Pninei Maggid Harakiah - Original Insights on Parshas Kedoshim {Plus an Imponderable}

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com and welcome everyone we're continuing uh shiran parsha's kidoisem parashas kadoshima parachute test for security we all have to learn what does Rashi say amaravi Akiva godoll bataira this is a great principle nataira I had a question on this this week and I'm very troubled by it what in the world is Rashi saying Rabbi Akiva says this is a great principle in the Torah great Rashi is not a reporter Rashi is a commentator who when there's a difficulty in the pasok it needs to explain it to us where there's a question and rashi's coming to answer it what question is there on this pasok that Rashi has a need to report to us that rabi Akiva says this is a great principle natira good forever Akiva and it's important to know this rashi's job is not to tell me information Rashi is a mafarish rashi's job is I am here to tell you the simple reading of the pasok what is Rashi troubled by that Rashi saying amaravi Akiva Zach perhaps we could say as follows perhaps we could say the past success says like Hashem you know it says many many times in this week's parasha Rashi usually says I am God I am trustworthy to reward you or I am God I am trustworthy to punish and what does Rashi say on this Ani Hashem Rashi says on this Ani Hashem Rashi says I am I am nemon Hashem I am Neman to uh Rashi doesn't say anything on the sunny Hashem Ani Hashem I am God Rashi doesn't come and why elsewhere does Rashi comment Ani Hashem why doesn't Rashi say anything here I would humbly suggest that's why Rashi says because here Rashi doesn't say it means I'm nemon to reward you or amnemon to punish you here Rashi says Ani Hashem you know what it means is coming to say this is a great principle natairah Shem I am sort of giving my stamp of of importance to this mandate that's why Rashi says Rashi is bothered why does it say Ani Hashem there and you know what the answer is you know it says it says because it's to come to teach that this is indeed a very important principle in the Torah next Rashi says that don't give your daughter to have relations with a man before she's married Rashi says on the then the public says so that the Earth does not is not mizana it's payroyce Rashi says if you do that then the Earth will be mizana it's payrolls and produce them elsewhere if you give your daughter to have relations with a man before marriage will produce its fruits elsewhere now let's think about this analogy for a moment here you have a daughter if you would marry her off you would have she would produce children from this man now you're giving her in defilement to be defiled by another man and will they produce children maybe they will maybe they won't but it will be out of wedlock and Rashi says well if you're going to do that God says instead of me giving you the fruits of my land think about it you could live in Arizona and you could have the fruits produced in your in your land but if you're gonna give away your daughter the the same way you're giving away her fruits I'm gonna give away my fruits think about then the great elevation that and the great closeness to Hashem that one could achieve through the payrolls of Arts Israel because God is saying the same way if you give over your daughter to live with another man instead of you having grandchildren from it and you having descendants from it and her producing children you're giving her a defilement instead of your land the Earth Israel producing fruits well what do fruits of everything swirl gotta do how is that analogous to your grandchildren how's it analogous to your family it's like Hashem is saying if you're being mizana your daughter giving over your daughter and Sonos Israel is so to speak in a way an extension of me and instead of instead of my land producing fruits for you instead of my land producer it's going to produce elsewhere it's a very interesting analogy okay then we move on further foreign keep my Shabbos fear my mikdash what a Shabbos gotta do with the basement so this shows a commonality and we spoke about this earlier in the week between the base hamiktash and Shabbos what Shabbos is in time the mikdash is in place and we explain based on this the bersheba and harios asks how are the kind of allowed to wash their feet one foot on top of the other how were the kohanim Alana put their clothing under their head but it's makes you forget Ruben margolia says in the basement nothing is but we explained as follows we know that on Shabbos there's an idea that things are not koshal says this is alluded to in when we say in English so to the mikdash which is like the Shabbos we don't have a an idea of kashala shikha okay further it says don't insult a gair because you were garam Rashi says if you have a a mum if you have an imperfection don't point out that imperfection in your friend because I'll explain it's because when if you're gonna point out that imperfection he'll turn right back at you and say I'm a girl you guys are gay Ram so I was always bothered by this why does a Tyra prohibit why am I not allowed to insult you