Parshas Re'eh 5786

Automatic transcript of the voice note (unedited) — Hebrew and Yiddish terms may be spelled phonetically.

Parashas Re'eh, you see something that I've seen in different Sepharim, known as far as I'm famous, and I've also heard it from different people over the years, that the parashas got names based on a certain theme of that week's parasha. And I think out of all parashas, Re'eh, it really jumps out at you. We call it Parashar A, C. Interestingly enough, the parasha talks all about the place where Kaddish Baruch Hu is going to choose. Where Klai Israel builds the Ba'ai Israel, the base of the Gdush. Over there we know, that's where the parasha ends, that there's two things. There is that we are seen by Hashem, Hashem sees us, and also that we are seen. So we see that one of the biggest

over there is both in how we are seen and that we are visible. Meaning, Kaddish Baruch Hu is looking at us and how we present ourselves to our Kaddish Baruch Hu. That is what goes on by the Besamikdash. Also, we have the story of what's kosher and what's not kosher in Re'eh. It's a repeat from Shemini. Interestingly enough, we have a list again of all the 24 birds that are not kosher. And there's a repeat. Why is there a repeat? Because now we add the the bird that's not mentioned in Parashat Shemini, which bird? Ra'ah. Can you imagine out of all birds, the same exact spelling as the Parashat? Ra'ah, Ra'ah, Resh, Aleph, He.

So it comes up again as one of the birds, okay, without getting into why and getting into what this bird means, I guess, from seeing up top. Okay, the whole concept of a sepur comes from the same lotion as Seife. he had to be able to see which is the Aga of Ramesha says anyone named Sipari you're not named Sipari because it's a bird and Sipari herself the life of Ramesha was not named after a bird but rather it's the concept of being able to see being Saifa okay that's Ramesha and Chubas actually says that but anyways the idea is birds we know have a very good vision they can see very well birds that have view so it's interesting that of all birds can you imagine of all birds in the world

Ra'a the same Ra'a is the bird that's missing in the span of this week's parasha. So you see the parasha is constantly focusing on this idea. There's probably so many different things we could say about the koyekh of seeing, but I just want to focus on one ballad term, the first ballad term of this week's parasha. He says, What does that mean? What's anoich anoich? It's a reference to the Sarasat Dibris. He says, That is the lesson that Moshe Rabbeinu is teaching us. The famous passage, this week's parasha is a very similar version of that passage think about the words you're trying to do good that's how we're trying to present ourselves like we said in the base of Megdash

we're presenting ourselves in a way so Hashem should see us in a way that we want to be seen so it's a extremely fitting concept that the parasha starts you should always be viewing always remember the relationship you have with Hashem and the things that He told us there's a message refined with Re'eh Hazal, the more we keep our eyes on the Kaddish Baruch Hu, the more he keeps his eyes on us. I don't have in front of me the different places in Hazal that talk about it, but one famous concept is the person who says he could take care of everything himself, he doesn't need help. Yes, the Kaddish Baruch Hu says, okay, let's see. Very nice, go, try. In other words, there's no siyata d'shmayah.

We see over and over and over at Re'eh Hazal that really the main idea is that if we just remember Hashem and we know that we cannot do it. Yeah, like the Gemara says in Brachas, if a person doesn't have a Kosh Baruch Hu B'ezra, if a person doesn't have a Kosh Baruch HaSahab, a person can't really be mitzvahed. You can't really take the big challenges of life, what's really important. There's the biggest Brach in the world. Hashem tells us it's the most simple recipe. You just keep your eyes on Hashem. You just remember Hashem runs the world. Hashem gave us. Hashem is asking us when we come to the base of Midrash that we don't come empty-handed. Another big theme from this week's parasha.

If we make sure to see, to look at what is meant for us to grow, HaKadosh Baruch Hu in turn will see us. And what better bracha than the world and HaKadosh Baruch Hu looking at us and giving us his bracha.