Thought for the Week Parshas Ki Savo 15 Elul One Man Army, Rabbi Yaakov Winner - 5783

foreign spiritually today we're going to talk about the Parsha of the week one General Mitzvah from this week's parisha which is a general lesson concerning our service of Hashem but before we start with the pasture we'll begin with a prayer another possible simulator we said last week that we're saying every single day twice a day is connected with today's date the tests above ello the 15th day in Elo which 126 years ago that the fifth of Bible founded the famed yeshivas the name time came two years after you founded it a year and a half but he founded the Yeshiva 126 years ago Tesla bellowed the revenue said that the celebration should be so great so phenomenal related to today that one should be able to exclaim and Proclaim well the there was never such great yum Taiwan like the 15th day envelope so this is a day of great celebration as will describe will explain further on today and that's another connection to the parisha and the today's celebration of the founding of United laboratory issues so which posic fits perfectly with this idea of Yeshiva is [Music] foreign [Music] this is where we got our primary education and guidance for the rest of our lives and this is what it means to be a graduate of temperature we have a graduate of West Point we have a graduate of Harvard we have a graduate of Yale Cambridge Oxford and we have a graduate what does it mean to be a graduate of Tim Christine what's it all about what are we celebrating in this week's parisha in capital of yud it says which means as follows Hashem will establish you as his holy people as he swore to you if you Safeguard the Commandments of Hashem and walk in his ways so the rambam mentions this as a positive Commandment that we don't have from here we should walk in his ways and it's considered one of the 613 Commandments primarily I'm going to speak to you today what the river discusses in volume four of the circus I'm going to take the main points from there so the rep asks a question seems to be a general statement and we have a rule when it comes to the Mitzvahs that the general statements don't count as a particular myth so for example we need a special explanation to understand how the word condition to you is referring to something specific and then it could be counted as a mixer I'm not going to the explanation and the same thing he brings it up servation what is it referring to exactly what does it mean as we spoke many times when we give a commandment and it has to have certain specific parameters on the words of Allah learn out from this in another place we say just as he is gracious and merciful you should be merciful I said so it says we should go in his ways it means that our attributes should mirror his attributes and that's what it means we do learn out those specific things from there but the question still is but those things are included in the midst of them which is included in the midst of opposition so what's the novelty what's the what distinguishes the words over here in the Torah which says that's the question the river asks in volume four of lucrative typical they're prepared to have the volume here now in front of me but I'm not going to go get up to get it I started the video and the river says over there something so phenomenal I don't know if he says anywhere else and it gets to the heart of the Kiddush what it means a Jew serving Hashem we have a paradox and call it maybe a dichotomy we have man who's Limited obviously he's a creation and we know our limitations but at the same time we're saying that we are serving Hashem and then we will come United with Hashem and in a certain sense to be a Jew means that in the finite we bring Infinity that's what it means because we're coming United like a husband and wife with Hashem and Hashem is infinite so how could it be that something finite becomes one with infinity that's a general question before we get to that question let's rewind for a second and just think about the words that is the Commandment we should be like similar to Hashem now let's pause for a moment and think how awesome how awesome that commandment is imagine you have the greatest of the greatest of the greatest I'm saying let's say no telling a disciple you can be like me and whatever qualities I have you have like how does that become the premise just say be like who you are let's say for example so the same thing over here I'm just being out a point we have the Abu stuff and it gives us a new definition of The Commandments we spoke about this many times and again if I can't elaborate there's one way to look at the Commandments and say what are the Commandments what is Theta we spoke about this many times Torah is a guide for men that means it doesn't reflect necessarily the essence of Hashem it is Hashem it's just that Hashem love himself because he saw that without a guide for life without laws and legislation man could be act like a beast he won't be civilized so he gave us a law book it's called the Torah and it attempt to lead moral lives and ethical lives that's the one we had to look at the Commandments which is wrong wrong I'm not getting into it now but now imagine I told you something else it's a whole different paradigm we're doing the mitts because this is God's ways it's a statement about God not a statement about Jews and now listen to this God wants us to be like him God like Hashem wants us to be like him so he says go in my ways be like me it's it's what kind of premise is that imagine I gave you a book and the name of the book is how to become a superhero how to become divine you're not Divine you're a creation you're more you're limited you're Immortal now someone's gonna make a book and it's gonna be called how to become immortal wow so this is in a way a new definition of the nature of The Commandments as we all know the word says so I shampooed until we put antennas every 13 year old learns and is concealing discourse that he reviews that is bar mitzvah so it's a whole Paradigm what are the mixes the misses are the activities of Hashem this is what it means to act like Hashem to be like him that's why we're giving the Commandments not to be civilized not not to be animals but to be like him and that's such a wild tremendously uplifting and inspiring message which by the way now's