Rabbi Reuven Lauffer - Chumash Insights: Parshat Ki Tetzei - Part 2

you hey let's have a look at sea lice today show a keyhole Oh soo Lee Dawkins the southeast atlanta me here or shaped our she then lastly for what do you do if you see you know you see a donkey or an ox wandering down that what wandering around the street so you gotta go and give it back the employed cover I think I let her below your down to be honest after you're totally safe way I'm cardio chef is so great shipping solo what do you do if you don't know who it belongs to you got to take it into your house and you got to look after it so today barukh hashem the chances of you finding a donkey wandering around you know is pretty pretty minimal but on the other hand you know it's talking it's not just talking about donkeys and not just talking about Olson it's talking about anything you find you find money in it you know you find money you find keys you find you're not allowed to pretend that you didn't see them and then walk off and let somebody else take care of it kain tau CETIS hamari looking totally seamless oi gente se la jolla vida sake Sasha todo momento but what's also lots of color selling I think it's a very a very basic very basic concept very basic idea i wonder when I remember years and years ago they used to be a program on television in England called a rat's account of what it was cool but it was like one of these consumer affairs programs no will they take care of problems that people have what was it cool apparently what shops something like that but it was again not for crime it was just for kids and so they decided they want to do it they want to do a little test to see how honest people are so they put out ten purses with like you know 50 pee in it and some contact information and they just put an apple in difficulty various different locations in London to see what was going to happen and interestingly enough only three purses got back and only one of them had the money in it I was in seven of them just disappeared all together two of them the person either the person took the money out and then found out the person said I found your purse or he found the purse empty and one person actually brought it back with the money inside they gave the money as a reward for having found the puss it's interesting I I have a hope but if that would have happened in it in a in a in a Jewish neighborhood right I would hope that the statistics would be the opposite actually I would hope that most people would want to return this thing to it belongs to and you find a lot more a lot more purses than the nut that's why I think because that's what a tour is telling us we've got to be concerned about these things what what do you do if you've got no idea who it belongs to so you got to take it into your house and you gotta hold on to it and Nitish M&L er nothing comes when Elijah comes he's going to take care of all these things which means it he'll be able to tell you it belongs and you'll be able to give it back to them so that's your you know an opportunity to hold on to this thing and to make a yes well could you get on can you get on to the internet with it oh then no one begins microphone it's obviously evil and wicked and it makes you evil and wicked and that's why God took it away from you of course you not recognizing the signs went bought something even more evil and even more wicked to take its place and we're not going to talk about how that reflects upon you because you ready that wouldn't be nice with it what does it mean you shall not hide yourself which was a lease don't pretend that you didn't see it right what's the bottom line is that finding something it's it's a little bit of a pain right because you know you've got to mean that the accepted norm over here is that you write up a few notices and you stick them up right you know put them on the bus stops and you put them in the yeshiva somewhere and hopefully whoever's found the things going to get in touch with you and it's a little it's a little bit of a you know it's a little bit of a bother right so the easiest thing of course is just a turn a blind eye and pretend you didn't see it and carry on and that's what the tour is saying don't don't do that right because that's not that's not so you know that's not the correct thing do i took the bottom line is i was like i feel like this the same way that you would hope that if you you know you would hope that if you lost your phone that something would return it to you right so I guess you have to work on the premises you find somebody else's phone you need to try and do your best it was really annoying energy because they look my friend I was at University my friend came to me but it's like much better version of my phone that she was like that upgrade x 2 and his carriage is that you'll never guess what I completely went out of my pocket money this week a look because he obviously there's a call from her family I want no money for anything i just found his phone so i said for a couple of hundred quid and that should get me through until my next installments and i was just like listen I just lost my phone like three months ago it was just horrible and it's like no I'm keeping this and I a big argument with him and in the end I went on the phone yeah after persuading him cool like mom on the phone or whatever right and they came and baked it up from the University good porphyria new okay so you do know once you lose it I guess then you know how you but you know I feel exactly right so what's it's interesting isn't it here the toe what the Charles trying to do is try to preempt I tell you