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The Weekly Parsha Behar-Bechukosai with Health & Wellness Insights · The Frum Health Club Podcast

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: When Parsha's Bihar is read together with Bihukesai, there is a special message in those title words.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Bihar is a mountain, and everyone has a mountain in their life that they are trying to climb.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: And how do you rise to the challenge and conquer your mountain?
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: By Bihukisai Telechu, going in Hashem's ways, the Chukim of Hashem, the supra rational mitzhis from Hashem, which become engraved in you from the word khaiq, will enable you to persevere and to rise to climb your mountain.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: And Telechu, the Rebbe says, you go out in the world and transform it.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: And how do you do that?
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: Rashi says that one should be a mele mitrah, toil in the holy words of Tarah.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Think about Tarah in every way, and in my opinion, listen to Tarah even while you toil in running and doing exercises and in your daily activities.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: This will transform you and even people around you.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: Which reminds me of a beautiful saying, don't push Hashem into your kids' heart, but rather bring your children into your heart, and if Hashem is there, they will find them there too.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: The Parsha starts with the laws of Shmitta, letting your field lie empty in the seventh year.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: And it mentions specifically that this is from Harsinai.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: And the obvious question everyone asks is that all the mitzh are from Harsinai.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Why is this one singled out?
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: And the answer is Bitochen.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Back then, the economy was based on agriculture, and Hashem was asking them to stop working for a full year.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: This was financially difficult, and this takes Bitochen, trust in God.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: And Hashem says, Shmittah, giving the holy land a rest, is a mitzvah from Harsinai.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: And just as you saw the revelation on Sinai, so too you will be rewarded by keeping Shemitah with all the blessings that are mentioned.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: So have trust in me.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: And we say these blessings on Saturday night after Abdullah when we start our work week.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: And someone who embodies Bituchen in our times is Ribshal Mordchai Ribashkin, who was davining hollow in his jail cell on Hanukkah.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: And by the word of Anani, answer me Hashem, the warden called him into his office to say his last appeal was denied, and he would need to stay in prison for the total of 27 years.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: His Bitochin still was unwavering, but he just knew that Bedera Kateba, there was nothing else to do.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: And the following morning he woke up and still had Bituchen, that Hashem would set him free.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then a few hours later, on the eighth day of Hanukkah, he got the call that he was free to go.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Still get chills from this story.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: And we read later on about someone who is so poor he gets sold as a slave, Hasushalm.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: So to redeem him, the Pasik says first, go to the brother, then the uncle, then the cousin, and then go to the person himself.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: And the Rebbe asks, first of all, where's the father?
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: And in today's time, we can say a slave is also a slave to addiction.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: And a father's responsibility is to make sure that this doesn't happen and be present for his kid.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: And if the father is not around, and this may happen, God forbid.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: And furthermore, the order to redeem him is unusual.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: It places the actual person last, which teaches us that all of the relatives mentioned initially may be a catalyst to help, but the only person who can redeem himself is the actual person who is affected.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: Same thing applies to exercise and being healthy, in my opinion.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: You may have your relatives bother you and encourage you, but you if you are not ready to help yourself, it won't happen.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: So take charge of your destiny.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: And don't worry, the Pasu concludes, and if all else fails and he cannot redeem himself, Hashem establishes a reset with Yvo, the Jubilee, and then he goes free because ultimately we belong to Hashem.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: And with Hu Kesai, we have the Techekah, the opposite of blessings, unless you hear the Alter Rebbe lay them, from the famous story of the Mittil Rebbe who called them blessings after he fainted when hearing someone else read the claulas.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: So in the Tehekha, there is an unusual word, Kari, which is mentioned seven times, and it means happenstance, as if by the way, and Hashem says, if you treat me, Hashem, as happenstance in your life, not God-centric, and this is a direct contrast to how the beginning of Vikra starts, that Hashem is calling each one of us because the spark of Mesha is in each of us to partner with him to connect to Hashem through service, which is our sacrifice, says Rabbi Sax.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: And we conclude the Parsha and the book of Vikra with the subject of Erchin, things that are given to Suddaka to the Baysamiddash of value.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_00: A man has a set value and a child less value when pledging for Siddhaka, the value of a person.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: And all of these set values add up to 143 holy shekels, which also corresponds to the total of 143 verses in the techeka, including the portion in Kisabai, which is fascinating.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: And the Baal term says that giving siddha can nullify the techikha.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: And Chasidis explains even deeper that no matter what happens, every person and child has intrinsic value, no matter who they are, because they each have a divine soul within.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: And with that, may we get strength to conquer our mountains and addictions and to have trust in Hashem, so we may merit the Shafra Mashiach and Yegel, which we are waiting for.