from our cellphones and it's nice to be free from our social media and it's nice to be free from all of the worries of the world and listening to the news etc etc all the things that are certain our work all the things that you know make us busy besides for that those are fringe benefits so to speak but what is Shabbos about Shabbos is about of recognitions if he'll my sebaceous it's a remembrance we acknowledge that a collage for who created the world in six days and he rested on the seventh day now that's obviously also very much connected to what we're talking about here but how is it connected what is the idea that we need to remember every single every single week we remember that um created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day and I would add another layer of a question why did I shall do it that way why did I shall work so to speak why - um embed into creation that he creates for six days and then on the seventh day he steps back so to speak and he says Wow look at this amazing creation that I created what his idea that sham rests as it were on the seventh day Shen doesn't need to rest what is the concept and I think that the idea is extremely deep extremely beautiful and so essential so important to understand and it speaks to every single one of us and you know in the view talking groups and then beat up on podcasts so we've spoken about the different levels of beat often the fact that a person can be according to the alternative Artic that you can have absolutely be talking without any titles you don't do any efforts whatever you need just comes to you if you have absolute absolute powerful faith in God all your needs will be provided for that's the highest level of betoken going to rob of Ramana Rambam that level is the level of the novum of the Prophet according to the alternative Artic anybody can access that level but the authorative article also talks about shmita and Schmidt is clearly not speaking about somebody who is completely trusting in God he's doing his own efforts he's working he's working the land he's working his land put in the seventh year he has that baton he asked that trust and that's the middle level I'll be talking that's the middle level of having faith in God now at this level there's a mistake that people make and I've mentioned this and they'll be talking about guests and perhaps I mentioned it here in the partial podcast but there's a mistake that people make people think that I need to do every stylist I have to put in every effort and then a Shem I have to leave the results to God that's what it sounds like perhaps even it sounds like that from certains forum and if you read certain farm indeed it does sound like that but that's not true in my in my understanding I'm certainly not the middle level which is the level that's expected really for all Klaus Rowe is described right here in the Taira in regards to shemitah which is work for six years on the seventh year stop . you will see supernatural blessings i promise you so hm you will see supernatural brought blessings you will see it in the end you will not see it in the beginning you won't get extra in your 1 to put away don't get extra near to to put away you won't get extra near 3 to put away now 4 not 5 you're 6 you'll have to wait to see the extra blessings and barrasso yeah you know in thinking about why that is it could be in the merit of my showing my faith in Akhilesh baku showing that i'm not going to put aside i'm not gonna save up now for later but in the merit of showing I trust in Hashem I get extra blessings at the end in year 6 at the last moment right at the last moment that's where the blessings arrive they arrive there because a trust and a collage for who they are either because I have beaten now this is the level for all of Claudius row for time how do I know that it's not just when we have a midsole shmita first of all we do have a misdemeanor abundant of shmita but how do I know that it's not just and because of these sukham because it places the myths of shmita right next to the mitzvot not in the mitzvot right next to the concept of Shabbos that every single week we work for six days and Shabbos we rest what is the idea there are people who work seven days a week are people who work every single day they never let go of their of their computer of their emails of their work they work every day what is the idea here the idea here is the tyre is telling us embedded in creation embedded into reality is a masseuse that if you work for six days but you completely trust and I caught a burro who that there is a God a creator you will see every single week every single week you will get to Friday and Friday will have enough for Shabbos and it's very interesting the Gemara there's a Gomorrah that speaks about Hillel and Shammai how they would put aside portions they would put aside a portion special for Shabbos Shama that's what he would do he would buy something on Sunday special for Shabbos and I Monday he would find something nicer you he was eat the first thing and he would set aside the second thing on Tuesday he'd find something even nicer by Friday he got the nicest thing and that's what he would eat on Shabbos but Hillel was wasn't even deeper an even deeper level well Hillel do he wouldn't put anything aside on Sunday not Monday not Tuesday not Wednesday until Friday on Friday he would have be talking as Rashi explains in the Gemara there he had be taught me a full faith in God that he would get a beautiful thing the nicest thing that he needs on Friday for Shabbos and I would say this is my shot but I always say that in the merit of him having be talked on on Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday bang on Friday that's where the extra blessings came in the actual blessing came in because of his of his battalion at Kadesh Berlin okay we have to understand shammai and as I'm as I'm speaking out this idea I have an insight into it but it's not again for this words but what is the idea the idea is that the blessings come in at the end that's the naiton the natural world for someone on our level our level Danette not we're not speaking about the alternative arctic who could sit in the forest and have and happy Tucker I'm gonna send him a candle there is such a thing and I know people who live that way