Parshas Re'eh: DEMANDING ZION!

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good morning everyone we have very important material today especially in light of what's taking place in AR CLA has been in Galos for 2,000 years and we certainly have suffered enough we ask Hashem to bring us back what are we missing what still does want from us so I really wanted to give a Wednesday night share on this topic this topic I wanted to dedicate a whole Wednesday night but I'm not here this Wednesday night and I didn't want to let the week pass by because it's really focused on a in this week's par so even though this is deserving of a Wednesday night's Che but there is an amazing sh you want to bring a carbon you want to slaughter an animal only to the place that hasem your God selected to put his name there these words are critical words what does meanu you should seek out and go there Now everywhere in the is called it's the place that God selected right it says what does that mean hasem selected says the Mali the navi told us where it is the navi tells us okay this is where otherwise we would have no idea we would go to we would say okay where where where should we go to Taria should we go toas should we go to so said no you know okay where we're in we're in should we go should we go to the the East the West the north the South know raote where where inam should we go AR because there more Americans over there where where is the place that Hashem selected like the PK says we need the N to tell us or it says by but yet the PK says even though Hashem selects it there's something we have to do in other words you would think there's nothing we could doem will tell us we but the PK says no you have to seek it out now what does that mean says it says until I find a place for God and in other words even though Hashem says I'll select the place but David says I'm going to find the place first David didn't wait until the navi told him okay this is what Hashem wants David so to speak did something on his part he found the place and once he found the place the noi said okay yeah this is what Hashem wants so even though the definition of a Mak mikdash is a place that Hashem selects still David didn't wait to hear the final selection he took steps first where did how did David know that he shouldn't just sit back on his easy chair and wait until the navi calls him and says hey hey D here the place is over here here are the Lo cows it's uh 35 longitude 43 latitude how did D know that he's supposed to try to find the place before the he tells him where it is says the he learned it from the you should seek out the the definition of being what does mean that you yourself seek it out without anyone telling you like it says seek it out and you'll find it this you don't have on the sheet but the ma says this teaches yes the Novi is going to give you a phone call this is what God wants but the navi will only call you and say this is the place if you've made your own efforts to try to locate it first by the way the to in his says something also very interesting he say why is it so important to learn about after all don't we have a promise that thei says that in Hashem will tell us what the dimensions of the Bas will look like so why is it important for us to try to understand what the Bas of English will look like the day will come the prophet will say do a b and c says the prophet will only tell those who've made efforts on their own to try to understand it to the best of their ability and once they've done their efforts then the the divine inspiration will come so too says when it comes to the bikash you can sit back on your easy chair expecting just waiting for the day that the will say okay yeah this is where I want you to do it and this is how I want you to do it you have to make efforts on your own in a in a sense and by the way this idea is I I who could say such a thing if the Mal and as we're going to see many say it it's almost like when it comes to the G we are responsible to push the envelope to some extent there's there there is something we have to do we can't just wait okay I'll be in and I'll keep the MIT and I'll DAV for it even no there is some we have there's something we have to try to seek out like re I need to do something okay where do I need to be where do I need to go where's the place what what should I be doing and once once we're so to speak like on edge trying to do what we can then will tell us then a spirit from on high will pour down on us after we do the proper preparation so the first principle is even though the Mak mikdash has already been selected there's something we need to do about it David knew the navi was going to tell him where but David pre Ed the na'vi he pursued the na'vi that means we have to do something but what is it what what do we have to do so in other words now we're learning there's something we got to do it's not enough for hasem to be but we have to be okay good what do we have to do what do we have what is it you know what is the thing that we need to do in order for hasem to say oh you did it now I'm going to select the makash you can't go there you're not to go you're not all to go to Mak mikash okay so there's a p and this is had I not learned this I would have thought you're not allowed to do this there's a I will give you healing and from your wounds I will he heal you says hem she is no one seeks her out no one seeks her out from here we learn you