Parshas Ki Seitzei: Which is Holier? The Neshama or the Torah?

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com agunerv as we prepare for shabbos pasha's kise the arizal reveals to us something astounding we're all familiar with the idea that if someone violates alive in the torah the torah administers and legislates a punishment of lashes malchus how many lashes 39 gumara tells us llama and yet the torah does not offer us an explanation as to what is the significance of the number 39 why 39 malcos says the arizona safer hallie kutim and parsha's told us an amazing secret sazi ariza now when adam marie shown 8 from the 8th hadas he caused a sum total of 39 curses lamitas curses 10 to him 10 tahava tent to the nakhosh to the snake and nine to the yaarats the earth thirty-nine maokois correspond to the thirty-nine curses that were caused by other who describes that when god created other marishan the islam the angel of asa the angel of death was jealous of other marishon's greatness and how all the angels were attending to his needs and this disturbed thee the force of evil the force of impurity it disturbed him greatly he was very jealous so what did he do says azaya he took the nakha she took the snake he rode the snake like a camel he got on the snake and he wrote it like a gummo he went down and persuaded adam until adam violated the command of god whereupon 39 curses were issued 10 to adam 10 to 10 to the nine against the earth corresponding to the llama test malcois the 39 lashes this explains the number 39 on somewhat of a kabbalistic level however on a rationalistic approach on a rationalistic level we still need to study and learn what is the significance of the number 39 and on this level the ramban provides us with a very insightful understanding the ramban explains that even though the tarsh about tells us that there are 39 molecules nevertheless this is not the number of course that the torah writes the torso in this week's parachute says you should give 40 lashes what then is the significance of the number 40 says ramban there are two reasons number one the toro was given over the course of 40 days masha bain was on laila and this person who violated navera incurred a punishment of lashes as violating the torah that was given over 40 days and therefore says ramban he violated the torah he has to get 40 lashes says ramban another reason says ramon our tradition is it takes 40 days to develop from one cell into a complete entity it takes 40 days for yet this individual by sinning is corrupting himself hashem had a trouble to create over the course of 40 days and therefore he gets 40 lashes so has given us two reasons for the number 40. number one the torah was given in 40 days you violate it you have to get 40 lashes number two the neshama the adam was created over the course of 40 days he needs to get 40 lashes my reverb is if i were to ask you what is worse is it worse to violate and disgrace and desecrate the torah or is it worse to desecrate oneself not to actualize one's potential instinctively we may think of course it's worse to desecrate the torah what can be worse than violating the torah do we have anything more holy in this world than the torah they shall we know if one sees the torah fall on the floor they are required to fast casa shalom [Applause] the torah burn one is required to rise kriya to tear kriya the sanctity of the torah actually so we have nothing more sacred than the torah comes along the same cypher [Music] that there's actually a big difference between the two reasons provided by the ramban whether the malko is correspond to the 40 days the torah was given or do malcos correspond to the 40 days it took to create the human the neshama says if the lashes correspond to the 40 days the torah was given we know the torah was given over the course of 40 complete days 40 whole days in fact that was the mistake of the israel they thought you only needed 39 and change they were mistaken the they needed 40 complete days so if lashes correspond to the beginning of the torah the torah is given over 40 complete days you need 40 complete lashes yet that's not what the taurus says the torah says 39 lashes why says some safer because if it corresponds to the 40 days that it takes to complete the fetus the nashamah we know it does not take 40 complete days to complete the neshama it's 39 and change the first day even though first day when it's not a complete day because if the conception took place at night there are hours missing from the completeness of the day instead of some soy fair if lashes correspond to the 40 days of the formation of the fetus you don't need 40 days 40 complete days to complete a fetus you also don't need 40 complete lashes says some soifer the fact that we administer 39 malkoys and not 40 means the primary punishment is for corrupting the neshama which was formed over 39 days more so than for violating the torah that which was given over the course of 40 days why do we give the punishment for the corruption and the desecration of the shama and not the violation of torah because we apply the great principle kim les bader abba mine which means that when we have to administer two punishments when someone incurs to einshem we only administer the more severe one and you're exempt from the more lenient one therefore says some cypher why do we administer 39 malkoys why do we administer the punishment of because when we study this person's offense the desecration the desecration of the neshama the crime that this individual has committed against himself the disgrace and corruption that he has brought against his own soul is far worse much more egregious than the disgrace that he brought against the torah says some seifer as disgusting as it is to defile the torah it is worse to defile than a shaman as great and as holy and as sacred as a torah is there is something greater holier and more sacred and that is the jewish soul an astounding thought that as holy as the torah is then the shama is even holier how can this be seems almost sacrilegious do we have anything more than the torah isn't the torah the devour hashem isn't it a reflection of god and the will of god and yet we learn that the neshama is even more holy because while the torah is the will of god the zayarakaz teaches us and there are unbanned quotes and voracious it is a dimension an actual piece of the divine says that god blew into our soul a living spirit says one who blows blows from within oneself the blowing comes from the air of the person who blew and therefore the neshama is the breath of god in the inkling of the divine and as bad as it is to desecrate the torah it's even worse to desecrate and not to actualize the potential of the neshama and if you tear korea if you see a safer torah burning how much pain should be what should one be in if they see in the neshama being desecrated the saintly used to give a muslims an ethical discourse to a small group of talmidam to a small group of students every friday night between minh and marav and his home that 25 bahrain would come and they would gather to hear the precious words of one friday night began his discourse by telling the bahrain that he has a secret to reveal to them however he cannot just reveal it in the context of the regular friday night shearer but instead they would have to return to his home at midnight at which point the prophet would reveal to them assad a great secret word went out that at midnight was going to reveal a great secret and the news spread like wildfire the whole yeshiva was buzzing with the news the bala bottom were buzzing people literally could not go to sleep they were so excited others asked their friends to wake them up as midnight approached the house of the was filling up to capacity it was brimming the surrounding courtyard of the was overflowing with people as the clock struck twelve the time began he said the following words eloika my soul my god [Music] god you are the one who created it i'll tell you god you were the one who fashioned it to be you god blew it into me the atom is and the people shuddered the auto acid lit lumi many the day will come that you will take it away from me and everyone was wondering what's the big secret of the prophet a sabrah he's just saying over the bracha that every jew says every day and then the called out in a stirring voice you will return it to me and you repeat it again you're going to return it to me repeat it again and again 0b you will return it to me and the time explained that it doesn't say it doesn't say god you will return a soul to me but rather be with a mafike a possessive hey which means that that very same nishama the same soul that we used during our lifetime in whatever state it was in upon our demise on whatever level it was on that is exactly how the rebuttal will return on the shamans to us in the exact same state that is the way the neshama will be forever and ever for all eternity we've defiled our neshama hashem will return to us a defiled neshama and that's the way our nesham will remain forever however if we kept our neshama pure and pristine god will return to us a pure nasham where we were upon the sky and began to in the same state that it was taken away that is what the torah is teaching us because as devastating as it is to desecrate the torah so it's even more devastating to desecrate than hashama and that is why we are so fortunate ribasham has given us the great gift of juva that we could purify our neshamas to the pristine form that they were in when hashem gave them to us and thereby when hashem returns our souls to us one day is the way hashem will return our souls to us wishing you all a you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com