Parshas Bechukosai - The Feet Of David Hamelech That Carried Him To The Beis Medrash

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com good morning everyone welcome to kyle avraham here in yangon of kew garden hills parashas if you will walk in my statutes there's a wonderful mattress on this pas aleph says i calculated my steps the shiva raglai al-aida sacha and i returned my legs to your commandments omar david ribenose every day i would make a calculation and say le maka employ me to such and such place i need to go ula based deer a plainness i need to go to this house so every day david would calculate where he needs to go what fields he needs to go to which places he needs to go to and even though he would make the calculation but my feet were so to speak carry me to the base of madras this is what it means and i will return my legs to your commandments so let's go what the madrish is saying says every day i would make a judgment i must go here i need to go there i have to take care of this i have to take care of that and after making that calculation david hamel's feet would just carry him not to this and not to that and not to there but rather to the base that matters so i'm going to tell you two very beautiful in this matters david the king of israel besides all of his paradise on behalf of uh the people after all there is no greater public servant than david he had a provide for all of kaiso he was mel israel he was nevertheless completely and wholeheartedly devoted to avoiding hashem his entire focus was to think employee ulabaira playness anihilic to help jews these were and these were not personal errands however these were what community responsibilities that lay heavily on the shoulders of davana malach but nevertheless you see a public servant has to um balance the two things community obligation community responsibility but their own private obligations to hashem they still have to dive in chakras with a minion and come you know darwin properly in davin and be a mensch and uh besides that they have personal obligations to hashem they have to dive and they have to learn they have to do all the mitzvos that are comment upon every yaked and very often those who have responsibility of the sibor so to speak get so overwhelmed and so dedicated to the seaboard that their own personal is hashem falls by the wayside so says ravitzu peterberg even after i calculated my steps in my avodah in my communal obligation to hashem thinking i need to go here i need to go there i need to help this organization and that institution and this my sad i never exempted myself from my personal obligation in the base economist and the base ahmed rush that's what means i calculated my steps and i realized i have to do this for the sibo and that for the sibor so very often we see people who are very dedicated to the seaboard but their personalities hashem suffers greatly but nevertheless never allowed his personal abuse hashem to diminish in any way and his feet would carry him to the base of knesset in the base of madrid that's the shadow of ravitzula paterberg somewhat bedarah jurash in in my yeshiva the rashiva are hannah khloe bullets and it's uh brought here in the safe regidus they dissected this madrish in the style of in a very analytical way let's get into the head of david hamach says i thought about my path and i thought about my ways and i decided and i calculated i need to go here i need to go there certainly if david made that calculation it was a real calculation and he calculated correctly why that means he calculated i must go do hasad in this place i must help out people in that place after all knew that that even though tamatara is the greatest mitzvah nevertheless if it's e f s if nobody else could help out that sibor help out the individual you're obligated to take off time from learning to offer your help right from learning made a calculation i must go here i must go there and did he end up going to these places the madrid implies no but rather what happened his feet carried him to the base of madras well in that case he did the wrong thing what do you mean his feet carried him he made a heisman i need to go here i need to go there i need to help people out i have family obligations personal obligations communal obligations simchas and so on and so forth he made an intellectual calculation and yet at the end of the day says my feet carried me to the base of madrid well then his feet carried him to the wrong place what's going on over here did david do the right thing or did david do the wrong thing if it's recorded until then we have to say must have done the correct thing well but how could it have been the correct thing if he calculated he needs to go here and he needs to go there so the russia shiva or even as follows very often people make calculations but they're wrong why are they wrong because people have uh nagios i calculate i have to help these people out how did you make that calculation sometimes because i like to do that i like to help people out or i'm lazy i'd rather not learn or personal reasons i want to do x y and z not every calculation is a legitimate one and ultimately saying listen carefully i made a calculation i sat down and i tried my hardest to figure out what the right thing to do and i calculated that the right thing to do is not to learn but ultimately i went to the base medicine i didn't go to where i calculated i need to go why because my feet carried me there what does that mean my feet carried me there that means we learn from here a very important thing and that is it's not enough for a person to intellectually know what the right thing in life is to do but a person has to train themselves to be naturally inclined to try to do the right thing not just to make a thing you know learning is an important thing so i'm going to try my best to learn because if you just have the intellectual decision that learning is important sometimes you say yeah learning's important but right now i'm going to make a decision it's more important to do and that's not always the right thing sometimes someone else could do it sometimes it is sometimes there are other ways that it could happen and you need to be learning the only way sometimes you'll end up doing the right thing is if you're naturally inclined to do the right thing if you develop a haishek and a taiva that i like to i'm going to learn not only because i've decided intellectually that's the right thing to do but i enjoy it it's like my natural default place to go this way even in situations where the sahara has persuaded you that you might need to do x y and z your feet will carry you to the right place that's the shot in the medrash raglai mediocre base so we carried said but didn't his brain tell him tell the feet to go so he obviously recalculated in his head yeah right the answer is the fact that he was naturally drawn to the bass madras allowed him to recalculate and to say taka that's where i need to go right so had it not been for his natural inclination to the base madris he never would have recalculated it's only because he was naturally inclined to go there that is able to rethink his original decision and instead calculate that he needs to go to the base hamadar so that's the madrid on this week's parasha on you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com