Rabbi Shay Tahan - Keeping Kosher

why is it so important when we're dealing with kashrut Kossuth is extra important when we're dealing in in Halawa why is that because in every other of allah in the torah any other sin although it's a very severe thing but the effect is usually less than the effect of kashrut because the cashew has an extra aspect and that is the aspect that it has on the soul of a person it's not only that he committed the sin by eating something that's forbidden but also it has a straight effect on the nefesh on the neshamah of the person a person becomes somebody that doesn't connect the spirituality he doesn't connect to the to the Torah he doesn't get anymore the interest of learning Torah of being involved in tomyum it's worth that is the uniqueness of the kashrut aspect this is actually resolved in few places as I'll say the following in Milan umma la mitad de kumara says Tannersville of Ishmael Avera madame nemirovitch Allah damn once a person sins now we're talking about general sins person that since it causes clogged in the heart of a person it closes up the heart what does it close the heart from it closes from spirituality doesn't understand anymore why should do the mix water fashion chanel mal roti to move I am Vineeta met them BAM what is mean Vinita met them BAM Article II when it met them 11 tam-tam which means you will not talk in a bed over here to MA rather we're talking about clogged closed the thing becomes blocked the heart becomes plaque blocked from the things we're very much talking about right now so therefore Hazara me there click this Lahti tama bam they need to met him BAM the double language over here double O shown add a meta meta moment meta Miyamoto a a person commits a small sin they do they bring upon him a lot of to up which means what kind of tumor what is to maximize uncleanness and purity and therefore they bring a lot Tatem are on top of him meta meta mobile amazi meta Miyamoto malama bah when a person causes himself to beat a man this world in the next world to add to that disk mala is explained by Rashi what does he mean madam dammit oh damn it was so timid we call Kamala she says that he gets clogged from the wisdom what kind of wisdom we're talking about over here many people eat all kind of very masoom and they could still go to college and learn and they're very very successful over there they excel over there what are we talking about over here we're talking again a bad spirituality a person would not be able to understand Torah he comes in front of the game Allah and he doesn't understand two things first he doesn't understand secondly it doesn't get an interest the interest was lost with that Allah and therefore the Kamala tells us that this pursuit that speaks about maha lotus what causes a person to get clogged of that very thing that we're talking about over here which is the connection to ocean but that connection goes way beyond that is we're going to see now in the following thing first of all if we beam at the YAC and learn the story of daniel correctly danielle and is a fellow boys were taken in captivity by neighborhood nettle and it says in the beginning of daniel and over there while he was taken they asked him also that he should try to learn the wisdom that they wanted to they wanted him to learn they wanted to get those Jewish boy since a new Jewish boys have an extra-special or ideas and special the very bright they wanted those boys to be very knowledgeable in all different knowledge --is and with that with all these wisdoms they'll be able to help out the king to be able to be good advisors and so on and so forth so therefore danielle was taken together with his friends and danielle and some of his friends decided they're not anything that's not kosher they offer them but Baga Mela which means they offered them a special bread from the king that they should eat well because the King felt that if a person eats well he also be able to learn much better that's the way person works therefore danielle was supposed to eat that bread in order to be healthy in order to feel ready to be able to learn and do well in his teaching but Daniel took it upon himself as the safer Daniel in the beginning says not to eat any of that he didn't want to eat anything that came from the king why he felt that it's not kosher and therefore anything that was offered to him he wasn't able to didn't want it and he made a deal together with the person that was offering him the food that he should keep all the food that the king gave and give him instead just seeds and he would eat those seeds person that was offering the food was a little scared because if it would be found out they would have his head for that but Daniel told him let's make a try you'll see that it's not gonna have an effect on me and nobody would know you'll see that if I eat those seeds I'm gonna look like all the other boys so they tried that for a while and they saw it's really it really so Daniel was doing extra well not only that it was excelling in the learning it was doing extremely well in the learning him and some of the boys are with don't work with him therefore because of that he was able to reach very high levels in the king's palace he was the main advisor and so on and so forth and it says over there in the book but one of the interesting things that it says over there is that when Daniel didn't wanna