Parshas Ki Seitzei: Eligibility For Greatness

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good morning ra here in Hills New York one of the that we focused on during the during Thea it's a that we say in a different version on regular time but we alter the version for the we say we say our father our King write Us in the book of merat and this is a t we say every year we stayed along with many otheros inscribe Us in The Book of Life in the book of Health we have many many requests but this particular request should certainly uh draw our attention to try to understand what is the meaning of this request and this question was uh annunciated by one of the great rash of kelm who I am not familiar with his life other than I really like his first name his name is raniel movitz um he's on the great B and he asked the following question you want to ask for a good life okay we understand that's you want to ask for health that's you want to ask for but the one thing that would seem rather odd to be asking is what do you mean if you do them they'll be written right it says and if you don't do them you know cannot manufacture this fake document he's not you could go to a bureaucrat and have him invent some kind of document that says something however to ask to write Us in the book of Merit if you do it it will be written and if you don't do it there's nothing to write what do you mean you got to do it yourself and if you do the it will be written you don't have to ask for it that was the question ofz another question we have to try to [Laughter] understand do not throw me away from before you what does that mean don't throw me away where's has going to throw us in the garbage can in the trash out of a touchdown he's going to throw us for what are we asking do not throw us away we come to this week's paraa and this this paraa enjoys a um a distinction than no other par enjoys and that is this week's para has the most mitz of any par in the whole there are more mitz than in any other par the do you know any mitz the the brother-in-law of the 1849 to 1921 he writes that in this week's para there are 74 mitv more than 10% of all the MIT and the are in this week's par so here it is it's and we're we're preparing for the and the is M with the para that has more mitz than any other para and the reason is says the because we know there's a principle when you learn about something it's like you fulfilled it anyone who learns about the subject of a carbon it's like you brought the anyone who learns about the subject of a it's like you brought so the is giving us a great because here we are we're only uh a few weeks away from the and we don't know what our repertoire has in it we don't know if we hope we're but what if we not so says just say all you got to do this week is come to pay attention carefully to the when you learn something it's like your mid so you could actually be 60 points in the red and when you come out after shabas morning you're going to be in the green as long as you don't smooth with your friend by daving and then you're basically hopeless but but as long as you keep your mouth closed by the daving you pay attention to you could come out in the red and you walk out of the sh you're in the green because you're just m 74 74 MIT imagine that all you have to do is pay attention for 30 minutes a testimony because this week's par gives testimony to the glory and the Majesty of that like we have in the you have the big in the sh you have the in so this week's par is a to the unity of hasem through the 74 mitv okay so if this week's par is what we call the par of MIT then perhaps in this week's para it gives us the recipe for the procedure to how one goes about fulfilling Mitzvah so we're going to begin with a very interesting question on a random subject the subject of the Y miklat from last week's par so you have a guy and he's fixing his roof yeah I hired that guy to he's fixing his roof and um he's knocking uh something into the to the roof and something Falls and he kills B so the relatives are all fired up they want to kill the guy they can't hold themselves back and they start chasing the guy they go run after the guy they're in there you know and he's in the getaway car and they're they're chasing and he finally makes it into the AR mlad and the all the relatives are standing on the outskirts of the AR mikad and he's on the inside he's you know teasing them you can't catch me you can't get me I'm going to stay here you'll never get you're not to touch me if you touch me in here you're going to be you know they turn around for a minute he runs out he takes out he gets right back in you know he plays with them a little bit the moment he gets back into the AR mlad he's he's safe but now the question is he wants to leave you know he can't take it anymore nobody likes to be cooped up in uh inside indoors right so the question is he knows he knows he's the only one who knows how to look at the Moon and testify that it's the problem is there's no bzden in AR mlad so he needs to leave the ml so that can know when Y is or let's say he knows knows that yankle owes barel a billion dollars and bezdan needs to summon him come on come testify or let's say he knows that Yanko killed barl or what if he's a general and all of CLA Isel needs the guy to save their skin Kao is waging this major battle and if he doesn't come out of AR mlot it would be endangering the lives of the entirety of the Jewish people says the he's not to leave not for the testimony of not for the testimony of money not for the testimony of capital cases even if the Jewish people need him he got a he got an email tuna fish is only 39 cents a pound he he can't contain himself you know what kind of Mia it is you know what kind of urge