Parshas Mishpatim: Rebbe Meir and How Berachos Teach That We are Always the Children of Hashem

good good afternoon everyone welcome to the here on our Monday afternoon uh National she this week will be on that note we have very joyous announcements to make today firstly we're very excited to uh be Mya everyone that uh about upcoming events which are very exciting you could join us February 17th to 19th we still have some spots left we're going to be visiting the Italia in the footsteps of the going to the cities of Venice anona padwa Rio Pisa um Ferrara and learno so you could join us February 17th to the 22nd you could join us for our first ever March 3rd to the 5th in Miami if anybody would like to be M next upcoming saer is on and today we have a fantastic topic on uh connected to the par as well as uh one of my favorite topics in general actually two of my favorite topics in general and let's get right into the subject at hand um the tells us the gar tells us that a teaching of our favorite Tana RAB mayor R mayor would teach us May would say person is obligated to make a hundred blessings a day and now Israel what does Hashem your God ask of you so this is a famous teaching of 100 blessings a day and the question is is first of all why would re mayor be the one to uh teach this teaching why is it ra of all the tan why would ra teach the importance of 100 blessings a day so that's uh the first uh subject we want to try to study you know every teaching in Shas we have we have the right to ask and to analyze and and to try to understand that why why specific why specifically um was that is that Tana the one to make that to to offer us this teaching the says In from which makes this what do hasem your God ask of you the medish learned something else out of here you see R learned out from here the importance of 100 BR but what's interesting is that the medish learned something else out of here because the medish comments that when from the and it says oh he ate from the and now maybe he'll send forth his hand and he'll eat from the and um what exactly are we uh it's interesting the Met says now that he ate from the we're worried maybe he's going to eat from the so you know what the med tells us on that the med says um the fact that Hashem used the word this teaches us that opened up for an opening of CH why where do we see that Hashem offered adaran a chance to do Chua where do we see anything about toua there so what's interesting is that it says the word and now Israel what does hem ask of you so it's very interesting that out of this we learn out two things would say that we learn out and the med learns out it says so what was it do we learn out do we learn out May or do we learn out and this is the question of the in the that's it says um and on the other hand learn out so how do you connect these two D how do you connect these two D is it do we learn it um do we learn out May or do we or do we learn out chuva like what's the connection between May and Chua by the way we spoke about this recently on a Wednesday night from rim fagi about the connection between BR and uh doing tsha we spoke about this in uh connection to and tuat but we're going to take another angle today um we also we also noted the fact that Who Made Who offered us the teaching who taught us about the importance of 100 R but by the way it's not only RoR Tau it to us it's this is something that he would say very uh frequently very often um he would say this often so why would R often say this you know there's another from which we learn another source which references where the Met says H is it says the word of the man who established the Yoke and the the says oil is get the 100 blessings that we say every day because every single day there uh 100 Jews died so came along and he was so it's interesting fine so from H we learn out 100 but the learns out something else out from the word oil the learns out from the word oil that um learns out from the word oil that established the Yoke of the word of who established the Yoke of Chua now um here's another instance where kazal from the same learn out and learn out cha you know so we find a number of instances where and are learned that from the same either or by the way the in the also points out this this um phenomenon that again we see that we learn out 100 and ch from the same and and the references yet a third uh instance where and CH are learned out from the same on the of course refers to CH ad Hashem ad is 74 Hashem is 26 is also 100 100 so that's another example where we learn out and CH from the same so I'm very excited to share with you interesting is we're about to learn a teaching from one of the great alltime we're all familiar that wrote a wondrous commentary Al but what we may not be fam uh familiar with is that was a rebi of the the came to the land of Israel by the way in roote to the land of Israel he stopped off in Italy and you know actually very fortunate for you know when I had uh the opportunity to go to Morocco I uh I I got a number of about the Karim in Maro just in the city of Marakesh I have a very big safer tremendous safer of hundreds of who lived in Mar Marakesh and I'll tell you the truth I hadn't heard of Kim any of them and it was so surprising to me why I was so unfamiliar with all of these and what I learned was that the printing press didn't make it to moraco and therefore so many of these sadik we don't really know about because we we were never privileged to benefit from the because there was no printing press there and had not come to Via Italy we probably would not have heard