A Vort From the Rebbe Parshas Matos Masei , Rabbi Leibel Schapiro - 5786

A verse from the Reb this week's para paras mat but we will talk about the beginning of paras mates in the beginning of paras it talks about a person making a nether making a vow and rasha says what's a nether so rasha gives an example if someone says the word means a vow someone says I take upon myself a vow not to eat a certain thing or not to do a certain thing and the Pik says you got to keep that vow and you got to listen to it and you're not allowed to behave on it. Now the real meaning of the word if you look into the means a sacrifice and what it means is when you say I make a I will not eat certain thing or not do certain things you're making really what you're saying is it should be like a just like a carbon you can't eat just a carbon it's a holy thing you can't do anything you can't make any use from something that's holy as a carbon so when you make a nether you use the lotion that this thing that I'm making that and not to eat should be to me like a and what I shouldn't do the thing that I don't want to do should be to me forbidden like a and the says this teaches you something very very special as a lesson inem we know that what is the idea what explains the we know usually there's a contradiction on one hand it says not to make it says you sh person should not make a and forbid to himself certain things which he is allowed. It's enough that the forbid you from doing certain things or eating certain things. Why should you add? On the other hand, we know it's a good thing to make an it says in that if you make the if you make these vows to stay away from certain things, it'll bring you to stay away from tyus from the the worldly ty of this haz of this world. So, is it good to make a nether or not? This explains the Reb explains this in different places. It depends for who really the highest level is to make not to make because when you eat food obviously that you're allowed if it's not allowed it's not allowed but if it's kosher of food and you eat it you elevate it but that's only if you eat it you have proper mind you do everything properly then you elevate the food so it's a good thing. So you shouldn't stay away from having connection to the Gashmreas. You should have connection to the Gashmre. Don't make a nether to stay away from it. You should. So that'll elevate it and it'll bring you also to a higher level. But that's only a person who's able to do that. But if a person is in a lower level and if he gets involved in the gashmas in the physical things that might pull him down in the spiritual level, then stay away from it then make and that's what the Mishna means. that nadim is a fence that helps you stay away from getting involved indulging in the ty of this world. So when a person is in that level, he shouldn't make and forbid for himself certain things even though you're allowed, he should stay away from it because otherwise it might pull him down. Now what do you do in order to make sure that you don't get involved in it that shouldn't pull you down. So you make a nether but there itself there are two ways to look at it. You could do one thing. How do you bring yourself to make the nether not to eat certain things, not to do certain things? You think how terrible they are, how bad it is. This thing is a this thing is a which is no good. It's to it's impure etc etc. That's one way and that'll keep you away from it and that's the way to make another. But the other way, the real way is not that. The real way is in a positive way to look into every gashmas thing and try to figure out what the shish of it, what the root of it is. The root of everything is in high madre is in holy places. So when you realize what the root of the thing is, how holy it is, you will stay from it. Not away from it, not because it is bad and it's low and it's tomy etc etc. you will stay away from it because you realize that in essence it has a great kadusha like a and that's the right way to do it. So by Rasha saying which is taken from the obviously that when you make yourself a nether to stay away from certain things you make like which means you're making like a rash is telling us that the way to do it to stay away from it and it shouldn't pull you down that's why you make a nether look at it that you don't want to do it because it's so great it's so high it's like a so you look at the of it which this fits toid in we learn that everything should be in a positive way. Normally we know there are stay away from evil and do good. So doing good is positive. Staying away from evil is something don't do. Stay away from it. But even that says should be in a positive way. Stay away from evil. Not because of the bad part of it. Stay away from evil. when you realize in everything that there is a good shish and everything is good and sometimes it's so good that we have to stay away from it because of its holiness. So says the right way to do everything is only in a positive way. So even the surra has to be in the form of realizing the greatness of it and that's why I stay away from it realizing the of and as explains at length this is not the place to explain it that the lower it is then it has a higher and higher means that in the higher levels this thing that comes down here as being not so good is really because it's in a higher level etc etc and that's what Rasha teaches us that you make a said there to stay away from eating certain foods or doing certain things. You should do it by realizing the positive, not by doing it because this is bad. Sometimes it could be that the person is such a low level that the only way he could stay away from it when he says that this looks out all these things which are not good and he says how bad they are and how to sometimes you got to do that too. But the higher level, the better level, the right level to reach is to stay away from it. But because you know that the shesh is great and it becomes a it's really in essence a holy thing and you have to stay away for life from a and that's the lesson that teaches us by saying that what's a nether to stay away from certain things like that I look at it as if it's a and that's why I stay away from it. So you look at the positive thing of it and that's the way it's going to bring you to stay away from it and the me you will not fall down lower because you stay away from things which might pull you down but you stay away from it in such a positive way seeing the shades seeing that everything is really in shades is holy.