Parshas Vayikra: Guard the Matzos

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does not become says Rashi what are you guarding the mat from so that the mat does not become from here if the mat begins to swell right it starts to rise what do you do you got to rinse it with water that will slow that will the fermentation process okay that's a simple interpretation of the p Guard the mat make sure it doesn't become comes along tells us the the says don't read the to mean guard the but rather guard just like if you have mat you got to do it very hastily you have to capitalize you can't let any time elapse you have to take care of the mat make sure that it does not rise likewise do not let a Mitzvah ferment don't let it rise why if a Mitzvah comes your way do it immediately okay so the simple interpretation the is that when you're taking care of your mat guard it that it doesn't become says we could read this p a different way as well and that is it's not referring specifically to matah it's referring to all Mitzvah when you have the opportunity to do a Mitzvah capitalize don't let any time elapse don't let the Mitzvah turnes do it right away okay so tonight this evening in honor of PES we're going to have the arakas we're gonna have four questions okay and that will bring us into the second half of the segment of the share we're goingon to ask four questions question number one according to the D of Rosia what's the PK saying when a Mitzvah comes your way let's say like this you're at home you're visiting your family and your father says do me a favor get me a glass of water so if you're a little bit lazy you'll say okay and just in a few minutes I want to just look at this I want to take care of that I want to do this but by the time you get around to doing the Mitzvah who knows you get a phone call you'll have to leave you'll forget about it you may lose the Mitzvah so the Torah is saying guard the Mitzvah do it right away ask the how do you read the second part of the PK what's the PK saying you know why you should do Mitzvah right away because God took you out on that day from what's that got to do with doing Mitzvah right away what if hasem would have taking us at a different day then we could be lazy about mitos and we wouldn't have to do it right away I mean what is the fact that God took us out of MIT on that day what does that got to do with doing a Mitzvah immediately and if Hashem took us out a different day or a different time then we would be allowed to do a Mitzvah later I mean what is one thing right what is what do app apples and oranges what is one thing got to do with the next you do a mitzah right away because you might lose the opportunity what does it have to do with the fact that hasem took us Adam on that day okay question number two we are going to look at a few lines from perhaps what is considered the greatest work ever written right saides all works of mus Are Holy the holy of holies in fact the V is reputed to have said that he read the first 11 chapters of and he did not even see one extra word okay so for the V who went through things with a fine tooth comb for him to say there's not one extra word we know every word is written with great Precision by the way the V also said was reputed to have said that if he was had the opportunity to learn from the ram he would he would have walked 50 kilometers Barefoot to hear words of mus from the ram now just think think about that you know the vill it's not like he had extra time on his hands to listen to musen we know there's a story later on in his life you know his sister came to visit him and after a few moments the said you know look at my beard it's already white that means god is summoning you know I don't have that much time and he wished her he wished her well so the V did not have a lot of free time to hear musen and yet the V who by the way learned in his home during the day with the is closed so he would not be disturbed for even a few moments he said he would take the time out to walk beerfoot to hear words of from okay so we're going to analyze one one line of the and ask a very strong question on it take a look this comes from par where the describes for us the M of zus zus is alacrity to do mitos with Zeal with energy say there two parts of one before the Mitzvah begins and one after the Mitzvah begins okay what does it means before the begins before the ACT don't let the Mitzvah grow stale when the time comes to do a mitzvah for instance you know you wake up shab this morning you wake up uh 8:00 and you look at the look at and you see is in 50 minutes and if you wait to say it when you're in they're going to say it after this man so when should you say the shma should you say it now or maybe you should say you know I have 50 minutes I'll wait 40 minutes to say the shma so tells us as soon as the time comes to do the Mitzvah you woke up in the morning do it immediately do it now or or When the Thought enters your mind you know once in a while you have a thought you want to do a Mitzvah oh you have a thought you need to call somebody to wish them a good chabas wish them a good yam and the thought enters your mind to do it so when are you going to do it if you're going to say I'll do it in a few minutes who knows by the time you get around to it someone else will call you'll get busy you'll get distracted you'll forget about it as soon as the thought enters your mind do it right away okay you should quickly hastily do the do the ACT to grab a hold of it and to perform it do not let time elapse okay and here are the key four words you ready there is no greater danger in the world says because if you're going to let time elapse every moment that elapses a new distraction could arise right if you wait one minute 60 distractions could emerge if you wait two minutes right