excuse me for saying it quite like this right but it's a beautiful midst of what you did but there's definitely maybe a little something missing from it because the only reason that you reacted the way that you did is because you experience the same thing yourself what the tour is trying to do is the toes trying to convince us to behave like that even without going through the experience of having lost something to yourself right that we're trying to try to get us to the position to the point where we're going to help out everybody anyway right regardless of whether I you know have or haven't lost my phone who I have or haven't lost my purse if I find one I'm going to do my best to try and get it back to it belongs to so the emphasis is with phones it's a lot easier because inside the phone you normally got a pretty good selection of people that you could phone to find out who the phone belongs to whereas the other things of course it's a little bit more complicated you know you find a pen you don't know whose pen it is so you've got to hold on to it and well in theory in theory it doesn't have anything to do with its intrinsic worth so long as it's worth more than a proto put where is nothing you know like I don't know maybe maybe 5p or something right which means that the the concept of returning something lost has got nothing to do with the with the I don't knows nothing to do with the cost of whatever it is I'll tell you more than that actually you know it's not really for us to decide you know what is what what is precious in the eyes of somebody and what's not so you could be holding a you know like a very cheap plastic pen that just happened to belong to that person's late father you know and for him it's got the most incredible intrinsic worth and you may find a gold Rolex that belongs to some multi billionaire and you know it doesn't really make any difference Tim guy doesn't wear that it wears something else instead right which means that the monetary worth of something is not going it should not have a bearing on what my obligation is to try and return it here verse number five is a bit i mean what i don't want to upset anybody be a party pooper over here but we're going to do it anyway no you actually give a leash avila you bash gether sin that's issue you're not allowed to wear ladies clothing you guys are so hot there real quick huh I'm pouring it says that it is it is even though many authorities are not very happy about our you want that you on the right page yeah yeah that many authority is not very happy about the idea of men wearing women's clothing at all even on purim as well but at least there is a there is definitely an opinion that on purim it's okay to do that nevertheless under normal circumstances your you are not supposed to wear women's clothing women are not supposed to wear men's clothing right key so vast ocean below carefully i see a l'heure it's considered being a abomination the sages explain that by then wearing women's clothing women's wearing men's clothing it breaks down the barriers of snoot of modesty now today you may wonder is that correct it's not crap as an awful lot of unisex clothing today how're we supposed to understand how this her locker is going to work in today's modern day and age so the answer is very simple clothing that is made for men women should not wear my clothing that is made for women men should not wear however clothing that is not made specifically for men or specifically for women so unisex clothing would be something which is okay for either sex to where i talk about angular for anxiety not just as a I no sweat like a sweat suit at sweatshirt and sweatpants it's conceivable I don't know very much about these things you may be surprised to hear but I'm not very athletic I know this all can probably surprised most of you certainly the way that I look you know it's difficult to imagine but I'm really not very athletic so I don't know but it could you know it's conceivable that certain kind of clothing I just you know you could people buy them then women buy them they're not made specifically for one gender and that's the case and that's okay yeah you want to say something there's an sort of a new trend which has come out six months which is them as weird as this sounds start off by a very very heavy R&B wrapper which is basically sort wearing a skirt sort of thing and Percy it's not much sort of thing but I've seen a few of my friends who are like into like following what they famous people wear and so if for example those are like let's go to an extreme literally a pink you know fluffy skirt is in the mail section and it was commonly found in the middle section would it then be counted as well clearly I the truth is I think it probably would her instead of let's leave pink fluffy things behind what about wearing a kilt kids with kilts men's clothing therefore I mean women also wear skirts that are tartan skirts right so so but however a kilt is definitely a piece of man's clothing if it became I don't know if it became accepted that the men wear fluffy pink skirts then I imagine that that would be okay interesting questions in sneers how low it has to go to below your knees it whatever well how fix your tights should be all that kind of stuff but the idea over here is try just trying not to break down barriers right there's a very there's a very sort of strict a very a very defined idea of keeping the gender separated and the reason for that is to try to keep us in a certain in a certain state of holiness I guess is the best way to describe it ok let's go visit you on the right page verse number 6 verse