eat it says the following it says in the pisaq that the waiter that was given them was given them those very seeds and those very seeds caused them the fact that they prevented from eating the non kosher things caused them to become much wiser much smarter on the contrary to what was thought by the and this is what the malbim explains hi Ella deem kefir Hana Tom Holloway my chef ILO get as much as they put the effort to stay away from the non kosher food that much the spirituality of Hakadosh whoo-hoo the chef I Loki the blaha from Hakadosh Baruch came upon them shall oedema by Tom shoo shoo be pre shoot me Maha Lotus what can you be mad a Vizquel your tail Allah Allah deem guru me fat burger Mela which means those kids that took upon themselves not to eat anything that's not kosher because of that they were able to become much smarter much wiser too much better in the teaching and the learning than all the other kids with Danielle Cheryl our lamb MC would nefesh Danielle took it even an extra step he was completely getting away from anything that had any concern of kashrut the Haleakala came to though she was able to be so he also knew a fellow kin to the spirit of a car - woohoo amazing so we see over here the way that su Qing indicated the way the malbim explained to us that the the bouzouki come to teach us is an amazing thing in fact when a person prevents himself from eating something that a su it hasn't the erect effect or the nefesh of a person and it gets also much higher in his learning than anybody else as our she said over here and we saw before that what does it mean Madame dammit that the sin of eating maha Lotus award clogs up the heart or terminus automatic or forma which means it clogs up the heart from any wisdom so therefore when you don't eat anything that hazard kashrut concern you open up it opens up the heart to understand those things much better it's not only here but all over we would find such a thing for instance the Kadam so fail in the end of Parishad Widow shame says the following he together with many other massaging that when a person eats Mahalo to support all of the son he has some kind of distance from her kadosh whoo-hoo so much that he gets to clean up eco suit which means he doesn't even start doubting a kaduche muhu tomorrow Tom services the following love a Pico suit of Manali to on mid-notes its bird Amelie they feel at nevelot with effort which means a person that feels doubts in believing Erica - woohoo that's because is eating non kosher food to afford Nev a lot with LeFort people Heim says that it's known that those sins of eating maha Lotus award madam temel ever Israel it clogs up the heart that we saw in the verses all of our vanity no Abimelech desert Suki Matt Mena that comic I wrote Berlitz lawyers because of that there were many congregations that almost came out and then it didn't continue the Jewish law can do the next generation why is that because they were they fell in that mouth a lotta so what or going explain the devil time it wasn't in their fault it was because it was put upon them they were sold them things they sold them things that were non kosher but they told him it was kosher they didn't even know it was special Greg it was by mistake was Bironas was against their with their will they didn't know about that although all that still it's almost that they fell apart completely and tequila the congregation got completely devastated from continuing the Jewish Way so this is the divine place other places that say the same thing for instance brought down in the Rambam the following the Rambam in the garret a lumber he says the following he says that they were he he was presented with a question about Emunah and when he saw that question he responded very much very faithfully very strong he said the following he said that from the fact you asking in other words he didn't even come up to answer the question it was asked a question in a Munna normal you're asking the question give an answer is an album of avoided the question and he went straight to the root of the problem what is the root of the problem he says the following and the available comes about a via trim einem shock what times effects I'll explain to you how come you have those those doubts where do they come from kill Tom she'll never I'm sorry a Cove don't have such doubts if you come from a Jewish father a Jewish mother you shouldn't have such a doubt which he lighted um uma hello uncle it blabbermouth I'm obsessed to them pay attention every person that eats something he goes to the digestive system in the digestive system you have over there separation from the bed from the good how does a bed gets out of the body first of all regular waste that's the regular way but then you have other ways that the body takes out that waste from the food for instance some of the food waste gets out from the body with the sweat says the lumber some of them goes from the hair some of them goes from the nails that's how those wastes of their food get out and then after everything gets out it gets swallowed he gets digested in the digestive system and you have the very fine thing that's left over from that material from that food and that goes to the brain and to the heart and that's very important as the Rambam that that very thing comes from a kosher food kosher animal kosher chicken because if not he gets to the mind he gets to