Thought for the Week Parshas Emor Be an Inspirational Teacher, Rabbi Ya'akov winner 5783

hello how are you I hope everyone is Stark or failure oh my gosh I hope everyone is healthy strong and happy physical and spiritually today is pesachery the famous holiday which represents that nothing is ever lost since Fallon everyone gets a second chance sometimes we get a third chance of fourth chance and Hashem never ends giving us a chance today we're going to speak about a subject which is about education and guidance and obviously there's always the concept of educating yourself so it's true in what works for another works for oneself or works for itself works for another So today we're going to speak about something which is very Broad in life and has Supreme relevance as we'll see but as usual we'll start with the prayer we'll talk about the parisha we'll talk about the payer commissioner Ovis in Perkins and the Mr Sherman this Tuesday is so we'll start with the prayer we say this in prayer every single day by our Salem moving America so there's a lot of things the way we say our father merciful father was compassionate have mercy on us and Grant our heart understanding to comprehend and to discern to perceive to learn and to teach so every single one of us is saying little mode to learn and to teach every single one of us is a teacher whether it means you have to teach your children or a means for those of us who are teachers we're in leadership positions we're teachers we're rabbis Etc so this week's Pasha pasius and my it's very well known the person says Hashem spoke to Moshe Emery by the way I spoke about this once before last year but we're going to speak about today is a bit different anyways the plastic says Hashem said to Moshe say to the queen of the sons of iron and you shall say to them so the question is it seems to be redundant a double lotion you should speak to the quranim well Michael Amy should say why does it say twice say so now she says the Redundant wording of say followed by and you shall say to join adults with regards to minors so by the way over here it doesn't only mean seemingly and then first you speak to the the adults and then they will tell that to their children it's more than that it's not only that you tell them means you're careful you're supervising it you make sure you ensure over here we're talking about purity and impurity laws of impurity in relation to Ukraine and you should make sure that they're in a safe sterile so to speak environment we spoke last week about child safety that means now we're just speaking it means you have to take responsibility that you make sure that they stay safe spiritually that they don't become impure and obviously simply we're talking about calling him minors so it's the responsibility of adults to take care of the health of children so to the spiritual health of the children okay that's the partial shot now this is that says that we learn out this idea that Tyra speaks of ahazir to speak to the adults and tell them they should make sure about the children which all the comments they say over here is a general statement about education and the terror tells us about three subjects three times one is in our parisha parishes ammo which talks about how the cranium should not defile become impure in relation to going to a funeral etc etc then there's another place where the terror tells us about this and that's concerning the prohibition of drinking blood eating blood and then there's a third place where the terror tells us the prohibition of eating shots and shots and about not eating insects creepy crawlies Etc so the gemara says why does the Tiger have to teach this lesson in three areas and the gamara gives an answer explains why the answer according to the Gomorrah is we have to understand it and it goes into a length over there more alpinegla the real he gets more into the details Etc but there are two letters that the river wrote in the 40s and we see that this is a subject that was very close to the river's heart and he speaks about a morbidden and it's so fascinating we see it was a substance close to the river's heart and it's talking to an educator and the rep interprets the three instances where you would think enough's enough I can't it's too hard when you might have reservations as a teacher as a parent that maybe forget about it when we talk about education it was talking about in most cases but there could be three situations three cases that are exceptions and therefore the tailor let us know in these three cases there are no exceptions and this is so powerful for the teachers we struggle with this every single day you know we there are teachers that work very very hard and they try to come up with new ways to engage the students and people are not sleeping nights thinking up new ways and being creative and working on themselves and taking seminars and reading books etc etc to be more effective teachers because it's so important to them but nevertheless still they sometimes feel that they failed and sometimes they'll say the reason why it didn't work was because there was some sort of flaw or some sort of exception that that by some students the rules don't work the principles don't work and here comes the Tyra and gives us this lesson that means no exceptions what are the three places so the first place is and therefore the lesson is not only in general concerning teachers by the way we're talking about being with kind of another year bringing them closer to Judaism as the rare would say a cotton be shown him there's someone who's small a child who's a minor but also means a cartooning is someone who's a minor when it comes to knowledge Etc so therefore there are three cases and this in general two Problems by the way number one if somebody's a Godly can ask himself why do I have to lower myself to get involved in dealing with economy you know what's in for me of course he knows that today we still wants but maybe I could I could maybe my job calling me a god which means I'm a Godly material maybe I lose out of it but I have to do it I have another choice but if I get someone else to do it maybe I should get someone else to do let's say and second of all the main problem is will I be successful there might be certain cases where I won't be successful so therefore the third tells us these three cases we'll talk about the second issue first and that is what does it say concerning blood Russia brings it down also it says concerning blood that they were hidden that was stupid which means that they weren't that they were they were addicted to it at that time in the world when they when the terrorist says don't drink blood that was the norm so someone could say don't try to challenge the norm don't go away don't try to make the custom of the land to disappear sometimes you go to certain countries and they can have a certain culture and the culture is deeply entrenched for years now you're going to come along and try to make a revolution they wallowed in the blood they were they were immersed in it they were like someone who's an addict so to speak so you might think that when do we say that we should educate in a case where they didn't have a pre-existing custom or pre-existing way of life