SSSS Nesivas Shalom Parshas Ki Seitzei 2012

Kash we're going to continue discussing also el we're about 2 and 1/2 weeks before shana so there's really is a lot to talk about first before we begin I want to welcome back our number one video crew was on the road for a couple of weeks and uh we had to resort to our backup crews uh now we're back to our number one regular crew and ready to take on a new year together. The says at the beginning of this week's para he say when you'll go out to war with your enemies beginning of this week's para so the speak about this lion of happens to be the name of this week's para also talk the mtor talk about it why would it say a lion of of going out when in reality it should just say when you go to war with your enemies. Why? What is this lotion of going out? Just say we're going to war. And why would it say a little bit further? Why does it say the word your enemies? Why not just say they go out to war on on the enemy? Why on your enemy? It seems from the word that we're speaking about an enemy that's known like a known enemy, a known nemesis. We're saying your enemy, somebody that you know and somebody that you're familiar with and someone that you know that you have to go to fight. So says it's interesting to note that during the first few weeks of last week, this week we read three different portions in the paras last week and this week that begin with the words. Last week we had we had a in last week's para that was in in last week in part again begins with the words. Of course, we had the beginning of this week's para and a little bit further into this week's para it says three different times we see as shalom correlates says it's three different times at the beginning of last week and this week and nothing is by chance as we know anybody who's been in our knows that we don't take anything for granted nothing happens by chance. There's a reason why three times once last week, twice this week, it says the lion of in the para. So the zoyar and other before others for him bring down that this of is a reme to the battle to an ongoing battle that every single person has. And what is that ongoing battle that each person has? That is the battle with the and we repeatedly read it during the to remind us that our entire existence on this world is that battle to do battle with the eight and of course it's much more important to realize that during and it's brought out from the z that this lion of is a lion of going out to battle the this lion of kis say. So why going out? Why does that refer to the battle? It means it refers to the and what happens to the leaves its home and leaves its home and it goes out. It goes out to this world of from its place above. And when does it go out? The our nishamas go out in this world to do battle and they're sent here to this world with a very specific mission [Music] brings down from the on the par the says when the reunites with the says as follows and now shal He always say is telling his brothers he he didn't want them to be down on themselves. He didn't want them to kick themselves for what happened. See it says to the brothers to the you didn't send me that whatever transpired and whatever happened you may think that you orchestrated what was going on but really it's all being done from above from that from this he says from the base of we have a very very important lesson has to say this himself self constantly. When a year has a fight with the and he has his tas and every person has his tas and he has his chasers, this is what he has to tell you the you and we missed that train. We actually missed that train and now we're happy to have it back. You the har did not send. I am not here. You didn't send me on this world. I don't have to serve you. I didn't come to this world to serve the who did I come. I came to serve. Our purpose, our purpose in is to go to with the and we know the famous that if a day goes by, if even one day you do not aggravate the you do you do not do something to aggravate the har then you have not accomplished what you need to do in that day. Our top in this world is to do battle with the and says a beautiful beautiful a beautiful ver on just on one word in this we said the we asked why did the say why did it say an enemy why why do we say on your enemy because it's your battle every person say when you go out to fight the Every person has their reason and their reason for coming down to this world. You have your battle. You have your reason and your battle. And your battle is not the same as anybody else on this world. It is unique to you and you that is just your enemy. You singular only you and it's not anyone else in battle. Don't look to what your friend, your neighbor, family member, what what they have to fight. If you're honest with yourself, especially during you know what, you know why the is your enemy and you know that's why the person says the word specifically. And how does a person know? Sometimes you have a little difficulty. I mean most people if they're honest with themselves, they can figure out what they have to work on during the shell. We've said a few times in the sham one way to know what your battle with the har is is be honest with yourself. Know what you have the most difficulty with. What's your biggest what do you have the most difficulty with in your life of brook? Cuz that's what the har is fighting with you. The inaran knows exactly what your top kit in this world is and he's going to fight you tooth tooth that you should not be able to do that top kit and most people when you think about it you'll realize what your top kit is what you have the most difficulty with and that's what you're fighting the zahoro with to that location in the war to that location is where you have where you personally you have to dispatch your troops to fight that enemy. Someone who goes to war, imagine somebody goes to war and you teach him how to shoot. He knows how to shoot very well, but he has no aim. So, he doesn't it doesn't help you very very much, right? A person that knows how to shoot. He knows how to lift the gun. He knows how to shoot it. But if you don't have aim, you don't know what to shoot at, you don't know what you have to you don't know how to reach the target, you're not going to help at all. No matter how much you think you know how to shoot, you have to know how to aim. You have to know where the enemy is and what your enemy is. cuz tell us that it's possible