Ki Savo: Simcha - Increase Your Bottom Line

This Torah class is brought to you by to anytime.com and welcome everyone. Hope everybody is doing great to the Kel Agra de Perka of Carn Hills, New York. Today Shir is sponsored on behalf of daily giving which is an amazing opportunity to be midabek every day of the year to the mitzvah of sudaka. one is contributing $1 a day and it's distributed to all the various uh wonderful that help out and and people waiting for children and it's really way to be in and all the and amass many more before the okay so we want to speak about as well as the Shabas, if anybody wants the uh the book, the safe in English on the Yam, it is back in print and you could go to the arts grow website and for a special time you could get it at discounted 10% off and free shipping with the promo code TM A TM. Rashet, the mystery and the majesty. T M A TM all capital T M A TM. Okay. So we know that we start we start why do we start Shabas? We start Sunday. Various reasons are given by all the carbon. It says by rash. It says which indicates that one should make themselves into a carbon and a carbon requires a minimum of four days of borum and therefore if rash comes out Thursday Friday shab so we start Sunday if it comes out Monday Tuesday we start the Sunday before the lavush brings down a different reason the lush brings down some places their no to uh to start so I got a call last Thursday if I could speak Shabas in a place before. So I said, you know, we also have no you come here first, whatever. And then I looked at the date and the date was last month Shabas. So it was uh in great neck. So I had this to speak in great neck mats shabas and the shaw is packed men women on mats shabas and I tell you their are just so beautiful everyone sings together every single word it's really uh it's a tremendous but ashk starts on shabas at least four days before rashash what's the reason brings down that many people have a custom to fast the asserv you hear this it puts us to shame but back in the day the custom was that people would fast the whole the only thing is you can't fast and you can't fast shabasa and you can't fastim so to make up for those four days we start four days before but we would like to explore perhaps another reason why one should start 4 days before rash. So we go to this week's par. [Laughter] This is talking about at the end of three years. This is I gave it to the Rashi says other I gave I gave all my obligations. I did not violate your mitzvah and I did not forget says the holy rashi. What does it mean? I did not forget from blessing you alas on separating messer. I did not forget to bless you before I separated messer. Meer is a mitzvah. So I didn't forget to bless you before I gave miser. By the way, yesterday in the shir we know that when a ken eats chuma, a has to make a braha. It's a mitzvah. How about when anious ken eats chuma? That's a shila. Whether an as cayenne makes is she just like the money of the cyen or is she have an independent ability to eat chuma because she has kadusha. But the same way eating chuma is a mitzvah separating chuma and miser is a mitzvah and therefore the farmer that comes into the bikto says I did not forget to make a braha rashi. This comes from the I didn't violate from making you a blessing and I didn't forget from mentioning your name. And here is the milliondoll question asks I didn't forget to make a bra. Who are we talking about over here? We're talking about a farmer. We're talking about a farmer discussed by the this is in biblical times are all how could there be ash that says that the farmer says I didn't forget to make a but there are no according to the there's no such thing as a braas are how could the be referring to I didn't forget to make a bra there no bra on a biblical So he says, I guess it's referring to praising you and blessing you, but it doesn't refer to because there is no and this is certainly uh worthy of our attention. What does it mean? This is not on a level. It's on a dissa level. What is there on a dissa level? Certainly, but we're talking about the giver of micer. What biblical does the giver of micer have? Let's study another gar. The gar rashana says and please uh join us Wednesday at night for the next two weeks. I think we only have two Wednesdays before Rashan Kipper. Yeah, Rashashana is Tuesday. Wednesday and when is yum kipper? Thursday >> is Wednesday. >> So then there's no Wednesday night shir uh for two weeks. So this coming week we're going to have amazing sh on rashash and the next week before we're going to have I hope so we know the rash says You should afflict your souls on the ninth day. Hey, wait a second. We don't afflict ourselves on the nth day. We afflict ourselves on the 10th day. Do we fast on the nth? Anyone who eats drinks on the 9th, it's considered like they fasted on the 9th and the 10th. Eating alone