have to seek her out okay so now we're learning that we need to seek out how do we seek out what are we supposed to do okay I was very moved and astounded that kki offers an insight into this it's found in the commentary of theoi actually I saw it in the art scroll kki is me and I didn't see it anywhere else but now uh last night I found the says this and it's and it's a says like this there's a tum inas remember in Bas when um has is giving you know the laws of M murder and what's going to happen to the murderer cuz really what we need to do now is Define what is mean how do we Define does it mean to say a we should give about we could give rabbis like to give what do we need to do in Bas it says in your blood for your souls God says I'll seek it out a wild animal kills you I'll seek him out if it's from man says if man gets killed by wild animal or by another human I will seek out his blood says tarum you ready drum roll you could give a good drum roll right what does Ed mean what does Ed mean says I will claim you want to hear how he translates I will claim I will claim means to demand to claim so let's say like this could you go to your parents and say you know my birthday is coming up I demand a birthday present you owe me a birthday present no you can't do that can't you can't claim a birthday present if you have good parents they'll give you something you know you know something the or the at least they wish you a happy birthday you know you can't claim a present you can't you can't go over to somebody give me a present I demand the present maybe you could ask even ask you don't have a right to do that you know when you could demand if somebody owes you something if you lend somebody a th000 bucks you say pay me back in 30 days it's 3 months later you could go to the guy and say I don't understand you know you asked me to borrow the money you gave me your word that you're going to pay up pay up already I I have a also you could only demand something you're owed the word means to be by the way here's another example says she went says went to claim teaching means to be to claim to mun almost to demand we got to demand it we have to demand it's not enough it's not enough to say Hashem um could you rebuild oh not now okay fine fine okay no problem you know could you bring us back to I just I I just thought I would mention that oh not now okay no problem I'll go on with my day any anyway I have more I have things to do today it's Sunday I have things to do anyway I didn't really mean it it's okay you know it's like sometimes you ask somebody to do something like would you mind doing X Y and Z it's whatever it's just you know sometimes you ask somebody you know if you ever get a chance I was curious that's how we ask for we're not we don't ask for it as a absolute demand we're not Ming it okay okay you can't build tonight no problem at least I want a good supper tonight you know that's more important really like we have to ask ourselves what's more important to us that we have a good dinner tonight or that Hashem brings Gul today but we're learning that you need to demand it I would have thought we don't have a right to go to Hashem and and speak like that maybe that's too much you know the gar says that we took a that we're not going to push the Kates we're not going to like push the envelope but apparently this is still within the threshold not of what is okay but it is demanded of us that we demand it and actually if you look at the of it's a little we say you know you know when you could demand the birthday present let's say your your your parents told you two days ago oh shaa your birthday is coming we're going to get you something really good on your birthday and the kid said really you know but last year you forgot and the year before you for no this year we're tell here we're writing down we're going to write we're giving you a star we're going to give you a birthday present could the kid turn to the parent on the birthday and say yeah you know so think about what we say to Hashem hey you said you're going to do it you know think about that it's a little edgy to say that no like would you go over to your rashash imagine you had a venerable 90-year-old rash who told you he's going to do something for you would you say could you do something oh yeah I'll get around to it you're going to get around to it you told me you're going to do do it would you have the to say that I don't know not sure I don't know if I don't know if I would it's like you have to have a certain you can't say to someone oh you told me you're going to do it you could say that to your friend butm lets us say this hasem lets us say you told me you're going to do this thenes you ready all the soldiers that died in those days in the times of the Nai you know why they did not demand the building of these who never saw the were expected to demand it and because they didn't demand it they were punished with their life so the we are not asking you know just wondering hasem if now would be a good time to to come back to oh no okay you know I I don't want to disturb you right now no that you you have to say it as a demand okay now take a look at your sheets that's what I saw from and I want set this over tell you when so I guess we're still not doing a good enough job but this is what I saw this week some of it last night look in um this comes from a saer beautiful saer and he brings over here that we find in kazal look