Re’eh: The Saga of the Broken Step and the Earthshattering Revelation of Rav Yonasan Eibeshutz

okay good afternoon Monday afternoon National share this is very amazing topic we're going to examine one particular detail in the par but we begin with the thear tells us the story The gar tells us the story of rap Papa we know throughout CH rap Papa was a balasar he was someone who was Heavy there are many garas and Sh that discuss this and Theus talks about how uh one should not eat too much when they travel because it's harmful for the digestive system but rap Papa was able to do so there many garas that discuss R Papa being Bas and he was climbing up a ladder R Papa was climbing up a ladder his foot slipped and meaning his foot gave in the ladder was about to collapse presumably because her Papa Was a Bas he was he was primed to fall and to fall off a ladder is like that's what they did to people who are they threw them off a building like someone who or someone who was very upset he said now I'm being treated like someone who desecrates the shabus or someone who serves AAR why am I suffering this fate meaning ra Papa was upset that it seemed like he was being considered uh he was it was being met out to him the punishment of said no maybe that's not it you're not being treated like a maybe a poor man came to you and you didn't support him you didn't give him Sak in other words you're not being treated like a and like but rather maybe it's because you did not give on a particular occasion so this is very interesting that how did pull out of a hat randomly oh maybe it's because you didn't give s properly like how did find and identify this particular infraction that this is why rap papa is uh causing the ladder to break and rep was about to fall so there's a well-known comment of the v in this week's par we have the Mitzvah of and the P says you should surely open up your hand to him and you shall surely extend him alone in accordance with what he's missing but the vill says examine the Trap you know the TR is on the words you should surely open up your have your hand the Trum on the words is what do the words D sever mean d is a step severe means broken indicating that by supporting the an you avoid you avoid having the step giveway beneath you that supporting the poor is a way to ensure that there's no d s that the step doesn't break the Trum is interestingly in the of the in a footnote he also and we know the mag was a tal of the V he brings what he saw from the of the go regarding R Papa who was climbing up a ladder and the step was about to collapse and papa thought he was being treated like said um said to him no maybe it's because you didn't support the poor how did he dream up you know like how did he how did he pull out of a hat that maybe it's because he didn't support the poor it's because of the trop okay this is something that we've spoken out in the past and I want to share a a few new items because when we learn that the fate of rap Papa was that the rung was about to give away we're reminded of another individual who actually did pass away by a step faltering and a step giving giving way and that is the well-known account of tells us please make known to me my end in the measurement of my days what it is please tell me my mortality meaning please tell me when I'm going to die tell me how long I live you hear what is asking hasem what was he asking hasem very good he's going to tell him how long he's gonna live so so said I have a decree I don't let Mortals know when how long they're going to live and the measurement of my days what it is is a decree I don't allow people to know the measurement of their days so tell me my morality God said okay you're going to die on shabas so D said give me one more day let me die in a Sunday God said no the kingdom of your son has already reached I can't allow you to live one more day because it's already time for Solomon to rain and one Mal cannot infringe on the other even a hair's breath so says okay let me die on Friday says no one day in your courtyard is better than a thousand better is for me one day that you are engaged in then 1000 that scho your son will be Mak on the okay so in other words Hashem says I don't want to lose out even on one day of your so learned that he would pass away on chabas so in order to ward off the every chabas he sat and he spent the whole day of chabas learning the whole day because could the get if he's in the middle of learning no the can't get him so he figured he'll learn the whole day on that particular day on the day that he was going to die got up he could not Prevail over I have a did not stop learning what I do had an orchard behind his house so the angel of death came and and he started shaking the tree started rattling the tree started making noise in the tree he went out to see what's happening and went up the stair and the stair gave way beneath him and Dav died so what seemed to have what what seemed to be what was going to happen to Rapa actually in fact happened to D now one thing we know is the villo teaches us that when it was happening TOA said it's because he didn't give enough Saka so that maybe triggers in our mind if D was going to also suffer the fate of why was that happening to him now the first thing you need to know is that we are not entitled to attribute any failure or lacking to the great n the great Personalities in the tanak even even sikim of the generations we are not allowed to speculate and to attribute regular human short coming and failure to them certainly not in fact there's a CH somebody wanted to know about the personal life of the rashash and the Ben said we don't discuss these things we don't talk about our sikim and our like they would be M on this Uso we don't analyze their shortcoming or failure so we are not entitled to attribute any lacking or shortcoming to D nevertheless if say that a stare gave Neath uh beneath him certainly we're not able just to conjecture and say well maybe it's because there