Parsha Perspectives for Today (Bechukosai, 5782) - Torah That Makes You Not Hear is Not Torah

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one and one in the merit of st she should have been forced to speedy painless and complete this week we have the privilege of reading page 708 in the art school homicide on these opening words there's so much to say we could spend our entire hour just on these opening words just on this opening past like this opening sentence often bahar and kosai are read together and we don't get the chance to do a deep dive into parishes because we don't know how to plan or allocate accordingly we spend all of our time at the beginning but this year is different parties so here we go let's dive in this mitzvos sets up a paradigm if you follow my and you observe my mitzvos and you perform them asimosam then quid pro quo here's the deal hashem says god says scratch my back i'll scratch yours observe and be compliant of my mitzvos and i'll make you happy i'll make it rain i'll make it rain at the right time the land will give its produce the tree of the field will give its fruit they see glaciers and so on your threshing will last until the vintage the vintage until the sowing you'll eat your bread so you're satisfied and you will dwell securely be shaft boy isn't that a hope and aspiration for us to be living peacefully in our land no more terror no more enemies but to live peacefully what will precipitate this reality when will hashem make it rain that's the vernacular when we earn a parnassa when the livelihood flows when the money's coming in we talk about being a rainmaker or making it rain when will hashem make it rain in our lives will the stock market go up instead of down when will that happen tells us that's the condition that's the rule that's what it will take so let's see several interpretations of what that means says this is framed it's phrased as walk with my kim warah kim a form of mitzvos but that can't be says rashid we're already referencing separately and independently the observance of mitzvos so we're about to say and if you keep my mitzvos can't be mitzvos because then it would be repetitive or redundant we're about to mention mitzvos who must mean something different what does it mean famously we're about to say so what does it mean it means to you torah it means toil effort sweat tears work don't have a casual attitude towards toro don't take it lightly don't take it as something pedestrian a melis effort and work and toil how is that hinted to in the words i understand that it can't mean mitzos because we're about to say mitzos mitsu means mitzvos means to mean something else but how do i know it means i'm melis batora how do i know it means take a serious attitude and approach effort work towards torah so if of schwarze says in the word what is to walk to go how does one walk you put one foot in front of the other you proceed you make progress you advance you grow you journey towards the destination of to be a holy to be in halicha to be following means to refuse to stand still to never have arrived to never be complacent to never be done but it means to make progress to climb to go to be drawn to and to work on and to advance towards understanding the mysteries and the secrets and the revealed and the beauty of torah and how do you do that with work doesn't come easily nothing in life that's worth it comes easily we can't download torah into our mind and we can't be half asleep while we listen or learn takes work and it takes effort takes commitment takes ambition takes aspiration it takes drive it takes drive you have to be schteigen teljo meant steigen schteigen said the ponovich russia shiva it means to steig it means to toil it means to put in that effort it means to work there is no neutral you know florida there are no hills if you leave a car in neutral in florida it can remain there forever you could go have lunch you go to the parachute you come back but if you're in urushala i'm the holiest place on earth and you put a car in neutral it's going to go downhill you'll probably never see it again and if you can catch up with it what it will take to stop it and to make it climb again in a place of hills of holiness there are no there is no neutral there is no having arrived there is no apathy complacency you have to be in a permanent state of climbing of growing of advancing of working i spoke about it a little bit this past shabbos and shul i won't repeat the drusha but i'll tell you something that i left out which is the following when we went on our fly into new york we met with him sure have sure shared with us he heard directly from the premier league was once asked why did god create the world with gravity why did hashem invent a world where this gravity gravity is terribly inconvenient if i'm holding something and i let go i wish it would just remain where it is the fact that if i want to lift my cup to say look i am if i want to lift my cuff i have to oppose and fight the forces of gravity it's inconvenient why said because gravity in the world of physics is a muscle for gravity in the world of metaphysics gravity in the physical world is a metaphor for gravity in the spiritual world that just like when it comes to the physical world one can't be a neutral there's a gravitational pull if you want to lift something if you want to make it go higher you have to oppose the force of gravity so too in the spiritual world there is no neutral there is no power of you can't remain still we're stable but there's a force is pulling us down the tahara is pulling us down gravity in the physical world and gravity in the spiritual world is pulling us down and how do we oppose it you have to fight the force of gravity you have to lift you have to lift and how do you lift you have to engage your muscles now this cup where the safer drop the html is a little bit more effort but when something is heavy the more significant the heavier it is the more muscle you have to engage what does it take what does it require