Hi good morning Rabosai, I apologize for the delay. We had been looking yesterday at מכתב קמ"ב and focusing on that first line of the second paragraph of וחכי מידותיו של תורה שהיא משלמת לדורשיה במיטב. And we were talking about the idea of not simply learning but being a Doresh Torah, being a Mevakesh. So just to round out our albeit brief discussion of that point, just to mention one Mareh Makom, my brother Hashem Yikom Damo used to quote the following Be'er HaGolah Mishlei. In Perek Yud Gimmel in Mishlei the Pasuk says תוחלת ממשכה מחלה לב. Prolonged anticipation is just something which is a Machala of Leiv, however Eitz Chaim when it comes to Eitz Chaim so then Tayva Ba'ah. So then one's desire comes his way. So the Gra explains as follows: בעולם הזה אפשר שלא יתן לו הקדוש ברוך הוא אף אם יתפלל.
When a person is Mevakesh from Hakadosh Baruch Hu mundane Tzorchim, so that's entirely legitimate. We have mundane Tzorchim that are real, that are important, and certainly that we are supposed to Daven for that as well. However, אפשר שלא יתן לו הקדוש ברוך הוא אף אם יתפלל.
There's no guarantee. ולא יהיה רק מחלה לב. It's just going to be a heartache. So if a person, a person should Daven, but a person shouldn't Daven excessively. However, מה תקנתו יעסוק בתורה שהוא חיי עולם הבא ובודאי יבוא לו תאוותו ורצונו.
If a person Davens for and devotes himself to Torah, to Eitz Chaim, so then Tayva Ba'ah. Then the Pasuk here tells us that there's a guarantee that that devotion, dedication, that Derisha is rewarded. Tayva Ba'ah. The person's desire, person is a Mevakesh, a person is a Doresh, so then בודאי יבוא לו תאוותו. It's incredible. It gives a guarantee that if only a person is asking for and devoting himself to, so then there's a guarantee of Tayva Ba'ah. Now let's look briefly Rabosai at least part of one other letter today Kuf Mem Zayin. So in the table of contents, in the table of contents, so Kuf Mem Zayin is labeled a letter written to someone whose brother apparently had gone off the Derech, I think that's the way it's listed here in the table of contents. בדבר יחס לאח שסטה. The relationship a person should have to a brother who has strayed. ועכשיו בדבר תוכן התרומה שלך, Hinecha Kovel Alai you're complaining Al She'tziarticha Bichinam that I gratuitously pained you. gratuitously aggravated you be'esek bish zeh in this in this uncomely affair. האם אמנם שכחתי את הפסוק of hashomer achi anochi? שמע נא אחי חביב לא על דעת אדם מעולם לתת לך מינוי חדש של שמירה על אחיך.
That's not what it's about. No one's appointing you the guardian, no one's no one's holding you entirely responsible for your brother. Aval bevadai ubevadai, but it's certainly the case shechovatcha ha'elementarit, your elementary obligation היא לחפוץ לדעת את מצבו המסוכן רחמנא לצלן של אחיך.
At the very least it's your obligation to be concerned to know what his spiritual, that's what footnote one is on the bottom, ruchani, to know the spiritual danger in which he finds himself. ואם הידיעה הזאת כרוכה היא בצער, and if associated with this if associated with this you will experience tzar, so what? כי אז אין לך שום רשות להפקיע עצמך מן הצער הזה.
You have no right to excuse yourself to avoid sharing in this tzar. Maybe we'll reflect on on the two paragraphs together so we'll just see the next paragraph as well. ושוב אתה קובל כותב בכוונה, you also write again complaining וכי יש בידי לשנות את המצב? Is there anything practical that I can do about it, can I change the situation? גם זה לא דווקא. You're not right about this also ואינו מוכרח כלל וכלל. האומנם אין דמעות בעיניך? The achrayus that we have for each other and just as in הלכות צדקה לאחיך לענייך ולאביונך בארצך there's a din kedima for one's family members and then there's a din kedima for one's community and then it branches outward from there. The sense of achrayus that we have for each other is such that a person cannot be oblivious, is not allowed to be oblivious to the tzar of others. He's not allowed to be oblivious to the tzar of a brother, he's not allowed to be oblivious to the tzar of other people in the community, he's not allowed to be oblivious to the tzar of any segment of Klal Yisrael. He's not supposed to let that tzar overwhelm him and paralyze him in that he just walks around all day in a state of tzar and and is as a result mivatel from Torah. So it's not supposed to be a a tzar that again that prevents him from using his time but on the other hand that doesn't mean that it's legitimate to go to the other extreme of being uninformed and oblivious of of the tzar. And there's always, as the next paragraph indicates, there's always something we can do. There may not be any practical, there may not be any practical hishtadlus at times, maybe there is. But even at times when there's no no hishtadlus there's always a makom tefillah. However one conceptually puts the pieces together and it is a challenge. How does one person's tefillah help another person? How does that fit with the other person's bechirah? Okay, that's a good challenging question, but the fact is the question is not Does tefillah help? The question is to understand in terms of havanah what the mechanism is and and how it helps, but our tradition is that it certainly does help, that that we can be mispallel for each other not only in terms of our physical welfare, but even our spiritual welfare. So A, just even without this practical step to be taken, we have no right to to be to to be oblivious to other people's tza'ar, and and it's something which is obviously very, very הלכה למעשה בזמן הזה. All of us who Baruch Hashem are are blessed with with good health, we need to be aware of and attuned to and empathetic with the tza'ar of so so many who who are not enjoying that berachah. And number two, there's always something more than just the sense of empathy, there's always something more to be done, there's always a makom tefillah, and שערי דמעות לא ננעלו. מיום שחרב בית המקדש שערי תפילה ננעלו ושערי דמעות לא ננעלו.
There's always a makom, there's always a makom to daven. Okay, so we'll stop here for now. Bli neder im yirtzeh Hashem we'll resume at 11:30, the normal Thursday schedule with Pirkei Avos. Okay, rabosai, have a productive morning and be well, be safe, and see you later im yirtzeh Hashem. Thank you so much, Rabbi. Thank you, Rabbi. Thank you, Rabbi.