G-ds Mercy for the Disgraced Thief and Payment of 2, 4 & 5 Times with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] welcome welcome a warm welcome to the eubank midrash welcome home to torah we are going to be discussing something unbelievable really in the clear car we use a clear car as the uh outline for the discussion we're in parshas mishipatim we're going to do a piece that i had never seen before in chapter 21 verse 12 in exodus now i want to give a little bit of a rundown but before i do that i want to mention to all those people who perhaps for the first time that i suggest i highly implore you to use the hebrew sheets and you can find the hebrew sheets in down below in the description box is a link you just have to find the right book the right parsha the right year and the the sheets that we're using at least the hebrew sheets are attached to that web page the english sheets that i hand out are only for the people that are here come live as well as those on my email list the private email list for the thursday night group who want to join us online if you really want them i could send them to you just send me an email i want to just mention about the clear car here what is he going to do he's going to give us what we call fundamentals things that you need to know things that are good to know okay and i'll just tell you the first thing he's going to speak about is the idea that all of the ten commandments believe it or not are also in mishpatim not only did we read them in jethro and one of the ideas in kedoshum to you in leviticus later on also condotion to you is clearly the ten commandments there as well embedded in the parsha so according to the cleocard they're also embedded here and he describes uh some very interesting ideas about the ten commandments within the parsha and he describes what he wants to tell you is that um there are many other maforshim that talk about this and he's going to focus just on one of the ten commandments okay so even though they're all in here he's going to focus on one and even the verse we're talking about has to do with do not murder if you noticed or if you read the the parsha it means read the verse i mentioned and we'll just start now with exodus 21 12 one who strikes a man so he dies shall surely be put to death he's going to explain that is parallel to do not murder now before i go into what he says he wants to focus on one of the ten which is guessing now in the ten commandments ghezzo is that spivery is not your normal thievery we're talking about kidnapping okay but nevertheless he's gonna talk about either the psychology of a thief and why there are two different kinds of thieves okay there's going to be what we call ganav and and um a gazlan two very distinctly different types of people who steal and the punishments are going to be different and then he's going to go into the idea of why and this is really the kicker right this is like why is it that when you steal a a ox or a sheep in certain circumstances you have to pay back four or five times again the difference between a gone if and a godzlon why the ghanif has to pay twice as much the goddess only pays back what he stole and then when you steal a an ox or a sheep in certain circumstances which we will discuss you have to pay back four or five times and that is he comes up with what we call douche an absolutely novel idea now what i hope that we will gain here is to understand how hazal is able to come with the kiddush and if we can train our minds to think deeply and critically and connect dots we can also be like them making it not making something new under the sun there is nothing new under the sun but to connect the dots in ways that were never connected before however what he is going to tell us is exactly what king solomon had in mind can you imagine entering king solomon's mind and you can read the verses in proverbs and not see this but he is going to interpret it and explain it in a way where it will be absolutely crystal clear to you what king solomon is saying in proverbs regarding thievery okay so now let's begin again we mentioned the english in exodus 21 12 but in hebrew it says somebody a man right it doesn't even say who it's machis you hit a man the mace and he dies most you must the death penalty right he shall surely be put to death okay now i just want to take you on a little journey go to leviticus 24 17. it says if a man strikes down any human being he shall be put to death so the first verse that we read in exodus 21 12 doesn't say who it could have been a woman that hit him that killed a man and over here not only that if a man hits any human being which would include women and children and whatnot you can spend your own time on the rashes and understand why these verses if there's a verse that is a little bit different in one place and then in another place it's because there are new novel ideas that god wants us to know okay we're not going to get bogged in the details right now let's go immediately to the cleo car which is the hebrew sheets i passed out and he begins like this robin so many of the maforshim have made every effort went to great lengths to give some kind of structure right a seder a let's call it a structure an order for all the misses right mishpatim is full chock full of mitzvahs in this parsha and then he says he found in a book called todos yitzhak which by the way is the uncle of raviosa cairo so he said and also the abar manel he found many explanations for the seder for the structure for the organization of the mitzvahs in parshas mashpatni now it's almost chutzpahdik he says like this the loyashru divreihan for some reason he was not satisfied