Weekly Torah Portion Ki Teitzei Part 1 according to the Kli Yakar Deuteronomy 21:10 5776

good evening everybody we're in it's chapter 21 in Deuteronomy verse [Music] 10 when you go out to war against your enemies and Hashem your God will deliver him into your hand and you will capture its people as captives the CLE Begins by pointing out the word with an extra y you have two Ys one before the BET one after the bet that extra wood implies a language of robing as was translated your enemies are going to come out against you but guess what then it says he will be delivered into your hand so it's a singular him your one enemy will be put into your handar shouldn't it have said it certain C should have said and they will be put into your hands that's the first thing he wants us to notice the second thing is the PK says and everybody translate that even Rashi goes off and explains it it means against your enemy so the question is why doesn't it say con if that's what it means shouldn't it say what it means so Al has a strange connotation which we will see later but he says should have said what it means and he brings down the yod he brings down medish that brings down in the name of the C and this is the language it's he brings down just a small part of it but those two lines that he brings down is enough to be bothered by what's going on here so it says that's the language that's the part of the verse we had on your enemy upon your enemy against your enemy correct you're going to work against your enemies and then it says right andem will place him into your hand so then we're not even bothered right now by the double Ys or by the singular plural but what is bothering him is what we're about to say in the that if you end up doing everything that is discussed here in our para regarding this idea the end result the consequences the positive reward is that Hashem will place him your enemy in your hand so what's bothering him here it says that if you do everything that's said then in the end but if you read the para it goes on and talks about what needs to be done and yet it sounds like your enemy is now putting your hand at first because we're talking about cap capting capturing this woman she's now in your possession in your home and you're going to do all kinds of things or allow her to do all kind kinds of things that will make herself look uh disgusting and not beautiful in your eyes and then only as a result of all these things that you do you'll be victorious over your enemy and it doesn't really make sense because it says in this end hasem is going to put him in your hand so the clear says lo I don't I don't understand the words of this me what does it mean exactly what does it mean if you do what is said in regards to what is spoken about in these paragraphs if it's referring to what it discusses that if you will shave her head let her nails grow she takes off her beautiful garments and she puts on these sack cloths she sits in the house and she she's crying for 30 days so he says if it's referring to the and all these things I just mention she's already in your hand your captive is already sitting in your house it sounds like she's already been delivered is that the enemy so when it says how is it that you're going to end up captur capturing people if you still have not yet won the war the enemy was not put into your hands and yet the paral Begins by talking about taking this one captive even if you think to say even if you want to say we can actually push it off there's no necessary necessary proof from captives in general why because sometimes captives are taken in war even though not only is the war not even over yet even if you're not Victorious as it says in Bidar 211 regarding the king of Arad that fought with the Jewish people he took a captive so but they didn't win the war so it's really not a problem having a captive even before you win the war but nevertheless it's still difficult what's going to be difficult to the clear how do we come up and say as it as explaining the words he will be delivered into your hand that it means in the end why does it have to be in the end even here the woman is already in your hand to begin with OR by the king of Arad it wasn't the end of the war it was near the beginning of the war they had one captive maybe it happens immediately why do you have to say the end they'll be given as far as we can tell from everything we're reading it happened right away so why does the medis say and how are we supposed to understand the words that only in the end the enemy will be placed into your hand perhaps we could certainly explain that when it says it will be put the enemy shall be placed in your hand it could be immediately which just strengthens the question what where does the medus come off saying only in the end so the clear Begins by explaining what he thinks what was really bothering the author of The medish V it seems sh what was really bothering the author of this medish when it says unano means and he will be placed into your hand we already discussed this it should have said from a grammatical point of view and to be symmetrical to make sense when the enemies coming out against you and you right you go to work against your enemies they because you said enemies plural they is what should have been said they will be placed into your hands but it wasn't so why not is caran so with absolute certainty the clear has no doubt in his mind that what we're discussing is one of your enemies a very specific enemy who is included amongst your many enemies that was mentioned before as the the word IA having two Ys implies more than one enemy but he one of those many enemies you will be victorious over me a very poetically who is this enemy this rival it's can only be a particular rival and that is your most inner enemy your enemy from within who is that that