0:00 / 0:00
Conversation with All Daf Maggidei Shiur (Part ll)
779 views
Rabbi Moshe Schwed had the opportunity to speak with many of the All Daf Maggidei Shiur. How did these world renowned Daf Yomi teachers begin their careers? What's unique about their shiurim? What's the proper balance between learning on-line and having a live Rebbi or Chavrusah? What's the best way for a Daf Yomi learner to spend their Shavuos? and more...
Comments(0)
Transcript
Auto-generated transcript. Not time-synced to the video.
how important is it to have a connection
to a live LaRussa or Magna cheer you
need that accountability or it's
possible to just be connected to your
online share as you're primarily an
online market share is just having that
connection enough how do you balance
those two aspects
well I certainly concur that having a
personal connection to a Rebbe or tour
magne sheer cannot be replaced by the
recorded voice or the even videoed
appearance of an individual who says a
sheer how great the sheer ear is or
isn't there's nothing like the Talmud
Rebbe connection however in the world
that we live in and again you know you
spoke about covered 19 so a lot of
people if if they would limit their
learning to where there's a live Rebbe
saying this year and now unfortunately
the shoes are closed and you can't have
that connection does that mean you
shouldn't learn or if you're traveling
or if you need to review a Gemara
or if you live where there isn't a deaf
your miss year or at least that I feel
me here at a time that's convenient so
instead of using the excuse well I don't
have a read be available or doesn't work
out so now I'm excused from learning on
the contrary no one who will ask the
question would say that maybe having the
Rebbe alive Rebbe is better than having
a virtual Rebbe but having the virtual
Rebbe is certainly better than no Rep
and if we could take that place and
that's fantastic and the reality is this
um we give and not only they're also
there for people who are reviewing the
Gemara
which is a wonderful opportunity had to
review the Gemara it's certainly there
for people who are not learning the Deaf
want to go back to Gemara I just met
somebody the other day who told me
because his son is not in yeshiva is not
obviously having the regular learning
schedule that they always have so he
became his son's backup Rebbe and he was
learning tomorrow with his son that
they're learning in yeshiva and neither
he nor his son really understood the
tomorrow so what do they do it was a
government secretary Duchenne we're
learning my sex the Shabbos
but he went to the archives he opened up
that - a massage the condition he and a
son listened to the shear and now they
were able to understand the Gemara so
I'm certainly not his sons ready or his
Rebbe but it became a wonderful tool
haddock you the learning and all times
this is there's nothing that can compare
to you know in person live where you
feel the energy and you can bounce off
each other
and it's you know it's it's a
person-to-person the zoom is definitely
a bhatia bad in my opinion although it's
the best we have and thank God that we
have it and I don't think that you could
do the death you know as a as a loner
you need a lot of discipline for that
and the I'm sure the statistics will
tell you that it's much easier the
success rate is much greater when you
have somebody else in it with you
so people are very good motivational
self motivational people so people are
really good at self motivating other
people not so and I found especially
with this year specifically as you
mentioned that people always want a
personal connection no matter how good
the shear is no matter how good the my
good cheer is people always like a
personal connection so if it's with the
country stuff is with my good cheer I
find it that's a struggle personally
connecting with people but I exude it in
my voice I try to have people get I try
to get people the feeling that I care
about them and then I'm always available
for people you want to contact me want
to call me send a message send an email
I'm always available for anyone that
wants so for anyone that does want that
connection it's there for them
the current sure that I'm giving right
now is actually to a live Shearer that's
was interesting the last the last
cycle I gave was just to a computer
screen and the joke I have is once it
was giving a Sheeran - Abbott own
somewhere and we had a very limited time
so we had like 30 minutes times like
someone saw a scratch it's like way
worse I'm used to talking to screen no
one has any questions because we had a
limited time but actually said the live
shall give me now is in Toms River and
the robbed there is a caboose of mine
old friend remerge to rob burg and he's
on his guys he gets them to come to the
nemi and that my time is bringing people
in and these people are learning it's
incredible what they have so definitely
