Shelach Weekly Torah Portion according to the Kli Yakar Numbers Chapter 15 verse 39

okay good evening everybody thank you for coming please take your seats and uh and just remind you to turn off your cell phones if we turn to we're actually towards the end of the paraa that is chapter 15 it's actually verse 39 but we can start with 37 already we and God said to Moses saying is you should speak to the children of Israel and you shall say to them they should make [Music] themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their Generations and they shall Place upon the tius of each Corner a thread of we're going to call turquoise wool for now but we're going to call from now on from now onus means that color we don't really know for sure what color it's maybe it's a bluish green maybe green maybe blue now our verse that the clear Begins by saying SE seats it will be for you in English the arull translates it as it con it shall constitute it for you or to and you shall see it and you will remember all the Commandments of God and you shall do them perform them not stray or here uses the word spy you shall not spy after your hearts or after your eyes in which you might stray after so it's a a warning please this is the command make yourself Titus and what you should do with them is to look at them and you will remember all the Mitzvah of God so that kind of bothers the clear then he asks look right it's three L okay the entire content of this par really requires a lot of expl [Music] clarification how is it possible how is it that one will remember all of the Mitzvah of God just through looking at this string this one read of and he it seems to be able to he seems to be able to explain this in two ways it appears to him to have more than one explanation and we're going to go through them both in the first way the first Mah the first understanding as it was mentioned in the earlier tonight [Music] sources and it's also brought in the [Music] in God spoke to Moses and said to him speak to the Jewish [Music] people you should you guys tell them you should look at the heavens that I created for your use shid it's a rhetorical question do they does the MOs does the character of the natural Universe really change right even science basically today they're still looking but and they're finding things and they're developing principles and they're set in stone and concrete until they find something new but everything they they they realize are laws that's what they call them what do you think that perhaps one day you're going to wake up and the sun is coming from the West every single day of my life that I've woken up and I'm sure you as well the sun has always risen in the East so that's like set in stone and not only this furthermore the the medis tells us that the the constellations or let's just say nature it's actually happy doing its thing for the meantime we are talking about the celestial spheres and he says this and it says similarly regarding the sea and I'm going to open up Jeremiah it's chap 5 verse 22 he skips the rest of the verse so let's open up Jeremiah I mentioned it's 5:22 and it looks like what we're talking about is that the seabed the sea itself is limited right it goes up into the seashore of course there's anomalies there there earthquakes and then there's tsunamis and heavy flooding in some places but the basic rule is that's how it's set up it's Jeremiah 5:22 and look what he says the whole verse goes like this 22 will you not fear me the word of Hashem will you not tremble before me for I have set sand as boundary against the sea as a permanent law that cannot be broken its waves rage forth but it cannot succeed they Roar but cannot cross it so the whole verse in Hebrew is is a statute or a decree or a law that is forever and it's not able cannot succeed in passing the boundary okay so we were talking about the Y we talked about the sky with the stars and the sun being happy we talked now about the sea again the rhetorical question has there been a major change in its character and its nature that the sea basically does not go up on the dry land oh not only that but this now is a little bit different than we called before the character of Joy Sim by the stars there was Simka by the Sea there's a pain to try to get above you know it's roaring and it's trying to go beyond and you see it through the waves you go to the shore and the waves they just want to come up but they they're never able to do it Shar as we saw in the verse right it's attempting to reach it but never does from here he says there's a proof that [Music] by it never loses that character of fear there's a MIT a as we said by the Sea there's this pain of not being able trying to accomplish but not being able to and that is from Fear Shere it really is troubled to do it but it's not able to it's not permitted to do whereas the sky when we talk about the star the the heavens the celestial spheres they don't change but they're not changing out of love so we saw and love and joy and we saw MIT which is a pain or an effort and fear commotion as we had already spoken below not only this Ella by the Stars it is actually tranquil and happy in continuing to fulfill the natural cycle regarding what we call this turquoise blue whatever it is it is regarding that say that this color we're going to call it let's call Blue okay just so we we flow that this blue is similar to the Sea maybe it's it's a bluish green and the sea is similar we're talking about similar in color to the sky and the sky is similar in color