Parshat Behar 5784 by Rabbi Baruch Taub

okay so parat Bahar um I have three three items here to share the first is from number one on the sheet is anive Berlin we've mentioned many many times in the past Ro pish on the fish actually the emic his purish is Kish it represented a weekly Shear that he gave in the v Yesa every Friday that was this is the collection of ha mdav and it was actually published posthumously I I might have told you that a great great grandson of the N is the rashash of thean Yesa in and he published some some years ago I think it's a good 10 10 20 years he published a new AMC he published this the the commentary of of the N but he added comments since the naive published it when he was alive on his Kish there were all kinds of additional comments and he he published the a MCD with the additions that the naive put in afterwards the only problem is and I told him this one when he visited Toronto once that it's tremendous what he did but unless you're a Bucky in the naive you don't know what's new and really what you know I think in the world of scholarship right in the world of uh of scholarship when you add uh comments you mark it there should be a notation that this is a new com but any case wonderful Tom and he gave us the that's the one that I have and you can go into his for shop and you could you can Discover it yourselves so to get to the ni I just want to I want to start go to number two on the sheet we just have aim as an introduction to the number two is from when created so the says God created man a he created him from the dust of the Earth Nish we're going to focus on the word tonight and he blew into his nostrils Nish he gave he gave him and he became a living person he became a living person the ability to think and the uniqueness of the human species from the animals is that the ability to talk that we could articulate what we're thinking but what the question we're asking on this p is why is mentioned twice right he blew into his nost and then right didn't have to repeat it necessarily right now come go back to up to number one it's from our par and we have numerous misses here but here we're talking about lending money supporting poor people Central Motif in the para when your brother is is down financially IM and his his assets are dwindling he's not he's not yet declared bankruptcy but his assets are dwindling M IM with you you have to help him you have to help him out P continues VAV also a VAV now a to is is a non-jew who has accepted to live in the Jewish community and has accepted upon himself certain certain Moral Moral Jewish Ideas right he will not worship idols right doesn't necessarily keep kosher but he accepts upon himself not to not to be engaged in a and he will live with you right so again um you have in this and he should live with you next you cannot take from a Jew interest have fear of he should live dwell with you so you have here again and K you have a double mention in terms of dealing with the poor Jew and non-jew alike different different ideas a Jew you can lend you lend money but not on interest and a nonu you have to help also try to save them financially but you have two you have two in the creation of man you have two in the exercise of stocka of caring for someone else okay now let's go down to the naive at number five and here here is his comment and it's going to there'll be a climax in the last paragraph but let's let's get there he goes to the PUK here when when when your brother becomes is poor and he's starting to sink financially his assets are dwindling and also the the is talking about two different kinds of challenge Financial challenges right if he's sinking he's he's his money is running out know he has something he has property he has assets he has he a landowner but for whatever reason he's not able to to to sew his Fields he's lacking workers he's la instruments whatever land was no good right V now when when the Torah says y his hand means his ability right so his his ability was was now decreased and he also it says he's with you talking about a Jew you know him he's someone in your community then you have to you have to help it right you know the deor has a whole pecking order in St you [Music] know people from your own town your own City who are in need come before people from another town right people are collecting for people who need money right incidentally when it comes to this Al yush is considered our our hometown also so needs in yush have an equal playing field with the city where we happen to live reside at the moment okay that's why it says your hand right it's it's it's you gotta lift them up he's with you right it's a Jew you know this guy is honest and he's gonna pay you back once you put him on his feet again then he's going to be you know that he's he's good for his money and he will pay you back right G you know there's no guarantee that this non-jewish fellow is going to pay you back right k right he's here today gone tomorrow right first of all because primarily he cannot own land in ER his thr so he his he has very little principle with which to pay you back right and his his attachment his ties to the community are not as strong as our Jewish Brethren that's why we say we emphasize the word with the Jew which is is also mentioned twice and we'll get to that eventually