Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan Parashat Re'eh 6

Hashem your God shall you follow and him shall you fear his Commandments shall You observe and to his voice shall you listen him shall you serve and to him shall you cleave verse 6 so what should we do with a false prophet once we find out that he's a faker and that prophet and that dreamer of a dream shall be put to death for he had spoken perversion against Hashem your God now um in verse 7 we learn about Prohibition of enticing others to follow Idols if your brother or any relative or your friend will entice you secretly saying let us go and worship the gods of others verse 9 you shall not accede to him don't hearken to him don't listen rather you shall surely kill him if we find out that there is a missionary among the Jewish people we have to kill him right away now in in verse 13 we learn about a wayward city a city where majority of its residents became Idol worshipers if in one of your cities that Hashem your God gives you in which to dwell you hear saying Lawless men have emerged from your midst and they have caused the Dwellers of the city to go astray saying let us go and worship the gods of others verse 16 you shall surely Smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword Lay It waste and everything that is in it gather all its property to the midst of its open Square and you shall burn it in fire completely the city and all its property to Hashem your God and it shall be an eternal Heap it shall not be rebuilt this is only for the land of Israel and only if majority of the residents became Idol worshipers after a thorough research we kill all inhabitants except of course those that didn't survivals and we burn all their houses and all their possessions now chapter 14 uh the Torah tells us that we are a treasured people you are children to Hashem your God you are a holy people Hashem has chosen you for himself to be a treasured people from among all the people on the face of the Earth and therefore we have special rules for example you shall not cut yourselves and you shall not make a bold spot between your eyes for that person every Jew who is alive is precious and they cannot mutilate themselves they cannot hurt themselves even if they are grieving a dead relative and because you're such a special people you have to follow laws of kashrut verse 4 these are the animals that you may eat for an example Ox sheep goat the deer and some others of course we learned in parshatch mini that any animal as it says here again in verse 6 that has split hooves and choose its Cod is kosher and these are examples of it verse 7 but this shall you not eat a camel and uh hair and a hyrax whatever those mean there is a Machoke there's an argument what a hair and a hyrax or arnavit and shafan mean because these three animals a camel and arnivot and shafan they bring up their card they do chew their card but their hoof is not split and the fourth exception is the pig it has a split hoof hoof but it does not chew its cut now kashrut or fish everything that is in the water anything that has fins and scales you may eat a shoot of birds every clean bird may you eat and this is what you shall not eat from among them and the Torah gives us a list of 21 Birds and any bird that falls into these 21 families were not allowed to eat if we know for sure that this bird is not one of these 21 families then we can eat but traditionally we do not eat any bird unless our parents and our grandparents ate it we follow our tradition in every country and again the Torah uh tells us about forbidden insects and finally it says um you may not cook a baby in its mother's milk the prohibition of cooking milk and meat in verse 22 we have the law of maaser cheni the second tithe you shall tie the entire crop of your planting verse 23 and you shall eat it before Hashem your God in a place that he will choose in yerushalayim however verse 24 tells us if the road will be too long for you and you cannot cannot carry it you live far away from yerushalayim and Hashem blessed you with a lot of food verse 25 then you may exchange it for money and bring the money to yerushalayim and you may spend the money for whatever your soul desires you shall eat it there before Hashem your God and rejoice now verse 28 we learn about Maser Ani a different kind of separation of a 10 to be given to poor people at the end of three years you shall take out every tithe of your crop in that year and set it down within your cities every third year and every sixth year of the shemitah cycle we give Maser Ani the the tenth for the poor instead of masterchini instead of taking it ourselves to yerushalayim we take that 10 and we give it to poor people then the levite can come and the convert and the orphan and the Widow who are in your cities and these are just examples of all poor people so they may eat and be satisfied so in order that Hashem your God will bless you in all your handiwork that you may undertake now chapter 15. laws of shemitah one of the laws on of the seventh year is that any outstanding loans are forbid for forgiven at the end of the seven years you shall Institute a remission every creditor shall give up his authority over what he has lent his fellow if the loan did not reach maturity yet then it is not canceled but alone that was supposed