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Rabbi Yechiel Perr zt"l on Shavuos
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In a shiur recorded in 2019, Rabbi Perr zt'l explores the remarkable phenomenon of the Newness of Torah, despite the fact that the Torah was given thousands of years ago.
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chapter the third month after CL went
out
of about six weeks after
and the third month it
was then it
says every D I've said many
times is closer to
theat answers a question in theat more
than theat does
so the question that that is in the is
it should say by
who what say on this
day to you as if they were given today
so therefore it should
be there's a few questions
here one question
is they either are or they're
not how can you say to a
person he command them to
be either you see it as Kim or you don't
see how can you make it
Kim another question the other question
is that why is this the
place where we're told that theor should
be this seems to be to be before we even
talk about before the T even tells us
about tells
us why is here the place for such a
Dr and what does mean
so one point we can say about K
is
that there's a
special that it's
always remember many years ago I lived
in burough
Park and
I
in and I saw
babab
by fellows who
were highly who were
professionals the two people I happen to
see were both of them
lawyers and
between they were talking about in in
the M of Y which was being
read and I thought to myself how
interesting that these Fells learned is
y and the brothers they learned from the
childhood in
Yesa they've heard so many times here
they are 40 year
olds and they're still seeing and they
just thinking in
it there's nothing equal to that in the
whole intellectual
world is possible to
find remember certain occasion bumping
to uh went to had a meeting
with was had a meeting with some
others came in early to the meeting and
he was there alone and he said to me
what are you learning I said he said
what is
the so I left because you know it's like
the one of the first
questions that you ask when learn the m
and at that time was not a
youngster and he was still asking the
same
question obviously the same question has
a certain kind of freshness to
it tor has a unbelievable of
freshness that's one thing and also it's
m i to R this
year I saw it again when new
eyes with new
questions with
new some you find in and some you find
inside
yourself in your eyes in your
own of
course in order to see
and you have
to know that there is KES there
I
heard from
my
S I think I've told you a number of
times the r
said
that when you come across
a strange it's hard to accept it
intellectually he said if you first
think to
yourself that everything everything it
says
Kem you'll be able to understand it
you'll find a way of understanding
it
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that of knowing that everything it says
in is
that opens up to that you begin to
understand it in such a way that you'll
see
it in the same
way if you approach the
ver and you say to
yourself ah it's the old
stuff you're not going to get anything
out of it if you were to say to
yourself
is then you're going to
see it's going to be new
either that you have the kind that you
write down and you
print or a freshness to it
we going to read sedra midbar numbers
and
numbers there's all kinds of K in the
numbers but beside that the whole idea
of counting it what was it about and why
is it recorded like that this the kind
of question you don't ask till much till
years later there a certain freshness to
that question because it requires an
answer that you didn't realize requ it
required what is TS telling us with
these numbers
why was
this that
this why is this written way back on the
first day of their coming to Hari before
it talks anything about T at
all because it's talking about the
Gish this is the place where it talks
about the gisha before you get to the
tah the approach the T
the attitude
to the attitude is that
it's we say
theim and
G what isim and
Gish is the stimulation to your brain
that comes
from and the his spilus that you have
that look in this old and only in
this it has has such K that it
tantalizes my
mind
or that it has a freshness despite the
fact that I've learned it so many
times it's
fresh I'm not going to be able to learn
through all the treasures that there are
in this
chapter but I do want to on a couple of
things
a little bit further
down so it says that
said to I'm going to come to you in a
thick
Cloud so that the people should hear but
I'm coming to you so that the people
should hear that I'm speaking to
you
and they're going they're not obviously
they're not going to hear the words
itself or be able to figure out the
words because then they might be
speaking to
them but they will hear
but they'll hear that I'm talking to you
they'll hear that there are words but
won't be able to comprehend the words
for some
reason and they're going to have Believe
In You
Forever find that had said it I wouldn't
accept it but it doesn't say said it
itself
so first of all the
comes the buram comes the buram lives in
a
Darkness
theim the mishon was absolutely
dark pitch
dark that tells us that we can't really
understand how much we want to
see we can't really see
how much a person wants to
see it's hidden you have to know it's
hidden there's only a certain amount
that reveals to
us and when he comes to speak to mha and
the plan originally was it
seems that the plan originally was said
I'm going to come to you you'll probably
on the mountain I imagine does it say
that I'll come to
you there'll be a thick cloud
I'm going to come to you the came to him
like the comes in different places came
to I'm going to come to you on in a
thick Cloud there's going to be a thick
Cloud coming
down and they're going to hear me
speaking to
you and they're going to believe in you
forever because once they hear those
they hear me speaking so they and their
children and thousands of years later in
farak New York they're going to believe
it
thousands of years later they're going
to believe it in farco New
York almost 4,000 years
later that you received the
Torah but the P againsts by
saying
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that M told the words of the people to
Hashem so what does that
mean so
says I had a CH I heard an answer that
relates to this from
them you're going to come and tell me
from an A they're going to see that you
can't see him that you're a mystery that
you're hidden but at the same time you
speak and they're going to hear you
speak to me and they won't understand
you're not going to be speaking to them
that they can overhear but they're going
to hear that you're speaking
but I have
a I have an answer a response to this I
heard from
them what was it I
heard they want to hear it from
you you can't compare listening hearing
something from the mouth of aah to
hearing from the mouth of the
king and that's very very
interesting and then rash continuing he
says we wish to see our