every additional second you wait new things could come up to interfere with the Mitzvah and therefore says when one has the opportunity to do a Mitzvah in there is no greater danger in the world I'll ask you a question there's no greater danger in the world what do you mean what about if you have the opportunity to do NAA you're talking to someone and you have a real good juicy piece of lashara to say should you say it should you not say it you want to say it make you feel good to really you know rip this guy but no you know it's wrong you're struggling with yourself should you say it should you not say it I would say there's no greater Danger or you have the opportunity you know you're passing by McDonald's you're starving and you know should I go in should I not go in yes no yes no there's no greater danger but yet the doesn't give this description this these words doesn't say that when one is faced with the challenge of an AA there's no greater danger doesn't say that the says when have the opportunity to do a Mitzvah that is the greatest danger in the world why is that the greatest danger isn't it equally as great of a danger if one is faced with the opportunity to do an AA by the way I remember hearing this question fromer actually he said this on a tape after he finished 1,000 shm Thursday night shm he started a new series called the E Series this is from tape E1 this is tape E1 that means a thousand one E I think stands for LF a th1 this was Miller's question on the a very strong question right if we're dealing with you know a different type of saer maybe we wouldn't be able to be so mtic and so precise and ask why did he select this word usage but we're dealing with the m why did the M select this word usage on the opportunity to do a Mitzvah okay this week so we can't neglect Parra and um in this week's paraa it talks about many different types of sins it talks about if the whole Community sins it talks about if an individual sins what word does the Torah use to describe the situation we are the entire Community sins it says IM right if the whole congregation sins accidentally right IM the word IM which means if is the correct usage if it's not a foregone conclusion that the whole congregation the whole Community is going to sin IM if what about when we deal with an individual it says if one individual sins he has to bring a And yet when we talk about the Nasi the Nasi is the leader of the Jewish people the word the Torah uses is AER that the sins what do you mean that the N sins what the N has to sin the word AER seems to imply almost it's a foregone conclusion that the Nai will sin that the king will sin why is that true it's not a forone conclusion that the whole Community will sin right the Torah says it's not a foregone conclusion that an individual will sin Torah says so why use the word AER AER implies that he sins as if it is a foregone conclusion that the Nasi will sin okay that's question number three who are the greatest men who ever lived what would you say the greatest one mosu like right nobody m is the greatest man who ever lived who else Abraham I'll put him right up there right his he appears on theak on the mara who else who he's also on Thea he's number two who else Ru ruin was very great what who is the greatest person who you know who's the man Rushmore of the Jewish people right who are the who Abraham David their four faces appear on God's Throne the regel Reon of the of God's is Abraham the reg Shen isob and the greatest of all men was M I don't know maybe this is heretical but I I would I would choose a different list I would drop all of those individuals and I have four other individuals to put on the list Benyamin the son of yov kov the son of David amam the father of Misha and yesai the father of David so you say what are you where did these people come from I never even heard of kilav right who's kav but the gamar says in four people died by the bite of the snake which means there four individuals who never sinned and the only reason they died is because God decreed on all mankind that kind that they should die because Adam ate from the uh atadas who are the four people who never sin says the gamar BAM the son of yob am the father of M yes the father of David K the son of David okay so if one was composing a list of the four greatest people who ever lived would you wouldn't you select the four people who never sinned I mean M as great as he Wasa he s at Maya s he SED thear criticizes him for that so if we were composing a list of the greatest men who ever lived wouldn't we I mean I would put these four people the people the four people who never sinned and yet kilov is not one of the people on God's amam is not there yesi is not there Benyamin is not there why not isn't the mark of greatness someone who never sins isn't that the greatest parameter of somebody's greatness okay so these are four questions that we're going to have to deal with number one if according to the means guard make sure the mitvah does not forand do it right away what does that got to do with the fact that Hashem took us out of MIT on that day and let's say he would have taken us at a different day then we wouldn't have to do mitzvos with zus number two we want to know why the says when one has the opportunity to do a mitzvah there is no greater danger what do you mean when you have the opportunity to do na why in this week's par does the Torah say aare almost as if it's a foregone conclusion that AI will sin and number four which is a very fundamental question is why are these four individuals who have never sinned not considered the four greatest individuals who have ever lived okay that is segment number one on the Shar put it in your back pocket we're ready to move on to a little Lumas okay we don't do this that often but once in a while it's