Shnayim Yomi - Matot Masei - D'var Torah 5784

[Music] all right one last thought on the para now we know the has an interesting teaching for us it says if you have a good intention to do something you're planning to do a Mitzvah and you're ready to go do it you mean it but then something happens you have an onus something prevents you you're going to go somewhere you fell asleep you didn't the alarm didn't go off you got stuck doing something else for somebody else you couldn't do it so you know what hm does he does a he knows you really meant to do it for real so it's he's M he makes it as if you actually did the action and you get the same reward but what about a you have a bad intention so there Hashem doesn't give us that same um as a benefit for us if we intend to do something bad but we don't act on it and we don't actually do it then we don't get we don't get that same punishment as if we did the act so how's that related to this week's paraa because the par says in the beginning by Nadar a woman let's say a wife makes a and the husband immediately decides to when he first hears about it he an knows it and makes it that it never happened but let's let's say she doesn't know that her husband undid the the nether The Vow she thinks she's still Bound by the nether by The Vow and so she thinks she has to keep it but then on purpose she breaks it she doesn't want to keep the vow so the Tor says she still needs hasem still has to forgive her she needs to get atonement and do Chua for that so the says wait a sec we know is it it's not it doesn't count so he explains no no no no when we say it doesn't count it's when you have intention to do something bad but then you never acted on it here she did intend to do something bad and she did act on it it's true she didn't violate a technical n but she had bad intention and she did act on it so there is that distinction there's another reason given why is why she needs kapara because it's true that she didn't do an exact violate a nether technically so she may not get the same punishment when we say a person a doesn't it doesn't so you don't get it doesn't count the same as if you did the ACT but there still is kapara necessary the very idea that a person wants wanted to and try to do something bad for that itself a person still needs to purify their thoughts and they're still what to get kapara for so let's always try to have good intentions to only do good deeds and have a wonderful shabas [Music]