the heart that very fine left of the food and if it's not kosher you should know that that very thing would bring you to disbelieve in her Kadosh whoo-hoo these are the words of the Rambam Mission Nevada Ruhlman if natural alev Verma who means Xena says settle from that very food the the brain is formed the body is formed from the food the food gives it nutrition to the body it forms it when we differentiate them Kaleem but the workers are from your words from your question that you don't believe in colony have cities kind of questions you should know Lonnie's how to me Mahalaya sue you should know that you did not we were not careful with eating kosher food in can assess official of Emmys volume to me in that report therefore your mind was formed from the other Lord from the fourth from well I'm assuming the second name shock Allah Allah - mantra three fortunate as a free man now how is it you can be able to avoid questions like this and understand spirituality that it's not something that has to be used only with logic tools rather it has to be used with the heart a person needs to believe in our adorable who it has more than just facts that you see black and white because a person needs to open up his heart to believe things and therefore if you don't have the tools you don't have the right material inside your heart inside your brains of course that's gonna bring you to this belief in a god or who this is how the - Kim actually say in the taurah / sook says altitude nephrotic him don't make your nefesh your neshama you saw Checketts what does that mean says the Vanessa Elliott Medina thought who may go a lot if a person eats never Laura Ford Maha Lotus award things that are forbidden his body becomes mucuna photo may go a lot he becomes dirty what becomes dirty the body itself doesn't become dirty take a shower you clean again it means the nefesh the neshamah a person can't understand - why anymore I was saying before he gets clogged up it doesn't understand what it says in the Torah so this is the Lambo movie here and it's not only the Rambam is we saw the hamsa fail and we saw other post scheme that say the same thing and therefore we go to the next step when we doing with not understanding Tovah the high macintosh explains he says the following from their result an amazing over hi mekka dosh will see it inside the hind says the following he brings our Rizal he says from there Rizal who kill affirm me meet up a harem sometimes a person that was good person that was good it appear hard um he flips over wished an Emmett of Lehrer bit Evo who means go sometimes he changed it in his nature from good to bed the Lord I made the Seba he doesn't himself know what was the reason what was the reason for that what's my Atma s name me that all person wanders for himself how did that happen that he had this flip in his mind up to now it was such a believer he was so much so much em I mean he used to pray with such cavanaugh with such happiness wrong son he doesn't have any feeling anymore for anything he doesn't want to pray he prays he doesn't feel anything he loves he doesn't feel anything it doesn't want to do anything he has doubt in his mind where does this come from says the result say survival it's actually from me Mahalo damn Mahalo she ash borer like Mitchell Carla sometimes a person eats something that has a bad thing in it that changes him or over OSHA Ashbaugh nefesh Lama kill Ghulam is about the Hulu ahem the kachelle S&M nefesh around it was Arabic you bore the tomeato flora fatigue baobab tree Nutella which means sometimes a person eats something that's not kosher or it has other things that are not 100% in it and that itself flips him around that it doesn't have anymore connection to uncle - moo-hoo math - okay let's mommy Mahalo table or the person needs to be careful not to eat anything that's not 100% kosher it Cobell our efforts Bobbitt Valley Mondovi Milani fish it has a straight connection straight link between eating kosher and the nefesh the soul of a person would be a believer we have the feeling - ha-ha - whoo-hoo - Torah - meets vote that has to do with what is eating surprise Duomo las otras on ha says depa sook la so total hi like a fax T with a a Lili ode to a habit of mine the reason I have the will to do your to keep your Torah to do your will the reason I have this desire to do your will is because too much habit of my eye everything you wrote in the Torah that is not kosher is not in my stomach anything you wrote in the Torah the disclosure that in my stomach yeah Lee yeah yeah Lily Otto a carpet of my anything that the Torah said is fine touches in my stomach therefore I got the desire to do your will to keep your Torah to keep your mix both beautiful that's from there is a so we have a really long bomb we have over here is aware every device hustle let's take a step and see what is the cause when you eat non-kosher what is the cause of everything we're talking about over is it something that has to do with the food or it has to do with the sin itself that a person is eating in an culture because it's eating he's committing a sin that causes him all this bad bad effect or do we say no that is by itself able to change a person nothing to do with the sin in it rather even if it wouldn't be a sin like for instance let's say a ego is allowed to eat non-kosher no problem at all would the non-kosher food have an effect