for a person to live his entire life. Person could live a long life. He could live his entire life and think that you're doing good and you're learning and you're doing everything right. But yet when you come to the when he comes up to they're going to ask you why you did not accomplish anything. What do you mean I didn't accomplish anything? I did this, I did that, I said I learned and everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you missed the boat. You missed your boat. You missed understanding what your top kid in this world is learning. Everybody has to learn everybody has to do not to speak. Maybe people have a a very big but every there are things that everybody has to do. But you know what your top is and it could be that you go through your whole life. You come up there and they say to you, "Yeah, you did a lot of wonderful things, but you missed the boat. You didn't do what you had to do. You didn't go to war with what you had to go to war with. I don't see Michelle and that requires me. It requires of somebody who's actually going out to war and adds to this. He says that this war is also with and we've spoken about this. It's not only in our sur like Rashi says over here he brings a riot from what something that Rashi says Rashi says he says [Music] he says on that that sometimes things some things you're allowed to do you're really allowed to do it I won't find you won't find an in the tells you you're not allowed to do this but inside you know when something's wrong you know it's not the right time It's not the right thing. Yeah, maybe if I twist the this way and that way, it wouldn't be considered u it wouldn't be considered lash and really he deserves it this that you know it's all baloney. You know very very well that something even if you think it's not the right thing. It's really not the right thing to do. We see on we say we continue the we say a beautiful thought he says one of the things that we're judged on and these are not the exact translation of the words as we would say in but one of the things that we are judged on rash is how are we treating do we come to do we come In a way of a son, a son always wants to do good for his father. A son wants to do good for his father. Whether it's something which is really mut something which is really user, a son, that's somebody who always who always wants to do good. Or do we come like an do we come like an that's just because he's afraid then he might have to he doesn't want to do anything to his master. He doesn't want to do anything as a servant because he's afraid. How do we come? to his son. It doesn't matter if it's Israel happy. He goes to war equally. It doesn't matter if we're dealing with or the says a couple of weeks ago, we mentioned in the come you'll look for the dwelling place and don't worry you go. The says you'll know when you get there you'll find it. Many I've heard many people ask what do you mean? Why don't you just tell me where it is? The wants you to reach the place wants you to re reach a place of holiness. Just tell me where it is and I'll be there. Why? Why should you seek it out and when you get there you'll find it. The terrors could be we know it's brought down So we say this is talking about talking about there's a certain thing of aside from the program which tests you on your learning. There's a certain thing of which wants he wants you to look for him. He wants you to try to find him. He wants you to seek him out. So when the says wants you want that's the job of you know once it comes to it's a little bit too late we're here to we have to make the work of is to search out see what you're doing wrong and try to find bring yourself closer to you know what you have to do to be better and that's why we call it sometimes we realize that these days are call may there's a beautiful says we call these days these days in two weeks we're going to start saying we really have to start taking stock of what we did in the past year and we're asking mercy we say we call these days what you have to want not just that we just want read to it from these are days of wanting of sidrau of to search out a kadesh bar to to search and get closer to bar and that's the job of elo. So somebody was mentioning to this me he says he asked me we were discussing last week with this gish about he says come on who are you fooling coming the last two three weeks of the year all of a sudden you're from a different person you're a changed person I heard over this week from the mash that's mashk was those of you are too young to know was mashka before and said he said imagine we have a friend and you hold a very good friend of yours and you think he's a very good friend of yours and you tell him you you open up to him and you tell him things and the next day he goes out and he tells all your secrets to everybody in the world. So what do you think of him? Is he a good friend? No. But he's not a good friend. For for a few years he was your best friend and now why are you changing your mind? Why you say now was trying to bring out the point that everything's alo the way we look at things the way human beings per perceive things looks at it that way also that the way it is at the end and the way you act in the end and if you talk to and you take stock of what your life is in for the first 11 11 and 1/2 months of the year you doing you weren't so good you got the better of you and everything but it's not it's not it's not like uh you're not fooling. It's not like we're here to fool anybody. No, we're here to change. We're here to say that we're different now. We're doing different things. We're different. The same way that person was a friend until now, but at the end he ruined the whole thing. When something is good, it works that way too. Somebody sometimes somebody who you think is really not a friend, but at the end you find out that secretly he was doing things for you and he was nice to you and everything. That's alshi. So now we have another two weeks left, another two and a half weeks left in this year. We have a chance to write the wrongs that we did. We have the chance to take stock and most of all we have the chance to do what wants from us most in is and we should be seeking out we did things wrong but we know we did things wrong and we want to come closer. We should all have the to come closer. And we should have the to use the last 2 and 1/2 weeks of L to bring us all to Rashashana. That we should all