Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan Parashat Re'eh 5

you will get great reward and things that we are planning not to do anyway like Rabbi avigder Miller says if you drive on the street and you see a dead cat ran that was run over by a car then you should also say Hashem I'm not eating that that cat not because I don't want it only but also because you said we shouldn't eat cats and we shouldn't eat animals that died by the by themselves who shouldn't eat disgusting things Hashem I'm doing it for you and you will get a reward even though you would have behaved the same way even without without Hashem telling you this is what we learned from blood okay now verse 26 only your sanctities shall you carry and come to the place that Hashem will choose which means if you designate an animal as an offering by saying may this sheep be an elevation offering now you're not allowed to eat that sheep you're not allowed to slaughter it you're not allowed to work it you're not allowed to Shear it you're not allowed to milk it you have to take this sheep to Jerusalem to betamic Dash and offer it there you shall perform the your elevation offerings and your Feast offerings the shlamim upon the altar of Hashem your God in elevation offering the entire animal is burnt on a Altar and in a peace offering the certain parts are put on the Altar and burnt some parts are given to kohen but majority of the animal goes back to the owners and they can eat it in Jerusalem now the Torah tells us a reward for observing mitzvot verse 28 Safeguard and listen to all these words that I command you in order that it will be well with you and your children after you forever when you do what is good and right in the eyes of Hashem your God whenever we want to do something questionable the way to figure out if it's good or not we should ask would would this be good in hashem's eyes would God approve of it and now in the next paragraph We have the rules about not copying the customs of the non-jews when Hashem your God will cut down the Nations to which you come to take possession from them beware for yourself lest you be attracted after them unless you seek out their gods saying how did these nations worship their gods and maybe I will do the same you shall not do so to Hashem your God for everything that is an abomination of Hashem that he hates have they done to their gods for the sake of their Idols the nations of the world allow themselves worse worse sins for even their sons and their daughters have they burned in the five for their gods they do human sacrifices they do forbidden relations in honor of their gods they do terrible terrible things the and Hashem says do not even look at the nations of the world because whatever good they have they have taken from the Torah and we have it as well and whatever else they have is absolutely bad and evil so there is nothing you can learn from the Nations because either we have it already or it's something that we don't want now chapter 13 we have a a concept of a false prophet from the time when the Jewish people said it's too much for us to listen to the voice of Hashem we cannot handle it Moshe please be the intermediary be the middle man the possibility of a false prophet emerged Moshe was righteous Yeshua and then the judges but at a certain point the erosive a new phenomena of people coming out and saying I received the word of God listen to me and now because we don't have direct communication of every Jew with God we gave it over to Moshe and after him to other prophets we now have to trust prophets and we have to figure out which prophet is honest and which one is not verse 2 chapter 13. if there should stand up in your midst a prophet or a dreamer of a dream and he will even produce a sign or a Wonder he'll even make a miracle and say let us follow gods of others do not listen to the words of that Prophet or to that dreamer of a dream for Hashem your God is testing you to know whether whether you love Hashem your God with all your heart and with all your soul