Parshas Shoftim: RATZON

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month two months okay at least you tried but to tell God re I'm gonna fool you during these 10 days I'm but as soon as yum KRA is over I'm back to my old ways I mean what's what's the point of that it's not is that a really significant does that have any meaning you're mael something for a short amount of time and telling you I have no intention of keeping it as soon as they blow the Scher on yipper I was one okay I'll leave that out I'll leave the story out because you never know who's listening okay let us begin with the subject of the end of the subject of the if someone is found slain and we need to find out who's responsible so there zum of the closest city uh the M says they wash their hands and they speak up and they say look we didn't kill the guy our hands didn't spell the blood van we don't know anything don't look at us we're innocent says Rashi I don't understand we're going to the godar and the godar says oh I didn't do it well what we thought he did it why why we going to well we thought he did it then the guy's dead the guy's dead like a dnab right and and uh you know they the hilarious all over the place you know and we go we go to the God's house we not going to oh it wasn't me says would you think that the elders are murderers what the elders so the answer is that there's a certain liability that we're insinuating they have that they have to release themselves from and they say look we didn't see the guy and let him go without food and without escort because the what we're saying is that if the guy left the city and he didn't have food and nobody escorted him that's why he died because nobody cared about him he was starving and he was demoralized and he was depressed he has no friends so the came said we didn't know he was in the city if we would have known we would have escorted him but we never saw him to escort him which implies somehow that if somebody would have escorted the guy the guy wouldn't have been harmed right we know that that's an important practice when you have a guest you give the guy food you give the guy drink and you walk him out you have to walk him for cubits if you if you have company now you know um people say to me sometime you know how come we don't invite guest it's not to invite the guy who lives on your block to your house for a meal it's not the guy has a bed the guy has food the guy is drink someone who doesn't have a home guy or a guy has nowhere to go it's not a somehow became the guy who you sit next to in oh I'm going to invite him to my house wasn't inviting the guy who sat next to him and SCH to his house it's not nothing to do with but is someone who doesn't have a place to go anyway but tells a story about a seron city where they were very uh they were very um excellent in the midst of and there were fires in the city and it was explained because they did they fed and they gave to drink and they didn't do escort and the full gamut of without the L it's without the lit it's it could be dangerous so you got to escort somebody minimum 8T out of the house okay but that implies that somehow if you escort someone out of your house he's going to be protected I don't understand the guy he say where where are you going after this all after this I'm going I'm going uh I'm going to Westchester how you getting there I'm walking through Harlem or where you going uh thank you for the meal in uh in the heart of jerus where you going I'm going to sh I mean any guy who goes to sh with idef escort I mean I that's next stop by the way we got to go to the keer of Yad come on if you went to France you could go to Y but um so so now what oh so I'm going to protect you how am I going to protect you I'm going to walk you Dal and now that I walked you Dal in the Five Towns now when you walk through Harlem you're going to be protected what do the dalar accomplish what is what exactly is uh taking place when you escort somebody so the Mas says this is really a very powerful Mas says 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 seventh line the says it's definitely a supernatural thing if somebody gets escorted he will be saved from damage that would have that he would have uh incurred why what's the reason listen to this since you started to escort him for G so why am I trying to escort you trying to escort you cuz I want you to be protected so I want you to be protected so then why don't I walk with you with with ar and you know with armed escort walk you through Harlem to where do that's is cuz I also have a life I can't can't spend the next 5 hours of in you but I'm walking you because I I want to protect you my intent my mindset to save me on the road my thoughts my [Applause] desire will protect you the whole road to save you in the vein of God will fulfill the desire of those who F him those who fear Him so I'm walking you four cubits why don't I walk you the whole Road CU I actually I also have a life I also have a job I I don't have 5 hours to walk you where you're going but I'm walking you and I'm demonstrating I want you to be protected once it is clear what my desire is there's a principle God fulfills the desire of those who fear Him so God's going to protect this guy the whole road because his friend wants