Maharal on Parshas Shoftim Shiur with Rabbi Simcha Bunim Berger at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim

We're good. >> You ready? >> Y. >> Okay. Good evening. >> Maral. It's the month of El. I thought it would be appropriate for us to take a suggest [Music] is called the the of the and what we need to do what we need to do to fight our berish melik writes If your enemy is hungry, give him bread if he's thirsty. Let him drink water. You're putting coals on his head. And hem will pay you for that. When we talk about a when we talk about as Mar is going to explain has many different interpretations. [Music] Can mean a physical enemy. Unfortunately, somebody physically another person who hates us and the could be the who's also known as Sina. Each one needs an interpretation. Each one needs a Hezb of what because encompassed in the words all the so them that he's giving has to encompass all types those that you're allowed to hate back like a real Russia as we'll soon see this was also said about hasha and then another Jew which is where you need to figure out the way to make schol to make peace and not keep a is going and then of course there's the yates and there are different types of yates. So let's learn tonight a little bit of what the moral has to say on the different type of and how the way moral interpret's words. Let us begin to teach us. If your enemy, and now we're talking about the physical enemy, is hungry, is needy, actually the best thing to do to diffuse a fight is to take the initiative and have Rakmanus be the bigger one and have Ra Rahmanus on the person that hates you. Show them good. Show them will turn the enemy around. [Music] You're connecting to him. He's not going to expect it. He certainly won't expect it. And he won't trust you at first unless he sees indeed that you're serious and genuine. What will that accomplish? because you're going to be until the sinner will go away. He won't be if he sees the genuine will pay you for this. the you have all the reasons and all the excuses to be not nice to him because he hates you and yet you're still says that is a and that that's one shot that's one type of s then you have a different sina like a hum or Russia who's a sign that you got to get rid of. With him you can't make peace. He comes from what do you do with him? When you give him bread, then you make him into someone that's in you. because you've done good with him. He says, why did Esther of all things Esther invited Huda? because of this. What's the bottom of the page if you're on him? If you're capable of listen to the next word, you become the on so he doesn't have the anymore to fight against you. The no is empowered to be the one who is in charge so to speak over will help you in a sense because you created a situation where you're the if you're his source of parnoso So then you're his source of life. If he needs you, then he can't destroy you because >> he said this last week, the giver of sodaka cannot die because >> that's right. >> Means he always needs her just for this wasn't >> but he needed her >> pay his bills. >> They needed her the next day. She came back a sec for that which he needed. He had money but what he needed he needed from her and she became his mash and that's why she pulled the plug. Those are tim but what's the next part which is the second column he's the enemy of a person. says, "One of his names is will be you." What's the beer? He's hungry. He tries to get you. He takes you to evil. says the maral there are two types of yates in a person even though we call it a yates har there's one which means it's the body and then there is the souler the of the nephesh even the nephesh which is meant to be spiritual and good can become bad. For example, amida like ga amida like cass anger giva hardiness is not a physical a physical ra is tya anva that's physical wanting to do something that's inappropriate that's gashmi but then there's rani let's see it inside. The the learning of we'll soon see and the internalizing of has these two week one is the say light amine and is the letters no pleasure. It's the it's the it's the pleasure that a person has to stay away from [Applause] is you're not going to tell me what to do. I'm going to do what I want to do. That's a visor. That's a visor and light. Each of them have a and each of them represent each one is a what should you do with them? My son, if this pervert comes to you, pull him into the Bahameish. If this Yates is a stone, he'll crumble the embarel. And if he's metal, he'll he'll he'll explode [Applause] on the one hand like a fire and a fire against the metal and aish against the stone. What is this concept of a that's a stone and what is a concept of that's like says the har is obligated to do mitzvah which means to do something. What do you think the Yates is going to tell you when you have to go do something? >> Don't do it. So, he'll tell you, "Be like a stone. Don't go anywhere. Stay here. Don't move." I'm at the bottom of column number two. Don't listen. Don't accept upon doing because it's heavy. He doesn't want to do just stay there. He doesn't want to be piled. No. If it's an Evan, you have to go ahead and destroy it. Break it. Don't be when it comes to doing mitzvah. And the is telling you don't go break it. Break the cell. When it comes to doing what does