hamilas effort so to lift our neshama to lift our souls to pursue holiness not happiness that's heavy it takes amelus to lift and to fight the force of spiritual gravity the ulam hase the gravity of this world of the atahara that says shluff sleep in don't go to shul eat whatever you want where you want when you want don't make a bracha don't care if it's kosher don't care if it's healthy say what you want look at what you want do what you want that gravitational pull is pulling us down says the pandava russia shiva schwarzovski what was the hint what was the giveaway that we're talking about because it takes effort teleko it takes effort to walk it's tiring you have to lift your legs it's hard stairs it's hard climb stairs you're tired easily your muscles give out so teleko to climb life takes on melos tora's telling us it's not just observed casually check did the mitzvah good enough done any life that's worth living takes effort the reward is according to the effort from sarah agra and the hint the giveaway were if you want to walk if you want to climb it takes effort the great masjid today apparently the greatest maybe it means learning torah maybe it means satoru maybe it simply means acquiring torah knowledge maybe it means being occupied and preoccupied with torah study how do we know what it means on melissa toil and effort and effort so he says when you're going towards a certain effort towards a certain goal so you only measure success by how much you achieved what the goal like if you're trying to solve a mathematical equation did you come to the solution or not now okay it's a bad example maybe because teachers say show your work and the work matters but we know that what matters is the bottom line what we care about what this world teaches us is what matters is the bottom line did you achieve the goal were you successful did you arrive at the outcome the journey it's not important did you get to the destination or not the journey is simply the journey is the necessary what you need to do to get to the destination but no one cares about the journey but torah is different what we care about is are you on a journey of growth did you arrive it's important but it's not the sole measure it's not the soul metric did you arrive did you complete it's not the destination alone it's the journey were you on a journey it's not a coincidence that the jewish law of the code of jewish law is called when we observe what are we observing it's not law american law is not the american guidebook it's law it's dry sterile boring law torah jewish law it's guiding us on this journey called life where it's not only the destination it's not only did we arrive at the solution but it's did you enjoy and did you engage and did you make an effort on the journey did you try did you try etzam is the goal the goal is not the only goal the journey is the goal but my uh future son-in-law actually said this is we had a vote my totally got engaged and hello impressed i don't know if he impressed others at least he impressed me and frankly that's all that matters but he gave a beautiful dvar torah and he quoted his rebbe kalish about an s-rogue that an estrogen tells us that the taste of the bark and the fruit is the same what does that mean it means the bark the tree is simply the means to get to the fruit so normally all we care about is the taste of the fruit but here the bark and the fruit are the same because it's the effort it's the journey it's the growth of the bark of the tree that yields the fruit that also matters that's the same that we also care about that we also taste from we don't only care about arriving at the destination we care about the journey the torah is our guidebook through life and we're not a failure if we didn't get there we actually say this in every scene points out in others as well what are we recycling in the seam anua melem the hema melem the hema male and the enemy we are ammo we put in effort we toil we are rewarded they toil and they are not rewarded they're not rewarded aaron judge is on pace to hit four billion home runs and they're talking about his contract being renewed for 350 million dollars i would say that's a pretty good anyone know aaron judge anyone know what i'm talking about the yankees what's the matter with you people hey mckable we know there are people they trade bitcoin they buy this they build a business you sell real estate in south florida macabre of course they get rewarded so how can we so confidently say we toil and we are rewarded they toil they're not rewarded says that's not what it means what it means is you open up a gemara and you're breaking your teeth on a tasteless you're breaking your teeth to understand the gemara in the middle of your vamas and daffy homie you vamas among the three most difficult it's a difficult difficult massage parts of it are terribly terribly difficult you know the massage is difficult when you're relieved to get to pursue a daca and crush for surgeries it's a tough massage it's a tough toughness after so you're breaking your teeth and trying to understand the gemara you're aspirational so you're trying to get through a ptosis and you work on it for an hour two hours four hours you listen over and over again you listen to rabbi rosner and you listen to sorry borstein and you listen to you're listening to everybody you're breaking your teeth and you can't get there did you waste your time if you sit with a math problem and every which way without a calculator you sit with your number two pencil and you can't figure out the answer four hours five hours six hours you have scribbles did you figure did you waste your time yes if you don't have the solution to the math problem you have nothing to show for the four hours you spent on it but if you broke your teeth on the gemara if you toiled in toastless and you have nothing to show for it you have everything to show for it those four hours were the best use of your time you were engaged you were working you were on the journey described as not learning