him to be protected wow so we always know actions are important words are important maybe even thoughts are important now we're learning what you want has an effect in this world what you want changes the reality this guy would have been in danger but because you want him to be protected God will fulfill that now so why can't I just sit back at home and the guy says okay I really appreciate it and I said yeah have a nice day leave he said where's the door don't make a ride at the end and don't let the door hit you from behind when you're leaving is that's it yeah but I want you to be safe so it sounds like it's very nice you want the guy to be safe but by doing even a small act to show what you want that has a lot of significance and a lot of value and that's what I want to speak about tonight in the context of the month of el and what our focus should be preparing for rashash is there any other Mitzvah like similar to this in terms of let's see let's see right now this seems like a pretty novel uh little practice then the Masa continues another possibility we all have angels that hang out with us I have a couple you know one on the right side one on the left side you have angels we all have Angels there's even that we don't do anymore that when you go to the B you say you know I'll be right back and uh the M says we don't do it anymore because we don't consider ourselves so righteous that the angels are always with us and what about Friday night you know you say you greet the do the Angels come do they not come but there's an idea the angels are always there if you want the guy to be protected the angel said oh ruen wants sh to be protected okay we'll we'll we'll finish the job we'll do what you can't do ruen can't protect him the he doesn't have arms he doesn't have time he doesn't uh he doesn't have the the availability to protect him but once he walks in four cubits and he demonstrates his R the Mal that accompany you will complete the job that you wanted to do so from here we see something very important that your rut and your desire has a significant and tangible effect in this world you want him to be protected is going to help him there's a story reported in the had a rea brother Luan who was close with ruk and he writes about the AL that was overflowing witha and giving anyone who who would meet him would be taken by the beneficience that wanted to bestow on the person and even if could not be mative to somebody and show kindness to someone he expressed his desire that he wishes he could help the person and he would pray for them and he would bless them and The Story Goes that one time umu was standing by the window and he would and he would offer blessings to people who passed by who couldn't even hear him you should be successful you should have good health you should uh make a lot of money you just stand there by the window like keeping blessings down and one time one of his Tam who was with him he was by the window and he was saying good morning good morning and the students was looking who's he talking to there's nobody there who's who's the who's the old man talking to he said rebba who you saying good morning to Sam I'm saying good morning to yanle Reba Y is not there what do you mean you're saying only when I meet yanle face to face I should say to him I want you to have a good morning why can't I say even if Yan's not there why can't I express I want yanle to have a good day why does he have to be there why can't I articulate my desire is I want things to be good for y unle and Goldberg rash tells in his commentary to the of the rash understands this story that what was doing was like the mar that we see from here we see an idea that even if you can't lend somebody money and even if you can't help somebody physically and even if you can actively do to somebody it has value to want goodness for somebody else just wanting it is valuable wanting it is a because of Y God fulfills the wants of those who fear Him so this a very interesting concept think about the novelty of this we know you know you put Onin that's valuable you sit in a Suka it's valuable you learn to it's valuable what value does it have to want to do something good you want very good you know somebody sometime people say you know I really want it to come yeah so either yeah either you did or you didn't no it has value somebody wants to do something has a lot of value says Runa Raba the son of rahuna said in the name of rahuna and some say Runa said in the name of Lazar that in the from the from the from the we learn the following principle on the way that a person wants to go they lead him think says we see that from bam God says to billum don't go so bam doesn't listen and then a few minutes later says Okay Go what happened Hashem told him not to go so says yeah but hasem wanted to go so since Hashem wanted to go say go where the PK says I am Hashem your God who teaches you to to for to benefit yourself and I guide you in the road that you're going or the in you want to be a scoffer you want to be a joker you know there some people they come to SCH to be serious and other people not not in not in Five Towns or in New York but in other communities in other planets let's say you know on other planets that have life for some Creations they they go to