Weekly Torah Portion Re'eh Part 1according to the Kli Yakar Deuteronomy 11:26 5776

okay good evening everybody we're in parous re you can find that in Deuteronomy 11: see I present before you today a blessing and a curse right away in Hebrew it says re re is singular [Music] see I place before you in English you would never know this but in Hebrew is before you plural today the blessing and the curse so the clear right right away shows us and points out that the word is it's as if remember God's talking he's talking to a sing as as if he's talking to a singular one person all of a sudden in the middle sentence people don't talk like this right you don't mid sentence change the um the the tense and yet as if you're speaking to many people so this goes according to what say in [Music] k that a man should always consistently really imagine to himself compare himself as if the entire world the entire world is sitting on scales Mish even 50/50 half merits half debits right Mitzvah positive action versus a veros negative actions so he goes on and says all you have to do is one mitvah and what [Music] happens what happens by doing that one Mitzvah as a result that scale turns and changes it's leaning not just for yourself but yes for yourself and as a result not only do your does your scales turn to the Merit but the whole world turns to the Merit on your account of doing that one mitvah that's why God is saying to every individual see look at yourself look at it from your own spiritual Mind's Eye we talked about this before the the way I believe says the word understand SE like the Mah SE is Spirit but SE also means intellect so therefore I like to translated as the spiritual intellect and it says iing with your eye it's like your third eye that mystical eye the all knowing internal eye this is how you should see it as if go this is how you this is what God's talking you should see it for yourself that this is the EM this is the truth that everything you do every action you take is actually affecting the entire universe it's it's in front of everybody it affects everybody and it's in front of everybody the now why is it mentioned in our para this concept is mentioned in this para happens to be as we read on we're going to see that there it's talking about there will be a future we go into the land of Israel and a portion of the Jewish people are standing on One Mount the portion of Jew of the am Israel standing on the other Mount they're going to say the blessings the other people say amen you're going to have people say the curses people say amen so this is talking about the future if you actually look in in verse 29 it says and it will be that when Hashem God brings you to the land to which you come to possess it then you shall place the blessing on Mount greim and the curse on Mount AB okay so that's going to happen once you go into the land okay what's going to happen there all the Jewish people all of Isel are going to become guarantors for each other okay when one person sins we all are affected it affects every one of us when any one of us does a positive Act of Mitzvah then we all benefit but we're all responsible ultimately for each other and that's what's going to happen there as a result from the aspect that we take responsibility that the general population takes responsibility we actually seize we absorb we take on the sins of the individuals what you do affects me what I do affects you there is a similar type of hint through this there's like an imaginary hint but it's more than just imaginary happens to be in the med in the beginning of this par it's an analogy to an individual who's sitting at a Crossroads so you have several hats in front of you at least two so as I mentioned it's analogous to one person sitting by the crossroads it doesn't bring the whole um medish here but he brings enough enough of it to get for us to get the idea that in front of you you have two paths the first path or one of those paths begins where it's very wide many people have transversed the beginning of this path and as it goes on the further you go the thinner it gets and it's just a single path you know a single file type of a path it seems like ready he's going to say that it was a perfectly legitimate um meas to to bring here because of what it's proposing the proposed mush analogy is regarding our very verse that begins with to the individual and it finishes off well it doesn't really finish off but from Midway through it changes tense to the plural for the reason that we mentioned earlier which needs some explanation and bat we will explain it shortly so it mentions the language as I mentioned in the verse it says a see I plac before you today what is today it could have been without the word today see I plac before you a blessing and a curse what's today what is you today doing here even though at a time when you you establish a person to take I'm sorry sh we already mentioned as in verse 29 it's going to be when you go up to the Mount of uh Mount gin Mount avel you're going to take this oath for the blessing and the curse but when is that that's only when you come into the land I'll read the whole verse in 11:29 it will be when Hashem your God brings you into the land into which you come to possess it then you shall place the blessing but it's it hasn't happened yet nevertheless even though it hasn't happened yet the word is there to teach us what God is giving us time from today until that time where we are in ER Isel standing on those mountains I I don't know how much time it is several months from this day forward you have time to think about this arus this responsibility this oath this right this great amount of responsibility kades Yu in ordered that the Jewish people could not say and will not be able to say in the future we didn't have a choice we were forced you know that when someone holds a gun to your head and says sign this contract so you can get out of that right real easily when you go to court you say the only reason I signed the contract because of certain circumstances such as the guy had a gun to my head trust me they'll take the guy to jail and you'll get off the hook from that contract but when you're forced it's an excuse it's an excuse not to have to fulfill the contract because it was under duress so in order for the Jewish people not to claim later on that we're not responsible for anything whether it's the six 1 Mitzvah or especially someone else's sin we could have claimed a but by giving us this time allotted that removes any possibility of an excuse just like anytime that a court a Jewish Court um proposes or places an oath on somebody they always give enough time for the person to get out of it by saying I don't want to make us I changed my mind in order for them not to say I was confused and mixed up if you're confused and mixed up you don't want to go you don't want to go ahead with this oath seen and if enough time was given then there won't be an excuse that they could use that they were mixed up and Confused um uh when uh when God gave this Comm this uh commandment to to u to bless the good and curse the bad okay he did that before went into Israel so I you're saying the idea that it will happen I hear you saying did I mean did they have they were they expected to do it right after he mentioned or in preparation just he was just telling them this is what's going to be I think what you just said it's what's going to be so now you know what's going before they went into the land that's what yeah we are in D u onomy 11 