Nitzavim 5786- Orlaas Halev

The parsha just needs solving. We have the famous pasuk. I could just borrow who is going to perform a bris milah so to speak in parenthesis in italic marks. What exactly does it mean um mal shalom of l'vavcha? What does it mean what will happen over there? So the um the Ramban here says a p'shat. Um the Ramban's p'shat is not everyone agrees with it, but it certainly is a very very important p'shat to understand um the process of mal shalom of l'vavcha. The um the the Ramban explains as follows. That a person in when he was created when Adam HaRishon was created he says um a person had b'chira because Hakadosh Baruch Hu wanted us to use b'chira. So we have a b'chira to choose between good and bad. Now, the b'chira doesn't mean just we're free to choose this or this. People tend to think that b'chira is in is is in the choice part of it. Um the the the word the the b'chira is much deeper than that. B'chira means we have two um two directions that we're being pulled in. The uh uh our bodies are our bodies love and desire different types of pleasures. Whether they're very physical pleasures, which are called ta'avah, or more emotional drives called chemdah, the desire for power, the desire for for wealth, things like that. Those are um so to speak that that's part of us. It's part of our personality. On the other hand, there's a part of our personality that is um driven to to to achieving spiritual um good. We have uh a desire to become wise, to become good, and things like that. So, a person has it it a person's personality does not come to one head, it comes to two heads. We have in us a part that is totally devoted to physical type of pleasures. That's what we wish to have, that's what we want to have, that that makes us tick. That's one part of us. And then there's a part of us that really would like to have um [clears throat] something spiritual. Both of both of them it's it's a combination of a neshamah and a guf being joined together. Each one has its own mechanism. In a sense that that guf, that body that is affixed to our neshamah, is is is called the arlah of the lev. It's it's the the arlah is the the skin that's hard, tough, um uh something that needs to be gotten rid of. And this is what a person is. So, bechirah is not just that we can do as we wish, it's that we're struggling to to between two different wishes. What is it that we exactly wish? That's where bechira lies. Now, Hakadosh Baruch Hu made it made that our nature cuz Hakadosh Baruch Hu wanted more than anything else that we become the people that we we make ourselves in into into the into the tzaddik. That's the purpose of bechira. This is ongoing and it it lasts until the time of Mashiach. When Mashiach comes um that it's that that's over and then there is no point to it. At that point we will no longer have a drive or hankering for anything bad. And therefore in a sense we're not going to have a choice. Let's give an example. Um just a parallel. We can Does a person have a choice to sit on a hot piece of steel? Well, yes, he he can if he wishes. But he's not struggling because no part of him wishes to sit on a hot piece of steel. So the person might have a theoretical free will but doesn't really have any desire whatsoever to sit on that on that metal. So it's free will in in theory but it's not in in real in that real. The same thing will happen when Mashiach comes. Hakadosh Baruch Hu will remove our drives for the crass, for the vulgar, for the bad, and so on. We'll be left only with the inner drive and the yearning for ruchniyus. So the middle that will not be any bechira. It says Yemot Hamashiach if it's we we will not have because we will have eliminated the alternatives. Now, not everyone agrees that the Rambam is older than the Rambam holds that at at the time of Mashiach will be exactly the same. It's just that that will have a melech and all of that. There are different opinions in in the shrine, but the Ramban here is a very very important Ramban. So, again, the Ramban is explaining this possuk of Malchus of meaning as follows. A person, as long until Mashiach comes, the purpose of the world is to become closer to Hakadosh Baruch Hu through man's struggles and realizations. This requires free choice, not just in the sense that we can theoretically do whatever we want. >> [clears throat] >> It means there are two of us. There's each and every one of us is a part of us is something that desires um the real good because that part of us is really ruchni. And there's a part of us that only desires physical things and [clears throat] you know and the chemdah and ta'avah because that's what it is. That creates the environment of uh bechira. That creates the then we can choose. When Mashiach comes, there's not going to be any purpose for that. And since there won't be any purpose for that, then we're going to have um >> [clears throat] >> Hakadosh Baruch Hu remove the drive from us. And yes, theoretically, we can always do what's wrong, but we it's not going to be a struggle because we don't have any drive for doing that which is not right.