Ki Seitzei - Mitzvos - Building a Relationship

Ski and welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you an insight into the para paras. We have a very interesting observation to make in para's kis and that is that para's kis is the para which numerically has the most mitzvos of any para in the tyra and I would say it's fair therefore to say that a theme in the para are mitzvos. So uh let me give you a rashi that gives you an insight into this because it's hard to understand the connection between all of the mitzvah. So the para tells us like this. It says if you're in the woods and you come on a bird's nest, chase away the mother bird and then take the eggs or the little uh birds that are in the nest. But chase away the mother bird and then take it. That is a mitzvah. And it comes with long life. It's very dramatic. Yeah. And then if the next mitzvah is mak when you buy a house, put a a fence on the top of the roof so that someone does not fall off the roof and die. Yeah. Make sure you put a maka on. The next mitzvah is do not plow with an ox and a dunkey together. And the reason for that is of course because since the ox chews its cud so the dunkey is going to be jealous and feel like hey how come he got food and I didn't? The answer is of course because he has multiple stomachs and he keeps bringing it up and chewing it and sending it back down and m anyway if it tasted good the first time it'll be even better the third time. Anyway, so it goes up and down. So therefore, do not plow with them together. And then it says karum, do not plant um grapes and wheat together. And then it says shness, do not wear wool and linen clothing together. And then it says put sitsus on your four cornered garments. So Rashi says what is the connection between all these parios? Mitzvah mitzvah. Now listen what Rashi says. If you do the mitzvah of then you'll get a house and you'll do the mitzvah of mak and then if you do the mitzvah of then you'll be z to get a field and you won't plow with your animals together and then if you do that you'll be z to a vineyard and if you don't plant it together then you'll get beautiful garments and um make sure that they don't have shodness and you put on sites. Now I'm trying to figure out the order here. What does it mean? It can't be a reward because if I do I get a house, you know, and then in the end I only get nice garments. That's not worth as much as a house. Yeah. So it can't be that it's it's has to go with that. I don't think it has to do with how hard it is cuz um not wearing shness I think is easier than getting up on top of your roof and building a fence. So what's the progression in these mitzvah? And I thought that what the progression is is commitment. Mitzvah is commandment and a kures gives us mitzvah as the says as relationship building tools. They build the relation with when everyone says I want to get close to Hashem. The way I do that is through mitzvah. So the first mitzvah in the list is ink. There's no commitment. You're in the middle of now place doesn't cost you any money. You know there's no commitment. If I show you that I'm willing to do that, then I'll give you the opportunity to bring into your home and put uh Makkah on your roof. If you do that, then I'm going to tell you already how to run your business. I'm going to come into your business because there are people willing to let God into their house and not into their business. Business is business. Yeah. And don't plow with these two animals together. uh uh salvage briska um this guy brings him a wallet. He says I found a wallet in the street so I can't find a simid but maybe the rug could forgot to return it. After he leaves notices his watch is missing. So he chases the guy. He says, "Did you steal my watch?" And he goes, "Yeah." He says, "You bring me a wallet with money in it and then you steal my watch." He says, "Listen, I'm a Ghana. That's what I do for a living. But Hasha said, "Hey, there's a mitzvah. I brought you back the wallet, you know, but that doesn't stop him in my business." Yeah. So, I'll take into business with me. And if you do, then he's going to tell you what business to go into. You can plant this, you can't plant that. Not just how to run your business, but what business. And then if you do that, I'm going to get even more in your face and tell you what you're going to wear. I have eight daughters. I cannot tell you how many times I've had fights with my daughters over what they were going to wear. They were like, "I don't care. I'm not going to wear that skirt. They can throw me out of school." I was like, "Okay, let's follow this through. If they throw you out of school, no other school is going to take you. You're going to have trouble getting married. You know what I mean? You know, everything that I don't care if I have to wear that skirt. I won't do it." So, uh, people get real emotional about your clothes. Which means that if you show through mitzvah that you want to be close to he's going to come more and more into your life and give you an opportunity to have a greater commitment and dava. Now during this time of ol when we are supposed to be focusing on our relationship with how appropriate that we read this parish to understand how to be able to form that relationship more and more intense with the kures. Have a good chabas.