sh to joke around oh you going to joke around yeah but it's Tish so you're going to joke I'll give you I'll give you funny things to joke about I'll Supply you with the Laughing material you want to go in a certain path I'll make sure something funny H I'll give you plenty of stuff to joke about so the mar is bothered by a very interesting question what does the gar mean on the road that a person wants to go on they take you who's they who's the they you know the government who's the day on the road you want to go on they lead you who's the uh the proverbial they who's the they let's pull away the veil who's the they ready for Mar comes a mar and he says a wondrous thing says Mar second line I already wrote many many [Applause] places every thought word and act you create an angel whether good or bad now some of this we know we understand you do a Mitzvah you create an angel right you know you sayain you create an angel you do a Mitzvah you create an angel you do a you create a monster by the way I believe the says in the end of this week it [Applause] says says you're go out to war and you're going to see a big nation stronger than you don't be afraid says you can go out to war that's the war against theara and thear is going to say to you huh you're not going to fight me you know how many monstrous uh distorted mutant Angels you created through the millions of sins you've done and the the the the shows you billions of Mal billions of mutant angels that you created and he said I created that H I ever going to do chuva Hashem says him don't be afraid you could do chuva so every time you do an act every time you do an AA you create an angel every time you say a word that's meritorious you create uh an angel every time you say a sinful word you create an angel but not only that every thought that you have if it's a good thought you create a Mal if it's an impure thought you create a destructive Mal I mean that's that that so you're telling me life is actually means something life is serious imagine Every Act every thought every thought every thought creates an angel says the what we have control of is the path in life because we could choose whether we want go on the right path or the wrong path however once we choose the path whether we do something whether we say something whether we think something we create myriads of angels and they continue us along the path they're the ones who bring us on the path not Hashem we basically control the of Our Lives we choose the path once we choose the path the angels are created and they continue the person along the path so this is a very novel and powerful and empowering and frightening and haunting and ennobling idea that every act word and thought what has an effect in this world so the guy's on his phone he sees another another person wants my money another tadaka collection so okay someone's a big sadic he gives to each one but I mean I'm just trying to see uh you know what happened yesterday have 500 so but okay I wish I could help them I wish I could help them I wish I could help them it's I look it's much better to help the person of course but does it have value to wish you could help them yeah you go to seeum the guy finish sh the guy finish I can't I'm not holding there okay but at least want to that has value that has value now watch this there was a man by the name ofu you ever hear of him Moses M did something that nobody in the history of the world was authorized to do he separated from his wife and Miriam was very surprised who does MOA think he is to separate from his spouse well he's holier than me God speaks to me also and I don't separate from myself Aon you separate from your son no God speaks to you yeah so why why is mosha separating from his spouse so Miriam spoke M Miriam didn't realize mha was greater than any other Navi that every other Navi had God didn't speak to at will M had to be ready 24 hours a day seven days a week for divine communication so he had to be T at all times so Miriam spoke but the the question is this is addressed by to and chabus and tus and yamus that the says three things M did and Hashem endorsed he added a day to he broke the and he separated from his spouse because after M the Jewish people had to separate from their wives by mat and after matm tells mha go tell them to go back to their tents to their wives and you you stay with me so thear says we so MOA separated from his wife and God said you did the right thing adab boy not adab boy good going m yeah fine as if hasem endured separating from his wife then how could why would Miram speak lash Miriam said oh who does mha think he he is he's suffering from his what do you mean hasm told him to if this is one of three things that Hashem said you're doing the right thing then what was the that mam spoke that's we have y over here because and adds a line the end of number nine why did Miriam get angry at him because Miriam said yeah God told you to separate from your wife but God also told bam to go why did God tell billum to go he first told him not to go but when billum wanted to go God said you want to go go so Miriam says I agree God told you separate from your wife but the reason he told you is cuz he wanted that and you shouldn't have wanted that so you twisted God's arm for him to tell you