Shnayim Yomi - Matot - Masei - Rishon - #1 - Rabbi Dovid Kimche - Locking In Inspiration

It's wonderful to be part of this very special program. Poss are almost always read together and they close for us safer midbar and document the final travels of Ben in the desert. The first aliyah deals with uh the laws of nidar of vows. What exactly are vows? What are they supposed to do? What exactly is this mitzvah telling us? So Rahers here has a a very simple but very profound thought and he says the following. He says we all in our lives have moments of clarity, moments of inspiration. Think for example someone who let's say goes through a health scare and says that's it. From now on I'm going to be only healthy in my life. Only healthy. And the truth is that this person we've all been there. We know in our heart of hearts, you know, we would like to say that from now on for the rest of our lives we're going to be healthy. But the reality of life is not always that way and we know we're not going to be able to keep up to that. So he says herein comes a na and what a na does is that a na says this is what I want to be. I have a moment of clarity in my life and a na almost locks our self our future self should I say into our moment of inspiration. I want to do this. That's it. I promise I'm always going to do with a million. That's it. And make a native for I don't know for for a year. What you're doing is that you're locking yourself your future self into your moment of inspiration. Now na is a tool of form in our lives. very very quickly. Roberkovitz remember Roberovitz the current Rashashiv of Aish he tells us when his early days of Aish boys used to come students used to come secular students spend a week a month maybe six months is a and then at certain point they knew they'd have to return home and they would he would make them sit down and write a letter to the f their future selves saying this is you know speaking about the clarity with which they understood they knew they they realized they found about Yiddish about themselves elves about life just so they have in writing now to tell their future selves in 6 months time where things are not so clear where things are a little bit cloudy to a moment where they understood reality and this is really what nidor are doing for us they are locking our future selves into a moment of clarity inspiration that we have now so really ana is a tool for our own rness