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Hi, this is David and welcome to the
para in five where in five minutes we
try to give you some insight that will
hopefully add to your shabas para
chaftim.
So the end of the parisha tells us the
story of the agelufa.
What is the story of the agela? A person
was found dead on the middle of nowhere.
Somebody killed him. Well, what do we
do? We measure the distance from all the
nearest cities and whichever was the
nearest city, the elders come out and
they declare, "We did not kill this
guy." And they wash their hands. And
then they take soil ground that has
never been dug and they take a young
calf and they cut off, hit it from the
back of the neck, kill it, bury it in
that place.
You really thought that the zakanim
might have killed this person? That's
what we're worried about. So it says no
we were not malava him because if we
were malav him then nobody would have
attacked him.
If we had walked him out of the city
how far do they have to walk him dollars
which by the way is
um a den when you have guests you're
supposed to walk them out of the house.
Yeah. Some people are mocked on this and
some people are not. Yeah. Um,
my downstairs neighbor, uh, Alan Rubin,
whenever I go down to his apartment, he
insists on walking me right to the gate.
This is when he before he had his
operation on his thing and he's with his
cane limping over there, but he was very
mocked. Was one time he couldn't go, he
sent his his son, you know,
you know, it's very interesting. It says
that Abraham planted an asel
which was an inn and it's a
and some geres say lina eat he gives you
food drink and a place to sleep and
others say levia and that's why there
was a guy who was a big machnim in vna
he used to have in a lot of guests and
um he uh his house burnt down so he went
to the guy and he says why' this happens
you gave people to eat and drink. He
says, "Yeah." He says, "Did you walk him
out?" He says, "No." He goes, "Too bad.
If you take off the lamage, you're left
with ash." Yeah. So, walking out is
important, but they only have to walk
him down. They didn't send him an honor
guard. They didn't send them people to
protect him on the road.
When I walk you out, even if it's just
dalamus, there's two approaches here.
One approach is I'm sending a message to
all of the ruffians out there. This
person is under our city's protection
and if anything happens to him, you're
going to deal with us because we care
about the people who are traveling the
roads and we feel a sense of
responsibility to them.
And the other one is that it's mamish uh
uh a spiritual protection. When I walk
you out, that means I walk with you. I
don't know if anybody is old enough.
There used to be a commercial. Yeah. For
Adlas sho shoes. You see these people
walking. You hear these footsteps. It
says, "Old man Adler walks behind every
pair of Adler shoes."
Yeah. when I walk you out of the city,
when I am malav you, I show that I have
shas to you when I continue it. And
that's why after shabas, we have one
more meal called maleva mala where we're
walking the queen shabas out to show
that it's not that we had a guest and
then after shabas left we just kicked
shabas out. We walk them out. We have a
maleva mala. We walk out the queen
shabas to show that we keep that
connection to them long after they have
left us. And so we have to understand
that it might just be a few steps but
those few steps show what we have a too.
Mashem we should all be connected to the
right things. Shabas.