to separate from your spouse how did mosa twist the arm of God by wanting to Miriam said who you think you are to want to I mean give me a cut me some slack how could you speak about me if God told me that I'm right no God only told you that you're right cuz he wanted it but doesn't mean you're right so look at the power of r Rin could change what is correct and what is wrong it was wrong in the eyes of Miram R could force the hand of Hashem you could have the ream held in the eyes ofan that M was not allowed to do it but hasem told him to do it because M wanted it here's another example you ever here there's a PK that sometimes the ancient Hebrews say in their prayers you open up your hand and you satisfy every Li living thing's desire right you touch the sh Yad and then you touch the they go like this you ever see the they go like this why CU all the gold comes when you say that's why we have harder time making a living because we missed all that we we don't we don't catch it right now but by the way the has a chuva are we allowed to go like this he said yeah he does it it's like a PO it's like like when the N would do actions to bring prophecy to fruition so you could go like that anyway has the following question really God opens up his hand and he gives everybody what they want let's just take a little pull raise your hand if you have everything you want besides me there's no one in this room yeah who raised their hand so what what does the p mean God open you open up your hand and you give to every living thing their desire but the says so what does it mean God opens up his hand and he satisfi the desire every living saysi I'll give you a the king comes into the city he says H I'm here today I'm giving everyone a thousand bucks the only thing is the guy in right field he owed the king a th000 bucks so the king said okay so so we're even so did that guy not get anything no he got as much as everybody else so we sometimes ohe God also you know if we do an AA so we we got to get our retribution we have punishment that's what are the says in that if somebody doesn't have yur in 30 days they should worry uh oh maybe I'm getting my in this world say what's an example of say you stick your hand in your pocket to pull out a nickel and you pull out a dime that's already so most people have some yur every day not everything goes exactly but it's a good thing because it it compensate it's a payback for an AA so says the starting point is God gives everybody everything they want and whatever you don't have that you want is m a so you do God does give you everything but I don't have everything yeah yeah because you owed him so whatever but but that means what you wanted is given to you what you wanted is important what you wanted actually decides what you should get and whatever you don't get it's a kapara don't feel bad it's a good kapara so again we see that R actually what I'm supposed to get is not what almost God de size I should get it's what I want now sometimes can't give it to me because I owe him but look at the power of rain to here Miriam said um M you're R changed what Hashem says so here's a story this is like we we set over the story in the uh drappier House of champagne and we call it this is a terrible Mish it's the best it's a great Mish but it's it's a very unusual medish medish talks about a a certain alcoholic who he spent all his money on wine beer whiskey bourbon all kind champagne and all that other good stuff scotch and uh he had nothing left so he started to sell his furniture and then the kids said that's enough dad's going to deplete the all the assets so they said what do we do with him we got to get rid of him so They Carried him out one day in a drunken stuper and they bring him to a cemetery they dig a plot for him they dump him in the hole and they say it's been nice knowing you and the Met says a whole story there was a an army walking through and uh there was a there there was another Army about to attack them and of course armies always travel with their stash of alcohol and one of the armies ran away and they ran after him and the the Army left all their alcohol in the cemetery right by the guy's grave so a few days later he wakes up from his stoer he looks up and he says the Garden of Eden is much better than I thought and uh the the boys come back a few days later and they want to see what's up with Dad and they see he is enjoying his alcohol like never before so they said uh I guess he has what he wants and they brought him back and they made a deal on Sunday ruin gives dad alcohol on Monday shim and on Tuesday Ley and the story ends happily ever after and is the most bizar medish in the history of the medish what exactly is the I mean why is this a medish this is like you know definitely not for a general audience how is this toyra what's the moral of the yeah what's the moral the moral of the story is that if you want alcohol go to the cemetery I mean what what are you supposed to learn from the uh so you see now you understand could be exciting you know but what exactly what do we learn from this medish says reeler from this medish we see the great principle of on the road you want to go on God will guide you on that road you want to be an alcoholic God will give you you wonder you have a guy he's