King so what happens because it this so
because of this it says
if so that they require me to speak with
them go to them them prepare
them
and for the three
days and then I will because I'm I'm
going to be in the Scala to them so they
have to they have to prepare themselves
they have to go to Mikvah
I'll and make three days of which were
not
necessary originally and it'll come out
that they're going to hear me speak to
them now why was
it that they didn't want to hear from
Misha or they' said we have a Chu on
this we don't want to hear from you we
want to hear from the
M what is it
why a person wants to hear from a
m so I remember when I was
younger I had the the phone number of
rash Feinstein the rabbitson gave it to
me if I have shus I should call directly
to him Oregon 71222 I still remembered
Bal I don't think it works anymore he's
not
here and I used to call him
as M got
older s Reon said to
me she pick up the phone and she would
say
callid callid she wanted to save her
husband
the of answering the questions who say
call I don't want to call I want to
speak
TOA I think everybody understands
that I SW to ABD many many times since
her merch was
gone an interesting thing happened a
couple of days
ago had
a and I called is already not a
youngster and he has a secretary his
name is of
Ginsburg so he ask of
Ginsburg and he goes and he asks when he
comes back he calls you back he comes
back to the phone
it's not the same as
asking but at least it happens right
away what happened on l b is said I know
the answer to that I've been asked this
40 times already here the answer
is I was very stressed from that I
didn't hear it from rdid not only that
but he didn't go to ask rovid
immediately and come back and say well
this and this he said I heard it 50
times I know the
answer he said 40 times
nevertheless I was maab because I know
he's
reliable and for the same reason and I'm
a little older and I realize he can't
get a hold of Rd Fein so EAS
anymore so I heard what he had to say
and I listened to his
answer people ask me if I heard a
certain thing
Froman actually the from the sound of
his mouth to my ears it didn't actually
come but I was standing there when
somebody asked him the question for me
and I was standing a little bit D's back
a little
bit so I say I heard it from him it's
not really that I heard exactly the
sound waves didn't come from his mouth
to my
ear but it was m on the spot is asked
ask him for he asked him M I saw him ask
him I heard him ask him and he answered
him something I didn't pick up exactly
the sound waves but I say I heard it
from
him I did really but not
really what is it unique about the need
to hear from the
person why do you want to hear from mha
if he's alive instead
of or you want to hear
from instead of from Ral
Ginsburg what is
it beside the
words there's a
CER there's a CER that's
made and cl
wanted when it
says did not just
want even though they said whatever he
says will do and even call
except
for
was and we keep
it but that wasn't the
issue and because of this small issue
which is really so
gigantic for that we have the whole
M cuz it wouldn't have been such a m i
don't know what it would have been
otherwise but had it been the way theam
has said to m is going to be it should
be so then it would have
been will talk to mha and they will see
M they will hear M they hear something
taking place they hear conversations
taking
place that would be the extent of
it but the
mindar would not have occurred as we
understand
it what is it that made that mammad har
it was the
B of going beyond the
words not just beyond the the is a is
a to
the even though the words are exactly
the same and for all intents and
purposes it would have worked the same
way for every purpose it would have
worked the same way but it would not
contain that special order that comes
when you hear fromin
himself when you hear from himself we
hear from F himself there's a certain
kind of an o and a
CER and the words are the same exactly
the same
trustworthy people are giving it
over are conveying
it but there is something in the words
heard from the
person that are unique and special
and that are not that you
hear
from and the same thing is hearing from
the and then they said more than
that we want to see
him want to connect to
him we want to see him
words contain much more than the
words and T contains
this because if we
say that the words of T in the of the T
were from himself because they wanted
this special connection the special or
there's no other way of describing it
there's a hidden or to come out from the
words so then words of T which have in
them all the
time are really an extension of
this that different have much more
meaning to them than just the words and
they're full
of is an extension of the
fact that the that clel reached to hear
more than words in the words they
reached to hear the Bam's voice in the
words
that's an extension of that is that D
forever will remain with that
K that it contains much more than the
words more than what I have read before
you is written here the K there much
more than the words in the
words I heard once from a
FR he said he knows
nothing but he said when I look at a
sa and I realize the power those words
have had over
Generations the power of
them the
power think to yourself what is
Amis Amel
is unique it's
Immortal and what is its immortality
from
from being the bearers of
Tyra the power of those words spoken
written thousands of years
ago it still shakes us and moves us and
makes
us I don't know if I've been able to
express the Kish and the spilus that I
feel in these words that I'm speaking to
you I know been able to ignite in
you the feeling that I have about
it the UR that I see in these
words there's a very interesting
HZ Rashi brings it
the Bri
says it comes to Shas it comes to
says the sixth
day
so everything that was created was
waiting at
yishi they waited and they waited the
World waited for y they depended on
Y which is the sixth day of s
there different of the
same basically the same
thing so the Bri is waiting in the
Bria is waiting and Depends for its
existence on
cab but the casha is that that wasn't
the day that was supposed to be
Cabra it was supposed to be 3 days ear
earlier it was only 3 days
later because they said
with
Lano you see that the essence of
Tyra which is
melt because of T that the world is
created and
the world that essence
of depends
on with
having that should
contain
malano the ter should be words that are
beyond
words there should be an A in the
tah it's only if is a Bish from the
people to want the Torah and is there
Bish to see this in the Torah that's
when the world stands on
it and this it says in the
when a
b a child grows
up a little girl grows up we say she
should
live and little boy
WR his
candle should give
light because he
is and when he takes inside himself this
T which are words that have
that have light coming out of
them he becomes it becomes part of him
and light comes out of
him a good
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