If Rabbis Aren’t Prophets, Why Follow Them? | The Sinai Secret: Beyond Prophecy

Why do we have to follow the rabbis? Are they prophets the way that we follow prophets in the in the early days like Moses, Moshe, and the other prophets? I think it's a very good question. I think many people have this question out there. Uh you know, why do we follow the rabbis? Rabbi, I think what really the person wants to understand is really am I following God if I follow this person? And that's the scary part. That's the that's the idea. Everyone wants Hashem. Even the people that left Egypt, they wanted Hashem. And when Hashem said, "Okay, you want me. I'm happy you want me. I'll speak to directly to each one of you." And God spoke to every Jew directly the first two commandments. And they realized it's too much. It's too hard. And they became very afraid. They thought they were going to die. And so they understood after that intense revelation that I we do need Moshe to receive it for us and give it to us. And when that happens, that's how you have God because God ultimately is infinite and without limit. And nobody can have God. Not the highest spiritual worlds, not the greatest sadic unless God contracts and limits and channels his revelation and his divine energy. And so it it's contracted first of all to the higher worlds and then it's contracted through the great sadikim like Moshe and the prophets and Jewish leadership, the head of rabbitical courts today and your average Torah scholar, your local Orthodox rabbi, they all are channels of God. It's one unit and we're all connected and we're all continuing with the same information and the same energy, the same godliness that we're tapping into. And so that's God's representative for you. That's what you have to believe. Your rabbi is like like like your connection to God in a kosher absolute way the way God built it to be. And that's why we listen to the rabbis and that's why we follow the rabbis. The rabbis know better than we do. How do I say that with such confidence? Because I'm a rabbi. No. Today, if someone studies and is considered an expert in the Torah, then he knows better than you. And so, before we even get into all of the philosophy behind this, simply put, he put the time in. He understands the Torah. He understands the mitzvah, and he understands what all of the the rabbitic leadership going back to the prophets has to say about every every given topic. And he becomes an expert in Jewish law. And so, we have to follow him because he knows best and he's like in front of us if there's a race. So you're going to ask somebody why are you following the guy in first place like what are you what are you born yesterday I'm following because he's in front of me and so when the rabbis that put themselves in front of us with their knowledge so we have to follow them because they have the knowledge we don't that's the simplest most basic right to the point answer is you sit down you learn for 25 years memorize it all by heart know it backwards and forwards and then we'll follow you. Yeah, that's that's the first answer. But a but a deeper idea here is that first of all, we know that God tells us in his Torah that we have to follow the Jewish leadership because God created a nation and a system. And if the system can't function, then there's no people. And so, yeah, when we had prophets, it was a bit easier, especially Moses, Moshe that spoke face tof face with God. But if you look at the Bible, it wasn't so simple. They they argued with him. They they they they rebelled against him. They made him problems. And so there's nothing new under the sun. It wasn't so perfectly like blissful with Moshe either because life and community and family and people getting along is hard. So questions are okay. You're allowed to have the questions, but we have to understand at the end of the day, God is bigger than our brain. And and the Torah and the religion demands from us obedience. And we must follow authority. otherwise there isn't going to be a Jewish people and we can't create a a healthy kosher Jewish society. So to answer the question of why do we have to listen to the rabbis went into the details of understanding what the importance of a rabbi is and I want to take things back a little bit. So the zor explains to us how was the world created. How was the world created? And the zor says that God peered into the Torah and created the world. What does this practically mean? That everything in the world, every part of existence has its DNA can be found inside the words of the Torah. Because when God looks into the Torah, it's not like, oh, he looked and he created. The energy of the Torah itself was what created the world. This is what it means that God looked into the Torah and created the world. It was through the energy through the words of the Torah itself that the world was created. Every part of existence, every being, everything in the world that you can imagine, all of it and beyond is all in the words of the Torah. This is what we believe. This is what it says in the Zah. So what does this mean? This means that the more a person is connected to the Torah in a really deep way, not just, you know, artificially learning, of course, that's also good. But if a person to an extent, but if a person is really in touch with the Torah from the beginning to the end, understands it, grasps it, is familiar with all the details, then he actually is 100% in tone with the reality of the world in its purest form. And this gives him of course we know that the Torah the Torah of the Israel and the Jewish people is one. The more a person is connected to the Torah and the more he's connected to the Torah, he's connected to Hashem. And the more he's connected to the Torah and Hashem, Hashem and the Torah connected to him. And this gives him by way of the fact that the Torah was the blueprint of the world is the blueprint of the world. He's more connected to the world and he understands the world in a more deeper and more profound way more than any other way possible because a person who's studying the world from the outside is only looking at it, observing it and trying to figure out to get into the inside. But the rabbis are doing the opposite. The great rabbis are doing the opposite. They're looking at the systems behind the world. They don't have to go through the world and figure out how the world exists, which is an external type of uh external type of education, external type of perception of how the world exists. They go to the back systems. They understand it in a much much deeper way. And therefore, they're more in tune with the world. They're more in tune with the world. They understand everything about the world in a much real and a much more profound way. They have access to the the systems behind the creation of the world. And there's a famous story that comes with this. There are many stories like this, but a famous one in recent history where there's a great rabbi, the Kazones, who lived in Benra in the end of his life at least. He was originally in uh Russia or Bellarus or something like that and he came towards the end of his life to to Erit Israel and he really really helped the entire Jewish world build up this land of Aritis. There were those who built the physical aritis and there were those who built the spiritual arritis and the Kazan are one of the great builders of the spiritual land of Aritis until his death in I think he passed away I think in 1953 or 1951 he was nif but there's a story about him that someone came to him with issues he was going to have a brain surgery of some sort and he right away wrote on a piece of paper all the details to the brain surgeon the wrote a picture of the brain and said exactly how he should do the surgery and where it should be done. And we have that today. We have the picture today exactly how he wrote it, the different parts of the brain, what he should do and how he should do the surgery. And the reality is that the Kazesh never went to medical school. The Kazesh didn't study under some great doctors. How did he know? How did he know? I don't know the answer. But obviously a person who learned, he was a person who learned all day and all night. A person who would collapse on his way to bed because he would make an account of how much energy he had when he finished learning, does he have enough energy to make it back to his bed and often he'd miscalculated and he would just collapse before he even made it to his bed. So a person so in touch with the Torah, a person so in touch with the wisdom of God, of course understands every single detail of the world because the world again is just a projection of the Torah. So I don't understand how this works to be honest and I'm sure probably most people here do not understand how that works but we believe that and this is why when we go advice to a rabbi and a great rabbi we go out for advice we're not just asking what he thinks we're not just asking his external opinion on a manner he is giving us we believe the inside scoop he is coming from a much higher place he's connected to God in a much higher way he's connected to the Torah in a much higher way he's connected to the world in a much higher way and therefore his wisdom is on a whole different level than the wisdom of anyone else you're going to ask advice from because again anyone you ask advice from is coming from an external perception anyone you're going to ask advice from even the wisest of people but people that are immersed connected totally given over to the Torah are coming from an internal perspective and obviously that wisdom is going to be much more profound much more concise much more connected to reality and therefore you have a much better shot by listening to the words of the rabbi rabbis and the great rabbis, of course, they're listening to anybody else in this world.