was a lacking in his fulfillment of but if do identify a shortcoming in this area then in we're not the ones uh finding any any lacking but we could then analyze the words of Kaz in light of the ultimate ultimately what happened to and indeed I uh once heard from a from a in England RAB Isaac Bernstein who drew our attention to the following we know that was not allowed to build the bdash remember why was not allowed to build said look in the word of God came to me saying you spilled a lot of blood you waged a lot of Wars you will not build the base of English for my name you spilled a lot of blood on the ground before me so was not allowed to build a base hands were full of blood even if they were not blood of innocent people nevertheless is a of sh the question though is that we could ask is so what that D had waged a lot of Wars we he was fighting our enemy and he was conquering Earth Israel so would you say that a mo can't build a b mikdash because his hands are full of blood certainly not that his hands are full of the blood of a Mitzvah so he should be allowed to build the B mikdash so what about somebody who fights the enemy to conquer is it's interesting there's an interesting whether an Israeli soldier who kills a terrorist or the enemy in war whether they could we know that a murderer is not a because that your hands are full of blood so in uh the biography of Sal R brings that pasin that Israeli soldier that killed the enemy can no longer do but has a Chua that why shouldn't he this is not uh any infraction on his part his hands are full of D mitvah so why should not be able to build the mikdash cuz his hands were full of blood furthermore we find a different reason why couldn't build it says DAV says and behold in my proper in my poverty I prepared for the house of hasem Z gold 100,000 K and silver a thousand thousands and coer no and I prepared stones and wood says the med says that he prepared millions of dollars of assets to build a b in his poverty what kind of poverty is that a poor man prepare all of this gold and silver what what kind of poverty is this this is not poverty one second um okay um let me I just lost so the B what exactly was this Poverty of D that he was uh afraid of what was what was this poverty so the med says something very interesting okay here we go says the med that let me make it bigger on the day that DAV killed the women the threw all their money all their silver all their gold took the victories of war and he Sanctified it for the and when hunger came to for three years asked support us didn't want to support them you didn't want to support souls and to bring life to people I swear the will not be built through you you will not build the so we have a little bit of a s here because if you look in the it says did not build the BD because his hands were full of blood and the in says the reason why DAV didn't build the B mdash is because he didn't give enough Saka now already we see off the bat that maybe it could that be the reason why suffered the fate of that the um the step caved in after all we know from the who understands the story in Basra that as a punishment for not giving the Fate is and we also know say that did not givea sufficiently maybe that's why he suffered the fate of but for now we have a is it because didn't give enough or is it because he spilled innocent blood why was it so interestingly says there's no contradiction at all why couldn't build mikash is it because he spilled innocent blood is it because he didn't give it's both and we're going to explain cuz there's another gar the gar says in there was a harp that was suspended above the bed of and when midnight came a North Wind came and it blew and it played by itself so immediately stood up and he engaged in learning so contrary to what people think that he said to H him the whole night got up and he learned the whole night once came the rabbis came to him the Jewish people need a livelihood so what did say let them make a living one from the other you know one Jew gets kishka on his shirt let the other Jew open up a dry cleaning business one Jew needs to get for to uh from point A to point B so the other guy should sell used cars meaning let them support each other so said there's not enough business to go around a small fist cannot satisfy a lion you can't fill up a pit from the hole from the dirt that came from it that surrounds the pit so there's not enough business to go around so D says okay go fight a war wars are good for the economy everybody knows how the United States of America get out of the Great Depression World War II wor are good for the economy right even though you know uh they say just Israel defending itself it cost them $120 million but somehow Wars end up being good for a country's economy not that's what D said now um wait a second the king why are the rabbis coming to D and saying support support us you know what do they want from D's life what's he supposed to do we need support them supposed to hand out welfare checks why are asking to support the people when said you spilled a lot of blood you will not build this house what does him spilling blood got to do with not Building B mikdash soes that the came to DAV and they said DAV support us and Dav said go fight a war so wants to know what do they want from David when David defeated Galas the Nim threw to him silver and gold he had a incredible array and stash of treasures and he separated it to build the B mikdash he put it aside to build the B mikdash and when there was Hunger instead of supporting the anim he says I'm not supporting the an I'm saving it for the B mikash go fight a war but he made a mistake because Sedaka is greater than b mikdash when the rabbis asked David support us they were saying instead of using that gold and silver that you stored away for the B mikdash support the Jewish people but he didn't want to he said you know what if you need money go fight so the reason why David was not allowed to build the bikash is