Pninei Maggid Harakiah - Original Insights on Parshas V'eschanan

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com even though your AV is is normally a day of availas today is the day that ways burned down but in its proximity to Shabbos many of the restrictions of Avalos have already lifted and Hashem this year should lead us into katsoi Soviet we're already in the Embrace of Shabbos where this Farm tell us that at this point okay I want to share with you some thoughts about what do we take with us from Tish above we know that a person has to be duration what does it mean to be tight points out the word always means to be toivea to claim to demand that we have to be misspelled that are felized for the return to aretz Israel and the rebuilding of you shall I am have to have urgency to it we need to dive in with urgency and of course here it is the First Parish after Tish above and we have we have the feel of my shabenu and he didn't just dive in one time to enter at Israel he dabbined 515 times and he would have kept at it but Hashem told him enough already so from here we learn that more than anything else that we need to dive in for we need to dive in with urgency again and again and again and again and not led up to be able to go into arts and so because [Applause] this is what we read right after Tish above the passionate Villa Maisha to be able to enter your next you know there's always discussion we have 613 mitzvahs so what's special about that voice What's significant about that do you ever think about that what's special about the ten commandments though they're on the Luke Heist why are they on the Lucas are they more important well they're all capital they're not all capital punishments is not a capital punishment is not a capital punishment so what is significant what is unique about these Ten Commandments so in the past I always thought there's an idea of the Ten Commandments encapsulate all 613 netspace right the website you're going toward how each Deborah encapsulates many many Mitzvahs but the simple reading of the past hook yields the following maybe it's a very simple idea maybe you're all familiar with it but to me it was just to highlight this idea foreign and he told them his Covenant The Ten Commandments the ten matters from here we see the Ten Commandments are the Covenant between yes there's 630 Mitzvahs and you have to observe all of them but if you wanted to know what is the Treaty what is the deal the brisk between the bris are the Ten Commandments maybe you're familiar with that to me it was uh it was to put this into Focus that the Ten Commandments are the briss between Hashem and consider why what why he's not in the city oh very good question so the gemara discusses that we're not really allowed to uh recite the Ten Commandments especially because of the Heretics who said well that's the whole that's all there is that's just the Torah okay so next week I have the privilege of going to Alaska and everyone's asking me everyone and their third cousin they want to know which tadikim are buried in Alaska you know which give rate Sadiq are buried in Alaska well I'll tell you one of the reasons why we're going it's a posse in this week's parasha Hashem says [Laughter] so ask in the earlier days that Hashem created heaven and earth meaning did I ever speak to an entire nation before did I ever take a nation out of another Nation yeah God rescued individuals did God ever rescue a nation enslaved so the public says ask in earlier generations and then the public says from one end of the world and to the other says Rashi that Hashem is saying ask in all times and ask create creatures from one end of the world to the other did God ever speak to a nation like he spoke to you did God ever rescue a nation that means the public is saying you need to ask all of mankind all over the world you have to ask did this ever happen before so therefore the Apostle is saying you need to go around the whole world and find out did was this ever replicated was Matan Torah was an event like matunta ever replicated so it's important to be aware of what has occurred everywhere in the whole world from one end of the world to the other and from the beginning of time until now was there ever an event similar to Kabbalah okay I want to share with you an idea this is a gem this is a gold mine I thought of this idea during Kabbalah Shabbos a few weeks ago and luckily I had a good excuse to put it on the Parsha here's how I wrote it actually I'm going to tell you how it occurred to me you know we sing Kabbalah Shabbos guard and remember in one word the one God made it hurt to us Hashem God is one and his name is one lashem or Safaris felicila so it struck me it seems like the reason why God said in one word is because God is one you hear what we're saying it seems to me that from the wording of that the reason why God said is because since God is one he had to say Shabbos in one statement and I would like to explain as follows we know hey we know that the most severe punishment in the Torah is for desecrating Shabbos and I think it's a it's a valid question why is it so severe to violate Shabbos what's the problem I need to rest why do I need to rest I believe in God I believe God created the world I believe God controls everything that happens in the world I believe Hashem sees my actions knows my thoughts and knows my intentions why do I need to rest I don't like to rest I like to work you know there's not enough time in this world so why am I obligated to rest why is it that if I don't rest there's severe penalty the rambam writes in the morning that belief is not enough belief is fleeting I believe I believe really I believe person could believe anything belief and conviction is not important until we see action you believe in god really then what are you willing to do because of your belief you believe God created the world in six days and he rested on the seventh that's not enough you need to show an action that you believe so we we work six days we rest on the seventh foreign you know if you have a pearl necklace one Pearl two Pearl three Pearl if you don't make a knot at the end of the string all the pearls are falling down it's very nice you believe in God but until you make a knot and you show an action that you believe the first three Commandments will fall away Shabbos is the knot that holds in place the first three Commandments in other words Shabbos is the action that demonstrates belief in one God and therefore since Shabbos is the action of emuna so if you want to show if you want to know what Shabbos is it's why because Shabbos demonstrates is the action of amuna and therefore because Shabbos must be transmitted that's the Indian wife okay next right after Tisch above we have the parisha of Shema just to share very briefly there's an idea that when one says Shema one needs to have in mind that if ever put to the ultimate test one would give up their life for Hashem and it's a big challenge we re we spoke about yesterday that there were many great people who are not able to pass this challenge there are many great people who failed in this challenge and therefore when we say Shema we need to prepare ourselves that's why when Rabbi Akiva was given the opportunity to give up his life the tamidam said you're going to give up your life says I've been waiting my whole life for this every time I said I thought that I love God I would even give up my life now there's an idea and the salon brings a very profound idea that in the Holocaust if somebody just died and they were not given the choice either convert or will kill you did they die they died because they were a Jew but they had no choice dying on means that you put your you put Hashem above your own life they didn't put in Hashem over their life they were not given a choice there were many Jews had they been given a choice they would have saved their life they didn't even know what it meant to be Jewish but the son of a rabba says an idea that cloudy so is one unit and some people Supply the action of giving up their life and some people Supply the kavana by saying the Shema when you say Shema you're supplying the Jewish people the rat sign that if ever put to the ultimate challenge you would give up your life and then the actions of those who have given up their life and the kavana of those who are willing to join together in the aftermath of Tish above reading about so many Jews who in the course of our difficult history gave up their life in order to connect with that in order to combined with that and join together with that Hashem gives us the Parish of krishma in the aftermath of Tish above similar to what we recently learned the calaverebba wanted that to commemorate the kadoshim that Jews should recite Krishna after the davening rebel yashiv said we can't enact that but there is an idea that by reciting the Shema with the right kavana you join together with the and it's supplied the rat sign lecadesh shame okay so these are some thoughts on uh parishas I want to share with you some impounded another anytime.com