if I have the same deficiency what's the problem you're going to turn back on me and you're gonna say huh Look Who's Talking okay I guess I'm going to take that chance and if you tell it to me I guess I'll be insulted but why would the Torah have to say you know if you're a girl don't insult another guy don't insult again because you guys were gearing in this Ryan because they'll turn around to you and they'll insult you back so what so let them insult the insult their back and uh that this way they'll learn their lesson they won't do it again why is it usur why is it I can understand it's prohibited to insult somebody if you don't have that deficiency you're hurting their feelings but here it seems like the problem is you're not allowed to hurt your own feelings why you don't hurt your own feelings apparently you're not you can't be Michael apparently you're not allowed to be my father yourself apparently the third is saying don't say something that will be insulting to yourself I saw an amazing idea you know from the from the midst of yeah we learned something remarkable if I have to love you like I love myself that means this that's predicated on the fact that I have to love myself you hear the tar says love your neighbor like you love yourself what that means perforce you have to love yourself I don't think most people look at it that way most people say oh the torah's telling us to be sensitive to others of course but implicit in that is a certain healthy self-respect that's why benaze says no more important is evaluating yourself so the Torah is saying you're not allowed to insult somebody if you have the same deficiency because you're putting yourself down and one cannot the uh the the foundation of avoidas Hashem is recognizing your own worth you can't put yourself down okay now uh something that had a big Osiris from the plastic says the tar says don't give your sons to mylach you're defiling my miktash what's my miktas around she says God's mixtures Israel the Jewish people are God's miktas like we find think about that for a moment realize the significance of that of that teaching that the miktash the sanctuary of God is the Jewish people we are Gods base hamiktas a Jew is a component of the base finally Rashi says on the pasok um Rashi says on the pasok of the have doubt them Rashi says how do we know a person shouldn't say you know I'm disgusted with the meat of the khazir I don't want to wear a claim but a person should say I am able to but what should I do my father decreed on me so therefore the person saysly think about what this means a person should not say I don't want to wear a client or I don't want to uh I don't want to eat bugs I don't want to eat hazier a person should say I want to but what could I do Hashem decreed upon me by the way the rathham writes so should a person say I would like to kill I would like to steal no that the rambam says something which a person understands with his own sekhal a person should not say I would like to but what I what could I do that's bad meat noise but something which is only a Heavenly decree God decreed we shouldn't eat hazir we shouldn't we are a client we shouldn't eat bugs person should say I would like to but God decreed that I shouldn't and you know what hit me was there are many things that Jews do to be separated from the nations of the world you know whether we speak differently we act differently and we often say you know oh we look down on how how the um deficient perhaps some of the nations of the world Act and a person and a person says that you know I would never do that that's not necessarily the correct approach person shouldn't necessarily say you know I would never do that I would never want to do that I would never want to look that way no then you're not separating from the times the Brazil That's so gayish persons should say the reason why I want to be distinct is only the same shamayam to be to Hashem not because I don't like it or I have a natural apathy toward that type of Lifestyle person should say the reason why I don't conduct myself in that way I'm doing it I'm Different to be to belong not I'm different because I don't like it or it's disgusting I'm Different it's supposed to have dollar bin Israel is supposed to be shame shamayam okay okay so here is just one in panjobon parisheshan it says ish image so we know the juxtaposition of kibraim to Shabbos Rashi points out if your parent tells you to desecrate Shabbos you don't listen then the person says altif's new um do not turn to avoidazara and then the plastic says in other so we have a a whole string of Commandments that uh one after another and there doesn't seem to be a a parent um connection between them namely why keep it of Amen she said but why then do we have avoidazara is it because and then we have carbonus don't do it on the wrong day is carbon is also according to the random the purpose of carbonus is to weed away uh we don't wean us off from Aveda Zara what exactly is the explanation for the juxtaposition of these Mitzvahs in parshas if I may I want to do with you something on Fila you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com