Bo: The Parsha of Bitachon - Rabbi Yehuda Turetsky

thank you very much for the opportunity to share some words of torah with you the torah tells us in partial [Music] that we have a commandment this commandment rashi writes the beginning of his commentary on hamesh may be the first mitzvah that benedict ever receive and that is the mitzvah to establish new months to have control over our calendar that we have the ability to determine when rosh chodesh is going to be and really all of the halachas that are dependent on time on the calendar so we have that capacity to control it what exactly is perhaps is behind this mitzvah what it comes to teach us there are a lot of intriguing ideas that are out there some point out a comment to the talmud you were showing me the custom sofa and yeshuva elaborates upon this that that may be one of the things conveyed here in this mitzvah has been a israel's ability not only to determine when the new month is going to be but through determining the new month to even impact and change the nature of teva the reality of this world and the way that things function but salvation had a very simple and very elegant explanation surrounding this mitzvah the ruff pointed out that it's not coincidental this would be the first mitzvah that beneath israel get upon leaving mitra because benazir all had been slaves and one of the things that slaves do not have is control over their time they lose the ability to determine to have any degree of control over what they're going to do with their day how they're going to allocate their minutes how they're going to spend their weeks they don't have that ability to do so and one of the most important things a free person can get a degree of agency to be able to understand that time is yours and that you control time and you can allocate it in whatever way possible for salvation that was part of the idea here about that we are in control of time we have the ability to determine how that time is going to be used and to be able to dictate in our own lives how we're going to handle ourselves i think that while this idea is certainly always true in the era in which we live when people are often so busy and pulled in so many different directions the torah here in parsons bow reminds us of something which is important it is true there are often many things on our plate it's true that we're often pulled in a variety of different directions but part of being free is understanding the capacity to tap into that degree of ownership over time that i get to choose how to allocate my time how to spend my time to do so in a way that reflects my priorities to do so in a way which reflects the ultimate destination of what i want to accomplish and a person who does that is truly free and aimless jose patora a person who experienced that kind of freedom can also often be so much more successful and positioned for greater heights to reach greater heights through their own atomic torah through their own religious life so hopefully we can use this opportunity for parsers beau to be able to reflect upon our control over the calendar and our control over our own time to be able to establish and set priorities to be able to feel that sense of kedusha which is experienced in kadusa in our own lives through being able to maximize our time and be as successful as possible thank you very much [Music]