just like your brother who have you have to help you have to help the to live also right you have to make sure he doesn't die he has to live right we're talking about of course we're talking about because it was an agrarian society everyone was involved everyone was involved in in real estate right and everybody had a piece of property and it's understood but however he says this is not a mitzah that only applies in there I'm focusing the Torah is focusing on agriculture because that's where we're at right now when we were in in the time of of the Torah but it's not some it's not a mitah this applies everywhere and anywhere right outside of when a person's livelihood his life is dependent upon profession or business not right it really doesn't make a difference whether he's Jew or non-jew you have to help both of them right okay now skip to the last paragraph now he's gonna now he's going to hit Pay Dirt why is mentioned twice why is mentioned twice your brother should live there's two kinds of life when the Torah speaks about it's talking about two different things a couple of quot he has to be alive and not dead you have to give him his basic needs his Necessities so he can live right help him with his health insurance whatever he has to live not die to be be alive and not sad how you live your life right that's a totally different different ball game right so for the Jew you certainly have to make sure that he you can't leave him destitute you have to help him you have to help him get on his feet but a Jew you have an additional obligation to move him in the right direction spiritually with the Torah here too he should dwell with you the one who lives with you we're talking about your brother talking about a Jew he shouldn't die he shouldn't die you have to you have to save him is is spiritually that he should be alive and not and not sad that his his life should have meaning right you have to lend the money without without taking interest right so he will be equal to you if he has to pay interest gonna it's gonna fall apart that's you're allowed to take interest from a non-jew now this we've talked about in past years I think this has always been a thorny issue for the Jewish people throughout Jewish history it got us into a lot of trouble right we were thrown out of countries because we we didn't we CH charged interest to non-jews and didn't charge interest to Jews in fact very few professions were given over were allowed to for Jews in the Middle Ages and money lending B that's where the Rothchilds came from banking became one of the Prime businesses of the Jewish people so how is it uh that you you can only lend money on interest to a non-jew you're not allowed to lend money to a Jew in fact it says twice in these Pim your brother has mentioned twice to to emphasize so why is that why why not if I had a business if I had a rental car business and you come in and I I rent you a car but I take I take a profit whatever business I have I take a profit why why not with money why can I not take interest from a Jew with money and and I can do it with an nonu and this really is a kind of response that was actually given to Oliver Cromwell when there was an argument to bring the Jews back into into England and he allowed them to come in because he he was satisfied with this this approach this response and it's very simple money is a whole different ball game if your mother approaches you or your brother approaches you and says listen I need $110,000 right would you charge them interest family family they need something you give them right it's not that you're any less than my family because you're not Jewish but you're not my family don't you you don't you treat your family differently than non-f family you help everybody right you help everybody GV these two can tell us you help the Jew and you help the non-jew the GV the the particularly the ethical Jew non-jew keeps the seven Miss of Noah right but it's not the same you understand that family is treated differently that's what it is we are a family I can't take interest when it comes to money I don't take interest from family but I can take interest from you just like I can take a profit when I rent you a car right that's really the the approach here now this idea by the way that Kai is not just about living right many aspects to to Life In fact when rash comes along in the we add to the in the first right we have every single predicate there for K right life is is multi-dimensional right but but f is not just living is not just bringing someone into life but it's giving them some a purpose in life right it's interesting that a nurse in in modern Hebrew a nurse is called aot it's interesting a nurse is called aot that's what a nurse is right I thought where did that come from she said sister right now I don't know if it came came from the non-jewish world the Catholic world where all the nuns were nurses I don't know but I think I think not I think the the the cleverness of ofes even in modern Hebrew is that a a nurse is not just a functionary she cares about you she's right but in in in the Torah what's the word for a nurse AAA is the name of a nurse in the loan of Torah right because she gives life now I would add something else how do you say birthday in Hebrew right how do you say y who it right y it right what does y who