Shnayim Yomi - Nitzavim - Vayelech - Chamishi - #5 - Rabbi Aryeh Siegel - The Mitzvah of Hakhel

Moishe calls Yeshua over in front of all the Yidden and he tells them be strong, be strengthened. You're going to take the Yidden in entirety strong. So the pashut pshat is that Moishe said to Yeshua in front of all the Yidden I saw the shame. I don't remember, I'm sorry. He says Moishe said to Yeshua l'einei kol Yisrael chazak v'amatz, to the eyes of the Yidden be strong and be strengthened. Why? Because Moishe knew that Yeshua was a very big anav. But to be a king, to be a leader, a person needs to be able to lay down the law, he has to put his foot down sometimes. So he he said, "You want to be an anav? Okay, be an anav in your house, with your wife, with your kids. But l'einei kol Yisrael, you got to be chazak v'amatz, you got to be strong." And we could learn something from that with the yetzer hara also. A lot of times the Chazal say, they say Hillel was an anav. And to him the passuk says "Ki Hillel rasha ta'avas nafsho." The rasha praises himself for all his ta'avos, for all the bad things that he did. So they say the "Ki Hillel rasha he was an anav ta'avas nafsho" in order to be mesapek himself his yetzer hara. If he would have put his foot down and said, "You know who I am? I'm a ben melech, I'm a prince, Hashem is my father." He wouldn't have fell to what he fell. The yetzer hara will let a person be an "Who am I? Going to hell anyway." Yeah, all of a sudden you become anav. When you when you try to do a good deed, a Yid sits down to learn, all of a sudden the yetzer hara reminds him of all his past, all the aveiros that he did. "Who are you? You're going to learn Torah?" He says, "You're right, you're right, you're right." He's a big anav all of a sudden. The first shleimus says "Ein ma'avirin al hamitzvos." You're not allowed to pass over mitzvos. Mitzvah mitzvah ba'yom, mitzvah ba'laylah. You got a mitzvah in front of you, you're not allowed to skip over, you got to do it. It's first come first serve. But he explains "Ein ma'avirin al hamitzvos." Ein ma'avirin, you don't take any aveiros into account al hamitzvos, when it comes time to mitzvah. You have a mitzvah in front of you, the yetzer hara comes and it tries to remind you of all the bad things you did. You say, "Okay, later. Soon Yom Kippur is coming, we'll we'll make it chazzer. Right now, I'm doing a mitzvah. Nothing to talk about. And possibly [clears throat] get out of your base, we have a mitzvah, one of the last few mitzvahs in the Torah, a mitzvah of hakhel. Now, on Motzei Shmita, it's a mitzvah of all the Yidden when they go on the other regel, the king comes and he reads with them the sefer Torah. They gather in by the Beis Hamikdash, they gather in the azarah, they build a whole bimah there. So, what's the inyan of the mitzvah? So, I saw the shame of the Emes Emes, it's not clear what he wants to say, but the Emes says that [snorts] the ikar mitzvah of hakhel is not really the kriah of the Torah. The mitzvah of hakhel is the mitzvah of that Klal Yisrael should be should come together, achdus, the asifah. That's the ikar mitzvah. I saw in the Pardes Yosef, I think, he brings some of the Ramaya Rik who has the sefer Tal Torah al ha'Torah. He says it is a marvelous He says interesting, what's the inyan of the davka once every 7 years on Motzei Shmita we have this mitzvah to gather? So, he says that the after Shmita, Shmita, the Torah the Torah, even if you had a field, you were a farmer, you had dunams and dunams and acres of land, the Torah made it hefker. So, normally, poor people would come to you, they'd ask you, "Can I have it?" You'd say, "Yeah, sure, help yourself. Go pick an apple from the tree, whatever you want." But now, it wasn't yours. So, you you were lacking in the mitzvah of tzedakah in the Shmita year. So, because the equilibrium, the balance of the mitzvahs that in the year of Shmita there was a lack in the mitzvah of tzedakah, so Torah gave a different mitzvah to kind of rebalance the the scale. So, I want to say that we could use the stance of the Emes because in Likutei Moharan Chelek Aleph Siman Yud Zayin, Rebbe Nachman says over there, based on the pasuk "Kol Yisrael Areivim Zeh Ba'Zeh", by giving money to a tzaddik or to a poor people or to someone who has who's quite a lot in the fleshiness and the sham korales, when you give somebody money, it creates it creates re'us. You give someone money, this person was lacking and you refilled him, you filled up his lack, and now he has good feelings towards you. It creates a good avirah, a good avirah, good aura. And it creates ahava bein Klal Yisrael. So, because in the year of shmita this was lacking the mitzvah of tzedakah was lacking there was a minute automatically was lacking this idea of achdus that was normally created by tzedakah. So that's why we understand their manners that the iker mitzvah of hakhel on the mighty shmita was like the ramaira says to refill the lack of tzedakah but it had to be through a seifa it had to be coming together physically it wasn't enough to get tzedakah now it created you had to actually physically come together and everyone had to live together in Yerushalayim and and grow in their avos in the avos Yisrael. That takes us to shishi.