Re'eh: The Saga of the Broken Step and the Earthshattering Revelation of Rav Yonasan Eibeshutz

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begin with the story in the garas before you start again what's website rabid dg.com thank you r a BB dg.com thank you sure okay so the says like thisa by the way um if you want to let's say join us for any of the sh there are a lot of Zoom sh we give Monday and Tuesday night there's a gamar in da sha Sunday morning there's an Ian share if you ever want to jump on the zoom you could just go to that side rab.com you click and you're right on so you don't have to remember any codes you don't have to remember any information you just press the button learn now and you're on okay so says like this Rapa was going up a ladder we should all go up ladders that's life life you're climbing a ladder but Rapa was literally going up a ladder is the leg gave way it's slipped his leg slipped his foot slipped he was primed to fall he was about to fall off a ladder now for a papa falls off a ladder it's probably a little bit more dangerous than if a regular person fell off a ladder rap Papa we find in many places in ch was a balasar he was a heavy individual he said as he's sort of slipping now that this has happened then the one that hates us is it's euphemism for himself like a Sabbath desecrator and like a idolator idolator in other words papa is saying basically it looks like he's suffering the fate of a ofil he's falling off a ladder we know part of skila is they would throw someone off a building said Papa no you're not suffering the Fate necessarily of aab and you may not be suffering the fate of an maybe an came to to you and you didn't support him maybe the reason why you're falling off a ladder and your foot is giving away and the ladder is breaking maybe the reason why the ladder is breaking is because you did not support an H now we're in the world dream up that if somebody doesn't support an h a ladder gives way and the foot slips where where does this come from you know you can't just uh tell somebody who's suffering well maybe it's because this maybe it's because that I mean it seems a little farfetched of all the in the all where did he he get that maybe you had the opportunity to support an on and you didn't so there's a famous gr one of my favorites there's a so I got an email somebody said you know RAB when you Lan it's very distracting why are you laning in middle of the she so first of all what do you mean I can't have a good time also I'm not allow to have a good time what's you know it's great it's great okay so there so again I don't know what people think thinks it's good the other guy doesn't think it's good you know so it's 50 against but anyway the the trp is very important sometimes and here's the key what it's more than 50% more than okay yob also goes for it fine okay you know the gamar Milla says that uh you have to learn with a niggan in fact not only does have a but mishna also has a nigan they say that reel used to learn mishna according to the ancient mishna in fact there's a who who says that when the says that when the when thear says it's missing words and this is what it means to say what do you mean it's missing words that the mishna had to fit like a trop a certain tune and sometimes you know to fit the tune they would have to word it a certain way anyway so on these words the TR is says the the wants to know where come off telling Pap maybe an on came to him and he didn't support him so it says the gr it's brought the that the TR is to be that anyone who hides their eye from s the stairs break under them D the step severe breaks wow D severe the steer Breaks by the way I'm going to add something to this because there's another instance there are many instances of Dar s but we have a an amazing that was discovered okay by the way in the of the a student of the of course the um the quotes his rebi the he says from that where did he get that because of a failure to give sadaka the stairway breaks in and uh it comes from the Trum of fine so what's amazing is that rapapa was not the only person who encountered such a situation where the stair fell in where the ladder broke but we H we find something similar by one of the greatest uh individuals who ever lived by none other than d thear tells us God teach me my end tell me how many days I have teach me my mortality mean wanted to know when is he going to die King David said before God God tell me my end God says you know that's against protocol we don't give out that information that's uh you know exclusive in so um so says let me know at least what dayas you're going to die on chabas he said let me die Sunday you can die on uh Sunday because it's ready time for Solomon to take over so he said em wanted to die on Friday God said no one day of your service in your T is more valuable than all the thousands of that bring you got to die shabas can't do it on Sunday it's ready time for SCH Friday I don't want L that a of your so what happened every shabas he sat and he learned K the whole day he did not read the Mish he did not read Ami he did not read and we don't have to go through all the papers that we usually go through didn't read any of them he learned the whole day on shabas now and if a person's learning the Mal can't get them on the day he supposed to die tried to get him couldn't get him they'll have a didn't stop