on the go because it's poisonous so to speak for the neshamah as is or do we say it's only the sin in it that causes a person everything we're talking about and therefore a going wouldn't have such an effect it wouldn't be effective to a going so over here we don't have a big surprise seeing that even by going it has an effect we have few places to show that predicts openly for example it says the following a story about Antoninus Antoninus eventually became a girl as those four says in our data right the film would bet the two spot of a test tells us a story about two Rebbe that was the same age as Antoninus rebus parents did a brit milah to their son Rebbe although it was against the rule of the the law of the land said you're not allowed to do both Mila was a decree against with Mila Rebbe parents violated that decree when they were called to the Caesar to make sure that the son didn't do a Brit Milah they had to come in and bring their son and show that the son did not go through the process of wit Mila so what did they what should they do they have Rebbe and he and and they've performed on him they with Mila so they went to their neighbors and to Nina's parents and since there were good people they asked them maybe they will be willing to give Anthony news to them that they could take him to the Caesar and so they did Rebbe stayed by them until they come back in Antoninus came with rebus parents and everything eventually came out good but meanwhile at the time they went there and came back what was Antoninus eating he was feeding from rabies mother she was nursing him sisters fourth eventually that caused Antony nose to become a girl because it had an effect on him we see that even a Antoninus was ago he was a Roman even a would have the effect evident on the good aspect forget about the various but even a good aspect a person that eats koushin is a goal eventually could become a girl why is that he gets the connection he gets the positive connection says dick Millar the following Midrash with Rishabha it says the following lavaca dog poop emoji kawazu Mahua Kadosh woohoo when mushy of cans would announce the following core mission Rosalba Sal Kazumi Imam fo veto so anybody that didn't eat fazil me imam never ate fazil never eat pig would come moto l'm also car cesaro's whoo-hoo that they ate fazil I can't give it to them but whoever wouldn't eat Raziel even if it would be a would get his reward not only in the next world but also in this world we see that that itself although they're not commended has such an effect on the it says the following it says in Mattia the molasses over there that if a person becomes a girl you shouldn't say that mouth that ate to the fort and a village Kasim away my same counsel on Toba how was it possible that somebody who ate when he was a before it converted he ate all the non kosher food he would come to run tohe just play you sure why did they come a lot pick out those examples from any differently than anything else more than anything else the Morocco's it could have picked for the same price or other is surely most of the Torah he did all that I wrote in the Torah why does it pick those things the player says because those things have an effect even on a goal even on a girl and therefore I would think that because it has such an effect how could he come and learn tohe comes over here in the grass says you're not allowed to say that to a girl to a convert you not allowed to say that to him because it's true it has an effect it does have an effect even on a we see that very clearly over here another example too that says take Mohammed name of the cocoa V Masami why do they of deco hevene those either worshippers mizuha me so mean we're talking about over here again they can't connect our car - whoohoo the nefesh is not clean it's unpure why is that McLaren's cut similar machine because they eat or kind of bugs because of that it has an effect on them we see that the effect is even on a more than that the kumara says you know vedalam and olive I did the athlete Kassim Ouma team purple ku5 it has an effect on their nephesh on the neshamah and on their body as well therefore very important why she mentions that a Kadosh mo who wants answers specifically and not to going why is that the it's a parable it's a Michelle to people that are sick to people that are sick the doctor comes and tells one of them be careful don't eat this and don't need that and the other person that sick in the same sickness he didn't say anything to him he's asking him why not why did you say to me not to eat all these things and after him he told him the doctor told him that person is ready to die there's nothing that's gonna help him let him eat whatever he wants but you you're gonna live so you have to be careful to take your medicine to keep you your your diet correctly and therefore that's the mishal and the name shall is I'm soil and water coffee oom art of the kofaviv also in the same way it affects them but they weigh off and since the way out already they've been eating so much never allowed to report on their lives nothing's going to help them be so far out but I whistle that keep to that very fine law of her kadaj will who has a straight effect on every single item we eat whether for good or for bad therefore it's very important for us to go and dwell and go to the journey of knowing what is allowed and what is not you