Re'eh - Prophecy | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

Hi, this is David Alowski and welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you some insight into the para that hopefully will have meaning to you. So in this week's para we have the den of a na'vi. What is a nvi? A nvi is we say a prophet. Now most people don't strive to become a prophet. They strive to make a prophet. Ah but what does that mean? How does nva work? Nul works like this. The word for this world is called olam which is from the Hebrew word heam hidden because God is hidden by the physicality in this world. And therefore when we can pierce the shadows of this world that block from us and we can reach up above that through the screen through the illusions you can see. The Rambam gives a marshall of what this means means imagine that it's a dark rainy night and you're trudging along through the mud. You can't see the nose in front of your face as the expression goes. And suddenly there's a bolt of lightning and everything is lit up and you can see the city in the distance. You can see the road. You can see everything and then you're plunged back into darkness. That's a nava. A nava chases away the clouds and allows you to be able to see closely. That's why gives to a person who can develop themselves where they can see beyond the shadows and see clearly. And the Rama says for Mosher Rabandu, it was like one bolt of lightning after another after another so that he was able to see clearly and he was the only one who had this level. But another person gets a bolt of lightning and gets a a vision. And we're told that a false prophet is put to death. When a person comes along and says, "God told me the following," and he's lying, he gets the death penalty. I perhaps have told the story in the past uh where this uh Catholic girl in a Jewish school said to me, "Why don't Jews accept Jesus?" I said, "Don't ask me this question. You don't want to know." Uh so she says, "No, no, I really want to know." I said, "No, you don't. Just be a nice Catholic girl, go to church, don't ask this question." But her Jewish friends were there and they said, "No, we want to know, too." had no choice. I said, "God says, I will never change these laws. I will never change his covenant." Nothing. And if someone comes along and tells you and shows you signs and wonders and says, "Change these laws, kill him." That was a really bad thing to write if he was planning on sending his only son with a new message. She said, "Thank you very much." Her friends told me she was up all night crying. She says the priest said Jews have no answer to this question. But uh but a prophet who lies. But there's another category and this is what I find absolutely fascinating. And that is if a Nvi was given a nva and he refuses to give it, he's in violation of the law. When God gives you a nua, you have to say it. And if you refuse to do it, then the Gmoran Sanhedrin says you don't get the death penalty, but you have an a because God gave you a message in order for you to give the message over. Now, we've found some people who have been reluctant over the years. Bum comes to mind where God had to put the prophecy into his mouth like you put a bit into the mouth of a horse to lead him over to say it. We find Yona did not want to go to Ninve and do his mission. He tried to run away had him have an encounter with a large fish and then a smaller fish until he was ready to, you know, say what he had to do. But the Gamar asked an interesting question. Yeah. How does anyone know how how are you ever going to convict a Na'vi for not saying a nava? God came to him and told him a nava and the gumar says an astounding thing. Anyone who's for nava hears every nava. They just can't say it unless it's their means that when au gives a uh toi God hears it too. Yeah. When he tells something to uh to any of the everybody who is on the Na'vi network picks up on it. The Gmorrah says during the time of the first pes mdish there was 1.2 two million Nvim and they were all hooked up to the Na'vi uh system um rashet the Na'vi network and so when a nava came out everybody heard it and so they'd come by and they'd say I think uh you've got something you want to say nope yep yep I'm pretty sure you do which is an amazing thing and that's why I'm not allowed to say it because it's not my nava But I know that Hashem told you to say it. And that's why Rifka doesn't tell Yitzk what she heard in Shan a that the bra is supposed to go to Yakov. Why? She knew that Yitzk was ready to get a nava. And if she didn't tell him, then obviously she didn't want him to hear. And uh um it says Yitk knew that Yseph was still alive, but he didn't tell Yakov because he says if Hashem wanted YaKob to know, he would tell him. Obviously, he doesn't want him to know. And so, when you get a nava, the nava is your message to give across. Um, you find the gumar every now and then there was a boss call. So, there wasn't like a loudspeaker. Oh, there's a place in the world to come. >> No, anyone who was roy to get nva, now there was no more nva after the bas was destroyed. It went as a kadesh. There was a bos echo of a nava and everybody who was on that level heard that bosll but not everybody else. Not everybody was right to do it. You had to be on that level. Like we see when Abraham goes to the aada and he sees the cloud and he says to Yeshal, "You see the cloud?" He says, "No." Says, "The aliyah, you see the cloud?" No. He says, "You see the cloud?" He says, "Yeah." He says, "You come with me." Because you have to be on the level to understand that. and to do your mission and bring the message that God wants you to say. We should all be z to hear the word of hashem. Have a good chabas.