he has to go buy cheap tuna fish you know apparently people consider the price of tuna fish one of the most important aspects of living if you if you study sh's conversation you'll notice that the primary topics of conversation are the price of tuna fish so this is like a he may never leave there he'll live is's gonna die there sh he can't even live after death said I can't he said I I spent when I was four years old I bought a plot in harim I've been waiting my whole life he buried opposite no you got to be buried in the AR mlot the guy can never leave the AR ml until the K God dies come the and we're going to start with the and they say how could such a thing be he can't leave the to save the life of the Jewish people even to save the life of one Jew he should be allowed to leave this is not one of the three cardinal sins the only three AOS that you're not allowed to violate to um not to save a li in other words there the is that human life is Paramount except for when it comes to the three cardinal let's say somebody comes and says we this you suit which ises otherwise we're going to kill you so you put on the suit you put on the suit let's say somebody says speak during or we're going to kill you so as as terrible as it is to speak by you do not have to give up your life not to talk byar let's say somebody says have a conversation bav even though the mission says you're not all to speak bav nevertheless you don't have to give up your life not to speak bav so we know human life Jewish life is Paramount is Paramount so how could say the guy always has to stay in the ml even what even if the all of Cl dependent on him but we know you're allowed to save your life and violate any Ms from the to you're allowed to speak lanara and save your life you're allowed to eat TR and save your life you're allowed to eat NAA and save your life you're allowed to eat an Kipper and save your life so why can't the guy leave the AR so you say he's not saving his own life he's saving other other people's lives maybe you're not allow to violate a Mitzvah to save someone else's life but we know that's not true we know you're allowed to violate all the Mitzvah to save someone else's life you even allow are you allowed to violate chabas to save somebody's life of course you're allowed to violate chabas to save someone's life so ask how could that if all of dependent on him he's not a leave but we know you're allowed to violate any mits thear except for the big three to save aive yes is it is it only that that he's is there a m he's not allowed to leave or if he leaves then then the go can kill them oh so you'll say what's your name again and remind me Aaron Aaron and Aaron what Kinder Aaron Kinder is saying well maybe he wants to he wants to suggest a possible tats and that is he is a lad to leave because to save a life you're allowed to leave or perhaps you could even say let's say to be m a big mitvah let's say like BR a very big would push off a weaker the only thing is he won't be able to leave because the goam would still be allowed to kill him so it's not that he's not allowed to leave he's allowed to leave but he's jeopardizing his life well the says that um he would not be satisfied with this answer because by the way and that that being the case he would not be allowed to leave we're going to see in a minute because he would be jeopardizing his life but he says it's not masma that that's what the gamar is saying the gamar seems to be saying that the reason why he can't leave is because the tah is giving a mitzvah for him to be there not that if not that he's really allowed to but then theam could kill him anyway but it it it it implies that the import and the severity of what the Torah says that we're giving a MIT say he must be there not only because he'd be jeopardizing his life if he leaves but because the Torah is saying he has to be there and the question is even if the T does say he has to be there you should be allowed to violate it that what has to be buried there once he's dead he believes he can't kill him right I hear that and if the co God dies then he doesn't have to be there correct but if he the co God doesn't die he would have to be so this's the question the question is why do we enforce this mitvah even in a situation where what where he'd be able to save somebody else's life so let me share with you a few answers to this question we're going to examine two answers now and then we're going to at the end of the year examine one of the most remarkable uh comments that I ever saw about anything let's begin with and He suggests an amazing answer he says that he is allowed to leave you're allowed to leave to save a life you're allowed to leave to testify you're allowed to leave to do a Mitzvah when the gar says you're now to leave it means you're now to leave for good you would think that once you left to save life so now that I left I could stay out or if I left to testify now that that I'm authorized to leave I could stay out or if I left to give once I leave I could stay there no the gar says you can leave for good but of course there are circumstances that you could leave temporarily which are to save someone else's life or to testify those would be important enough reasons to violate what the means is you can't leave permanently that even though you've had a temporary he to leave you would have to come back in that's what the g means meaning you can't stay out but you would have to come back in the has a fantastic take on this asks why can't the guy leave certainly the of all of Because by the way when it comes to saving the life of all of sometimes you could even at the big three to save all of Cl what's the proof Esther Esther are you allow to commit Aros to save someone's life no are you