Der Rebbe Redt Tzu Kinder — Vaeschanan

welcome back we are continuing with uh our weekly sikha from the rabbis to tivas hashem from the rebel to kinder and this week from parches version we had i think five circles to choose from a lot of circus but we chose one so here we go it is called from the acera the end of the asterisk is all that belongs to your friends set us to give us the ten commandments that's the uh the ten statements that were made at sinai at the time of the revelation at sinai and uh so the ten commandments five on each of the two tablets the first one we know i'm the lord your god it took you out of egypt and the last one is ahmed you shall you shall not covet don't be jealous or envious of other people's possessions the anything that belongs to your friend that's that's the last uh the last word a statement's father so it says in sodom and the rebels messiah into who was famous obviously for the glosses he also had others for him including teresa ella which is the source for this idea as the assertion are comprised of six hundred twenty letters if you count them up the ashter isis face minute so the first 613 letters out of 620 correspond to the 613 biblical commandments on the alex des ibnesias and then you have seven more letters so the seven last letters for the veritas which that phrase the seven letters so 613 letters corresponding to 613 biblical commandments seven more letters in the phrase even those correspond to the seven rabbinical commandments those are the commandments that we say he commanded us to do this where did he command us he commanded us through the rabban and through the through the sages who told us to do these particular mitzvas i won't elaborate on this because the this is not the main point of the sikha but the rebbe once mentioned that the they're called the friends of hashem so the ta'yag mitfis the biblical obligations that we have that's one level that's accepting what hashem told us clearly to do but then there's a deeper level of the connection between yiddin and hashem where yidna are like a friend what's a friend you know the old story the levitzkr mediciver says i learned love from a couple of drunks because these couple drunks uh were were yelling at each other in a in a in a crechema and one was saying i love you and the other one was saying no you don't yes i love you no you don't i love you no you don't yes i do he says if you love me tell me what hurts me if you don't know what hurts me you don't love me right and the lady is says i learned love from from a couple of drunks if you don't know what hurts me you don't love me so you have to know what it is that's on my heart even if i don't tell you that's a real friend so the fact that you didn't do the mitzvah 613 commandments that hashem told us to do that's one thing that's commitment nasa vanishima then there's eden as rayam lomakimus hashem's friends so to speak like a true friend that knows what you want before you even say it and those in the midst of the mitzvahs that the the rabbis knew hashem wanted without hashem saying explicitly okay oh and so therefore the last seven letters of the 620 letters of the two tablets uh are a cherry that is to your friend and those seven letters correspond to the seven mitzvahs which are remit rabbinic in origin okay owns the viktor kite from alameda's this teaches us the importance of all mitzvahs afilamitsu even rabbinical commandments as a allah darfman you have to follow all mitzvahs even rabbinical commandments with the same degree of commitment like i am the lord your god like the first of the ten commandments so that's that's one point in this even rabbinical commandments are on the same level as all other commandments because they are hinted to in those last seven letters of the ten commandments and as we know siddhis explains that really there's no difference as far as the mitzvahs that come from there are dirac and those that are from the rabbis only that hashem wanted certain mitzvahs to come from torah and some it was to come from the the rabbis because we have a rule that a suffic that i say is is is stringent and a suffic reg a doubt regarding rabbinical mitzvah is uh lahakil we are our lenient so hashem just wanted different mitzvahs that in a case of suffolk they should be treated differently but really all of the mitzvahs whether they were stated clearly um in terra or whether they came through the rabbis it's the same degree of will from hashem okay that's not that's the main it's not the main focus of the sith i want to get to the main focus of this furthermore their position that which belongs to your friend simple meaning is his possessions his things his stuff [Music] not only do we have to be careful about hashem's mitzvah not to disturb another jew whether his body or his soul nor philosopher megan's torment you're not even allowed to mess with his stuff so think about that it's not just don't bother your friend him himself his body his soul no even his things that he owns that's like another stage removed from him it's not even him it's something that belongs to him but it's not him it's a it's a it's a possession it's an inanimate object and yet we have to have sensitivity not only you wouldn't bother your friend in a way that would affect his body or would affect his neshama but even something that belongs to your friend you have to be careful you have to be sensitive about okay and now we're going to get we're going to go even further and the verse says everything that belongs to your friends not just expensive things like gold and silver and copper anything that belongs to your friend a penny even if it's not worth more than a penny it's not even important to your friend your friend doesn't even notice it he doesn't care about it it's so trivial it's not even important to him but if it's not yours and it belongs to your friend if it's not yours a jew is vigilant careful scrupulous not to disturb it just like he is careful regarding all the other mitzvahs from hashem so a few things here first of all we're talking about the status of mitzvos rabbit doesn't use the term here but the terms that the term would be and let's generally know that the two lokai's doesn't speak about it here but it's a known thing that the two loches that the one with the one luak the first of the two the right side is being adam lemaking that's you have the i am hashem and you should have no other you should have no other gods and all the things that are between you and hashem and then there's the other veda interpersonal relationship stuff don't don't steal don't murder that kind of stuff so it's sort of like a a progression or maybe even call it like a descent from really really holy stuff spiritual to stuff that's like less and less holy and more like you could you could even say like secular because every society has rules about how people have to treat each other right so it's more mundane let's call it more more down to earth and then it gets so low like so like down to earth let's call it that it's not only don't bother another person don't even bother his stuff and not just stuff any of his stuff even stuff that's barely worth anything even if it's only worth a penny you have to be as careful about that as you would something like believing in hashem and that there's no difference between these lofty big spiritual ideas and these what we might consider small everyday regular uh plain ideas that aren't so spiritual and aren't you know they don't strike us as being so holy they're just regular things that like i said lahav every society has rules about how people have