Rabbi Benjamin Yudin Discusses Parshas Ki Seitzei on JM in the AM (5786)

Good morning Shabas everybody. Tomorrow we have the privilege of reading parasi. Whoa. Parasi satesi is known for having the most mitzvos of any singular para in the Torah. According to the there are 26 positives 27 I'm sorry 27 positives and 47 restrictions for a total of 74 mitzvos. Some of the more familiar mitzvah are that of marriage and divorce as well as the closing paragraph in paras the biblical commandment to remember to destroy evil amalik in this world. I'd like to share with you an exciting idea that Rashid tells us in the second aliyah. Now in your verbos teaches that especially in the book of dvarin we are daron smoothen which means that we have the right to explain why one mitzvah is written next to another. and the lessons that we might learn there from. So in the second Ali we find the following. He first comes the mitzvah of Shilu Hakan. Shiluakan is to send away the mother bird, not to take the mother and the chicks or eggs together. And then if you fulfill this mitzvah which says that it will be good for you and you'll be blessed with longevity. The next is that you will build a new home and you are to make a ma a fence around your home cuz one mitzvah goer is another mitzvah and you will then come to the kim to a vineyard and when it comes to the vineyard You will not plant a vine and other grains together. Next comes soda, a field, and you will not plow with an ox and a donkey together. And you will have the next one beim. You'll have nice clothing with the prohibition of chneys not wearing wool and linen together. Therefore, says Rashi Nismu pario in his commentary points out something very fascinating. You fulfilled the mitzvah of you sent the mother bird away. So the Torah says by doing that you're going to build a new home. One would think that the reward for sending the mother bird away is that now you're able to build a nice new home. And the answer he says, no, is as a result of sending the mother bird away of fulfilling one mitzvah, you will have the opportunity to fulfill another mitzvah, which is to make a fence around the law. And if you fulfill that mitzvah, you will have the opportunity to plant a vineyard. Where the mitzvah is not the planting, but it's that you're not seeding planting the foline with other grain and soda a field. You need to plow the field. You're not going to plow with a o ax and a donkey and then you're going to have nice clothing which is the mitzvah of chhatnes not to wear wool and linen together. So Rashi explains that's why these five commandments were written one next to another to teach us mitzvah go mitzvah that one mitzvah causes another mitzvah. I'd like to expand a little bit on that concept of mitzvah ger mitzvah. So we can understand you've performed one mitzvah, hashem will give you an opportunity to perform another mitzvah. However, I'd like to tell you that there's much more to this concept and that is as follows. The gamora and kaducian 40b teaches us mitzvah. When a person fulfills a mitzvah, it's not only a shr, it's not only that it's good for him, but rather that not only has he gained personally perfecting himself, but he has also So elevated the world about him enabling the world to acrewue more blessing from God. Woe and conversely ouch if a person violates a negative command. So not only has he committed a liability towards himself, his soul, but also the entire world, towards the side of my ability. And this is found in the Ramba as well, the idea of the potential of each mitzvah. And that's based on the Mishna in Arlo where Benazi says mitzvah goer mitzvah goer a now I'd like to direct you to in his safer nepheshim in the first shah chapter three and four and his thesis is very strong. He tells you the famous Mishna in OS peric bay Mishna hour whereby the mission says da literally know be cognizant mala malo what is above what's above you me know what that means that hashem directs the world but he explains this a bit differently no malo what is going on and how hashem directs the world stems from you meaning hashem hashem is our shadow if we act in good positive ways if we show we truly love all Jews. Then guess what? Hashem is going to bestow more love on us. And if there is there's strife and there's sino, I can't even say the h word. But if there is the opposite of a opposite of love within the Jewish community, Hashem as well turns his back on us. So this is a very powerful idea. I'm going to substantiate this idea with the gamura in Sanhedrin 96b where the gammorra tells us that the one who destroyed the first panage was Neuaradin. Nebuaradin was sent by Navad Netar and he was exceedingly arrogant and when he came and destroyed the first pantoage he couldn't stop patting himself on the back and listen to what the gamaru says Basco A heavenly voice emanated the umbrell and said to Nevuza Radin, "Amma Cilt, you destroyed a slain nation." Meaning, Hashem had already decreed that the Jewish people were to be defeated because they went against what the Bikdash stood for a burned sanctuary that you burned. In other words, it wasn't you. It was Hashem who took this initiative and you were just the messenger that Hashem sent to implement it. And finally, a ground flower that you ground. Unbelievable. What we do down here has not only a an effect upon us, but what we do down here has nothing less than a global effect. Unbelievable. Now this is something that we would not be able to understand on our own. That is why we need to take the hand of who was the primary disciple of the vil. And understand that all of Jewish history is connected. We are living in very special times. We see it with the many many miracles that are happening in Erid Israel that are happening in the world around us. understand that it's not simply that Hashem is putting on a show and showing us what he can do. But we honestly believe that the more we are dedicated to his Torah and his mitzvos, to the love of Hashem and to the love of Cla Israel, the greater the Aava of Hashem will continue to be for Claudius Rail. Therefore, especially now in hodes el talk should be mitzvah goer mitzvah. Shabbat shalom to all.