Rabbi Avrohom Walkin | Parashat Emor: Forever Being on Guard | CHAZAQ

[Music] welcome everyone to the weekly kabura uh this week's kabur is on Paras EMR um I'd like to take the opportunity to thank kazak to thank Torah anytime for all that they do and of course to thankes for giving me the opportunity um to delve into his to a little bit to give over some of what I've learned and it's a big for me to be able to uh to do this I will say to you that says that we know that a uh a rebi benefits the most from his students so what does that mean the gamar says that a rebi gains the most from his tal so I want to explain that when a rebi knows that he has to give something over and he's not just learning for himself what ends up happening is that he takes it more seriously um it shouldn't be that way but he does he takes more seriously he prepares himself in case someone asks questions and he wants to make sure that he's clear clear in everything he says so there is that benefit of for that reason alone for that reason alone now par has 63 Mitzvah if I'm not mistaken that is the most mitv mentioned in a single para so it's also to have so many mitv but we're going to focus only on one or two or maybe even three Mitzvah from from the par um I do want to mention something very fascinating that every word of T is fascinating and every word of tah is is nit is diamonds um but I saw something a few years ago that was brought to my attention sadly I didn't see it before but it was brought to my attention I want to start off the sh with this burst of I want to say inspiration of greatness of how the T thinks and how we're supposed to think like like the Torah teaches us to we know again I'm to skip a little bit before we get into the of ofanim I wanted I want to mention this V we know that a is not allowed to marry certain women and we do know that aen hedit is allowed to marry um actually is also not allowed to marry certain women but the Ken G has one specific woman that he cannot marry over the kened what does that mean kened is not allowed to marry a grusa he's not allowed to marry a kuta he's not allowed to marry a Kal he's not allowed to marry a gorus but a has one added woman that he has not allowed to marry and that is an Alman a widow and question is not why a k can't marry those but why a k da K is not allowed to marry um um an Al a widow and if I didn't see this myself in the Das Canan Bal t i i i wouldn't believe it I wouldn't believe it but what the Das Kan Bal tus says the reason actually now we don't need to know reasons but he actually gives a reason he gives a reason why is not allow to marry an almana and it's something it's Earth shattering it is inspirational it is it is it guards us in a a very almost I wouldn't say scary but uh the word pad in Hebrew is a very good word to understand this this uh M that the Bal says the Bal says the reason why a God is not allowed to marry a widow is because the tah is worried that on the holiest day of the year yipper Kipper the holiest day for the for the year Kipper at the holiest time in the afternoon when he's about to enter the holiest place in the world the Kash and the k G is at the peak of his Rus he's at the peak of his kadus he's at the peak of him being able to do for K which no other time of the year this K can do we're worried the B says that the K might have seen a woman in the past and that when he knows he has the power of kadus and the power of His word he's like a Malik on that at that moment where worried that he might actually DAV that the husband of this woman that he saw should die so that he could maybe maybe have a chance of marrying her one day now I got I need you to understand the depth of what I just said from the Bali tyus again if I didn't see it inside which I did it would be shocking we're worried that the holiest person of the world in the world the K at the holiest day of the year y Kipper at the holiest time right before he walks inash where he's about to DAV for all of kol he's about to be bring a carbon to going into the Kash for all of kol we're worried that in his mind he might have seen a woman and because he knows he has the power of debor the power to DAV for kol he will actually have in mind at that moment to Davin that another husband should be should die so that he cuz he can't marri grer anyway that he should die and therefore what would happen he would think about maybe having a chance of marrying this man this woman sorry this is the kak this is the co of of what it means a person has to be careful when it comes to certain ofas of is that were worried that K might have that Mak and he might be able to accomplish it through his which also shows the greatness of from from the and that's why you know we explain why would we why do we learn why do we Lan on um in oner we learn we Lear the of Aras by time why would we even think that we should we should learn about Aras by time we already went through aidre we went through days of el we went through days of a Chua we went through days where at the at the peak right before of the greatest moment of each person's ye year greatest moment of chuva m is right before that we're worried that what that we should discuss Aras because that's the the that Aras can cause therefore we have to be very very on guard we have to be very Vigilant we have to be very careful when it comes to certain that never never trust in yourself and never ever like we say the Kaz tell person should never ever say that I'm okay and I'm safe I don't have to worry but from this week's partial we see an incredible thing from the K so I needed to throw that out at you right away because I think even if you don't listen to the rest of the Year this particular um Das is so powerful that it is um that is worth it just to listen for that just for those few moments of what I told you now we're going to get into the para the para begins that a should not become T to people of his own Nation obviously B we learn from that the bov refers to what cherol and not to non-jews because to non-jews he can technically he can become T to but to his own people he cannot become tmy because they have a neish and when the neish leaves a goof he becomes T the body becomes t so there's a few things that need to be discussed there let's go to Rashi first of all before we go to Rashi what is the usually it says here do speak not only that it says instead of saying it says again again what is the difference and the L ofor of of to be M so we do know from um by that to the women and the men for the men to use the of Da D is a much string more stringent L it's a stricter L is almost demanding