Maharal Shiur Parshas Naso with Rabbi Berger

This week's Torah portion discusses the Indian of a Nazir. In our Zerimsh, we spoke about Nazer Shimshin. Let's talk about the regular parish of Nazirus. First of all, I want to welcome everybody to Torah anytime to all the yeden that helped make this shir possible and to be may fits to spread. The of the and the should bear says like this and B it's quoted in the moral on the first column you can follow along says as follows said to eat a form. I've never did except for one and I want to tell you the following story fellow came was a he came from the south he was very handsome nice looking and you can see that His hair was growing like locks. Why do you look like the way you do? Why do you worked as a shepherd for my father? I went to draw water from the Ali babua Shali. I looked at my appearance. You know when you look into the water sometimes it can give you a mirror image and I realized hey I'm not a badl looking guy. And I saw right there and then that my good looks and my wanted jumped upon me. The jumped on me and wanted to take me away from the to ruin my life. I I said to my Who's he talking to? He's talking to his own. What are you being so hotty about a world that's not yours? What's going to happen to you? What that handsome fellow that you are eventually goes back into the ground. I will now he said this this fellow said I will cut the hair for meaning instead of focusing on my looks I'm going to now devote myself as a to the when heard this I gave him a kiss on his forehead for you. A person should be a like you. You're the kind ofer is Linder. You're the kind of person that that Nazerus was created for. What's this? What happened? Why was this different? Why was this taka different? So the marel in the third perk of perov in I quoted it for here you're on the top. >> Yeah. >> The maral writes on the ben mahal in this Mishna. He addresses that story and gives us the insight to why this nazir was the choiciest and the best nazer to be. If you look at three things you won't come to do. Where do you come from? Where are you going? And who's going to give it over here? Let's get straight to the words of the he second paragraph. He wants to teach a person. How do you take how do you get ahead of your Yates? How do you are able to control not that you sin, not just that you sin the for the how do you get underneath or ahead of the in other words the which would bring a is of course the This causes a person to sin. Agab I just want to explain moral in safer net explains one of the most important between us and is that the reason a sins is because he doesn't have the wherewithal that anid has is more tiv And by a person has a g the go wants to do things that the go wants without a has a even though he has a go. If the nama is in control then the ye has no reason to sin. The reason a ye sin says the moral is because outside forces called the yates is what controls us and we become like an e to our yates. We end up listening to the yates but it's not really rich. If you leave it up to what we want, we have a service. It's called Once upon a time when there was a Bikto. You took two goats. They looked exactly the same. Those two goats represent the every person his and his and when they made a they took one of them and that went all the of and it went zoo. They sent it over a cliff. They sent it to Gehenn. They sent it to help. They sent it lael and with it went all the of the other one the dam the blood was brought into the represent and that went into the going into the was that the other one could go. Do you know why? Because we filtered every who we really are. And you know who we really are? We're really You're still the children of So why' you sin? Really? The devil made me do it. Yeah. But you have to recognize him and you have to separate yourself from it. But deep down it's the if that's true says Ben Mahal. So let's get ahead of our Yates. Let's figure out an that we can do to separate ourselves so it shouldn't control us. Let's go inside and see what he says. truth be told even if you know you're going to give I'll say it in English when the gets a hold of you you're not making any right now he's already right now he's already right now he's already for you >> you're done. That's right. Therefore, therefore, a person has to pull away the before it comes to you. That's the Mishna. So, you don't even before it shows up. Once the got a hold of you, now it's you'll have to try to fight a different day. So this is preemptive strike a preemptive. How does the get into a person continues the you know how he gets in the when a person feels that he is something on himself he's A person's jealousy a person's ta his lust all comes from the bringing the person up ga in a hottiness in a way that therefore triggers I deserve this I what do you mean you're not giving it to me that's when he gets is jealous. That's when I deserve it. And therefore, he gives into all of his tus. And since once he gets a hold of you, he's not going to let go until he'll destroy you. He can only get to you when you're thinking highly of yourselves. That's when the has an opening. When a person is humble, he has nobody to talk to. That or this understanding says the moral is what happened with this fellow and Shimat Sadic. As we mentioned the Gmorrah earlier this evening, the fellow looked into the water. He saw >> he saw how good-looking he was, right? He saw his appearance and immediately the Yates started talking to him. But it started before he had done a he was still at the well. He was still at the water. He hadn't yet engaged in any sin. And he was able to and he was able to say, "I'm making myself a noer. I'm giving all my beauty kilo up to the aer. I'm not taking it for myself. I'm not going to use it and let the bring me down. When he said that's the way a person makes that that's the nazirus that's the ishaf that's the way a person should use the of to use the kayak of ple the word yafi the word yafi what does the word yafly mean? People were translated a wonder a pelle. The word yafi in the kish is used to say speaking. Pelle is the letter alf backwards. It's the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. P lammed. Alf is the letter alf. Alf lammed. Pay. When a person starts the alif this meaning to speak a person starts to speak he's doing something which is a my used to say when you make a you Make it says the Ramo that the nama and the gof can be together. If you have a body full of holes, air or spirit, if you have a balloon and you open up the balloon, all the air comes out. If you have a bag and it's full of air, you puncture a hole, it all comes out. How is it possible that a person has he's got holes in his body and the nama stays inside? says the Ram meaning the balance of the with the fact that they're able to live together that's the and when do you see that nisham in a person when he's mly when he speaks when he uses the of when he when he expresses his nish because what makes a person different than all other creations. There's a which is an inadimate object an object that sprouts and grows says the kuzari. There's a animals that roam around and then the the one that speaks the of is the of the of the person. That's the that is mafly is in order to be a and not let your goof control you. You have to be mafly which means you have to use the sh and that's the humble part of the person. It's unique but it's pure and it's and it gives us the opportunity to fight against our sahara. This is the that a person's this is the kayak of a of a person being able to before before the sahara comes to be able to protect oneself. If you don't have a good offense if you don't have a good offense of how and have a plan of how to fight the you're dead. the will come and attack you. You won't even realize it. The says the says the mahal is teaching us. So the person you don't even come into the hands of the you have to stop way earlier doing that is a person being proactive. Which nikuda is it? Says the marau it's the nakuda of giva of a person holding too much of themselves. And sometimes that comes from an unhealthy place. It comes from a place of where a person feels that his ego has been bruised and he has to stick up for himself. He doesn't know how to manage and maneuver. He needs to have a healthy understanding of his and what his tap is and then he can be humble and then he can protect himself. This shabasem the first shabas after the first shabas that the fact that you have the opportunity to spend to be engaged in it in itself is a against wishing everybody a good shabas. Amen.