he didn't feel that they portrayed an accurate picture but can you imagine any of us saying such a thing but that's what he says therefore al cain lo riti la rick therefore he's not going to elaborate at great length anything that they said and this is where he begins i would say a concept of the first but at least he's laying the ground word for groundwork for what we're going to end up in the last paragraph but remember we're in the first paragraph he says viomir ani but i'm going to tell you like this this is my insight just as our parsha begins kashem how does our passion begin right our parsha begins with when you purchase a jewish slave right if you go to chapter 21 verse 2 right if you buy a jewish bondsman okay and on and on there's a lot of details now that's how it began and he is going to tell us that this is connected this is parallel to the first of the ten commandments what is the first commandment the first commandment you'll find let's turn my english go to um number six on the english sheets page two i am lord your god who took you out of the land of egypt out of the house of bondage and hashem so the idea is it's amazing i mean we all probably heard this before a jew who ends up for whatever reason being a jewish slave that's it when the six years is over he really should finish off and go home right he unfortunately was in a tight pickle he was an unfortunate financial situation whether he stole and couldn't pay back or he was just really in a in a bad financial situation we're not going to go into the details of why a jew can become a slave but at some point he has a let's say he and the the owner also they have somewhat of a a choice of making a long-term relationship which it seems like it's forever but of course it's not forever it's only up until the jubilee year okay at the 50th year he will go out free but when he decides he wants to remain a slave he's taken over to the doorpost and his ear is bored and we all know the famous explanation that the same ear that heard god saying i am the lord your god is the same ear that's willing to become a slave because the idea and you'll actually see it in that rashi looking rashi in number six on exodus chapter 20 verse 2. out of the house of bondage literally out of the house of slaves meaning pharaoh's house where you were slaves to him we were royal slaves we were slaves really we were owned by pharaoh okay but who did we work for we worked in individual homes so at the very bottom of that rashi through a little bit of the limut here basically consequently you must say that we were slaves to pharaoh but not slaves to other slaves okay the idea is that you want to be as the jewish people are supposed to be slaves to god we're not supposed to be slaves to slaves okay so a jew should not really own i mean the circumstances are we're not going to get into it what brought about that it's actually rehabilitation and it may be very um beneficial it's called a win-win but we're not going to go into that right now the idea is the connection between the very first mitzvah of our parsha with the first of the ten commandments okay you see there's a connection you should be a slave to hashem and not a slave to a slave which is the first mitzvah in our portion now he also mentions dibra noki i just want to also give a little bit of the explanation there's five mitzvahs on one tablet or let's say one side right two separate tablets there were two tablets the first five which begins with i'm lord your god right and ends with you you're supposed to uh honor your parents those five we call bait adam lamakom between man and god you might ask of course you should ask how does that fifth mitzvah of honor your parents have to do with honoring somehow uh between man and god rabbi breitwith spoke about it so i refer you back in more detail to last week's partial well this past tuesday night's parsha vishwatti basically talks about the role models and the relationships hopefully not a dysfunctional one but hopefully a very healthy one we have with our parents is to bring us to a higher recognition and a belief in hashem okay so he mentions here and and also the latter five right which begins with do not murder and ends with do not uh covered the the items and belongings and the wives of your neighbors so here you have it that those five were being authentic between man and man and he's going to say that the first of each five is cole has included within it the other four in other words they're headings and this is a very good jewish concept you always hear about this like bray sheet the word break sheet includes the whole torah right the dylan gome was tested he could come up with every answer any question you would ask and he'll explain how within the word break sheet you have every explanation in the tar so it's like a cola it includes each category each first of the categories include the entire category within it so he begins also he says like this the word enochi writing that command the noki is being adamant so i'm the lord your god includes all five until but not including lo tirts meaning the sixth one is not included now he's going to tell us the verse we just read in chapter 21 verse right one who strikes a man this is murder so that he dies shall surely be put to death that's the death penalty that is included or that's basically parallel to do not murder okay so khan in our parsha begins meaning our partial chapter 21 begins with make ish when somebody kills a man shuddhi berlot this is going to be let's say parallel to do not murder vulcan not only that not only are the the group the headings included what's below but each one is parallel to the one across