on the 9th is like fasting on the 9th and the 10th. Wow, that's amazing. I I like those kind of mitzvah. You hear? Eating on the 9th of T is like fasting two days. Now, think about what that means. It doesn't mean if you eat on the 9th and you fast on the 10th, it's like you fasted two days. If you just eat on the 9th, it's like you fasted two days. If you fast on the 10th, it's like you fasted on the 10th. And if you eat on the 9th, it's like you fast on the 9th and the 10th. Basically, by the time yum kiper is over, you should have reckoned three fast days. Two for the 9th and one for the 10th. Why? How could eating be like fasting? Certainly how could it be like two fast days says anyone who does a mitzvah they do good to him. Every mitzvah one does, Hashem does good to a person. Adds they give a person long life and you inherit the world to come. Wait a second. Every single Jew does mitzvah. Does every Jew get and it says this sounds like this should be on like one of these new tapes, you know. Sounds like you can make one of these uh new songs with it. They probably did, but every single Jew does more than one mitzvah. Is everybody z to this and to this? Next, next. Uh um question. You know the phenomenon of the missing kazin? Does it ever happen to you? A guy gets up to the and he gives a like nobody's business and you know he's really getting going. He really uh gurgled his raw eggs that morning and by the time Shakus is halfway over he he disappeared. Where did he go? No, he's still standing there. But he abdicated his duty as kazin. Really? What did he do? He said, "Huh?" And you didn't hear him say go Ali is so unfortunately you didn't have a kazin at your minion because the obligation of the kazin is to start every and to end every as it is known henin was very adamant about this and he even wrote in his that they announce this at his that a kazin must say the words loud enough for the people to hear but then they're going to answer at least with a minion that day. But um so you say it a little bit quieter but uh loud enough for everybody still to hear. Anyway, the gar says to when you go over there, ask about the welfare of Rauna, my brother, in the in the um company of the whole the great man as he rejoices over the performance of mitzvah one time he juxtaposed he couldn't stop smiling the whole day he was so happy he was he couldn't wipe the smile off his face as in the to the mitzvah number one doesn't everybody do a mitzvah every day. Why? What? And yet we don't see that everybody is to and why was Rauna so happy that he couldn't wipe the smile off his face. So we have a number of questions on the floor. Number one, why do we start? Number two, what does the P mean that I didn't forget from making a bra on are only how could that be the meaning of the P? Is it is it true that anyone who does a mitzvah? Why couldn't Bruna wipe the smile off of his face? And here we come to a very important in the para Because you did not serve Hashem with happiness and good-heartedness from an abundance of everything, you will have to serve the enemy. In other words, what a did violate that precipitated the 98 of the Yes, they put on they davened with a minion. They didn't even bring their cell phone into the bases because if they did and it was on, they didn't even daven. That's not dining. So they did everything they had to do. They wore sitsus every day. They davened three times a day. They ate kosher. The only thing is they davined but they daved with crab. They were crabby when they ded. They learned but they were miserable when they learned. So God says, "No problem. I'll give you the 98 colors of the All the you want to know what that means? Conjure up the image of 1939 to 1945. And is saying why says he brings the question of why is not serving Hashem such a serious and severe crime that it warrants the punishments of the the person's doing all the mitzvah the person's doing all the what is so severe about not serving Hashem Let's say you're working for a boss and your job is to deliver, I don't know, the Wall Street Journal and you come back, you delivered every single paper and the boss said, "Oh, you're fired." Why? I delivered every paper because I saw you were in a bad mood when you were delivering the paper. Who cares? No boss cares what kind of mood you're in. As long as you get the job done, you do it timely, you do it expeditiously, you do it honestly. Why does uh why would the boss care whether you're happy, you're sad? So why is serving Hashem bas? I understand it's a mila, it's uh it's nice, it's a madrega, but why is it so important? So first I want to begin by sharing with you the unbelievable of the sha rimigosh. The rimigosh brings that he accustomed the people of Alisna to make a shakanu on a lul and on the chaur until the rift came along and he was from saying shakyanu on both of them and then the reagash says