of him or he would not have the same uh recognition that he does but because he stopped off in Italy and he's able to publish his far so all of Cl from many don't know that theau in for a short time and what we're about to learn is I do not believe it appears in any of his that we're familiar with it's quoted and preserved by the in the and in the and the brings the number nine what's the S on the one hand namely is commenting on the well-known going brings on the one hand it says and on the other hands it says we have a contradiction one p says to God is the earth and its fullness that the world belongs to God and elsewhere the PK says the Earth belongs to man says there's no difficulty here before the blessing here after the blessing before the blessing the world belongs to God after the blessing the heavens belong to God but the Earth belongs to man before a blessing God owns the Earth after a blessing man owns the Earth therefore comes the gar thear says before a person makes he doesn't own the food after a person makes he does own the food ah comes says I don't get the stea in the first place what's the contradiction in the first place there's a contradiction the Earth belongs to God and another PK says it's not a contradiction it belongs to God and in his Good Will and his good graces he gave it to man is that a contradiction that one PK says the world belongs to God and one PK says the PK itself is explaining the world belongs to God but he gave it to us so what's the contradiction do you see a contradiction there's no contradiction the world indeed belongs to God and he very nicely gave it to us comes and he says here's the contradiction you cannot say God gave gave us the world you know why cuz we're God's a we're his slaves and when you give a slave something what the slave owns the master owns what the slave owns the master owns Mas RAB so you can't say the world belongs to God but he gave it to man how could God give to man the world but man is God's and Mas so it's not enough to say that the world belongs to God and God gave it to us what do you mean he gave it to us he can't give it to us we can't acquire it to which the gamar answers here is before you make AA here is after you make AA before you make AA you're you're God's slave after you make a Braha you become hashem's children if you become hashem's children then hasm could gift Us the land because demonstrate that we are says he says we're God's slaves how could you say the land belongs was given to man how what an the master and on this the answers here it's before you make a blessing here it's after you're making a blessing after blessing we have that we're God's children the gift is a good gift that's all I I heard okay now comes and by the way in the mid he also brings the S he says on the one hand we have a elsewhere it says and answers and I heard from who was bothered what's the question question maybe God gave it to us to which he answered that how could God give it to us but we're his a and the answer of the is that by making we have a and the so the adds something spectacular the adds that what was the G's question that how could God give us the world we're his but the of mas Rabbi you know what that then is is that an evani cannot make an acquisition whatever EV Kanani is K the master is K that's only true by an EV Kanani but by a Jewish slave we do not apply the rule of mashab the din of mash rabi does not apply to an Evy presumably we're an Evy in that case what was the question of one p says elsewhere it says God gave it to us and don't tell me this business of that's only by not by to which says that there's no doubt that if we would only be our status would be that of an not an not an EV our goof our bodies would be completely acquired to like Kanani how's that and the brings a proof the proves it from the gar says that are Redemptive Redeemer person how so the is m if a master knocks out a tooth or an eye of a slave he goes to Freedom that Purge a person's whole body so the says the G brings the proof that are Redemptive from if if an if an ey or a tooth Shan a tooth or an eye if the master knocks it out the person goes out out free a person then that Purge your person's whole body all the more so now what kind of Master who knocked out the tooth or the slave of what kind of servant would the servant Go free of what kind of servant what kind of slave goes out not in in so means gar is making a liod that if goes out with SH certainly if hasem sends us we'll go out that means thear is comparing us to an says from this we see that if we are we're an Kanani and we indeed would apply the rule of mashab ah so now it behooves us to understand what proof is it that we are indeed children to hasem how do we know that we're the fact that we make how does how do demonstrate that we are says there's when went upstairs he found that KES was tying crowns on the O So said nothing he didn't say anything so Hashem say m they don't greet people you come from why didn't you say hello you came upstairs you didn't say hello why didn't you say hello to me said does a slave say hello give shom to his master that would be audacious for a slave to give shom to his master says that from the fact that we say it demonstrates that why because the says that there's an idea that an e doesn't greet his master that an e is not his master the fact that God gives us the license and the to make this shows where this shows that God has given us the great gift that we're his children so once we're his children then everything he gives us we acquire so the way the is like this