which they look they look at as who knows what it could be it's a tradition by them it's their culture like we said before so in such a case I'm not going to start I'll educate in other areas but not about something like Rashi says stuff him they were totally immersed in it okay and here we say no that even when it comes to such a case you have to teach them what the truth is what the terrorist is and that it's not allowed and this is what Hashem wants that's one case then we have another case we might think it's an exception and that is when it comes to eating which it's brought down that a normal person is repulsed by it eating insects it's reprehensible and there could be two issues over here number one it brought down in some version then there's some people that did it because they just do it in spite they do it because they know that Hashem does not like it and therefore they do it that's one issue in other words we're dealing with somebody who's rejecting we're dealing with someone who's a rebel or you could argue we're dealing with Savages we're dealing with people they're not civilized convention so here too again you can say when we're dealing with a mange upon him when I'm dealing with the Civilized person then I can talk to this kind there's a certain sensitivity there there's a certain spiritual sensitivity there there's a certain refinement so such a person I can deal with but somebody was so coarse so insensitive so primitive so Savage it's very hard to deal with such a person we have to try to make them much more refined and then we can talk to them about Finer Things but if they're completely animalistic they're Savages how can I talk to them how can I educate them and especially if we learn like we said before that there are those that they're doing it because they're rep they're rebelling or rejecting that means they're totally not interested at all they're running away here to come to tear and says no even when it comes to such a person you still have to teach them educate them and teach them the truth then comes the third case our parisha which talks about the impurity to mentality so here's the same thing sometimes you can have a teacher an educator and say you know what when it comes to things that are logical let's say mishpatin the social justice of Torah or even which are the testimonials that have an historical context so those things I could talk about and could try to convince somebody else but if we talk about things that are totally irrational I don't want to speak about it I'm uncomfortable educating things that are completely not in the realm of logic completely out of this world how could you explain too many times it's very difficult and I know myself some teachers even when it comes to they're completely observant and then they do everything right but they don't like to talk about subjects that are uncomfortable because it's too holy it's too mystical it's too otherworldly they like to talk about things that that a person could relate to teachers like to be winners they want to they want to sell what people are going to buy but if the person is not a believer I'm going to tell them that we believe in miracles and outright Miracles and miracles that defy the laws of physics that's already it might be a bit difficult so here again the terrorist says no when Eve when it comes to something which is completely illogical so to speak super rational so even there you have to teach them the truth which is a terror so now first of all but why what's the basis for all this and therefore first of all this is the secret the khabar activism there are no exceptions we accept every single year and there's no such important there's no such thing as a lost cause or a lost case or a hopeless case every single person is redeemable as we spoke many times in the Posse this explains even the great flood cannot extinguish the spark every single year has that spark is the Sharma and the famous the famous law that when it comes to a divorce that we're supposed to Crave and I say we force him until he says I want and the question is what do you mean he wants he really doesn't want it's just because you're forcing him therefore he says he wants and we say no he does want it's only that so to speak the devil got the better of him so in other words according to Jewish law Jewish law is that he has a spark and he wants to do God's will so when you go over to Jew on the street and you ask him do you want to put on film and he says no and we tell them it's not true you do want to put on film and he says you're telling me what I want yes and that's exactly the Jewish law which is a Jewish reality so since we look at every single year that he has in the summer that spark so because of that spark even when it's rebelling the spark is still there even when he's acting like somebody who's completely coarse and somebody who seems to be like is primitive and a Savage the spark is there and even when it comes to something which is which is he says he doesn't believe and so on and so forth the spark is there the nisham is there every single year has that in the summer we have to take the pilot light and ignite it so it should turn into a fiery Flame and that's why in every single case there are no exceptions that's number one number two so then for another one is there will be success to some degree as we'll soon discuss in a second even more why because you really don't have to create anything new if we would say you have to take a frog and turn them into a human that would be something which is impossible for a normal person to accomplish but if we're saying take the person who's ahead and just bring it out okay it's there already you just have to reveal it then comes the second thing why do you have to get involved are you going to lose anything and over here the river says connected to this there are two things see this foreign number one advice you wanted the teaching should be more successful you want to see how you be more effective the answer is also comes from the word Zohar zayar means to shine to illuminate that's why they say for Isaiah is called zayar Salah has it your teaching should be in the way of holisticide it's beautiful it's exciting it's inspiring foreign in other words daylight you see everything and everything becomes clear when you teach somebody something and like he says oh until one day I Saw the Light things are so clear to me now I was once confused I was once mixed up but now it's clear so the lesson in teaching over here is two lessons number one clear be very clear teachers have to be very clear and number two Ricky violin positive Illuminating inspiring Shining incandescent but now comes another word also is connected to make it English name Avaya there's a person that says when the older person teaches the younger person they both become illuminated what happens is that when the mashpia lures himself to the macabo Shem instituted a formula over received from my teachers more than that from my colleagues but the most I receive from my students and why is that Hashem set up for the system that when the teacher loans himself to the students the teacher will gain a level in the subject matter which will be greater deeper higher broader completely