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So the question is if there's big
mitzvot and small mitzvot or all the
mitzvot the same. Uh so a couple things
number one rai writes in the Mishna that
we don't calculate the value of every uh
mitzvah as far as which one is bigger
than the next. uh because we don't
actually truly understand the
significance of even the smallest
mitzvah and how much reward a person
gets for it or how much punishment a
person gets for violating it. Uh the
only thing that we can judge off of is
based on the consequences that are
reported in the Torah. So the
consequences for let's say eating a uh
non-cooser are you know just it's not a
death penalty. It's malot gets whipped
at the time of the sun of course. Uh
whereas the consequences for murder
intentional murder is death penalty.
Consequences of driving on Shabbat is
also death penalty. It's even worse than
murder. So we see from there that number
one violating
Shabbat and and and murdering is much
more significant in the eyes of Hashem
than than uh eating non-cosher.
but also that violating Shabbat is more
significant than
murder. So again, that may not make
sense to the uh uh the rationale of a
person that doesn't learn Torah, but
that's again you have we always have to
be reminded that this is the rationale
of the divine. This is a rational and
you know to understand them you have to
be him. We have to simply accept it.
This is what it is. So now of course
there's explanations uh what we call
tamim uh of of of why this is the case
but the truth be told the bottom line is
it's because he said so that's the real
case for all of the laws you have to do
it because he said so and the
consequence of what they are because he
said so that's that's really the bottom
line but there's a explanations the
Shabbat says that when a person violates
Shabbat intentionally such as by driving
on Shabbat or working on Shabbat and so
no cooking on Shabbat. In essence, they
are like a person that's running in the
street saying, "I don't believe that God
created the world in six days and rested
on the seventh." In so many words, they
run in the middle of the street
screaming they're an atheist. So, that's
certainly a much more heinous crime
against the creator and the King of
Kings than someone that had a problem
with another someone and killed him.
Because when he killed him, it wasn't
because he hates God.
He killed him because he hates
him. So even though it's a violation,
he'll get punished and so on. The point
is is that when someone betrays God by
saying he doesn't exist, while he is
actually getting air from him, while he
lives because of him, while he gets
money from him, while he had his wife
because of him, while while he's getting
everything from him, he still betrays
God, saying he doesn't exist. There's
literally nothing more ungrateful and
betrayful than uh than betraying than
than such a person. Hence the reason why
the Torah says that a person that's a
Shabbat is worse than a
murderer. So from there we know there is
significant and more significant. Uh but
there are certain laws that are
obligated on all Jews like observing
Shabbat. There are certain laws that are
obligated only at the time of the beta
mikdash like the kobanut. There are laws
that are only obligated on the kohanim.
There are laws that are only obligated
on women or on men. Uh there are laws
that are only obligated when the
situation presents
itself. Uh like a for example uh uh the
u one of the things that's mentioned
this week's para which is
pion. Now, if you have a firstborn
that's that's a that's a boy, then you
do pun. But if your firstborn as a girl,
then you don't do. So, it's not that you
uh uh you're a bad guy because you
didn't do that. You don't have the
possibility of doing it. You don't have
the possibility of doing it. So, there
are certain laws that are applicable at
specific times, specific situations, uh
specific people and so on. So, again,
there is a different levels. But as far
as significance, uh there are certain
laws that are usually the ones that are
uh relevant to everyone that uh from
there we see uh more of a explanation or
at least more of a comparison of what's
more significant than the other.