Parshas Shoftim: Winning the War

this store class is brought to you by torahanytime.com good evening everyone welcome back hope everyone enjoyed the summer Hashem got a little break a said we're back again thanks to the good grace another year of learning wish everybody had soccer great success in the upcoming year okay so today was Richard ello the beginning of the month of ello and ello of course is a month of preparation for Rosh Hashanah preparation for the great young the day of judgment where we try to prepare ourselves and get ourselves ready for God's scrutiny God's judgment and of course we know the judgment is not just Hashem looks at us are we a good guy or not in general but it's a very exacting judgment Hashem looks at the mitzvos looks at the averos they're calculated their weight and we try to improve ourselves during the months of eloh we try to do what we call chuva chuva is a process of repentance return try to correct any averos we may have done and of course as always whenever we embark on a project of of coming closer to ivanish we want to look what does a Torah have to say to us what is the guidance the Torah gives us in embarking on this journey and let's take a look at this week's parasha perhaps there's a message in the parasha of what possibly we could do to improve ourselves and repent so let's take a look at page 1026 we have hamashim 1026 it is a parakeets and in general we're talking about if you want to convict somebody of a capital crime to administer the death penalty to somebody you obviously need testimony according to Jewish law circumstantial evidence is not cannot be submitted to the court we need testimony we need edem how many with Witnesses do we need two one witness if one witness even the biggest static in the world he comes in and says I saw this person he committed this crime that he deserves the Jewish death penalty can't do anything we need two witnesses or three Witnesses but one witness we can't kill the person the testimony of one witness is not is not submitted so the very interesting possuk page 1026 parakeets based on the testimony of two witnesses oh shlosha at him or three Witnesses UMass hamace the dead person will die in other words if you want to kill someone with capital punishment you need the testimony of two or three Witnesses he cannot die he will not die based on the testimony of one witness okay you can kill someone based on the testimony of two witnesses or three Witnesses only on the testimony of one witness now listen to the way listen to the remnants of this means an illusion a hint there's a fascinating medish actually it's a you xiaomi the gemara says in the usami that of course we know if we sin person doesn't have era someone speaks assuming you didn't damage anyone you didn't hurt anyone how do you correct denavera say a person did something wrong how do you correct you do chuba so you xiaomi tells us the matters tells us they asked referring to what should the sinner do if he sins so you know what shalomo said he said the Sinners will be pursued with evil which means to tough luck you're you're in trouble you sinned gotta face the consequences there's no way out that's what wisdom said they asked wisdom what are what happens to the sinner what's what could a sinner do so wisdom said what could he do he said he got a face got to face the consequences they asked prophecy they asked none of them what should the sinner do so you know what the prophet said what should he do he's gonna die that's what he's gonna do he has to be punished there's no way out he sins somebody's let's say somebody did not Vera he did it what do you want to say I'm sorry I'm very nice I'm happy you're sorry but how do you expect you know imagine uh somebody goes through a red light he tells a cop I'm sorry I won't do it again yeah you bet you're not gonna do it again after I give you the ticket you're not gonna do it again right somebody uh commits a big crime he tells the judge you know I really feel bad about what I did you know I don't want to go to jail I'm happy you feel better and I'm sure you're not going to do it and again after you stood in jail for 20 years so they asked they asked prophecy what is the fate of The Sinner so prophecy said Raymond what's his faith he's gonna die they asked the Torah what is the fate of a sinner what's he supposed to do so Tara said ah we'll be Millennial with him he wants to get atonement let him bring a sacrifice a cardinal guilt sacrifice that will uh remove the sin so they asked wisdom they asked prophecy they asked the Torah and they all said either he's going to die or he has to do something they ask God Hashem what is the fate of The Sinner what should the sinner do Hashem said he doesn't have to die he doesn't even have to bring a guilt offering he could do chuva he could repent Okay so wisdom said No Way Out prophecy said no way out even the Torah Itself by the way you look in the Torah you'll be very hard-pressed to find anything about juvenator by the way look in the Hamish do you find anyone who did chuba nope no you don't really find oh there's nobody you tell me do you even find