number 6 is now something which is very very odd we've got a whole series of rather odd Whitson's over here which you've got the most very beautiful dimension to a little look at ikea i rake up the poor I can't see Paula faneca but Derek behold aids oil on it and for him of 18 the a brevet is a lie for him all I did to your walking down the street and you see in a tree a nest and the nest has got a mother bird in it and there are either eggs or chicks in the nest and what are you supposed to do lasik a que mala bunny shellac Tasha la casa a ver cybernetic o'clock LaVon yet have lost their after yummy but you have to send the mother bird away and you can then take the eggs all the chicks now over here it doesn't say it but what what you can do is you can just lift the eggs up and put them back in again there's a mitzvah of some kind we'll talk about it in a moment the mitzvah to send the mother bird away and to take the eggs away out of the nest if momentarily or completely and then the mother bird can come back to the nest afterwards it's an interesting mr. the Torah describes its mitzvah as being the easiest mitzvah to do like why is that because you can't prepare from it so like this right what does it say it says key correct can't see Paula faneca badesh you just happen to be walking down the street and the nest is there you can't prepare right more than that you can't decide oh look there's a nest I'm going to go and get myself ready to do this mitzvah and go off to the mikvah and put on your garland say you know her name of having a kindnesses she look again because by the time you've done that the birds no the eggs will have hatched and the birds would have grown up they would have gone already right it's a meter that you do immediately on the spot without any kind of without any kind of preparation whatsoever the hadoo shower in the first Guerra reber one of the greatest Hasidic Revis once explained you know the mission in PKR vote says that some you know that mitsui shouldn't be called a nickel don't let a mitzvah be easy each Mitzvahed mix vodka lot the midst for camel road eh there are easy meters and hard mrs. to explain if you do Sharon what is the definition of an easy Mitzvah not necessarily emitter which is easy to do but rather a mitza which has no you've got no preparation for it that is a definition of a mitzvah collab an easy knitter here a mitzvah Kimura presumably according to what the kiddo Sharon is saying a hard meter is a meter which requires a tremendous amount of preparation before you can perform the metra itself so explain the Torah that the midst robber here shall walk i can is emitter emitter it's easiest Mitzvah in the book to do because you don't you don't have to prepare prepare for in any shape or form whatsoever you're walking down the street you see the nest you send off the birds the Tsar has the most incredibly evocative the most incredibly poignant description over here it says that the bird goes flying up the mother bird goes flying up in a panic flying up into the air squawking and squeaking and the sounds come to the shaman they come to the spiritual realms and the angels come to God and they say to God don't you have any don't have any mercy on this mother bird and God turns to the angels and he says my children have been persecuted for who knows you know thousands of years and it does it hasn't you didn't hear their cries and you didn't hear their screens and it doesn't bother you in the least only the Christ and the screens of the mother bird he said if that's the case then I'll have to look after my children by my which means somehow or other expenses are our colors somehow rather through this this this this function of schlock I can what are you doing by sending the mother bird away you're somehow triggering off some kind of a dimension of divine mercy right it's interesting right through something which seems to be pretty cruel it's going to trigger off a divine some kind of merciful reaction from God interesting the paradox over there it says over here that if you fulfill the mitzvot it says Lemang eat a block by after Yom if it will be good for you and it will extend your days you'll have you'll have long days over here in this presumably in this world yeah the gamarra tells over the story of someone call dr. Ravi Alicia Bellavia who was one of the greatest rabbis of the generation who became an apostate he became a heretic he became a nappy chorus and the gomorrah asked why did that happen one of the things that the gomorrah relates is that ravioli shabana voyeur watched a father telling his son to go up a tree to fulfill the midst of shellac I can and when the Sun went up to fulfill the little she'll walk I can of sending away the mother bird the father fell out of that the Sun fell out of the tree had died I'm a governance interest in the kumara says that the two mitzvahs that I mentioned over here in the Torah that promise you lengthy days are the midst for auction or I cannot sending the mother bird away and the literal keyboard of keyword other Ava honoring your parents so Alicia pan of oil What did he say how can it be that here is a son who's fulfilling both of these at the same time right his father sent him up the tree and he's fulfilling the Mitchell Sherlock I kind of sending away the mother bird and he fell out of the truly died and that was one of the things that triggered off his negative reaction from him that he ended up leaving his belief and leaving leaving behind everything that he'd achieved up until then again he was one of the greatest rabbis of the generation and he became a heretic ask the gamarra