learning what should I do there was an orchard the he went he started rattling the trees out to see he went up a ladder the step gave way me from underneath him and D fell and D passed away now I once saw in the saer of pedman theas what is a significance that the malas went rattling in the trees idea is like this that why does man have to die because of the sin of Adar of course was the Gil ofar stands foram and Mah so why did David die because of the tree he was rustling in the tree in other words he was drumming up the sin of theas but what do we find over here we see that died why if the step gave way it caved in if the step caved in now that's not a common way to go and therefore it would seem that we're entitled to question and ask what is the significance of the fact that passed away similar to what the Fate OFA was going to be if now here's an important rule we are not allowed and entitled to attribute any deficiencies to our we are not entitled to attribute any deficiencies we cannot criticize we cannot criticize tan we cannot criticize not only that we cannot criticize any of the there's a cha from the on the do not touch my anointed ones where somebody asked the benai about some of the personal habits of the rashash and the Ben writes we don't even discuss is as if as if they were regular people we don't discuss their behaviors they're not a topic the way they conduct themselves in their personal life is not a topic of conversation we don't discuss them certainly not attribute any fault to them so to say that passed away because of a failure to do to give s we would not be entitled to do that but I once heard a Shear from a great R Rabbi Isaac Bernstein of England originally from Ireland um and he sort of uh drew the audience's attention to this Kamar and chabas in light of the GR in light of the gr who says that R Papa was suffering the Fate of the D because he failed to fulfill and here the gamar is saying that that's what happened to DAV so even though we're not entitled to attribute a lack of giving Saka to DAV but if we were to find somewhere in kazal where kazal have already revealed to us this type of uh lacking then it would be most Illuminating that which the says so that is exactly what RAB Bernstein did and maybe at the end we'll add one or two small points we know we're all familiar that was not allowed to build the B why not wasn't allowed to build because the says you spilled a lot of blood you wage a lot of Wars you spilled a lot of blood so we sort of understand that intuitively to mean the b m is a place that makes peace in the world it brings peace between God and the Jewish people and waged War and he can't build the temple his hands are full of blood but upon further analysis this is quite troubling I mean could a not build the B mikdash because his hands are full of blood I mean it's D of Mitzvah you say okay but a is not killing people yeah who who was David killing already he was killing amim he was killing people who occupied Israel it'sah you know there's an amazing shw in can a Israel soldier who killed the enemy in battle and let's say an Arab can they we know that is not allowed to because can an Israeli soldier who killed the enemy who and no revers brings in one of his far his hands based on uh the idea that cannot however has a absolutely he could his hands are not soiled in Blood of of his hands are Sanctified with and that's the of and in that in in that vein can we say that D couldn't build the base of because his hands are full of blood I mean he killed the enemy that's a let's say somebody kills they can't they can't build a base on M mean the r says three mitz upon entry into Israel K build the B mikash and gather and build the Sanhedrin so who kills amik he can't build the bikash so we have to investigate this a little bit further in the P says and I in my poverty I prepared for the house of God this is D talking gold H Kikar Talons 100,000 of silver LF a thousand thousand talents how much is a thousand a thousand a million no thousand a thousand a million Talons of silver the copper and the iron forget about it too much and the wood and the stone I prepared and added so said I am my poverty I prepared all the resources for the B says I don't understand that's basically says and I in my poverty prepared billions and trillions of dollars for the b mikdash w you know everyone should be so poor as how does it make sense that he in his poverty he prepared for the bikash so the the says can an sanctify all these talents on the day David killed Goliath the Jewish girls threw to all the silver in the gold and then there was famine three years the Jewish people wanted to do to give give them his money because David had tremendous storehouses from defeating Goliath and when there's a famine the Jewish people asked David give us your money says I don't want to give anything I dedicated to the you didn't want to accept upon yourself to revive all these Souls I swear not be built through you so the is saying Struck it big when he defeated Goliath and then later on there was a famine and the Jewish people said no give us some money and Dav said no no I'm not uh I don't give out welfare go go make a living so here already find fault with DAV for not adequately giving but we have to ask why didn't want to give the money the answer is the med says mikash he didn't want to give the money because he already