Shimi. Shishi ben Shimi. These terrible people. וירב בנחל, אמר רבי מני על עסקי נחל. They were arguing over what the inyanim of the נחל. What does that mean? Taitch as follows: בשעה שאמר לו הקדוש ברוך הוא לשאול, when Hashem said to שאול, לך והכית את עמלק, go and smite Amalek. אמר, he said, מה? בשביל נפש אחת, look at this, for one person who died, אמרה תורה, the Torah says, הביאו עגלה ערופה בנחל. Bring an עגלה ערופה, because we don't know who killed him, and it's a gantze maaseh and you have to bring it 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 Amalek? Doesn't stand it. Certainly you should, he 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 behemot? Afilu if you say that אם גדולים חטאו, amongst the people, even though the people who sinned, the both, קטנים מה חטאו? קטנים, what did they sin? So he was arguing, so to speak, with the Oybershter in connection to the נחל, to the he brought a re'ayah from עגלה ערופה which is brought in the נחל. Not to kill them. מיד יצאה בת קול ואמרה לו, came out a

בת קול and said to him, אל תהי צדיק הרבה. There's a pasuk in Kohelet, don't be such a big tzadik. Trying to be a big tzadik, you have rachmanut. No. Yeah, but the Oybershter told the Oybershter didn't tell him, he was asking the Oybershter to forgive him. But here the Oybershter told him to go, he told the Oybershter how could you? In other words, these people, like, I don't want to do what You said, basically. He's arguing with Him. Moshe said that ended up being a lot of trouble, and Hashem said you don't see what happened later. Huh? That's אגב מיכה, he was Michah. Yeah. Why does he always He's supposed to kill these reshaim, why does he always Yeah, heavy kushya. And then Haman came from this. Yeah, because he left Agag. ובשעה שאמר לו שאול לדואג, on the other hand, when Shaul said to דואג, סוב אתה ופגע בכהנים והמת מאיש ועד אשה, when he said the whole city, Shaul had the whole city of נוב עיר הכהנים killed. Yeah, so when he said that,

יצאה בת קול ואמרה, came a bat kol and said, אל תרשע הרבה, don't be such a big rasha. First he said don't be such a big tzadik, now don't be such a big rasha. Which means don't be too extreme. Right, but you decided, you want to say I have rachmanut or this. So the Midrash says like this, if a person, about the same thing, but in different words: If a person has rachmanut where he should not have, the end will be he will have, he will be an achzar on places where you should have rachmanut. That's what it says, אם אדם מתחסד במקום שצריך להתאכזר, סופו להתאכזר במקום שצריך להתחסד. And that's exactly what happened. Later, yeah. Yeah. Not for this, no. You'll see what will happen. And the Rebbe was me'orer on it, in Likkutei Sichos, it's very pashut: 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 tzadik, sometimes your feeling, I want to do this. You do what the Eibershter says. That's what he says. If you're going to start with your own feelings, what's that says, they bring in, the Rebbe taytsh't it: The yetzer hara comes, doesn't come to a person and say, do avodah zarah. היום אומר לו כך, tomorrow he says this. The Rebbe taytsh't, he doesn't come to him and say do an aveirah. Peshuto k'mashma'o means come a small aveirah, a big aveirah. He tells him, do a mitzvah. What's wrong with that? The moment you feel that you need the haskamah of the yetzer hara, 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. Also wasn't there a Rema had a din Torah, and the guys didn't know that there was the Rema? Baal HaShach. Baal HaShach, yeah. How does, you can't recognize the yetzer hara, you think it's Yeah, many times you think you have a good idea, you think, I have a good feeling about it, and everybody speaks it. So that needs, chasidut calls it, the Frierdiker Rebbe calls 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 yetzer hara, the yetzer tov.

One of the re'ayot they, one of the things, not a re'ayah, they say one of the ways a person can prove himself, says the sefarim: If you do something, it's right and it's a safek 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 re'ayah. A מפורש פשט in the Tanach says when Shaul, when David HaMelech came to Shaul's cave, so it says, he was able to kill him, he was able to, but he cut off a piece of his cloak. Yeah, yeah, sure. And he left. So it says, what was that? The פשט הוא, he wanted to give him a siman that I was here, so whatever. But the sefarim say like this: He didn't know if he should kill him or not, he thought maybe it's the right thing 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 try.\" So he cut off a little bit, and he felt bad, so he said, \"I know it's not good.\" That's how he got done before the... Yeah, he didn't He chose not to kill him. He chose not to kill him. It says if you feel bad about what you did, a siman it's yetzer hara what you want. Felt bad about not killing him? No, felt bad why he cut. What he cut, yeah. Mimela that's a re'ayah that he shouldn't do anything to him. And that's why he went away. Don't go further. Yeah, don't go further, don't go further. אז יצא שזה אז זה היה יצר הרע. The re'ayah that to kill him was the yetzer hara. 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 yetzer tov or the yetzer hara. He tried to do what the יצר 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 yetzer tov or yetzer hara. So he said, \"Let me start killing him. If I'll feel bad for that, then I know wanting to kill him is the yetzer hara.\" The aspect of killing. Yeah, but he started. Cutting is like killing. Yeah.