important to get involved in a l topic now what does the word lus mean you know you hear that right the guys from they say there what is lus lus is like this the in makes the following statement and he doesn't mean this in a derogatory way at all now people misquote it and the SM says the following pis baltim people like to say nobody says that what does this mean this is not a derogatory statement this is a challenging statement the statement means the following what we think intuitively is not necessarily the truth just because we have a certain gut feeling about something or we think a certain way or we think a certain concept is logical by the Torah standards it might be that the exact opposite is logical in other words what the way our minds work is not necessarily the ultimate truth the ultimate truth is the way the torah's mind works and the torah's mind is the way the gamar thinks the logic of the gamar the logic of the gamar that is the true absolute true thought process that's what it means piss the way we naturally see things is not necessarily the way they are okay so sometimes we have to apply and adapt the reasoning of the gamar to be able to really understand things in the correct way okay you an animal before you eat the animal is there anything you have to do yeah you got to check the lungs why do you have to check check the lungs the lungs may have what we call a mum imperfection in the mum in the in the lung which would render the animal a tra eating an animal that has a fatal wound in the in the lung is like eating a pig there's no difference one is an Avail one is a right it's a tra okay you check an animal do you have to check the liver of the animal the brain of the animal the kidneys of the animal no why not isn't it possible that there's a traa in the kidneys or in the brain or in the liver it's possible but you don't have to be you don't have to suspect it's it is a highly unlikely probability that there's any problem and you could rely on the fact you could rely on Kaka you could assume the animal's kosher when it comes to the lungs it's very very likely there's a problem they have to be checked when it comes to the other organs you could assume they're good asks the mishos Yakov the following question how often do they you have to check a muza twice every seven years you have to check a twice every seven years why what are you worried about you worry the letter is going to get rubbed out well you think that's going to happen it can happen but is it likely to happen it's in a warm house it's very unlikely to happen it's it is a highly unpr likelihood so asks the mishos if one is required to check a for a for a a um something which would render the muza invalid why is one not obligated to check all the parts of an animal for a tra for a m what's the difference if you have to check your mza why don't you have to check your animal that is the question of the sh mishos okay got it that's number one okay question number two tells us you have a garment you sew it a wonderful garment and one stitch of linen got mixed into that garment it's a wool garment one stitch of linen got mixed into that garment you don't know where you used all the you looked under the magnifying glass and under the and under the microscope you can't find it but it's there somewhere what could you do with this garment says don't sell it to a guy normally if you have something which is absolute shess you could sell it to a guy a guy is allowed to wear shess right you you get a youo B suit right and it's full of shess you give it to a guy he could wear it shess is not a guy who is allowed to wear the suit but if the suit has shinness and you can't identify where you gotta you can't give it to a guy because maybe the guy will wear it and then when he's finished with it he'll give it to a Jew so you can't sell it to a guy and if you're going to know about the going to tell the Jew yeah if it has a label in it it says this suit has shess in it so then you could give it to a guy and know okay fine however what can you do what can you do with the shus you could bury someone in shus you can bury someone I mean what is the guy the guy's dead people who are dead are not obligated in and therefore put it on a dead guy it's not a problem that's what the gar says okay the problem is the problem is the says that if you go into a cemetery bakos you're not to go into bakos wearing Fillin you're not to go into holding a saer Torah or learning from a saer Torah why says the in M you're mocking the poor right if you go into the cemetery holding the saer Torah or wearing the right imagine okay we'll get to the we'll get to the ti right imagine you go on Main sh there's a poor guy there you open up your wallet and you start flashing $100 bills and you walk away You're mocking the guy right that's cruel right you guy he can't even buy a soda and you're flashing $100 bills in front of him so to walk by a dead person wearing your Talis wearing your fill in holding your safe for you're mocking the poor says the gar further the gar says were wearing their in the and the of were dragging in the B and says what are you doing these people who are in their grave they're saying look at these guys tomorrow they're going to be with us in the ground and now they're mocking us what a so you have your Tas you got to stick them into your right you got to make sure they're not sticking out okay why because you don't want to mock the poor you can't mock the dead look so what's the obvious question you put oh so Gabi must have had some good sushi tonight right good it's a it's a steering gar the gar says that you're allowed to put what shotas on a mace what about the fact you're mocking the mace aren't you mocking the mace look you're dead so you're allowed to wear shot this so apparently the gamarra