the concept of chuva you'll be very high pressed to find anything about you are not mentioned yeah he's supposed to tell the people to do chuva not mentioned in Torah the concept of chuva it's very you'll you could find it between the lines but not clearly only God himself has given us the escape hatch of chuva only Hashem himself has given us the escape hatch of Chua so the Torah has not given us that doesn't say too much right do you find that when the when the Jewish people stand with the golden calf Moshe prays for them does Moshe say Hashem Hashem help them do chuva does Moshe say after the sin of the spies so what happened he gets chased you don't find too much about the prophets they warn us again and again and again and again no you said that in order to that you're going to forgive you he's compassionate the punishment won't be severe it won't be immediate it won't be like destructive but you don't find explicitly certainly there is a concept of Shield but it's it's not mentioned in the Torah too much hey what about you now when he goes to youngness full of tuba is even Phillips right it's full of chuva Hamish even the rambam does not say chuva is a Mitzvah the roundman says if you want to do chuva you know how to do it but the random doesn't say we're obligated to do chuba that's up to us okay let's I don't want to get involved the randoms opinion does not learn that chuva is a command that you have to do Chiva it's that if you decide to do chuva the way to do it is by saying video by confessing separate topic so one second so let's bring that back to this pasok what does Apostle say based on the testimony of two witnesses or three Witnesses UMass hamis somebody will die he will not die based on the testimony of you know what that means listen to what it means if you asked two reliable sources which are wisdom and prophecy what the sinner's fate is he's gonna die even if you bring in the third credible Source the Toran you ask what's the fate of The Sinner he's gonna die well um but if you ask the ad the one who's one God says The Sinner doesn't have to die the sinner has option the sinner has the escape hatch of chuva so what the plastic is telling us the Nayana according to two opinions prophecy wisdom or even a third opinion Torah the sinner has to die based on the one special credible Source God himself The Sinner does not have to die so let's see if we could gain some insight into the parasha of what we could do to do chuva certain certain uh attitudes and perspectives we could have going into the the holy days that are ahead of us let's turn to a paragraph page 1038. something very interesting when the Jewish people go out to war so before they go out to war they're given a pep talk okay okay and who gives them the pep talk the kohen kohane gives them the pep talk because the kohena he's the he's the leader he's the one who teaches Torah says so Torah the kohen is giving us a pep talk you ready for the pep talk paragraph if you go out to war against your enemy there is and you're going out to fight against enemy and you see horses you see chariots people much greater than you stronger than you you're gonna get afraid you're gonna become scared like here in Mayhem says the Torah Don't Be Afraid don't be afraid it's my time he took you out of Egypt he'll help you out so you hear what's happening you're about to attack uh the the moabites the uh canadim and you see they have many horses many soldiers you're about to get scared Don't Be Afraid says the Posse you're about to approach the battle the coin approaches and he speaks to the people he's giving a rallying called pep talk okay Israel listen up at them you're about to face War a year don't be soft-hearted arterial don't be afraid I'll talk with you don't tremble they are tired to be playing do not do not Quake do not be afraid don't worry why okay because God who works with you we walk him about him to fight against you my Victim with your enemies to save you in other words don't be afraid God's Gonna Save You God's Gonna help you everyone everywhere in fact according to Robin this is a laugh in the Torah we learned by shalashudis three weeks ago that anytime you're in a dangerous situation Don't Be Afraid Don't Be Afraid God could help you out God Don't Lose Yourself don't sometimes the person gets overwhelmed with fear don't get overwhelmed God could bail you out okay and then the coin continues and he says you know even though we're drafting everyone into the army there are going to be three exemptions exemption number one someone who just built a new house and he didn't get a chance to live in it yet go home go home because you know what maybe you'll die in the war and uh some other guy is going to enjoy the house that you build for yourself so you go home so expensive but you cannot buy it anyone who has an orchard um yeah Cherry is right you have apples players plums and you have an orchard and you never got a chance to redeem the fruit of the fourth year to enjoy a new shalayam so what do we do go home you're exempt by the way you need to bring uh you can't just make up an excuse yeah I don't want to