The Secrets of Consistency - Nitzavim (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan) (Weekly Parsha)

all right Gentlemen We are on turn two um peric lamid PUK Alice peric lamid poales page uh what page are we on here 1088 uh no no no no a little a little further page 1090 okay so it says like this this is a little bit needs an explanation so Torah says three lines from the top when these things come the blessing in the curse which I have placed before you that's a blessing in the curse that we're talking about in par what do you call it [Music] par you will take to your heart you will take take the matter to heart as the expression goes you'll take the matter to Heart page 10 1090 and what do you do with it you return to your God I mean the Exile and all the calamities were a result of misdeeds and so when you go through the blessing and the curse so then you will take it to heart and you'll obey God you and your children with all your heart and all your soul this what the Torah says over here anything bothering you something should be bothering you here something pretty basic should be bothering here again the Torah says well when all the blessing and the curse that I mentioned earlier in the previous part said there was blessing if you're good curse if you're bad and you'll take it to heart when you're out there in the Exile and then you'll come back and you'll do chuva as a result of it nothing about that bother you mistakes it's assuming that assuming that we make mistakes correct assuming that you went into Exile because you made mistakes it's all based on there is assuming we were in Exile assuming we made mistakes assuming we that that's not the question the question is assuming you've made mistakes and assuming you went into Exile assuming you went through the calamities and the blessing and the curse it's going to it's going to motivate you you'll take it to heart and then you're going to then you're going to come back nothing about that bother you you judge us favorably judge us favorably well the guy was worshiping Idols he was on his knees kissing an idol worshiping Idols murdering people committing adultery will judge him favorably he was having a bad day no no no no we're we're assuming again you're you're asking a different question you're asking how does the Torah know in advance what it's going to be we're not talking about know but that's how we're talking about that we're talking about when this actually comes to be when to is saying assuming it happens assuming it happens and assuming you were bad and assuming you when to assuming assuming assuming then the Torah says what's going to happen is that you you will then take it to heart and you will do chuva you'll you'll hopefully you'll take it to heart and you'll do chuva that's what the Torah says is the pattern that should happen I'm asking you is there something about what the context here says that should something should bother you here something should bother you page 10 10 1090 something should bother you what bothers the I'll tell you what bothers the mfor then you'll tell me if it bothers you when do chuva people uh tend to start repenting when things are going well or when things are going poorly in life when do people what's that when calamities happen when calamities happen all of a sudden that person oh boy you know I better I better get my act together over here things aren't going so well so why does the Torah say when the blessing in the curse comes why does the Torah say when the blessing in the curse comes why does the Tor just say when the curses come then you're going to get then you're going to get your act together why does the Torah talk about when the blessing and the curse God what the blessing God do with any of this most people people very very seldomly does a guy get rich and do chuva you could get rich and do Mitzvah but a guy who gets Rich very say you know that's why they they say when something bad happens people say why me when a guy when a guy know when a guy wins the lottery nobody ever breaks down crying and saying why me when I win the lottery M say hasem should be soon say amen and a lot of money say amen and my reaction is going to be not why me myac why' it take so long that's what my reaction is going to be you know like like go why not sooner you know what what what kind of who who gets rich and does some so uh oh I had a good day in the stock market I better do some soul searching very few people do that you have a bad day on the stock market then you do some soul searching first you shoot your broker then you do some soul searching for having murdered him but you do some soul surging right yeah yeah so why is the BR over here so there are different approaches approach number one is when people uh uh uh uh when you feel the pain greater when you've been lifted where do you feel the prak when you when when you fall off when you fall off a five for five a height of five feet or when you fall of a height of 20 feet right it's it's it's a worse fall so sometimes what a does to create more pain a person who has the money and loses the money that's devastating I never had the money so he didn't okay he not fun with not have money but when you had money and you lose it that's devastating that's devastating people who were wiped out what was it 2008 Wars of Crash 2008 people were wiped out they were devastated I there's some people who couldn't be wiped out because they didn't have anything to wipe out but there other people other people get they get wiped out you had