how can that be how can it be that I understand when it talked about length of days by roughly I mean is talking about days in the world to come not days down here so how come he didn't know how come if we know that how come he didn't know that so the Kumari explains all kinds of things that happened within the life of rabbi Alicia Bellavia that turned him into who he became but this was just the end this was like me you know the nail in the coffin that the straw that broke the camel's back that made him react in the way that he reacted but several things have happened in his life that were led led to him becoming the Abu currency apostate that he became what is fascinating though is that these two mitzvahs the midst of sending away the mother bird and the mitzvah of key without the aim I described by the Gomorrah as being the hardest Mitzvah and the easiest mitzvah to perform like honoring your parents is emitter which is very very difficult to fulfill something that's very far-reaching it's got lots of details inside of it all kind of it's a very very complex very detailed mitza not something that is easily done since the gamarra in fact it's a hardest knitter of all to fulfill and on the other the other end of the spectrum we should look like in which is the easiest Mitzvah to fulfill and yet both of them say the torah give you the reward of arica's youngnam of lengthy days so the gamarra learns in the world to come what what hold on a second what's chat what's the most important thing over here to learn that's exactly what the gamar is saying altea Caliburn a that we should we have to take all mitzvah seriously it the easiest Mitzvah the reward is re Katya min and the hardest Mitzvah the reward is re Katya min then it's not for us anymore to decide which mixer is I'm going to take seriously which meter I'm not going to take seriously which meter is more important which Mitzvah is less important but rather we have to treat the meters in exactly the same way with exactly the same importance each one yeah well that what that means exactly that length of days maybe maybe it's talking about with how soon you're going to get in there as opposed to how long it's going to take until it gets with the rectification process I'll chorten intersect let me look into I'm not sure yeah could it be also not seriously could it be that and you know you have longer days literally like you you and need sleep I guess you would need sleep upstairs up says there is no sweetie right so is that what it means it may be never then if there's no sleep everyone there's really anything there's no end the amount of time you spend in once you're in heaven you're in heaven now yeah it's a little bit like kind of being in here oh yeah when the morning usually it's I'm gonna one important of your days of problems I you know what maybe maybe I need to look into this but maybe it's talking about some kind of a quality as opposed to a quantity you know that it's interesting that there's a phrase of length of days and years yam in the Shannon now that's a very interesting phrase no because yeah member shanem it says for example by avril lavigne oh it says it he lived you know a hundred 175 days days and years right it's a what kind of what are we being taught by the phrase of days and years your years at the amount of time you spend down here in this physical world your days are what did I do with each day that was given to me did I live it to its fullest that I leave it to its potential right so I guess days and years are quality and quantity a person can live here in this physical world for a relatively short amount of time and fulfill the most enormous amount and a person can live here for a relatively long amount of time and not fulfill anything at all which means that the length of time that a person spends here in the physical world is of less importance than the quality of the time that's spent I have a person uses its interests I once or one of those cutesy little phrase one of those see things I think I sort of readers digest for the first time it's very famous that the past is the past and the future is the future and the you know now now is a gift from God which is why it's called the present and i think i think the amis i think it's a very beautiful idea what he do however cutesy it is however you know saccharine it is i think it's a yeah i think it's a very beautiful idea that the present is something which cannot be returned it can't be repeated all right which means that we have to use we have to use each moment of the present in the best way that we can in order to turn that into something which is going to allow us to move into the future in the way that we need to I told etre it could be that this idea of Arica XEOMIN the length of days in the world to come is talking about us some kind of quality spiritual quality of life up there that a person would be lacking if he didn't do that good okay I think I've bored you into submission right so so as you like for asking the question I hope I hope you've learnt your lesson I really do that the mixes are all the same right easy ones hard ones we've got to treat them with the same amount of gravitas that we would write because each one is its own thing I always describe the Mitch's of being yeah you know when you wear a sweater right so that you know the sweater is is made it's been knitted write something that's been knitted is made up of intertwined links you know line after line after line of intertwined links you ever tried pull you got a little bit of a loose thread in your sweater you ever tried giving it a pool trying to get rid of it right