Parshas Ki Saitzai

Liyluy Nishmas Elchonon Tzvi ben R'Yisroel Menachem.....In perek Chaf Alef Posuk Yud Alef says "V'raisa Bashivyah aishes yifas toar v'chashakta bah v'lakachta lecha l'isha" Rashi says that the words "vlakachta lecha l'isha" are telling us that marrying this captive is not the words of the Torah rather it is allowed because if Hkbh would have not made it muttar,the yetzer Harah would cause people to marry her anyway.However,the Torah teaches us that if you do marry her you will end up hating her,and if you have a son he will  end up being a ben sorer umoreh.The Rosh Yeshivah Ztl explains that we see from chazal that the whole reason why Hashem made it muttar to marry the yifas toar,is because some people would not be able to control themselves and would marry her anyway.Even though not everyone would end up sucumbing to their taivah,still just for the people that wouldn't be able to
 control themselves,and even though the outcome will be disastrous, still Hashem made it muttar.As we see in kidushin that its better to eat properly shected meat that can have diseases rather than an animal that is healthy but was not properly shected such as a nevailah.Harav Issac Sheer Ztl says,that we see from here a remarkable thing.Many times we look at certain things in the Torah,and think that it is impossible for us to do.There are so many nisyonos, so many things that whet our taivos that we think we can never stay away from.This is not the case,anything that is in the Torah is possible because if it were not,even for a select few,Hashem would have permitted it like yifas toar.This is a tremendous lesson for all of us,especially now in Elul.We all want to grow and be better people but we look at some mitzvos and think that they are impossible,dont let your yetzer harah fool
 you.We all have the koach to be as great as we truly desire.. Good Shabbos

Dvar Torah Parshas Shoftim

Liyluy Nishmas Elchonon Tzvi ben R'Yisroel Menachem......
In perek yud zayin posuk alef it says "Lo sasur min hadavar asher yagidu licha yamin us'mol"  The Lekach Tov brings down, that the Chinuch writes that everyone has their own oppinion,an opinion that is different from the next guys.Hashem knew that if the Torah was given to each and every person to decide how to learn it and keep the mitzvos,then there would be tremendous machlokes and different explanations of the entire Torah.Therefore HKBH designed the remedy to this issue by telling us to rely on our Chachamim.Even when the Chachamim make a mistake,or u assume that the Chacham makes a mistake you are supposed to listen."Lo sasur","Afilu yomru lecha al yamin she'hu s'mol lo sasur mimitzvosam".The lesson from here is tremendous.sometimes people don't realize how important it is to have a "Rebbe" or "Rav" that they are shaul
 eitzah from,they don't realize that its a part of life,a part of the Torah.Even when we are shaul eitzah,how often do we push the psak to the side because "the Rav must have not understood me".We see how important emunas chachamim is,how vital it is to going in the ways of the Torah..
 Good Shabbos

Dvar Torah Parshas Re'ah

Liyluy Nishmas Elchonon Tzvi ben R'Yisroel Meanachem........
In the first posuk in the parsha it says "R'aih anochi nosein lifneichem hayom bracha uklala" in the Medrash Rabah it says that the Rabanan say that Hashem was saying "i did not give you the brachos and klalos to harm you and to make things bad for you,rather I gave them to let you know the right way to act so you should choose that way,in order to receive schar" the Rabanan know this from the lashon of "R'aih anochi nosein lifneichem" The Rosh Yeshivah ztl asks that according to this medrash since the whole reason for the brachos and klalos is to tell you right from wrong,why is it necessary?Klal Yisroel already knows the right and wrong way to act because of all the mitzvos and aveiros in the Torah,so what are the brachos and klalos adding?He answers that without the brachos and klalos,klal yisroel would have made a mistake
 based on their negios and would end up mixing up right and wrong.Even when the Torah says straight out the mitzvos and aveiros,if Hashem hadn't mamash said what's right and wrong in the brachos and klalos,klal yisroel would have ended up doing the wrong things.The koach of negias are so strong,that someone can go so far as to thinkin that the aveiros that he is doin are really mitzvos!We ourselves have to work on ourselves to realize how negios affect us. We should try to look at things that we may be nogea to from more of an outside point of view in order to do what's right as appose to only what we'd like.
Good Shabbos!