when it says in the ter the it's almost a command when it says the of it's a sof to almost like coax them into into understanding it even though they have to keep it but say it in an nice and the question is why specifically over here does it use a nicer Lusher when it comes to something like like T to a coin which what I I would think is very very stringent I would think which it is I would think it's very very important like all the other mitzvos why is there and then there's another question an obvious question what is the double of speak to and say to them all the P should have said is I'm sorry tell them doesn't have to the Double L of emmer and it doesn't have to say the L of so rashash right away um says what's the to warn the older ones on the younger ones which means that the the Elder that are to be careful from the of they should be careful to already warn the younger Quan and the ones that are not under they're under the age of being careful that they should already be aware of this inion of T and they should stay away they should stay away even when they're not in certain Mitzvah that is the power of the of T that a person should not become T to a um to a human being to a yid now the question is what is it about t that's that that when a leaves a body becomes T what is that we know everything's the ab and we know that has a reason obviously for everything and we don't have to know every reason and even the reasons we think we know we could be not even the reason why Hashem gave it but he lets us at least understand the reason that we can understand to our kazal to tell us what something is the reason for but what is it about a goof a body that when the nees leaves the body it becomes tame so I saw something really magnificent I saw something beautiful the human being is created for purpose the human being is created to do something the human being is created to accomplish to grow to build once a human being is lacking that potential is lacking the capability of growth automatically he becomes tame the void of of of doing something for the world from being something important doing something accomplishing automatically makes him tame that means that a human being when he's born becomes is a kades a child person is born he's born holy I'm born with a certain L with a certain Holiness but we contaminate ourselves through our actions but at the same time we have the potential to move to grow to build therefore we are considered alive once the neish of a person leaves him then he's becomes I won't say in insignificant but in the big picture of the world he's insignificant there's nothing that he can do for the world and therefore and therefore it becomes T it becomes impure the lack of growth the lack of potential makes it impure so what about a Cen why should aen be told to keep away in reality most of the time a person deals with with someone that's a person that's a mess someone that dies is obviously a a is usually a situation where you're doing something positive you're burying somebody you're visiting a Cav you're you're involved with a mace you're causing Comfort to people you're saying goodbye to the to the these are all positive things so why is a k not allowed to become Tomy to a so I also saw something really I thought was really telling that the Cen his job as a as a Cen is to constantly be available to do for clausell he needs to be constantly on guard constantly available that his mission in life is that he was put aside by kesu to help clell to do for clell once this come understands this concept he needs to be able to stay away from a dead person because what did we just say that the dead person is lack of growth lack of doing lack of movement he needs to stay so far away that he can't even become T because he needs to understand the concept of staying away from lack of growth lack of potential and lack of doing cuz he can't slack off even a moment so this what defines the Dead person that he is not moving not growing not building the co has to stay far away from him yet kazal tell us Kaz the T tells us that for seven relatives a Cen can become T to to the wife to the mother and father to the brother and sister the sister that's not married yet to a son and a daughter for those he's allowed the question is if he can't become T why should he be allowed to become T to these because the T understands human nature obviously the the human being the knows the knows that the know the knows that a is going to be affected terribly when these seven people pass away that the tah said no to these people not only do you become defiled to them but there a there's a believe it or not there's a on the to actually become which means if a says I don't want to become T to these people we we force him we force him because the knows that the human emotion and the human understanding of the K needs to mourn and be there for for those seven relatives yet the K this is fascinating the K is not allowed to become tummy to these people what about his emotions what about his feelings what he's also a human being so we learn from this all the tell us that a is on a higher Dar he is already put automatically by our B on this high darer on this High um pedestal that he cannot become um close or t to his cro him because he almost in a way can handle it he almost in a way has reached such a dger of of Holiness that he can overcome the lack of emo he can overcome the emotion that would go into that he would need to mourn he can overcome that yet that same we're worried that he should not marry an Alona because he might actually think on the holiest time of year um to a uh um of a woman that her husband should pass away so that is the K of a the but I I love the I loved it so much of what the inion of T is and what how a person is supposed to stay away from that um that's one of the things I wanted to mention also I want to mention something Fein brings down on the Lan of em and ver Mar he says that really if you look at the it seems to go back to who to the elders to thean right and tell them is going back on thean it should have said if it meant em should meant like Rashi said the should have been to warn the young one the older ones on The Young Ones it should have been em to speak say so double would tell us that that refers to a different group of people which would be the would be the younger ones yet it says Al so from the words Al says that what that it seems to be going back on the Reginal kohanim so how does he learn Rashi he says he says that really the emmer is going on thean themselves is also going on to those kohanim that through your actions he says you will be