fight I just built a new house you got to bring testimony that you built a new house yeah well you have to bring a testimony that you have a Vineyard or someone let's say someone who just got married but he didn't think he didn't finish the deal yet you know he and he's engaged but he didn't finish he didn't get married go home to be with your wife for the first year don't fight in the war maybe you'll die and someone else will marry her and then if we look in past success the show trim the rulers continue to talk to the people and they say let's take a look at the plastic on page 1040 verse 8 the showroom continue to speak to the people of AMR and they say who is afraid who is soft-hearted let him go return to his house let him not melt everybody else's heart which means like this anyone who's a the simple explanation is anyone who's a coward you know you have a big macho guy he comes with his big uh rifle his big ammunition and the second he sees the enemy you know he's biting his nails off he can't stand the side of uh of somebody else's weapon we say we don't need you here because if you're going to come here like a coward you're gonna everyone else is gonna become discouraged so you go home you hide under your pillow we don't want you on the Battlefront okay that's the simple meaning that's the opinion of rabi Akiva when it when we say anyone who's soft-hearted anyone who's afraid go home literally it means anyone who's a scaredy cat go home reviews learns when it says anyone who's afraid it means anyone who knows he's committed averos yeah and he's afraid that because of those avaros he's not going to survive the war go home says the gemara what kind of Avira are we talking about well you would think you know someone who's afraid of an Avera probably some big Avera says you xiaomi somebody who talks by Daphne I'd like to understand something second and what but not even at a time that it's absolutely prohibited we're not talking about talking about hazards or by leaning or that talking between your Starbucks and your are we're technically afraid Mitzvah let's say you need to get a minion you can make a phone call to get someone to come from Minion but if it's not for a Mitzvah you're now to talk even that is a sin that warrants enough leave can you can't fight for the Jewish Army you're making sins and you're not even fighting so what is a Mitzvah to fight no but you need protection you need so if you need God's special protection which you're nervous we're talking about somebody who feels nervous that he has uh he's not qual he's not worthy to be protected what no because no it doesn't apply but uh if if everything went yeah it would apply we wouldn't we would only let Saudi Kim fighter War right when when mashiach comes and someone is going to have to kill our Malik who do you think is going to kill our Malik we're going to bring a big rifle to Rebel yashiv Yosef we're going to behaved we give it to the turkey had you should live and be well he's going to come he's gonna take care of uh take care of what needs to be taken care of let's look at pasta gimmo okay the Omar aleham right remember we said the coin is giving a pep talk to the Jewish people he says listen up you're approaching don't be afraid he says the word Israel listen up there are two words in this process that are a little bit out of place what are they Shania Israel says Rashi take a look on your sheet what is the Cohen telling the People by saying literally it means you know in Yiddish they say mayor right how do you say listen up right hello listen up you want to talk to somebody you want to get his attention right so you're talking to say you're talking to your kid he's not even listening you know he's uh I don't know where he is listen what do you mean listen the word is going into his ear yeah but he's not paying attentions listen right hearken the thing is the Torah would not just use an expression the Torah doesn't speak with just uh idiomatic every word has meaning so what is the Torah saying that the coin says Shema Israel says Rashi something amazing if you're only merits is that you say creation that you say Shema in the morning and evening you are worthy to be safe you hear what the coin tells the people the people are there they're the here you have a hundreds they're about to fight war and they see these big goyam you know Macho guys you know with tattoos and they're afraid so what does the coin say even you juice even if you're Sinners and you don't keep the Torah and you don't follow the missiles but if at least all you say are two words you fulfill the midst of Israel you will be saved in other words the coin is saying don't worry don't think you have to be a big Sonic for God to save you in battle Shema you throw he's not he's not just saying listen up he's saying even if your only Merit is that you say Shema you'll be saved because you have to say just myself the simple meaning is the midst of Shema you say the three parashiels even if you don't do anything else you say Shima in the morning in the evening what's the value of this we'll have to see we'll have to see now by the way we're