what happens you lose the sleeve like the whole thing just unravels because every part of the sweater is attached to every other part of the sweater right that the the the the mitzvahs are really no different the mixers are intertwined with each other when you take you know what happens to a small hole in a sweater it becomes a big one right because that's just the nature of the hole which means that the minute you start pulling away mixers then you've made a hole inside of the fabric and then all of a sudden out hole becomes bigger and bigger until everything disappears that's why that's a huge difference between somebody who says that I don't keep Mitzvah eggs because it's too hard for me to somebody who says I don't keep Mitzvah x because i don't think the mid sir x is really a mitzvah doesn't matter i don't like it doesn't make any sense to me it's two different things right somebody's prepare to be honest and to say listen you know what midst of X is too hard for me right now which is why I can't do it then I cottage bachal takes everything into account right however when a person says oh I don't believe I don't believe that God wants me to do midst of X then what's he doing he's poking a little hole in the fabric and then after a while by not doing its legs you won't do miss for Y and you won't do mr. Z and you'll get round to the beginning and it's as ABCDE after all of them will begin to disappear one after the other it's a process and it's absolutely quite a rapid process when it starts unraveling yeah here I think I if you say that it's too difficult for me to accept then that might be a little bit of a problem if you're saying it's too difficult for me to do right now so again that's okay which means that you know our courage Bravo understands that every person's on a different level every person I'll tell you more than that you know some people keep lots of very difficult knitters they really do but some of the easy ones they find it's just it's too much for them right now so long as the right now is pegged on to the end then that's okay but not to hide behind that you know five years down the line of the person still not doing whatever it is right not to hide behind that then it becomes then it becomes a problem and one of the biggest problems with Mitchell observances that we have to be honest with ourselves we really do it sounds a lot better in my mind it sounds a lot better for me to say you know this mitzvah is ridiculous than to say this myths was too hard for me because this Mitch was ridiculous that's my justification for not doing it if I say this Mitch was too hard for me what am i doing and basically getting up and I'm saying that I i I'm at fault ov another mid sir it's me and that's it that's a difficult level for a person to reach but it's a much healthier level as well about at least that way you're telling the truth now they tell over a very very sharp story in the you know go back a 150 years ago in Eastern Europe the the ravages of the of the Enlightenment movement what was called the mass the mass killing it was it was everywhere and making inroads everywhere even in the lodging vulajin had the largest yeshiva of the time and they say that of Lima logical one sound free tallied him who are obviously know they wanted the issue ver anymore and they obviously weren't from anymore either and love high villaggio says to them you know Mike ending says my children what happened to you so they said Tim Rebbe we had questions so I've had a logical to me says and tell me he says did you have questions before you left the yeshiva or after you left the issue so the students said well we had them after we left the yeshiva so how do I look to me says now he says those are questions as our answers which means I'm gonna chose in' to let go of my religious observance now I'll build myself an ideology around why I've let go in order to justify the way that I behave that's why most people are not just with religious observance and in general when we do things that we shouldn't be doing first we decide that we're going to do what we want to do and then we'll work out why it's okay to do it you heard you ever heard people who are you know dishonest people that they'll tell you know about them they'll do whatever they can that they'd sound ridiculous in order to justify why it's okay what they're doing but my father another shalaby used to be a JP a justice of the peace and always that it's a judge without any legal background you're you know every every case in England has to go through a magistrate's court and from there if you know they don't want to deal with it is too big for them then they'll kick it up to the next core but the magistrates calls with three judges sitting together and they were called justice of the peace you didn't have to be in charge enough to be a lawyer either he went through training but it was a right and he said he told me that he said the most ridiculous case he ever had that came before him was there was a fellow who was stealing minicamps private camps not black once right private private clams and he would steal a cab and he would listen to the dispatcher go and pick up the fair drive the people around for a few hours make his money and then he would just ditch the car under finish anyway one day he takes a takes a fairy stolen this car and he takes a fair and the guy gets to where you ask be dropped off and he opens up the door jumps out runs away that's a thief so this the driver was so incensed he went down to the police station to file a to file a complaint so he's in there finding a complaint and a policeman walks in and