0179 - Precision in Lekutei Sichos Part 3

00:00 Another small example of the Rebbe's Haggoes and Rebbe's Dikun L'Kutesiches that has a shayeches to Parsha Kisiso. Has a shayeches to the posek where it says in Kisiso, Kipit Lamed Beis, posek Beis in Gimel, where it says that Aray said to them, "Pirku nizmei azov asher ba'oznen nesheichem b'neichem u'vneiseichem", take off the golden earrings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, v'haviu alaim, bring to me. And the next posek says, "Vayispor k'kol ha'am nizmei azov asher ba'ozneiem", that they took off, the whole nation took off the golden earrings that's on their ears. And the way Rasha explains that they took off the rings from their own ears, Aray thought that he would tell them to take off from the earrings of the earrings of the ears of the wives and the children, boys and the girls, the sons and the daughters. The peleh took it off themselves. So this Rasha and this psukim and this Rasha, the Rebbe uses to bring a rayeh to something that he said writes in the Sichah in Parsha Mishpotim in Cheilik Yud Aleph. There, the Rebbe brings a question. Why is there a punishment of piercing the ear of the person who wants to stay as an Eved Ivri over the six years? V'chureh, he didn't do anything so terrible. If he was an Eved Ivri because he stole and the Besdin sold him, well, usually a person steals because he doesn't have any food, doesn't have any money. Even if it's a

01:24 person who sold himself, it's also because he was poor. So why do we give him such a terrible punishment to pierce, make a hole in his ear? So the Rebbe said, by the Fabrangim, when he said that Sichah, he said, "So obviously we have to say that the opposite, that it's not such a terrible punishment. It's a small punishment." And based on the way the Rebbe said it then, in the Sichah that was given into the Rebbe, this is the word that it said there. That sod achleimer we have to say that because this is not such a bad avera that he did, that this is the reason why the Torah chose, bochra Torah lehanishe be'eineish bilti roguel kaze. This is the reason why the Torah chose to punish him with such an unusual punishment. Mikivim shezehu eineish ha'yeiser kal, because this is the lightest punishment. V'tzifzo lifzeias oznei, and the Torah commanded to pierce his ear, liyei she'idei zeh le'yinozei guf iklal, because for this his body will not be harmed. O kemishereim bechush, as we see physically, she'anosim reitzes ozneiem yrtzeinom, that women pierce their ears willingly, yrtzeinom atei from their own will, loses va'shom tach shit ei zov, to put golden jewelry into the ear, ve'ein zeh mazi klala aguf, and it doesn't hurt the body. That's how it was written before. So here the Rebbe changed, and the Rebbe wrote instead of the way it was written before, that this is eineish ha'yeiser kal, a punishment that's the lightest, the Rebbe

02:55 changed it to eineish kal be'yeiser, a punishment that's very light. There's a big difference. The lightest punishment means that this is the lightest punishment, as if there's nothing lighter than that. A very light punishment doesn't mean this is the lightest. And the Rebbe, as I mentioned once before, didn't want extreme words to be written. So if you write this is the lightest punishment, it's very extreme. This is the lightest thing possible. So the Rebbe changed it to eineish kal be'yeiser. It's a very light punishment. And then the other words the Rebbe changed, instead of the whole idea that the Eibishter made them said to make a hole in his ear because like we see bechush that women pierce their ears to put in jewelry, the Rebbe changed it to these words. Ve'ad k'deikach, this idea that it's a very light punishment, so much so, she'hoyo regilim lirzeia ha'eizeh yrtzeinom ateiv. They was accustomed that they would pierce their ears with their own goodwill, b'chdei loses bahem nezem, in order to put a, a earring into it. And then he would, he dash, and he wrote, anoshim v'noshim bonim u'vanos. Men, women, boys, and girls. And the Rebbe writes amaramo ki me'im parsha ki siso ki pitol lamet beis posek beis in gimel. So here, instead of bringing a rayeh that it's not such a terrible thing to pierce your ears from the fact that women pierce their ears, he brought a rayeh from Chumash. That in Chumash we see clearly that people used to have

04:22 earrings, which means they pierced their ears. And in Chumash we see it was the women, ba'oznen nesheichem b'neichem u'vneiseichem, your wives, your sons, and your daughters. And then the next posek we see that they took off the earrings from their own ears. That means that the men also had earrings. So this is the best rayeh that this is something that is very light and it's not really considered a punishment. So we see our Rebbe was medayeg that it shouldn't be just a rayeh from Stam because people do it, but a rayeh from Chumash from the way the posek writes it in this week's Parsha Ki Siso.