gonna we're gonna see let's see what we can do over here by the way where does Rashi get the sun rash against us from the morning Israel why does the Cohen use this expression says Hashem says the coin should tell the people even if you're only Israel you will be saved now you have to know something very important every time Rashi says something or every time a gemara says something the gamara doesn't just like come up with like a nice uh drush there is something about this pasok that we could infer from the pasok that the coin was not just saying listen up but he was saying even if you're only Merit ishma Israel you will be saved we're in this pasta because there is there an indication that the coin is telling them that even if your only Merit Israel you'll be saved so there are different ways to see in general Rashi and the gemara points out that the whole expression is a unique expression it's not a typical expression and the fact that the Torah uses this expression alerts you that well he's not just saying listen up he's saying there's a Mitzvah of Shema in this you'll be saved people die anyways so we'll say the way I understand it is he doesn't say you will be saved but what he says is you're worthy to be saved what does that mean you're worthy to be saved let's say like this you uh you you want to go to uh you want to go somewhere so you bought a ticket right so the guy tells you uh you can't go you can't go in I have my ticket it's very nice you have a ticket but the thing is there was a hurricane and it's flooded inside so you can't go now are you worthy to go inside of course you bought the ticket you're worthy the only thing is there's a there's another problem in the way so in other words what the coin is saying is don't think don't be afraid you're Russia or you're not worthy to be safe you're worthy to be saved will you be saved I'm not promising anything you're worthy to be safe you've met the criteria that's one explanation but we'll we'll add on hopefully if we have enough time we'll answer that we've quoted them before right so we've mentioned another times the Mizrahi says you know how you see from this process that the coin is saying that even if you're only Meredith you saw you'll be saved because the word shama Israel are completely extra on this possum it says what does it say the Cohen approaches he speaks to the people it says he says to them so just say what the coin says just say you're approaching War the entire expression Israel is Superfluous it's extra it's not needed it doesn't add anything and the fact that it's here alerts you to the fact that the coin is not just merely saying listen up he's telling them even if you're only meridish Israel you're worthy to be saved another another alarm in this process is the fact if you know Hebrew he says to them plural to them look later on the Posse atem you plural Craven plural you're approaching against your enemy everywhere in this plastic is plural Israel is singular should say Israel if you're saying don't say it says are they a unit are they a bunch of individuals no no it says to them not a love but only one Israel is only one but you still you don't use a verb a command verb of shema's command when you're commanding a lot of people you say shimu you could say Shima if you want to view them as one unit but then the rest of the plastic in the morning that's the same concept that's fine you could you could talk to the Jewish people as one unit but since the rest of the plastic is not referring to them as one unit the recipe is referring to them as many individuals right not altira so the fact that only these tours are singular alerts you to the fact that this is not merely saying listen up but it's saying even if you're only married as Shema Israel you will be saved you will be saved think about it if you say if when you touch myself it's the collective that is reality all of us it's not only one individual of us but but it's out of place in the rest of the Posse the rest of the plastic is not utilizing that idea yeah but because it doesn't talk to us talking in general so it should say Craven because they're not individuals Israel so it should say either shimu Israel how could you go okay no so it's telling you that was not listen up it's saying even if your only Merit is that you say Israel you will be saved okay fine now by the way I'll just tell you something amazing throughout history whenever Jewish people would go to war they would always go with the Cry of Shema Israel in fact the Surah writes the reason why the antifa is called Hanukkah he says the real reason is because how many letters are in the public Israel 25. they encamped with the 25 letters of Islam that's why they defeated their enemies they understood this Rashi and they knew that the reason why in order to win a war you need to say Shema and that's why the yantef is called the revolution against the Roman Empire did you know that again it's not a guarantee but it's saying don't be afraid you're worthy you're worthy to be saved you're worthy we'll see we'll see okay we'll see um okay by the way this explains something we say in the