feels that once the guy's in the ground you know he has he has better things to worry about than whether whether we're mocking him with mitos or not so the gamar has no problem with putting sham on a why does the gamar have a problem wearing yourin wearing your Talis with your strings flying out in the B are we worried about or are we not worried about lash this is the question of tvus tus tries to give an answer by saying that situs are specifically problematic because situs are compared to the whole Torah learning Torah is compared to the whole Torah is compared to the whole Torah but isolated AOS is not a problem okay but we are going to give a different answer other than tysus again the question question number two not a problem but generalize a problem correct that's the what TOA says but we're goingon to be giving a different answer tonight okay so question number two is if the tells us that it is not problematic to put shotas on a mace why then is it problematic to wear fillan to learn Torah in the bakaras okay and finally question number three do you need to eat the whole p no no no when do you have to eat matah the first night of PES the first two nights could somebody tell me what is the difference between regular matah and Sh mat other than $20 a pound what's the difference between regular matah and mat what matah you're guarding the matah from the time it's cut that it doesn't become question are you allowed to eates on the third day of P are you allowed to on the fourth day of P are you allowed to on the seventh day of P so could somebody tell me if the reason why we have mat is to make sure the mat is not why in the world we only have to have mat on the first night of PES and not the rest of PES I understand the first night of PES we have a MIT mat what do that have to do with the price of tea in China the reason we have is we have to guard it to make sure it's not so either we have to guard it or we don't have to guard it but it's not more lenient to eat on the seventh day of PES than it is on the first night of P so if we're worried if we're really worried maybe this mat has turned then you should be required to eat the entire p and if we're not worried then what do you have to eat mat the first night for the thing is we have to eat matah the first night of P okay that's the only time the rest of the P you don't have to eat mat at all you don't have to but you're not to eat so if you're not to eates and is making sure it doesn't become so then you should always have to eat meaning this what's the concept of shur you really want to make sure 100% that it's not well then you're never let no in what in that's not that's her name but what is it hiin you're making more sure that it's not the fine of the finest uh okay was it's a in the mitvah mat I would understand why there's more of anion to have mat the first night it's not a hi in the mitah it's a in the prohibition of in other words by having instead of being 99% sure that it's not now you're 100% sure well do you have to be 100% sure you don't have to be 100% sure if you have to be 100% sure the Torah says you can't if you don't have to be 100% sure then even the first night should suffice this is the question of okay threea questions question number one if you got to check your mza why don't you have to check an animal question number two if it's mocking the dead to wear situs why is it not mocking the dead to put shess on the dead I understand the first question we always check in animal there's a hole of no we check the animal on the outside or we just look it over you know we want to make sure it's a cow and not a pig right but there's no there's no requirement to check any other organ other than the lungs why not the same way we're required to check a why you not required to check okay the answer is given by the and he tells us a tremendous principle I'll give you the mus the mush is like this The Boy comes into Yesa one day he said the r says where were you I wasn't feeling well okay feel better the next day where were you my sister-in-law got married and I had to go to right the third day where were you you know I was on the way my the broke down I couldn't get her okay so after a while the mashia comes over he says very nice you're excus day one you're excused day two you're excused day three EXC you have an excuse but you're going to be an with an excuse in other words just because a person is excused from something he still hasn't done what he needs to do in other words let's say a person he has a good excuse for not making money right the first day he had an excuse for not right but with all the excuses in the world that's the excuse is not going to fill up his bank account he's still not going to have money in the bank all the excuses in the world you're excused you're pter you will not be punished but it's a lost opportunity it's a lost opportunity says the like this here you have somebody lying in the ground NE he passed away so you're not mocking him by putting shess on him you know why how you macking him oh you're doing an AA he's not doing an AA he's poter God's not going to punish him because he was wearing shinness there's nothing what do you want him to do take it off he can't take it off right the arms are not working as well as they used to he can't take it off so it's not mocking him he's Potter but if you're going to Weir fill in you're going to learn Torah you're mocking him what do you mean you're mocking him he's excused for for not learning T he's excused for not wearing T of course he's excused but he's not able to gain the great achievement of learning Torah and putting on Fain with all the excuses in the world hashem's not going to punish him for not learning Torah hashem's not going to punish him for not wearing the Fillin but he's still not wearing the