it and you lost it so sometimes the blessing is there in order to feel the pain more so that a person will be motivated to do chuva because at the end of the day the whole goal of suffering is to get us to Dua the whole goal of Exile is to get us to get look around see what we're going through the goal of what we're going through in Israel right now is not to go and Target kill various Hezbollah leaders it's not the goal it maybe you know warms the heart but that's not the goal the goal isn't to go and and and bomb uh launchers in Lebanon that's not the goal the goal of whatever is going on is that we should say ronos we're in trouble help us out that's the goal and if you think that there's really something they could do about the situation then you then then you don't understand the situation there's nothing they can do about these guys got missiles that could reach all over the place and whatever they knocked out now they're estimating after all the after all the noise and the United States first said well they set back his bullet 20 years and another report came out they've only knocked out 10% of their capabilities how's that to motivate us to do some chuva and that's with all the bombing and everything else the goal of the suffering in life in general the goal of suffering is for a person to the says if a person sees his suffering you do some soul searching if you see you're going through a hard time do some soul searching and the goal by the way is not to determine why I told you we're not we're not prophets we're a nonprofit right we are a nonprofit we're not prophets we we don't have rakes if something happens let's say a guy's car gets stolen you come out in the morning your car is missing if you're in Brooklyn you're I heard once a guy in Brooklyn came out his front step was missing Guys somebody stole the front step in Brooklyn yeah yeah Welcome to New York right somebody somebody stole the front step right so you walk up in the morning in your car but in most normal cities only your car goes at least you have something to walk over to your car with in Brooklyn the step is missing so you wake up in the morning your car is stolen do you got to do some soul searching maybe I maybe I haven't given people rides enough maybe I haven't what do you call maybe I'm not so kosher in my business dealings the bottom line is I don't know why I can't say yes it must be because of my coach how do you know how do you know maybe it's because you ignore people you don't give people rides maybe it's because you talking sh I don't know how God works I don't know what I don't know how things work but what it gets us to do is at least think what it could be that's the goal what could it be oh you know what I haven't been giving people rides I've actually been going like this when they're outside in the rain and I had to kind of drive past I enjoy that and the uh what do you call I know that uh oh yeah there was that that guy that I ripped off in business oh that guy too oh that guy too got me thinking about that oh there's also I do talk in sh I don't know what it is and it could be none of the above it could be I don't honor my parents properly I don't know how God works my parents have carried me my whole life the car carries me there some there's a connection I don't know how God works the bottom line is it gets me thinking that's what truva was supposed to do so one of the benefits by the way that's why you never notice hummon Rose to a high position all anti-semites in Jewish history rise to a high position and then they fall why because it hurts more it hurts more when you're in a high position that's one of the paybacks for them they're put there in order to motivate us to cattle prod us into the right path that's their job their job is to get the Jewish people to do Chua h on goes and he torments the Jewish people all sudden the Jewish people are fasting they're doing CH that's his job but nobody asked him to do he's doing his job well he wasn't H chose to do that so he's going to get punished when does he get punished first BR promotes him he becomes the vice president of the world and then boink he falls it hurts more when you drop when you're raised High it hurts more that's the first idea of the BR in the CLA number one number two I heard about a guy there was this uh the head of the prison the Israeli prison uh prison Authority the head of the they call him the the shabat sh what's it called shabas no not not the the the the prisons the prison shabas right so the head of the the head of the prisons was once at a he met a a certain Rabbi and he said to this listen we got a we got a problem we got a guy in jail here in Israel he won't give his wife a legal divorce he won't give her a get the the law in Israel is the Hala first of all is that if a basan paskins that a man has to give his wife a get he has to give her a get let say he is not uh what do you call he's not supporting her or he is physically abusive or he's some committed a what do you call he's been unfaithful there are grounds for a woman to go to bason and say I want to get a get and basa will Pas and he has to give her a get okay in the time of the sun hedrin back in the day they could actually use corporal punishment to get a guy to give a get if a guy refus to give a get to his wife he refused to divorce her so they can bring him into they could bring in the basen enforcer who happens to be a what do you call it he he he doubles as a linebacker for one of the big 10 teams and this is his side job is whipping people