Avenue inspector says what do we say in the Teflon every every morning we say Israel guardian of Israel guard the remnant of an the AL yovag Israel don't destroy the Venezuela why not in other words we're saying to God even though we're not worthy and we don't do limits us we don't keep the Torah don't destroy the remnant that's us we're the remnant we're the the small amount of Jews who have made it through history the majority of Jews haven't made it till now we're the small stream that's we ask God please save us in the Merit of saying this one I have one yeah when they say the shama is trying to say you even if you're gonna die in the war your National is not gonna if you are not sad because she's not going to go to hell he's going to go straight to somebody that's why we are as a Jewish people we believe whoever died in the war in Israel is going to go to to death he's going to get the other map because even you said one time shama Israel in your life and therefore the country okay we're specifically saying that the Quran tells the soldiers during war is saying he's not telling them about the world to come when somebody's afraid they're not they don't he's telling them you're going to win the war you can tell you're gonna win the war yeah let's say a very interesting story one of the tamithimovic his name is Farber with three hers fiber he writes that he read in a a newspaper in London 1916. that um a Hungarian Soldier wrote The Following letter to his wife he says my dear wife I need I need you to do me a favor I need you to knock on our next door neighbor's house his name is khaim and ask him the following question what does mean and I need to know this immediately you know what because here I'm fighting in the Hungarian Army and every time the Rockets are flying overhead and the Cannons are flying overhead and people are fly are falling like sheaves of uh of wheat all the Jewish soldiers say Shania so nothing happens to them and only the Glam are dying and there must be something magical about the word Shania sauce I want you to go go over to kayem's house not just picking it so his name was time and and ask him what shma Israel means have him translate in tongue in Hungarian this way I could say and maybe I'll see you again maybe I'll come back from the world also there's an article in the London Times 1916 you test Hamas okay if you look uh you can look it up if you could retrieve the London Times 1960. okay yes is there any person you realize this is gonna die [Music] he says that the Minogue is whatever Jews are in uh in danger they say Krishna also from from Rashi from Rashi and in fact the brother marami Prague he writes that the Minogue is whenever you're in danger just to say the first word Shania Israel even without saying uh that's a customer there's so many stories okay Perhaps Perhaps so if I say what I would like to focus on very briefly what I don't know they couldn't find hayan okay advice I want to tell you something amazing as we're embarking on the path of tuva Beno Yona tells us and this will help us understand what exactly is the power of Israel why is why is this so powerful that the Cohen tells the people even if you're only Meredith Israel you'll be saved the Gomorrah says in Shabbos that somebody who davins Friday night and he says that we declare God created the world in six days and he rested on the seventh day anyone who makes that declaration the two Heavenly angels that accompany you right you know Yuri when you walk down the street you have two henchmen accompanying you why don't you have to my welcome two angels not Isaac and uh you have two of these two other henchmen but they accompany you if you say they put their hand on your head and they say all your sins are forgiven to Sarah the two angels that accompany you they put their hand on your head and they say you're forgiven all your sins are forgiven yeah okay when you say it after that according to the mission of you're supposed to say with another person because you're giving testimony that God created the world so it asks for the Victor Miller is one second as Cesar Miller one second here on Yom Kippur we have the fast 24 hours to get our sins forgiven and you're telling me every Friday night and every Friday night you uh you have all your sins forgiven what what's the big so it's a big narrative apparently the Declaration that there is a Creator in the world okay the Declaration even though you know there's a Creator but you don't think about it you're doing your your business the whole day you don't think about the fact that somebody created you somebody with infinite incredible wisdom created you the Declaration that there is a Creator is such a powerful Merit it achieves the same kappara as Yom Kippur now if Miller writes by the way um we have more English sources on this sheet than at any other time we ever gave the share we have about five or six single stores if you can number 15 this is from The Seafarer seeing you righteous recommended reading to everyone one of the greatest books ever written in the English language it's now translated into Hebrew it was originally written