it's a journey and it's not only the destination it's not only the solution whether you understand or not if you put in the effort if you worked if you toiled that in itself is the goal that in itself is the destination the author of slovakia has another interpretation because it says later in the parasha imloteshmuli if you don't listen to me what's that talking about we're going to talk about it more when we get there what does maybe it means that you neglect mitzvos you're not obedient or compliant you don't follow or keep halacha but that can't be what it means this is the inverse it's the parallel to the beginning of our parasha to our opening pasak how could that not be what it means because the torah is going to tell us we're already going to say if you don't keep midsole so what does it mean low tishmo lotishmo can't mean not keeping mitsos because we're going to say that explicitly in a moment so what does in lotishmurli mean says the madrish leos if you neglect putting in an effort if you want it to come easy if you take the easy way out in the passive way of learning if you don't actually open up a homicide learn the passion for yourself also if all you do is listen to partial perspectives then it's not matcha melis these are very comfortable chairs coffee granola bars if you're watching or listening at home you're sitting back in your comfortable recliner that's not a lot of amailus for me it is i have to prepare this year but for you you get to just show up so if you're not putting in amelas noah melissa that's inglotishmaulii you see that the brachus and the kolos everything that comes in our pasha the tokugawa we're about to read all results the measure the determining factor about how hashem interacts with us what kind of life we will lead is all determined by what not if we keep mitzvos because the assumption is we're keeping this what is it determined by how we keep mitzvos do we do it the lowest common denominator do we get away with good enough or do we strive for great do we have a casual attitude towards halacha and total learning or are we almost do we toil do we work do we push our boundaries do we leave our comfort zone do we try to strive to be greater and greater and lift ourselves higher and higher says the author of slovadka that our measure of who we are and the determinant of the life we will lead is not only do we do mitzvos it's not only do we set aside time for total learning but it's the quality of that total learning are we all in torah tell you another torah this is really a schmooze for yeshiva but it's not it's not only for yeshiva bhakram in yeshiva in life it's for you and me it's for all of us at every stage arguably we have more time now many who are retired or many whose life has slowed down what do we fill that time with we have this time guimara says if you're sitting and studying torah holiday of purim comes close the gemara get up and leave the base madrid go hear the megillah the first in the commentaries ask one second in the vatine talmutorum they mikromigilla we should abandon or the vatlin be the battle we are nullifying torah to go hear the megillah last i checked where is the megillah where is it printed among what book the mcgill is the book of tanach the mcgill is torah isn't that a fulfillment of total learning what do you mean tamitorium of namikra magilla if you're in the basement meditation you're striking ice and it's time to hear the mcgill it's purim close the gemara bittel torah to go hear the miguel bitter torah you're going to hear the megillah the mcgill is one of the 24 books of tanach how is that bitter torah yosef is a little safer in there he and others answer you know why that's called bitter torah because when you're listening passively in shul to the adorable story of the story of purim of the megillah but you could be breaking your teeth on a texas you could be sitting with the megillah and learning the magilla with the radak and they're rashing into this david you could be learning it in depth and all you're doing is listening superficially that's also called bitter torah it's a justified bitter torah because you have to hear the megillah but what do you see that bitto torah is not only in quantity if i stop learning the torah is also in quality so i'm not pushing myself to learn the depth the profundity that i can that too is bitter torah it's a pretty high standard we are a nation of overachievers we're not satisfied with good but collectively we strive for great that's our passion means not that you didn't learn you're like what do you mean look gonna get upstairs hashem says you don't listen to me so i i didn't i didn't listen to you says he didn't listen that's why i didn't make it rain literally you're metaphorically at it make it rain in your life you didn't listen i i didn't listen i learned the daffy me i went to the deaf then i went to the pasha shear then i went to the afternoon cola then i put on 17 shoe room at home when i went shopping when i walked around the circle when i cooked i didn't listen to you what are you talking about hashem hashem says yeah you did that and if that's all you could do that's amazing and you get enormous credit for that and i'm not minimizing that or disparaging that whatsoever particularly if you listen to my shurim but what i'm saying says hashem is beautiful you did all that but could you have pushed yourself more could you have done more could you have challenged yourself to have a habrusa to open a safer to learn in a different way in a higher level to click the advanced share not only the beginner when you were listening that's on melis patora and that is the measure kotzker share one more insight and then we'll move fast as far as possible i love the cut score the measure says that our opening words in because are an allusion to aposic and to hilum telepara coffee and my feet took me towards your testimony what is david saying says the measure she know what david meant when he wrote this word the sentence omar david shalom i wake up and i'm trying