Parshas Matos - Masei: The Cities of Refuge and the 6 Mitzvos that Will Save Your Life

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com yeah okay good morning everyone this week is parshas mata is masei which is the longest combination of two pastures and in parshasmasi it speaks about what happens if somebody kills somebody the shoy gig inadvertently what do they have to do but before we speak about that i want to turn your attention to the introduction of the safer is a safer which um tells us what are the 613 minutes voice and he provides a rationale and a logic for for these 613 midwives and some of the details based on the rambam's uh version of the 613 and in the introduction of sephora he has a very fundamental piece he says if you look on uh you have the copy of pedro zion the left-hand uh the left-hand side of the page tells us there are some mitzvoths that are no longer uh applicable but for instance we can't bring carvano's manager we can't build the base of mignolet and there are many missiles that are applicable today not all missiles however do we have the privilege to perform says the ones that are noigabs are the ones that are applicable 369. and there are some midsoles that only occur and only have the possibility to happen at specific times in other words out of the 369 mitzvots that are applicable today many of the mitzvos it could be you'll never even do your entire life for example there's a mitzvah to pay a worker on the day he does the work right it's a mitsubishi let's say you get now not talking about someone hired um for a but let's say let's say somebody goes for a haircut and the barbara is a jew you have a right to pay him on that day you don't pay him on that day you're over amidst a direct but not everybody could do that so some people don't hire workers for anything some people do everything themselves so out of the 369 not all mitzvos are definitely applicable every day and even out of the laven there are there are those which you're only uh could violate if you put yourself in the situation for example it says don't delay fulfilling your net there that's but that's only if you make the nether in the first place if you didn't make the nether in the first place then uh you never come to a situation where the torah warns you not to delay fulfilling it okay bottom line is says of all the mitzvos that that apply in other words out of the of say that only apply under certain circumstances and out of the mitsubishi that only apply in out of certain circumstances he says the hambing coulomb tish of the system in total there are 99. how's that 78 mitzvah say and 21 mitsu but those mitzvoths that every single jew is higher than regarding regardless of circumstance are two hundred and seventy and the simmons remember that is aniya shayna i am sleeping felipe air though my heart is awake air is numerical value 270. there are 270 myths of mid-slice in the torah that are not dependent on basal mikdash they're not dependent on circumstance you have 48 myths of say and you have 222 laven now uh let's say things that you're not going to do so in other words out of the midsoles that are applicable today 270 are applicable and are not dependent on bringing yourself to a certain circumstance but even those mid-slice are not applicable every day for example in the midst of sukkah you can't do it every day the mitzvah of mata you can't do it every day so how many misos are there that are irregardless of any circumstance that you could fulfill any day of the year any hour of the day any time there's nothing that puts you in a situation that you can't fulfill these missiles how many mitsubs are applicable every single moment of the day so the safer says his famous passage he says the obligation of these to do them is not at all times there are 10 lines on the bottom basmati only certain times of the year or certain times shisha except for six shakh that apply at all times they never cease upon a person affilorega even for one second his whole life there are six minutes late that there's not a day of the year there's not an hour of the day there's not a circumstance in the day which exempts you which puts you in a situation that you don't you're not able to fulfill these mitzvos these are your six best friends that you have in this world okay everyone should cut this out put in your wallet hold on to it these are going to be your six best friends for the rest of your life here the here goes you ready and by the way in the semen aleph of mishnah the second beer he brings down an expanded version of of this where he says somebody who wants to fulfill the mitzvah of having hashem hashem's presence before them their whole life should think about the following six things and every moment you think about even one of these six things your mikayam a mitzvah dairy so the aim kate's the mata and it's there is no end to the reward for mitzvahs what are they number one to believe there's a god that's mitzvah number one to believe there's a god included in that is to believe hashem created the world and controls everything that happens in the world yes hashem created the world ex nihilo out of nothing and that hashem controls everything that happens in the world that's a mitzvah you could fulfill every day of your life every moment of the day number two not to believe in another god submit so you could fulfill every moment of the day number three to unify hashem not to believe hashem has different parts different god is one entity hashem is number four to love god submit so you can fulfill any moment of the day you have a free moment you're sitting around you're waiting for the customer to come in you say i love you hashem you're making mitsubisa you just made more than a billion dollars so you say but i'm embarrassed somebody's gonna look at me somebody think i'm crazy so that's why i have some give us cell phones take out your cell phone people won't know either people think you're talking on the phone you say i love you hashem people think what you're talking to your cousin your uncle you've got a manga it used to be it used to be you could go into a telephone booth but they don't really have too many of those anymore so now you have cell phones you can be mckym at any any time of the day number five to fear hashem you're waiting online in a store it's an endless line until it's your turn what do you do you have nothing better to do don't waste your life you should think some i know you see me right now i know you know what i'm thinking i fear you hashem and number six not to stray shalom not to stray after the thoughts of your heart and the sights on the street don't stray after your eyes or after your heart so says to say how do you remember these six things simone six cities of refuge you should have now it happens to be this pasta already the six cities of refuge tiana you should have for yourself what are the six cities of refuge if somebody killed someone bishoy gig let's say they were throwing darts and unknowingly they killed someone throwing the dart they got a run for their life actually the person they killed their relative could come and just kill them and clo in cold blood it's permitted the torah allows such a thing the only way to escape that is you have to run to the six cities of refuge so i just gotta say for last night after marav after i left here like a hundred minutes after shia right somebody brought me to their house they said somebody came to uh the neighborhood last two weeks a big uh an unknown mccobb he wrote a safer busy lit armonie and he wrote like six volumes on hamish and uh he gave me this set so i brought it home last night and i opened it up and he asks why does the safe rachinoch use as a mnemonic as a hint as a rem as to remember the six mitzvos to meteos the six constant midsoles why does he say how do you remember it she's r a mikala tiana should have six cities of refuge what do the six constant mitzvos have to do with the six cities of refuge that's what he asks he gives a certain answer but i think the answer is very simple and that is in this world there's somebody who's constantly instigating against us constantly challenging us in heaven he's constantly stirring up problems for us and that's the satan and he's always trying to cause problems for us so we need to run away to a city of refuge we need protection so you say okay we have a shul we have a base like asses thing is unfortunately we can't be in shoal all day long we have other things that have to be taken care of we have um take care of our lives families etc and we're very often put in situations where we're not able to sit in front of a safer sometimes you have to wait online sometimes you have to be places sometimes you're stuck in traffic now we don't always have the torah tape available we don't always have the gemara in front of us we need protection so what protection is there that every moment of the day it doesn't matter you could be sitting in the car driving and the people in the back seat could be screaming and fighting and clawing at each other what do you do what's your protection the answer is you have the sex constant misleads that you could fulfill every minute of the day in fact i saw somewhere it was actually posted on top of the water fountain in the shiva on a little paper it said that rev he said about himself that not a day of his life went by that he did not fulfill the sixth constant mitch voice at least a hundred times so you're walking to shul at least one time you think it's very easy it takes about 10 seconds hashem created the world there's no other hashem hashem has no other parts i love hashem i fear hashem i'm not going to stray after my heart and my eyes you just got six mitzvahs i said you do it on the way to shul you do it on the way back once a day even once a day two thousand mitzvahs a year it takes five seconds two thousand minutes this year and these are our r.a miklot these are our cities of refuge whatever circumstance you're in wherever you are wherever you're waiting online wherever you're stuck in traffic you're in the middle of eating whatever you're doing the rabbi is giving address you don't know what he's talking about right the six minutes of dairisa um these are the shaish are myklatienna everyone have a wonderful day you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com