Nitzavim 5785

[Music] Parasitim clans one of Mishenu's last Musen to claw Israel. This is the day that he's about to die. And he goes ahead and he warns the people against the evils of a deser. So we came into this land of and we saw the abominations of the You saw all this. Maybe there'll be one among you or family or a person that will say, "Hey, let's try this." And when this person hears this whole of what's the terrible things that will happen to you, so this person hears this, they'll say, "Guess what? No problem. I'll be all right. I can do whatever I want. So says, "Yeah, is going to lace into this person. All the terrible things that I predicted will h happen to this person. Okay, that's perhaps a lot of that's what been hearing throughout watch if you worship Zora is going to go ahead and throw you out of the land. See the death last day of his life gives this whole schmoo and then he says and if there's some guy that say hey guess what shalom don't worry I don't worry me no no no no worries no either you're deaf you didn't hear this or uh you don't believe in God but something wrong over here the reaction should not be that this person is neither deaf and he apparently does believe in God but for some reason he says shallow how is that so the Ibenez alludes to this and the Ibenezar says that this person has a makova which is not entirely crazy. And he says, "Listen, I know I'm going to do bad. Whatever reason, I can't help myself, but since I'm among such sadikim, so I'll slip in and therefore God's not going to punish everybody and therefore the merit of the sadikim of which I live with, that's going to save me. I trust God." But there's something called the the uh the the protection of the sib and cla is mo mostly sadikim and therefore I can go ahead and do what I got to do and God's going to look at me if not favorably but hey let the guy go such as the sour and in that the person is theoretically correct. There is safety in numbers. There is safety among among sadikim. And the the example I cite to this is the story of the mirha in Europe. The mere yeshiva in Europe is the only yeshiva in Europe that survived intact. The entire yeshiva, not Slabotka, not Tels, not Kelm, not Narduk. Mir was the only one. Mir went from the city of Mir and when things got hot at the beginning of the war towards the beginning of the war, they went through Lithuania as many yes did. And they went and they stayed in VNA for some time. And then they made the famous trans Siberian trip from VNA, Lithuania across Russia to Kobe, Japan, and then from Kobe, Japan to Shanghai, China, where they remained for the for the duration of the war and came out of the of the the war intact. Rashiva and others told them that we have to stay together as a unit. We all have to be one Sabber and when we be one Sabber that Sber will protect us. Any person that decides to leave he's on his own. In fact, sometime right before the war, it was sukus after the royim in which the bak would go home. They said no one goes home for binim. No, no sukus vacation. We stay together. And throughout the entire war insisted that everybody learning the same base medish. You know in Moses Shivas you have the base medish but you have this room and that room that small basement. No, everybody together. Everybody together. And guess what? They were right. And they survived. They didn't want to go ahead and separate themselves. You know the the Ramier Rashiva who lived in our our days relaink not the present one that was his grandfather. So he used to he had a strange custom on Russia Shana Yam Kipper. He did not daven on the misra. He davin among the rest of the he based this on a story in Tanakh. The story in Tanakh of Alicia isamis. Alicia came to this ishamis and he was staying there and it was rashana who was staying at that time in this person's house this woman's house with her husband you did all this for us. You're putting us up. What can I do for you? Hayes alham. So let me ask you, can I you know I have pull I'm Alicia. Can I speak to the king on your behalf? So she said no. Don't speak to don't speak to the king. I'm just another citizen. This says it was Rashashana and Alisha comes to this woman and says, "Listen, you're putting us up. I want to do something for you. Can I put in a good word to the rib me the Nvi Alisha? Can I put in a good word if forget no if any rasha would come to me and say rashan guess what can I put in a good word for you I said absolutely and this woman says no I just want to be among the people I don't want to be singled out there's safety in numbers safety among sadik and that is why laser used to daven among not on the but among the people and he used to quote that's the psychology of this person that says shalomi ultimately he's wrong but the concept is not incorrect