he says tell me he says whose car is that outside with a license plate whatever it is so the fella says it's mine he says you're under arrest that car was stolen sorry and his fellows now standing in the dark right being tried for what he did so my father said kick can you imagine you know the hubris of this person right this fellow is a thief and somebody gypped him so now he's good unbelievable okay when people are dishonest I'll do whatever they can to justify whatever they're doing that's really that's really what's going on right it's a lot better to get up and say roboy sigh i'm a lazy bum and that's why i don't keep the missus but you know what inefficient one day I won't be so lazy and maybe i'll get around two keeping them that's a lot healthier than getting up and say you know what I don't believe that God doesn't want me to do this well I don't believe that God doesn't do that yeah when do you think it becomes a problem after how long would you say you know because I can admit right now that you know find it hard to put spin on every day but if I'm still standing in 20 years kind of tank you know what I can work on it yeah you know what it's I think I think it's a question which is impossible to answer because it is conceivable that for somebody 20 years down the line maybe it is still difficult for them and it's also conceivable that 20 years down the line the person's hiding behind what once was because it's just easier right where we we all of us know that not keeping the mitzvahs it's easier than keeping them we all know that right you know where you can go what you can do what you can wear where you have to be how you could do it I mean these are things which are they they control our entire day one way or the other karishma who understands entirely them to somebody it might it's just it's just too difficult right now yeah i'll give you I'll give you an example and at a time with one's a fascinating story see human nature right I had a Talmud once who was a he was in advertising and he taken off six months to come to the yeshiva as if he came from he decided that you know this what he needed to do he said that advertising is a crazy crazy business to be in he said they would start at eleven o'clock in the morning they start work he said but they worked till twelve o'clock at night so it's crazy completely crazy and he said that as he started becoming more orthodox so he said that chakras was never a problem because when you start walking eleven o'clock in the morning you can squeeze a shuttle is in there somewhere right and he said Dominique my roof was never a problem because but when he got home he would that matter whatever time it was it didn't matter he said but missile was a problem so because you know you're caught up in something and you don't have time and it's you know you do it later and this is happening and that's happening and it's something very he said for a long time it was fine because he felt great about damning chakras the mind he thought he was doing enough he said but after a while he began to realize that he really needs to be doubly Miller as well but what you do you can't get up in the middle of a meeting and say excuse me please everybody I just have to go into the corner and I'm going to sway backwards and forwards for a little bit my mom okay really and and then I'm going to take some steps backwards and then I'm going to sit down and I'm going to put my head down on my arm like this but but don't worry I feel fine really and and and then I'm just going to you know stand up and say another prayer and then we can carry on so he said that you know for months and months and months he felt real bad about not done even if a buddy he never done he said one day they were pitching for the biggest account they'd ever pitched all this was like millions of dollars worth of business and they're in this he said they're in this boardroom negotiating backwards and forwards for hours and hours and hours and he says he needs to go to the bathroom and so fine in the beginning is able to ignore but after a while it became rather pressing I guess pun intended right it became a rather pressing issue that he had to go to the toilet and it sort of reached the point where it wasn't the case of whether he was going to go or not it was just a case of where he was going to go which means he could either go to the bathroom or he could go there in the boardroom but it was going to happen come what may so he said he picked himself up and he said excuse me please and he walked out of there and he went off to the bathroom and he's doing his business over there and he suddenly Roy said he said here like an epiphany he said nobody blinked an eyelid no one and he said it after that he never missed he never missed another minute or after that because he just said excuse me please and he went often found himself a little room somewhere where there was no one in there and then he doesn't in her now the ever since he could he could have I don't know he could have continued justifying to himself that was impossible friends of it to daven mincha foot four months maybe even four years but justify justify justify you're gonna get upstairs EO 220 and gods going to say to you you know what you've got I don't know 30 years worth of miller you never done how come and he's going to say well I was too busy so if we want to visit on a bathroom we what are you gonna answer yeah issue it I mean I definitely should be that why do we deem exported to ourselves of duty God you wake up every morning you know you keep whatever you do ever yep and you live your life for God you might