let it mean what it's not you should really say y my birthday the day I was born y but we say y who led it what's who led it it's a causitive it's y who let it it's the day of those people who brought you into life the day that I was brought that people brought me into life y who led it that's my celebration that I'm that somebody cares about me brought me into life physically and is raising me giving me all my basic needs that's that's a birthday that's the Hebrew translation of a birthday it's not a birthday y it's y who led it the day that I was brought in to life okay uh and finally just if you look at number three the PK I had in number three is a p we're familiar with you know we we we to the we to the we he gives us complete Life The Duality that we' spoke that that was spoken about okay let's go to the next piece this is from RAB and he points out starts with something in our our para which is actually we're continuing the same theme but he's going to bring something else out same right you're not allowed to give a loan to money to a to a Jew with interest right why is that because I am God who took you out of Egypt now what's the what's the cause and effects here what the equation here um don't give money to a Jew on interest because I took you out of MIT let's see what he says ubber Rashi is's going to bring three examples three Mes in the Torah where you have the reason being let's see what he develops it's actually those of you who are learning DYI we had this gamor a little over a week ago okay I took you out of took you out of Egypt what did I do remember how he took you out of Egypt I was able to distinguish between who is really a firstborn right and who was not a firstborn the firstborns of of the Egyptian were killed right so I was able to be M to distinguish between a firstborn and a firstborn right or those who were first born and those who were not first born right so I know I know everything I know someone who's lending money to a Jew with interest right you know oh I I thought you know I the money belongs to a non-jew I'm just doing him a favor right so that's of course who can distinguish between someone who's lending with interest someone who's not with right I took you out of Egypt right and I distinguish between you the Jewish people and the Mis right I made that distinction right I can don't you can't fool me right emesis is what we're looking for we're looking for truth number two at the end of I am The God Who can tell the difference between who is a and not a there's a was a phony kind of right phony kind of the blue tius Theus called kalon and people were wearing it right it was a phony right it was an imitation right um so people were wearing this uh knockoff brand of called kalon and I I think it's Indigo in English thank you Indigo and I am the one who knows the difference between Indigo and thank you Shir said that's number two why because I took you out of M again right the third Mitzvah which we just had in the Torah having just measures you have to have just measures your weights have to be honest because I am the god who took you out of Egypt right I'm the one I'm the God again I distinguish between who's a firstborn and who's not a firstborn the guy kav I'm the one who can tell if somebody is putting some salt on his weights to make it a little heavier I often tell the story you know uh my first position was in Savannah Georgia and there was a butcher a kosher butcher there and um the kosher butcher there and he sold his business and he moved to Atlanta and he sold his business to a very special family it was a family that actually Bal Chu they became from in in the community uh and and they bought the the business and I get a call like when he moved in took over the business he took out the things that were still in the freezer the meat that was marked he put them on the scale he was re he wanted to repackage them with a new label and he discovered that every single piece of meat that was in the freezer was had a higher weight of kilo or pounds than it was and it was overcharging I mean you know the broke my heart broke my heart and uh but this was a kosher a kosher butcher right which is why you have to have supervision by the way right now you can't supervise the weights and measures but at least that the Kash should be should be okay but this is this is you're dealing with this was a religious fellow you're right okay so you know there's a there's a when it comes to you know as I call the atahar thear is very very strong and Rashi mentioned it you know that I know you're trying to you're lending with interest but you're claiming that you're representing a non-jew right so he three misses three misses um lending money not on interest wearing sisses that are real not a knockoff brand of indigo and your just weights right have to be EMS right truth from these distinguishing knowing who's a real firstborn who's not a real firstborn who this is be the essence of the miracle of the the the killing of the first born it was the final the final blow the the icing on the cake of The Exodus from Egypt when we left we that's how we left that was the final the final blow of the hammer that the gave the Egyptians was right I am your God that's what it's referring to so what is the what does it mean so wants to say I want to suggest if someone lends