in English with Miller writes but one second even Yom Kippur there is no capara unless you do chuva if you just sit and chill the whole day fasting thinking about the Yankees It's Not Gonna atone for your sins you have to actually feel bad about your averos and and commit yourself to rectify them nevertheless Yom Kippur atones with chuva chuva and Yom Kipper remove your sins so therefore when we say when the gamara says if you say Hulu it atones for your sins it means before you say that you should do chuba you should think I feel bad about all my averos and I commit myself to try to improve him but the same way Yom Kippur in combination with two of us able to remove sin saying by yahulu with thoughts of chuva removes all your sin why declaring that there is a Creator in the world is such a powerful Merit recognizing the fact that this world is not an accident this world has plan and purpose intelligent design nothing in this world is haphazard everything is created with tremendous wisdom and foresight and planning that's such a powerful desire that's such a powerful Merit and Mitzvah it will remove all your sins now we get a little Glimpse why she might you throw such a powerful Merit why the coin says even you could be a big avayon you could be a big sinner at least if you have the Merit of recognizing that there is a Creator in the world that is a powerful enough to host to be safe and what I like to do just for a few minutes we're going to bring some evidence that there is a Creator in this world okay so if you go home tonight and somebody asks you what'd you learn you say you learned that there's a God in the world you know the cutskareba once came into the shul the cut scrub was a brilliant man he was known to be very sharp so it comes into shul he gives a big clap on the bhima he says I want to tell you something so everybody thought he's gonna say some who knows some deep concept he said I want everyone to know there's a God it's a big Swedish right it's a big sometimes you don't think about it you think you don't recognize it but okay first of all we're going to start with uh anybody ever eat watermelons yeah yeah so you ever try to pick up a watermelon seed it's very slippery why is it slippery not because it's wet because you could dry it it will still be slippery watermelon seeds have mucus around them if you try to hold it it will flip right out yeah no it's like holding on to uh I don't have it because I I demonstrated this morning and I lost it I lost my watermelon seeds but I have other uh specimens over here watermel you pick up a watermelon seed it's flips out flies out that's why in the south nowadays I just get to be politically correct we don't say the word any Gro anymore right we don't say negro it's not politically correct but uh 50 years ago I was still permitted to say and this has come from a book that was written 50 years ago so that it beats being insulting to anyone when the Negroes were uh resting after a day of working on the plantation what they used to eat watermelon and if you looked in the front yards of all the plantations you saw watermelons growing why why why why because they would eat the Watermelons and the seeds would go flying out and all these rich owners would come and they would find watermelons uh growing in their front yard now who told the seed why why is the seed trying to slip away because in order for the watermelon to have continuity if if the if the Eater of the watermelon would consume the seed that would be the end of the species of watermelon so therefore the watermelon knows if it wants to continue it has to create a way to avoid being eaten right so that means whoever designed the watermelon understood that we have to create something to make sure that the watermelon seed is not even otherwise that would be the end of the watermelon so whoever programmed this fruit this vegetable right this melon this gourd officially right a watermelon is a gourd programmed it in a way for its continuity one second one second without seeds I know that's why I went to wasserman's late last night and I asked them for a watermelon with black seeds they didn't have any yeah okay now let's look at uh RNC right you see this iron seed it's not slippery what it's not slippery which one is it orange but whoever programmed this Orange programmed already if you bite into it's extremely bitter nobody would want to eat it yeah so here here you have the whole fruit delicious people even eat the peel right people make chocolate everything is edible except when you get to the part that's needed for the continuity of the fruit that means whoever programmed this fruit programmed it in a way that to avoid the the seed being consumed by the eater okay anybody know what this is that's that's a peach no uh yeah Peach Peach the seed is not bitter it's not slippery what would happen if you bit into a pizza we die [Laughter] you'd be lucky if you just broke your tooth if you broke into it with all your might you'd break your jaw it's stronger than the human jaw really yeah try it I don't I once an experiment with a hammer I after many bangs I got it open but