he could eat 90 Hot Dogs what's this guy's name every year the guy could eat 90 Hot Dog how is it possible how's it humanly possible to eat 90 hot dogs I mean the esophagus in the stomach there's room for three and a half hot dogs how could the guy eat 90 hot dogs with the bun the answer is this is his chosen path and he has you have if you want to be an alcoholic you could be an alcoholic nobody business you want to eat hot dogs you could eat hot dogs like nobody's business God will guide you on your sometimes you you look at the sh how's it possible to learn the whole Shas I can't even learn one line of gamarra I haven't looked at a line of gamarra and I don't know how long the answer is it's you're right it's impossible it's impossible to learn two lines of gamar but if you choose to learn it God will help you the same way he helped the guy you think if God helps the guy eat the hot dogs he can't help you learn a blara that's the way it works we just choose the path and then takes us the rest of the way there now we know the path God's attribute of kindness and goodness is 500 times greater than the attribute of punishment so if God is going to help an alcoholic just extrapolate how much more the re will help a person in Ras achieve what they would like to achieve One More Story so we have to get raor in of course so thear tells were going on the road was m in people's name he would ask you your name what's your name d That's a good name r r would uh analyze people's name he would tell you everything about you by looking at your name r and rud they didn't pay so much attention so they got to a certain host and they asked the host what's your name he said my name is Kar This Guy's in this guy's up to no good didn't pay any attention so when you go to an inn back in the day instead of they have that thing in the room with the safe you would give it to the host I'm not sure what anybody was thinking about that Arrangement but you would give the wallet to the host especially on on chabas so they gave the wallet to the host raer went straight to the cemetery and he buried his wallet now it turns out he buried the wallet by the host's Father the host father in the world of Truth came to the host said by the way there's a wallet by my head it's really it's a little uncomfortable you know you might want to dig out the wallet so the host went to ask do dreams me anything mean anything ra what kind of dream I had a dream about out no dreams mean nothing so may ran to the wallet and he stood there the whole shabas shabas is over say to the guy give me my wallet back and the guy said I don't know what you're talking about and then R May tells them the whole thing and they said why didn't you tell us about the name business and R said look I didn't know for sure it's just you have to be concerned that's the story and I couldnot find this in any of writings quoted and asks this host he's a good guy not a good guy he's he's a he's uh he makes love love on look like an honest guy right he's he's a crook how did he end up getting uh he stole the wallets ofi and he was going to steal the wallet of RA how he had Divine prophecy his dad came to him from on the world of Truth to help him steal what the guy's a navi he's like y I mean who is heu guy's a crook how's he having Divine communication saysit he wants to steal so God will give him assistance supernaturally that he will have communion from the world of Truth to assist him stealing how that baseball player hit so many home runs what do you mean it steroids yeah but before there were steroids the answer is there were always steroids and there still are steroids but even if there weren't steroids they would have seat desaya they've chosen this career path and even though you you throw a regular guy a baseball he could barely get it to Third Base this guy could hit it out of the park why cuz this is their chosen path this is the power of R you want something theam will give you tremendous ran has great value you have the ability through R to protect somebody walking through Harlem merely because you want him to be protected it has value to want to somebody to have a good day even though you don't see them you want want them to have a good day that has value you want a certain path in life God will come to you and say yeah do that what do you mean it's a wrong thing to do no you could even twist the arm of theam to tell you that what you're doing is right even though it's wrong by the way I just thought of another example I think on the gar says that ra gel he used to throw everybody out of the because he said if you're inside not like your outside then you don't belong here so and felt bad that when became thei that all of a sudden the shaw was packed again so hasem showed Rin Gamel in a dream a certain vase that to indicate that uh people are not good on the on the inside don't really deserve to be in the B Med and thear says no God wasn't saying ra gam was right but hashm was making him feel better we making him feel better so so now thinks what he's doing is right the answer is yeah that was his path that was his D soem says yeah go ahead and therefore in the month of el of course what are we supposed to be doing we're supposed to be doing Chua but here's the Kash before you do chuva you know