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T27 (Tinyana) PNC - The Just Leader — Weighing Burdens, Releasing Vows, Fending Off Four Sins
Pettek Nanach Running Commentary on Likutey Moharan
עיוני: שמות ב:יא; במדבר ל:יז; בראשית לא, לד-לה; ויקרא רבה לז; ליקו"מ קמא נז; ליקו"ה הפקדון ה.
Beginner: A new parnas or manhig (governor of a community) who leads with integrity and uprightness, who watches and weighs each person to assign him only the burden that fits him — heavier on this one, lighter on that one, each as deserved — by that very practice nullifies the four cardinal evils: idolatry, sexual immorality, bloodshed, and lashon hara. The hidden link: a vow must be paid promptly; one who delays his neder generates these four sins. The Midrash (Vayikra Rabbah 37) shows it in Yaakov: because he delayed his neder he came to all four — avodah zarah ('remove the foreign gods'), arayos (Dinah), shefichus damim (Shechem), lashon hara (Lavan's sons). Conversely Moshe, by 'seeing their burdens' (Shemos 2:11) — really paying attention to which work fit which person, refusing to put a man's job on a woman or vice versa, and refining the assignment among men too — earned the power of hataras nedarim ('between a man and his wife,' Bamidbar 30:17). Just measurement of burdens unlocks vow-release, and vow-release saves from the four. Intermediate: The chain: ha'arachah tzedeq → hataras nedarim → hatzalah me-arba mi-dos. Yaakov's me'achar nidro is paradigmatic; Moshe's vayar be-sivlosam is the antidote. Cf. ויק"ר לז; Tinyana T4:3 (three regalim revealing ratzon — the same root: aligning load to bearer). Practical: a parnas who assigns committee work, dues, or service obligations carelessly is structurally producing the four sins in his community. The PNC reading expands: this applies to every household head as a parnas-ze'ir.
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