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Okay, good morning everyone.
Bereishit
In the beginning
The Chofetz Chaim on
Yehi me'orot birqia ha shamayim
Interestingly, the Torah says, what is
the purpose of the luminaries? Rashi
says, yehi me'orot birqia ha shamayim
v'hayu l'otot ul'mo'adim ulyamim
v'shanim. Says Rashi, l'otot
When the luminaries are stricken, it is
a bad siman for the world.
And on the second pasuk V'hayu l'me'orot
birqia ha shamayim
Rashi says, od zot y'shamshu sheye'eru
l'olam.
Do you understand what's going on over
here?
First, the Torah says, it there should
be me'orot in the sky.
And when the me'orot are stricken, when
there's an eclipse, it's a bad sign. And
v'hayu l'me'orot, Rashi explains, by the
way, a second function of the luminaries
is they illuminate.
Says the Chofetz Chaim, ribon da alma
kuma kula, you stop any guy on the
street and you ask him, what's the
purpose of the sun? He says, the purpose
of the sun is to create light. The only
thing is, that's not what the Torah
says.
The Torah says, there's a primary
function of the luminaries and giving
light is
v'hayu
l'me'orot birqia ha shamayim, that's a
giving light is a secondary function.
Says the Chofetz Chaim, umikan yireh mar
av emet chok bein datenu l'dat Torah.
Look how distant our way of thinking is
and the Torah's way. Lu ayen yishalenu
af es ha chacham hayoter gadol ba'am, if
we would ask the smartest guy in the
world, bashu'al iz matanat ha'shemesh,
what's the function of the sun? Vadai
hayah meshib she would for sure answer,
taye'el lasavri'im.
It's to benefit creation, l'ha'ir
ul'ha'amim ul'chalamam, to illuminate,
to warm, la'azov et tzmichat ha'adamah,
to cause vegetables to grow, pri eitz,
v'od inyanim ein mispar ve'ein erech,
and other
innumerable benefits of offering light
and warmth. Then yesh it is a shamshios
and whatever other function the sun
provides, they are failing with
they are secondary subsidiary. The
Torah reveals the exact opposite. Iker
kavanos brias hashemish
haya bishvil ladaas ulasamin es hamatzav
shel am umatzav am Yisrael.
The main purpose of the sun is to know
what our state is.
Are we doing the right thing or are we
doing the wrong thing?
If there is no eclipse, then we're okay.
When there is an eclipse, it's bad news.
The main purpose of the sun is to get a
state of the union address. What is the
matzav of the world? When we're in
cycles of eclipses,
bad news. When we're not, we're okay.
Oh, by the way, the sun also gives
light. That's secondary. The main thing
is we should know what our matzav in
Yiras Shamayim is.
If a chamah loikas siman ra l'umais
then chalilah l'avona loika then it's a
siman ra for Klal Yisrael. When we kivan
Once the sun and the moon were created
to have a phenomenon of eclipse,
secondary is by the way they also give
light. Brum zo rak derech agav. That's
derech agav that they give light. Oizoi
sheshamshi
Now I want to tell you chiddush nifla.
Reb Chanan makes the same deyak as the
Chofetz Chaim and he comes to a
different conclusion. And Reb Chanan was
the Chofetz Chaim's talmid. So you have
to think Reb Chanan heard this kasha
from the Chofetz Chaim. Reb Chanan also
was madayak. The lashon of the psukim
are
yehi ma'oros b'rekiya
And the
also give light.
The
giving light is secondary. Yes. So
what's the primary?
Not
to see if there's an eclipse. The
primary function of
the sun
is to tell time, the value of time.
The main
function of the luminaries is to know
when the day is over,
to know when an hour is over, to be able
to measure minutes, to be able to
measure seconds. All of these luminaries
you could use to detect the passing of
time cuz the most valuable commodity we
have in this world is time. There's
nothing more valuable than time. So
greater than light, greater than warmth
is the ability to the passage of time.
This is definitely different than what
the time says. If you look and say for
parshas of the
he asked this exact question but he
gives somewhat of a different answer.
Have a great day everyone.
You should have a successful man.
And also that's why I didn't wish anyone
a good winter. I don't know I'm
on the wish the wishing you good winter
because
the winter is not for another three
months by the way in the United States
of America. So first have a good autumn.
I guess you don't have herbs.
Okay.
And also have a good day. Call to
I'm officially filing my protest on the
winter greetings.
First of all
who wants the winter now? And saying
well it's not winter. It's down not
accurate.
I know you need a greeting. I mean
you're done with the kfitel. There's
nothing wrong with that. Good shiyur.
There's nothing wrong with him. The
kfitel is done. There's no more kfitel.
Anyway, that's my piece for you for
today.
You could join us at 10:50 at 11:50 for
the opening Agra the Pirka of tavshin
pezayin. Kol tuv everyone.