what you need to do before you do chuva you know what also has value even if you don't do chuva wanting to do chuva if you want to do Chua that has great value that's very important say come on either you are or you aren't either you're doing chuva or you're not doing Chua who says there's something called wanting to do Chua so remember many years ago I even said this over once remember hearing in Yesa from one of our Jacobs in the is talking about the advantage of breaking desire what's for supper Chicken N I don't want chicken I want rib steak I want it to be this big you know the kind that they sell for like $90 I want a big juicy St what's wrong with chicken nothing's wrong but it doesn't get my juices going like a big thick steak RAB talks about breaking TAA that breaking one's TAA you know we live in America there's no such thing you know in uh in Europe so you had a few morsels of food you ate to to satiate your hunger does anyone today eat to satiate their hunger that's the first two bites what about the next 90 bites saying you know most people eat well beyond they're they're uh not hungry anymore basically we eat for pleasure we don't eat because we're hungry we eat for pleasure now you can't eat all day for pleasure if you ate all day for pleasure you'd be you'd have to call uh the emergency room so we have to take breaks but we basically try to eat as much as we can to get as much pleasure we can so says no break your tia it has it has value you're middle of eating you're 80 % of the way through you're not hungry anymore now you're just eating purely for TAA it's a good idea to be able to be your why listen to these words you reveal the righteousness of your heart you're showing you want to do CH and therefore you're trying to stay away from that which brought you to sin which is TAA and you're showing you want to do chuva but I'm not doing chuva chuva is stopping to sin you know what chuva is most people think chuva is oh it's time let me write out a check and then I'm okay after all it says so I can give a check and I pay membership and then I'm free by the way giving a check has nothing to do with Chua and whatever organization you give it to will still accept it but it has nothing to do with chuva chuva is three simple things regret your sin stop your sin and confess your sin so what do you mean I'm not eating as much I'm being I'm curtailing CU I'm showing I want to do chuva great good for you you want to do chuva but you're not doing chuva no it's very valuable to show you want to do chuva Wan thing to do chuva is the greatest thing you can CU if you want to do it God will lead you there you'll eventually do it but now watch this as powerful as it is to want to do chuva but the guy who wants his friend to be protected that's not going to fully protect him but if you do a small act like you escort him for Amos what's for Amos it's nothing if I do a small act and through a small act I reveal what my ring is so I'm not just I'm not just passively thinking what I want I'm actually doing something tangible albe it very small that reveals what my Rin is oh now you're acting and you're showing what your Rin is I'm going to protect this guy for the next 500 Miles imagine if somebody did something small that shows that he wants to do Chua and maybe that's the idea of some of these that we take upon ourselves during cha we're not we're we tell hashm look we don't plan on keeping this after we're not going to keep this after but at least during this time of the year um I'm doing something uh albeit very small to indicate to reflect to show what I really want oh you did a small act to show what you really want the same way if you escort somebody the r will protect the guy for 500 miles if you take upon yourself in the month of el during a chba a small concrete practice very small like but you show chuva you show that you want to do chuva how how valuable that is desire R is very powerful every time you think something every time you say something every time you do something it creates an angel if you show you want to do Chua you know how many angels are going to say oh this guy wants do Chua they're going to start they're going to be pushing you it's going to be you're going to end up becoming a complete B Chua and you barely did anything they'll take you the rest of the way there that's a very important liod from the end of something important to keep in mind for that even our to do chva you know I believe in the [Music] um I believe in the which is comes from the the writes that we ask Hashem to see even the small stirrings of chuva that are like in the Deep recesses of our heart they're barely even conscious thoughts they could be subconscious even a subconscious deep desire that you're barely aware of to want to do Chu that also has value in the eyes of Hashem that also is uh something that could continue on the path and you can activate the next week There's no sh Wednesday night I think it's going to be Tuesday night okay coming week going to be in uh speaking in San Diego and Los Angeles Wednesday Thursday so Tuesday night as of now will be the year and wishing everybody a wonderful rest of the week a shabis and AES oh Hashem yeah wants oura very good very nice you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com