The Haftorah Series: Balak - The Great Teaching of the Ben Ish Chai & More - No News is Good News

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay welcome everyone so this week's half torah the haftarapash's balak which comes from the navi michael speaks about the kindness that akash brochure did that hashem did not allow balak or bilaam to harm us which obviously is appropriate for this week's parasha we have the pasik amiz which is the subject of this week's power shot so now we come to a very interesting passage is the remnant of jacob will be among the gayam among many nations like a lion in the forest like a lioness in a sheep in a group of sheep asher imma that if it comes in tramples and tears there's nobody to save it well says the bene a very interesting question there's a very uh perplexing issue that bothers many very deeply we all know the great blessing in store for those who learn torah we know the torah is nice the taiva israel like we say ain tayv allah torah like it says kilaka nasa so the question is here we are we're in the galas and we have wonderful yeshivas and we have wonderful shurim and we learn torah every day and we have nothing good we have no tithe we're in the galas nava we're uh we have no where's the toiv for the long day torah and the answer is a very important site in life no news is goodness you know what good is good is not why i didn't win the lottery today goodness nothing good happened to me today you know what good means when nothing bad happened that's good you had a very good day you had a wonderful day you got here you drove in the car and you actually made it here and you got here you walked you crossed the street uneventfully what happened today boring boring is great i didn't if you don't have to call the doctor and nobody's calling you and nobody's bothering you not the government and not the doctor you're it's a good day chalk it up as a good day here's the mushroom there was a lion the lion was eating and he had a bone stuck in his throat and he could not get out the bone of course and that the lion was endangered and a birth was a bird was flying by and the bird had a very narrow beak and the lion said bertala do me a favor birdie do me a favor please put your beak in my mouth and remove the bone and the bird did so and the lion was cured so the bird said lion what are you going to give me for healing you and the lion said i never saw such a flu have you ever seen in your life an animal go into a lion's mouth and not be consumed that should be enough of a reward for you the fact that you were yatsu bashalam is enough a reward for you so you came into my mouth and your yachts of bashan now you want more reward no the absence of bad is the biggest good likewise here claudius roll in the galas where one calf we're surrounded by thousands of lions we're a little country in the middle east surrounded by who people who love us support us adore us here we are in in america we're a minority surrounded by who surrounded by our admirers the biggest taiva is that we're in the mouth of the lion and somehow we're still we're still at it that's the biggest typo that goes into the mouth of a lion and is saved that's the greatest taiwan so this is what it means so you say where's the good where's the toy in this world the answer is realize that we are living in the forest we are living among the lions that if they would merely pounce on us one of them could destroy the whole flock of sheep so realize that it's shallow kid for us to exist in these circumstances in this environment and still be alive and kicking therefore in okay next offering how can i advance to hashem humble myself to the god on high can i give him a carbon oila can i give him an egg beneshana what can i possibly offer to god says the khida in the nakhasarik in the name of the rabbone ashkenaz he says a very interesting idea he says someone who is humble and is considered in his eyes nothing and all the taiwanese says have al-habalam when he is makayama mitzvah that means like this the matters tells us you know we have a certain we put philan on and we say hashem reward me we put on a mezuzah and we say hashem reward me we put on to this hashem reward me hashem said wait wait a second you have things completely backwards i g i give you the arm so i'm i started i gave to you so when you we're filling you're paying me back i don't owe you anything now you own me that's what you put on this phone in the first place i gave you the home so you put on the mezuzah you want reward for the mezuzah i rewarded you before you did anything there's a concept of who who came before me that i should have to pay you however if somebody's in on of somebody doesn't value you somebody says somebody who's not mahshev possessions and property so that hashem has to reward them because hashem can say back i gave you the yeah this world is somebody you taka values gosh me assalamu aza shamsa i already gave it to you but somebody who's so there's a there's a taina of me many vashi line so in a sense if somebody has this attitude he's mocked him this is the media of ma like martial said so the the passage says like this with the middle of ma with the meat of humility i could precede god meaning if a person is about god or values this world hashem doesn't have to give reward but with me i i advanced hashem and now i have a right to um to get scar says continues um continues he says actually we know this is something we once spoke out the word ikaf once you learn review their learning 101 times so the navi says like this he tells a person toiv that which you say you're a magai right what's the next possum [Laughter] i'll tell you man ma is toiv to meet of mine it's good not to value this world it's good to be humble it's good to think of this world as if it doesn't exist nevertheless you say well if this world doesn't exist then justice is not that important and has said is not you need water you need some money money is nothing why should i give it to you what do you need exactly covered ah covetous is what do you need you need paranosa everything's so the what's the point of mishpot who needs hassan so the nobody's saying like this is you still have to do mishpad papaya and you still have to do okay continuing on look at number six on this passage um two very interesting things on the secret sabha inshallah there's a concept that all the yud gimo midai's a person cannot darshan on their own in other words i'm going to make xero shabba it says vaidabras so therefore you have to do brasmila on top of a battery okay where it says and it says by the midst of this from here we learn you have to put sitzis on the moon right i'm making you you're giving me the turn no you know how to do that you have to have masara to make a drasha however there's one thing you're allowed to do on your own what are you allowed to do on your own now how do you say no no no no right that's how you kavanagh is always introduced by the word ma so it's like this you need a rabbi but except for this is what it means who already told us through the torah what's good in taiwan torah everything needs a kabbalah from your rebbe optimize so he gives god already told the person everything that's good uma but making a kava khaimer hashem doris that god asks of you that you've got to do it yourself so he gives god already told us all the torah but uma when it comes to the media of kabukimer then that hashem deutsche okay one more there's a very interesting mahlikas maybe this is something that we'll discuss uh closer to the yom narang and that is we all know that if you um insult your friend or you have you did something against your friend and you ask hashem from you don't get atonement bainadam until your friend is what if like this a person did two averages one is he hurt his friend and the other is he wore shatness so and he wants to do chuva on shatness and he doesn't want to do chuva on the fact that he insulted his friend so is the fact that he has an average is not going to prevent him from getting kapura on his main other so the sheet of the mari pinto the end of yuma that verois purim is not unless you get kapoor being adam it's a very big radish it's very scary in other words the whole young kipper doesn't do anything until you have a clean slate binary so it says he says in number eight inaudible privately and not like me what does that mean do cuba privately normally if you insult somebody the guy usually would like he sometimes will not forgive you unless you come together with other people to make a whole big commotion out of it to ask him for mahila god is not like that now the marie pinto says in the end correct what is between you and your friend the shaolin then only then you could do chuba between says if you have a vera spin then unlock him does not work not just if you have a sin against your friend god won't forgive you for that sin unless your friend forgives you god won't forgive you for any sins however says however says i personally do not agree with the shita i personally questioned the sheet of mari pinto and now the question is so what does this plastic mean this pasta will have to read differently according to my interpretation you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com