allowed to commit Aras to save one's own life no but what about to save the entirety of the Jewish people you are allowed to commit Aras so in that case why couldn't this gentleman leave the mikl and save all of Cl is so the M says a a fantastic explanation are you allowed to give up your life to save someone else's life are you required to give up your life to save someone else's life no his blood is not than yours right because who said his blood is better than yours are you allowed to give up your life to save someone's life it's debatable really in the hierarchy in my personal value system I need to value that my life is more important than other people's lives every individual has the right and the obligation to give Paramount importance to their own life life but now the question is am I allowed to risk my life to save someone else's life I'm not to give up my life to save someone else's life am I allowed to risk my life more than that am I obligated to risk my life to save someone else's life let's say you see somebody drowning in very treacherous waters are you obligated to jump in to save them where you might be risking your own life not for sure a trained lifeguard but it's dangerous are you obligated to risk your life to save someone else's life this is a very interesting question where this comes into what so you would say A you know ain't stuffing most on the other hand but maybe maybe we'll we'll both be saved but maybe not not are you allowed to no so you're right but it's not unanimous the quotesi thei says explicitly that you're obligated to risk your life to save someone's life by the way where does this come in organ donation are you allow to give up a kidney to save someone else's life now maybe you'll say giving up a kidney is not really risking your life well well maybe nowadays that's the case even though there are stories you know what what would happen if somebody needed their other kidney or what happens if something goes wrong in the procedure in any procedure it's always dangerous but is a person allowed to risk their life let's say an organ donation where it's 5050 where you might not make it off the operating table are you allowed to risk your life to save someone else's life do you shi paskins you're obligated to risk your life to save the life of another Jew but the r and the Riff and the do not bring it down and the last wonders why is thei not brought down that you're obligated to risk your life to save someone else's life and the B says you know why it's not brought down it must be the B argues the the SM writes it must be the B argues and the SM doesn't say which B argues on the and since the B argues on thei wein you're not allowed to risk your life to save someone else's life comes and he says the didn't say which argues on thei I'll tell you which B argues onami this B that says that if the general of the Jewish people is in the AR mlot he's not allowed to he's not allowed to leave the AR mlot to save someone else's life this this um this B argues on the why because if the general leaves mikl who could kill him the now will he V be successful in his campaign leading the Jewish people in battle other maybe yeah maybe not so he's putting his life in jeopardy he may be saving someone else's life he may maybe he's not saving someone's life so the fact that the says that a general the Jewish people cannot leave the AR mikah to save someone's life is aah that the Yami isah you're not allowed to risk your life to save someone else's life so even though the Yami says you're allowed to put yourself in danger you're obligated to put yourself in danger to save someone else's life this B clearly argues on the usami and the B holds you're not allowed to risk your life to save someone else's life that's why the general cannot leave the Mich to save life because he might not save someone else's life and he's definitely risking his own life but we're going to explore for a new reason really an incredible reason why it is that we hold based on the gamar that if someone is in AR mikad and he has the opportunity to save the Jewish people he is not allowed to leave so we gave two reasons one is he can leave he just has to go back that's and the reason he's now to leave cuz you're not to risk your life to save someone else's life to those who say he can first he's allowed to leave for what he's coming to B to right I believe so yeah oh Oh you mean to to leavey then go back no no no I thought you meant um to to for this case the first time he has right no no it sounds like not yeah you want to testify you I don't think he's obligated to testify I don't think he's he could say I don't want to he's also all to protect his own life but that that's going to be quite a story the guy's leaving to you know D is dead what if he's dead then we're going to make a k Molly for him on his yard site and we'll give ticken for him so there's no concern so then he could go oh no he still not how to leave still not to leave you're know how to leaveck reles right he's saying whatever a case where everybody's dead okay we look at this week's par we mentioned there's 74 mitv and if you look at the mitv and the the the order of the if you don't mind passing me aish for a moment theuk say as follows you know the para begins uh you go out to war and you see in the battle you see is so technically you're lad taker because but after that we have the para of two wives and one of them you hate and then after that we have the para of what Thea and after that we have the the topic of someone who commits a a capital offense and Rashi says what are all these four Paras got to do with each other and Rashi says cuz even though you're allowed to take the B of the is not recommended you're going to marry her you're