having a Rebbe having a kabura
definitely is incredible you hear
stories of connection definitely brings
people in
at the same time I will point out there
are many people that feel connected just
by learning Duffy gaming people feel
like the part of the movement people
even just in my sure the Delphic time
they feel like they're part of something
they have their Rebbe even though it's
not that connection that way yeah I hear
feedback from people all the time like
as if you're my reverie like they have
that connection it's incredible how you
could have that even though it's not
necessarily two-way and then you have
people that they just get inspired by
the words and and they don't need it but
for sure it definitely could be critical
for many people to have their red beans
have that that abusive
different people are different some
people need like the actual direct
pressure I think most people almost
everybody needs to feel like they belong
to if ever that they belong to a group
that's that's doing it but there are
people that manage to do that online
that they feel like you're part of Italy
no questions though though they'll have
some some conversations with other
people that listen to the same shear
though ever since we started with fun
with with the zoom for the Deaf because
because I haven't been able to give it
in person so I have 70 people come to
this year in the morning on the zoom you
know and sure we always had about 10
people would come and now 70 people are
coming to coming from you know from
Americans Easter Island from Chicago and
from from all over the place so it's
Gibraltar got some from from Gibraltar
from England every morning on the under
zoom so I think people eventually will
always reach out meaning people who
listen online for a while eventually
they'll always want to connect to the
person who's teaching this year because
you need to feel like you connect to
already
there are a number of values and they
don't always have to overlap we need the
need to have a Rebbe is crucial one
can't go through life without a
connection to a Rebbe I say look how
rough one needs to have a feeling of a
cry is that something that I have to do
and the more devvra that I'm part of the
more that I feel that I have to do it
meetings somebody's part of a document
and shul
that's avarice oh I know the other guys
getting up at 5:30 in the morning other
guys they are and I'm gonna have to be
part of it and obviously connection to a
mugger cheer is is crucial also that
doesn't mean if somebody appreciates a
rabbi elephant she Riley would cheer a
cheer online and they get feedback on
efforts from that well I'm not gonna
listen to that because I you know need
them you can have the remedy and you can
have the cheer and you know if you
connect to the remedy by email whatever
it is that that's fine but you don't
have overlap one shouldn't say I'm gonna
do this or I'm gonna do that with values
that we could all do I want to listen to
the shear that I get the most CNF edge
in connection to Torah hey you pee I
won't ever Abbey sometimes the Rebbe
that I connect to is the one that I had
in you achieve and I still connect to
him I thought guys the rub of my shul I
have a different type of relationship
with I answer in Shiloh's - and he's
more connected to my family and my kids
different leaders of different run him
in our lives that that you know we
should have doesn't mean it's all one
person we should be able to have various
different verbatim pictured on pictures
in our study on our throughout our house
again that's you know everybody has to
do Alan
the the connection to a Rebbe the
connection do know I always say I wrote
an article a number of years ago got the
rough I never met I never met the rough
he was already sick when I went to high
school I quote him all the time many of
my child was a global chopper to Madras
let's have a lot of his his material I
learned from his he still made them my
herb and my Rob HF Thoreau buddy roses I
go by willing it's a major part of our
life and many years ago there's a funny
story a humorous story that when my
daughter's was five or six years old and
somebody called thought this was still
in Woodmere it somebody called up that
is the rub home
but you said the rugs on the wall but my
father's home so you know that it put me
in my place but it also sure you
recognize that the Arab am and is the
rub and there's others but again that's
I never wrote is more a facial Pat Rebbe
but it's also crucial to be able to to
learn Torah any of them flow meter box
Liepaja fakes but learned Torah from the
from the people and the sources that you
get most most out of it now that would
be per the master Chavez and the second
seven on the horizon many first-timers
especially maybe feeling a bit
intimidated how can we keep this up it's
getting harder what's gonna be what
could you share with them any unique