in Bas in and as soon as he comes walking into the room uh the guy will probably soften up a little bit and then he starts applying some physical therapy and at a certain point the guy say okay I'll give her a again I'll give her a get that works nowadays we don't have that option what do they do the state of Israel the secular state has an arrangement with the courts if the court ever decides a man has to give his wife a g and he won't they will imprison him until he gives a get they put a man in there was actually a case here in Israel where a man died in prison 20 years he was in pris he refused to give his wife a get he said I'll rot before I give her a get apparently he felt that she had done certain things things which are generally uh not appropriate uh I'm not talking about burning the toast either and uh so he he said all right and he died in prison and after 20 years that he died in prison she had a Sit Chiva because they're still married and she was true she wasn't religious it was traditional I remember seeing the thing in the paper she's sitting there like this like I got to do this for this jerk over here for and she was B she felt Bound by the idea of sitting shiva so she so she was upset okay so this so the guy came to this road and he said I got a guy in prison who won't give his wife a get he's been in prison for for a few years and he refuses to give his wife a get what should I do so the rub said to the get to the head of the prisons I you know what the problem is what I want you to do is I want you to free him from prison free him from prison for three months let him go for three months then take him back to prison so he freed him for three months maybe six months I've heard a story freed him freeze the guy they bring him back to prison after six months and within a couple of days he gave his wife a get what happened he had gotten used to the situation of being in prison he had gotten used to it so he felt no urgency once he tasted Freedom again like whoa then he put it back in prison oh I forgot how bad prison is and so so at that point he writes the get at that point he's a good guy so the Torah says you know what sometimes sometimes you know you're suffering and you don't even appreciate to say sometimes people get used to the suffering so throws in a little broa he throws a a little broa oh things are a little better then boing back to the suffering okay start clapping start clapping Al you know start now now we'll do chuva that's idea number one idea number two people ask where was God during the Holocaust where was God great philosophical question where was Hashem during the Holocaust I mean the answer is it was exactly where German jury put him German jury put him out of the picture you know on you know on God in the picture so God steps out you have you have one one one sheep among 70 Wolves and the Shepherd you you tell the shepherd listen I don't need your a sheep says to the shepherd can you leave Shepherd's like you I don't think it's such a great idea you know I don't think great no no no good I could handle it on my own yeah I want I I like I want said to reform I want to reform things the shepherd say okay you know it gets ripped to pieces gets ripped to shreds when people ask where was Hashem during the Holocaust where was Hashem during the Holocaust gentlemen we are surrounded by a world we are the Sheep among 70 wolves the only reason they don't rip us apart is because Hashem is constantly with us otherwi they' be ripping ripping us the shreds so you push Hashem out of the picture all he's doing is leaving the world to its natural running that's all he did left the world to the Natural State the natural state is let's rip the Jews apart so if a person understands that in the Holocaust so you have all these terrible stor what about talk to somebody who survived read books about survivors from the Holocaust every single one of them you'll see has a story that doesn't make any sense they were lying under a pile of B bodies for 3 days and he was hiding in a barn by some by some uh polish peasant hit him in a barn for a year and a half you know all the all these stories that means that Hashem is saying over here there'll be the the calamities but there's going to be blessing among the calamities there's going to be Braha where's the braa those individuals who all experience BR and if you really want to understand where you want to see has ask any one of those people because their whole life doesn't make any sense we had a guy in Chicago by the way the guy in Chicago was a uh I knew he's an older guy spoke a European European guy so he said that he was in the he he was a like a 17-year-old Yeshiva Baker I think he I think he was in I don't remember where he was in Poland or where he was he was 17y old and uh you know things were getting hot and so he had a change he was walking around in peasants clothing and he was just trying to just trying to survive and he was just sitting in a bar and just trying to blend in and another guy sidles up to him in the bar and this guy says to him mod so he got nervous you know because the Germans did stuff like that the Germans trying to flush out Jew they sometimes go up to say somebody say shal you know if the Jew answered that was it they so he didn't know so this guy sidles up to him and he says mod so he says to him it turned out the guy was from the partisans and he there was you know he took him into the forest and he survived the war with the with the partisans somebody once asked this guy how come you did it