going to eventually hate her she's going to be disgusting to you you're going to have a bad child he's going to be you know he's going to go off and you're going to have you Su him from him and then ultimately you're going to commit a capital offense and uh you're going to be in big trouble so here what happened to this poor guy all he did was he was fighting in the battlefield he's defending the Jewish people he saw a woman that excited him he didn't have to take her but he took advantage of aola and the first the first thing he does is he asked a rabbi who's M and he the rabbi gave him a heter fine that's the first thing what's it so bad the next thing is he can't get along with his wife the next thing is he doesn't have NAS from the children and by the end of the day he's killing people he he's he's that's how the para begins then the parha takes a turn the par talks about oxen and the par says and it's talking about somebody's walking down the road and he sees a bird with a nest and after that it talks about somebody who builds a new house and then after that it talks about somebody planting a field and then after that it talks about somebody making situs also random random random random and again Kaz identified none of this the sequence is not random they're patterns in this world their directions in this world if you start being lenient and you start taking advantage you start violating you're going to violate more you're going to be n and you're going to sin big time that's the way this world Works they patterns you can never stay in One Direction we always know either you're going up or you're going down but from this week's parach we see there are directions in this world this world is a motorized escalator that once you take a coola you're going to end up sinning you're going to end up sending more you're going to end up sending big time on the other hand here you have a guy he does a little tiny Mitzvah he passes by a bird's nest and he takes two minutes of time and he takes the eggs and he shes away the mother then what happens is the Torah says you know what you do a small mitah I'm going to give you a new house and you're going to make a fence what did the guy do already he built a fence he hired he paid a th000 bucks to build a fence big deal how do you say fence or if you want to sound yish how do you say it a a right I don't know where the yud comes from but that's how you say it if you want to sound like you know you want to sound like a lamden also like but but it's it's ma yeah Ma anyway and then we're talking about somebody who makes an orchard all of a sudden the guy has an orchard why does he have an orchard because there patterns in this world says if you do the Mitzvah of I'm going to give you the opportunity of building a house to be M another Mitzvah namely you're going to build a Mak and then after you build a Mak I'm going to give you the opportunity to have an orchard and you're not going to plan Clum and you know what if you have an orch I'm going to give you animals and you're not going to plow them but Clum and you know what if you have an orch give you Nice Clothing you're going to make Tas what is this principle called says Rashi mitvah look at rashash says in number 11 first rash says we learn from here that if you marry the you're going to have a and you're not going to kill him he's going to go off the he's gonna be over he's be but you're gonna if you're you're going to be m in the you're going to get a why Mitzvah Mitzvah and what we want to discuss very briefly is what does mitz why does one Mitzvah pull along another Mitzvah why how does it work what is the of Mitzvah Mitzvah how does it operate why just because I did I gave 25 cents to sadaka so now I'm going to have an opportunity to what do then I'm going to have an opportunity to go to another sh what does one thing have to do with the other so we're going to learn a few explanations and a few rational some of them will be reasoning normal human reasoning and then we're going to learn some Supernatural reasons forah let's begin with Mish quotes benaz benaz is the B Mitzvah mitzvah look at number eight one draws another one by the way we already had that concept be careful in a small mitzah like a like a great mitzah earlier in peric Bay so why do we have to repeat it again in per says you know what it means in per B it was saying try to be careful to do every mitzah because you never know there's no such thing as a small mitzah every mitzah is valuable but now in perad says benaz is coming to teach me that there's a very simple program for MIT so I heard about a gentleman who was completely out of shape and every year by the end of the spring he's able to run a five mile dash how he wakes up the first morning and he runs 100 ft which is nothing the next day he runs 110 feet the next day he runs 120 ft the next day he runs 130 ft until ultimately he runs 5 miles like it's nothing why now if he would have started by 100 ft and the next day he uh went went to five miles then we would have to pick him up the floor right it's impossible but if you're doing something that you have resistance to you could always just go that little extra bit and it really won't make such a big difference here's a guy he's not interested in daving not a Shak not a not a mar it's much more careful uh comfortable to sit home on your couch and steer at your phone the whole day going from one nonsensical item to the next it's much easier he doesn't want to go out to minion so what do we tell the guy we say R go to shus on a Monday Thursday on a bab it's an hour and a half the guy will never come back again so we tell the guy go out to a on when there's no so right it's a 10-minute thing it's a 10- minute thing he say not a big