to go to work and i'm trying to go to the gym and i'm trying to go to the supermarket to shop do you know what happens i can't help it my feet on autopilot they take me to the basement they take me to the shul i'm trying to go to these other places but a shiva rag my feet are taking me back to the basement back to the shul ask the katsur yes love and how could it be if in my beard son of a day to allah come on we know neuroplasty neurologists your brain is telling your legs what to do don't blame your legs on leading your brain your brain's in charge it's called ferocious the head it's in charge so the brain says go to the gym go to work go to the supermarket how is it that the feet don't listen how are the feet defiant how do the feet lead to ejaculation benign sono the basal matrix if you really are stating says david if you dumb and malik really want to go elsewhere how is it working that your feet are taking you to the basement listen to the katsuka affiliated if you are calculating your ways even your physical actions are torah then you turn wherever you go into a basement a base canesis it's not that david didn't arrive geographically where he meant to go it's rather where he meant to go becomes altogether different is elevated is transformed because his mind place makes everything a base measure at the supermarket and at work and in the gym through the conversations you have through what you're thinking about through the prism through which you filter and see all that happens it's all in the context of torah and davoda you transform everywhere you go into a basement and a base canesus that's what was saying that's what the madrid means means it's not just when i'm in schuler when i'm in the basement that i'm engaged in religious activity and then is my secular life but rather if i'm a religious personality from a banner abbas torah everywhere i go is a base madrish of life i feel like that is a rabbi because everywhere i go is russian material whatever is happening in life is russian material over pesach you shall rebuild concert that happened you may have heard of whatever he was a few songs in neighbors complained the police came and shut it down they took him off stage and my dear friend rabbi gibber's son hein giver was sitting a couple rows in front of me and he turned around to me and he said something only a rabbi's child would say he looked at me as they let his offstage and abruptly ended this concert the dismay of many people he turned around and he said to me drush material only a rabbi's kid would say drusha material that's how we live life everything is a basement for drasha material but you don't have to be a rabbi to approach life and live everything and say what's the torah message what's the torah idea how does this connect to the torah that i've learned turned to every place he went into a basement katsuka doesn't say this islam rabbit does but that's what david malek also means when he says i want to be in kola all of life that's what wants he's a warrior he's got to go to battle he's a king he's in charge of the people what do you mean shift hashem and and nobody i don't care how generous your parents or in-laws are nobody could sit and call their whole life and learn literally all day gotta go to the bathroom you have to eat and sleep you have to shower and bathe you have to do other mundane activities so how can you say shift hashem says the slunimer consistent with the khatsker what he's saying about david malach was saying was not that i want to be in true or based measures all day i want wherever i go to become a base majorish i want to feel your presence i want to connect with you i want to be living and learning you wherever i am my legs my feet what could i do they brought me so wherever i went was a basement for you that is life okay next pasta we read it's gonna rain in the right time what does that mean it's gonna rain in the right time what does that mean what's the right time for the rain what is the right time for the rain says rashi tam you know when the right time is for a terrain when you don't plan on leaving your house hashem is going to time the rain when you're not out and about that's when he's going to make it rain so when is that when is the best time qigong what are the videos sunday night through wednesday night that's what it means that's when it's going to rain and late friday night [Music] why is that the best time for the rain what does that mean so says rash you know what the brach is you need rain we need rain but rain is also inconvenient so hashem will give us both will get the rain but at convenient times like a sprinkler you could set to go on while you're sleeping so it doesn't spray you while you're getting into your car because the sprinkles of the world the rain that they operate in a time which is not inconvenient or uncomfortable for us and when is that sunday night through wednesday night and friday night huh why is that that's what she says that's a rashi says so why is that so i'll tell you from the safe of the citra they turn friday into arab shabba's board that i'll tell you right now i may reuse during friday turn friday tariff shots it's so beautiful listen to this vote why is that why is it then so we see this comes from magisk um review if it rains on thursday and friday it's a curse if it rains on sunday through wednesday it's a bracha why because sunday through wednesday you're home but thursday and friday what are you doing you're shopping and preparing for shabbas nifla's boy name this is wonderous to think about so remember what this is a conclusion of learning sitting toil and torah and what's your reward for toiling in torah what is the reward when you're preparing for shabbos you won't be inconvenienced that's the reward the reward is you're turning friday into arab shabbos that's the reward wow that's har is make my bank account explode make my portfolio go up give me aaron judge's new contract that's har is that you let me shop on earth shabbos and peace so you know what the answer