לשם שמים לשם שמים. These terrible people. וירב בנחל, אמר רבי מני על עסקי נחל. They were arguing over what the ענינים of the נחל, what does that mean? טייטש איז אזוי, בשעה שאמר לו הקדוש ברוך הוא לשאול, when Hashem said to שאול, לך והכית את עמלק, go and smite עמלק. אמר, he said, מה בשביל נפש אחת, look at this, for one person who died, אמרה תורה, the תורה says, הביאו עגלה ערופה בנחל. Bring an עגלה ערופה, because we don't know who killed him, and it's a גאנצע מעשה, and you have to bring to the נחל. If so important, one person's life, כל הנפשות הללו על אחת כמה וכמה. So here you want me to kill thousands and tens of thousands of people of עמלק? Doesn't understand it. Certainly should it's you can't do that. Another thing he said: אם אדם חטא, even if you say the people, the people sinned, אבל בהמה מה חטאה? Why kill all the בהמות? Even if you say that אם גדולים חטאו, amongst the people, even though the people who sinned, the adult, קטנים מה חטאו? קטנים, what did they sin? So he was arguing, so to speak, with the אייבערשטער in connection to the נחל. To the he brought a ראיה from עגלה ערופה, which is brought in the נחל. But he was trying to not Not to kill them.

מיד יצתה בת קול ואמרה לו, came out a בת קול and said to him, אל תהי צדיק הרבה. It's a פסוק in קהלת, don't be such a big צדיק. Trying to be a big צדיק, you have רחמנות... No. But אברהם fought for סדום, no? Yeah, but the אייבערשטער told the אייבערשטער didn't tell him, he was asking the אייבערשטער to forgive him. But here, the אייבערשטער told him to go, he told the אייבערשטער how could In other words, these people like I don't want to do what You said, basically. He's arguing with Him. What about משה? משה when he came when he said at the חטא העגל? Huh? משה said at the חטא העגל, he ended up being a lot of trouble, and then Hashem said they can also happen later. That's a good מיכה, he was מיכה. Yeah. Why why did he always have a question? He's supposed to kill these רשעים, like, why is that always He had an התחכמות. And then המן came from this. Yeah, because he left אגג. ובשעה שאמר לו שאול לדואג, on the other hand, when שאול said to דואג, סב אתה ופגע בכהנים והמתם איש ועד אשה, when he said the whole city שאול had the whole city of נוב עיר הכהנים killed. He told דואג. Yeah, so when he said that, יצתה בת קול ואמרה, came a בת קול and said, אל תרשע הרבה, don't be such a big רשע. First he said don't be such a big צדיק, and then such a big רשע, which means don't be too extreme. But don't fit for yourself, Hashem told them עמלק is supposed to be wiped out. Right. But you have you want to say רחמנות, like this, the מדרש says like this, if a person It's the same thing but in different words: If a person has רחמנות where he should not have, the end will be he will have he will be an אכזר in places where he should have רחמנות. That's what it says, אם אדם נתחסד במקום שצריך להתאכזר, סופו להתאכזר במקום שצריך להתחסד. And that's exactly what happened. I'm not sure why it was such a Later, yeah. Because of דוד, yeah. Is that the reason why he destroyed כהנים, what happened was connected to this? Not to this, no. But the point is that you'll see what will happen. And the רבי was very, in the לקוטי שיחות it's very פשוט. The

moment you put in your own feelings, then you never know where it's going to go. Sometimes your feeling will be, I don't want to do this, I'm a צדיק. Sometimes your feeling, I want to do this. You do what the אייבערשטער says. That's what he says. If you're going to start with your own feelings, that's what it says, we've forgotten, the רבי טייטשט it: The יצר הרע comes doesn't come to a person and say, do עבודה זרה. היום אומר לו כך ומחר, today he says this. The רבי טייטשט he doesn't come to him and say do an עבירה. פשוט פשט means, come on, a small עבירה, a big עבירה. He tells him, do a מצוה. What's wrong with that? The moment you feel that you need the הסכמה of the יצר הרע, oh that's a problem, even for a good thing. He's out of the picture. The moment he's part of the picture, then tomorrow he'll come and say something else. That's exactly what happened here. Was it the רמ"א that had a בית דין טהרה and he gave the guy He didn't know who that that was the רמ"א? בעל הש"ך. בעל הש"ך, yeah. Sometimes you don't can't recognize the יצר הרע, you think it's a good idea. Many times it's not. No, sometimes. But you think you have a good idea, you think you have a good feeling about it, but the reason is... So that needs, חסידות calls it, the פריערדיקר רבי called it, הבחנה שכלית. You need a הבחנה to figure out whether it's the יצר... Sometimes it's very hard to know if it comes from the יצר הרע or the יצר טוב. One of the ראיות they one of the things not ראיה, they say one of the ways a person could prove himself in ספרים, if you do something, it's right and it's a ספק if it's a good thing or a bad thing, if you feel bad right away, you know it's bad. And if not, not. They bring a ראיה. A מפורש'דיקע פשט in תנ"ך. It

says when שאול, when דוד המלך came to שאול's cave, so it says, he was able to kill him, he was able to, but he cut off a piece of his his cloak. Yeah, yeah, sure. And he left. So it says, well what was that? A פשוט'ע פשט, he wanted to give him a סימן that I was here, so whatever. But the ספרים say like this: He didn't know if he should kill him or not, he didn't know He thought maybe it's a good maybe it's the right thing is to kill him, maybe not. So he says like this: Let me try start off a little bit. Would I feel bad or not? So he said, "Let me start." So he cut off a little bit and he felt bad, so he said, "I know it's no good." That's how he got confirmed before the kill. Yeah, he didn't He knew not to kill him. It shows not to kill him. Says if you feel bad about what you did, a סימן it's יצר הרע what you want. Felt bad about not killing him? No, felt bad why he cut. ממילא, that's a ראיה that he shouldn't do anything to him, and that's why he went away. Don't go further. So, yeah, don't go further, nothing further. That's why he said the ראיה, that was a יצר הרע. Ah, the ראיה that to kill him was the יצר הרע. He didn't know, "Should I kill him or not?" He had an urge to kill him, but he didn't know the wanting to kill him is from the יצר טוב or יצר הרע. He tried to do what the יצר טוב told him. Right, right. And he felt bad. He didn't know what He wanted to kill him. He didn't know if it's the right is יצר טוב or יצר הרע. So he said, "Let me start killing him. If I'll feel bad for that, then I know wanting to kill him is the יצר הרע." The act of killing, is like killing. Yeah, but he started. Yeah.