Good morning. I hope everyone is well. Pasuk yud-beis. Again, so we're in the midst of the mashal to different types of ganavim, whether the ganavim who attack one's home or whether the ganavim who attack when a person is on the road. נבלעם כשאול חיים ותמימים כיורדי בור. Nivla'em, k'lomar es hamamon. So here, I mean the way we have it printed here is a little bit confusing, just the Perush HaMillos in this edition that quotes from some of the other... there are different manuscripts of the Perush HaGra on Mishlei. So the one quoted in the k'sav yad here means nivla'em, we'll swallow up the people and thereby we will separate them from the mamon. נבלעם כשאול דוגמת השאול שמפריד את האדם מממונו. Shaol is, Yaakov Avinu says, כי ארד אל בני אבל שאולה. So in this context again, the k'sav yad makes clear that the kever... so we'll swallow them up as does the grave in the sense of separating them from their money, but with the difference of chayim, that we're not going to... we're not going to kill them. This is the mashal again to the ganav who takes the money but does not come al iskei nefashos. U't'mimim, and again, remember the pesukim have been describing, sometimes the gneiva is breaking and entering and sometimes the gneiva means to attack the person when he's on the road. So the second half of the pasuk is talking about when he's on the road. When he's on the road, u't'mimim, right, he's going innocently on the way. He has no way of knowing what danger lurks, what danger doesn't lurk. So he's holech tamim baderech, u't'mimim k'yordei bor. And bor also representing the kever. But here, since they themselves are coming to us, we don't have to go to them to steal, so it's depicted as as the tamim he's being yored labor. And again, but both halves of the pasuk are describing when the ganav is only coming al iskei mamon, not al iskei nefashos. The first one is where the attack is on the home and the second one is u't'mimim k'yordei bor when they're on the road, that they themselves, as it were, willingly walk into our clutches as with the imagery of being yored bor. כל הון יקר נמצא נמלא בתינו שלל. We'll find all kinds of precious money, we'll fill our homes with the spoils. So what does the Gaon say? כל הון יקר נמצא הוא נגד הכת הרביעית שסיים בה.
Continuing to speak, excuse me, speaking of the fourth group. והם ההורגים על הדרכים. Again, those who attack on the road but attack on the road and kill their victims. שאצלם הממון שנוטלים הוא כמו מציאה. It's a windfall, it's as though they find something. In the sense that כי מי ידרוש אחריו שהוא רחוק מביתו. He's a stranger, no one knows him, no one's gonna have any sense for... וגם מי ידרוש אחריהם. It's the type of crime which often would go unsolved. שגם הם אפשר שרחוקים מהמקום ההוא ואין מי שיכיר אותם. ולכן
v'lachen pituyam, the way they try to persuade and lure the person is שכל הון יקר יהיה כנמצא. That this tremendously valuable money, it's gonna be like a metzia, it's gonna be like winning the lottery. Nimalei baseinu sholol, we'll fill our homes with spoil, spoils, ונגד אותם השודדים על הדרכים ומניחים בחיים. Here Shlomo HaMelech is referring to those who attack on the road but don't kill their victims. They spare their victims, ein ze k'metziah. Here the spoils can't be described as a metziah כי הבעלים עדיין בחיים. They left the owners, they spared them, ואפשר שידרשו מידם. And the victims may come after them. רק הוא שלל ששללו מידו. But rather again, it's sholol that were taken, she-rachoku, it's unlikely שידרוש אחריהם מפני שהוא רחוק מביתו ואינו מכירם וגם הם אפשר שרחקו מהמקום ההוא ואין מי שיכירם.
So it can't be described as a metziah, but they feel confident that it's very unlikely that the victim will be able to track them down. But again, it's depicted as sholol rather than metziah. Okay, maybe we'll stop here for this morning, beli neder, im yirtzeh Hashem we'll resume around 12:30 or so. Everyone should have a good productive morning. Be well, be safe, im yirtzeh Hashem.