Sanctified it for the B of mikdash he couldn't give the money he Sanctified it so Sanctified all the money that he got for beating goli for beating goli to the B mikdash and he couldn't give the Saka okay but that now we have a contradiction because the med says he couldn't build a base of because he didn't give s and yet the says he couldn't build a base and make this cuz he had blood on his hands so make up your mind is it like the medish says that he didn't give enough Sak he didn't give away the money that he was m to the b mikdash or is like the PK says that he had blood on his hands so to answer the contradiction between the and the we have to see there was a harp suspended above the bed of David when came the north wind came and blue and the harp played on its own he stood up and he involved himself in learning learned the whole night when the morning came the wise men of Israel came to David the Jewish people need livelihood you have a lot of money so David said okay I don't know open up a dry cleaning business sell used cars sell life insurance what do you want from my life get a job the Jews need parasa okay what else is new so let them work basically they said there's not enough parasa to keep it in house they're not enough dirty shirts from yam to support the dry cleaning business and not enough Jews who need used cars to support the used car business and uh life insurance it's not going to cut it so D said I don't know so go ahead and a wage of War you know War always boost the economy how the how did the United States of America get out of the Great Depression World War I that's it so go wage a war and you'll boost the economy o says look at this gar the came to D and they said David support give Saka and David said no let them support themselves they said there're not enough jobs to go around so said go fight a war so why was DAV not to build the is it because he didn't give or is it because her hand his hands were sullied in blood the answer is because he didn't give Sedaka he encouraged the Jewish people to wage a war which was not a Mitzvah and that war which was not a Mitzvah was on the uh that was innocent blood so to speak that was on D's hands that because of that said your hands are full of blood you cannot build the temple that's what it means you spilled a lot of blood it's not talking about when DAV beat or when he conquered Israel or wag it's talking about when he didn't want to give the money that he put away for the bikash and instead he told the Jewish people to wage in the you spilled a lot of blood so what he had blood on his hands what's that guy do with the temple but says quoting the onedin when the rose entered why did David say I'm not going to support the the CL and what did mean CL needsa so what they want from David David's a head hunter David's going to find everyone a job what they want from him but the answer is David put away a lot of money to the B mikdash and he said I in my poverty I prepared a lot of bik money for the B mikdash and the med asks DAV apparently was not poor if he uh saved all that money but when he killed Galas the Jewish women threw him all the money and he separated for the bdash and there was a famine he didn't want to support them the Jewish the Jewish sages requested that he give to the anim from the money in his Treasury and that's why they said otherwise say what were the just saying hey David the Jewish people need parasa okay very nice what do they want from him the answer is they wanted him to open up the treasuries he refused and what did he tell them go to war that's what God meant you wage many discretionary Wars because of the David could have avoided it by supporting the Jewish people this is what it means you waged discretionary Wars you didn't need it you should have supported them from the treasuries and you were stingy and the the an were swooning in hunger until the war was over and in the interim they suffer and therefore you will not Build A bash therefore I say in somewhat of a humorous vein this is what it means when you will eat bread in I will place peace in the land because when doesn't have parasa then they go out and they wage Wars oh but when you have have food then there's peace in the world you ever noticed that when people are successful there's peace when they don't have Fe food they go out to War by the way how do you say bread in [Music] Hebrew fighting how do you or matah striving because it's all about if you don't have food you go have to boost the economy and go out to war this is what it means if you're not missing anything you don't need to go to war but better to give s than build a bikash s is greater than the bikash but especially to uphold is even greater than build building now what ever happened with that money interesting thing a little little known fact so had a big Storehouse and he put away the money for the B mikdash was that money ultimately used for the B mikdash no it wasn't the says so they finish the job so Sho took the money and he put it in the storehouse say this is what schlomo said there was famine in the days of my father for three years and he should have given the money to the and therefore scho said we're going to keep that money in the storehouse the next time somebody needs money we're not using it to build a temple we're going to use it to support the money was already it was going to be used how could