to the Throne of Glory we have no idea we don't see it but this is what we're told so certainly its explanation is the following that all the colors we just mentioned the colors of the sea the sky the they all are really very similar to each other in a certain way right if you have this like domino effect one is similar to the next the next is more similar to the following but the itself was not there was like a an in between an intermediate stage we said the C so the TA is not exactly as similar to the the sky as it is to the sea but each one of them leans closer to the next the next level of the color shade that's similar to it right there's different levels of of that color of depth of deepness and regarding this statement actually seals the whole concept meaning to say basically remember the question was what does just looking at this thread help you to remember all the mitzvas of God so just like the concept of looking at this thread of blue of that will remind you to remember through it all the Mitzvah of God that you will it doesn't change there's no exclusion there's no exception from this character trait even a hairs spread everything is like we said by the yam it said but it's it's like etched in concrete like we said about the laws of nature but since we said already that this is similar to the Sea and that through looking at this threat that you will remember the sea that is most similar in color to it and the goal would be will be similar as if the the sea the color of the sea the sea itself would be in front of your eyes continuously and through this you will meditate you will contemplate about the character traits of the nature of the sea that thank God we don't have a tsunami every day that it doesn't remove itself from the nature of the the nature of of the nature of nature um the characteristics of the way God created nature even a ha bread and from this you will come to a let's say a a healthy off and so too you'll come and you'll understand this on a deeper level from The Logical conclusion what the med was trying to get across again his T you're looking at the sea and what is his T his taku is to look to glance to stare here it's a language of SE seat itself we're calling the the bed the Garment that you're having these tassels these strings attached to it's called tius and the word seeds we're going to see in a second is related to the word his T to to glance to look Nar and he says that if you look in shim that is Song of Songs chapter 2 verse 9 sorry one second sh shim 2 verse n peeking it's a language of peing looking through the lates 2 verse 9 here we go in his swiftness to redeem me my beloved is like a gazelle or a young heart I thought I would be forever alone but behold he was standing behind our wall observing through the window peering through the laes through the lates Ms is a language of piercing with your eyes looking peeping what are we saying by the word mats we're understanding that mats and you're what you're supposed to do is look WS the sea but what are you seeing when you look at the sea that thank God there's no tsunami that the sea is not coming up above the uh the lines that you're expected to come on high time so too he doesn't change on account of this logical conclusion that if God forbid one should transgress like the word we're using also by TransPass the water but here transgress even one of the mitv one of The Commandments of God that is leaving the character trait that we discussed that hasem actually needed out for you he measured for you right even the Torah itself says you're not let it add to the Commandments a satrack from them but the Commandments themselves they're very we call they're very restrictive sometimes they have limitations there's certain places there's certain times there's certain attitudes one should have not only should you not right add or subtract but this is what is permissible that is what is forbidden and it's very Meed out it's it's in great measure we're on the last paragraph of the first page however we learned the one character trait out of the two that we mentioned one was AA and joy that's on one side from the sheemish from the Sun and we talked about the yam the sea we learned what we call fear and mostly from the word m fear this is what was said to the Sea not only that right the medus tells us that the sea was pained by not being able to cross over as I already mentioned the actually the word fear appears in the P itself let's see I had the verse here I think we talked about it I'll just mention will you not not fear me is how the pusk begins so fear is certainly understood as part of the MAA the character that the sea is experiencing so what comes out from this what do we learn from this that from the sea I'm sorry the only thing we learned from the sea is that character trait of fear and now it's a rhetorical question Mila I mean okay fine by Moshe and by anybody like him that would certainly be a small thing but by us not necessarily it's pretty big listen fear is not the end game it's not enough to get us to be the in the let's say in complete service of God we have another character trait and that has to be love so that's how the medish began and that's how we understand part of the story that we need to have year certainly one who serves God out of love he's serving God with joy and we have another claw another major principle This Joy this service of of Love which results in a real Joy is greater on a higher level than serving hasem out of [Music] fear this is like the greatest level