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KMTT - Erev Shabbat Parshat Pinchas
KMTT - Erev Shabbat Parshat Pinchas, by Rav Ezra Bick
KMTT - Kimitsu on Titsai Tora, and this is Ezra Bick, and today is Friday out of Shabbat, out of Shabbat Koda Shabbat bin Khas. We haven't had the out of Shabbat program for the last two weeks. One Friday I was in South Africa, and the other Friday I was sleeping off after I came back from South Africa. But we are back now to our regular schedule, the out of Shabbat program. This program was actually being prepared on Thursday, and today was a very difficult day. Today Thursday you would sign Bitamuz, it was a very difficult day here in Erty Seil. Yesterday there was a very serious incident on the northern border, seven haylem, seven soldiers were killed, and two soldiers were kidnapped, and that gets together. In a compound situation in Gaza, where soldiers were missing for the last two weeks, basically the Israeli army is now acting extensively, both within Azah, and starting today's Thursday over the border in Lebanon. Basically it's very close to a war situation. I want to feel out, saying t'ilim, and to feel out, for all the haylem, our friends, our children, who are fighting against the forces of terror, al Khudzadon, basically the forces of evil, whose main purpose here is to kill. And today, which is again a preparedness a day before you'll be hearing it, today's song, "Shivaaz Sabetamuz", starting the period of the three weeks, period called "Bein Hammit Saarim", the days between the fast of Shivaaz Sabetamuz, and the fast of Tishaba shi-nal, remembering Reuben matri-shon and Reuben matri-shi-nal, and Galuta Shrinah, the exile of the Jews from there to sail, and the exile of the Shrinah from being within, present within army sail. A situation which even as we have witnessed in the last 50 years, Shivaaz-seon, coming back of such a large portion of the Jewish people, to be able to sail with the real correction, the real tikkun of Shrinah and army sail, has not yet been accomplished, and we continue to suffer from the situation which we call Galut. I hope all of us in every place, all over the world, all Jews all over the world, are united in our tifidat, la vinushmashamayim, shayinahhem, kshbokushid, kambak, should return to us, return us to being his people, to being his children, and we should see shu-a-ab-in-kham-a, bemher-biyamayno-a-mein. Naturally, we all know that ultimately our fate, our destiny, our welfare is all in the hands of the kadosh bahrachu, mezakhi-sail, the gala, and that is why to him we appear on, and our eyes are lifted only, only unto him, only unto heaven. On the other hand, the instrumentation, for God's actions in this world, these two people, two leaders, that's obviously an essential core of religious Zionism, and I think of any Judaism. We don't sit back and wait beneath him, but we pray to God to give his strength and his wisdom to those whether it's in medicine, to the doctor, or in this case in politics, to our leaders. And kshbokushid, I should introduce any politics, to KMTT podcasts, even holy politics. It's hard than pashat pintras, but shaamushmoshbiyamayno asks God to provide a successor, a successor to himself knowing that he is going to die, God to be iterating to him, that he is going to die, and mushbiyam appeals to God to appoint a man, alha'ida, isha'ida, who will go before them. The simple term that mushbiyamayno uses for a leader is the man who goes before the ada. It doesn't give orders. He leads. Leading literally. It's the English word, to lead, not to direct, but to lead. A leader has to lead. It's hard to wonder where we've come to and how we've come to it that we don't have any leaders in hearing how it's a soil and we do not have any soil. That too is something which we have to pray, amazingly enough some people have excised the most important line. The most crucial line from Tfilal al-shlamamayno, we pray to God to give wisdom and understanding the serenviyyat-sah to the ministers and advisors, in other words the leaders, the political leaders of Indina. People who are in their frustration or anger are not able to say in all of Tfilal al-shlamayno, they decide to leave out that line because they're so angry at the leaders, so they want to show who not to give them wisdom and understanding. Leaders are merely leaders. They're merely us. They re-elect them. They reflect us, but they need the divine providence, they need divine help, and if there's anything we should be praying for, it's that God, counsel, help, grant wisdom, understanding, courage, leadership, boldness, and all the qualities necessary to be the instruments for God's Yeshua, for the Yeshua-tah-lokayno in Amis-sah-l, and we should see you Shua-tah-tah-mah-mah-mahirah. Okay enough of that, I'd like to share with you, I'm a somewhat different note, something I learned in South Africans, you know, I spent a couple of days spent a week, a little more than a week, in South Africa, on a mission for the Shiva-ed, for the B'nei Akiva, giving Shua-rim there, and a very, very impressive group of young men who would learn to year now to sell, or now back there, they were the Madhivi Shrim B'nei Akiva, giving enormous amounts of time to the youth movement, but also a bit of a break in the university studies, a bit of a bit of a backlash every morning with Shua-rim, I participated in Shua-rim for a number of days, as well as, meaning with some of the adult, the older people, it was a very interesting trip, what did I learn, I learned one thing, I learned a number of things, I want to tell you one thing that I learned, as you know, the beginning of the tour, beginning of Shua-nara, specifically in the tour, opens up with the words "Havei, Ratskatsvi, Gebok-Ari, Kalkanesha