deal you know what I could I could get to the show in a few minutes it's on my corner I'll go out to the m there's no that day and I'll go home then we say try out a maybe with so okay not a big deal it's only an extra 20 minutes with the T no just joking right it's only a next show one minute with the T then we say you know if you were able to have from is only one extra minute they said why don't you try Shak on a Tuesday in you know there's no there's no there's nothing right it's it's it's only 35 minutes 40 minutes and we slowly build build him up the person has to get used to doing things that he that he's resistant to the concept of Mitzvah mitvah is when you do one small mitzvah you really didn't want to do that you're not in the mood of doing that you'd rather remain in inertia that you'd rather not give up of yourself once you're able to do it in a small way it's easier to take another smaller step and then from there for another small step until ultimately you're able to to accomplish all the that's the simple look at number 14 however gilia who is the author of The Sho one of the classics farim of Caba that highly recommended the sh in fact there's a story brought in the introduction of the that g once had a dream and in the dream they were weighing in the sh his and his a and they're putting a Mitzvah on the right hand side of the scale and a on the left hand side of the scale and it came out 50/50 exactly 5050 and he woke up in a cold sweat he ran to put on his Fillin and uh and he recovered yeah so that's he says a very interesting thing he says MIT are like a ladder but not like the kind of ladder that that we're used to seeing like a motorized ladder where when you step on the first rung it automatically electronically lifts you up to the second rung and to the third rung and to the fourth rung in other words the mitos are so to speak a pulley system where they're all connected to each other like an escalator an escalator ladder and he brings a few very interesting Ras to this what are the RAS it says when do we say sh in the morning when you could tell the difference between blue wol and white wall you know what we learned from here that is the latter and the rung to if you want to know how could a person be to be in the mid of sh what do you need to do to have the privilege to say sh is the rung that electronically lifts you up to in other words not just a symbol it's not just a trigger that you know when you're when you could recognize a different colors ofus no the mitzah are sort of connected to each other one Mitzvah raises you up to the next the Mitzvah of tius raises you up to sh what does sh raise you up to all the mitzah because thek says okay on the other hand when it comes to a it's the same way it says don't have an improper thought during the day and a person will come to impurity at night meaning a smaller AA of a improper thought to lead you to something more severe so from here we learn the mitz are like this electronic system that when you're m in one it raises you to the next and you're m in the next it raises you even higher that's how the set up the system that the M are like a theit one of the great um of the of the he says an amazing idea and the maral in the his commentary to P Echoes this idea and that is I have a question this handsome young man over here let's say I go to him and I grab his arm I grab his arm am I only grabbing his arm no I'm grabbing him because he's one entity not just taking your hand I'm I'm taking your whole goof all the MIT are they're one unit there there's one Corpus of the to is one unit well how do we know that t is G what 611 to indicate that the the all 61 Mitzvah are one entity when you do one Mitzvah what are you doing you're grabbing onto the whole T Mitzvah once you've grabbed on to that entity in effect what you've done is you've embraced the entirety of the Tyra you took everything you didn't just take that Mitzvah you've taken everything now I'm going to tell you a supernatural shat of the Vine you see two people on the street and they're standing next to each other and they're there for a half hour and what are they doing you don't see they're not eating they're not conducting any mitz they're not doing any business and you look very carefully what are they doing on that street corner and you see their mouths are moving says the gr why would anybody sit on a corner or at a table and talk to somebody else for what for what purpose what pleasure are you getting what are you doing they're not getting and they're not getting what they're getting any pleasurable sensation why do people speak says the it is the highest form of insanity talking is a type of insanity it's lunacy it's pure lunacy why do people do it says the GR in his commentary to Mish an amazing idea you ever sometimes you see you wonder how did learn 400 times I was in Australia I met my good friend he told me he met someone who saw the inside of where there were lines 400 lines where M would mark off how many how is it humanly possible to do that it's like how could how do these G accomplish so much like they're possessed and the answer is they are they're possessed sometimes you see people they can't stop talking it's like there's a diic in them and the answer is there is says the V meaning as follows that whenever you do something big either good or bad the re creates a spirit that will not be satisfied until you do that thing a little bit more and it will not give you and and peace of mind until you accomplish that again in a greater fashion so if you do a Mitzvah now what's the greatest Mitzvah in the T when you learn for an hour God gives you a r that is not rest does not rest until you do what you did again in a greater fashion and then more and