why did you I mean you had a 5050 chance here why why did when the guy said modani you know he could have just ignored him and he would have stayed at the status quo why would you willing to take that chance and there a big chance it's a life or death chance why we only take that chance he said I remember the guy said with a smile the guy said listen when I hear mod I say you know this just something you do I don't you what I hear my guy says mod I say that's just the way it is no no rational reason that's that's that's the BR rescues him he could have just as easily been could have been EAS not not made it out okay that's our first idea now go to sorry what did I say t um no pest pest okay page 1092 okay completely different topic now the Torah says like this uh you it's about uh six lines from the bottom fascinating idea here MOS says to the Jewish people six lines to the bottom I call to witness today the heavens and the earth I have put life and death in front of you the blessing and the curse choose life choose life that you and your children should live gentlemen you know if you put out a steak in front of me if you put out a steak and you put out some sushi and you tell me choose the good one right sushi right the the say pick the good one what do you think I'm going to pick you know if you put steak you put out some cottage cheese all right for put out some steak put out some cottage which one you think I I need you to tell me to pick the steak you put out a $100 bill and you put out a one shekele a 10 shekele note there are none there that's how good they are you put out a $100 bill and 100 sheckel note tell me pick the good one pick the wa I need you tell me to pick the good one you tell me you could choose now pick the right one you I've always been a big fan of Ben Franklin you know so so what do you why it why you have life and death choose life yeah yeah that's that's pretty obvious isn't it it's pretty obvious so why is the Torah telling you to choose life number one so the the the myship say like this it doesn't mean choose it it means this is the result of choosing it doesn't mean to choose life I know that I should do that if you have a chance to stand on the train platform or jump in front of the rushing train I don't need somebody to say well stand the platform don't jump in front of the rushing train yes I know don't jump in R to avoid that rundown feeling do not jump in front of rushing trains yes I know that so why does the Tor say the is telling you this is the result you shall choose life when you choose life if you choose life then you and your children will live well again it sounds that if I Liv my children with it's telling you that if you want to enjoy and experience life at its fullest choose life the way the Torah tells you to choose life if you choose to live in ways that are not consistent with Torah your life is not going to be much of a life your life is going to be consumed by trying to find some sort of sense of fulfillment or purpose or whatever it is your life will not be a life the Torah says choose life choose to live life properly not that you should choose to live versus dying because that's pretty obvious number one number two here's a bonus for you here's the good news the Torah is telling you means imagine you wake up in the morning that takes some imagination but imagine you wake up in the morning you actually wake up and you wake up at 7 o'clock we're into science fiction here I know but you wake up at 7:00 in the morning and now come comes the battle should I go ding with Dominion or not ding with Dominion right the you the battle I told you gentlemen don't make the choice don't make the choice horizontal don't make the choice while you're horizontal then is you're that's that there's no free choice there if you're horizontal don't choose a get vertical then make the choice get ver it's a very it's a simple piece of advice I heard this once for RAB by T many years ago and I still use it for myself sometimes you know you wake up in the morning you're a little bit like sludgy yeah head's not clear you know I think I'm going to sleep for another five minutes or it turns out into two hours right you know before you make that decision get vertical I know I know that's also it's also not so just sit up in bed and and sit up in bed for a second think about a cup of coffee think about washing your face with some cold water just think about it you know what let me try that if you if if you're making the decision horizontal forget about it you're you're finished I mean even you're finished so you choose to go to the minion and you actually do it you get out of bed at 7 o'clock you have a cup of coffee you do other drugs Whatever Gets You Through the day and you actually make it to minion you put on your fing you put on your D I don't care what you just you go whatever sh not that I suspect anybody and and you actually make it Dominion when does the clock I once worked on a loading duck one summer I worked on a loading duck it was my in at high school there was a we were loading trucks but we're learning government food program we had to load boxes on trucks all night so I'm working on this loading dock I noticed it's the first time I ever worked with a punch clock and I noticed what everybody did you got to down to the dock the first thing anybody did is they took their card and punched it first you punched the clock then they start took off their coat got some cigarettes bought a cup of cof you start working 10 minutes later but the first thing