Dirshu South Africa Siyum Mishna Berura - The Happiness and Deveikus of Learning Halacha

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com it is always such a great honor and pleasure to have the opportunity to speak to the community of south africa have such dear friends in your community and i thank yadidi rav tabak shlita for once again thinking of me and including me in this really momentous occasion now sometimes you speak at an occasion and you're just uh an outsider but i feel very connected not only to this community but to dersho mishna brewer i've had the great zukhust to be learning the mishabura from the beginning of this cycle and giving the share from the beginning of simmon pay zion and just to share one or two thoughts we covered this really momentous occasion if you want to know what a book is all about so there's a general rule you look at the beginning you look at the end and that gives you a pretty good idea what the book is all about and the khida has a phenomenal observation in this context regarding the opening comments of the ramat i place hashem before me always tamid i always place god before me and there ahmad's there are most concluding remarks on is the toiv mishta tamed the ra the ramos speaking about whether one makes a sudha on purim khattan and rama says whether you do or not velvet mishtatamit someone who has a good heart someone who has good character he's always at a mishta he's always at a sudha says that these two bookends are the shivisi hashem the negdy summit and the lave toiv mishta tamir are the two timidim of claude israel like the tomic and the talmud shall behave the talmud show is to place god before you always the talmud shall benefit him is believed to if someone of good character is always ed amishta is always at a party says if one merits to fulfill shivisi hashem an egd summit one who always places god before them will be zoycha will merit to always be happy to always have mishtatam to always be with a happy upbeat positive perspective on life the key to happiness says the key to the lave toy mishta tamir is shivisi hashem le negde summit perhaps we could add one or two dimensions to this great observation of as we mentioned if you want to know what a book is all about you have to look at the beginning you have to look at the end the beginning speaks about a certain subject the end speaks about a certain subject you pretty much know what this book is all about when it comes to the study of halacha sometimes a person may say well you know it's important to know halacha but it's maybe technical or it's dry and and maybe i prefer to learn mahsava or musa or mystical aspects of the torah but you know the halaq is just what you could do what you can't do and i think it's very telling how the shocking arch begins and how the shakhna ends begins you want to know what this book is all about it's not just about what you can do and what you can't do you want to know the essence of shivisi hashem le negde summit what this book is all about is forging a relationship with akades barakul placing god before you always yeah you can learn maksha you can learn mysticism you can learn the depths the amkos of the torah but the bottom line is if you want to have a a constant and consistent relationship with that from the moment you get up to when you tie your shoes to how you get dressed in the morning to how you go to shul to how you learned how you observe a shabbos and a yamtif and a the best way to be cognizant of the presence of hashem at all times if you want to fulfill shivees hashem le neg di samid then learn learn mission number this is not just about what you can and can't do it's about creating an awareness of hashem there's no better way to connect to forge a relationship with that than the regular study of halacha in fact that rizal points out i once heard this from rabbits like yosef hakala the bride you want to have a relationship with hashem you want to be davok hashem you want to be close to hashem the only way to do it is to study halacha the bride if you want to consummate your relationship with alex the regular learning of but then the ends with a very an another telling comment the lave toy of mishtatamin a person might say you know am i really going to get simha satora from learning from observing and the answer that shalhonar gives is a resounding comment in the concluding words the lev mishta tamid that if you learn and you observe the minutia and the detailed guidelines of not only will this inspire you to a deeper awareness and cognizance of the presence of hashem but it will also bring you to the madrega of the lave toiv mister tamil because if you're always aware of how i can eat a watermelon on shabbos how i can't how i can pick out a tie from my closet on chavez how i can't constantly being aware of the guidelines that i need to observe will grant us a deeper level of awareness barco and ultimately imbue meaning into every moment of life and every moment of the year and will bring us to the madriga of the late mister so while one superficially may have thought the study of is dry and perhaps is not what will bring us closer to and more happiness and meaning in life it's just the opposite the learning of is the fundamental way a to gain cognizance of hashem's presence of shivisi ashlamlaneg ditamid and to inspire us to live a more meaningful and happy life so my humble blessing to all those who have participated in the dershu sium may you continue to pursue this avenue of curvature go for another cycle and if you haven't yet joined this is the perfect opportunity to join there's a new dershow app so this will allow you to connect to the learning of halacha and whatever avenue you find yourself in mazel tov mazel tov to all the messiah m mazel tov to those who are going to be joining the dershow program and may we all be zoha to the blessing vouchsafed by ghazal of halloymed grant us this greatest of all gifts of you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com