Maharal Shiur Parshas Behar Bechukosai with Rabbi Berger at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim

Okay. The parish of begins with these words. Why is it important? Why is it important? Mike, you can sit over here. Why is it important that the opening words are was it 90 days? Absolutely not. They left in the middle of the month of Nissen. So you had about 15 days in Niss. You have 30 days in there's a total of 50 days. Tonight we just counted 40. There's 10 days left. So it's 50. So it's 51 days. 51 days isn't even two months. But yet if you make a they started out in they went through the balance of the entire year and now the Tyra makes a big deal about the fact that we're in the third month in 50 days. 50 days, but in the third month already when there was a specific time that had to happen. There was a time meant to go in. There's a time for inash also to go out. Waited till he was 99 years old. It was specifically at that time, not a day earlier or not a day later. There was a time it had to happen when or that's the It says man that claw should be able to get the meaning as an introduction to this peric perish is telling us that the fact that the opens up with the words it's the third month right away when went out they came to mid and the process already began. Let's just pull out the pic for one minute. Here it is. So they showed up. They came to the and the medish is telling us that this is the right time and this is the right place. What is so special about this man that the Tyra opens up with this and the morale obviously is accentuating what's the flip over the page please he brings we're going to do the second one for tonight in the end of the second column In the third column, [Music] They shouldn't get married. They were in captivity. stick ahead. We compare them to a that was in captivity, a who became a ye as a gvert or just like a shiva. She can't get married to anybody until three months. What's the shot? Why? In case she's pregnant, right? Right. Whose kid is it? It is though, isn't it? That's right. Is going to explain. Even though he'll say even though he says take a look later on it [Applause] says where's that I'm reading from below right there underline you see where it says in your underline towards the bottom of the right before that he says even though even says I'm going to explain the he says in order to enter into a different relationship into a different it's not enough you're going from one person to another person like from one day to the next because then you're never left over the first person. Then you're coming off. It's a very dangerous place to be. You know what that means? You have to separate from the first one and then you can go to the second one. That's the secret of three says the mar meaning one and two are connected one to two two to three is connected one to three is separate I'll give you a says I think it's the says in the beginning when a person you have to go into the Medisha, you have to go in two doorways. Some places have a vestable, right? You go into one set of glass doors, then you're in the little vestable. You're in that hallway, and then you go into the other. Most of them do it because of the cold, right? But the says you have to walk in. The guy's ding in. You're going to dab in. You have to walk in to Frank T. I can't have a show without says listen to this a person comes to ask us why he wants to answer he wants to he wants to connect himself to the correct when you're walking into a shul you walk into bases from the outside inside. How do I know you're not taking all the stuff from the outside inside? You probably are, especially if you didn't shut your phone off and you take it with you. You're taking it. The says, listen to moral says, you go in two door. You go in the first, right? You're in the first thing is you walk in and you're not inside but you're not outside either. The middle area is I went in so that which means I'm not outside. I'm in the middle. in the parking lot. No, the parking lot. No, in the parking lot. No, not so happy. I'm not over here. Not I'm somewhere over here. When you walk in the is I'm not outside. When you're not outside, now we can talk about then after now I'm here. You know, Rabbi is what mean? thinks means singing because means pruning you know what you're doing you're cutting off dup and your mind and your heart from everything else and you're so you should be able to get into the right place so that when it comes time to get to you're able to stand in front of the aish but if you're not manatic yourself from the outside you'll never be in front of him because you'll be in front of him with that you'll take all your baggage with you says the gimra says a person shouldn't in a unless he goes what's the is the first door is I'm not outside but I'm not inside yet the is I'm not there after I was manic myself from there. Now I can think about going in the next doorway. Now I can be here. If I'm not there, then I could be here. Sli when a woman gets divorced from the fact that she might what happens if she's a 65year-old widow, right? And she's not going to be able to get have kids. She also has to wait two months. Because you can't go from one to the other end with the first one. I finished with that one. Then I could start the next one says the first words of the moral in the par that discusses. You want to be the you have to be you have to pull out of where you were. No more slave mentality. No more shifa. No more negativity. No more from lifestyle. How is that supposed to happen? Well, you can't go in the next month and make it happen. Your first opportunity of being able to be says the moral is that's the lumbus. That's the lumbus. That's the tite of whati means and reish have no connection. The two is connected to the one. The two is connected to the three. But the