is you punch that clock okay you went to daving at 7 o'cl you went to minion when did your clock for reward from God's start when does that clock start so we think yeah I got the sh okay now you punch the clock says the Torah the commentary say from the minute you make the choice the clock starts you're lying in bed you chose to get out of bed Boom the clock starts now everything is gravy now everything is gravy you go to show that's the reward the reward it's a g it's a freebie we get the reward from the moment we make the right choice you went to AER from the moment you chose to go to she to get off that couch out in the hall which I feel like burning a LBA om to to get off that couch put away the smartphone and get up and go to Shear from the moment you made the choice that's when the reward starts and if you would have chosen suor or stayed in the room and learned so they get even more reward that's what theor says I tell you something I had a guy once in my neighborhood Israeli he was an Israeli Bala and I knew he was in the Israeli Air Force this guy had been flying f-16s and he became with balua what's that is this Norman no no no no no he's a he's a diamonds this is this is an Israeli balua so this guy I knew he was in the he was in the he had been I knew he'd been in the Israeli Air Force he became a balua and he was ah head of a Colo and he became a r he became a POS and one day I asked him after sh is how he became what happened to him I mean you're in the Israeli Air Force you you've made you're at the Pinnacle of success in Israeli Society not used to be now it's a it's the uh the what you called it's the it's it's the computer guys what's it called 82000 the unit 82000 and that you know that blows up cities but they uh what you call used to be you know the Air Forces you know they used there was a there was a saying in Hebrew uh an expression the best ones go to the Air Force the best ones go to the Air Force so one day I asked him what happened how did he become a balua you're curious the guy for a pilot you know you got it made why would you want to become a Bala so this is the second one that I wondered about the guy I wondered about most by the way was the guy who was a sports writer for the Washington Post I think Washington Post or I think Washington Post he was a sports writer and he became a balua I asked the guy what what happened to you wh what what what why he says look he had he was working a job and involved being a sports writer involved getting in the business section of an airplane flying to a city staying at a five-star hotel going to the basketball game sitting in the Press Box drinking beer and eating Donuts watching the game and then pulling out a laptop and for two minutes writing who scored how many points who got thrown out of the game pushing a button send and then back to the hotel back to the next city rough job right I said to him you gave that up he said yeah is there still an opening you know could you imagine can you imagine I you know what what better and the guy gave away he walked away from it this guy was in the Air Force I said them what happened so he told me he grew up he was born and raised on a secular anti-religious kibuts and he had a steady diet of anti-religious propaganda and one day on the kibuts there was a traffic accident three sets of parents were killed from the kibutz and a short time later the daughter a teenage daughter of one of those parents she ended up going leaving the kibuts and she went to a seminary and became a balis Chua so everybody in Kut said listen only only Nut Cases or emotionally emotionally unhealthy people would become religious she was obviously emotionally distraught because their parents were killed and that was the end of the story in the meantime he went to the Air Force to became a captain and he's flying f f-16s one day they get a a year and a half later two years later they get an invitation at the kib's girl is getting married to yes she's from she's getting married the entire kibuts is invited the guy told me he was on his way with his buddies down to the down to the wedding and they're making jokes about Yesa B I remember he used the expression Yesa bakal that's what they were calling them Yesa bakal are a bunch of turtles in a shell they don't know what's going on in the world they're bunch of draft Dodgers they all they do the usual tiresome litany so he he's on the way down talking about yes B and they get to the wedding and they're still making jokes and they get to the they're still making jokes and then they finish the Anda go into the room and they're still making jokes and at a certain point the guy announces that the bride and groom are coming out get ready to greet the in the kala so he's standing there he says everybody in the room got up all the Yesa the groom's friends they stood on one side of the room and his people his kibutz people his family all the psych they were standing on here they were going to dance they weren't involved with anything just you know they're on the other side of the room the guy told me he was standing there here he is in his Captain's uniform and he's looking at the two groups he takes a look at the contrast and he thought to himself I'll say it in Hebrew he said this group is alive and this group is dead nobody told him nobody convinced him nobody argued he just took a look at the contrast between the the faces and the enthusias the entire approach of the Yeshiva guys and all his people all of his people and he said themselves they're living and