Shlomo Hamelech
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Aug 30, 2026
Yehoshua GordonHOST
[reading foreign language] The words of the wise and their riddles, that is actually a verse in Proverbs.
Yehoshua GordonHOST
Proverbs written by Shlomo HaMelech.
Yehoshua GordonHOST
So he says if we're going to take these profound concepts of Kabbalah and understand that they are all allegory and metaphor using the words of the wise and their riddles, [reading foreign language] we're gonna relate all of this to the ten attributes.
Yehoshua GordonHOST
[reading foreign language] Again, poetry.
Efrem GoldbergHOST
It's a gevaldig song.
Efrem GoldbergHOST
But Shlomo HaMelech wrote the re-- original version.
Efrem GoldbergHOST
It comes from Shir HaShirim.
Efrem GoldbergHOST
Inlaid inside with love, but mesuteress.
speaker_0HOST
We are in Perek Daled, chapter four, Pasuk Yod Ches, verse eighteen.
speaker_0HOST
Shlomo HaMelech had just told us that if you hang out with bad people, um, they teach you to do bad things.
speaker_0HOST
They're gonna influence you in a way that's gonna make you bring out the worst, the worst of you.
speaker_0HOST
On the other hand, if you hang out with righteous people, that's what he tells us here, Pasuk Yod Ches, [in foreign language] the way of the righteous, [in foreign language] is like the light which becomes bright, [in foreign language] becoming brighter and even more lit up.
speaker_0HOST
And so Yeshaya, who foresees this, says, [in foreign language] how have you fallen from heaven, [in foreign language] the glowing one, [in foreign language] the morning star? And so he's comparing Babylon to Venus, the-- this bright star in the sky and called [in foreign language] and Venus is the, the morning star.
speaker_0HOST
And so he's comparing Babylon to this brightest star in the sky, Venus.
speaker_0HOST
How have you fallen like [in foreign language]? What this means is this [in foreign language] this bright light which refers to Venus is what Shlomo HaMelech is hinting to already over here when he says the ways of the Tzadikim, the ways of the righteous are, are Nogah.
speaker_0HOST
Nogah is the word for Venus.
Yehuda ValeHOST
He's someone who did teshuvah because he had the exact opportunity with all the details to do the same aveira again, and he withheld himself from doing the aveira because he wanted to do teshuvah.
Yehuda ValeHOST
"Hu sheshlomo amar azcharis b'iracha bimhei m'chorosacha ad asher lo yavo yemei haram tigi'u shanam asher tomar ein libem cheftz." And he says, that's what Shlomo HaMelech refers to in Kohelet when he says that a person should do teshuvah while he's still young and he still has the same yetzer hara and the same availability to sin, and still he withholds himself from sin, that's a real teshuvah.
Yehuda ValeHOST
And he goes on to explain that if a person does teshuvah when he's older and it's already not so possible for him to anyway do the same aveiras that he did when he was younger and he doesn't have the same drive to do the aveiras, then that teshuvah is not as precious and as good quality of a teshuvah as it would be if he would do it when he was younger.
Yehuda ValeHOST
Then in Halacha Beis, the Rambam says, "Umah hi at teshuvah?" What is teshuvah? "Hu sheya'azeiv ha'cheit cheto," it's that the sinner should abandon his cheit, "v'yasirena mmichshavtai," not only should he stop doing the aveira that he did, but he should remove it from his mind.
David KadoshHOST
The language the Torah uses about arrogance is startling in its severity.
David KadoshHOST
In Mishlei, Shlomo HaMelech writes, "To'avat Hashem kol gevah lev." An arrogant heart is an abomination to Hashem.
David KadoshHOST
It's not a flaw.
David KadoshHOST
It's not a weakness.
David KadoshHOST
The Torah gives us a portrait of laziness that is almost uncomfort- uncomfortably recognizable.
David KadoshHOST
Mishlei, the book of Proverbs, is filled with Shlomo HaMelech's observation about the Atzel, the lazy person, and they are written with a sharpness that feels almost, almost funny.
David KadoshHOST
The lazy person says, "There is a lion in the street.
David KadoshHOST
I will be killed if I go outside." In other words, the lazy person is not sitting there saying, "I am lazy." He is generating excuses and reasons, elaborate, creative, entirely convincing reasons why now is not the right time, why the conditions aren't quite right, why it would be unwise to begin today.
David KadoshHOST
And Shlomo HaMelech is telling us, Tircha doesn’t present itself as laziness.
David KadoshHOST
It presents itself as wisdom, as caution, as prudence, and that’s what makes it so hard to catch.
David KadoshHOST
Chazal in Avot Rabbi Natan teach that one of the things a person will be asked to give account of on the Day of Judgment is every legitimate pleasure they denied themselves without reason.
Aaron Dov FriedmanHOST
I am to my beloved.
Aaron Dov FriedmanHOST
It's a passuk in, in Shir Hashirim, right? That, uh, Shlomo HaMelech said, "Ani l'dodi," I am to my beloved, which is HaKadosh Baruch Hu, v'dodi li.
Aaron Dov FriedmanHOST
And I'll tell you a little secret.
Aaron Dov FriedmanHOST
I snuck, because I was very close to Rav Ruderman, zecher tzadik v'kadosh livracha, and I hung around the house, and I snooped around when I was there.
Aaron Dov FriedmanHOST
And he, I guess, gave her a gift, and the note, I found the note, and it said, "Ani l'dodi v'dodi li." [book slams] It has, you know, I am to my beloved as my beloved is to me.
Aaron Dov FriedmanHOST
Hmm.
Aaron Dov FriedmanHOST
This is what Shlomo HaMelech wrote about our relationship with HaKadosh Baruch.
Aaron Dov FriedmanHOST
We'll come back to that.