is the Satan that is the the um provoker it's thear the evil Incarnation and when when does the SAT and when does the Zahara prosecute most whenever you're in a situation of danger and what's more dangerous than a war situation if you look back in last week's par in the verse that's chapter 20 verse one in Deuteronomy it does say when you go out to war now regarding that it was a singular against your enemy by the way will place him into your into your hand you will be victorious so if that's the case so what's the difficulty here first of all how do we have this insurance Assurance this promise that hasem will place the enemy into your hand right away after this promise comes as we discussed the enemy will be put into your hand then you have this idea of taking this captivity of a woman who has a beautiful form shal so there's a principle here that we should know that the Torah is really only coming to relate or instruct us how we need to oppose the yah har it's coming to help us make tun fixing in our life okay and I heard a Shear this week Rabbi men and he explained that we have three ways the Torah is there to help us do and to instruct us how to fix the world the best way to fix the world is through Mitzvah we can do Mitzvah great if for some reason we're not able to do mitzvas we're not all up to par sometimes we mess up at least there's tra so we can repent from either violating the Mitzvah or not fulfilling Mitzvah and unfortunately as a result of not doing trouba then there's another way we can fix the world and that's through that's through pains and difficult times but this is the way of the Torah the Torah is here to instruct us how to fix the world and fix ourselves so uni she oh too now first of all this guy is trying to fix himself he just took this beautiful captive woman into his house it sounds like he still has thisa he still has these base desires he's still carrying this lowly Tuma and polluted Spirit along with it well if he's still carrying this tumor around this negative energy he's not able to stop himself he can't fix the world he can't fix his own world there's no way to stop his Co-op the the power or the potential of standing against his inclination until he falls into the situation with this beautiful woman so then where would This Promise be of because we said at the end hasem is going to deliver the enemy what is that that mean Al explains and the enemy will be placed into his hand as how we understand so that means in the end in the future it will happen that is through taking through the process going through the motions right only if you take what is said in our par by sh shaving her hair making her look disgusting now look what's written afterwards it says right several verses later we're looking now at verse 14 verse 14 says and it shall be if you have not desired her then you shall send her on her own remember this is going to be after 30 days then you shall send her on her own but you may not sell her for money you shall not put her to work because you have Afflicted her so Parish rashi rashi says right there on the verse that what it means is that you're basically proclaiming towards your end that you actually come to hate her you're you're getting rid of her you're not keeping her as a wife you're not keeping her as a lover but you're getting rid of her you're tossing her out of the house then absolute with absolute certainty you've overcome your your inclination has been handed over into your hand and you have come to hate her as opposed to what you had originally which was lust and desire and um at this point that's all gone okay due to technical difficulties we had to switch rooms so now we're back to the prime scheme that Hashem had in mind is as it says in Calis in Ecclesiastes to it's better to go to a house of mourning than it is to go to a house of m a party house and why is that because through going to okay because through going by going to the house of AIS you'll remember and not only will you remember you're actually reminding Yar as well about the day of your death certainly the is going to run it's going to run SC scram it's not interested and by This Woman This crying over the loss of her own parents who she's been separated from not only is she it's not that she's just sitting but you're sitting with her it's like you're constantly in this house of mourning and it's through this certainly you're reminding your your own your own evil inclination about the day of your death certainly it's going to scram it's going to run away and your base desires will come down and will quiet and through this you'll actually come to hater I think the psychologists talk about this that when you have this infactuation if your relationship is based on infactuation the end result usually comes to hate if it's based on the the real roots of love then that should continue and grow but infactuation can come and go and as the loss the lack of the infect situation is usually a very negative type of feeling therefore then we understood that in the end it's basically a proclamation already that in the end you're going to come to hate her and that's why in our Med we understood now we understand that in the end that it's only in the end that hasem places your into your hands or your as we said your enemy into your hands and you have become Victorious and for this very reason we're required to explain remember the words it says Al the actual pic says Al but what does Al mean Al means connected usually Al means upon but in this sense it really means conned everyone translates it as such and we ask so why does the Torah use the word all and not connected as the word that makes the most sense so he explained something incredible the actual like in L I mean high and above is so there's two types of War there's going to be this Supernatural war or this war that