is that's what you long for and look to you don't need a bigger house or a nicer car for a jew you know what you want help me turn friday into arab shops that's this in torah the for the life of amayla santora is being able to turn friday into arab shops it's not beautiful it's not incredible that is the schaar peaceful ability to turn friday into arab shops i told the story in terms of shamans i don't remember if i told it in the parish but when the rebbe met with abdul feinstein he said our fathers were close we barely know each other we'd love to we should really spend time in our dub and said absolutely i'd love to see you so the samadhi said how about thursday night thursday night was a good night sir debbie feinstein told the samurai i can't every thursday night my wife gives me a shopping list and i do the shopping for shabbos at the grocery store i told that story in an email i got an email from someone who was in the lower east side who told me that thursday night you knew if you went to the supermarket you sort of dub and feinstein the guttal of america arguably the biggest postic in america and he was pushing a cart through the supermarket aisles shopping for shabbos because for a holy jew the reward for amelas batora is getting to go to the supermarket on arab shops that's the reward not i delegate it to someone else not i'm too busy don't ask me to do it for abduban feinstein the sahara of amelia's patora of imbeco was let it rain sunday through wednesday thursday night i go to the supermarket hashem let it not rain the lower east side you have to say let it not snow let no one steal my hubcaps let lower east side is a whole other set of fellas that you have to say hashem let me turn friday into arab shabbos in peace and in serenity and that is the reward for a holy jew for a garlador for imbec no absolutely incredible absolutely incredible so incredible i may repeat it again at turn friday terrific like bay's pasta moving right along third pasak we read seriously threshing will last until the vintage these are different harvesting seasons but they'll be so plentiful the bounty will be so great that they'll overlap until you eat bread satiate you'll be full and you'll dwell securely in your land what is this talking about what does this mean sort of the nefer in his ruach parakalav says the following after the torah offers us promises of hazard to show torah why do we see that for many people it doesn't come true this is a big question partial kosai it's a big question when the torah does allude to it infrequently does but when the torah does here it doesn't allude it explicitly says the system of reward and punishment keep torah it's going to rain you can have peace you can have children life will be beautiful and good and neglect torah you're going to struggle you're going to suffer you're going to be hungry you won't have the money to pay the bills ask for high volationer that's nice in theory but empirically it's not true we look around at this world and there are incredibly righteous people who keep torah in mitzvot and yet there are bad things that happen to good people and there are good things that happen to bad people so it doesn't add up it doesn't match with the torah promises we see many people who keep torah and it's so scrupulously vigilantly they're and their yoga they're they're toiling in it and yet where the brachus where's the rain where are the children [Music] torah doesn't promise that when you do the right thing in the flow of blessing into this world that you will be the recipient of the flow of blessing it's that you are the catalyst for the flow of blessing you open the pipeline you open the channel how much of it you get that's the left hashem how it works in this world in the next world there are bad things that happen to good people in this world and they have a line the bad in this world leaves them only pure good in the next and there are good there are bad people who have good things happen in this world they're living up all their ganeth in this world and there's nothing good left for them waiting for them that we don't know hashem's calculations we don't know how he works and when the torah here promises that if you are well behaved and you're good then good things happen it doesn't mean good things happen for you it means that you are responsible for the good things that flow and come down into the world and into the universe and he says that's what the gemara means the whole world is sustained by my son he lives with caribs from friday to friday he lives with kale bachmann he eats garnish he eats nothing he subsides on the worst punishment for man from arab shabbat of shabbos so while he is sustaining the entire world in his merit he subsides and subsists on next to nothing says the shlock address bishvil what is the one bishfiel kola ullam kulo nizon what do you mean bishvil it means a pathway a channel bishvil means that merit there's a channel that sinodos open up the pipes of holiness of blessing the chef abraham the bounty of bracha they flow down to this world but has very little and is satisfied with little and needs little and doesn't challenge the calculations of hashem aye so where is the fulfillment of passion that is himself but he for society he for the rest of the community is the one who brings the shepherd bracha and this says how you understand says he gets his portion and the portion of his friend in ghanaian that doesn't sound very nice that sadiq the righteous who received not only their portion but the khabarai in the portion of their friend also in ghana i'm throwing in every yiddish word i know today if you didn't notice by the way i'm almost at the end of my limited list they take their portion and the portion of their friend ignores why do they have the right to take a portion of their friend [Music] when that's gets to garnet then it's time to collect now he collects the corresponding portion that he gave up from the russia in this world maybe you're not fully satisfied but i think this is