Iggeres HaRamban #10 - Without Humility You Will Question Hashem's Existence

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good afternoon welcome everyone to igarasaramban we're continuing in the holy words of the ramban is which of course the whole letter is predicated on the important practice of tamid called us accustomed yourself always to speak all your words gently the ramban then said that through humility it will arise in your heart the media of era because you will pay attention always to think where you came from where you're going and that one is worms and maggots in their lifetime certainly in their death and before whom one has to give an accounting before the melaka before the king belongs to now the ramban says when one contemplates all of this tiramiracha you will fear the creator the tishma and you will be careful from sin now the muslim writes in paragraph hey that the concept of understanding of hakodesh baruch and hashem's presence and hashem's existence and hashem's does not come easily but it requires hasmada and diligence the rav goldberg cites the racist who says that it is good for a person to make a reminder for what the punishment of casas and the punishment of gaiva and the myla of anova to read daily this is a very important trick says the racist because someone who is a fool who wants to suffer a great loss because of a very small benefit will allow his anger to get the best of him because at the time of anger a person forgets all of the onsheim and all the milos that he could lose in cast and therefore it is important for a person to create a certain reminder to uh be attentive to what the ramifications of khas are now i want to share with you um what rav goldberg um cites uh from ravshach because there's a very interesting observation over here deramban is learning that through humility and tikkun amidos specifically anova basically until this point the ramban says train yourself to speak gently and by doing so you will be saved from cass like the ramban says to snag us you'll come to europe and you will fear hakadosh which sounds like through humility one comes to fear hakadosh so in the safer panini spoke that true emunah can only comfort to someone who thinks straightly with yahshuas whatever there is in the world is comes from people who are croom who are crooked and ravshaku brought the following arayah if you look in parishes boracious on the passage adam so rashi says what is what does hash code is adam who sasha i'm talking to the made adam himself what's the nasa adam so rashi says even though there's a makkah and pranapi karas to rebel the pasuk does not refrain from teaching and anova that a superior should ask the advice of the inferior so rav shacha asks what's going on over here uh what's more of a khashwa lima in other words if you were a rebbe in a classroom is it more important to teach that hashem exists or is it more important to teach humility in other words what's better for someone to be a jew who observes all the mitzvahs and has good medois and as a kaifer or a jew who believes in hashem however he is a he has a baal midos royce you know in other words says what's going on over here here we could teach one of two lessons we could write essa adam i will make man and that would imply that there's one god although one may not learn the lesson in humility on the other hand you could learn nasa adam and you could teach a lesson in humility but you wouldn't necessarily know that there's one god i mean you would think i think most people would think it's more important to teach there's one god than to teach a lesson in humility so by the way rev the brisker of the basal levy is reputed to have said that from this rashi you see that if you could send your son to one of two yeshivas one yeshiva they learn more torah the other yeshiva they have better medais in other words one yeshiva they're bigger lambda in the other yeshiva they're more balay meadows you should send to the yeshiva that has better midos because clearly it's it's it's more valuable to teach a lesson in in midos than to teach a lesson in and says upshot and actually i i must admit that uh in the upcoming safe round beratious uh we wrote this shot based on the stipeler but now i saw for the first time that the rabshach says this shot is quoted in the panini rabbinua ezri rabshak says no you have no proof at all that mido is toy voice are better than believing in hashem no it doesn't mean it's better but you know why it's more important to teach a lesson amidos because if you don't have good midos you're going to be a kai for the icker it's not that it's more important than believe in hashem no belief in hashem is more important than me though but if you don't have middles you're going to be a kaifer anyway and the rabshach says as follows he says so if the torah wants to teach darakhara it's somewhere else it could do that says the truth is and if there's any kefira it only comes from gaiva because when a person thinks that he's the center of the universe and there's no other force in the world other than him this is a direct confrontation and contradiction to hashem's existence meaning what says what shaq is saying is not that in a value system good medos are more important than gudeos it's just that if a person is a balgaeva it will lead to improper uh belief in as uh the gemara tells us hashem says to the balgaiva there ain't enough room for the two of us says to the bhagava in the stipler writes that when when bachram would come to him with shilos and amuna the steipler would say don't go to kiruv seminars don't learn sephirah philosophia instead work on your gaiva because when person's about gaiver the shrine departs and when the shrine of the parts so person has all kinds of shiloh in ammunition this is what the ramban is saying that once a person acquires the media of humility they will fear hakadosh and they will be careful from sinning if goldberg cites um the following shot that what does it mean you will fear from sin we're talking about that comes from yuras haroy mamas we're not talking about fear of punishment we're talking about fear of being in awe of that a person will distance himself from hate out of kava attack that how could a person think to themselves how could they allow the how could a bus rhythm allow themselves to go against the rat zone of akadesh barco the guru writes in safra that's niusa that if a person would know that hashem's eyes are focused on him he would never sin so this is what the ramban is saying that when a person acquires the humility where they recognize the the the greatness and the majesty of a color sparkle they will be afraid to sin not afraid of punishment but afraid of uh they'll be in awe of how can they come to violate the rats okay we'll hold it over here bez hashem will pick it up tomorrow everyone's invited to join us tonight 9 15. we may change the timing next week back to 5 o'clock and we'll keep that's on for a number of months until uh until the fall but 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