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Shnayim Yomi - Ki Teitzei - Dvar Torah- Rabbi Yoel Gavriel Rubinstein
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Featuring: R' Yoel Gavriel Rubinstein Shulchan Aruch Yomi, Co-Founder Ramat Bet Shemesh, IL Click below for today's text of Shnayim Mikra: ShnayimYomi.org
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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.
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