the beginning of a path and i think it's a beautiful insight is that how do we understand this parasha it seems empirically to be not true the answer is it is true you'll say that if he lived in squander and poverty he lived with next to nothing in simplicity we know other righteous people who suffer with very hard and difficult lives i won't say them by name but there are russia yeshiva and sadiq whose torah we quote who have several children with disabilities who have countless challenges financial and otherwise and you say i don't understand it the torah they produce these are the most righteous why they suffering the answer is the answer is the promise of the torah is fulfilled in the merit of their learning and their melos there is bracha just didn't go to them yet but all the bracha around them and in this world the prosperity of claudius earl it's in their merit so the torah doesn't promise it's all going to correspond it promises they open the channels and it's in their merit that the flow the flow occurs in the flow begins one of the promises five of you will pursue 100 100 you will pursue ten thousand enemies will fall before you and now policy test and i will turn my attention to you the phrase i'll turn to you and i'll make you fruitful in the crease and i'll establish my promise my bris my covenant with you the harem an interesting thought on these words this is not what it means literally but the uh the um [Music] said that what it is means to have time available to have space and margin in life you know what the biggest bracha we can have is margin space to not feel overwhelmed and to not feel busy to have some space and some margin that no matter how busy we are we are not overly consumed so that you will have time that you'll find the time you'll be able to take on projects and dreams and aspirations and it won't be at the expense of your health or your learning or your children or your family that we strive for that we want to merit who's that there'll be time without it being a trade-off without having to give up something in the process delete the old grain and remove the old grain to make way for the new grain meaning there won't be supply chain issues our parsha tells us literally he tells us explicitly it tells us if you merit the supply will flow and if you're not obedient and compliant and if you don't merit there'll be supply and chain issues torah literally tells us you will struggle in 2022 like a third world country to have baby formula to give your children torah tells us wake up if that's happening learn from it grow from it improve yourself from it be better because of it children's lives are threatened they can't be supported with formula is that generation valuing the life of a baby of a child maybe there's something to learn the value of life i'm not creating a direct line or correlation between the two these are complex subjects they have to do justice they take nuance but it's a wake-up call that's what this entire parsha is a wake-up call it says if things are not going the way the torah promised then look in the mirror and ask yourself what can we grow can we improve what do we need to make better there'll be so much supply that you'll have to throw out the over supply to make room for the new crop and if you don't if you don't merit you'll have supply chain issues that's literally in our parsha it's a wake-up call apostle get out of continues i will place my holiness my sanctuary mishkane milos you'll feel i'm a neighbor to you you'll feel i'm right there i'm accessible to you and i will not reject you i will not reject you what is a little stick i won't reject you what does that mean so let's go back to the aish talmud back to rabjuk who was just here last week who spoke here for his rebbe for you ready for this you know what the big hashem says is you'll never make me throw up i'll never be repulsed by you you'll never make me nauseous about you i'll never be so turned off by you i won't be disgusted by you wow that's romantic could you imagine imagine at the cheva brachus the son-in-law stands up and he says to lika your daughter i want you to know i'm so excited to live with you to build a life with you to build a home with you to light up the world with you to change the world with you and i want you to know in closing that no matter what happens no matter how much weight you gain no matter how much ugly you become not how many children or babies you have i'll never be repulsed by you muscle tough that's that's could you imagine los segal never no matter what you do no matter how much weight you gain i'll never be repulsed by you ain't ruki katsu washington spells it out the word sig al comes from something inside of something else that gets spit out it's called vomit you'll never make me throw up i'll never be so disgusted and repulsed by you then i'll throw up mazeltov could you imagine for the anniversary even after all these years you've never made me repulsive i've never thrown up because of you happy anniversary imagine so what does this mean the ramban is bothered by this question gives a very mystical very um [Music] very uh difficult to understand answer so what does it mean so the of drook and his humid we didn't get to this last year that's why i saved it for this year what does that mean what does that mean so he quotes from his father avi mori from the trash mordekai or morocca is when it comes to a relationship with god there is no happy medium there is no parith there are two extremes of shalom there is no middle category there is no neutral we either are feeling his presence with us or we have spit him out we have vomited him from among us there is no neutral we're either living our lives that hashem wants to dwell with us we're living our lives that we've not made room for him that he wants no part of us that we have vomited him out and he has vomited us out we're either in love and living with love and showing love or there's hate there's repulsiveness there's distance those are the two extremes there is no