we have a s the S is one says the Earth belongs to God one says the Earth belongs to man and don't try to answer sure it belongs to God he gifted it to man cuz God cannot gift it to man so long as that we're a slave to which thear answers that's before we make AA before we make a we have a din of a slave after we make AA we have a din of children ah says we are now privileged to understand the connection between 100 bra and Cha we asked why do we learn that from the and at the same time we learn out the answer is we've explained so many times that the gift of Chua is only available to the Jewish people only Jews are able to repent the nations of the world are not able to repent why is that because the Jewish people are the children children of Hashem because we're the children of Hashem we're able to do chuva because a father that foro his honor his honor is forgone a father could Overlook his insult therefore the Jewish people are able to do chuva the nations of the world they are the subjects of hem God is their King so the gift of chuva is only gifted to the children of Hashem likewise like likewise BR are gifted to the children of hasem likewise BR are gifted to the children of Hashem so that's why kazal continuously put together the gift of chuva and the gift of bra because just like chuva is only given to the children of hem likewise blessings are only able to be made we can only make bras cuz we're the children ofm therefore from the it's on the same P of the word from which we learned that's why the med could say is 100 says oil is H oil is the the Yoke of CH and that's why the P says says may in the on the he says why is the gift of mentioned in he says since we're making a and we have a of that establishes that the gift of to is is a viable valid gift this is what it means you're makings us and in Theon he brings this is also a connection Shu isem shua is CH is and this gives us a deeper understanding friends of anyone who without a blessing is stealing so Rashi says what are you stealing you're stealing the blessing but according to what we're learning you're stealing the GI what God is giving you because what he gives you is not yours if you merely have a status of it's only yours you can only own something because we are the B of hasem and this is also the meaning of the blessing of hasem it will make you wealthy that could be understood says the he says that from we gain the status of and all the blessings of life we own because now that we're children we can have ownership therefore through what is given to us is viable and this could also be the meaning of the P says God gives God takes so you'll ask is Hashem giving or is hasem taking the answer is it depends if you make AA it's yours if you don't make AA it's not yours because you're an EV and this it's also suggested as a meaning of what we say in the those who are generous in the people bless God what's the connection between and blessing says like this as we mentioned only a child could be a father an can't be his what Mitzvah do we have that likewise establishes our status of many times we said the mitvah it was a conversation between RAB and tus toris Rufus asked hey RAB AKA does God love the poor and Raba said sure he loves them so toris Rufus says so why doesn't he give them what to eat so Raba says it's so that we can get the of giving says in my opinion Sak is a great infraction here the king decreed that one of his subjects should be poor how do you have a right to give that subject money and contravene the decree of the poor of the decree of the king and you guys you're subjects so if you're King if God decreed someone should be poor you need to leave him that way to which rabika said bad analogy and what if a king would say that nobody should support his son and feed his son and somebody sneaks in and gives the son to eat and drink what would the king do to the benefactor the king would reward the benefactor RAB AKA says that we are the children of Hashem not the subjects of Hashem the mitvah ofed demonstrates that we are the children of hasem that's why we associate Sedaka with with the T RAB mayor so therefore the says those who are generous those who give they demonstrate we are the children of hem they could also make blessings because these two and they go hand in hand we could also say um the generous among the people they bless Hashem by the way Rashi says it refers to those who instruct the people to do Chua where do where does inspiration to do Chua come in in this PK of blessing Hashem but according to what we learned from the often grouped together br and we those who generously teach the people to do chuva you're going to do chuva that means you're a CH child of hem this grants you the status of so whenever we have the opportunity to make a blessing to make a and we have many opportunities a day it is an opportunity to recognize that we are and you could ask well isn't it interesting that means more than anything else we do a day do during the day we make bra right there's no Mitzvah we do more often in the day than making a which comes out to mean there is no fundamental principle that we want to remind ourselves of then that we are the Beloved children of hem as teaches us the fundamental principle is that where so since the most fundamental principle in the t is that we are the Beloved children of hasem therefore there is no principle that we need to reiterate and remind ourselves of more than that we are the Beloved children of Hashem okay that's uh today's sh I'm going to wish you a wonderful day and C okay thank you all the best bye