it will break your jaw now once inside is a seed this is not the seed this is just the case so here you have whoever programmed the peach now look at the peach tree is there anything in the tree as hard as this the bark no the leave no the fruit no that means in the entire tree The Roots no nothing in the tree is as hard as the case to protect the seed accident or intelligent design now I have the only problem is that if it's so hard and you can't break into it how in the world does a seed get out very simple you put on the ground after two days there's a glue in between the two two parts of the seed it opens up by itself what a hammer Canton or what the human drug can do even an alligator cannot get into this you put in the Earth the glue dissolves I like doing that for two days and you figure it out with hip okay is in charge of all uh well there was time yes additional ramifications when things like this year you have you know people flowing on error pajamas okay I think you you continue to say value it gives you extra merits sure yeah yes yes section 32. one second one more one more example if actually two more examples okay first of all an eggshell an eggshell how many possible sicknesses of eggshells are there by the way if you want to read about everything I'm saying you can read about it's on the sheets and then how many possible thicknesses of eggshells are there millions possible degrees of thickness now no specie produces an eggshell too thick now when the when the the egg when it's coming out of the chicken or whatever animal is coming out of has to endure tremendous stress during childbirth during the the birth of the egg right that means it can't be too thin that it would not be able to endure that stress and it would crack and the baby would die during childbirth but it can't be too thick that when it comes out the baby can't get out so how many possible thickness levels of thickness are there millions how many of these millions levels of thickness are possible that would allow for a chicken to survive that thin enough to let the chicken get out and thick enough that it wouldn't break open during labor only one one out of millions and by the way every specie of egg is a different thickness exactly perfect for that specie now even if one how come prince and a chicken an egg in an eggshell summer I'm just joking okay every specie produces the exact perfect amount of thickness even if one one you see would have produced the exact the correct thickness it would have been a Miracle of Miracles but that the fact that every single specie produces the exact perfect thickness for that species is a tremendous miracle and if you want to read other things there are many many other things to eat now I'm just going to end off with this and we're gonna bring it back to the beginning if you remember we started this year with the following thought we said the coin tells the the soldiers even if you're only Meredith Shema Israel you will be saved from war I have a question for you because the coin says that the following people are exempt from Battle someone who just got married someone who just built the house someone who has a new Orchard and someone who is afraid of the sin they may have committed remember that remember the coin says and and anyone was afraid that they may have sinned you also exempt from War by the way and what sin did we say we're talking about the sin of talking between your Starbucks or that's by the way that's the gersa of the usami the Bible has a different Carousel Stone who speaks between putting on the handful and the heads filling so if I have a so there's a major contradiction over here is breakfast on the one hand why do we yeah yeah and if you have said to say something oh you still can't talk right even inside the simple reason why we make is that since it's the end of a Mitzvah we're fulfilling the opinion that you make on the end of a Mitzvah it's not so simple why we say the that's why even Ashkenazi when we say what do we say after which you say so even though we're pretty sure we're not making but just to cover our bases we're not 100 sure we say okay so I have a question for you on the one hand the Cohen it's like the coin is speaking out of two sides of his mouth on the one hand he says even if you're unworthy and you're sin and you don't keep the Torah if all you do is say Shema you'll be saved and on the and the next moment says yeah but if anybody here did a small Avera like speaking by davening between Yota between and yes go home what do you mean I thought he just said that even if you're unworthy and all you have is the Merit of Shema you'll be saved so this is a big question this is the question of the Taz on Rashi and the tithes gives the following answer if the collective every wonderful if the soldiers in general say Shema they'll win the war that doesn't mean there won't be any casualties individuals may not survive if the well if the Battalion if the soldiers say Shema the Jews will win but there might be individual casualties maybe somebody who did Navarro will make it through so therefore if both things are Choice the Jews say