middle category there is no middle there is no middle he says that's why in parshas kisabo which complements that's the tokuga there laroche of the lola zanov that's it you're either the head of the tail you can't just be the rib stake in the middle you can't be the flanking you're either the head of the tail the answer is yes in a relationship with hashem you're acting either a head or a tail that's it there is no middle ground and he goes on and gives many other examples of evidence there is no middle ground i would humbly submit to you a different answer and what we were just mocking a moment ago is in fact very romantic and very beautiful sometimes a woman turns to a husband a husband to a wife and they say would you still love me if i put on 100 pounds will you be attracted to me will you love me and that's a moment of truth and in a healthy and a good and a beautiful marriage the answer is yes there's nothing you can do that would make me feel repulsed by you i love your character and i love your personality and i love the life we've built together i love who we are and my love is much deeper than skin deep and there's nothing you can do that would repulse me eat a little bit more kale but there's nothing that you could do that would impulse me that would repulse me in fact it is very romantic i wouldn't say it during cheva bracos or under the but in a private conversation it's a very very romantic and a very beautiful statement to say that my love for you is so pure and so genuine and so deep that even though we may hit bumps in the road and even though we might have friction and even though you might disappoint me and i disappoint you it is so deep and is so profound and it is so unconditional that we'll always find a way back there's nothing you could do that would make me repulsed nothing you could do that would make me want to leave krischbach was turning to us and he's saying you know what my bracha is that when you're doing the right thing there's nothing you could do there's nothing that you can do no matter how ugly you get clogged israel no matter how ugly you get in exile no matter how low you sink no matter what you do at first you do these merits and you do these mitzvahs and you frame it in these beautiful things the mistakes you'll make within the context of the beautiful relationship we have i can never be repulsed or driven away by you here's another comment in the but i want to move over because i want to make sure to get to possibly if you listen to nothing else listen to this if you don't listen to me and if you don't keep my mitzvos and if you reject and you are repulsed by myhookin then there's a terrible consequence to that so rashi says what is lotism uli we referenced that earlier what is latishamulu you didn't listen to me what does it mean leos ammelem batora not toiling in torah is the definition of not listening he says means you weren't learning you know what has been said davani is our talking to hashem learning torah is hashem talking to us when we learn through hashem is speaking to us when we dive in and we are speaking to him so lotismoly you're not listening to me should translate as you're not learning torah why does it translate as the higher or the deeper level of you're not a melemba torah lotishmali so khaim explains what it says and he was an example of this himself he was a mavakish he was mostly nefesh he toiled and he had ambition and he had drive in total learning and he said what it means is that if you're not amel then you're not listening you can't superficially learn torah torah doesn't lend itself to superficiality torah doesn't lend itself to surface learning torah doesn't lend itself to a sound bite we're going to talk about this on chevous when we examine the jewish view of abortion pro-choice pro-life where do we fit in who are we and and one of the reasons that i want to look at it is not only about abortion the topic per se but as a case study of a contemporary issue which people have hijacked to try to misrepresent superficially so you look on twitter and you'll see some politically are inclined to say judaism is aligned with pro-choice and others definitively say judaism is aligned with pro-life and judaism is neither torah doesn't conveniently fit into either it's nuanced and it's complicated it's filled with gray and the torah doesn't fit into 140 characters torah's not superficial and it's not simplistic levitt says means you're not amalba torah ah you could be learning all day long but if you're doing it casually and superficially if you're doing it on the surface level if you're doing it to fit into 140 characters for a sound bite then you're not listening in lotishmali means amelia's patora it translates as a melisma torah it is the definition of amelia's patora the great ali short understands it a little bit differently he says why doesn't it shouldn't it be the in fact exact inverse why aren't we it should be the parallel the opposite if the parasha began in bakugou said now we should continue why did we shift and change instead of imbecil we became lotismo and lotismo so revolver quotes in the medius the matrix says listen and your and your soul will live and the magister says if a person fell off the roof and they broke every bone in their body and they come to the doctor and the doctor bandages every bone in their body so the doctor saying into their ear i want you to heal won't heal the bones of their body the bones of their body have rods and casts and bandages and each bone needs to heal independently says not so with you the damage you've done to all of your limbs and your bones of your body through misbehaving you can heal and you can fix with one organ namely your ear simply listen and by listening and learning you can fix and repair and transform every limb and every bone of your body that's the magic shimmer listen and you can restore the life of your soul you can heal entirely through the one feature of your ear and it will it will transform you from said when he was a bacharach sawyer