to be repaid already and the the borrower is poor cannot pay once the seventh year comes he no longer needs to pay now verse 7 commandment to be warm and open handed to extend free loans you shall not Harden your heart or close your hand against your destitute brother rather you shall open your hand to him you shall land him whatever is lacking to him beware that you should not say the seventh year approaches the remission year if I give him a loan it will be canceled I don't want to lose my money so I'm not going to land you shall surely give him and let your heart not feel bad when you give him for in return for this matter Hashem you your God will bless you in all your deeds and in your every undertaking giving out free loans is a great Mitzvah and provides us with with great blessings from Hashem when we rely on Hashem and say we will freely give out our money even though we might not get paid now in verse 12 we have laws of Jewish slaves a Hebrew man or Hebrew woman if they will be sold to you they shall serve you for six years and in the seventh year you shall send them away for free but when you send them away you shall not send them away empty-handed rather you should Adorn him generously you have to give them Gifts of food animals and every slave must receive 30 silver coins 30 shekels to start his life again now verse 16 in the event he will say to you I will not leave you he chooses to remain your slave then you shall take the all the instrument to make holes and put it through his ear and the door and he shall be for you an eternal slave up to 50 years until the year of jovel we pierce his ear as a sign that he chose to be a Slave and uh until Yeovil he can remain with you but then when the Jubilee year comes every Jewish slave must go back and start his life as a free man again now verse 19 we learn about Bihar of animals the firstborn of animals every firstborn male that is born in your cattle and in your flock you shall sanctify to hashan before Hashem your God shall you eat it which means you you give it to kohen and the kohen takes the bukhar and brings Jerusalem offers it in a temple and then eats it however verse 21 if it has a blemish then you're allowed to eat it in your cities you don't have to bring it to yerushalaim the kohen can eat it outside of yerushalaim because now that it has a blemish it's no longer fit to be a Corban now chapter 16 the three pilgrimage festivals you shall observe the month of the springtime and perform the pesach offering from here we learned that we must establish a calendar system that keeps the holidays in their proper time of the year and therefore we have to combine the lunar calendar together with a solar Canal calendar the only such calendar in existence the Christian calendar that we use now is purely solar calendar and therefore it lost its contact with the lunar cycle the Muslim calendar is the um lunar calendar it follows the cycle of the moon but it lost touch with the solar calendar with the solar cycle and therefore their calendars move around their holidays move around the Jewish calendar is the only one that is precise for the solar cycle and precise in the lunar cycle now verse 3 some laws of Passover you shall not eat leavened bread for seven days shall you eat much salt bread of affliction verse 4 no leaven of yours shall be seen throughout your boundary for seven days not only we may not eat hamets we cannot possess hamids verse 7 you shall roast the pesach offering and eat it in a place that Hashem your God will choose now verse 9 the laws of sefirada um you shall count seven weeks for yourselves from when the sickle is first put to the standing crop shall you begin counting seven weeks which means when we first start harvesting barley the second day of pesach will bring the offering of barley in the betamic dash and then we start counting seven weeks now the holiday of shavod then you shall observe the Festival of shavod for Hashem your God and now in verse 13 Sukkot you shall make the Festival of Sukkot for a seven day period you shall rejoice on your Festival you your family your workers and the poor people with you a seven day period shall you celebrate to Hashem your God in a place that Hashem your God will choose for Hashem will have blessed you in all your crap and in all your handiwork and you will be completely completely joyous which means if we follow the Jewish calendar and we observe all the holy days Shabbat and together with Yom Kippur and Russia Sana then we can be guaranteed that we will receive blessing for the next year verse 16 summarizes the three holidays and tells us about the Mitzvah of going to yerushalayim three times a year three times a year all your males should appear before Hashem your God in a place that he will choose in yerushalayim on the Festival of matsod the Festival of Shavuot and the Festival of Sukkot and a person shall not appear before Hashem empty-handed everyone according to what he can give this is a Mitzvah to bring a an a Quran it's called every time you visit betamic Dash according to the blessing that Hashem your God gives you if Hashem gives you a lot of blessing give a greater portion back to Hashem in the form of offerings and if your portion is small then you're not obligated as much this concludes parashat thank you for joining us shabbat shalom