well you should make of shakanu on the but not on the lul and then the remagos reveals his amazing shittita you ready for this comes the remagos and the remagos Posins that the of is a and therefore since at the night of sukus you're making a shaky on the that will that will cover the shakyanu on the lul but by rash where there's the night of rash is so it's not going to cover shakan on the itself the bottom line is do you hear the sack of The remag the remag is huh? Why would the of bea? So this brings us into a major explan exploration of the subject of ine. Let us begin with the comments of the karedim. The karim was written by Re Alzar asi a contemporary of the Arizal. Nobody knew who Rebelar Askiri was. He was the janitor the shamish in the shul and once the Arizal pulled him into the circle and they said why are you dancing with he's a simple and says that from has come down to dance with him I will also dance with him. Rebel Lazari wrote the famous that'siri and he says the fourth stipulation of doing mitzvah is to do it with great joy. Any mitzvah that comes your way is a gift that the Almighty sent you. The more happiness you experience and you engender, the more reward. In fact, the Ariza was mgala to his con to his associates that all the madreos that he achieved that the gateways of were open to him. They're all because of this and reward that he was he was this is what it means. You know what it means? If somebody would hand you right now, hey Rabiano, you're learning so good. Here's $5,000. Yeah, you'd probably be in a good mood for at least the next couple hours maybe the next day or so. So, a person should serve Hashem and do a mitzvah even more than if he would get gold, jewels, and silver. So, the simka that one experiences by performing a mitzvah enhances the reward for the mitzvah. When a person does a mitzvah, they get reward. When a person does the mitzvah of it greatly enhances the reward one gets for the mitzvah. But now comes says that in the where Hashem says you're being punished because you did not serve me. The Torah is indicting one who serves God. If it's not because a person is obligated to perform his mitzvah says doing the mitzvah is a separate independent mitzvah aside for the reward you're going to get for doing the mitzvah you're going to get a reward for the mitzvah of doing the mitzvah of and therefore if you don't do the mitzvah of there's punishment So every mitzvah has two parts. You have the mitzvah of and the mitzvah of wearing. You have the mitzvah of and the mitzvah of you have the mitzvah of and the mitzvah of you have a mitzvah of you have a mitzvah of you have a mitzvah to listen to a and there's a mitzvah to listen there's a mitzvah to give it and there's a mitzvah to give it every mitzvah has two parts and you're rewarded for both elements and which of these two elements is more important. Is it more important to do the mitzvah or is it more important to do the mitzvah says the of performing a mitzvah is a it's more than the mitzvah itself. You hear that doing the mitzvah is more than the mitzvah itself. More important than saying shama in the morning is saying it bas more important than wearing is putting it on. And therefore let's ask the following question. If doing the mitzvah is more important than mitzvah itself what will get more reward the for doing the mitzvah or doing the mitzvah? What will a person be rewarded for more? Sitting in the or sitting in the midst of eating matzah or eating matzahing or says you get more reward for the re for doing the mitzvah. than doing the mitzvah itself. Now watch this. You ready for this? We know on the 9th of t we have a suda. Anyone who eats on the ninth, it's like he fasted the ninth and the 10th says why do we have a suda? He says on all other we make a suda to show how glad we are and how happy we are to do mitzvah because the reward for doing mitzvah will greatly magnify the reward of the mitzvah. And therefore fasting on yum kipper is a very big mitzvah. You know that one of the 613 mitzvah is fasting on yum kipper. So fasting on yum kipper is a mitzvah. We should make a suda that were init. Now there would be a little bit of a problem if we made a suda on yum kipper to celebrate the great tinus. You know that that might not work out so well. Let's say at 3:00 at 4 o'clock right before you got for a little kesh that your not going to work. So if you can't do it on yum you need to have a suda for the sim of the fasting on yum on yipper. So what is greater fasting on the 10th or being on the 9th? Being on the 9th is worth double fasting on the 10th. Because doing the mitzvah is valuable and the element of the mitzvah is twice as valuable. Amazing fasting is great but it's onethird of the total reward. Onethird of the reward is doing the mitzvah. twothirds of it are the element of doing a bima. I recently was in the city of Lublin at the ke