words of inspiration to keep them going
and they should strengthen themselves to
stay on the dock yeah me train
my first recommendation not
encouragement recommendation is to be
successful and learning the Deaf is you
need to learn one - at a time if you're
going to look at chess as one long
subject that's a daunting impassable
task for most people and people will
always tell me that I know I'm going to
have different distractions that will
prevent me from being able to learn the
death every day and therefore maybe I
shouldn't just start learning the death
my attitude and I've said this to many
people who have come back to me to thank
me for having told us to them don't
approach the - that way
actually I don't believe we should
approach anything in life as using it as
one large trunk because then it becomes
challenging and it becomes difficult
look at a task as one daffy a day if you
look at it one day after day then it's
much more manageable and then even if
you miss a day and it's hard for you to
make up that death for whatever reason
that shouldn't stop you learn the next
stuff if you'll be able hopefully to go
back to the daffy you miss and I believe
if you take this approach you'll find a
way to go back to DAF you missed great
and if you didn't get back to that ass
it's also alright if you have a
mastectomy sector like we're learning
I'm stuck the Shabbos so if you only
learn 90 percent of a sector you're a
lot better off than the person who learn
on Adam sector because he said well I
won't be able to do a hundred percent so
I won't do anything of course
my my attitude is that besides learning
one that for the day which is I think
the way to approach it if you make the
death an important part of your lives an
important part of that gives you life
but an important part of your family's
life that doesn't mean that every member
of the family should learn the death
that's not what I mean what I mean is
that this is a death for me family and
everybody knows that this is a
and your children are connected with
your learning and your children and your
staff are proud of your learning and
encourage your learning and support that
learning that is a the way a Jewish
family should look every Jewish family
should have a real connection to Torah
and the fact that we're all connected
and that your children are asking you so
when is the next scene and when is the
big scene my shots that will give you
the strength to continue
I'm gonna tell you at least about
intervene it might be a little overrated
now only because we have a lot of these
picture books now and that's really the
hard part of intervene is trying to get
the case when they talking about and we
used to have these archaic picture books
with you know black lines all over the
place that were hard to understand today
it's full color you can get the case in
one minute so I would tell you it's a
lot of over exaggeration it's not as
difficult as you think
a few things first of all don't give up
it's scary
we're slo-mo fried called Oh tell us
tell me then when the dot that's been
particularly difficult he would say it's
not harder it's just different it's
different so yes
yesterday was different than today's and
today's gonna be different tomorrow so
yeah you have to wrap your head around
new concepts and sometimes the concepts
would get more difficult to grasp it
doesn't necessarily mean that it's so
hard it's just different so have
patience tomorrow is going to be
something else that's first of all
second of all it's very important to try
to incentivize yourself sorry second of
all it's very important to try to have a
way to connect yourself to someone
that's gonna give you encouragement so
it could be a spouse am i mature or
caruso like you mentioned a Rebbe a
friend or even a way to incentivize
yourself that you just push yourself
along so when the going gets tough you
have something to push yourself so that
when the days when the Daath get easier
along the way you'll be able to do it
so I'll tell you I'll tell you be good
old and to first and then I'm going to
show you how you just gave me an
alley-oop the good old really is like
the Casa Nishal we said in this agresa
said you got a plug through and you know
everyone knows from the you know the
social scientists they talked about
today about grit perseverance
consistency cosna said you come to a
something at your learning you don't
really understand it you gotta get in
your garb plow through I noticed this
myself I'm like I look at my gum I'm
like wow like I was like I knew but I
didn't know it now it's like yeah of
course
like I'm like oh I can't believe then I
remember this being so hard and I was
like yeah I got this so you gotta plow
through you got to keep on going through
clay-rich in your own learning then you
have this area you continue going and
you'll see that that's important so
definitely the grit and perseverance is