as well be a robot because you're not your own place and country everybody else is doing the same thing for them so why'd you do it good good question right what do you want to be when you grow up teacher a teacher at what go into the class and teach Jewish Studies and just go and do what every other teacher in Jewish Studies does why would you do that yeah I tell you I want to understand this very well because that the quote the question is is it's a very very apt question it really I mean we all of us feel the same way at some point or another right it might relationship with God is something very individual it very unique and yet my ability to express that is very much constricted with inside of whatever the tour is telling me to do so to give you a you know a ridiculous example I i would like to bond together with God by eating a cheeseburger right but I can't because the Torah says not to do that which means I'm now having my individuality stifled by the fact that I have to follow what God wants me to do right in the same way you walk into a classroom that jewish studies classroom you've been given a curriculum that you have to follow now you have a certain amount of flexibility within that to give over the material however you want you can make it as interactive as you want you can make it as exciting as you want if you want like the teachers that I had you could make it as boring as you want that's your decision as a teacher but you are very much restricted within first of all what what material you can give over when you can give it over right and how you can give it over as well why is that because there is a there is a greater need that's taking place over here I'll tell you something fascinating that the idea of stifling individuality is something which doesn't bother anybody until it comes to religion which means that you know anybody over here but whatever you want to do you want to be a teacher you want to be a lawyer you want to be an accountant whatever it is you want to be a garbage collector every body is completely constricted with inside of whatever it is that they need to do I tell you the more that you want to do nothing and you don't want to work no because I'm tell you why not but you want to use the internet right if you don't type in addresses properly on the internet you can't get to where you want to go to there was a very very famous email that did the rounds years ago but it was very very strong but a fellow wanted to know why Judaism was so detailed and while these tiny little things make so much Brennan he wrote to the rabbi he says rabbi this is the second time I'm asking you you never answered me I guess my question is too strong for you he says what do you mean I didn't answer you he said of course I answered you he says I wrote I wrote in your thing and I wrote at yahoo com and I left out a little dot right and the whole thing was based on you know that tiny little dot if you don't have that tiny little dot in there it's not going to work right and it's the same in whatever you do you want to be an accountant and you move the decimal dot a long one you've just you've just made an enormous mistake enormous yeah if you're a heart surgeon and you decide to move things along a couple of millimeters how much of the millimeter for goodness sakes you're going to kill the person everything comes down to my new toy to details the more there are the better something is going to run everybody here is probably you're probably only sugar about about sports right football yeah yeah football you know if you don't blame cording to the rules then that's not football what you're doing I've mentioned this in the past when I was a kid I got taken to do the Harlem Globetrotters basketball I don't know anything about bus until today know nothing about basketball but these guys played I don't even know the Harlem Globetrotters were but they were they date very very that they were very very entertaining right and I was convinced the kid these these have got to be the best basketball players in the world you know the things that they were able to do it took me a few years to understand that what they were doing is very entertaining but it wasn't possible they wouldn't last two minutes on a basketball court because you got to follow the rules right and the rules inside a sports are very very exact very exact here tennis right you've got that you've got the linesman the ball was like that right and that now it's no good is that fair doesn't matter fair no fair those are the rules right yeah electronic lines you've got now right in football if the ball goes over the line it's a goal if it doesn't it's not a goal so it depends how much the referees been paid off with it that's not that's not the issue right now right but yet you're here in every single thing that we do everything is dependent on the laws unbelievable amount of detail why do you think Judaism is any different I college bro has given us a whole a whole system over here full full of things that are going to draw us closer to him if we do it his way but if we don't do it his way that's like leaving the dot out of yahoo com and now what are you left with your left with a message that hasn't run anyway here again I'm not da misunderstand me i'm right I'm not I'm not trying to give it you over their head I'm really not hey just trying to explain that cottage vocal says you need to put on tefillin in the morning so you need to put on tefillin in the morning because that dance away the morning needs to be right I'll tell you what I listen I voice I don't know if you know this stuff but when you get up in