they're dead I want to live He's tell me he made the decision to become from on the spot they were right there on the spot now they happened to be a guy there he told me there was an Israeli Head Hunter one of these MERS we I wanted these one of these guys who who's looking to draw people you know make people from he was at this wedding also and he saw the eyes lit up these guys are good these guys should be with so he Zoomed In For the Kill yeah he's he said the guy Zoomed In For the Kill and the guy was disappointed because the guy started telling him listen I could proof to you there's a guy said I don't need proof just tell me how do I keep sh no I can proof to you tor's I said I don't need proof the guy was he took all out of jab satis there was no argument he expected an argument the fight you know I'll convince the guy the guy the decision was made on the spot that's choose life choose life okay that's as far as we have to do a little bit of V by the way let's go on because we got a double header this week so um by the way there there's another sorry sorry there's another idea here very important very important before we go on you notice at the end of the says choose life that you and your children should live RHA finds says choose life means choose to follow the Torah in a way that your children will also want to follow the Torah and what that means is that with the environment in the home and not even just the environment the entire attitude and approach of the the parents is going to affect their children's yishai if I'm doing the mitzah and all I do is fetch about how hard it is to do the mites my kids see it so you say well what you know why would we want to be involved in that if the father's always ah filling cost so much and the rabbi just talks too long and Je is All yish Is One series of complaining so then what kind of what are the kids going to absorb all the kids are going to absorb is aish is a pain if the parents are enthusiastic and if the father says listen we're gonna give I love giving Saka and there's a different attitude so then it's that you and your Offspring should live there famous story with rosha Feinstein there were two men who came to the United States and they refused to work on chabas you know back in the 30s 40s it was a tremendous pressure you didn't work you got fired from your job a lot of people and that there are many people unfortunately who could not withstand that test they worked on chabas they had no choice there were men who went to schul in the morning shabas morning they were from men they went to sh shabas morning and then they got into their car they had to they take the subway go what do you call to go to work because they felt that they they had no choice there were others who help hel out they held out they got fired every week and they held out and it was very difficult for a period of a few years so somebody once asked from MOA Feinstein there were two men who did not work on chabas they kept chabas one of them his children all became very very fine Torah Jews completely devoted to JW the other one his kids were comec religious and they asked rot what happened they both sacrificed for chabas what what what what what's was difference rot and said I knew the two men the first man said you know what it's chabas it's Hashem shabas this is what we have to do we're happy to do it and that was the invite that was the attitude his kids picked up the second guy came home he also gave up but he came home and he said it's hard to be a Jew and it's hard to and he was always complaining so a kid hears the father complaining about being Jewish so why you why would I want to do that why why would I want to follow so the Torah says keep the mitzah in a way that your kids are going to enjoy it keep the mitz in the way they enthus you and your children should live okay one more point take a look in Rashi this is extremely important gentlemen um the Rashi begins uh two lines from the bottom do right colum if you find it please show the person next you I am calling the heavens and earth as witness against CL Jewish people what does it mean what does that mean what do you mean the heavens and earth are going to be Witnesses what does it mean Heavens what's that forever forever they're always around and they are not only the witnesses they're the ones who are going to determine whether or not what what the pay is it's going to rain and it's going to produce because we're good it's not going to rain and the product the the the protu is going to go rotten because we're bad you understand the heavens and the Earth the only that're Witnesses they're the ones who carry out the Judgment so the heavens and the Earth and they're always around by the way the what's the guy called in HEB in in a shul the guy in shul who takes care of the Sho what's he called the gab the guy calls up the alah the guy who arranges the shelves and the in the what's he called the shamish the shamish is that a Hebrew word that sounds familiar connected to shamish shamish which is the sun why is the son why is the shamish and sheemish the same because the son is the most reliable worker he always shows up on time the sun shows up at always at Sunrise he's there every day he's very reliable that's why it's called the shamish now look at rash Rashi says says rash they're around forever exactly what MOS said number one they're very good they have as wies because they're around forever but look look what else when anything bad happens they'll testify that I warned you they'll be around