Parshas Ki Teitzei Maharal Shiur by Rabbi Simcha Bunim Berger at Scheiner's Shul

Evening parishes. We're just about 10 days away from starting. I've been saying it already all month. So, time to get into into prayer into davening. We're going to do tonight of what makes complete. When you go to a you have to walk through a double doorway and if your sh doesn't have two doors the of two doors. That's what it says in the Gimra. What's the message? What's the message? What is this says the walking in what's called one door? When a person walks in from the outside, so what that means is I'm not outside because I just came in, right? I'm not outside, but I'm not involved in the as of the world. [Music] But that is not being attached quite yet to Hashem. Why? You have to do two things in order to successfully attach yourself to Hashem. separating yourself from everything and then to have a positive decision to connect to Hashem. And one doesn't work without the other. If you don't make two moves, so to speak, you're not really going to be there with Hashem. When a person just removes himself from the outside, it's hard to say that he's totally away from the out, right? You just left and now you're connecting to Hashem. There's still there has to be a concept of in between each one is a stage number one I want to move away from outdoors that's I'm not there that's one decision to make number two now that I'm not there I want to now attach myself to the aishar I want connect myself to Hashem. So you've just done part of the separate yourself, but now do something else. This is the kavana of the gimra. The stage of a concept of two doors. The purpose of going into one door is to leave outside. I'm accomplishing. We are accomplishing when you walk into that first door. Many of the shores actually do have double doors. They have a vestable in one's mind. A person can think I am coming inside for the purpose of not being outside. I don't want to be outside. I don't want to be miser to the outside. Obviously, you're going to say if you carry this with you, you're never disconnected. You're never disconnected. I've many many times talked to people and with a lot of success where I've asked and told them you want to do yourself a favor, leave it in the car. Leave it somewhere else. If you carry it with you, you got the eight sahara on your hip. You're taking the outside inside the emails, the text messages. You have your solo phone. That's something separate does not say, >> right? But that this is you're who are we fooling when we take the phone inside with us. You're not leaving outside. You're not walking even into you're bringing the whole outside inside with you. And many people have told me it makes such a big difference. And you should know it's a tremendous tik for your because what you're doing is you're making a statement. I'm leaving the outside outside right now. I have an agenda. 15 minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, whatever it is. I want to be normish. If I want to be just with you, I have to put everything else aside. The is let me get away from the outside. One continues. [Music] Now I'm over here in the second door. You can't say you're Miss Alec from the outside cuz you already left the outside. You already left the outside. When you're in the vestable, you're already not on the outside. So what are you doing here? So the second doorway is you're going inside. The first one is to get out. The second one is to go in. That's clear. That's what Kazal had in mind when they said you have to go through. That way you know you're present. That way you know you're with as hard as it is to concentrate. as hard as it is. But a person has a certain I've made a conscious decision to do two things. Separate I'm not there and then I can be free of my mind and now I can be here. That was the straight. There's something deep. There's something else about this. In the same gim there's a gimra right before that. I want to explain there are elder people living in bubble z was astounded this was only to soul. How is it possible that there's elderly people in how is that possible? When they said the nature of these people is they come early to show they don't come in late. >> They're retired. They're nothing. >> Good. True. True. True. Some retired people also don't come on time. They got so used to coming late when they were younger. They know how to know how to do it. These people learned when they were younger to come on time. That's why they got to be old as we're about to see. And they don't run out before it's over. >> They don't run out. And they stay means they stay later. That's why they have longevity. Second column. Go ahead and come early and stay late. [Music] You'll have a long life. Who listens to me? You know what it says back right afterwards because those who do that will find life explains the maharim. The concept of is the same word as me which means to sustain aim. Every animal has its habitat, its natural place which is its and its that's where it lives. In every everything in this world, everyone has its why it's called it. Everything in has its own when it's in its place. A fish in water, it's out of water. He's lost. Where is the next underline? What is it called? Israel. Israel. There you go. That was a no-brainer. Israel, it's a place where we were meant to be wanted to be. That's what you're supposed to all the mitzvah that mitzvah you can't do in going do is a mim place for that's why it says when you inherit therefore you will have a long life because that's a place that's [Music] your and your ba medish can become a can become If you use your shul and you come there early and you stick around and you stay till it's over and you go out and not run out that becomes it becomes the house of your life. It becomes the house of your life and as such now I understand why there's old people because they turned their bish into au you know how they did that that's another this becomes the focus of where when you come to you're coming to the place of oxygen You could breathe here. This is my base. It's my house right now. I'm here. Nothing else in the world is important. Not what's in here for sure. Not this is my life. >> This is my This is my life. Therefore, next paragraph, right? You know what that means? That means that their own house. Look at the next underline. Their own house is subservant. It's their house is a room. The bes that's their living room and dining room. That's where their main function is. I go back over there too. But you your attitude is that your sh your that's my when a mench as that attitude how do you see it and it's not lip service you come early you stay there late you're hanging out in the that becomes that becomes and that's the what it means to say that a person is considered this becomes a mo says that's why the gimmar put these two together a person who comes into a says the has to go through two doors door number one I'm going on the outside I'm leaving the outside I'm not yet inside I'm not outside that's number one after now I'm going on the inside now I'm being now I'm connecting that's the way to come in I'm connecting this is my when a person comes to David it's the biggest already rushing when are we finishing I sometimes hear people say 10 gaz right here >> yeah right like let's go faster step on it >> how does it work on the out. >> How does it work in the way out? You have to you have to go back two doors. >> No, the is the attitude is your attitude in your mind and attitude in your heart. >> Right? It's the attitude of this is my place of life. This is and when you when you have that attitude, it becomes exactly that. It becomes your mo. becomes your source of and you have and because this is this but in order to do that you have to shle yourself away that's called I got to leave the first door got to go out of there that's number one with this in your pocket you can't leave it doesn't let you leave you leave it in your car it's such a gracious statement I'm coming in when a person goes to an important meeting when a person he leaves his phone away because if you ever go and sit and talk to somebody who's and he sees you take out your phone, the meeting is over right there and then. >> They can never put your phone down in front of you. >> The meeting is over there and then you need a you needed a big loan from a banker, you needed a this, you needed that, you looked at your phone, z you are toast, finished. Zo doesn't by the loves us unconditionally. We're not doing this for him. We're doing it for ourselves. You know, you wanted this to be benu. That's one of our horrors we have today. We don't know how to disconnect. We don't know how to separate ourselves from the gas every second we have. No, we come in here. This is the house of our life. This is the attitude a person has to have. Especially now we're not so far away from not so far away from the when you're sitting in the sh you're soaking up. It becomes your like the moral says your is your it sustains you. It sustains you. You can be every single one of us to be able to get to that madre to remember I'm coming in here. The first thing is I'm leaving there is alf. I'm not there. Now that I'm not there now I'm in here. Doing that you're the biggest beneficiary. You're the one who to have that of being able to be. [Music] [Applause] Unicorn.