Shovavim Series – Episode 6: Our Goal in Life | Rabbi Nachum Binder

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[bell] [music] >> Parshas Mishpatim. The last week of Shavua V'Zochor, Tough Shin Pei Vov. What can we take out of this week that can last us and carry us throughout the year in being mechazek ourselves in Avodas Hashem? At the beginning of the parsha, the Torah tells us about an Eved Ivri. And the Torah describes the Eved Ivri that after six years of being an Eved, he says, "Ohavti es Adoni es ishti ve'es banai lo etzei chafshi." He wants to stay being an Eved and the Torah tells us, "V'higisho Adonav" brings him to Beis Din and Beis Din "V'higisho el ha'delet v'samelo ozno b'martzea va'avado l'olam." His ear, they put something through his ear to the door and with that he was able to stay by his master until Yovel. >> [snorts] >> And Rashi brings some Chazal. Why is it that it happened to the ear? Why do we put that nail, that peg through his ear and not any other part of his body? Zogen Chazal, "Ozen sheshama al Har Sinai, an ear that heard on Har Sinai, 'Ki li Bnei Yisrael avadim.' That Klal Yisrael should be my avadim. V'halach v'lakach Adonim l'atzmo." And this Eved chose a different master. That ear deserves an onesh. And the Alter of Kelm in the Sefer Or Rashash, he writes that he never really fully understood this Chazal. He said in his younger years it was very hard for him to comprehend. What [snorts] does it mean the ear that heard on Har Sinai, "Ki li Bnei Yisrael avadim" and now he wants a different other in what are trying to teach us and the column writes that he was

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1. 0:01[bell] [music] >> Parshas Mishpatim. The last week of Shavua V'Zochor, Tough Shin Pei Vov. What…
2. 1:04able to stay by his master until Yovel. >> [snorts] >> And Rashi brings some Chazal.…
3. 2:05to understand the column. So the column. Torah and you just get can be understood two…
4. 3:08Hashem. Being an avid to the column. When someone goes and buys himself a different avid.…
5. 4:09it's not only talking to an eved ivri. A half the years of the inyan of…
6. 5:42he's meshubad to his master, the rabbanan said he's patur from certain mitzvot de Rabbanan. Zog…
7. 6:44Wait, what did everybody say? These words of the Alter, I saw brought down that it's…
8. 7:48mikaven to desire Hakadosh in the pshat and every divrei. But my Rebbe Rebbe say, we…
9. 8:49that replaced the need of achila u'shtiya. That's how happy they were. And my Rebbe Rebbe…
10. 9:53satisfaction. True satisfaction. And this is what I think we can take out of Shave of…

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