יום רביעי, 1 במאי 2013

Now That You've Asked - Behar 5769



It says in  in Perek 25:21 (וְצִוִּיתִי אֶת-בִּרְכָתִי לָכֶם, בַּשָּׁנָה הַשִּׁשִּׁית; וְעָשָׂת, אֶת-הַתְּבוּאָה, לִשְׁלֹשׁ, הַשָּׁנִים), that (I shall direct my blessing to you in the sixth year and it will produce enough for three years). This is a contradiction to the Havtachah that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave us, that if we do the Mitzvos then Ochel Kima Umisbaraich B’maiav -that a person will eat less and be satisfied. If so, then why do we need more Peiros, the same amount of food should accomplish that we shouldn’t go hungry? This seems to be 2 types of Brachos that contradict each other?
To answer this we will ask another question. In Posuk Chaf it says, (וְכִי תֹאמְרוּ, מַה-נֹּאכַל בַּשָּׁנָה הַשְּׁבִיעִת: הֵן לֹא נִזְרָע, וְלֹא נֶאֱסֹף אֶת-תְּבוּאָתֵנוּ), that (If you shall ask what will we eat in the seventh year, since we have not planted nor gathered our produce). Then in Posuk Chaf Alef it says that there will be 3 years of food grown in year 6. Is this true that the only way to get 3 years of produce grown in year 6 is by asking this question, and everyone else doesn’t get the Bracha of 3 years produce grown in the 6th year? Rav Pam says absolutely. Really there is the Bracha of (אוכל קמעא והוא מתברך במעיו) Ochel Kima V’hu Misbaraich B’maiav which is Rashi to 26:5, however, if you ask V’chi Somru, and you don’t have Bitachon then you will have to work much harder and you will have 3 years worth of produce grown in the 6th year.
In our day to day life some of us are faced with an opportunity to work overtime. Should we work the overtime or not? It is hard for us to know when a person should just have Bitachon and when a person should be doing more Hishtadlus. The Michtav M’Eliyahu and Beis Haleivi in Parshas Mikeitz say you should do the amount of Hishtadlus that gives you a comfort level that Hashem could send it. The ideal is (אוכל קמעא והוא מתברך במעיו) that a person should be able to be happy with less.

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