Fillin he's still not learning the Torah it's a lost opportunity there's a fundamental difference between not violating an AA right he's there's a fundamental difference between violating an A and not performing a Mitzvah right if somebody goes somebody puts a gun to someone's head he says eat the pig so the guy goes up to sh what's going to happen to him nothing what's he supposed to do he was an onus he has an excuse but if somebody goes don't put on thein he goes up to sh is he going to be punished for not putting on the F no but he can't be rewarded for putting on Fain he lost down on that reward in other words excuses only help to a point they only help that you're not liable but you still have not achieved what needs to be achieved in other words there's a fundamental difference between positive action and guarding yourself from negative says do you have to check your animal if there's a hole in the liver no do you have to check your animal if there's a hole in the in the mo in the brain no but what do you mean what if you eat the animal and it turns out there was a hole in the brain so you know what's going to happen hashem's going to say why' you eat this animal that wasn't kosher see what do you want from me there is no reason for me to suspect there's any problem over here and therefore we're not required to check the animal because worse comes to worse there's a problem so what right God's not looking to bust our chaps right that's a a little bit of a loose translation right right right theah wasn't given to angels we did our best we did our best we ate it we didn't know any better not a problem you're off the hook but what's going to happen you go up to Shay and it turns out your mza was pule so's going to say why didn't you have a kosher mza so you say what do you want you think I would have suspected that over the course of time one of the letters would have gotten wiped out so hasm says you're right we're not going to punish you so you say okay let me in pay up I want I want ghen Hashem said no we you got anything you didn't have a mza up you're not going to be punished for not having the muza but the mza still wasn't up you're not going to be accountable you're not liable you're not going to incur anything but it was a lost opportunity in other words says the fact that we're not obligated to take certain measures when it comes to avoiding sin does not mean we could take the same Liberties when it comes to mitzvos because mitzvos have a much higher standard mitos in order to fulfill them they have to be absolutely fulfilled so in other words just because you know why you don't have to check your animal because worse comes to worse you ate an animal that turned out to be trafe you're not liable but worse comes to worse your mza was no good you're not liable but you still cannot get get the great reward and have the G great achievement of having muza okay now this is how he answers the mat okay ready for this you know why you need mat on the first night of PES and not on any other night the seventh day of pesak let's say do I have to have sh no but what's GNA happen if go up to sh and says why do you eat on the seventh day of PES say what do you want it's set on the box it was uh it was ker there's no you I could rely on that I could rely on the oum said you're right you had you should not have suspected there's anything there you you made sure there was a h on it and you cannot be punished for eating because the likelihood of there being is so unlikely you didn't have to suspect for and if even at the end of the day a person unknowingly ateat he will not be held liable so why can't I use regular M of the first night of PES hasm is going to say the first night of PES why do you eat so you say ah you know I didn't know any better so hasm said you're right you didn't know any better nothing to suspect so you're going to say soem reward me for the mitzah of matah oh no it's still not matah you're not going to be punished for eating you're not gonna be punished it's not your fault you're an you don't have to worry about you don't have to think about you live life as it is you don't have to be so you don't have to be so mock bid you don't have to worry so much you do your best but when it comes to a Mitzvah you can rely on the fact status quo it's probably good when it comes to doing mitzvos you need to take every measure possible to make sure you're performing the Mitzvah because if you were not performing the Mitzvah you may be excused but an excuse like bris would say you know NE you have a guy he never had the opportunity to learn Torah he doesn't believe in Hashem so what he's an aorus right so we say okay right what do we say we say he's a ten shisha it's not his fault he didn't know any better we'll let we'll give him an Aliyah fine but brisker added one point he said which means poor guy we feel terrible for him it's not his fault but he's still not an observant Jew he still has not gained that achievement in other words the principle we're setting forth is that while valid excuses help for AOS they don't make the Mitzvah accomplished okay they don't make the Mitzvah accomplished okay so let us move on Words yesos it's very nice that um this this the mace has an excuse for not wearing tias but you're still mocking him you know why you're still moing cuz he does not have the great the grand opportunity to perform the mitzah okay R back to R you know we've been uh reading RAB a lot R writes that there's a great error in the world and the error is that many people think that what makes a person a good Jew you avoid sin you know you make sure you don't eat on you don't eat on your ker you don't EES right you don't speak L says R that's not what it's about about life is not just about not sinning life is about achievements what positive achievements