Sacred Boundaries: Learning from the Parashas of Nazir and Sota

0:01 So life is good. You're a good Jew, you love your family, you love your kids, business is booming. Your Chavruzas are steady, you're well respected in the community. You give your congregation charity dues, nothing to complain about. In fact, you're so happy, you have so much gratitude towards the Almighty that you decide to go bring a sacrifice up to the base on Midgoth. You're gonna go bring a carbon toda, a carbon nidava, just to thank Hashem. So you go get your animal ready and you start to walk up to the Harabias and on your way in you see the lavy outside. You wave hello, you're minding your own business, you keep going and you see Mr Katz, your friendly neighborhood coin.

0:42 He's gonna help you out, show you around, make sure the carbon is done right, kehalacha. You're excited, you're ready to roll over, joyed with this opportunity. And then all of a sudden you hear some screaming and you look over your shoulder and it's coming from the Shahanikanor And there's this crazy lady And they're bringing her in And she's screaming And they're shaving her head And they're degrading her because of this perhaps suspected, alleged promiscuous Sota-Wayward wife being accused of infidelity. And now Khazal tell us that the parasha of Nazir and the parasha of Sota are next to each other, because this individual who witnesses this site, kholharoyah Soitabekil Kula Yazir Atamanaya, you should become a Nazir, because you see where wine could lead to this horrible, perhaps suspected, sin, and wine intoxicates and can lead towards sin.

1:43 So become a Nazir, take it upon yourself Now. You must immediately be shocked with, now, the commitment of a Nazir. Not only is he not supposed to drink wine, but listen to this He also can't have weak wine. He also can't have vinegar because it comes from wine. He also can't even have grape juice. He can't even have the seeds, he can't even have the pips and the skins of grapes. Think about it The Tyra has a man and their Yairudlissoyfdaita. They get into how we think and what could lead towards sin, and not just wine, which could lead towards perhaps this terrible sin, but even the skins of grapes.

2:29 If a person would understand and he made their spiritual world real that a sin destroys worlds and is like a cancerous tumor on the soul, then he would understand why you can't even touch, you can't even consume the pips and the skins of grapes, because even though there's 10 million miles perhaps between the skins of grapes and this horrible, egregious sin of the wayward wife, but Asusiyoglatar, would you ever get near nuclear waste and say, oh, i'm here and it's there, the cliff is there and I'm on good ground? When you understand how detrimental sins are and how poisonous they are, then we understand why we can't even consume pips and skins of grapes.

3:20 K'la Royes, soy Do Be Ke Kula Y'Azer Atamina Yai, and make sure that you're inspired by things that are sins to never get near them. Make sure that you set up boundaries for yourself to protect yourself from that slippery slope that could perhaps end in terrible destruction.