more and more mitv Mitzvah says the if is the biggest Mitzvah what's the biggest a did you see what that guy served at his last night who cares what he served why would you talk about that did you see what kind of flowers they paid for at the wedding why would you spend 10 minutes of your life it's instead of full suicide you're spending you're doing a 10minute suicide side you're destroying your life for why would you talk about that what benefit does it have you're not making money you're not getting pleasure do something with your life but why would you talk the answer is because you're possessed who are you possessed by a demon a says the that because you spoke once you now have a r that you will not be satisfied you have no ree have no until you commit the biggest in the t a little bit longer and that is empty chatter say what's wrong with empty chatter cuz if T is the greatest Mitzvah which is is the biggest a that's it's a supernatural phenomenon says the gr you want to take a look at it inside let's read it inside cuz you don't believe me okay look look look at the the says negative number 18 speaking to those who scoff and sit in the corners there's no desire for it they just want scoffing you know why their Spirit does not rest and does not have rested until they speak words of scoffing and only then do they have anything a person does they create a spirit on high that assists you to do this again the spirit does not rest until you do more things like this you see a guy he cannot stop chattering all day long what's wrong with the is the guy possessed yes he possessed himself you see a a go he he's like a veritable Fountain of to how does he do it the answer is he has a Ru an insatiable Ru that will not be satisfied until he continues his path does this apply to men or women why you think women have a challenge in this no I'm asking you you know this is a men here and I don't want to comment beyond the scope of the particular audience that we have in front of us okay okay so we've explained three Ral of mitzer mitzah number one r there's a that you slowly train and condition yourself to do things that you don't really want to do until you build up the stamina to fulfill all the Mitzvah number two Mitzvah Mitzvah we have an idea that the Mitzvah are a ladder an electronic ladder and one Mitzvah lifts you up to be M the next Mitzvah we have a third concept that all the Mitzvah are one entity they're all one brand of DNA and once you grab hold of one you're attached to the whole entity and then finally we have the vat that there's a supernatural concept maybe a cabalistic concept but this is what the Gat tells us that when you do something God gives you a desire in a spirit to do it again but there is another important element of mitvah mitvah which is very relevant number one to this particular phenomenon number two to and finally to the concept of why somebody who kills B can never leave the AR ml here you have a guy he builds a house he needs to make a fence we don't want to put any blood on you you know why what why would any Be Blood be on this guy's hands he just built a house because the one who is falling will fall what do we call a guy who fell someone who's falling Rashi wants to know why do we call a guy who fell someone who's actively falling Rashi says because the guy was going to fall anyway if somebody Falls God decreed that he should fall he was already decreed M that he was going to fall on this and this date so the question is you invite someone to your home and let's say somebody didn't put up a fence and your friend was walking on your roof and he fell down and now he comes to you with ESS why didn't you pull up a ro a fence so you just say to him you're a what do you want from my life I didn't pick put up a fence God decreed that because you did X Y and Z you were going to fall in fact God decreed you were going to fall before you were created what do you want from my life so what I didn't put up a fence you were going to fall anyway noash says which means he could say back to you yes I was going to fall anyway but where was I going to fall because God needed someone to hinge this falling on God was looking for one good man to raise his hand and say God says hey I need someone to fall who wants to be the guinea pig to be responsible who I could hinge this falling on so the guy says to his friend you raised your hand and you told God you want to be the person who's responsible for somebody's injury so I never I never volunteered for that yeah when you did put up your fence you raised your hand and you told God I want to be somebody who is eligible to cause somebody else's injury no but I was going to fall anyway the guy said yeah but God needed a and what happened was God had um a job interviews for people God put up a sign who would like to be the to bring about someone else's injury and when you didn't put up the fence what you did was you submitted your resume to be the agent to be the instrument to bring about somebody's injury yeah but it's going to happen anyway yeah but God always needs an a it's that way and it's that way meaning you ready for this concept God has a lot of great to distribute but you can't just do a you think you could just go around being M there's so many extenuating circumstances in this world that prevent us from being so God announces all you people down there I have many great opportunities but I need someone to submit their resume to say yes I want to be a to be God's instrument to be so how do you how do you become eligible to be to do great things right you have to be a Zak so how do you become a Zak do a small Mitzvah when you do a small Mitzvah what you're doing is you're saying I'm a z I am now eligible that the next time you have a