from it so one is parallel to six two is parallel to seven three is parallel to eight and okay i cannot find it on my sword sheet but let's just say like this right i am the lord your god and do not murder because man is created in the image of god okay so they're parallel number two right do not believe in other gods you shouldn't have any other gods before me we'll call that idolatry well guess what number seven is adultery right when you have this intimate relationship with the almighty so too there's no fooling around so to speak well guess what adultery is exactly the same idea do not commit adultery do not uh lose that you know that honor in the relationship the loyalty in the relationship okay what do we say number three right you don't take the lord of the name the lord the name of the lord of your god in vain and what is number eight what is eight eight is do not steal why why is that why the hell is the connection because when one god forbid is involved in a crime like this they will be brought to a court where maybe the person will most likely if he's that kind of a person would would swear falsely and we don't want you to um to do that what about being a false witness and number nine that's equal or parallel to number four right four and nine are parallel shabbos by a jew not keeping shabbos you're bearing false witness right just like on friday night we say these things together that we need that we we bear witness on each other right and number we'll call number five which is honoring your parents and you shall not covet right you should um be happy with what you got listen my parents told me all the time the grass is not greener on the other side you got what you got you know what i mean so you know lump it right so basically you accept you accept what you got this is exactly what hashem is going to give you your parents and with all the you know warts and all well guess what that's the same thing the grass is not greener on the other side when it comes to uh other material things so that's my rendition perhaps you'll find other others express something a little bit different okay let's go back into the clear car the last thing we mentioned was that the um that the words load tirtac is still even though it's number six is connected it's parallel to number one and guess what the roche lag right that first one of the latter five which is low tier tach he says ko coulomb again the idea that it includes all the rest of the other four on that side of the dib rice and on a certain level because it's parallel to number one you can also i think that's consistent it also includes all of them now kigama oysse now this is like a very big insight it's in the gemara as well that anyone who performs a sin with money we're talking about you know stealing right or being um you're not honest in business and you're basically stealing right so it's makaish it's it's your it's like you struck down a person you sh you killed a person how's that look in deuteronomy chapter 24 6 you'll find this on number nine page three so when one gives a loan okay and they take collateral for that loan one should not take the lower nor the upper millstone as security for a loan in other words the person who is taking the loan runs let's say in this case um a a mill right it's good for grinding flour and whatnot or maybe oil whatever it is or wine they're using it for what a a food product so maybe it's not even a business it's your home it's your home food processor right don't take this because he is taking life as a security look at rashi you right i highlighted at the bottom the the underlying he may not take a security articles used in preparation for food if you take away either person's livelihood the ability to make a livelihood or the ability to what's the word just to survive and live it's like you're murdering the person you see the connection so that's the verse he just brought now he begins by this is like he switches gears a little bit he says ubertov [Music] if you look clearly which we don't have time and he didn't have time you will see all 10 commandments in the parsha however he says if i would take the time to add and describe each one of these misses and the reasons for them it will take a very long time therefore ukuvar hiskamti le katsuyarchiborze the kolhai ochelet i have made a decision i have decided to shorten it to make it more concise this explanation with all of my abilities alkane i've withdrew or i would abstain my hand from making this effort ki raba here lie because it's just too much work right now um now out of all of the ten commandments a marty lahosi of tamim bedine i have decided that i'm going to add a very nice explanation when it comes to thievery kieshma kamedini because there are quite a few disparate details and laws that are worth going into so the first thing he begins to talk about is the gun if that's in the ten commandments so if somebody steals a human being and sells him right we're talking about kidnapping doing the illumi la misa unfortunately it's a very tragic crime because what if what you're doing to that person you captured and ransomed off it's like you are giving him or her over to death i mean what could be worse than being a captive kihakone the one who purchases right maybe he knew maybe he didn't know but the one who purchases another human being biyado la sotebo coma shirtse he it seems like he can do whatever he wants he has all this power and authority and this unfortunately we'll see in baba basra is there's um when it comes to the captive that's like the worst of all suffering okay so i want you to go to it's in baba basra 8a where do i have that on my sheet let's