Ki Savo - We Want The Good | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi this is damsky welcome to the para and 5 where in five minutes we try to give you an Insight that is going to help you appreciate the par this shabas and this is par kavo a very hard paraa to read because it is the and 98 curses BR and curses very hard but before we get to the we get to an interesting story and that is when you first come into K is going to take you to two mountains har gri and Har ail there are two mountains that are right across from each other and a valley in the middle and in the middle the levim go the urin goes and on either side of the mountain six go on one side six go on the other side half of Cl goes on harim and half of them go on har AAL and Kohan say 11 curses and the flip side bras and they turn to one mountain and they say blessed is the person who um doesn't steal someone's land everyone answers am me and then they turn to the other mountain and they say cursed is the person who uh steals somebody land everyone says amen and we do this 11 times this is the beginning of the process what's the purpose of this as soon as we come into show and the answer is that there's two ways to motivate people and cl and therefore says if you keep all of myz you'll have rain you'll have crops you'll have peace we start off with the bras all the wonderful things be careful if you serve other gods then there'll be no rain there'll be no food you'll be exiled terrible things will happen you have a choice the sad reality is that more people are motivated by tragedy than by braa if you see somebody who hasn't been in SCH in a long time and he's ding with a tremendous about of cavana and you say wow what's going on the answer is almost never you know I was just looking at my life and I realized I have a great marriage my kids are terrific you know uh I have a great parosa everything's going well I decided now I should make extra effort in my Spiritual Development nah someone's dying someone died kid's going off the Derk he's losing his money you know his wife's leaving him there's some kind of tragedy that motivates us as a secular businessman in Chicago once said said to me most Jews have never heard of Shas but they all know how to say Kadesh because the one thing we Jews do well is mourn so as soon as we come there there are two mountains the mountain of BR and the mountain of Cl and says choose you want BR I'll give you br you want CL I'll give you CLA tell me what motivates you good times I'll give you good times bad times I'll give you bad times I want to see you succeed that's the you want bras I'll give you you want close give close what motivates you and in the middle towards the end of all these terrible curses you know why you're getting all these curses because you weren't happy oh the bras didn't make you happy maybe the curses will wake you up maybe it'll help you choose to live a more meaningful life which is sad and yet that's what many people are motivated by and so before E was you have to read and end the year with its curses remember we had a year where we said toes yeah Bras don't work for me give me curses so we end that and there's a new year coming up and we say k for this year I'd like to try br we should all have a and a goodas