to treat each other right and yet the point is this is all on the same level they've been adam cavero and the being adam lemaking i think this is a a very important foundation here because there is often you see people make a um a distinction a distinction between ritual observance and ethical observance and not always do the two go hand in hand and unfortunately and which can be the worst hashem is making a point here to a child on the most basic level providing a child with a foundation for how to view these two areas of life or these two areas of yiddish the obligation has been adam lemaking obligations being admirable and then i was saying they're really all being adam they're without a spiritual foundation without a relationship with hashem all of our other relationships ultimately suffer in other words it's not a conflict or or or or contradiction or in any way where we have to like choose between are we more ritually observant or are we more like uh social justice minded no no it's one and the same it's one and the same somebody who is spiritual who who who believes that is also going to be very upkeh is going to be super vigilant and scrupulous and careful in a shareholder i'll tell you a quick story there's a story about amashia back in lobovich who was known uh as mikholder alter and there's a story that's told about him that he was once davening it was in the middle of dominating and obviously his daviding was very very serious dominant and he was holding by birkas krishna talking about the part of davaring where you're about to say shma you know all the things that say this in kabbalah explain is the proclaiming the oneness the everythingness of hashem it's a big it's a big deal and the brachas that lead up to it are supposed to mentally get you into that place where you're ready to to proclaim that oneness and in the middle of these blessings there's a couple versions of the story that i saw uh one version was supposedly told by mendel futterfass another version was from another source but in one version a cobbler came into the shul at that moment and another another version it was the cobbler didn't come in but mccoll noticed the shoes of one of the bakram either way the point of the story is in the middle of the blessings leading up to shema where you're supposed to get your mind in that place where you're about to say it's all hashem there's nothing but hashem he noticed that a baker had shoes that were tattered and needed to be repaired and like i said there's a couple versions one version is he wrote a note that the bachelor should go uh to the cobbler and he's that he's paying for the cobbler to fix the shoes or another one was that the cobbler had showed up at that time and abner hull actually motioned to the cobbler which bucker to get the shoes from and to repair either way the continuation of the story is that afterwards people ask rebecca like it's very nice to be concerned that a bucker shouldn't have tattered shoes it's very nice but there's a time and a place for everything right so you're in the middle of the the blessings that are supposed to put you in the mindset of hashem is everything it's all it's all hashem hashem and you're looking at tattered shoes surah mahal said what do you think she's done means what do you think shema israel means means that everything is hashem and what does it mean everything is hashem that when a baker needs shoes that this this has to be taken care of right now this isn't a small thing this is everything that abbar's tattered shoes is all part of the oneness of hashem so it's not like oh because i'm so holy i'm so religious therefore interpersonal relationship stuff takes a backseat no no no no if you're authentically genuinely religious then there becomes no distinction between being adam and adam it's all it's all one theta it's all one it's all one idea really it's one idea so this is a deep concept even for adults and and the deb is setting up a child to have this paradigm from you know from from the formative years all right let's let's continue a little bit here this indick as dos is an onsong and a filter here to knowing that this is a mashem he he he cherishes it and he feels lucky he feels fortunate to be able to do it just like the preciousness of being able to say israel isn't it so precious to be able to proclaim hashem's oneness that's so precious verse red veg in them covered for an amish and when you say he talked about the glory of hashem and we have hashem and then you say afterwards if you have to assertion you should love hashem they can live up in them loving hashem these are lofty things hashem is one i love hashem yeah and the hola loving your fellow not just your fellow not just his soul and not even just his body his stuff and not just his stuff his cheap little stuff his little eraser that fell off of his pencil that he's not even gonna notice or her little hairband that fell out their little pony holder or whatever they call them little things little trinkets it's not even worth a penny that's my israel that's that that ishmael's throne there's no difference and he knows that when he cares about something trivial and something small his friend dropped a piece of paper or whatever it is that that's as precious and it's the same mitzvah ultimately israel and it's therefore precious to him so not like people think that the more religious you become the less you think about people no that ebb is saying that the more religious you become authentically genuinely religious the more you realize interpersonal relationships oh that's not a small thing that's not just social justice that that that's that's ho that's that's holy that that's the oneness of hashem saw tattered shoes and she is one thing okay let's continue here a jew has to do all the mixes of the potato without any distinction like we've been talking about sai di grace was via hashem calls him big mitzvahs he's speaking to children he's not talking about being adamant big mitzvahs big gray summit you know big misters like and also mitzvahs that have to do with a penny's worth object that belongs to a friend they're all the same well zain de kamitsu for navistin because since it's hashem's mitzvah therefore it takes on the most precious and the most important place that's the point here why do you love somebody else because you love them because they're lovable because society will break down if you don't treat people nicely there's a much bigger reason because it's a mitzvah from hashem ultimately that's the most powerful reason ultimately the strongest kiom for social justice and for interpersonal relationships and and for all the mitzvahs that we do that govern how human beings treat each other the strongest kid for that is when we see that as one and the same as worshiping hashem and you can't strip one from the other you cannot secularize interpersonal relationships even though like we said earlier every society has rules about about interpersonal relationships yeah but it's limited from a toyota perspective it's unlimited because your friend's penny his object that's that's worth no more than a penny is as big of a mitzvah and as precious and important as the oneness of hashem this attitude hastens the gola was demoted so if we're going to do this we're going to fulfill the ten commandments from beginning to end the aniki just like and the tengamens are found in parshas viascanan so then we're going to speed up the gula where it will be the fulfillment of vesukanan of maesha's prayers all the jews from his generation from our generation may it be immediately did it again unbelievable