see it's number 11. so it's very interesting i don't want to go in too much details um but in the beginning the the rabbis are speaking about how important amidst it is to redeem captives right cat to to save money to spend your money even to sell a safer torah right so rava said to rabbah barmari concerning this matter the sages said redeeming captives is a great mitzvah from where do we know now this is an interesting verse keep in mind the last words of the verse we have to get there it's a long verse it's in jeremiah chapter 15 verse 2 and it shall come to pass when they say to you to where shall we depart then you shall tell them so says the lord such as for death to death and such as are for the sword to the sword and such as are for famine to famine and such as are for captivity to captivity the kiddush here rabbi yochanan says whatever punishment is written later in the verse is obviously more severe than the one before it now the truth is they go into a very let's say detailed lee mood but i highlighted the important part because you see the sword comes before death so i'm sorry sword comes after death so sword is worse than death famine is worse than sword and at the very end captivity is worse than all of them as it includes them all it includes famine sword and death okay and as you can see rashi on that verse that was the gemura in baba bachcha 8 b rashi snare says each calamity mentioned later in the verse is harsher than the one preceding it the sword is harsh in the death death by the sword is defacing where death in bed is not defacing and then there's some more lee mood basically famine is harsher than the sword for this one is agonizing where the others are not as agonizing and in the end captivity is the worst all sorts of death are within it so rashi is capturing what the gomorrah had said and that was shot on that verse so you understand that if you're involved in kidnapping you sell the person that is like that and therefore as the clear car is going to say that's why the penalty for kidnapping is death and how do we go on al candino la misa therefore its punishment of kidnapping is death now what about money right normally you a jew steals he has to pay back what he stole but there's certain cases there's going to be a double payment in fact we're going to even see where there's a four or a five times payment so shnayam yushaleen when you steal money look at chapter 22 verse 3 it's number 13 on the sorshi if the stolen article is found in his a possession of dunk or a lamb as long as they're alive right the live ones he's going to pay two-fold and he's focusing on this because we're going to deal with the idea of the four or five times so in the meantime we're dealing with when you stole one of these types of animals a bull a donkey or a lamb you're going to pay double now i wrote here number 14 the two two types of thieves there's a ganav now what he's doing he's the one who steals secretly we'll call it stealthily and therefore what do we conclude that he fears man more than he fears god because he's afraid of man but he's not afraid of god capisce okay and therefore he's going to pay double wealth to find out what is what did he do why is he paying double because not only did he injure the human that he stole from but he also attempted to deceive god because god cannot be deceived of course but that's his idea that he's doing it stealthily thinking that god is not watching which here's another thing coming what about the ghazlan he's obviously more brazen but perhaps he's more hungry and we'll see he steals openly he's going to pay only the value of the theft itself so now let's go back into the clear car and the last thing we mentioned was now he wants to explain why does the ghana of paid double this you can find in cohes rabba the the measures from ecclesiastes that basically a person lives their lives and they're always hungry for more wealth so if he had a hundred he wants 200 and therefore when he dies he's only half he only acquired half of what he desires the right so let's read again if he has one hundred methadone he is still going to desire 200. well this is what the ghanaf is the ghana is this shalom is topic he's not satisfied with what he has all day long this is what he's desiring mitada tava taketho he's desiring more and more in fact the way he expresses his double whatever he has he wants double al king dino the charlie cathol that's why the torah commands that the person pay back double and he gives a hint now remember in the word mammon mammon means money it's a biblical word for money there's three letters right mem love and nun right obviously mem is twice but that's irrelevant the fact is that when you write out each letter mem mem listen my look at my lips it's a double love that's how you pronounce the letter valve two vowels is double so to show you this is we talked about this a few weeks ago i'm not sure if it's in this class or another class and i think i got it wrong but basically we talked about the idea that um right in america they have on their on their dollar bills or whatever it says and god we trust right so the truth is we unfortunately i think i think i misquoted it but basically whether he said the root of all evil is money or something like that but you guys got what i meant then so obviously that's not a jewish view it's what you do with it it's what you desire to do with it okay anyway that's as far as a ghana what about a godzlanim is one who breaks in while people are there avastam gazlani and porzin they're mamish in the open breaking through the aenon mitavin and akafel now this is an assumption i'm not sure it's true in all cases but let's