Shnayim Yomi - Ki Teitzei - Dvar Torah- Rabbi Yoel Gavriel Rubinstein

[Music] Yomi, thank you so much for spending the week with me. It's been a real pleasure. Um, we're getting close to the tail end over here of actually finishing the entire uh safer uh and of course the entire maz to all of you who are on that journey. Keep it up. Um, as I said, you know, don't let that amalik sneak in and try and discourage you. Um, it's always at the tail end that he uh likes to sneak up on the back and tap you and be like, "Hey, come on. You're too busy. You can do this." So really guys, I'm super proud of you and I'm I've been a part of this for myself for years and um it's beautiful and I commend each and every one of you and a special special shout out to Allahad um for putting this together and for making this happen. I think it is just absolutely amazing and I really enjoyed being a part of it. Thank you for bearing with me. Um, I want to leave you guys with um a thought. Um, I mean, obviously you've seen my thoughts the whole week, but um, we're going to focus on um, the theme of the para, which has all been about love. It's all been about our relationship with Hashem. And it's no coincidence that this para falls out in l which is and we read the ha tora from um nundal and this is both form andazim there's no difference in the ha and this is the seventh and final haftra of consolation and it opens up with a less etc etc and the entire haftra Isiah telling us how much Hashem loves us and how Hashem is going to gather the Jews from all over the world and he's going to bring them back to Yushim and Yushim which is the Akara the barren one will no longer be barren because her children will return to her. It's an unbelievable reflection of the para itself because the para primarily deals with interpersonal relationships, marriage, parenting, um, friendship. And here, Hashem is telling us that it's so important for us to focus on these relationships and to imbue oursel with um the idea of because Hasham loves us and it's infinite. Um it's also fascinating to point out that this is the seventh and final um haftra of consolation that takes place after two ha of destruction. Now the two authors of destruction are from Yahoo. We start reading them around Shivas Batamas. Obviously it depends on how the um the weeks fall out and um they're very powerful and uh actually refer the safer of destruction the book of destruction because poor Yahu who actually better says that when he came out of his mother's womb he was already talking. He was actually capable of speech from the moment he was born and he prophesized from the moment he was born. And Yahu unfortunately lived a very very tortured life. He begged and pleaded for Kalis to stop sinning. They weren't listening to what was going on in Paris. They weren't following the rules that Hashem mapped out. They didn't pay attention to the messages that we got this week together. They didn't have tras, which is also kind of interesting because they should have at least focused on the idea of the tras that happens the took place. And obviously we say, but we're still unfortunately thousands of years without a mdash and without a place for hashem to live with us. Now this whole thing was about wasn't so much that Hashem needs a house. Hashem is infinite. He doesn't need a home. We need the home. And without having Hashem being there, we're losing something that is almost unfathomable. And if I elaborate on it, it'll take forever. But we should at least pick up that here. Hashem only yelled at us twice. Gave us two very, very strong of destruction. And he's following up with seven. Seven. Seven. the shiv of the week of telling us how much he loves us and how he's not going to forget us and how he's not going to take uh he's not going to um abandon us and that he's always going to be with us. Um the didn't just leave either. It it took 40 years for the for for the process to take place and then tell us that the then 18 years before the destruction of the bas the went and started moving and it moved to 10 different places and it lists originally it sat in the kum then from the k went to the not important to define every single area but it is important for us to recognize that if hashem has so much patience with us and he would take so much time to go ahead and do this and then after he punishes us he literally spends gives seven hafts of telling us I love you. I you're important to me. I care about you. I'm going to take care of you. How much more so is it important for us to follow the unbelievable web that took place in this parha which is we're supposed to love one another. We're supposed to take care of one another. We're not supposed to let our friend bear heavy burdens. We're not even allowed to let his donkey bear heavy burden. We're supposed to go ahead and watch ourselves and be careful and make sure that we're doing the Torah and mitzvah. We're supposed to make sure that if we do make a mistake that we try and rectify it as fast as possible. If Hashem can give us seven, seven of love and happiness. How much more so is it easier to just walk over to a fellow brother and say, "Hey, you look a little down. Are you okay?" Or, you know, you you you have a friend maybe who uh is making and you happen to know that, you know, he doesn't have enough money for for the funds. He doesn't need to know that you know, but you can go and secretly, privately try to raise some money, drop it in his mailbox. I mean, there's so many ways that we can touch a person and lift them up and help them. And that's really what this para is all about. Yes, the para deals with and all of these other things that are in there, but those are all part and parcel with how we're supposed to interact with a fellow human being, how we're supposed to interact with almost every single person on the planet. Um there's a famous story in the Gamarra that um there was a Roman who had no money and Rabbi Aaka gave him saddaka and this Roman ended up becoming a very very powerful person and he did not forget that the only person that gave him saddaka was Rabbi Aaka and it translated into um well a lot of good for a but people remember we need to remember that Hashem loves us and we need to remember that we will be za to On that note, have an amazing Shabas. Thank you so much. [Music]