is a metaphysical war against your internal enemy and then there's a real war a real war that takes place and now for this very reason that we mentioned before now we're able to explain the words Al upon your enemy as against your enemy meaning we should have used the word Ked but the word all was used and why was that because the language of Al cannot really be justified or can only be justified when you're dealing with a a regular War now I'll give you some background a regular war is already fought in heaven before so if a war is fought from Heaven before so that's why the word all can be used and Justified and how do we know that a war is fought in heaven before as it says in judges 520 it says they fought them from Heaven the stars in their circuit in their courses and fought against Cel so the wars are fought first in heaven and we play it out like puppets down below but a regular stom war is f is fought first in heaven and that's why the word all is used regarding however from the fact that it says right that they will be put into your hands as he will be put into your hand so we're forced to say about we must explain it as the why are we explaining it as the evil Incarnation okay because if so when we say the words we already said the word is massive amounts of enemies it's more than one it could be at least two so if that's the case who we talking about we say one of your enemies that included in this of enemies is at least at least one type but there are a minimum of two and what are they one is your external enemy and the other is your internal enemy and the as we already mentioned when the Y the angel of death it's all the same he comes he's able to prosecute you when you put yourself in a dangerous situation and we already explained what could be more dangerous than War the a is he's even a proof to this if we looked in last week's par we saw already now that's chapter 20 verse one that we talking about one enemy because has only one y there okay so one y implies only one enemy and that's no problem below you only have one over there in that verse that's talking about one enemy comes against you and you he's put into your into your hands you were victorious but over here it says with an extra y we already explained that teaches you that it's multiple enemies at least two so this certainly includes both your inner and your external enemy now we got done talking about it's definitely talking about your internal enemy but now the fact that it's also plural don't forget you still have an external enemy and then it says unu and he will be put into your hand which you have two enemies we recognize you have an external enemy and you have an internal enemy but God will put him into your hand so it implies that one of them will be put first into your hand one at a time one of your enemies will be put into your hand first there's no doubt that it's the that has to come into your hand into your control we say into your hand we mean into your control you're Victorious over because if your your evil inclination was not placed into your control first into your hand there's no possibility of really overcoming the external enemy without first controlling and overcoming the internal enemy [Music] meaning the whole time that you're still involved or dirty in and within sin because that means you're like you're going to the mikah holding the the rat in your hand the sherids AL who therefore we required to explain the words upon your enemy the word from high above as conned against your enemy meaning that this mil this fight this war that you have with your evil inclination is not coming from above where is it coming from first of we talked about the real wars are fought in heaven first but what about this type of War this is the supernatural War we are obligated to start and to put all our efforts into this war right everything is under the hand of Hashem everything is within the control of hasem except for and to overcome the you need to have a healthy sense of fear of God and man needs to take the initiative man needs to be the initiator and it's Hashem who will finish the job for you and regarding this now we understand even better when it says in the end it's hem who's going to give him into your hand what does he mean by so in the [Music] end that means only after you took all your efforts all of your abilities went into trying to be successful and to work with the scheme that Hashem provided for you against your enemy then then hasem will certainly send you the required assistance to help you be finally Victorious over everything not only your P but also your external enemy okay at least right now we're talking about your internal War when it comes to a regular war with armies it works in the opposite direction so let's say just before you even have prepared your own heart to go out towards War which means the preparation stages it could be you know that a war has to be fought so you're preparing your own Army your own body and um the mechanisms for sleep deprivation not showering I there's a lot of physical and mental stress that goes into even just preparing for a war that war has already been fought in heaven as we mentioned from the story of sis in in in judges 5: 20 but you are finishing the job it's like marionett it's like puppets the war has already been fought but you got to go through the motions you must show up you got to get on the front line you got to walk right up to the tanks so that the war in the end is called by your name like we talk about the Israeli Palestinian Wars or Israeli Arab Wars we have the umip war with the six day Wars whoever is the Victor we know that's the name of the war goes after the Victor anyway this is the end of uh we'll call this the end of part one of that verse and I look forward to uh continuing this in the next video tape have a good shabas