just say and generally it's true that they're not interested in the wealth they're just interested in you know eating they're they're hungry they're starving they want to feed their kids they're not trying to gather wealth they're just interested in whatever it is there at the moment the oh not only that he says remember i mentioned well there's a double payment so for why is there he says that there are two thieves thieverys there's two acts of thievery going on he's stealing the money of the person he stole it from and das kono it's not that you can really steal hashem's mind but it means tricking and deceiving that's what it means so your your kevana your intent is to deceive the creator everyone knows deep inside right even the guy who is uh you know going to steal this professional he still prays to god that he's not caught right ultimately everyone really believes in god even what they call atheists or agnostics shane kane the gazlan which is not the case by the godzilla he's not over on both okay now we're going to get into this four or five times with these certain animals now regarding the payment that a ghana when he steals a shore or a set an ox a bull or a sheep with whether he slaughtered it or whether he sold it in other words he doesn't have the live animal anymore now why is there a four or five times he already explained why the ganef has to pay double and why the gosling pays single uh just the the value the fee should drush because something about the blood itself is demanded and we have to explain what that means i think he when he says the gondola rabbos de mesario tav it's a little bit different so the blood if he sold it i'm sorry if he killed it it's dead so you're looking for the animal and it's not there all you have is the blood but the second thing maybe it also do with blood that the these animals could have could have pro had more kids right they could have had progeny they could have had offspring produce and they're no longer they're dead or sold and therefore generations of oxen and um and sheep are gone so to just say pay double is not enough there's the torah knows that you sold something of higher value because of what is not yet brought into the world but the possibility exists now i want you to know this is where his kiddush comes in because he's going to base his reasoning on this point because the male ox the hase which is an isle really the male sheep how you ruin the holiday they are used for breeding right that's what you do with them they're they're valuable and we find in the torah unbelievable where do we find this in genesis chapter to 3215. you'll find this in number 21. so when yaakov sent gifts to asap you have to see what he sent him he sent 200 she-goats and 20 he goats there's 10 times okay keep that in mind 10 times the amount when it came to the goats and the sheep 200 ooze e-w-e-s how do you pronounce it use okay that's the female and 20 rams so you have again what are you dealing with 10 times and then 30 nursing camels with their young we'll see rashi why that is 40 cows in 10 bulls so it's four times okay four times the amount of female cows then the bulls okay 20 she donkeys and 10 heat donkeys i want you to go into that rashi and rashi explains a third line down the rabbis derived from here at something totally not we're not going to discuss at all okay but basically there's conjugal rights by men by women i should say a man signs a ketubah a contract with his wife when they get married and he's going to obligate himself to let's say keep her happy but it all depends on what kind of job he does right if he's a man of leisure so he is obligating himself to be with his wife and we're talking about sexually every day if you're a laborer twice a week donkey driver is once a week on and on and on until you're a seller it's like once twice a year okay so we're not even getting to that but you can see right away rashi on this verse is already describing procreation the ability of procreation and then go down to the well since right go down to where it says 30 nursing kales camels with their young when they're young and they're young among them according to mr godda the word of nehem means ben nehem they're builders what do you mean those that pre impregnate them so in other words you're matching them up for the sake of procreation for the animals so may a male corresponding to a female but okay so then it goes on and explains the camel is discrete mating so scripture didn't publicize it but over here it's this number the calculation that our verse let's just say two verses genesis chapter 32 verses 15 and 16. in case i didn't mention that's the verse we're dealing with when yaakov is sending gifts it's for the sake because let's say like this this is just simple biology it doesn't work by humans right when the female animal is pregnant she won't allow another man or another male to come upon her she's not interested she'll keep keep it to herself okay um so therefore this would be very let's say frustrating or the animal the male animal could go quite crazy okay so in order to also to make use of the time so when one is pregnant then the next one could become pregnant and then the next one become pregnant and this is the best way uh according to a calculation so this is the gifts that yaakov sent asaph it's all calculated okay so now let's go back to the clear car his big hit is that the male is going to is is fit to impregnate the female therefore in our in our in the the the we just mentioned in genesis 32 15 and 16 shalakh yaakov yaakov sent para bayim 40 male i'm sorry 40 female cows upari masara and 10 let's say shurim 10 uh male cows that's that's times four