Vaskanamir, Ratsalt-Witsan, Avinushvasha Mayim." Person is instructed, a person is enjoined, to be, among other things, Gebok-Ari should be mighty like the lion, and all the years that I've read, I had this picture in my mind, which I suspect maybe the tour had in his mind, of Rihamit-Kabir, a lion, justically getting up in his strength and power, of course, since this is found in the very, very, very first cement in the tour, this cement is called Hashkamat-Abok-Ari, what a halakhot apply when you get up, so it's clear, it's obvious to me that what the tour is trying to say is that in the morning, when you wake up, you jump out of bed, you jump out of bed and go to do the mitzvah what you have to do, tafila kriyachmah, and invest in the mitzvah to the day, not to be lazy and lying around, okay, here I was in South Africa, and we're in a little safari, the one day that I hit off, I'm sure when you think about it, you all know this is true, we've all seen in the movies, what does Mr. Aryeh, Mr. Lion do, when the sun rises, the words that the tour are in the air, this is a halakhot in Vahot, shayyum, shayyum, shayyum, hoom, awerah, shahkam, awerah, one should ideally wake up the door and not have door and wake you up, that's mitzvah-Abok-Ari, Mr. Nail Lion is sleeping, and he'll be sleeping through the rest of the day, once every three days, perhaps, we've got a little bit tired of sleeping, so he'll wake up, look around, take a stroll over to some water home, and then wonder where his Mrs. Lion, whether she's born of anything to eat. This is called "Bittka Berkavi", this is the picture that the tour is suggesting, that's how we should be a Vahot, shayyum, lulling around indulently in the heat, every couple of days looking around to see if we can catch some never little poor prey, and hoping that perhaps the lioness has done it for us, that's mitzvah-Abok-Ari, that's a vodata, shayyum. So I was trying to figure out the answer, I should have said, I probably knew this before, but when you're looking at the African belt, so you really begin to wonder, what could the first see mine in the tour actually mean, I think the answer is simple, and the ramifications is exactly what we thought it was, you're supposed to jump out of bed, but the reason is really different, what is Guru-Rata-Ari, what is the mate, the strength of the lion, that he runs around all day doing things, he's not a bundle of energy, he's lazy, but when he needs to do something, if he's waiting, waiting, waiting, and he needs to hunt, or he's attacked, or his den is threatened, then all that potential energy that was sitting deep inside and just really just sitting around doing nothing, all of a sudden bursts forth, and he becomes perhaps only for a few minutes, the mighty, ferocious animal of more or less of legend, but of reality, when they need, when the core comes, and I think what the tour is saying, Mitcaberk-Ari is rising to the challenge, now of course, the tour is obvious, that when the day begins, that's the challenge, we're Jews, we have Mitzvot, so as soon as it's dawn, Khushmok who's waiting for you, so Mitcaberk-Ari means related, yes indeed to jump out of bed, not like the Al-Viyu, not like the lion who spends the next two days sitting around looking for some shade, the height and the sun, close enough to the waterhole, so you can get his water without struggling. It's Mitcaberk-Ari because now there's a core, now there's a challenge, now there's a necessity, God waits you and you jump out of bed to Litzvot-Ari, and then there'll be another Mitzvot, and each one of them calls forth within you, the resources that you didn't even know were there, but you find them, you gather them together, and it bursts out inactivity, now it very well may be, in fact I'm sure it will be, before a Jew who has Mitzvot all the time, with a Midrash, I quoted in the Midrash how you owe me a couple of days ago, actually more than a week ago, Midrash at the end on, of Persia two weeks ago, on Prashatsitsit, Midrash lists how, there's always Mitzvot, wherever you go there's a Mitzvah, the person goes to work, so in his work, it's talking about agricultural work, so he plants a tree, this Mitzvah having to do with planting of trees, and it ends with when you get dressed, so this Mitzvah of your dress, the challenge is, the opportunities, the call from Akhoshpoh was constant, so that's true, and therefore if you meet Gabelkari, then each one you will never get into the habit, never just sort of coast along, you'll not be like the lion underneath the tree in the heat of the day, but you'll be like the lion who is on the hunt, on the prow, for that once in ten days by him, tracking down, tracking down the antelope, for you, tracking down the antelope may very well be, every five minutes, and each time that antelope appears, you need to make a brachap on this food, or you need to give the stalker to a poor person, or you need to fix something, or you need to do what you need to do, because you're never a sham, so each one of them will be with an explosion of energy, boundless energy, more than two seconds before, someone could possibly have believed was present, was present within you, then I think it's the reopshot of Mitzvah bear kahari, and for that matter also, Ratskatsvi, do you tend to stand around on that, but when they run, they run, for Azkanda mare, and kal, and kal kanesha. That's what I learned on my trip in South Africa, very nice keelah there, very strong keelah, it was a good trip, and I saw many boys who learned in the sheep in the past, and I, and rather certain that I saw a number of boys who were learning in the sheepah, learning how to sell, and others she bought in the, in the future. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]