Ki Savo - Ma'aminim bnei ma'aminim

Hi, this is David Olowski and welcome to the para in five. We're in five or six or seven minutes depending how long I feel like talking for. We give you an insight into the para. It really should be called this the para in about five or give or take. You know what I mean? Paraso obviously this is the para of braha and clala. Very interesting. And that is the parish tells us that when we come into shell, we go up on Hagrem and we set up these 12 giant stones and we write the entire Torah in 70 languages on these 12 giant stones. And then the puzz says you plaster the stones and there's a mus in the s. Do you plaster the stones and then write on them so it'll be easier to see or do you write on the rocks and then plaster over it? So the garra says what was the point of writing it in 70 languages presumably so that the nations of the world should be able to learn it and then plastering over it. So this is what he says. He says, "Because their wise men will come and scrape off the plaster and discover the Torah." And the fact that they didn't shows that they just don't care and this was, so to speak, their last chance. Well, what is going on over here? We know the kazal tell us before Hashem gave us the Torah, he went to every nation and said, "Do you want the Torah?" And they said, "What's written in it?" No, no thanks. So we already he already offered the Torah to all the nations and they turned it down. So now he's giving it to them, says the Maharal, on their terms because the nations of the world have to find it on their own. And listen to what the Gmorrah says. It says, "How will they know if it's plastered over?" It says, "Hashem will give them a beanie to carve off the plastic and discover it." So the Maharal says, "So don't give them the beer and don't plaster it over." Says, "I offered the Torah to the nations of the world. They turned it down. But there's a certain innate curiosity in discovering something on your own." People come to Israel and they find a piece of broken pottery and they wrap it up and hide in their luggage because they're sure that they're, you know, smuggling antiquities. They say, "Look, I have a piece of uh pottery." Let me explain to you. Throughout the thousands of years that people lived in Israel, they all had pottery and it all broke. There's lots of broken pottery. Nobody cares if you take a piece of broken pottery. It means nothing. It's like It's like somebody coming to America and saying, "Look, I found a uh you know, a Coca-Cola bottle cap." You know what I mean? I'm going to smuggle it out. You know, I found, look, I found a plastic cup. Clear. They were they were the disposable dishes of the ancient world. There were lots of them broken. But you know why this is valuable? Because I found it. And whatever I found is important. Every now and then, somebody sits there with a microscope and puts together one of the fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls and they publish it and they say, "This is the most important thing in the past 2,000 years. It's a shopping list that somebody had. You know, go to the maklet, bring back eggs, bring back the look at this is the most important thing. You know why? Cuz I discovered it. So I tried offering you the Torah. So now I'll give it to you on your terms. Send your archaeologist and say, "Oh my goodness, look at these giant rocks. There might be something written. Tip tip tip tip tip." And you'll scratch it off and say, "Oh, look what I discovered." We don't have to do that. We believe tells us something and we accept it. We don't have to dig it up to make it important to us. When I used to teach in discovery, you know, there'd be a class in the codes. I didn't teach the codes, but question answer. Very often, somebody would say, "Why aren't there whole yeshivas dedicated to just searching for the Torah codes that are hidden in the Torah?" So I said why? He says because maybe there's a message there for us. I said there is keep the shabas honor your parents. You know what I mean? You know keep kosher. It's not hidden every 49 letters. It's written black and white. All these things are just to impress you to read what's already written there. We don't need Torah codes. We don't need secret things. But the nations of the world nebuk have to discover it on themselves so that they feel that it's worthwhile to be able to learn. And then the fact that they don't even have that curiosity to discover it, that means they just don't care. No, we don't need to have it hidden. We don't need it plasted over says, "I'm going to give you the Torah." And we have an opportunity to take the Torah to learn it and to live it and to enjoy it. And therefore at the end of this par it says celebrate before Hashem be happy that you have this amuna that makes you the Jewish people. Chavis.