kiko par roi la holi and arbo paros so each male can impregnate four cows therefore remember the person stole a cow ashore sorry stole a shore so we're going to give back he's going to now give back five what's he giving he's going to give four female and one male the odd because he's giving back the four females the odd bakar hamishi kanas bhavura ketho and he's going to give back a fifth as a we'll call it a penalty and that would be like the double so when it comes to a sure male ox we see the torah says to give over five now at this point al-qaeda bucker and the cavos take us ashore therefore it seems like the clinton car is saying is giving over four female cows in place of the sure that he stole the old bakar and the fifth one let's just assume it's the male because of what he stole so that's all together five you know of that species okay now before we read on he is not going to tell you if i'm correct then what the torah should have said was that the sheep he should give 11 but the sheep doesn't say to give 11. so i'm going to show you where we got the four from because there's this idea which we will see in proverbs chapter 6 verse 30 and 31 king solomon actually it's even until 32 and 33 but that king solomon is going to make such an unbelievable wise con uh statement that he's getting it from there and he's actually solid according to the clear car solomon is revealing something unbelievable and this is the reason why we only give the the person who stole only gives back four sheep and not eleven but let's start with his statement he says according to everything i said if we make a calculation that if the person stole a male sheep he should be giving back 21 sheep i'm sorry 11 sheep kiko ayo sorry as in the cavos because we said when it came to the the the goats and the sheep you need to give back 10 times so if you stole a male sheep he's got to give back 10 female sheep [Music] of work and another one in addition to replace the male that he stole meaning a male right so that's 11. ella but what's the big finish what's the novel idea ella shahosa olava torah bavor bisiono there's this whole idea and there's it's more than one opinion in the gomorrah what exactly is the reason for the four of the five and there are some that say well the the the ox he works and then if the owner is missing it so he got he's got to get the five because he lost work whereas the sheep sits around all day and there's no loss to the owner really so he only has to get back four that's one opinion the other opinion is well when the the ox needs to be moved i mean i guess you you kick it or you knot it or do do something to get it to move but the sheep you have to have you you can pick up on your shoulders and move it and it's a bizayo what's the big shame i don't know but just try to imagine because we don't live with these things but if you have to pick one up and carry it on your shoulders it's let's say it's beneath your dignity somehow or another so that's what the gamora itself says right if you look here in number 18 in baba kama by the way just so you should know who holds what right rabbi yochanan ben zakai says for what reason was the torah stricter with the thief than with the robber that's not the one i'm looking for is it oh yes it is okay that the thief is required to pay double not only double there's even four fold and five poll fivefold payment but not the robber rob yokon and ben zakai said in response well this one the robber equated the honor of the servant to the honor of his master and that one the thief did not equate the honor of the servant to the honor of his master meaning that the robber fears neither god nor people we spoke about this earlier and he's not afraid to rob in public the thief does not fear god but he does fear other people which demonstrates that he's more concerned about humans than god now the gomorrah now discusses why is there a four-fold payment for a sheep but yet a five-fold payment for the ox so it was rebbe mayer that discussed the idea of the how important labor is that the theft of an ox which was forced by the thief to cease its labor leads to a five-fold payment wears the theft of a sheep which was not forced by the thief to cease its labor as the sheep performs no labor it just sits around each grass all day leads only to a four-fold payment however yokonum ribbon yokonamen zakai says no and this is where the dignity idea the bizion comes in come and see how great human dignity is the theft of an ox which walks on its own legs as the thief stole it leads to a five-fold payment whereas the theft of a sheet which the thief not saying in all cases but in many cases perhaps he carried on his shoulder as he walked therefore causing himself embarrassment leads only to a four-fold payment this is a very important point because we're going to dissect this point a little bit further of what it means in terms of bizion in terms of putting yourself an embarrassing situation so now let's go back to the clear car and he says right because the torah has let's say rakhmanut has pity has mercy concern the torah has certain amount of concern on account of the shame that the thief of the ship put himself through that he ended up carrying the sheep on his shoulders the menu wait do you hear this that on account of this the torah itself deducts seven seven on account of the the shame the person went through because of the statement that we saw ravioli but on account of the great amount of bisayon amount of shame the person has to go through the torah pushes off according to the clear car seven now how did he arrive at this point because he has to make the fit so he says it all is relying on