speaking louder than words in other words when you show to your actions a certain understanding how careful you are then the young children in the future will see this and they will actually be careful themselves therefore it's really going on the same people the same but through the through your actions of and joy that you fulfill the Mitzvah he actually says it refers to S and joy which means a softer L that how are you mber to these children through the through positivity through a good influence and Raa goes on to say in this inion he says that a rebi this what he says a rebi that knows the day that he's going to go into clar that he's not on top of his game he's not joyful and he cannot show the love that he's supposed to show to his there is a on him to not go into to teach that day which means it's not just you know 90% of the time I'm in a good mood today I'm in a bad mood for a reason I'll try not to let it out on my students I'll try to be joyful I'm having a bad day something happened to me no you you have a m not to go in you cannot go in to teach T to Children if you're not going in with the love that you need to have and the Sim you need to have so it's it's very important lesson cuz children are very influenced by what's going on you could think that you have an excuse why you're not feeling well you can feel that listen nine out of 10 days I am feeling great today I'm under the weather emotionally it's a big deal so one day my kids won't see me in the most Joyful Way no you must teach your children to always be joyful and a rebi should not go in he said to teach if he feels he can't be a on top of his game emotionally spiritually and B so those are a few things I wanted to mention um we're going to end in two three minutes I just want to mention something very powerful about re Akiva and his and SP it always bothered me you know I tried to do a little research on what happened during sphere I tried to do a little research and there's not much written there's not much written regarding the Tam of re a it's mentioned why they were nft because they didn't show cover to each other but the whole story of what happened I didn't see anywhere now I'm sure it is mentioned somewhere I'm not the biggest I don't know where it is I asked certain people I haven't seen much but we do know that they were nift because they didn't show proper COV one to another so the obvious questions that should be asked is number one the first day 24,000 people were of from the time of what of SEC pretty much after PES till till um to lagba which is why we we stopped the morning process by LBA SPH continues but the morning they stopped so by danal gladstein SCH to who I love his stuff I really want to tell you if you really want to learn unbelievable t on anything go learn RAB danil gladstein stuff whether it's on on PM Kana suus Shor I love his stuff I go to sleep at night I'll be honest I I play it I play it a lot of times in my in my room my wife goes to sleep we both we go to sleepil glassing tell it not because it puts you to sleep but but you go to sleep feeling good about about what you learn so really tremendous stuff so he asked an obvious question that why do we celebrate I'm not going to go into that answer but he asked I didn't get to the answer I fell asleep um he asked I'm going to have to go look at it again he says why is it that we celebrate L because the Tam of re AA stopped dying that actually there was no one left you don't celebrate when there's no one left you stop mourning when no one's left but you don't celebrate the fact that his Tam them stop dying when actually there was no one left so I actually thought that the Kasha wasn't such a big Kasha and the night it was around 2 in the morning I remember listening to it and my wife yeah 2: in the morning and I do remember asking myself what about the five mayor and the what's what was the other one I forgot um I I forgot the the name of the person but but those five still remain those five actually were only made after his tamam passed away so really in reality the 24,000 passed away then r instead of being depressed to the point where he felt I'm done there's no point of building more Tam he went then and he built these five and look what we got because of those five all these T these five that we actually got because of of because of of reab AKA alone you see where you can build From the Ashes but the question that I had was why didn't Rea call us Tam together you don't see this and say listen we lost 750 for the first day let's say 750 760 Tam on the first day what about the why didn't he make a meeting saying we have to do chuva doesn't see anywhere where he where he stopped it from happening B how did it happen how did it happen how did he allow it to happen what he didn't see his Tam were not doing what they should be doing coverwise that's and also why don't we see anywhere Rea try to stem the tide and cause cause a call A A getting together of of his them to say we need to stop this we need to stop this so I didn't see the answer but I came up with my own idea something to think about but the question is a tremendous question why didn't Rea stop it why don't see anywhere Rea called a a a s that everyone should come together to stop this plague and and how did re AA not notice that this was taking place these are questions so the answer we're going to end with this is that what I wanted to say I'm going to end in a minute is when it comes to T M when it comes to transmitting turet to the Next Generation and you were the vehicles of that transmission it has to be so perfect that even if they would have done Chua to a certain degree even if if Rea would have stopped with stemm the tide they were not able to give because of that lack of little bit of covo they were not able to be the transmitters of tyy to the Next Generation to the point to the point that they had to die because for them living and not being able to transmit the Ty would have been too painful for them for them to be a told that they can't the transmitters of the T because of the way they treated each other would have been too great for them to handle and therefore they had to be had to be you know to die they went straight TOA they went TOA I don't know but they went TOA I don't they went straight but they they were big but they weren't able to be around to be the transmitters and Rea had to start fresh with his five other T so therefore we understand you see the power of of M the power of mess when it comes to tah anyway we'll end with this everyone have a wonderful week have a wonderful sh and we'll have something special for next week C