money on interest but I'm just an agent for a non-jew he's lying and someone who would he he fixes his weights his scale these are examples of the world is a world of say Al we live in a world of here right and our purpose is to bring EMS back into the world that's what Torah represents right I mean if if if you don't believe me that the world is a world of sheare just just look at what we're living through this last year right and just today right the hag is now issued arrest warrants for sinir and B nanyu right a I mean I mean it's a mark Brothers movie if you if you know what I'm referring to it's insane right it's an right there's the story what that we know is the truth and then there's the the the alternate story of what's happening in this world that we live in you can go crazy right the the the taking us out of Egypt from a world of complete sheer M was was sheer now the Fulfillment of the promise to the to the getting rid of and the Revelation is the revelation of Truth now we're going to create a people of is and we're going to bring truth to the world right that's I I demonstrated it to you that I did Mak God says with an element of versus truth right okay next final paragraph therefore therefore these three MIT represent Ms right and that's why he says it's it's instructive to know that in a few we're all going to D Mar tonight we we the ends but we always add to the Ence of it was the Revelation that God is em is EMS as opposed to all other represented sources of power political power and Theological power in the world the Ron revealed that he ISS that's how we say it now problem is this this is was very nice but I saw that the moral asked a question that you can take every Miss in the Torah really is about EMS right so why daa these three misss why why what's unique about why after these three misses so the morale gives an answer which I have to tell you I looked at it about a half hour ago and I I I'm having trouble finding discovering what he wants to say and he says it on his purish in the in the the gamorra but he refers us to one of his Forum where he goes into detail and I didn't see it so I'm I'm having trouble understanding what the morale is saying but I have my own suggestion very simple suggestion that these three mites represent the entire gamut of our relationship to the world right cissus is is about my clothing it's about how I that I have to be true to myself right I have to be true to myself right that's what cus is all about right it's a reminder the number of knots and strings is 613 M but I have to be true to myself and it extends from my begot in the corner that take it into the world it's about the my EMS my personal EMS right um lending to a Jew without interest is my relationship with my Rel my being a part my national not my my since is my personal identity has to be am the Lo lending is is my national identity my identity with City Israel with the Jewish people has to be EMS right and just measures business weights and measures and business is how I relate to the rest of the world Jew and non-jew like you know that a Jew has to be a n a light unto the Nations right that's we have to be EMS to the world right theem when a Jew does something UNT and that you see it's a Jew I you know when I read the newspaper something you know this guys business guys in New York had this scam or something just yesterday I saw something about anyway and I always look to see you know the names it gets me very nervous right so I think that's what the Torah is trying to say to that God puts MIT reminder I'm doing this you have to do these misses because I took you out of MIT and EMS the EMS I revealed the my EMS because these three misses represent EMS three in three dimensions personal Dimension true to myself true to my relationship to am Israel and true to the world as a Jew in the world okay let's go to the last piece and I have apologize me R because this is really a kind of a yum Kipper idea but it couldn't resist it's really in the para and it deals with the par deals with YoVille and um and R hutner here brings out fleshes out something via the maral a a beautiful lesson about the uniqueness of chuva on yipper rather than Chua we do every day every day we say we three times a day we we say right right we do CH but the Cher of course is a magical a magical presence to the chu ker what it can accomplish for us but that's what he wants to talk about and it comes from the chauffer of Yumer from the chauffer of yil we talk about in the par the MIT of Y right I didn't put the the PK on the on the sheet but it says reading the 10th month right um on the 10th day of the 10th month right y we sound the chauffer of YoVille what's YoVille Jubilee just a review for all of us that in the Jubilee year if if uh ancestral property was sold it returns to its owner a slave is now a free person money no one owes money right it's all all it's all fre money goes back to the original person that's the end of it right um and on yum Kipper we that's that that's the Y the Jubilee a drawer draws of sense of freedom I have a certain sense of freedom on on on yil but all this he's going to say really impacts on yum Ki so let's let's go through we won't be able I'll do the whole thing inside I'll do the best I can what is is so great that it brings about it brings the end of the