said this money that you separated to build the bikash it should have been used to support the Jewish people instead because you continue to save this money they had to go and fight discretionary Wars so it's not that D's hands were soiled in killing inah it's the money that he had put away to be able to use to build the B mikdash should have been allocated to support the poor Instead at the expense of the poor it was continued to sit in escrow to be able to use the to build the base of mdash has said want that money because you didn't give away that money people innocent people had to die these were not it was says in a manner of uh somewhat of a of a humorous way this is what it means when you have a lot of bread to eat to there will be peace when there's enough when the economy is robust then there's peace you don't need to go to war why do Nations fight War cuz they want assets they want money they want resources so therefore regarding the question why wasn't allowed to build the Bas of mikdash was it because his hands were soiled with blood was it because he didn't give Saka both because he because of the money that he put away to build a bash he did not want to allocate for Sedaka now it's interesting the says explicitly that when finished building the was complete then took all of the Sanctified money of put the storehouses says schl said there was Hunger in the days of my father for three years he should have spent this HEC dis to support the poor and instead he didn't and schi took all of this money and he put it in the storehouse of hasem to be able to support the an in any event it's very interesting that the fate of what was going to happen to Rapa namely the says on that and that's the gr identified it was because Rapa did not fulfill that the TR waso so that in fact was the FI that happened to D and it's amazing that this is an observation the gr learned from the Trum as we know that the is were attuned and perceptive not only to the words not only to the N but even to the Trap you know rakov ketki once gave a sheer about the meaning of all the Z SE in tanak so they told Raa and ra said really but there's a and Danel and it doesn't fit the model that kamki established so they told rakov and said yes ra knows all the TR but he missed the on that changes the TR on that P so you see that the were attuned even to the slightest Nuance of even the Trap but I want to share with you a few amazing things number one if you look in par in we have the words what's this going on in it says that the will have it with him so that he will learn to fear so that he will he will prolong his days on his kingdom and going back to the story of DAV that when his time came to leave this world and the Mal couldn't get him because he wouldn't stop learning so he had to shake the tree by the way the understands that what the malas was doing was he was invoking the sin of the as we know that DAV was the gilgal of Adar and Adar because he ate from theas was supposed to die on that day and or only live 1,000 years and Hashem extended his life however the verdict of man is man has to die there's no there's no escaping it and took 70 years from the life of Adar Adar there therefore only lived a thousand years minus 70 because of the sin of the so when the Mal was coming rattling in the tree he was so to speak invoking that sin the sin of theas says the saer page of also brought in the image sh Ginsburg on the words the M should have the T with him and read it all the days of his life so that the can't get him but if the Mal sees the time has come D the Trum on the words the king should see to it to always learn T to extend his life but if the Mal sees the time that's coming he can't get him the Trum on is one way he could get him is by breaking the step underneath him as the villag understood the episode of Rapa so here we already have that theim are making a connection between what happened to a papa and ultimately what happened to DAV H I'll just share with you another thing that I believe references this into says into if I thought my foot would falter the kindness of Hashem supports me what does mean the kindness of Hashem supports me when does the kindness of Hashem support a person you know the med says on the how precious is your kindness God that those who do they will take shelter in the shadow of the kindness of Hashem so asks think about it we learned from the how precious is your that when people do they take shelter in hashem's protection the PK's not talking about the of people thek is talking about the of says when the says how precious is the of when does hasem arous his on people that's only when people themselves are when people themselves do that is in turn so when people do and when people are and then in return how precious is your kindness Hashem so I would say say anytime I thought my foot would falter and I would be subject to the D I knew the of would support me when when I am proficient and strong inid like we learned from the that the and the protects a person from from from the step caving in from one's foot caving in so whenever I thought my foot would cave in one thing I know the way to avoid daro here is the way to avoid is through you could look and safer to him and you will find every single trap there is a common common Trum in the that does not appear in the entire sa you'll have you'll have you'll have um GS you'll have P there's one Trum that does not apply does not appear in the whole in the saam ofi he writes in the there is no Dar in the entire there is no Dar the why is there no since passed away through a and the dead can't praise hasem removed any reference to his demise there's no in the every other tr appears except for this is a little bit of the secret of the Trum okay thank you very much everyone I wish everyone a wonderful day we'll see everybody M next Monday this week Wednesday and Friday they no okay thank you cultive everyone see you well have a 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