the morning everything is taken care of right and we start the show canara the code of Jewish law is pre-birth to pose death there's not a moment that's not taken care of right you get up in the morning you have to wash your hands like this and like that and then you have to put you in touch how to put your shoes on right shoe first left shoe second left shoelace first flight shul a second you're getting up in the morning you say to yourselves you don't do me a favor there's God God cares which should I put on first does it make any difference let's do it with a soldier right but here you understand what the pivot you and that's what the depth is over here the depth of don't make neat there's only difference to God it makes a difference to us because if I can put my shoes on however I want then it means that there's a moment in my day which doesn't have God in it here if I put my shoes on according to the way that show canal says to put on my shoes what does that mean it means that I'm putting on my shoes in the way that God wants me to Dora God is there as I put my shoes on God is there as I put my tefillin on God is there as I go out to work God is there with everything I do that's that's really what it's all about that's why they're there really that's why they're there you ever wonder about the laws of Cassius and I bet you have right most things that sound delicious are not kosher when I was a kid growing up there were there was a person called Bullard Matthews who had a turkey farm and Matthews turkeys came to the supermarket's they want kosher and he had adverts they were basted in butter so when they got when they got to the supermarket and he since always an absolutely delicious they look unbelievable ever wonder about kashrus anyone who tries to tell you that keeping kosher as a healthier lifestyle don't listen to a word they say you ever you ever eaten standard shudders fear yeah chopped liver gallery2 kishka charlyn that stuff blocks you arteries up just by looking at it right it's got nothing to do with health not physical health as do a spiritual health I College Park always saying that this animal is kosher this animal is not kosher at this animal is culture it's got to be shifted its going to be sorted in a certain way because I want you to be aware of the fact that I am here the whole time every single moment of the day you're here there's a beautiful story they tell about a half accosted who went off for the first time the businessman he lived in Warsaw and he went off for the first time to do business in Paris so he went to his rebbe the Hindu shower in the Gare ever he went into asking for a blessing but he should be successful so the rubber gave him a blessing and then he tells then he said so the rebbe says Roby says is there anything I can bring the road be back from Paris so there ever said yeah I want you to bring me back a cigar I heard the cigars in Paris or something very special the government is Israeli I don't know here it's something very special and and bring me back up a cigar so the guy goes off to Paris never be never been to Paris before his life so he does a lot of sightseeing he has the most unbelievable success in his business fantastic and he gets back onto the train to go back to Poland back to Warsaw and as the train is pulling out of the station in Paris he suddenly remembers that his rebbe said to bring that to garni third up and his face falls that he gets very agitated in the person sitting ops and says it was a problem he said I said I promised my Rebbe that I was gonna bring him a cigar from Paris like the gun he says don't worry says on the way we're going to stop in Brussels and in Brussels the cigars are even better than the cigars in Paris so they stopped in Brussels for an hour and he gets off the train and he rushes off to the first the first place that he can find and he says really I want the most expensive cigar that you had to bring out a cigar it's like this big it's got a wooden box it's like Hamlet doesn't care however much it is he had take the money he rushes back to the trailer get some the trainees now that said he's so happy it's going to come back with what the Rebbe asked for so he gets back to Warsaw says hello to his wife and his children dumps his bags goes off to the Rebbe with his box comes into the Rebbe and the Rebbe said to read me I want to thank the Rebbe had the most incredible success in my business endeavors and the rather says to him okay and what else and the closet hands over this box for the river there ever looks at the Boggs and he turns it over and he turns it over again he sees on the bottom it says made in Brussels take looks and he says what does this mean so the houses have already said I'll tell you the truth he said I didn't get around to buying the cigar in Paris but but the person who I traveled back with told me that the cigars in Brussels are even better than the ones in Paris and I promise the Rebbe that this cigar over here is the best cigar in the world I promise so the Rebbe looks and he says now he says you don't understand he says I asked you to bring me a cigar back from Paris because I wanted you to remember when you in Paris it you had a Rebbe and you forgot said that we do share my college Bob who gives us Mitsos knitters everywhere and anywhere it doesn't matter where you live when you go on holiday wherever you are we have to live our lives according to mrs. why is that but we should always remember that God is there together with us we should never think for one second we should never imagine that there's a moment in our day that God is not going to be there you