end of days it brings Messiah if every if every Jew there's a promise by the way that every Jew is going to do Chua the r brings it as a so every Jew is going to do Chua but the Chua that we do the Jewish people do will bring Redemption it'll bring the Final Redemption right and we know that because we say it every day God will bring to a redeemer to those who do ch right so what is that a prize is that a prize how does that work exactly and the says Kipper of the Jubilee year the 50th year right we count seven times seven schas in the 50th year is also a day that there's there's rest from the from Agriculture and so on right it's a whole year special Year back to back and Y on the 50th year it's a time of redemption to the land Redemption slaves are freed they go home Fields real estate property goes back to their just the original owner we all go back to our where we started from that's what Y is all about we have we go back to where we started from a Jewish slave becomes a Jewish free man now my land comes back to Meer who so this is the kind of thing that he wants to he wants to flesh out here the uniqueness of the chuva on yum Kipper relates to this this idea of what Happ because it all begins on on on y That's when we blow the chauffeur we blow the chauffeur at the end of Y Kipper because the Schauer was blown on the Yum Kipper which was yil right in other words Russ it's over right the yil begins but the Jew is not freed until he sits the r has a beautiful language the gamorra actually that the the slaves sits with put a crown on his head that he feels he's a free person but he officially goes out on yum Kipper so what what is the there's a steady graduated level which which climaxes on y there's something unique about Yer okay every Yer is a mirror image of the Yer of the Jubilee Year we're gonna bring out something from the The Kipper of Y we're gonna see it okay I have to skip what's the difference right what's going on list Mark giml I ask how is it how is Chua on different I can do CH I do Chua any day of the year what's the uniqueness of my Chua Yumer and it's derived from the power of that y yum Kipper in other words the chauffer that we blow on yum Kipper of Y right is is not a lesson in y it's a lesson in Yumer it's the power of Yumer meaning what let's see I'm gonna quote something from the he says David all he elevated he elevated the the the the idea of CH was right the elevation of CH the the epitome the Pinnacle of ch right we know was about ch right because of a CH from the word alah elevation right right ch right the word all it doesn't mean the Yoke of Chua the all the alah the the highest Pinnacle of CH how so let me explain he wasn't the first person to do CH by the first shall right shall 130 130 he didn't get back to G the was accepted but he didn't get back to where he started from when the Jewish people did by the sin of the golden calf theel we didn't get the broken tablets it was gone the first were gone right he did he did CH and and he was forgiven but he no longer became king sha was no longer King he didn't get back to his kingship never became King again after his the kingship was returned to David is the same way it was before what does it mean that he elevated he brought it back he brought it back he brought himself back to the very beginning this is the point here final paragraph let's go back to the moral he pointed out to us Yer there's something unique about the CH ofer we do every day of the year it's Redemptive it's Redemption it's going back to that the chauffer blast on Yer of y when we were given the midst of Y of Jubilee when what was the whole thing on the Jubilee everything came back was stored to its original [Applause] place he's being very Poe so the thirst for this I'm gonna I'm gonna bring it out he says he in the next line now that I pulling this out for you right we're thirsty to understand what's what am I what am I talking about here right I'm going to quench your thirst now what's unique about the chu of Yer is that it was built in it's because of it's built upon the chuva of Y the firster Y the difference is what was all about what was the what's the headline of Yer on y is the ability to return back to the starting point and start all over again a clean slate wiped out a clean slate all again where we came from a Jewish servant Who Sold himself because of his destitute he goes back home and he becomes just like another Jew starting all over again all possessions and Agriculture and Fields and farm go back to the original owner this is the this is the Redemption that was given to so this is this is the power of CH yum I said I warned you and I apologize this is a yum but it's something I put away for yum Kipper right the uniqueness of the power of chuva is it it's not just forgiveness it's Redemptive that a brings us back to the beginning a completely clean slate on yum Kipper right so that's that's our it's from paraa but it's a beautiful idea for y ker okay thank you all for your patience um this week Wednesday's if anyone's interested is going to be about hostage associations and panu releasing releasing captives okay thank you all good to be back to see you all in good health and we should stay that way there should be Shalom is and the captiv should be freed the should come home and the r should get their just do