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Parshas Kedoshim: The Chida on the Compliment that is a Backhanded Insult

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okay good morning everyone I want to share with you two ideas from the on number one the says lives with you in your land do not afflict him we're commanded on the is Rashi says don't tell a you know yesterday you bow down to an elephant and today you're coming to yesterday you worshiped Buddha you ate ate and today you're uh you're learning Tyra from so the brings from ru IST in a manuscript that the way we understand rash had face value is not correct we understand Rashi typically at face value that don't afflict don't afflict him don't afflict him but this type of comment if you're going to tell a oh remember yesterday you worshiped Idols this is not H you're being him you're Ching him so that this can't be what we're talking about implies some kind of trickery so there's no trickery here this is downright insulting so the brings from there's much more sophisticated shot over here theot is you go to the G oh isn't it so beautiful it's so nice yesterday you worshiped the the Buddha and you ate cheeseburgers and today you're learning the G thinks you're trying to honor him but you're you have like you know there's a subconscious undermining type of putting him in his place meaning you you you g well you think you're going to actually understand this of course I'm saying in a very nice way oh it's so beautiful but what you really mean to say is like you know don't expect to get anywhere that's theot of doesn't mean don't outright insult him of course he can't do that and that's not o the deeper meaning is don't make it as if you're trying to compliment but really it's an underhanded insult now um you know this is very common this is very common I mean uh you know okay I'll I'll I'll give you a little insight I mean look I get it all the time so yeah your shum are very good you know my wife listens to them all the time she tells me about them or somebody will say you know I really like Yeshua and whenever I go on the treadmill I listen to them Oh What a Beautiful com right so so you know they're trying to convince themselves that it's a it's a nice thing but under it's an underhanded so that type of thing is not it's that it's it's trickery meaning you've even tricked yourself you know there's a famous statement uh George Bernard sha would say when it comes to self-deception every man is a genius you know the person even tricks himself into thinking he's saying something so don't do that to a GU okay that's number one that's how the learns from Raba recording okay