of Lublin and we said over as follows. What is the very first mitzvah found in sha? Why is that? Because what is the very first mitzvah that a bar mitzvah boy has the opportunity to fulfill? He turns 13, he has the opportunity to fulfill and in his barit says this proves the when a boy becomes mitzvah, does he become baritzvah as soon as that night of the 13th comes or does he have to wait to the precise time of the day that he was born? Let's say he was born 2:01 in the afternoon. So at 2:01 he becomes a bar mitzvah. We know as soon as the night comes of the 13th he becomes a baritzah immediately. You don't need full 24-hour periods. Oo that indicates then um that is proven by the fact that starts with because the reason it starts with sh is because that's the first mitzvah. It is not always not if he was born in the morning, not if he's born in the afternoon. The fact that we could across the board say that the reason why shas begins with is because that's the first mitzvah that a young man fulfills when he becomes a bar mitzvah that indicates that at 13 and uh when the night comes you automatically become a bar mitzvah. Mazam orbach says something different. says the first mitzvah fulfills is when they say in the night time they should be to be the mitzvah because their of the day was as a katan. But theam said no none of the above. The very first mitzvah that a boy is when he becomes mitzvah is to rejoice and be to be the like it says there's a mitzvah in Tory to accept upon oneself the mitzvah and according to the that is the very first mitzvah that a mitzvah boy is obligated in. In fact, the says the word is of who rejoicing when you do the mitzvah is of coming back to the where the farmer says I didn't forget to make a we asked how could the farmer say in the he didn't forget to make are they're not so he said oh wait a second isa why would be dissa says that in the name of his illustrious father the it's going on that the mitzvah is the life and the and the comes along with doing the mitzvah to do the mitzvah we're awaiting when could we be in the mitzvah when will the mitzvah come already like they say the night of sukus he could not fall asleep. He was literally so anxious to be in the mitzvah of the dal that when day break he ran right through the glass. He put his hand right through the glass shrunk to grab the l of anro. So part of the mitzvah is the desire, the passion, the yearning to do the mitzvah. Like we say in the Rashi says get up like lions to grab the mitzvah. Therefore, how could be? Where in the does it say you have to await eagerly and anticipate the performance of we learn it out from I mean that forgiveness for that you did not do it. Aren't you the mitzvah so to speak up? Well, it seems it seems like we are able to have this duality of feeling of gilubada that on the one hand we're trembling and we're and we're frightful and there's a certain somber tone and on the other hand we're in great sim that we are given the opportunity to serve and by the way writes very plain and simple let's say through the performance of the mitzvah, you would be getting immediately $10,000 cash, even $9,000 cash. Would you not be happy when you did the mitzvah? I think you'd be you'd be feeling pretty good knowing all I need to do is shake the lul and I'm going to be getting cood on the spot. And we believe the reward for a mitzvah is much much greater. And we believe that the privilege of serving the master of the universe is much much greater. And therefore this is what mean that anyone who does a mitzvah. We're not just talking about performing the mitzvah. We're talking about doing the mitzvah in its full sense. doing the mitzvah and then in fact and that is why was on the he was able to do a mitzvah which made to us seem as small as being and he was so bim he literally could not wipe the smile off of his face and therefore while all arean In fact, says that why was from all the that he prophecied about all the good times that lay ahead of us all the consolation was prophesied by Yesh. Why is he to be the one to to be the to speak all these happy words of says the I said to the student he accepted the yoke of heaven with joy more than any of the other prophets and therefore he was to what none of the other prophets were to. This was the great reward of Yeshaya Hanovi. So, we're learning a few things. Number one, doing a mitzvah magnifies the reward. Number two, doing the mitzvah that is a mitzvah in it of itself. Number three, that mitzvah is more than the mitzvah itself. And number four, that mitzvah you get rewarded more for than the mitzvah itself. How much more? At least double. At least double. At least double. Now I want to share with you as follows. >> Can I just say one thing? >> Sure. >> Is that another reason why we actually sort of >> Oh, very good. >> Excellent. And so Josh is suggesting that in past we've asked