of enjoyment in this world when one derives pleasure from the efforts they make from the toiling in their Torah and of course through doing the MIT when you serve Hashem with joy and love or This Joy is coming out of love that's through the efforts being made the joy is actually from the act the work I'm going to call the work there's effort there's work and I'll even call aod I mean however you want to translate the word you know we're talking about someone who's so it's great to use these words we're on the next page when it comes to fear we don't see the same pleasure from the act right from the work it's not you can't compare it he's saying that there isn't any pleasure that's why we have to compare one to the next it doesn't work when you think it's all in one thing the is that the sea is similar to the sky that through constant remembrance of the way the sea behaves then it will be as if the Sea and the me of the sea is constantly in your eyes and as a result the consequence afterwards it will also be similar in your eyes as if you're looking at at the sky constantly and this answers up now it's all being put together so nicely in a package that since the sea is similar to the sky when you think about the sea remember that's the the level of fear and you'll act out of fear which is fine and just like the sky also does not change its midot it's character it's set in stone only that it actually serves with joy and out of Joy it's happy to serve so to the one that serves Hashem properly he's serving Hashem ultimately after he's already experienced and and Master the level of fear he's all on the higher level of serving Hashem in in joy out of love and if the person we call the servant of Hashem he says what if he says like we're going to all ask right now what advantage what High Why is it such a higher level what what advantage is there to serve hem out of love over serving hem out of serving hem from Fear regarding this it said remember what about the latter part of the med we got the Yan fine then we talked about the sky so we had from and SAR higher level to sim Anda now theia the sky is similar to the to the throne of glory and what is it about The Throne of Glory we all want to know that through this that through this you'll remember this remembrance will cause you that it'll bring out the it'll bring love within this love that is brought to you you'll come to a intimate relationship with God it's called which could be translated as a real cleaving a real uh meshing with the divine presence itself and what is that what do we what is the that's the that is the place where the was carved out from was heed from right we're a piece of God call so that's the lower level anyone who is let's say like threatened or intimidated because he'll he'll stay away from doing the wrong things and this he'll have some kind of call Healthy fear and the one who loves and the one who's serving out of love so his efforts are constantly towards trying to have that most intimate Rel loving relationship with God therefore when it comes to we're talking about the the the reward that one [Music] gets that comes out that the love is the actual purpose of the success you want to succeed you really want the highest level of intimate relationship with God it's going to come from the love through it through that love you will Merit to have an intense close relationship with in the Throne of glory and it's through this as we said we're talking about tius the the Garment of tius but seits we said is a a language of looking peeping along longing and looking at the sky that you will Merit we will to remember constantly the Throne of Glory through those comparisons of the colors that we already mentioned now since there is a there accordingly there is here a hint to a reward that we're going to call nigla nigler means an obvious or you know you can see it you can feel it of this world H and that's coming through what we called earlier the lower level which was fear but it's it's it's necessary and the let's call it the hidden reward which I can tell you right now is going to be in the world to come the hidden reward is that reward comes on account of the love that one has we already said earlier it's the effort that you derive pleasure from it's the work itself that is enjoyable this is a famous saying that you know we're talking about reward how you know praised are you in the this world and it will be good for you in the world to come now we understand why it actually says in our par okay there's a little bit of linguistics we're going to go through it [Music] says now that's third person right they shall make for themselves CES we call that l nistar in grammar third person is you're not talking to one directly it's about somebody so that's called n that's hidden right in the next verse it says and it shall constitute for you it's going to be to [Music] you we call that a language of present tense like in the here and now and that is what we call nigla um obvious and one can see it perceive it Zar the clear says this is a very precious explanation [Music] Z right each one of the corners has really four strings that are folded over so that makes eight strings there are five sets of knots which makes 8 and five is 30 and S makes it the equivalent of in 13 and that is the gatria of the actual word for love as we've been discussing all along okay that's how he concludes the first D I'm going to talk talk about the second D this is the last paragraph on our second page now this is going to be very deep all of