Shnayim Yomi - Shoftim - Rivi'i - #4

[Music] the fourth aliyah ravi in pasha shoftim covers uh some very very interesting set of mitzos having to do with the prohibitions associated with following the image namely the various uh acts of what the torah seems to describe as a toeva which we translate typically is an abomination uh that was common among those inhabitants of kanan and the torah specifically outlines different types of behaviors activities such as witchcraft and sorcery and other types of accessing communicating with the dead many of these are rather technical and hard to define in in more familiar terms the subject again of great discussion uh in the massachusetts but the torah sort of caps off this entire conversation with a mitzvot a positive mitzvah by saying tamimtia this is a conclusion of the aliyah that we should be tamim we should be sort of complete with god now what does that mean to be tamimtia so the irashi explains it over here is very very important is that the reason why very often there are people who are drawn to different types of kishuf and whether it's again all these types of things that are described over here is because people are looking to gain a sense of control or insight or trying to understand what lies in their future and we do this because of the fact that we can be very nervous and very worried very anxious about what's going on our lives about what will be in our future and because of this people have a tendency to sort of pursue all these other means whether they are completely ridiculous and made up uh or there is uh some um there is some basis to being able to access certain powers within the universe that's a discussion for another time outlook was shown but there's no question that torah forbids these these activities and the torah tells what you should do is we should be coming to yemen which means we should basically uh have complete reliance and be talking about our and when we are concerned and when we are worried about our future uh or our present whatever the case may be so we should focus on where we are at the moment and how we can be developed within inside of ourselves a greater sense of security uh by merely knowing that akash parkou is taking care of us that kudos baruch who showers me with hashikaka protest has got my back so to speak and if i'm nervous if i'm worried if i'm anxious so the way to address that is not by looking for other means other ways to address that other ways to mitigate that but rather tom mtm hashem we should try to be sort of wholesome complete in our beta and our reliance on naked particles [Music] you