not the time to get into it because um those that are hasidim know what about said that our mission is that as mashiach told bashemta has known the story that much will come when the Wellsprings of the will be spread so we see our mission is spreading the teachings of the balship and khasidus but there's a safer and I believe the safer has had a Renaissance in the last decade or two more devorah that was written by the ramak and I've seen in many many Jewish bookstores many translations of it and it's become very very popular in other words by everyone in literacy shivas and the people they used to study Musa and talk about Musa they're all learning and teaching and telling the students and disciples to learn the Tama devara with the English translations so many assume of the Terminator what's the premise of the time of the divider which is amazing and that's why I think it's touched a certain chord by every single person by Eden because this idea like a manual and that's the whole premise of the safer the whole premise of the safer is how we have to mirror and every single one of us our mission is to mirror hashem's attributes his character traits this idea of that idea and it's actually a beautiful beautiful savior that is very very uplifting and inspiring because while you're learning that safer you think to yourself you know most swelling most self-help books they start low and then they aim high here determines various he's at the outset what are we doing this is this is the AIM we're aiming for the highest based on what Hashem told us who would be able to sit there and say to say I'm going to be like God but God commanded us be like me and that's why the midst of Allah is so awesome and so life-changing we we set up the program at the outset to be like Hashem so now we're saying that this is actual actually the novelty of the mitza and of the statement what this person is teaching us is about Transcendence number one the message of Yiddish kailis not just being the best person not just being the best human but the objective is the Alaska transcend go out of your limitations as see this explains there could be for example standing in one spot walking running and leaping we spoke about this many times they're standing in one spot means you're not going anywhere then there's walking one foot above the ground one foot on the ground that means wherever you're going you're still connected to where you came from because it's one foot still connected to where you came from running is a bit faster than walking but still we're still connected to where we came from then we say there's something you see this called delug a leap when you leap with two feet off the ground you severed ties so to speak in a certain sense from where you came from and you landed in a homeless place there's a way to call dilig springing leaping this is the idea that you actually really truly get places to really truly get places means the next level the next level means incomparably greater exponentially greater and this is the meaning of Yiddish the abished is not just telling us that we're going to become the best human no we're going to accomplish something which means we transcend our limitations we're going to reach a level of the Alaska truly going Beyond our limitations that means truly going and how by going in hashem's ways since Hashem made the program and he says by doing this you become like me so if you follow my ways then you could be like me which you can transcend yourself completely now what does that mean practically and here we come to terms there's many explanations to the word tomim what does it mean to be autumn one explanation to be a word coming to the word Tamil means to be complete that's the word Tubman and what does it mean to be complete to be complete means a sort of service serving Hashem in a way which is not limited to Calvin Kevin which means that this is one of the ideas by the way the Deb used to stood him in a lot that ever spoke many times about the idea that we can't be defined to one sort of service one mode of service the same thing is the other way around the rich person who's a great philanthropist has to be somebody who if he had to be called upon to give a Torah speech a Torah talk a pimple he should be able to do that and so on and so forth of course every person has their main area of expertise and the main area of talents and most of the time they're serving Hashem is channeled in that direction if your name is avram free then Mothership with David you should use your voice and bring joy to the people Hashem and you arouse others and bring others to sing to the English then fine but even our own freedom and David should learn Torah should be able to give a shift they had to give a Shir etc etc and that's what it means and this is a key word over here covers the whole gamut of Human Experience covers the whole gamut of Nature's dispositions temperaments and tendencies so that Yiddish kite incorporates every single sort of emotional and put him and we have an advice and the true Jew who's serving the name is to properly is as much as is much in the mode of seriousness when it comes to Tish above and him keeper and so on and so forth why because that's the true sign that you're serving Hashem properly that it's not based on measured according to your nature it is based on what is the quality hour and that's why if you do and serve the English to properly the laughter you'll be able to transcend your limitations your nature and your truly be traveling soaring the laughter means that we end up soaring by transcending Who We Are based on our nature incorporates contradiction so to speak different sort of extremes and only the one who serves the English to properly will be able to serve the English to properly in every sort of mode and every sort of Channel and every sort of Direction and that's a foundation of you described because that's the measure are you serving Hashem according to your whim you couldn't do your moods or you show me the age to according to what his will is and if today is 100 whether you're a lively joyous person and today's today is Tish above and Anime keeper and you have to serve him in such a way whether you're a person who's more of a Purim sort of person it doesn't make a difference whatever the call of the hour is that's how you meant to respond and that's