but for the average person the tire is speaking to every person and says you can see blessings supernatural blessings and this is how every week trust me trust me that you will have enough show self-sacrifice Shabbos is a special day you don't do any work you stand back you stop this is embedded into creation when Hashem created the world he wanted us to see that in the natural world an amazing thing it's possible to access the supernatural everything builds up so think about it in the six days of creation when was the one was the big day what was the big day was Friday that's when man came onto the scene that's when the human being was created and then everything was already there everything was all ready for him came Shabbos he had everything that he needed the whole world was created for man man came on the scene last so - it is with us Hashem sets up everything for us in our lives all we need to do is acknowledge it all I need to do is see it all we need to do is act upon it when we keep Shabbos we are making a statement to ourselves and taco - wha-hoo that we believe that he's going to provide for us beyond our natural efforts because you know naturally we should have to work every day in order to provide for ourselves if you want bread you got to make the bread man you should have to work on Shabbos when we don't work on Shabbos we acknowledge and we prove to ourselves into a kodesh Miroku we believe that he's going to give us double blessings on Friday but she does and just like it was with a month the mana came in a double portion on Friday so - it is with us and so - it is that's how it was with shmita which was an awesome display of the supernatural coming into the world through their faith and so - it is every single week we are enjoined to live this way every single week not to put in every effort not to go to the to the nth degree in our studless but to say I'm going to do regular Atlas regular efforts to reach my goal whether my goal is $25,000 or whether my goal is what I need for this week to pay my mask on - to pay my mortgage whatever it is I want to put in reasonable efforts but I'm only going to do 6/7 of the efforts and I'm going to see because I leave space for kodesh borrow who to bring blessings in a sham will bring those blessings to me because of my faith it's a merit we gain such a great merit and of course we can there are higher levels than the higher levels so persons inaptitude perhaps do first do less effort but the highest level is I don't have to do any efforts that's the level of the month actually I'm on Chloe's from before they got into a tea straw they were living at an even higher level where they didn't have to do anything they didn't have to work the ground they did the the bread just fell from heaven they received it and even there they saw double blessings on Friday amazing thing even there they needed to remember that it's coming from a kodesh bar who there's supernatural within the supernatural amazing idea but it still holds true till today it's such a powerful lesson and it helps us understand it sometimes seems like wow what's going on you read the stories about be talkin there's so many stories munna and it seems like it's always waiting to the last second the laughs that's always the last minute that that's when the blessing seems to come that's when the the money shows up so to speak and I think that this is the idea this is the reason for it because we live in this world and a cobra who does expect us and he has embedded to reality that we need to do a certain amount of Estados we need to put in a certain amount of efforts and at the same time he wants us to see that he's going to provide supernaturally at the end he's going to give us that jolt at the end so that we can see that he is there that's the promise as the promise of the Taira promise of the tire is shishani Metis recite surah ash we estimate Ana you in the seventh you don't do anything and you'll see aku aku tog is gonna take care of shisha serum and tossa Masako six days you work Shabbos take off and what happens after that and we have a minute to just mention the idea that recline Friedlander says what happens at the end is that you have those childish wriggle and what's the idea to Schuller shrew Gollum is what I'm feeling there explains in our partial the idea is that we come to the base hamikdash we leave our homes we leave our farms we leave our businesses we leave our houses where where everything takes place and we come to the base HaMikdash we leave all of the sensory perception which brings us to believe has us believe that we are the ones doing it we step out of that we come to the base some English to the temple where we have this sense of that the chibok who is all there is and it reminds us to say thank you to have gratitude to have deep gratitude to recognize where it's all really from even the first six days of creation of course where are they from of course we see it more in a triple blessings on day six or in year six but a Kadesh war who wants us to remember where it's from Shama wants us to be reminded and to be maka Tov to express our gratitude and our appreciation and a recognition that it's Hashem who is doing it for us and the blessings at the end show us that really everything before that was also him so the amazing powerful lesson that we see from the concept of shmita from the concept of Shabbos itself is a is a weekly reminder that this is what was embedded into reality the you can expect a miracle you can expect extra blessings in your life all you need to do is leave space every week it's called Shabbos leave space for a kodesh borrow to send those blessings and you will see those blessings all the time and you'll be able to learn that each and every person all are the efforts that they put in really the results are completely in you know independent of their efforts and dependent on a Shem so I want to bless you and ask you to bless me I should help us to recognize this idea to be able to live by this ideal to be able to see the blessings in our lives that are beyond what we could possibly do ourselves and realize that everything everything is from him thank you so much for listening wonderful Shabbos [Music] this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.carmensognonvi.com/newsletter [Music]