Parshat Ki Tetzei: Don’t Mix - Rabbi David Kaplan

I you plus a good says like this five lines from the bottom another interesting Halawa los seguros Beshore huva hamari active do not plow with an axe in a donkey together you're not allowed to plow hitch up on your plow and acts in a donkey or including this as any to animals are not the same species what's the basic reason behind anybody got an idea God with any and because because it choose its kind in any good it could be in jealous a very interesting that's the secondaries are very good very good but the most basic reason is what the strengths region you know if you have an accident donkey the axe is gonna be pulling it one of two things going to happen it's torturing the axe because the donkey isn't pulling as much as it isn't pulling his weight right the drawing the axe is putting in more effort in number two it could be torturing the donkey because he actually be pulling the donkey struggles to keep up with the axe okay that's that's the basic reason commentaries give it another reason what LeBron said very interesting when they go on the counter days like this you got an accident donkey when the kosher animal ones or not the kosher animal chooses cut so there they are pulling the wagon or the plow and also next eat another day the donkey is looking over the axiom the axe is chewing it I was like hey where'd you get that bro you know no wonder when do they bring out the food you know you know how where was I yeah in that torture is the dog yet so the commandery say that's the basic that's a basic idea behind it I don't know if you ever and ever if you ever to look at some suffer Erica sounds are what a great commentaries in the in the 18th century when the great he's the one leading leading pillars of hollow ha so unless it is starts a remarkable story one man went so Hassam so for once length amann money it pays 100 rubles whatever it was the man comes back because I'm so for sitting at a table with his disciples man comes back he said so for example so here I want to pay you back the hundred rubles and I'd like to give you as a gift that I give this beautiful silver etrog box Sam sofa picks up the estero back says wow this is a nice etrog box so his disciples are like what's the problem was a problem that's interested if quite interested in Tris is the interest if you call it a gift or you call it doesn't matter what you call it but you give back more than what you've borrowed its interest which is not only a prohibition it's a severe tour prohibition and a person who takes interest certainly on a regular basis the Goron says he does not arise at the resurrection of the Dead various a very severe prohibition so cuz I'm suffer sit there looking at the silver etrog box and his disciple are getting a little uncomfortable over the rebel so I'm so over the leader to Jewish people in these days they do you know sometimes just seeing it wild ethnic craftsmanship wow look at that so the Tommy don't say you don't want to there you know it's starting to clear their throat so tell me to the cassava existed was it fellas before you panic i want to tell you a story my Rebbe sams over there was a man named rabbi Nelson Adler how was his name it was one also one of the Greek Torah scholars of their generation remind nelson trailer was once on a wagon and the guy was out of wagon and they did two horses leading the wagon he was driving and at a certain point one of the horses pulled up lame behind the wagon the guy had a donkey so the horse he took it put behind and took the donkey he hitched it up to the front of the wagon sir am I know said antlers I'm so for sighted surgeons I he says my Rebbe Russell Taylor got off the wagon they started dancing started dancing and singing clapping or just just bursting with joy so the way you dare say never ever would ever do i lose you went crackers over what happened trevor nunn say i said look there's a tour prohibition that you're not to plow or use anything any odd species for anything did pull a wagon as well as listen I've never ever had a chance to fulfill the mitzvot of not riding in a wagon that's being pulled by two different types of animals you hitched up the donkey and I got off the wagon so I'm celebrating the fact that now I'm finally going to fulfill this mitzvah of not riding in a wagon where there are a horse and donkey stops over that the disciples I've never had an opportunity to decline interest nobody ever has tried to pay me to this guy's giving me raw raw grain a mr. doe raisa interest over here so I want to admire it and praise it and then when I decline it i will have fulfilled the midst of this i mean i would really like to have this is of course there i can I take this is under presented dress so you know sometimes in per say you have an hour you have an opportunity to do a mitzvah you have an opportunity mysm by the way rebbi akiva eiger give a girl who was the house i'm so his father actually also wanted a great post him so in his town there was a man who who was in the habit of lending with interest and he was also a miser very wealthy man he lent people with interest it completely ignoring da loja and he was a miser no one day this man died so his sons went to the chevra kadisha of the burial society our father died in our kid he'd take care of burying him they said sure a burial plot will cost you five thousand rubles five thousand rooms it ridiculous its cost 250 rubles for a burial plot he says listen your father didn't give it was a miser now he's gonna get 5,000 rubles for the poor of the town or we're gonna leave the body out in the Sun to rot say so that's not fair so they said there let's go to Rabbi key vaguer he's a Halak Authority it's a wonder i make you a gir they told what's going on guys let's rethink hills are trying to be 20 times the amount for the burial plot should we give a your said to my friend let me look let me explain youth fellows you know normally a burial plot is 250 rubles because essentially it's a rental because at the time of the resurrection of the Dead the guys leaving so he's only renting it for a temporary till the resurrection but your father lent with interest he said going anywhere he's got to buy the darn thing is it to cost you 20 gonna cost you 25 thousand rubles because your father's not going anywhere ealing with intravenous of rise up at the resurrection they always a so the attitude over here I mean Wendy Wendy ever have a chance to fulfill this Mitzvah once in a while you get these rear mitzvahs that come your way so cuz i'm suffering those things