that why is it that when we say we say we sing it as if uh we're doing some kind of joyous activity we're traaling all the various people who we kidnapped murdered and robbed. We it would seem like you know at least be a little contrite. Why are we singing it as if we'd be like uh you know mafiosos? So we in the past we said over from the Israel that uh we were trying to do chuva but Josh is suggesting and this is found in the that the reason why we sing is in order since saying is a mitzvah so we have to do it. So we sing the vidi in order to try to do the voya. Now let me uh share with you a number of other very important thoughts about the important uh nature of by the way we've spoken out many times in the past that even though there's no reward for mitzvah in this world however for the of doing the mitzvah you're rewarded. So not only is does magnify the reward, not only is it a mitzvah in it of itself, not only is it a more of element, not only do you get double the reward, you get reward in this world. And the says that that's derived from the end of and the beginning of the end of is today you do the mitzvah is tomorrow you get reward. But then the says and often say for you get reward even in this world is what the writes in the roy in paras it's number 31 on your sheets. Why is the punishment so severe for not serving Hashem? Says as follows. The after is you will serve your enemy. The meaning is as follows. When a person has to serve their enemy, they do it begrudgingly. They do it grouchily. They do it in a bad mood. So God said, "You're not serving me. You're not serving me. Then the way you're serving me is the kind of service of how you would serve your enemy." Okay, fine. So go serve your enemy now. I mean, God said, "You picked your own poison." The way you you serve an enemy is begrudgingly without sim. So Hashem says because you didn't serve me so go ahead go serve the enemy. Let's explain it on an even deeper level. Theam throughout his parish on offers the following concept. You know Rashi throughout whenever it says the word by people Rashi says he took them with words. Let's say by Rashi says what does it mean? He took them with words. How does Rashi know took them with words? Maybe Karak went he grabbed them by the lapel and he shle them to his side. How does Rashi always know means with words? Listen to this. Cypher says it is self understood. Who is a person? The body is a person their body. The body is just the shell, the wrapping paper, the container. The person is the the intellect. So if I, let's say, want to convince you of something and I physically take you and I bring you over to me, does that mean you agree with me? Not at all. You're still kicking and screaming. The fact I slept the container over does that does that mean I took you? You have not changed at all. You have not moved your position in any fashion whatsoever. So if the Pik says Moshe took, who is Kyak? Kyak is Kak's body. No, Kayak is Karak's mind. So the only way you could take someone's mind is if you convince them, not if you physically take them. Same thing when it comes to doing a mitzvah. Because you went like that, it means you shook a lul of anrig. Because you went like that, it means you put on fillain. Because you went like that, it means you lit the candles. Doesn't mean anything. That's your container. It's only considered doing a mitzvah. If your rat wants and is joyous to do the mitzvah because you're not your gof you're you're desire. That's why more than doing the mitzvah are the of happiness that one engenders through doing the mitzvah. But as important as sim is, it is even more important when it comes to the realm of chuva. Even more important, as important as simka is, it is even more important when it comes to the world of chuva. We say in we say listen to these words because with you is forgiveness so that we could fear you. This is like the most counterintuitive pock you'll ever see. God, you forgive us so that we should fear you. Does that make any sense? God forgives us so that we should fear him. If anything, if he wouldn't forgive us, he would be much more intimidating and frightening. God forgiving us allows us to be afraid of him. And the rim explains and this is elaborated by rutman and that is there's a very important component to cha and that is a person has to have amuna in the system. Person has to have amuna that hashem sees every act that we do and every thought that we have. Hashem writes down and records every act and every thought. Hashem remembers it and he punishes. If God would never forgive a person for their sin, it would be psychologically impossible to act in accordance with the system. Because if we had ama that Hashem knows every act that we do and every thought that we make and that he punishes us for that and everybody sins then a person knows they're basically doomed psychologically they