Out Of This World: Parshat Behar-Bechukosai - Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

Hi, this is Evoli and welcome to the para in five in which in five minutes we give you an insight into the para in the insight into the para because bahu kosai is together and so I'm looking for an idea that will tie together para's bahar and para's behosai and the thing that will tie it together is 49 because as you know in parasa's bahar we have the mitzvah of schmita Count seven years and then you come to a schmita. And then count seven years seven times 49 years and then you will come to a yal which takes you out of this world. When you come to parasi rashi says there are seven sets of seven clus 49 clus 49 curses that a ku will let you experience. Wow. So we have the 49 years where we climb up to a yo and we have the 49 curses where we go down lower and lower and things get worse and worse. Bad just bad. So uh the um contrast is dramatic because as we know Ezra is that we [Music] read before because since is a rash we end the year with the curses. So before rash we do and before we do why because there are and there are clus the Torah was given with a bris of brahos and clawless if you keep the Torah you get braha and if you don't you get clus because there's two ways to lead your life you can lead your life those 49 levels leading up to a yel the alshakadesh says in Judaism Torah says we start counting people at the age of 20 and it says inim the average lifespan is 70. So from the time we start counting you because until then right you're a teenager that doesn't count will not punish you if you're a teenager because he just rolls his eyes like every parent does and says he's just a teenager but once you're 20 you're expected to be an adult and you're from 20 to 70 that's 50 years says the alik that is a yo your life is a yo and you're supposed to be going up and up and up and up and that's why we don't count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 years. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 years. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 years. We count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21. We keeps going higher and higher. And if you live your life that way, then at the end of your life, you reach yo, where you move out of this world into a new world, into an haba where all the slaves go free and you're free from your and you're free from everything and you live a total life. But what if you want to run away from Baraku will never give up on you. He will chase you down into the depths and he will give you seven clus. And if negative uh actions, yeah, negative reinforcement helps helps you now to say, "Oh my gosh, I don't want these curses." Then you'll change your life. Great. And if not, he'll give you another seven and another seven and another seven and he'll chase you down 49 levels to the lowest level. There was no 50th level. Yeah, that's it. He'll chase you all the way down with a stick. But he'll never give up on you. He'll never reach the point where he says, "Ah, you're too bad. I can't I can't deal with you anymore. I give up on you." loves you. And if you want to go up higher and higher and higher will help you live your life to a yo. And if you want to run away will chase you down. And so the para ends with the para of why? Because everybody has the same value. Every life is valuable. Whether you're living your life going up to a yal or you're living your life running away from aes life has value and aes will bring you into a life of meaning one way or the other by hook or by crook. That's a shepherd term crook where I can pull him back. And there's the hook where I can stick the hook into the into the wool and pull him back. But by hook or by crook will bring us back and he will never give up on the Jewish people. And that's why it ends with the no matter how bad you are. Remember the bris of bring us back with this strength we should remember. We should be strengthened and be able to go on and be and not to have to live a life of the clawless but of the years of brahos that bring us to a yful chabas.