they were celebrate that's the provision over here okay take a look at the next one and the next one says like this now we're gonna see a whole series of very interesting mitzvahs here and then we're gonna exploit it all the other beautiful explanation sounds like this look don't los otros Bashar become more reactive don't plow with an ax or donkey together and the very next pasuk says the very max muscle got four lines from the bottom low silva shot names you must not wear chaton is samer loopy shimmy after wool and linen just from a practical sense these are practical sense nowadays if you buy a suit that has any wool in it if they have a chat is tested in Israel when you buy it mostly in the religious day person is or muscle seussical the clothing stores have already have a label that it has been shot as tested and approved if you buy a suit and a shot as a shot nurse has to be removed many of the suits that come from the from the from the east suits made in China off an F shot is because they use the linen as a its could be a wool suit they use the linen as a stiffener in the neck in the collar sometimes around the sleeves and sometimes use the threads of the buttons and you are not allowed to wear something that has shot as a whole over a couple of minutes not a lot to wear something has shot nests in it you have to have to have checked they have shot in its laboratories and if it is Shatner's they will then tell you whether it is cost efficient to remove the shot vests and if they cannot remove shelters then you can't do anything can't even solve it you know get any benefit from it whatsoever that's the prohibition of wearing I worry thank you very much higher budget it's a prohibition of wearing wool of wearing woolen one and all the suits are checked to you so you have shotguns laboratories nowadays it's all pre-checked I wouldn't I would not buy it soon Israel because it's a pain to get it to the laboratory take it when every basis so as make sure they have a label label inside the but that's shot pneus laboratory okay just don't get confused and eat it that's on a hex around and then the cashiers at this means that it doesn't have doesn't have shot nests in it now I want to show you something very interesting here where do you find in Torah a prohibited mixture where do you find prohibit images what do you say what's that since this are shadows but where do you find Nona I don't mean where do you find that you're allowed to wear as a where do you find prohibitions where are their prohibited mixtures in Torah where do you find you know like eat meat milk what else two different types of animals correct shot pneus correct two different fruits are not allowed to crossbreed fruit cheese correct what else was that right that's the fruit so that produce your download you're not very good very good Aaron you're not there where else Oh marry a non-jew that's got right what else you're not allowed to cross breed animals you cannot cross breed produce and other cross breed animals you know how to work with with cross with with with the prohibit species you know I'd eat meat milk and out to where shot pneus okay very interesting now if you stop and think about it take a look what happens our life you begin in the morning first thing you do in the morning is you put in what's that he said you're not as Ameria ought to marry josh that you want to marry a non-jew okay let's see what happens here when you wake up in the morning you put on your clothing you have a reminder when you put on clothing don't mix you go out you want to eat breakfast you have a reminder don't mix you know meat milk together you go out to your agriculture to your field don't mix Kemp cross plant them you go out to your livestock don't mix you know the cross breed them you got to go traveling you're going to be pull your wagon and get to work in the field don't mix that means everywhere a Jew looks clothing food work travel produce everywhere you look you're looking at a reminder don't mix ultimately what's the greatest reminder not to mix now to marry a non-jew don't mix what does it really mean is it really mean it means it's a reminder to Jews we have a different destiny than everybody else we have a different a different job in life don't mix doesn't just mean physically don't mix oh it's a prohibition don't make the means don't mix into their culture their culture has nothing to do with our culture we have our task in life and everywhere you turn you are surrounded by this reminder now let's take it a step further that's on the prohibitions do you know that in the old days they were filling all day essentially the midst of wearing Toulon is all day and if you were tilling all day we don't do it nowadays for two reasons number one you have to keep your body clean when you were tooling and we may not be capable of doing and there were till you have to keep your mind clean which we're certainly not capable of doing and we hope we could pull out a good 45 minutes when we go to daven with art Phil Annette right if that's that is intended by the way but just by the way parents out he's totally parents out of when people ask you why can't women wear till it the answer the most the easiest answer is the easiest answer is even men who are obligated to put on tefillin have limitations so we certainly don't take volunteers to going to a hospital to be a volunteer in the hospital sure take them up and clean the floor no no I want to volunteer for intricate brain surgery yeah we don't take volunteers for entry kids I brain surgery even people are experts can barely get in there so we don't think I want to go to the army but only if I could fly a 15 we don't take volunteers for certainly understand that's how delicate sphil an air even those who are obligated we don't fulfill now what the guar says is so you have a man who's reminded everywhere you look what your probit don't mix what are the positive reminders you're wearing tefillin you're wearing a talus you're in a room with the mezuzah so urs as a person surrounded by these things you don't sin very easily guys sitting with Taoists filling in a room with the mezuzah and somebody comes with a pepperoni pizza at allison's fillin helps you to avoid these things I just not in pepperoni pizza mode right now and therefore we have all that we use all the benefits that we can we low down we load the ads in our favor that's what's underlying this mitzvah over here that just don't mix the will in the linen Atomics it's an idea of reminding us ultimately what our destiny is our destiny is not to mix okay you