PIC 2010 Rabbi Leff

I first want to thank both the staff the project inspire for inviting me and for giving me the warm welcome that they gave and all of you for all the warm words of his look and at least I've been inspired I don't know if I accomplished inspiring anybody else but thank you for inspiring me and I just feel a little intimidated I noticed on the program this is the second keynote and I'm giving I usually give keynote on Tisha buff I don't know if there's some kind of hint in that and also having to give a second keynote reminds me of the thousand who gave a performance and when he finished his last number they asked for an encore so he sang it again and when he finished it again they asked him for another encore and he sang it again and after seven times singing the same song he said I'm flattered that you keep wanting to hear this song but how many times and somebody in the back yelled out so you do it right so I hope that this time I say this keynote it'll be right and now the world is divided into three 2000 year epochs the first two thousand years will call the two thousand years of tove evolve the second two thousand years were the two thousand years of Torah and the last two thousand years of the time when potentially Messiah could come those are the two thousand years of your most Amasya Izawa are very clear when the two thousand years of Torah began from the hanifa Shusher awesome the horror from the time that aphromoo vena went out and created his project inspired and went out to bring the world closer to a recognition of God it always bothered me Torah existed before that Rashi says in the beginning of parsis Noah that knoweth learned Torah or the Mauritian learnt oh why did the two thousand years of Taurus start only from the time that aphromoo vena went out to influence others the answer is as we said on lil Shabbos Torah its very nature is that it has to be shared with others Torah is not the domain of any individual Torah is lil mo Dominus calamity that is the minimum a person has to share his totem with others and therefore the two thousand years of Torah didn't start from Noah who learned Torah but it started from Avraham Avinu who went out and shared his Torah with others why is that why is taurah in its very essence the minimum taurah has to be shared and can't be the domain of any individual has i'll tell us that when the taurah was received it was received to each airport believe evelyn we were one person with one heart now that sounds like it was very nice that the jewish people united to receive the Torah but it wasn't just nice it was crucial the Torah could not have been received in any other way one reason is because we pride ourselves that we received the Torah with 613 commandments that is a fallacy there is no one in this world who could ever fulfill 613 commandments because certain mitzvahs are only for Kohanim so if you're not a Cohen forget about it so what are you gonna tell me okay Kohanim have 613 Mitch it's not true because if you're a Cohen you have mitzvahs that don't apply to you no Cohen will ever fulfill the mitzvot padena Bend from the side of a father because he's exempt from that Mitzvah so you're for you you're a Cohen you had misses that know you sir l could ever have and if you're Israel you admitted no Cohen can ever help if you're a man you have mixes that no woman could ever have but if you're a woman you have mistresses no man could ever have at least in my lifetime I'm hoping that no man will ever bring the sacrifice after childbirth it's not a not a management so if you're a Cohen you admit says that no Israel has if youth rally admits us of no Cohen as if you're a manual administers that no woman has and if you're a woman you have missus that no man has so unless you're a Cohen lazy Israel man and woman wrapped into one which today may be possible but under normal circumstances was not you can't have six hundred and thirteen mixes so what is this concept that we accepted in total at 613 mixes the answer is we didn't accept the torah's individuals and the Torah is not the domain of any individual but the Torah is domain of cloudy soil and we accepted it quiche ephod belay that bug like one person with one heart because that's the only way we could have accepted it that's the only way the Torah is complete it's even more than that the Zohar says that Israel is an acronym it stands to the following words yay sheesh in reboot oshio slit Ola there are six hundred thousand letters to the total the idea being simply if there's 600 thousand letters in the Torah there's 600 thousand rude souls of the Jewish people and every Jew is a letter in the Torah there's only one problem with that there aren't 600 thousand letters in the Torah so you say okay plus or minus a few you know gematria never exact so how many letters are there in the Torah three hundred and four thousand five hundred and eighty eight that's not plus or minus one or two that's like three hundred thousand are missing so unless we have the Reader's Digest condensed version something's wrong so what does it mean I know about eleven answers to that question schewe speaks about it in condition but the fianlly is 90 there's no question the question would only be if it said yes she simply brioche seals bottle there are 600,000 letters in the tolerant and it's not true there aren't 600,000 letters in the Torah and you need to somehow answer that question but if it said yes she simply Bioshield bitola it wouldn't spell you Sorrell it would spell yes Rob in order to spell you swell it has to be yes she seemed really oh she Oh slot tolling which means the following there are three hundred and four thousand letters and the written tolerable but that tour is not complete unless you add another six hundred thousand letters and those six hundred thousand letters are the souls the root souls of the Jewish people that were all part of a cluster of souls that are part of those moved souls of kleine Israel the Torah is not complete and yet unless yes she should read Bo she owes lot Tony added to the total connected to the total and unless every Jew is connected to the Torah the Torah is not completed and just like in the written Torah if one letter is missing that tower is not a terrible if one Jew is missing then the Torah is not at all so until all jewels recognize their heritage and our part and bring out their letter that has to be added to the Tower of the Tollison completed so therefore the Torah is not the domain of