big I want to be the guy so now when has a big thing to bring about says who should I choose cuz the truth is we can't do mitzvah there's no individual who has the capacity to do a Mitzvah because does everything so why does somebody get reward you can only get reward for choosing to do a Mitzvah but at the end of the day who actually gets the you can't just do you have to have to do so one of the aspects of of Mitzvah mitzvah isalin which means the has many great opportunities for all of us the only thing is we don't have to do them we have to be eligible to be agents A POR in the hand of hasem to for hasem to carry out so we know that if somebody doesn't put up a fence they're raising their hand they're saying I know people are going to die anyway I want to be the guy I want to be him I want be the on the other hand has many Grand opportunities but you have to be so you want to be you do a mitvah now you're a Zak have a question somebody H harms you so the guy says what do you um you go over to your friend on Kipper you say I'm very surprised you know you hurt me during the year why didn't you ask me from AA you tell the guy you're I harmed you whatever you're supposed to get re you're supposed to get why do you have to ask someone for M what's the you're asking him I'm so sorry that I did a different a that I became a that now used me as his instrument to why you have ESS on somebody why why do you have the right to say to demand that he ask you because the guy I have a question you go home and um your wife cooks you a a supper your mother cooks you supper you eat it and you don't say anything so you're an ingrate why do you say thank you because God decreed that I should eat the chicken tonight you didn't do anything why do you say thank you cuz they're the they did a Mitzvah that Hashem allowed them to be a to do the Mitzvah in other words you're not thanking some for do you don't nobody does anything people are just Pawns in the hands of hasem you have to be you have to be you know we're going to go through and most think that at the end of yra sh I think I got off all my AO it was a successful High holiday season you didn't you didn't even begin writes in number 24 that about Chua which all of us should aspire to be that it's not enough that Hashem just blot out our sins we want Hashem to want us to be intreated by us to desire us imagine somebody insults you hurts you you know they make a and they send you a disinvitation please don't come to my and you're really insulted and then he calls you Aram Kipper and this is a guy you would go out to the pizza store every Friday with and he calls you and he says please I was foolish fine the Friday after he said no you want to come out to Pizza no I don't want to look at you I don't understand I thought you were yeah I was you but I don't like you you but you're not my friend anymore I don't hold it against you I don't have any hard feelings but I'm not really interested in your company says just because God forgives us that's only half of it don't we want to want us don't we want to want our to want our mitv to desire our mitv to give us opportunities to do mitz so just because forgave us but maybe we're not that worthy anymore to carry out say look at these beautiful words should pray to God to wipe out and blot out his sins that should want him and desire him be in treated by him as if he didn't sin we want through to say hey re you're now you're eligible again you're eligible again for greatness I found this this is mish literally one of the most astounding things I ever heard says why can't this Jew leave the mlad all of clel needs him to save their skin he's a general he's like y why can't he leave the to save CL says if he killed B that means god used him as an agent and a to bring about the death of somebody he then is somebody who has submitted his resume to be the instrument to bring about tragedy do you think he'll have the desaya to leave the AR mikad act as a general and save the Jewish people you're right if we knew he would be successful in Saving Lives he'd be allowed to leave L mlad but it's highly doubtful that after God used him as an agent to bring about somebody else's demise that anything good ever would come out from this guy so you know why he can't leave ml cuz he won't save lives anyway he obviously won't be successful because since he has already established himself as a and in that case it's highly unlikely that he would he would be able to be used as a tool and an instrument beem to be somebody eligible to have a great that's a a pelic a can you imagine such a in other words to save someone's life you can't just be a general you have to have a to save someone's life you have to be a Zak and this guy clearly is not a Zak he's a if we knew he would save someone's life we would let him go the thing is we're highly incredulous that he would be successful in Saving someone's life says one of the most important that we're going to D in during the period of yes but we ask not that do for me not sh don't forget to write it down I I know that in sh you're looking for a Few Good Men you want people who are eligible through which you could carry out please let me be such a person I want to be a Zak I would like to be somebody who you deem to be eligible for greatness to to carry out that's what it means because you can't just do people think you could just do Mitzvah you have to know if you're to do a then you're a Zak I want to be that Zak who you deem eligible to be your to carry out and we hope all of our and his he inscribed all of us if anybody wants to purchase there's a new safer available it's uh from arsco if anybody wants to purchase a new safer it's available you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com