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and welcome to the para in five where in
five minutes we give you a little
insight into the para to help to make it
a little more accessible for you. And uh
this uh this is a double you get this
weekan
and av I'm going to put the two of them
together but don't worry I'm still going
to do av next week that doesn't not
going to exclude me. Yeah, I just want
to uh uh take an idea that you find
and
one of my favorite mus puts these two
together. So I want to do it for you as
well. Yeah. In this week's paral.
When God brings you into the land that
he promised you into houses that you
didn't build but called houses filled
with all good shalom which you didn't
fill
uh sistns already dug which you didn't
dig
olive orchards and uh vineyards that you
didn't plant
and you eat and you become full.
Be careful.
Be careful that you don't forget God.
So it says
it sounds sometimes when we're doing
these first parios invarim
that it gets repetitive and he contrasts
this with next week's para
Be careful you don't forget Hashem.
Maybe you will uh eat and be full in
these great houses
that you're sitting in.
You'll have gold and silver and sheep
and cattle.
And then your heart will be lifted up
and you'll forget God. So, aren't they
both saying the same thing? He says, so
he says at first blush perhaps, but if
you look at it a little deeper, you'll
see the first one says you're going to
come into and you're going to have so
much braha so much good stuff houses and
sistns and and and vineyards and and
trees. a forget Hashem because you're so
busy
enjoying all of the great physical stuff
Hashem gave you that you forget Hashem.
So busy having a good time. But in Paras
a it says be careful lest you sit down
and enjoy all this good stuff and say I
did it.
It was me. I was so smart. I was so
clever. I accomplished all of this
because then what are you telling a bar?
You might as well take it away from me
because I don't appreciate it.
When the economic collapse happened in
on Purum I asked Misha Shapiro I said
there are people who mamish lost
everything and they're asking me why and
he said to me ask them if they asked
that question when they made all their
money. If they ask that question when
they made all the money, why did Hashem
do this to me? Then they can ask why it
happened when Hashem took it away from
me. Otherwise,
you just it's just the market. Sometimes
it goes up, sometimes it goes down.
You're so smart. And if we turn to and
say, "I did all this and I accomplished
it because I'm so great." Then Hashem
will take it away from us to remind us
that God is God and not us. We should
have this to appreciate all of the braha
and not get distracted from it and at
the same time focus on the greatness
that Hashem has given us. Good chabas.