this verse but actually it's three verses it's 30 to 33 maybe three or four verses and it says over there now i'm going to use the art scroll translation because it makes a lot more sense it says like this a thief is not overly scorned if he seals to steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry imagine somebody who is you know brazen and stealing like outright but this guy is doing it in secret number one he is doing secret and he's only doing it because he's hungry to feed his kids have a little the torah itself has rahmanut listen if the torah when i say the trump talk about king solomon he never made up anything on his own he was very wise but he was able to explain the torah to us in ways that we can understand a thief is not overly scorned if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry now what happens when he's found you found them out he would he would even pay sevenfold he would even meaning really the torah would require that of him even give all the wealth of his house why because he's embarrassed he has a certain amount of shame and anything to get out of this shame he would even pay 50 times he would pay a lot now it says but but one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking an understanding heart a destroyer of his soul will do this can you imagine this person he's not like the guy that's stealing because he needs the food it's all desire it's it's wrong i mean it's pure pleasure there's nothing is necessary here and it's so destructive to his soul and i have to tell you i mean the little that i know about the law is that people that are caught in these situations they put them on what they call um a suicide watch i mean really they because they should be so embarrassed unfortunately many of them are not right they'll deny it till the end but a person in this situation has really destroyed his own soul and 33 says plague and shame will he find and his disgrace will not be erased i mean this is something that is so destructive i'm not condoning going and stealing a loaf of bread but when you're standing in front of the judge and and the person says listen i didn't steal a diamond i didn't steal a watch i stole a bag of flour so my kids can eat the judge is going to have a tremendous amount of rachmanut a tremendous amount of mercy you follow that's unbelievable what's going on here and this is how king solomon understood that really this person should be willing to pay even seven but we're not going to require it on them right so let's go back into the clear car and he quotes the rob the raubag now the raw bug is a later risho so nymphs he is time as the verse said not only will right how does the verse go again um the thief is not overly scorned if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry when he's found he would even pay sevenfold that's right he would even give sevenfold nem su shalem shiva time if he's found he pays seven fold and the rashbog explains the difference between an adulterer and someone who is hungry and just wants to feed his own children and he goes like this so he was caught right he did it stealthily yet he was caught in the house of the person he stole from kishi he'd be willing to give up seven times because of the shame if he had the money he would be willing to do it so nim so what comes out from this shazam notates shiva babur biziono he's willing to give seven times on account of his he's in touch with his shame unfortunately the adulterer probably isn't sharing me tom yeshaleem shiva time for the very fact from the reason that he's that he should pay seven times but the torah says lo but he won't face that shame god will have right as it says the thief is not overly scorned god will not require that of him um where in the world did king solomon learn such a thing it's unbelievable that watching shiv about that the person is willing to give up seven times for his own um for his because of the embarrassment he says rather from the very fact from the very fact that the torah says you only have to give up four sheep three female right and a male that's four be from that fact that's how we know that's how king solomon understands that the person is willing to give up seven because the person should really have according to the khajba what was the original question like we saw yaakov yaakov clearly gave over to asov in order to right for the progeny to come forth the value and as steven mentioned the the future potential of what could be that's what the person's giving over and therefore it's really should be 11. right if it's cals it's going to be 5 because it's 4 times plus one according to the sheep and the goats it's ten times plus one but as king solomon said hashem has rahmanut the bisayon the shame is taken into account for that type of person but keep in mind king solomon goes way out of his way to talk about the adulterer in a very you know very clear way that he is nowhere near he's not exonerated he won't find that peace that the thief who stole a loaf of bread or a pound of flour okay so with that i think that was hopefully we see that we can be we can think deeply right we just have to you know use our brains god gave us brains right and we have to stick to the torah stick to good rabbis learn as much of the messor as possible and then we could also connect the dots but we have to pray for it we have to stay away from sin we have to have a healthy fear of god and hang out with good people and this rat hashem will all be blessed with the kind of at least at least a bit of kodesh like king solomon had to understand the torah and i wish all of you a great life a shabbat shalom and we'll see you next week [Music] is oh