to say yeah I told you told you so okay then he says something else you know why said to the Jewish people look look at the heavens that I've created to serve you did the heavens ever change their role did they ever change their job did the sun ever not rise in the east and Shine for the whole world it says the sun will shine and sun will arrive and a little shine look at the land look at the Earth shemida did the Earth ever change did ever Veer off of its job sh Z did he ever plant crops and they didn't rise they didn't grow did he ever plant wheat and the wheat turned into barley in other words they did their jobs so Rashi concludes and says if these the heavens the Earth the plants the crops they're serving without any inent for reward or punishment so if you Merit you get rewarded and if you sin you'll be punished all the more so what's Rashi say Heavens the Earth the crops everybody everybody's everybody's doing their job what's Rashi say so I think there are two things here idea number one he says the heavens are always doing they're steady and they never did they never change they never veered off you planted wheat it came out as wheat never came out as barley ever noticed that you plant wheat comes out as wheat you plant barley comes out as Barley if you take leftovers and put them in the freezer they're going to taste like leftovers even when you come take them out of the freezer people think if you freeze it so then it comes back to life aason it'll be a resurrection of the Dead it doesn't happen doesn't happen you take for leftovers you put in the freezer you're going to take out what you you're going to take out what what what goes in comes out you freeze it fresh it's going to taste fresh I know well because I I don't do leftovers no let's not let's not let's not go there at all right but at the at the end of the day what goes in that's what's going to come out wheat never becomes barley what's it what why Rashi giving us all these examples I mean I got it from heavens and earth why you give me all you know was a little more sophisticated why don't we giveing all these examples the answer is number one all these things do their job steadily that's a requirement of us it's all about steady it's not about one time here and one time there it's about cons consistency there's got to be consistency you can't you can't show up at work one day and then take off and go yish kite is consistent it's filling every day it's tius every day it's daving every day it's not eating pork every day it's not talking Lush and hard it's consistency number one number two you have a role and you have a role and I have a role to play everybody has a role to play if you're wheat you're not going to be Barley if you're Heavens you're not going to be the Earth you're not going to don't change don't try to do somebody else's job I I I there's a story I think I heard this from Rabbi Salinger originally I'm not sure maybe it makes was there a guy anybody ever hear of tuscanini anybody ever hear of tuscanini I I was worried about that yeah well tuscanini was apparently a concert uh if I'm thinking of the right guy the conductor he was a conductor a very a famous if it's tuscanini I think it's tuscanini so if it's not that you don't know anyway so I could tell you it is right because anyway you don't know so uh tell who's the premier of China by the way I didn't know that either right oh yeah right so I can say anything that I want oh somebody got somebody actually knows I could just say one Yang gang and oh oh wow he's so sophisticated you don't know that it isn't okay so this guy was apparently a conductor and he was listening to a recording of an orchestra of a piece that was being played and he was listening to some with somebody else and he says to this other guy this guy remember these guys got a strange ear they hear these guys are they're they're made they're wired differently than the rest of us and he says to the guy hm that piece is meant to be played by 14 violins there's one violin missing supposed to be 14 violins and there one violin missing you know the story H that one one violin is missing what's that yeah one violin is missing and he says come on come on come on 13 violins 14 violins I mean would you be able to tell the difference between one come on and this is a recording of the thing he say I'm telling you one of those violins I wrote this piece and that piece is written for 14 violins and there's one violin missing it can't be he checks it out and it sure enough that turned out that that day the 14th violin player had called in sick he never showed up so they played it with 13 violins so pres you st to yourself does it really matter I mean does this violin one one more one less does it matter what he contributes does it really matter the answer is yes and the answer is that every single one of us matters you think to yourself does my learning gamar condition really matter I mean a lot of guys in Mirror are learning it a lot of guys in Punic are learning does my doing really matter does my yes the answer is that the Jewish people are one big Orchestra and your violin and your contribution and your doing and yourin yeah it all matters it if it's not there it's missing from the entire the entire piece does not play the same way and that's what the Torah is telling you over here everybody you're a wheat you're a barley whatever you are Do Your Role don't try to do somebody else's role and we have to do our thing consistently that's what the Torah wants from us okay we have to stop here