Parshas Shoftim: Why Do We Care So Much About Wasting Food? - Rabbi Reuven Taragin

the torah teaches us the issa of baltastras by speaking about the usage of a fruit tree as a battering ram at a time of war and the torah says don't use a fruit tree that could have produced fruit use a regular piece of wood the torah when formulating this adds the following phrase man is the tree of the field and obviously the question is what does this mean i believe ghazal used the next peric in the torah the story of egla arufa to explain this idea to us of course an egg lab roofer is brought in a situation where we find a dead body and we're not sure who killed him we measure which city it's closest to zucchini and he quotes which teaches us that we need to have kapoor for the loss of perot that this human being could have produced with his life we take an animal that hasn't reached its potential in a place that hasn't been worked to appreciate the loss that's occurred here the gemara in sota asks which pay road are we referring to if we mean children what happens if the person who was killed was old or sterile so the gemara says mitzvos every mitzvah is a pre every moment is an opportunity for us to grow something in this world to produce something in this world the morale says powerfully and pharisees will apparent gimmel a person should not allow the corrupt thought into their mind that man is in their final form he says this is a terrible of pigle the reason man is called adam is that he's like adama that something is meant to grow from and the payrolls that a person presents are torah and mitzvot and what they live up to and the lesson here is that we're meant to look at our lives not just as doing mitzvoth and avoiding aveiro but as opportunity every moment is an opportunity and therefore a responsibility to make the most of it as we know moshe and aaron were punished not for what they did wrong but for missing the opportunity to do right ya'an lohan the loss of the opportunity to create a kid of hashem whereas rashi says not that they hit the rock but had they spoken to the rock and brought out the water that way it would have created a kiddush hashem and that's why the gemara says someone who doesn't bring children into the world it's as if he's murdered someone who is the owner is very severe because of the wasted opportunity and that of course is the lesson for hodish evil that we begin always around parshas shoftim chuva is not just an opportunity it's a responsibility and if a person does not take the opportunity in the month available that in and of itself is can be what's mahria themselves in the wrong direction let's realize that our life is all about opportunities and maximize our opportunities in all situations and for sure in the coming [Music] months