have you accomplished in this world okay now that many people are familiar with but they're not familiar with the basic interpretation of us God is willing to overlook the three cardinal sins someone commits adultery God will Overlook it someone murders God will Overlook it someone kills somebody a worships Idols God will Overlook it but God will not Overlook the sin of B of not learning wow that's uh that's uh pretty frightening so VOR Miller this is in the sa volume six I actually heard him say this on a tape what do you mean God will Overlook murder God will Overlook idolatry the say anyone who says God will Overlook even the smallest sin right if someone forgets to make a God doesn't Overlook it we believe nothing is overlooked so how could kazal say God is going to overlook the three cardinal sin anyone who says God overlooks God will Overlook their life how can we say God will Overlook these three cardinal sins sayar of the Victor Miller that's not what it means you know what it means here you have a guy he sinned is it terrible yeah but you know what he could do chuva say a person did the worst AA in the world yeah a person's bow down to Idols is that bad of course it's bad but is it the greatest s in the world no you know why because he B to Idols so he'll do chuva yeah but what if he doesn't do chuva doesn't do Chua worse comes to worse so just have to go to geham and burn in the fire but eventually he'll come out and then he'll go to ganen so nothing is irreparable God is able to overlook even the worst sin eventually but if somebody had the opportunity to do a Mitzvah and they didn't do the Mitzvah what's for how could God overlook that at the end of the day we won't hold you accountable but you still did not do the Mitzvah the Mitzvah is lost forever even deeper than that what it's not that you had the opportunity and you didn't take advantage yeah okay sayar of Miller what is life about life is not just about not sinning right he gives the following mush a guy goes on vacation he goes to a California on vacation you say what do you do on vacation so the guy said vacation was amazing I went to what did you do there well first I got there and when I was driving in my car I didn't get any speeding tickets and then when I parked the cop didn't stop me for going through the double yellow line and then when I didn't put the quarter in the meter I didn't get a ticket for expired meter and then I didn't get a ticket even though I parked on alternate side and then when I was there I didn't so yeah yeah but fool what did you do there did you go to Disneyland did you you go you saw SeaWorld you went to stand what did you do yeah and I didn't uh I didn't get any moving violations and the cops didn't pull me yeah but what you accomplish said Miller this is a little bit of an oversimplified version of it because avoiding sin is also a great achievement but this is an oversimplified version of it somebody who goes through this world without achievement without positive achievement they haven't really done fulfilled their their goal in other words Benyamin the son of yov he was a great man he never even sinned the father of David yesi he was great tremendous greater than us one of the greatest people who ever lived David Son kov amazing he never s right amam the father of mha tremendous but amam was not as great as mha been what do you mean but mha sinned and amam never sinned that's not what it's all about it's not only about avoiding sin the main barometer of greatness is positive achievement now don't think that if a person that doesn't mean you know I'm gonna go do a Mitzvah even though it involves AOS on the way no we don't do that if a person knows that being involved in certain mitzil will definitely bring to sin so he can't be involved in it doesn't doesn't matter how important positive achievement is but what we're saying is there's certain types of initiatives and goals that a person should aspire to and try to accomplish even though doing so might put a person in a tenuous situation in other words you have a guy he could sit in his room all day and say to hel him somebody else who may go out and try to let's say be bring people closer to the Torah yeah that's FL with a lot of danger you know you're out in the streets and you're talking to people and in your conversations it might come to lar so does that mean don't get involved no it doesn't mean don't get involved right positive achievement is the barometer of greatness but nevertheless nevertheless if it's FR with absolute danger so you got to avoid it but a person can say well maybe it's better for me just to avoid sin my whole life no that's not the goal the goal is not bov yes the goal isah positive achievement he's the father of CLA he's trying to bring as many people close to as possible because of his love for CLA he came to sin by asking in a way abah was more prone to sin than anybody else because of his his entire Mahal and life entire ambition in lifeu being the leader of the Jewish people is a very tenuous situation it could lead to sin cder Miller this is in uh a book that I bought yesterday Kingdom of priests that I actually heard him say this you know why the Torah says that the sins it doesn't say that by the whole Community it doesn't say that by an individual because being a leader of the people is is fraud with great danger because of the great responsibility that rests on somebody of that caliber shoulders because of the various responsibilities that that type of person has because of the various initiatives that that person is involved in that's fraud with danger does that mean if a person has the opportunity he shouldn't become the Nasi he shouldn't take those initiatives no life is about positive achievement it's not the barometer of greatness is not avoiding sin the