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Look at a safer Torah sitting in the
ark. It's it's quiet and it's immovable.
It's you can't move it. It can't move on
its own. And then we take the Torah and
we lift it up from when we read it and
we hold it with our body and we walk
with it and we dance with it. That
brings the Torah to life.
You know what's the cutest thing about
Torah? When we finally finish reading
the entire Torah and everybody comes
together to what? To party. Life is too
depressing. Life is life is too hard. We
need we need times to be and wonderfully
when we finish learning the Torah the
entire Torah from until
we are taught the most important lesson
of our times right now. And that is you
have to be happy. You have to be and you
have to celebrate. Life is a
celebration. And there's an idea of the
dance of life. We have to walk around
where we go every day. Not just on
Torah, but every day we have to be
singing and dancing. I don't mean to
actually do it. People will think you're
crazy. They might be right, but we don't
want to advertise necessarily. You know,
I don't tell everybody that I'm ADD,
OCD, and AC/DC. I keep that to myself.
That's my private business. But the
point is that we have to know Simha's
Torah is not a one-day holiday. It's to
tell you that that's how you need to be
every day because
joy is the secret of life. There's a
verse in the Torah that says serve God
with joy. In Hebrew, the word is same
word of simra to be happy to be joyous.
Now, the letters of basima spell out the
same word for shaba thought. And here's
the difference between where you stand
in life. Whether you want to stand in
Hashem's world, in God's world, and be a
part of his world, or whether you want
to stand in God's way and tell God,
you're you're in the way and you give us
some space. We need our space to be
happy the way we want to be happy.
There's two kinds of happiness. There's
a dumb dumber happiness, which in the
end of the day, if that's your life, a
dumb dumber happiness, then you're the
dumbest. But then there's a smart
happiness. There's a idea that to turn
on your brain, to truly be happy, that's
a happiness today and a happiness
tomorrow. It's to turn on your brain.
That's
serve God with joy, but with
thinking, a thinking kind of joy. And
here's the difference. The difference is
this. Think about what you're doing.
Think about where you're going and tell
yourself, "If I'll look back at this
happiness that I'm experiencing right
now, when I'll be old and ready to leave
this world, will I be proud of it? Will
I want to take it with me? Or will I
wish I could take it away from my life?
Could I wish I will would I wish I could
erase it? What would I wish when I look
back at my happy moments? Will I regret
them because they were empty happy
moments that were here today gone
tomorrow or will I cherish them and keep
them with me and actually take them with
me to the next world to the next life
was it a soul kind of happiness or was
it just a external physical animalistic
body type of happiness and that's the
lesson of sim Torah we are happy and we
dance and we create a background music
in our lives based on the Torah based on
the wisdom of God based on the will of
God and based on the directions that God
leads us in this world and that's an
everlasting sim. So why do we celebrate
Simka's Torah, the joy of the Torah at
the end of learning this wonderful book?
So now we can appreciate the point. Why
are we so happy when we finished reading
the Torah? because we're so excited and
we just can't wait to take all those
wonderful ideas and bring them to life
through our life, through our life
experiences. We bring the Torah to life.
When we get up and we start doing what
we're here to do in this world, we give
the Torah legs. We give the Torah arms.
We give the Torah a true expression in
reality. Because otherwise the Torah is
this beautiful book, a theoretical book.
The beautiful Torah with the beautiful
casing. It sits in the ark. And that's
not a real experience. It's not a real
life. That's potential. The Torah in the
ark is potential. And so too look at the
beta mikdash when it had a Torah in the
ark. The ark is a place that nobody can
even be. Only one day a year the coin
enters. That's not where we really bring
out the Torah in the secluded private
area of the ark. That's where the
essence of the Torah begins to express
itself. But it doesn't remain in the
ark. We have the Torah in the holy of
holies in the ark to spread into the
next level, the holy with the manora and
the bread. The manora is light.
Spreading light into a dark world. The
bread is sustenance. Learning how to
feed the body with kosher happiness,
kosher fun. And that's the next level,
holy. And then we go out beyond the holy
to a less holy level. And we bring the
light and goodness of Torah there for
all of the Kali's world, including
everyone, men, women, and children.
Because the Torah is a way of life for
every individual, and of course, for the
entire world. And so the idea that we're
so happy about on Simless Torah is it's
time to give the Torah arms and legs.
And when we dance with that Torah, we're
saying it's time to take it out into my
life and into the world and to light up
this dark world. And that's the light,
the light of truth, the light of
eternality, and the light of Mashiach.
Because when we spread the light of
Torah to the world, then the world
becomes a place where God can finally
come back to. And when God comes back,
he brings Mashiach with him. And we all
rise to another level of true joy. The
greatest and happiest days that we're
going to see are the days coming.
through the fulfillment of learning
Torah and fulfilling the Torah with
happiness, we're going to break all the
boundaries and we're going to conquer
all of the darkness and we're going to
see
Mashiach.
And that's why we're talking about the
fundamental lesson and this is so
beautiful. Look at the safer Torah
sitting in the ark. It's it's quiet and
it's immovable. It's you can't move it.
It can't move on its own. And then we
take the Torah and we lift it up from
when we read it and we hold it with our
body and we walk with it and we dance
with it. That brings the Torah to