Lech Lecha 5786 - Spiritual Restlessness

In this in this par we have go and sojourn in the land is the way translated um h because I have given it to you. So the word the the simple meaning of it is obviously that this is a type of ainion. It's a way of acquisition. One of the ways of being Kona is by um and you know it has its details of um Kenyan and so on but says it's a much deeper point over here and he focuses on the word his he speaks about his Noah in Noah where it says his and he says his unique to very big people like his and he um and he says his is something that is usually um spoken about in the context of um of wisdom. So let's first explain a little bit the the word difference and his simple um difference is a straight motion. A person is um going from point A to point B. That's his more to stroll kind of back and forth. That's what the word his implies usually. So when two people are walking together, it's it's that they're strolling together and that's why his hal is the word used but his hik implies a type of motion where there's not a goal and that's it with but rather it's a constant um motion of being mishik. So the um the the the says that his is means a restlessness of the soul of the mind or the soul in trying to understand. Now he says if you take a look it does it doesn't say that a traveled around much. It says actually vom um it it basically you find au settled in dwelt there and and that's it. So what exactly are we talking about? So he says that that's exactly describing the point of it. He says he um growth inn requires and I'll quote the line. It requires um requires that the person's soul um be in motion and the body rest. of the opposite of physical needs that require the the body moving and the soul being at rest. So let's describe what we're talking about here. He's not talking about physical sitting. Obviously in order to be able to sit and to learn and to know and to understand, it's extremely um necessary and helpful that the person not have any turis not have any bothers and and so on. But there's something more to it over here. So he's I think is speaking more about complacency and restlessness in a sort of emotional way. A person who is restless regarding his physical condition. I can do better. I can bring in much more. I can I can arrange things much better. A a a person has a certain restlessness because he's not satisfied with it, which means that his heart and soul are preoccupied with um getting things in place. That does not allow for thinking and understanding because we're in a physical mode. On the other hand, if a person's a person's and um ambitions can be in um sort of passive mode, I'm fine. I'm confused. I do my things. I'm fine. The person is not restless at all. Person does not have any ambition. He he's he's not he he he he doesn't have that drive to go further and further. is also not going to grow in. I would like to think that this is actually um stated is is not in inim and it's not in the seafaring people. So sayim is people that are full of themselves and are people doing business and so on. So does it mean people are doing a business they don't have time to learn? That's obvious. Then then it's not not a question. because whatever they're busy it's it's not overy means something else. So I think those two points over there mean exactly the same as here over yam means it it's a restlessness on the person's the person's ambitions are all in the world of commerce commerce farming is a type of complacent pinoet you you work hard but you have your farm you till the land you reap the crops you hope they'll be good. That's it. There's there's a lack of ambition. The the the stereotype farmer is not really all that ambitious. The business says, "One second, instead of selling my corn over here, I can go someplace else and sell for a lot more. Then I can buy products in third place much cheaper than here and resell them here." Restlessness expresses itself in commerce. So the terra over there tells us that terra will not be acquired in two types of people. The overyamim the people who are restless and on restless regarding their material standing that does not allow it means that the person's mind and heart are all wrapped up in in commerce or whatever it is also in the people that agass it means that they feel complacent and smug. So they don't have any material ambitions but they don't have any spiritual ambitions. Port I know quite a bit and I you know say very nice I share and whatever it is I don't have a restlessness there's so much more to know and I'm driven because there's so much that I can't learn and that I want to learn that I need to learn and and so on. Not possessing either of these two characteristics will not allow a person to attain Torah. That's what over here. So says is speaking to and he is speaking to him about having um Israel is a wonderful place but its purpose is to achieve that's what it's all about. That's um promised us in many different ways. This is the way. This is the place to be. So he told him this is a land where his parts. So a ves he he needs to settle materially. But this is the place where you can become restless regarding um the rnist world and that's the prerequited. So um person has two different selves. There's the self that the ambition material world and in spiritual world to obtain rnas ambition in the material world hampers it because that means that the person is engaged and involved in in whatever is physical that means he doesn't have that drive and and his hal quality in in the If the person is settled but he's totally complacent, I'm fine. Nothing bothers me. I um I have what I need. I've done what I should and everything's very wonderful. Then again, a person not going to grow. A person go have both together. And that's why charged pace back and forth to to to to keep driving yourself to want to know and [clears throat] understand more and more. And that's the tal that is giving