any individual its domain of all of cloudy through and it's significant that every Jew is a letter in that total and therefore the greatest fulfillment of your half - Lori aqua komova loving your fellow Jew as yourself the greatest expression of that love the metric a goggle said I'd see accommo Abigail's if you were fortunate the rebel McCallum guided your life that you should be able to know that you're a letter and a tolerance you know where the Torah is and you know how to enhance the letter that you are then you should want that for every other Jew you should want what you have it should be important to you not only should you want for your fellow Jew your material success just like you want material success for yourself you want it for someone else business a physical success but spiritual success as much as I want it for myself and I appreciate it when I have it I want the same thing for someone else that is the fulfillment of the ohaf Gloria Kokomo and perhaps that's what Ruby Akiva meant when he said the following if you're half the Loreal como vas a cloud goggled bitola we normally understand that to mean that loving your neighbor is a principle intolerant but I think it means something else rebbi akiva was telling us that this loving your Jewish neighbor loving your fellow Jew is not just something that applies to material things and physical things but Zack Lao God will bite all right applies to tolerate self that you should love your fellow Jew and want for them the same levels of taller than you were able to reach that you were able to have one for them tolerable so not just physical material success it's a cloud goggle by Torah it also applies to tolerate doesn't only apply to physical and material things and therefore as we said Friday night the very essence of Torah gamla all Maaloula the person was created to toil in this world to bring out the potential that God gave us each and every one of us and gave the world in general and we are supposed to toil and bring that potential and actualize it that's almost and the marshal says autumn la mode you'll odd loml is also an acronym Lille mulled almanach de la Vega you're supposed to want to learn and learning includes observing and you have to do it in order to teach others also and that doesn't mean you have to be a teacher but it means that you have to share your total with others because the Torah is never the domain of an individual it's always managing to be given and shared with others and don't misunderstand to think that they're for somebody who's sitting in a base measures and learning Torah hospice column is doing something wrong because he's not out there sharing his total he is sharing his daughter should be sharing his total with his cabooses he's sharing his Torah with people in the base members that don't know as much as him if he comes in contact with people and he can share his Torah then he takes an opportunity but the people who are sitting in a base matters just as much in Eretz Israel we tell people that we need people sitting at learning Torah because the soldiers in the field physical soldiers get their protection from those people learning tolerable Torah creates a more secure world Torah gives power of existence to the world and somebody who sits and learned Torah in an intense way is giving security and existent to the world and if there are Jewish soldiers on the front the power they have to be successful comes from the people sitting and learning tolerant the same thing applies over here there are soldiers of Kirov who have to go out and spread Torah to those that are estranged from you the sky to those who know nothing about it you come in contact with people daily that's what project inspire is all about but do you know where you'll get the power as a soldier of ki roof to be able to mimic re people because there are people sitting in but david rush off and learning Torah and they'll give you the power to be able to be successful and not only that but the people who are learning Torah create a wellspring of Torah for the whole world that helps to bring out the heel hooray Chava it helps to bring out the thoughts of repentance in every Jew they're taller ahelp Stu inspire that and then your job will be easier so there is a partnership also people are sitting and learning Torah but they have to understand that their tour has to be shared but it can be shared within the base of interest and those people who are not necessarily told awesome Nasim and come in contact on a daily basis with other people and they have to share their Toller with those people and the people who are sitting and learning Torah help to give that power that that should be successful values rel is one unit and everybody does their part and everybody benefits everybody else's part and no two parts of the same and when it comes to mixes not only taubira is little more than - Allah made Torah has to be shared mitzvahs also have to be shared and I want to end with a mattress the mattress appears in this week's cetera Behar it appears also in ruse raba so it's really relevant to show us and it's relevant to pursue such a world Alma rebukes lock rebukes Cox said we made the part Olerud Eric Harris the Torah taught us Dara Harris shaquiesha Yasser other Mitzvah have a also saw beliefs a man when you do a mitzvah do it with a happy heart CEO have a yoga ruling if roofing would have known that the Torah was going to record that he tried to save yo safe he would have put him on his shoulders and run home to his father with him on his shoulders and if Aaron had known that the Torah was going to record that when he greeted Moshe Rabbeinu the first time after he was chosen to be the Redeemer he would be happy in his heart that ROI for the summit Balibo he would have come with a parade the evil had the other Boas if Boas would have known that then the gila was going to record that he gave loose some part sweet to eat he would have given her a banquet now this mattress is extremely difficult first of all we normally understand there are Herod's to mean something between man and man that's derech Eretz me those Davos there are Herod's is proper behavior what do the world's derech Eretz have to do with doing a mix of the links Amer doing a myths with a happy heart secondly it seems from this Madras that these great people did what they did but they know that they were gonna get publicity the Torah was gonna record it they would have done it better because they would have liked the PR