you give it to if let's say people gave money to a to a sh you're allowed to use that money to give Saka as long as you pay it back but once items were purchased with it then you cannot switch it so I don't know oi oi oai uh he borrowed against it in other words he used other money to build the B mikdash and that money he used for the an you could swap the money as long as nothing is bought with it but I don't know now let's go back to the fate of thear chab says that D on his last day was shabas and he spent the whole day learning but then Satan made a racket so David went to the back door he climbed up the ladder and the latter gave way now although we are not entitled to say that David suffered this fate for any reason because we cannot attribute any deficiency to nevertheless have already identified in the that David was criticized for not giving Sak and that's why he was not to build bdash so said RAB berstein that it's quite compelling then if kazal have found this very minuscule albeit a deficiency in David's giving up Saka it's quite Illuminating that in fact David suffer for the fate of what would what occurred to Papa of as the reveals the Trum on the words is so if we could humbly add two things I saw in the page gimel where it says that a king should have a saera he should have it with him and he should read it all the days of his life so he could learn to fear so he could live long and he quotesab that in fact was going to use this gar to lengthen his days as he knew he was going to die in chabas and he spent the whole chabas learning says that the Trum on the words daro here's the remz the king should have with him the sa all the days of his life and he should learn without he to live long because then the M can't get him but when the time comes d s sometimes the step could fall beneath him and he'll stop learning and then the Mal Hamas could get him so this p is also a to who spent his all all his day learning he was but the Trum on those words are and that also what occurred to David was daro so I can't I couldn't help but think the as follows there is a in tanak in specifically that talks about the foot giving way if I said DAV says if I thought my foot was going to cave in the kindness of Hashem would support me and in light of what we learned I believe we could interpret the p as follows the med tells us and the quotes in the the matter says come and see the strength of those who give charity and perform kindness that they will take refuge not in the wings of a cherub and not in the wings of the Sun and not in the wings of the Morning Star but in the wings of God himself anyone who does SED will take refuge in the wings of himself how dear how beloved is your kindness Hashem so asks I don't understand we're saying that people who do kindness they will be protected by the wings of the the PK is saying how great is your kindness Hashem that people take refuge in your shelter how can we learn from there that great how great are people's kindness that they take refuge in your shelter the PK says God how great is your kindness says the way you read the is how great is your kindness hasem but when is hashem's kindness aroused hashem's kindness is aroused mid when people are acting and are going one to another May how precious is precious it is when people are your kindness Hashem when they do your kindness hasem is a reference to people's kindness because people people only arouse your kindness when they are how precious it is when people do kindness and arouse your kindness likewise we interpret as follows DAV says when I thought my foot would cave in when when does one's foot in if they are not but when does hasem support our feet your kindness which is aroused and evident when I do that is what sustains me so to ensure that we remain standing with security and with assurance and with to ensure that our are not M we say what gives our feet stability is when we arouse the through our kindness that is what supports us and this is alluded to in merely the Trap itself it's amazing thing you know the uh the gim were familiar not only with uh the words of tanak but with the TR as well The Story Goes that rakov ketki had cracked the secret of the trop which means that not only did he know all the of tanak not only did he know the TR all the he understood the meaning of and the significance of a particular TR in fact he once gave a Shear that whenever you [Laughter] find it means a certain thing and heard about this principle that ROV said and he asked but in Danel there's a and it doesn't mean that and rakov wrote back or sent back I heard this from RAB that ra very nice you know the TR on but what about the the changes the TR on those words to a different Trum So here you see that they were familiar with every nuance and every detail I'll just end off with one question on last week's para some food for thought we know that whenever you have a p like M you know in Milla it's always M unless it's at or there happens to be one exception to that there it's in I'll just end off with one question it says huh should be it's not it's not and there's already so and this is a question ketki deals with but we see that every detail of T is Laden with so much meaning may give us Insight May thanks everyone for for listening have a great day thank you very thank you thank you have a good day be well bye bye thank you T thanks again thank you