important thing for these Bloods are in
Shabbos and everyone like we were just
doing the blood to your DS Moustakas oh
my mind blowing right that has been it's
like you got to keep on going now I'll
show you how you just gave me a plug for
my share for the da I'm because
when I was giving the shear on your DS
my hogs divine olive in Shaba stuff iron
based people said after the shear how
could people learn this without the
charge without the grafts this is
impossible how am I supposed to remember
Helen Ellen and then understand that
after the hollow Miss Manderly Diaz
macaque is in the you DS but you look at
the charge which types Mills Freeman you
know him
incredible goodness how he introduced a
visual component to learning the dog and
what we're doing this cycle there's not
yet on old off but we never learn talks
about getting those shoe
all that the visual is in this year
itself so you see what we're talking
about in the shared some women coming to
Aaron I'm gonna be very excited to
hopefully plug the seen the actual Arab
in the shear itself which people joke
amigo what do you have next 3d you're
gonna be walking into virtual like took
itself like what are you talking about
but definitely that would be something
that I'm very excited about for these
LEDs in it to just have that visual it
adds a whole new dimension to make it a
little bit more more understanding and
comprehensive
I think people are hitting this rut
right now where it's not as exciting the
momentum from the CMS ass is waning a
little bit but I would recommend is that
try to find each day or at least at
least every other day a point in the doc
even getting half the hold of a point in
the dot fakes take home with you I think
it's up to the baggage here to really is
create that moment meaning if you're
giving a shear and you know that when
you're looking out at the crowd that 90%
of the people do not follow what's going
on and they're being mostly nephesh to
wake up early in the morning to be able
to come to the death and it's very
frustrating you have to have a story you
have to have a vert something in there
that everyone who's there will be able
to take something off something about
that Tanna that amaura where else they
come up in chest what else something
something that everybody and and and
people who are learning it she try to
look for that something if you're not
following the chair to say okay I may
not get this Duff but I'm gonna get
something from this stuff and then
you'll never walk away feeling empty
um two points one thing is that I don't
know if I did say there I I try to be
very careful when today's of Gemara
coming up I don't want I try not to say
this is a heartbeat for this is a don't
want to like you know get people have
that to be the tih before it starts to
have people you know get discouraged
in that sense there's more challenging
pieces this more involved pieces but
again the first step whenever I prepare
a cheer in I feel me or any sheer number
one is clarity number one if I cry it's
of the of the monkey cheer make it clear
that's the first step and the clearer
something is he is so dose and sometimes
might be Jarrett's to go over it a few
times or if I'm learning it myself have
to read over the arts will if you
thought cleaver it is the more I'll be
comfortable with it when we see some of
it power on their isin we should say we
should have run away okay we have the
assaut dose of some Avatara then that's
it it's just like any other area we have
to make sure and so the more we scared
of something maybe the more we have to
spend more time
Kurama momotaro's is the longer than any
of those economists any of the Sonoran
because all the all the ABCs or the and
a lot of Paris's is arch of us have an
even charge Bob ministers about that but
again we have to make sure that if we
see a topic that we're scared of maybe
we have to just overcome it we can't be
psyched out by it but they're trying to
say okay I'm gonna do it
they were smarter marine in terms of
help it so there's an English say for
about number then about a Riven again
hey by day step by step the first step
is to make it clear the next step is to
make it fun an interesting the third
step is to what yolks and importing
cheetahs are on this table that have to
be that have to be mentioned and and go
from there but again one should never be
it's as part of jaws every Jew is a
connection to all a chance that Johanna
Rob says every do as a people a cult or
Akula though they say this is part of it
and we just have to look at it as an
opportunity and the more we do it the
easier it becomes and the more
comfortable not easy the more
comfortable it is that we are with the
material so we shouldn't be thought
about what's going to be and
hard it's challenging no just doing
focus on one Dolf at a time and again
the more kind obviously the the more
clarity that could be you know the
better so the