Constitution that's what I mean thirdly what is the lesson when you do a Mitch to do it with a happy heart it says from the Torah that Ireland did the mix with a happy heart what would a parade made it better if the Torah says Virata father saw math Balibo he'll do it with a happy heart he'll greet you as the Redeemer with a happy heart what was missing by honor therefore I think what the mattress is telling us is the following first let's define Derek Harris the Rambam in the Mishnah is introduction explains the term there are ferrets in the following way derech Eretz has many meanings they all have a common thread that unites them there are parrots sometimes means proper behavior me toast of us sometimes derech Eretz means family relations husband wife relations is called eros eros sometimes derech Eretz refers to the economy learning a living it's also called eros eros what is the common thread between all these things anything that helps create the way of the world that helps create a functioning society that is called eros eros it's the way to create Arabs to create a functioning society and therefore proper conduct between people makes a society possible otherwise there is total anarchy and husband-wife relationships make society possible because if there are no people there is no society and economy makes society possible because without an economy there can't be a society so all these things are darest to Eretz they're the path and the way to create a functioning society when you do a mitzvah and you do it for yourself I always like to give this example the example is an anachronism because I don't think Heaphy you'll know what I'm talking about but I'm a creature of habit and I've always given this example so I'm going to give it again to if you want to cache or a chicken believe it or not they cash your chickens you don't even know what a chicken looks like you think it doesn't have a head or legs chickens have legs they have heads and at some point they soak them and they salt them to take out the blood that's called cos shrinkage if you want to construe a chicken you soak it and you solved it you're finished but if you want to teach your daughter how to cash your chicken then you do it in a much more demonstrative way you don't just do it for fun to relate to be yelled say but you show us see this is salt make a big deal about it and then you show hey this is water we're gonna now soak the chicken in the water this is a chicken and you make a big deal about it when you want to teach someone else you want to impress them you do it in a much more demonstrative way whatever the Torah records is a lesson for all generations had Ruth a known that the Torah was going to record what he did he would have realized it wasn't just a personal myths that he was doing for that moment but he was a teacher for all generations every time someone opens a home his veracious and reads that powder so they're learning from roving he's teaching them then he would have done it in a more demonstrative way he wouldn't have just had a lathe Sameach he would have done it in a way that others could see his life Sameach he say yas are the Mitzvah have a Oso Oso belief Sameach not that you should have a lave Sameach do it in a way that others can see or they've some man and if Aaron would have known that the Torah was going to record what he did that he was going to be a teacher that he was going to be a model for others he wouldn't have only had a good heart a happy heart he would have come with a parade so others could have seen his happy heart and the same thing with Boas that's derech Eretz the torah taught us their appearance you are not functioning as an individual privately ever in this world every single thing you do can be a model to others and just as much as Torah has to be shared and it's not the domain of any individual mitzvahs also have to be shared and they're not the domain of any individual something in life that you experience has they ashamed you have a mitzvah not only to thank God know that at all Oona Saab parity law Sara you have to tell it over to others that they should benefit from the kindness that God gave you they should be able to learn from it because nothing is the domain of an individual everything is to create a functioning spiritual society that others also should benefit from what you do should learn from you should be a model should be a model and the Midrash ends with the following the hye-young a leagoo mela a messiah cosa tonight is not finished there are kiss they Hakodesh being written in some I am by a Leo and Melek Amasya and I am sure that project inspire as a whole parcel and each and every one of us have a parsec at least who knows maybe more and we don't have the luxury to say if we only would have known that we would have done a different because we know the Madras told us and you know as I told you and after 120 years I'm gonna be there and you're not gonna be able to say I didn't know I'm gonna say you didn't know I said so don't think you could have the same excuse a true vein and ayran and boa said they had the excuse if they would have known you know so we know that very possibly what we do is going to make an impression for all time for all people we're not doing our mitzvahs as individuals we're doing them as models for everyone Haley ah whoo melih HaMashiach coastal faculties burro who hosts a mild autumn and their bones from seals it and when those kiss they ha kodesh when those additions to tonight will be revealed in the future and each and every one of us will have that mark that we made through the things that we did on others and because we know we should do it in a way that affects others also to do the mixes that we do whether we are actively inspiring others and influencing others and teaching others and bringing others close over doing our own private mitzvahs there are no private mitzvahs do it in a way that when it's recorded it'll be recorded in a way that all people can learn from it because Torah is not the domain of individuals Torah is the Met domain of cloudy soil and we all are part of Cloud Israel and we all have a responsibility to Claudius well and Aamir's a shame if we do that then we will affect in ourselves and in others real true virtue is not just for the people out there as far as - will also return to the source that we're supposed to be act and bring others with us and the source of chuhwa cloudy swell we redeemed the Esquivel said that the pair of you [Applause]