could not live with such a system and what would they do they would just block it out of their mind they maybe they would say they believe in Hashem but realistically what is it called cognitive of dissonance, they would block it out of their minds. You know what allows us to fear Hashem? What allows us psychologically to feel fear Hashem is the fact that we could say even though Hashem knows that we sin and he'll punish us but he'll forgive us if we do chuva. So we say [Laughter] because with you is forgiveness. Therefore, we're able to fear you. Part of the chuva process is the belief that Hashem will atone and and forgive our sin. And therefore, Rebel Desler writes that the process and the procedure of the calendar is very deliberate. It begins with three weeks of punishment for the BA mikdash. Now rais if the year begins with three if it starts with three weeks of punishment then we should follow it immediately with the two weeks of chuva after all we're punished now we got we better ship up we better shape up now after 3 weeks of punishment we're not ready to do chuva we feel so beat up and so demoralized and so degraded and so worn out that after tishab we can't do chuva. We need seven weeks of consolation. We need to know God still loves us. We need to understand Hashem still wants us. We need to feel that Hashem is waiting for our avoida. So after 7 weeks of therapy, 7 weeks of consolation only then we could begin the two weeks of chuva. Think about it. We don't go from punishment to chuva. Even though chuva is the way we take care of the we need a lot of consolation. The human psyche is not capable of after acknowledging wrongdoing changing. I guess this is something we should be uh aware of in even interpersonal relationships. Sometimes the other party does something against your will and you're angry and you're upset. So you so you make up and you think it's going to be better. It's not going to be better. Even though the other person knows they're wrong, but they're not ready to change until they feel the love and the consolation and only then they could do chuva. And think about how much consolation we need after two weeks of punishment. Three weeks of punishment. It needs seven weeks of consolation. And therefore the safer which are the of the tell us something tells us something very important that one of the important ingredients of chuva is and therefore the appropriate time to begin is shabas because on shabas we spend our time learning and hashemara It gives us a good mood and we just came out of Shabas. And while one might think the right mood to be in to do chuva, I don't know, maybe we need to have a day of beating ourselves up to be ready to do chuva. No, we need shabas to be ready to do chuva. We need shabas. We need the lian shabas. Simka is so to speak the the remedy and the elixir to put us back in the proper framework to be able to do chuva. Let me just end with the following amazing. This is I heard this from the says an o cannot bring a carbon because it says that you need to be shame and an o is not shal. Why is an o not shalem? So many people think because he's missing his relative. So he's not shame. So ask the then the should never be able to bring a carbon again in their life because the relative is never coming back to life. What an o is missing is he's not missing his relative. He's missing a fundamental aspect of the human personality that is he's not an Adam right now. What do you mean? He has a nose. He has ears. He has eyes. Yeah. But he doesn't have sim. And part of being an in other words, if you were to take a picture of the definition of man, man would have to be smiling because a person who doesn't have sim is not a person missing. person without sim is not an and the reason is because we're created in the image of God and God so to speak is always strength and might are in his place and when a person's and he's and therefore before we're able to do chuva we go through a shabas and we put ourselves in the proper frame of Because only we're only able to fear Hashem if we understand Hashem's love for us. And amazingly this Shabas you know we're going to read in the halfra nothing about chuva and next shabus you know we're going to read in the hyra nothing about chuva only it takes us all the way to rash that's how much we need that's how much love a human being needs to be able to be in the frame of mind to do chuva but once we inject inject simka into our mitzvah. We we do what we what is called we increase the bottom line. You don't have to do one mitzvah more. You could double your earnings merely by engendering sim by doing the mitzvah. Actually you're tripling it because doing a mitzvah is worth one. doing it is worth another double to be among those who serve him. Thank you everybody for listening. Have a great day. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tora anytime.com.