Exploring the Profoundness of Vows and Gadlus HaAdam

Col Nidrava, col Nidrava, just getting us here in the spirit, looking forward to the holy days of El Lodha, high Holidays. I guess that would excite some and frighten others, but I would like to take from there, perhaps now that I have your attention, the idea of Nidarim, which is very significant and actually is the introduction to the High Holidays. It is given to us all the laws, the myriad of our Lachos regarding vows and oaths, and parashasmatos Ishki idar neder lahashem O'i heeshava shavuila eser Israel navshu, anyone who makes a vow, a promise to do something to not to do something, lo yachel dvaro, see to it that it is kept. Don't make your words mundane, average blech gulun, kechola yotsemi pevyase all the utterances of your mouth, any word that leaps from your tongue, you shall see to it that it is met out and accomplished. And now, eich yetachin, how is this possible? How have we not asked this until now? Don't you know that there's 613 mitzvos? And don't you know there's a prohibition against adding to the Torah? And don't you know that if you're to add an apple to your Dalit Minim on Shuketh, that you're going to violate a prohibition called Balthosif, not adding to Hashem's Torah? And here, when you're making a neder, don't we have to ask? It feels like Balthosif. You've created a 614th commandment that because you can't stop eating chocolate cake, you're prohibiting yourself on chocolate cake. How are you allowed to add to Hashem's Torah like this? And the reality is the truth is, rabbi Ruchem explains to us that our avayda in life is to see to it that we make our will, hashem's will, a seiritsoinchakir tzonecha, to try to make what our real will and want is that which the Torah states to do, and therefore, when I mention well utter, I don't want to eat chocolate cake. In this reality that we live in, which is all Torah now, within the guidelines of Torah, you will now find chocolate cake as prohibited to you. You have spoken into the existence with your pen and with your libel, with your heart and with your mind, with your mouth, all together as one, you have uttered a new commandment. You, literally we are shown here have been endowed with innate godliness. Look at this, godless H'adam, how a person can speak into existence a new commandment. It now says in the Torah, there's a now biblical commandment for Johnny or Sarah not to eat chocolate cake. That is our godless. Hashem has given us the keys to the knowledge of how to create mitzvos. It's something shocking. The Ramban says it's a neder kneder. Beneder hamelach neshvua, neshvabemelach atzmo. You're literally involved in Hashem's kingdom and you're just bringing new things into an existence. This is clear proof that each Jew's innate greatness, his latent potential, his endowed godliness and sanctity is oozing forth. If this isn't a clear proof to your godless H'adam, then I don't know what is.