Vayikra: Will vs Desire | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay, good morning everyone and uh thank you for joining us on this beautiful Wednesday morning. We have tonight want to take the opportunity to wish everyone as we enter a new year. Okay, in a degree to a degree is the beginning of the year in some regards and so happy new month, happy new year. It should be a year and a month of of salvation individually nationally for us salvation individually nationally for us for our loved ones for all of Israel. Amen. Okay, here we go my friends. And uh I want to share with you today a beautiful malim. Malbeim on this week's paras has fantastic beautiful piece. The pasuk says right in the beginning when a person decides they want to bring a kurban to Hashem and we spoke yesterday about the diff different types of one of them is the says types of one of them is the says if his offering is an elevation offering he shall bring it from cattle if it's cattle again there's three options it could be cattle it could be sheep it could be bird If it's cattle, it shall be an unblenmished male. And he shall bring it to the entrance of the moed the moed it should be voluntary in front of God. So obviously the Torah says very clearly it has to be voluntary. It cannot be imposed. It cannot be coerced. It has to be willing. You have to want to be doing this. And obviously when you do something that you want to do so you do it the best way. When a person is forced then they're dragging their feet. Right? You could tell a lot about a person if they

Jump to a moment

1. 0:00Okay, good morning everyone and uh thank you for joining us on this beautiful Wednesday morning.…
2. 3:05difference between whether or not you want to be there will determine how you're there, how…
3. 6:08beautiful something nice on the level he says the word ha hey alif spells six five…
4. 9:12force him. So the asks, well, how do you reconcile the two? First you tell me…
5. 12:15give it emotionally. I can't detach. In my mind, I I completely agree that I should…
6. 15:25with something um good and the word is always used with something bad. So he gives…
7. 18:32actions? What drives our actions in life are our emotions. Our emotions are what drive us.…
8. 21:42But bottom line, when he was tested and when the plague went away and there was…
9. 24:49I could force you to realize that this is something that you want. The Rambam, the…
10. 27:56You don't want to leave an auna. You don't want to hurt a person. I know…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.