one and the three is an ugashite. They're separated. The two is the in between areas, the no man's land. The two is the area where in the two they were in a month of inansite separate they left they were nish and nishair. But that's what you need to be because if you want to go to something new, you have to be you have to separate yourself when I said it as a joke but I meant it not as a joke. If you want to know how to be able to beem, it's such a today because the people are so busy still connected to the outside world when they're sitting there by ding even if they're not looking at their phone. But as soon as it's on them, you haven't been able to get in front of the why because you still have everything. Everything's pulling you back. The is don't keep it on you. If it's on you, you're not you're your business. You're notem you're with all your text messages and your emails and your WhatsApps and your and that's exactly what the wants and the and the person has by taking his phone and saying I'm going to be it's an I'm putting this away. You don't just put it away. I'm that itself is walking through the first doors. That itself is walking through the doors by being yourself. This is not important. Now what is important for me now is my relationship with the that itself becomes a and becomes a statement in a person being able to be when a girl is dating a boy but she's still thinking about the other boy she went out with. She's not that's that's called then she's with somebody else. She's not in she's you have to separate yourself. If you don't separate yourself, you're not going to be with the And now he says one more point I want to focus on. Let's see the underlines. We'll go down to the underlines. Once you're in, that's the concept that we're saying. When you're three, she's already available. Now, oh, right. You're right. 90 days you need to make sure that she doesn't have a baby from the first one. But the concept of three that's the lumbus of the concept of right the conceptual idea is I am no longer attached to therefore because she's already from that Now look at this underline. Rabbi say you tell me what that means. You know what that means? You're a person. Two things make up ownership. When a person gives say when a person steal when a person something is stolen, you steal something from somebody. This is yours. I steal it from you. I can't be makd because it's not mine. You can't be makdish because it's not in your possession. left and we're you are entering the ru of the says in right even one person you're not in this world through mitzvah already because for them the mitzvah brought and brought Shamayim down here so that when Claus does Tyra mitzvah when we're mabo the Tyra We're in a what does mean? We're in a different domain. We said over he writes in two places that when in he writes in in the beginning in per in um infer in he writes when a person does a mitzvah this is an or that surrounds him that or comes from Ganeden And he's not in this [Music] world. The reason is because you're not even doing the mitzvah in this world. You're doing you're in and when you finish the mitzvah that light and that mitzvah goes to and it's waiting for you. That's it's there. You're in another rish. you're not in this. And could you imagine if you bring your phone into such a rush? So it doesn't work. It doesn't work. So if we are to understand the mindset that says the is the mindset of why the was saying the med I need the of to get to is to separate ourselves from the place we're coming from in order to get to the place of we learned two things tonight. Number one, the requirement of pulling away the first set of doors where we're pulling from and where we're going to. The fact that we have to go to no man's land in means to say sometimes does it for us. Sometimes we're too stuck in our old life and the Aisha decides I'll do you a favor. I'll rip you out of it. He can do it for you too. And sometimes we're kicking and screaming. What are you doing to me? What are you taking away? The says, "What are you talking about? In the old life, you're you're gandian. You're a goner. You need to be ripped out of your life. I need to put you in. I'll take you out." Well, you could go kicking and screaming. He'll take you out. But it's now you're in no man's land, but the place you're going to is called. Now you're going to plat. Now you're in a whole new place. It's a new place. Two things we learned tonight. Rabbi say teaches us says I'm learning two things. I need to be I have to separate myself. That's alf because I can't go into a new a new relationship with the unless I separate myself. That's al if and where are we going? We're going to we're going to a place where in this place it's planted. You're not in a place of you're in a place of is with you. You're in You're way beyond the confines of this world. You're not in this world. You're way above this world. I always said for a joke. I didn't forget you, Ellie. Go. Some people believe in Martians. You know who the real Martians are? We're the Martians. We come from a different place. The fact that our is not from this world is from the is is so we're our existence is we come from and we're going to go to we're here transient we're here from right we're just is we're just we're going from one place that's right this is to be able to go from Dartton and then to go to write. So you should be able to go to So when they say we're these Martians, right? And they look for our horns underneath the That's right. That's what they look, you know, right? So you know if they don't know, right? We're tak and we're proud of it. We're proud of it because there's nobody like the nobody [Music] like this is the 50 days of counting to be like we say [Music] That's the we separate from the things that we should be separate from so that we can get