barometer of greatness is positive achievement that's what says it's an error to think that the loss for one's n is only violating sin no the main loss to one's n is if they're not involved in positive mitas okay now let me just reiterate I don't mean to undermine in any way or to make loose doing in AA of course a person has to do everything in their power a right to the point where just on the other extreme we know we don't blow chauffeur on chabas why why don't we blow CH on chabus because maybe maybe maybe someone will accidentally carry something for theau for the even though even if he does it's and even though the likelihood of that happening is definitely and what do we see we're willing to forgo the positive achievement because of this which should show us how we have to be avoiding a but conceptually the barometer of greatness are not those who just avoid sin just avoid sin avoiding sin is is the first step almost you can make the case imagine you have a guy he's a contractor he goes around building everywhere but all he builds are the foundations yeah what did this guy ever build he build a bunch of Foundations right what do you build you build any houses any Mansions no he just builds foundations someone who just careful not to sin he's got the foundation but he has no structure he doesn't have the greatness he doesn't have the achievement someone who's not careful to avoid sin and just does mitzil so you can make the case he has a great Mansion but with no Foundation The Mansion will collapse the avoiding sin is the basis that allows for the great achievement Abraham y yov David mha were greater than these four individuals who never sin says theab CER back to the beginning oh one more coming back to the why does m say that when you have the opportunity to do a Mitzvah there is no greater danger in the world what about when you have the opportunity to do an a I heard from Victor Miller you have the opportunity to do an a why is it such a great danger worst comes to worst you'll do the AA so you do chuva and even if you don't do chuva you go to geham now geham is not pleasant right it's not you don't want to be there but it's not the greatest danger in the world there's a way out there's hope but you have the opportunity to do a Mitzvah and you don't capitalize there is no greater s you know why because once you miss the opportunity it's lost forever says the Mish what is a mistake that canect never be rectified someone who misses why it's lost nothing you could do about it maybe you won't be punished but you lost it you lost it ah going back to the beginning the Torah says guard the mitos why because God took you out of MIT on that day so we asked let's say he would have taken you out the next day what's the difference it's what's the Torah saying says theab when God took us out of Egypt what would have happened had he waited one moment longer we would have fallen to the 50th gate of T the point of no return had God waited one Split Second longer we would have been lost forever our nation would have been lost forever what should we learn from there says xab SRA the value of what has to be done now capitalize now Hashem says guard the Mitzvah do it immediately you know why cuz I took you at on that day and if I would have waited one Split Second more you would have been lost forever and you know you should learn from there don't wait and let see what's going to happen because just like I had to take you at at that moment and if I went have capitalize on that moment the entire Destiny of the Jewish people would have been lost what do you mean just because of one one moment say yeah that's the difference between this second and the next second you never know what could happen in the next Second and it's based on that Lio that we learned from the way God took us out that's what we have to apply to all the mitos we'll read one last Source a letter from rabar uh Rak writes that if somebody wants to gain he should read the Chas of raber because just reading the way someone of Raber's caliber writes is enough to gain a degree of look whater says he says number 19 the night of one should act with Holiness with fear and rejoice in the mitz and he tells us the mites the mitzah mitvah says just be very careful you know when you're measuring out that kazas of matah you know some people they have like that uh that sheet that tells you the exact measurement of the kazas says don't make it exact because if you're going to measure out exact what's going to happen if you're missing a small amount you're going to lose that on the Mitzvah so says make sure it's a little bit extra now look at the next paragraph amazing words in my mind someone who has a brain in their skull and they believe in God's Torah how can they not pity their soul and not be afraid that a great mitz like this that you will not have the opportunity to do for another year who said says you'll make it to next year you may lose add on it says like that you could only he says it's not like fill in that if you don't do it right today you could do it tomorrow a Mitzvah like mat this is your opportunity and if you don't do it now who knows who knows if you'll be around next year I mean I feel that these words of re are dripping the words of the m a this is a man who obviously felt the Great and the great fear and the a I better capitalize on this Mitzvah now because if I don't who knows when I'll have that opportunity the feeling of the the great meaning of these words that the opportunity to do a Mitzvah is the greatest danger because if you don't capitalize it's a lost opportunity is dripping from the words of re says if one is not careful to do the Mitzvah now who knows maybe they'll never have this Mitzvah that's what the Torah is telling us guard 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