Shema they'll win the war but individuals who may have sin they have to go home a little bit of a different idea okay you hear the question the question basically is if in order to be spirit for more all you need is the narrative then how could we talk on the other side of our mouth and say but if you may have talked by governing then go home what do you mean I search him up okay we're gonna give four answers to this question answer number one Schwab Sherman Schwab says like this if all you have is the Merit of Shema you will be saved yeah but if you spoke in between you ruined you destroyed the Shema you're right if you have the Merit of Shema you'll be saved but why do we say the zimra it's a lead up to Shema why do we say the breakfast it's a lead up to Shema it enhances the Shema it magnifies the Shema if you spoke you destroyed Shema you don't have the Merit of Shema anymore so the Korean could say with it with conv with uh conviction anyone who says Shema will be saved but you my friend you don't have the narrative because by speaking out you've you've destroyed it corrupted Mr Brewer says something even more listen to what the mission Brewer says Mr Brewer says what kind of person we're talking about they're not talking about khazar shots that's even worse they're not talking about Laney that's even worse they're talking in between what do the following two words mean the zimra literally means verses of Praise right verses of praise that's what it means literally but the safe a kabbalistic thought versus the zimra do you know what zimra means how do you say to prune a tree to cut versus that cut what does that mean whenever a person prays so you're standing up like we're gonna We Said Today let artilla go up and come and reach right we're sending up long-range missile hazardsville is approaching God the forces of impurity try to attack the three laws try to impede try to get in the way suke the zimra verses that cut them down we cut down all impediments that's the purpose of such a December we cut down all impediments so in other words are our soldiers they're going to war for us to battle for art Fila therefore it says someone who talks he has to go back for more you know what it means he has to go back for more his soldiers who are fighting for his filos they come off the Battlefront they're not able to fight for him anymore they have to go back home he doesn't have any hope against the forces of impediment so therefore the mission bro basically says I don't know but what the mission Brewer says is but the coin says is correct if all you have is the Merit of Shema you're saved but talking out destroys the Merit of Shema that's what uh everyone you you can do it very good I also the bracos before the broadcast before also serve as uh as uh yeah as Praise of Hashem or praising Hashem you you are associated with the smarter the smart will go Stronger Yeah so what about the night time yeah night time is no it is the most important this is supposed to say so the night is the first one I hear I'm not sure I don't know during the morning well it's this way add one more thing one more thing and that is what is the Merit of the Merit of Shema is you are declaring that there's a creator there's some Creator there's a God in the world nobody nobody could interfere with what he desires so zoha writes so the Merit of Shema is a Muna Zara says somebody who speaks out by davening he shows he doesn't believe God is here doesn't have emuna so what that's what he says look in 32. someone who speaks out in the basic nesses words profane words violate woe to him that he has shown separation delay violate the government he has taken away because what is he saying he comes into a building where the purpose of it is to pray to who to a God and he comes to socialize so what is he saying go good okay so basically what we're learning is let's just go back focus on the positives here and that is that in the Merit of declaring the angels will put their hands on your face and forgive your sins the Declaration the realization that there is a Creator in the world is a very powerful narrative and that's what we are doing when we say Shema So when you say Shema you think there's a creator of the world he created this world he created the sun he created the moon he created me he's all-powerful that is a tremendous strong enough that the coin will say to the Jewish soldiers even if that's your only Merit you are worthy to be saved I heard with yaakov Weinberg said yakovan was a former Shiva he said you don't know what kind of Merit it is if you could get another Jew to say Shema you never know you if you convince many Jews to say Shema and that's her only Merit that could be the Turning Force the turning the turning point in a war where now the Jewish people will win a war even if that's our only Merit so we should take advantage of it and then that's a close this way this will prepare us on our Voyage of chuva because as we said the realization that there's a Creator abena yonah tells us is the primary motive to do chuva welcome back everyone just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com