we're still in the desert okay and it says in 29 it will be when you come into land this is what's going to happen okay I thought I made that clear yeah okay yeah okay any other questions statements now he gives two what we usually call D are alternative explanations that could sometimes totally contradict what had previously been said I went through these and I'd like if you can figure out how contradict contct it doesn't contradict it's different answer but I think it fits in fits in nice the the actual word today is AI it is a hint to what we call either the Sun or the orbit of the sun meaning from sunrise to sunet so the galal homi is a dis of the day what do you call the disc of the day the sun is a dis a round object that we refer to as day or the circuit the partial circuit we call day but in other words the word Hy day which hints to the sun there's this proximity to the blessing and the curse why do you have the word Hy at all and then why is it there it could have said hay right but it's so it's telling you just like the sun which is one unit it's a single object yet it acts in on I should say on objects in totally different ways it can soften and melt wax and can Harden an egg which is soft so right you have something hard becomes soft something soft becomes hard where it could when you're talking about someone going out and spending some time in the Sun by the river and trying to clean the clothes he the launderer his skin he gets a nice tan right his skin can become darkened but what happens to the clothing that is sitting in the hot Sun it turns uh White it's not bleach white but it it loses it it can lose its color it right that's what it means a Mal a bagot it becomes lighter let's say these results that we talked about the right the darkening or the lightning or the softening or the hardening they don't come as a result of the the sun I mean they do but it's not the the sun is static the sun is non-changing and neutral let's say in this case and yet the effect is it melts the wax or hardens the egg or it makes the face of the launderer dark and whitens the bagot it's only from the molecular structure of the receiving material so too the Brock and the clo [Music] so too what we call blessings and curses they're you know we think and we say they're coming from God but there's they're not affecting any change within God and they're not come the whatever the has whatever the flow we call blessings and curses it's depending on the M it's going to depend on us whether it's a br or a curse like it says in Mal that's Malachi 3:6 God says right for I am AEM I have not changed so Hashem doesn't change whatever Sho is happening is coming from within us right we're the ones quotequote receiving the blessing of the curse but from the sun it's the same or from God it's the same and then he brings down a verse from a a is Lamentations 3 verse [Music] 38 it is not from the mouth of the most high that evil and good emanate the broken the clo is not coming from him it's pure godliness it's pure shefa and we on the receiving in what we did will cause the effect determine whether it's a br or is this amazing to think about it this way like it's brought in the med brought by the in this that's how he explains to establish the word so we have as giving enough time to make a decision whether or not we want to go through with the oath of responsibility we have hay as a concept of the son whether or not that is what affects the BR or the curse meaning the result we realize it's not nothing to do with the sun which is one nothing to do with God which is one but with us and the last piece he brings down it says in gamor nadarim ch um page 8 B wow there's no such thing as hell there's no hell there's no geh in the world to come but what happens ready for this God removes the Sun from its sheath some kind of Shield it's now full blast furnace it's not geham it's the sun Unleashed as it says in Mali 3: 19 for behold the day is coming burning like an oven okay burning like an oven and all the wicked people and all the e evildoers will burn like straw and that coming day will burn them up so says Hashem okay let's go on but so what's going on now we have no geh but yet God removes the guard from the sun the sun goes full blast so it says that verse the day the day is coming remember that's a code word for sheemish for the son now that's by the evil people what about righteous people what do we see it's um not the ne yeah the next verse in Mal 3: 20 it says [Music] but the son of righteousness Will Shine for you s u n the son of righteousness Will Shine for you who fear my name with healing at its rays in its rays and you will go out and flourish it's the same Sun that will destroy the evil and it's the same son that will cure heal and caus to flourish the righteous I would say an energy that flows from my sh yeah pure godliness and that energy according to the receiver either turns into uh good for him or bad for him and that's in this world and the next World we see right so what would be the difference between removing the son's protection and a definition of GNA the person who does good good in this world will not will experience healing and the evil person in the world to come will experience ganam it's not the godliness that's pouring forth it's what you made of it said there was no geh right it's what you make of it oh okay no I don't get that a't gam there's no gam in the world to come but for the evil person he's going to suffer he's going to make his own G okay that's out of the same energy that flows the same energy that's going to cure it's an individual thing is what you yeah goes according to the rece okay now he finishes off right by saying ah this is a PK this is a verse Max from the gor we learned earlier okay should I skip something no oh so then it also says our verse says today pleas before your BR AA blessing and a curse meaning from the actual son itself will come forth the broen CLA not not the sun being the determining factors but the Mel but it's coming from the Sun and guess what ready there is no reward in this world for any mitzah okay we brought up earlier what about the little fruits that you may or may may not you know benefit from in this world so we had a long discussion not going to go into it now but it's a great great question anyway nevertheless guess what there's a whole proof or a sign to what we've said it says later on we talk about where this mountain is and the broken the curses how clear are these signs we're talking about when it says means after the sun sets meaning to the West that W where the sun goes down that's the border of the of Israel but what does my wife say when someone dies of course Brother D met but she'll say they went West she's from Jamaica when West means they died I don't know if you understood if someone went D to go south so you're from the north so what does it mean what does it mean we know the borders do need that it comes to this IDE that the prime e which may help us understand the the payros difference the eer the main principle of receiving reward or punishment will happen in the world to come yes a righteous person may suffer in this world a evil person may not suffer so much there are fruits to be eaten in this world but that's it fruits don't last very long the eer reward and punishment that will happen and take place will take place in the world to come and that's why it talks about after the after the sun is set that's the word that's used okay and with that I wish everyone a good shabas