the true definition of Allah that you're able to soar above your own limitations and how by going in hashem's ways now the the wording that I wanted to read from the inside it's a Pity that I didn't bring it over in front of me is a favorite dollar the river says that in a certain sense ultimately this is part of it it's only because of hashem's ultimate ability that has no limits whatsoever that made Judy is impossible in such a way that you as Immortal remains Immortal in a certain sense that he's in a physical body that feels pain like a cry and a mosquito bite could take you out of commission Etc or a bee bite etc etc so I'm the one and you remain mere mortals we never become Angels We remain humans of flesh and blood with all the limitations of what it means to be a human with flesh and blood and at the same time at the same time as we're human beings of Flesh and Blood we are being connected with infinity and we become one with infinity which means in a certain sense we become Infinity see that sisters he says a paragraph for two over there that I never saw anywhere else which says it's only because of hashem's and now we begin to understand the bit of the beauty of Yiddish kite how we transcend being humans and we're being hidden and at the same time that we have certain limitations we are able to go out of our limitations and I want to connect it with Tessa Velo Velo was the day the temperature was founded one of the main ideas of Team criteria we said the word common are Tom and Kennels now what does it mean that Tom canals oh yeah I wanted to bring a game game I don't have any inside pity so sorry the game name of Dallas I mentioned many times we'll get to that in a second a tommen our rep is invested in the students of temperature there was a line that all that used to say but ons is an individual is a multitude in the United States Army one of their catchphrases was one man army what does it mean one man army one-man Army you could learn shot in two ways one-man Army equilibrium chapters that you're such a specialist you could be a sniper you could be a deep sea diver you could be a demolitions expert you could be a pilot that's one definition of a one-man Army and that's one definition of atom in Kennels that means atomim irresponds to the call of the hour he could do whatever he has to do I've said this story many times his name was Rabbi loshak in s barber California I was a Baja so we're talking about the year 1982. and I was there in Microsoft and said his wife had just given birth to number I don't know what child's number seven eight nine Barack Hashem is still alive he has a wonderful family and so I was an s barber doing what's called a summer program we visit we stay in his house and we visit Jews in the neighborhood so one of those nights we came home and while Robert's wife is in the hospital is in the kitchen he's wearing an apron he's making spaghetti and lasagna and a celebrity with a big pot you know so I told them wow where did you learn how to make lasagna and then all that stuff you're making the whole supper and he's making suppers every night and he answers me like on the spot atomim Ken house a tummy knows how to do everything because that's the meaning of the word so first of all if you want to know about the graduates [Music] which means he doesn't serve the ebishta based on one line in One Direction he's not Aisha Royal and he's not a person who's a mother of the tavern he doesn't it maybe excels in a certain area but he can do whatever he's meant to do and that's the way the rebber always taught us and stressed that so many places in lucrative secrets with whatever gets into this idea so that's one definition of a one-man Army that you could do whatever you have to do paratrooper infantry Etc but then there's another definition it comes together of course and I'm going to read you the Hawaiian name of dalit tamus I found it someone's on the table I said this hayamia many times and I think it's perfectly appropriate for today to read it again and I'm getting inspired from it and I I think I really have to look at it more often all you need if you have one hasid well one disciple one graduate of temperature listen carefully he commits with his heart and with his mind and with his soul that's three levels it's a commitment of Liberty over tolerance strengthening Terror Yeshua Isla he brings salvation to a great City we're talking about Japan Tokyo New York Los Angeles Paris you could be in a huge City the biggest cities in the world and he brings your shoes [Music] he affects the city in all major areas of the city and he says in a totally way which transcends nature so I'm gonna read it again quickly in English just in English one single crocilla student who devotes his heart mind and soul to tolerance affects wonders in a large city in all that cities Affairs in a manner that transcends the natural order by the Merit of the fathers of the world and this is the whole point of yeshiva's that every single one of its graduates is as he describes over here of Dallas every single one of the graduates is not just a soldier but the ultimate Soldier who's thinking about a community thinking only about bringing benefits to others thinking only about how it could be more of service to others and not only that that he's a soldier but he becomes a one-man Army who specializes in all directions and whatever the call of the hour is he connects really you see this to the Commandment of a voices book which says [Music] which means when you are connected to the Target to them we should have been into the rebel who they are the living embodiments and personification of this idea of the Transcendence of the limitations of the body so then they could bring down that ability in YouTube the rabbit becomes like the river [Music] is a piece of the river and that's what he says explicitlyn he's talking about that so the ABC should help but this is what we should think about today in the month of elu the midpoint the 15th available or are themselves a graduate of things with women think about what this ishiva demands of us and expects of us the idea of striving for excellence and we will Proclaim Anil deity we're ready to do whatever we have to do to bring mashiach so this will bring about the day daily the revelation of Messiah take it from posting from my home your man in Melbourne