our Mitzvah the one the Commandments that we do they are analogous to garments that we wear shenar it says in Ecclesiastes Calis Calis [Music] 98 okay Calis let your garments always be white and your head never lack oil behold what does it mean we just talked about the garments are the Commandments they're they're compared to the Commandments and we're seemingly commanded it's a h of TOA certainly let let your garments always be white okay but there is a difference you have a piece of cloth there are so many pieces of thread they're all woven together I cannot cover my entire body with just one thread okay that would be quite embarrassing Mal when it comes to spirituality and we talk about clothing the soul so the soul is transcendent there's not it cannot you cannot even measure it so what are you talking about one string one thread can certainly cover the certainly right even one thread can cover it is enough to cover it the like Dar out in theor Sedin that means without limit without this is in um Isaiah 5 verse 14 and this is talking about people who do sin I'll read it therefore the Nether world has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth wide without limit right this is what does it mean wide without limit so we think you know this is like a big punishment in geh what we call hell well he say it says without without limit hope can mean limit but hope we already said could mean a statue a Mitzvah a commandment so somebody who's without even one commandment that's where he goes this kind of is being described here is for someone who doesn't even have one MIT one thread one mitah to stand on to guard him or to keep him where the the reverse would be true if he kept he observed even just one hope one Mitzvah one decree that one thread that one mitvah will save him from the geh the punishment of the world to come and the reason for the matter is like this that the actual Covenant that was given it was cut it was decreed that a Mitzvah Mitzvah a Mitzvah actually I'm don't call Karma I know some people would like called that but if you have that head space you can relate to what the understanding is it's inertia you do a Mitzvah and it brings on another Mitzvah as a result it's actually much deeper than that and I believe that he's going to be quoting doesn't say who he quotes from but his you know he learned under the mar and I believe when the mar describes in this mitvah peros it discusses this idea actually you know what even the the um haon Rashi mentions it this idea that when the Ten Commandments were given right there 620 letters each one of the letters the first 613 represent a Mitzvah and then you have the seven no laws According to some opinions seven rabic Concepts according to others but you have inside the tablets themselves and each Mitzvah even though each one is an individual Mitzvah it's a running through of sentences and deep 10 we call them 10 statements they're all intertwined with each other on many different levels so what is he about to say exactly that on on a deeper level IM if that's true that one Mitzvah drags or causes another [Music] Mitzvah when all you do is just one Mitzvah it could be to fill right you could be walking down the street and a person ask you you put on the filing today you put on to filling or you sit down and learn for an hour doesn't matter one what you doing is one Mitzvah what it's going to release a tremendous amount of potential youz all the Mitzvah were in potential within that one Mitzvah the word kak yes it means power but it also means potential all you're doing is one and within that one you have all the other potential for all the other 612 mitz was that are not roed seemingly in that mitvah but they are even though you didn't actually activate all those other 612 uh power points I can use that word in different context nevertheless since this thing is within the potential it's actually as if you were doing them or began to do them or touched upon them this is the secret of that one string that one blue string that will help you remember that will bring this remembrance of all the other mem because through it because through it becomes this complete begged for your soul we said by the soul even one thread was enough and and thank God you will not be buried naked just like we talked about when was around right before the sin he just had one Mitzvah that was it his entire being was don't eat from this particular tree otherwise he would be stripped and become naked and that's what he did that's very deep in itself we'll talk about another time and furthermore there is another mitvah that mentions all the other Mitzvah can anybody guess what that is says this particular Mitzvah is the greatest Mitzvah it's how can one even think of living call using the word religious I don't like it how can one even think of Rel living a religious lifestyle a pure lifestyle a holy lifestyle without this command without even trying to you know maybe you have some deep-seated psychological issues you to work through but to make every single effort you possibly can the half you shall love your neighbor as yourself this is one Mitzvah that is so clear encompasses all the other mitv we understand this that one particular string one particular Mitzvah is able to to bring a person to his purpose Tate let's look the is blue T the same word is really purpose and goal in life just like the word represents and instructs us on the deepest level this is one of this is the deepest of Secrets within the entire Torah have a good shabas everybody