incompatible to whatever you came to before to whatever you knew before and that's why we say both of their eyes become illuminated the teacher and the student because the Revelation that comes when the teacher the mashpir goes down to the student is a level of Light which in relation to that level of light the teacher and the student are both equal that's how great that level of light is it reflects on the in that race how the light is so incomparable exponentially higher than both of them that both to teach on the student are considered equal in relation to that light so that's what the player is teaching us teach in a way which is inspirational as light and clear and Lively and exciting and interesting but also that through that you'll come to teacher and student will both be elevated to Greater Heights is that the teacher himself will become elevated like no other way as when he goes to teach the student let me connect it to a mishna by the way this month is called which is connected it's explained that one translation of you is connected to ziv which div means also to shine this week is Tuesday as we said like boimer is the day of the human body who wrote the Zohar which is light the whole idea of primius satara the inner dimensional the Kabbalah was to reveal a deeper light the light that was never revealed before which brings Clarity Etc in this week's is a mission that says so the simple meaning means be very careful how you teach for if you teach it wrong or even when you study so then terrible things will come out of it wanton transgression that means but over here we could say again have a Zion make sure you study is clear your teaching is clear and also have reserved make sure your teaching is exciting and interesting and inspiring especially in today's generation where students especially if you're going to teach them Terror in a world with so many options it's becoming more and more difficult every single day so surely surely we have to be careful to make the Torah the most exciting the most inspiring the most interesting the most profound etc etc not dry but the depth the profundity the beauty of Taylor is all included in the words have a Zion it should shine every single student should learn the title and say wow Shakespeare Dickens Tolstoy Freud remember Leonardo da Vinci they're nothing compared to this it's a it's a busher it's a term that I should mention the one breath but this is really what every teacher should ask himself am I demonstrating to some extent or a fraction of what really the Infinity of Terror and the beauty of Taylor is all about that's what I should be asking themselves every single teacher okay now I'm going to talk about something that you know it's very close to me I'm in this business and why this is so important we're talking about first of all the whole idea of La Hazard means that the good Island should take responsibility for the katana history there was something called the altercism besides for this idea of mashpia so if you read The Works of the previous rabbi this is going back hundreds of years that it would be an old and he would like like the younger horses would become like an apprentice I'm using for lack of a better word would like really supervise and get involved in the life of the younger khasid and and Overlook and make sure that it turned out all right this is talks about his teachers ignition but I'm going back to that and then if I remember correctly they were there were stories and stories for hundreds of years how they would send a young to an alternate and that's how this horses grew up to be how he's meant to be he has to have the instruction in the guidance the mentor the mentorship and this is very important I cannot stress it enough how I see it in my daily life how the younger generation is not receiving a mentor and advice from a mentor and this is very important so that's number one now I'm talking to the older people that we have to have personalities where we reach out we engage with younger people with the youth you have to realize something today we're living in times that the winds are blowing from all sides you might be the person that this younger person relates to and you might succeed when no one else has succeeded so therefore you have to be accessible and this is I cannot underscore the importance of what I'm saying now you have some questions private audiences or they have letters they keep me close to the chest because it's very private but really I believe today more than ever before you have to reveal all the secrets because it might save somebody you have no idea and one of my favorite stories that I've said many times is that after the market the musician Market passed away who's the second leader of the of the movement so the the there was a time happened that the auto repair was in his house and he saw throngs of see them coming towards his house and he opened up the window and he looked outside and he said I what do they want from me he see the shutters he saw them coming towards his house what do they want from me he calls the Shadows of the window and he just like sat down and his Robinson told him they will on the head and he was doing ahead for them they want to hear from you what you heard from the river so he stood up what you heard from the maggot in other words you heard from your teacher so that I stood up and said hey if that's the case then I have what to say and to say so this story always sends chills down my spine every single one of us has to give over what they heard from their father what they heard from their grandfather you don't understand how it's gold how it's diamonds and this could be precisely the antidote that could save that person's life you have no idea whatever level he's holding this thing could actually bring benefit and it goes together you know like I said so much of us in the field we have frustrations I mean obviously the positive outweighs the negative but there's difficulties every job has its difficulties so through teaching so what you have to remember is we were told that every single investment brings return there's a guarantee and like we said before it's because the spark is already there I the question is how much return that's a different thing that's a separate thing but there's nothing which is 100 waste every single time you made an investment you put in your energies you put in your time you put in your efforts it will be some return that's a guaranteed we were promised that's number one number two the project says the planting that was done with tears will you will reap with joy similar idea that's a promise Put Your Blood Sweat and Tears your love into it you're passion into it your excitement to it your happiness into it and then I saw it in the dimmer the demon represents you put yourself totally into it that even before like boimer we should do our part invest invest and keep on investing there are no exceptions you should be in inspired you should be inspired you should be inspired and be able to inspire others and the English is help that we should see return on all the Investments and the ultimate return will be that through our investments we'll see The Return of the English posting from my home your man in Melbourne