when he was a young bachelor in radha he heard a a a uh schmooze a mustache from the mashiach and afterwards he said maitzitsis were never reeled sits and my film weren't real twin and my amunda was an ammuna and now now everything is different everything i thought i was wearing sentences i'd know what scissors were i thought i was wearing it's filling i don't know what feeling were i thought i said might not was i thought it didn't know what amuno was through our ear we can repair and transform and redefine and recreate everything about who we are that's the kawahashmiya it has the ability to transform that's why i'm low tishma ammalin batora through our ear and through that amelas it lifts and it changes but it has to be beyond just the surface it has to be beyond just learning the data and the statistics it has to be something so much more reluctant scenes that's all and ronald esteem writes the following a couple of years after we moved to yerushalayim i was once walking with my family in the basics of all neighborhood where mrs alma meltzer used to live for the most part it consists of narrow alleys we came to a corner and found a merchant stuck there with his car the question came up as to how to help him it was a clear case of pre-kotina which is a halacha in the torah helping one load or unload a burden there were some children there from the neighborhood who judging by their looks were probably 10 or 11 years old they saw the merchant was not wearing a yamaka so they began a whole pill pool based on the gemara sakham kofi gimmel whether they should help him or not they said if he walks around bare-headed presumably he doesn't separate srimasu so he's suspected of eating and selling untithed produce and therefore maybe the halacha precocino of helping him doesn't apply russenstein says he writes i wrote rav salaveczek his father-in-law letter at the time and i told him of the incident and i ended with the comment quote children of that age from our camp would not have known the gemara but they would have helped him my feeling then was why we bonus we must this be our choice can't we find children who would have helped him and still know the gemara do we have to choose i hope not i believe not if forced to choose however i would have no doubts where my loyalties lie i prefer they learn less gemara but no to help him it was an interesting insight and story of course for this team aspires that we produce children who do both know the gemara and then instinctively kick in to help we should want to produce both it's an interesting challenge which one and so on but when i saw this it also reminded me that's exactly what our pasek is telling us has to lead to a tishma's where our organs and limbs kick in to put it into practice and it reminded me also a story of the altareba the altareb is a famous story although it was once at home immersed in his learning and he heard the cries of a baby so what did he do he stopped learning and he went down the stairs and he lovingly picked up his grandchild who had fallen out of his crib and he held the baby and he rocked the baby and he sued the baby until the baby stopped crying he put him back in the crib and he rocked gently for a short while till he fell asleep and the arthur ebison of the bear would become known as the middle rebbe was in the room as the baby same room but was so engrossed in his learning that he was oblivious to everything that was happening there's different versions of the story it was the next room and the altered was the third room whatever the version is the middle rebbe was in the room closer to or the same room as the baby but he was so engrossed in his learning who saw all male in his learning he didn't hear the baby crying so when the dove bear finally felt his father's presence he looked up at his father his father gave him musser and he said you should never ever be so engrossed in total learning that it causes you to not hear the cries of a baby put differently learning which prevents you from hearing a baby crying is not total learning that's not total learning total learning should make you more sensitive to hear the cries of a baby not deaf to it not less of it that's in lotismu that's what our partial is telling us in love tishmusha you were not um torah because if you were amal and torah you'd hear the baby crying ammo bhattara doesn't mean you don't hear the baby crying if you were amul bhattora you'd hear the baby crying zero ammo batora david feinstein you'd be pushing the cart through the supermarket on thursday night if you're almo better you'll be wanting to turn friday into arab shabbos if you're almo torah you'd be kicking into action you'd be putting what you're learning into practice into actual practice all right we ran out of time but i'll tell you what you're missing at the end of the parsha we have a a promise first of all it's strange it's in the middle of the topoka we're in the middle of the harsh rebuke of pas i'm just going to ask it as a question we say this in our sleepless so it's worthwhile to know what it means one day when i'm 118 we'll be up to insidiousness one day we say in the in the pasture i was saying solutions i'll remember my breasts with yaakov and even my breasts with yitzhak and my breasts with abram i'll remember and the land i'll remember why are we giving wise hashem giving comfort in the middle of the i'm going to destroy you i'm going to kill you you wanna baby the children will die you'll be a war you'll have no peace of mind you'll be on the run but i remember what is it doing here it's out of place and why is it in the reverse order why are you remembering yaakov and then yitzhak and then avraham and why are we equating the bris with the land with the breath with our forefathers what is that all about we'll set it aside hashem we'll do it next year have a fantastic shabbos stay happy stay holy and not shabbos it's only tuesday have a good job every day is booking this out of shabbos have a great shabbos have a great day stay happy stay healthy