Shovavim Series - Parshas Mishpatim: Don't Wallow in the Dirt | Rabbi Nachum Binder

[Music] entering the final week of is the where the that we were just and is now Al the tah tells us what we're supposed to do how we're supposed to live how we're supposed to act so many Mitzvah in this week's par which is sandwiched between the two parts of and and the end of and the first Mitzvah the T tells us is the Mitzvah of and the T tells us about someone who is sold as an evid whether he is forced to be sold because he stole and doesn't have what to pay back or because he is in such financial difficulties that he's forced to sell himself as an evid and he's supposed to go free after six years of working but after the six years sometimes an evid might come and say I like it here too much everything is so good I don't want to go I would rather stay and the tah tells us what do we do with such an EV you bring him to bezin bezden brings him to the doorpost and they pierce his ear by the doorpost andash tells us from why his ear because the ear that heard on don't steal and he went and he stole that type of person deserves to be punished on his ear and if one didn't steal but sold himself as an evid for other reasons a ear that heard on that we should be the and he went and he took a different Master he also deserves that his ear should be punished and therefore his ear is pierced at this moment and all the ma are bothered this a quote unquote this wrong thing that this person did by selling himself or by stealing didn't take place now that took place 6 years before the first time that he stole and he had to be sold as an evid or when he went and he sold himself as an evid because of his financial situation so why is it being punished for that only now and this Fus tells us a fascinating a person could fall a person could have a AA and can end up stealing a person can have a and end up selling himself to be an EV to someone else and in that diminishing his to the but at that moment when the person fell and when the person was Nik in his mind he had how it's not going to be so bad he's going to be able to work it out it won't be such a but after 6 years of living in that situation of living in the situation of being an EV to someone else and not to the in living in a situation where you're classified as someone who stole and therefore you are anid and you make peace with your situation and you're ready to stay there that's when you get punished and this is a tremendous for all of us none of us are perfect and none of us will be perfect in the let us not wallow in the dirt which we find ourselves in sometimes how to deal with a a is not by making peace with the situation okay this is where I am this is what I am this is who I am how to deal with an ail is by looking and encouraging oneself quickly to pick oneself up and to change and to not allow that to Define who he is if an evid comes after 6 years and says I'm happy the way it is it's fine I'll stay a second class citizen in Rus that evid gets punished and if any person because of his n because of his neus in life defines himself so I will be the one who is not so careful than we also deserve to get punished but at the end of the para we find mid the T for the first time tells us the Mitzvah of there's a Mitzvah three times a year to leave one's home leave our properties and go up to theik to be with the three times a year on and the med tells us how beautiful was it when was with their shoes and the all are bothered why when the t is describing the Milo of Al do we describe them with their shoes and I've heard this V many that we know that when someone is in theik they are there without their shoes in the bikes itself one is there without his shoes we stand Barefoot when do we put on our shoes when we leave the B Mikes and we're going home from the B Mikes we're heading back from that Pinnacle of greatness and we're going home and we put on our shoes do you want to know the beauty of CLA is the beauty of Cl Isel is not only when they're in the B and they're on a high and everything's going great and they feel so holy and they say feel so close to the the beauty of Cl is that after that how do we leave that situation yes we put on our shoes and we head back to our fields we head back to our homes we head back to our day-to-day lives but we take that inspiration that we had in the B Mikes and we a little bit of it transforms our life after the bikes that it looks somewhat different than it looked before we allow ourselves to be defined while we're wearing our shoes on the way home but we are defined as people who just spent time in the B mikash and entering the last week of and doing something to take the inspiration that we all had the last six weeks and bringing it back home bringing it back to the regular life we have to realize the importance of being able to tap in to our and Define ourselves with the highs that we just experienced whether it was working on on sensitivities don't leave that in the bik don't leave that in the weeks of take it with you package it up and take that package into the rest of the year and especially as we're soon entering the days of such wonderful great times for a let us start off with this tremendous of the weeks of shim and let us Define ourselves that way and let us remember that if there will be any type of if there will be any type of that's not who we are we are the people who worked for six weeks on Chim we are the people who are looking to strive who are looking to grow who are looking to get close to the we are the people even while we're wearing our shoes but we're that we should take this inspiration with us and it should change us and transform us and we should be as we're entering the of together with all of Cl to once again experience [Music]