Bereishis - Shadows And Illusions | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

testing one two three testing hi this is D rowski and welcome to season two of the par and five I have to tell you full disclosure last year when we did this I just sat down and whatever came to mind about the par I said not taking into account the fact that I might have to do this again I'm not really worried I have enough material I used to give a parer when I Tau in seminary on Friday morning and uh I had two basic you know uh shiram that I would give for sha Alf and then sha bet and they came back but I had girls who had graduated and would come and drop in for a third or fourth year and I said don't worry I got more stuff so I actually had to go back and listen to what I said because I didn't keep any notes I just talked off the top of my head so uh this is a new season I went back and listened to what I did I didn't know we would be renewed for another season so uh don't worry I got plenty more to talk about yeah par in five so it's very interesting as you read the story in creation where apparently the Bria itself messed up as we know it says that the moon complained and said hey you can't have two kings with one Crown so you can't have me be as bright as the sun and then aaru said you're right and he shrunk the moon yeah uh it it's described as the moon did a which is kind of hard because even if you go like the rambam that the Son and the moon are sentinent beings but they certainly don't have free choice they can't do what they want right they have to follow rules even though the G says that has to shoot arrows at the sun to get it to come out in the morning you know but they don't really have choice in the way that a human being does how could they do a the second one is the trees he told the trees to come out tasting like the fruit and it didn't the trees came out tasting like wood right the one exception is the estri tree where the tree itself tastes like an esrig but that's the exception and uh and in fact uh the trees did not listen so the trees did a and that's why Rashi says that if Adam did his the Earth was punished too because the Earth did not bring out the trees tasting like the fruit so this is a strange concept how could the moon do a sin how could the trees do a sin so M shapo said what it means is you have to build into the Bria the possibility of sin or you could never sin now K had to build into the Bria the chance you could do a sin because otherwise how could you ever go against AES so the possibility of going against God had to be built into the Bria what would have happened if the moon was as bright as the Sun so at night you'd be able to see as clearly as during the day now that the Moon is not as bright as the sun it creates shadows and Illusions as the missil shash says you see a tree and you think it's a person you see a person you think it's a tree yeah the way RHA put it is you're walking and you see a puddle but it's really just a shadow and to you it looks like a puddle we don't see clearly what would have happened if the trees tasted like the fruit you know when you plant the tree it could sometimes take years to get fruit right the kazal say that a carab tree takes 70 years to bear fruit so you have this tree you don't know what it is if you could have just scraped off a little the bark and tasted it you would know this is a peach tree this is a plum tree this is an apple tree now just has a distinctly Woody taste all right that's what they write on these bottles of scotch tastes like Oak and vanilla trust me you got to drink a lot of that before you're tasting vanilla yeah I never tasted any vanilla anyway but after enough of it you're like it tastes like vanilla you so that what what does those two things do that is the sherish of every sin that we do in this world because since we don't see what the end product is we don't appreciate the process right I've often quoted every Kish respect the process right if you knew when you tasted the tree you're going to get apples it would be much easier but we work in all of this world to get to olaba we don't know what olaba is the tree doesn't taste like it and what's even worse is we live in a world that's like night where there are shadows and illusions and we think good is bad and bad is good because the Moon is not as bright as the sun if it was we would see as clearly during the night as we do during the day everybody makes mistakes and that's what a is a is um I missed the target we make mistakes why either because we don't see what's going on we're blind to the results we don't know what we doing the consequences or we're actually fooled by thinking that the bad things we do are good things and then we justify it and strengthen it and so we should know as we begin the new year that this is built into creation and it's our job to be able to look Beyond those Illusions and darkness and find the MS good shabas