say do it that's so there he'll do things he's not supposed to do which he doesn't do why is he like azel he's like a barel do something negative for that a person that as well. Now comes the line the line of the evening. How does the Yateshara break the stone and destroy the metal? The answer is because a person does something wrong. when he feels like he's a bassin when he feels unworthy when a person is bishamos he has the kayak to fight everything I always say over a vert I heard it from one of my one of my Josh says he would say to me rabbi You can only love your if you love yourself first. You have to be at peace with yourself to be able then to be healthy enough to be when a person hates themselves. When a person is too hard on themselves, you think they're going to be good. they're not healthy enough. A person has to have and then in then he can have schlamus in other things. A person who's a then unfortunately is susceptible to do all things wrong because he doesn't have the to fighter means you have to fight. You have to be able to get used to saying no when the Sahara says yes. And when the says yes, you have to say no. You always have to have that connected. And when a person isn't he's not complete then how does he get the strength to be able to combat and to go through that fight and do what it takes to be the which gives a person It's it's complete. It gives a person a sense of purpose, a sense of belonging, a sense of righteousness. When a person learns Tyra and connects to Tyra, he feels good about himself or about herself. They feel good. That is the now you can fight and you have the wherewithal to be able to make the right decision and push. isra when a person is doing the right knows the right thing to do understands we said over in zerimsh I told over a story about brahawitz his father passed away and the kadisha said close his eyes and he couldn't do it because he didn't know why he didn't know the t so he couldn't didn't have any time. He didn't know the reason, so he couldn't have a taste. He didn't know the reason, so he couldn't connect to it. As soon as he understood why you're supposed to do it, now it made sense. Then it becomes enlightening. When a person learns Tyra and starts to understand how things work, that gives them aus. They have an understanding and they feel good and they understand what they're supposed to do and what they're not supposed to do. That itself gives us the courage and the energy to follow through and do the right thing is it takes away the smallness. When this goes away. A person comes to the where he is uplifted. This is what the when we talk about the being refers to you know the word also comes from the word and matzah is matzah which also means to fight. My used to say when a person sits down to what are you eating for? Is it for your gof and only for the gof or you gonna pick yourself up and make that make that into you're going to make it's the prop every if you never fight with your so then what's the fight you always lose you don't fight it's always only about the gashmi but as soon as a person learns tyra and he understands that there's more to life than just the gashi that there's and that there's mitzvah. So now becomes go ahead and fight you find the of the in every single thing and your I want to explain this one point friend and we'll conclude tonight with this. How did everything come in the world? Where did it come from? [Music] He said and it became every [Music] do means thing comes from a dour from a word. Hashem, you want the rrook of the gashmas. The is the of the do of the physical. The hashem, the the words of Hashem is the in the bria. How do you unlock the in the when you make a and when you eat and it's not just a physical act but it's a act so you get to the hashem in the do you're able to release the that's in the gashmas so your body and your nish are having from what you're doing when there's no connection to it's just it's just what fessing but as soon as a person has the and has a is not it's not supposed to sit down is a mice because his actions are dictated by his. So even though he's eating but his eating is the it's the that through his he's nourishing his goof because it's good for his and that's what he's thinking about versus somebody that's just into the physical because he's not fighting the every has that within ourselves to be that We're all sadikim. We all have that to unlock the devour hashem in every do to get to the that there is in every single thing to enjoy the world but enjoy it in a way not that the takes you away from the connection to Hashem through the but together the two of them complement each other that's the of fighting the and being able through the hashlam of to get to the hashem in every do to be able to get to the which is in the gash that's eating enjoying doing it for the way aid is supposed to do it and that's the can get to so this is the month of fighting. It's the month that a person has to fight and be and fight against those that are telling him not to do. And with that battle, we're victorious. You got to go to war. And which we do every single day to win battle after battle. So to win and be victorious in our battles should be misgab over the gashmas that we encounter in everything that we do should t be released through our midas through our a good chabas.