on the third paragraph sh he quotes the med we just mentioned and then he brings I mean right now I'll tell you to even it's like this concept gets me a little I'm scared like really we could be butki said it so what but if you could have like more um sources it gives it more even more strength if you could even say such thing so he also quotes the medic to that so then then um then the Met says if if Jews who the Bas was not built in their times and it was not destroyed in their times this is what it's expected of them and they're punished because they were not we who is destroyed in our times and it was in our times if we're not we're not it's BR in the we will not be redeemed until we acknowledge and demand both of them what are what all three of them what three things do we need to demand you know I never knew that and I've D before in my life I've said before I you know many times I didn't know I told is should just preserve the no is the is theik yes is the see we is reflected and housed in theik reflected in the you know who else says we have to demand the himself says this is found in commentary to the it's not enough to ask I I'm breathing a sigh of relief because you know the example I gave is like not just you borrowed money imagine if you took a job from someone and they didn't pay you imagine if you have I don't know let's say you have a studio and somebody comes and records and they and they and they make up before they're going to pay x amount you're waiting oh oh it's not for free oh I didn't realize pal what do you mean you didn't realiz what do you think uh I have it's a it's a g over here have a business imagine uh I don't know you you're you have a grocery store the guy walks in he puts on the the there's a a ledger in the front and he has five weeks worth say RAB do you want to pay oh oh pay Oh I thought this was uh I thought this was a a freebie I thought you giving this is just you know a Gak over here what do you talking about say you have to like a worker who's demanding his wages is you don't have to pay that day unless the person demands it it's a Mitzvah to pay that day but you're not obligated imagine if imagine if we would demand the Gul and the Gula would come and Hashem says oh that's all I've been waiting for I've only been waiting two I I was ready to do it 2,000 years ago just you never asked for it said what do you mean we said the words you didn't say the words you just you just chirped it through you didn't demand it Kan if we don't view it this way obviously it's not pressing ah so the safe brings that to be with harsh language it's not so ped you're allowed to do that you have to be careful not to be it has to be in a way that your person doesn't have but the heter this you have to understand it's not so simple you're allow to demand you can't go to Hashem and demanda you can't go to Hashem and demand you have to be you have to be maybe what this means is of course you can't say you owe it to me give it to me now you still have to be and you still you have to request it you have to be you have to supplicate for it but the urgency has to be like someone who's demanding I think that's what it means doesn't mean you could go you wrote in you're going to bring the you owe it to me what's you know you can't talk like that you can't talk like that I don't think so what what do mean you have to be it means when someone supplicates forua there's an urgency even though they're doing it and and supplicative nevertheless they're doing it with an urgency because they need it and they're they're asking for it as if they're demanding so too for the Bas ofl it's not enough to ask for it the way we ask for it cuz when the way we ask for it we're as if we're asking you know if you ever get around to it when you get a chance I don't want to disturb you I know you're busy now but uh you come back to see oh not today okay never mind it's okay you know no you can't you have to ask for it like it's urgent we'll just conclude with uh the following is M the per of tahim which is a per of bakha and on behalf of the House of hasem I seek out good for you you what does [Music] say I seek out for that which is good for you meaning on behalf of the I seek out what is good for you meaning the CL in our that word is you know I am demanding you know how I could demand cuz I'm doing it for you I'm doing it for your good for for what's good for you so that your your reality is is recognized in this world so that your existence is recognized in the world so that your honor is elevated in other words what gives us more of a license to demand is it's I'm asking what's good for you this not for this not about what's good for me I'm not doing it because of my own security I'm not doing because I'm afraid in the gas I'm doing it for your honor and for your K that that's somewhat gives what which gives us more license but certainly this idea which we find that is saying and the P really it's sourc in the p in this week's par yes is going to come and say okay come back there's the spot I want you to use these bricks and this is what you got to do do but nevertheless that will only happen if it's if we do what is says we have to demand it and it's sourced in the med it's sourced in the writes it and also says you have to be like you worked and somebody owes you wages so in the Merit of adding this to our we should to the you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tor anytime.com