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It Was The Ultimate Experience At Mount Sinai - Experience It Today
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What makes the revelation on mount sinai so unique and so incredible? There was 1 miracle that happened there that is unfathomable. Through the mitzvot of the Torah you can tap into the Mount Sinai EXPERIENCE, even today - Rabbi Genish shares a valuable lesson
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Approximately 400 years ago, there was a
big ro who was also somewhat of a
scientist by the name of Rib Yehuda Ary
Moda. And he was very into arguing with
the missionaries, many Christians. He
had many debates on a constant basis.
His life was even at threat because he
used to constantly succeed and win. And
he was banned sometimes from country to
country as a result of that. And he
wrote many books about his debates and
many ideas in hashkafa in concepts in
Judaism. And one of the one of the
foundational ideas that he wrote is that
all miracles that are done are done in a
very disproportional way. Meaning is
done in a very extreme amount that no
one can imitate it. But at least all
miracles au
is fathomable by by the mind. A person
can fathom it. the first can understand
it. It's able to be a person can relate
to the idea when there's frogs and there
tons of frogs. It's something unusual
but we can figure it out. We can put the
pictures in the kids books that we use
in our peser. When there's blood over
here and water over there, we can get
it. I get it. You can figure go through
all 10 plagues even the splitting of the
sea. Like I've said before, just go to
Universal Studios and we see the same
thing obviously in a different plane or
a different extreme. But alopanim it is
something that is palatable to the to a
person. We're able to figure it out in
the human brain. It is cognitively
understood. That is how he relates to
and it's based on
that basically is coming to say that it
makes sense that all miracles should be
understood because once you say that you
can make miracles or describe miracles
which make no sense. So then you have no
boundaries anymore. So then you can make
up any religion almost because then
everyone could just say anything. You
understand? You're leaving a place with
no limitations and then the person will
say okay so I'll do my own thing. I'll
play my own games somewhat. And that's
why we need to always have miracles in
such a phenomenon. That's the of this
that's called Yehuda Moda.
There's a big problem a big query with
this with this theory. And the problem
is because our para parish and paritro
and para mishpatim
describe the phenomenon of mhamad hari
at the time where we were on something
incredible happened and I'll intro by
saying that I'm always marveled by
ventriloquists. I'm very impressed by
ventriloquists how they manage to speak
and hold conversations back and forth
with their puppet and it's very
difficult to be able to see. We all know
the secret about how the guy's working.
And there it is. He's going back and
forth with him and not moving his lips
and able to do that. But one thing that
I'm always amused by, I'm always point
out and always notice that you didn't
notice it as much when you're a child
cuz I was always into this ventriloquous
type of thing is that they will never
speak simultaneously. I always wondered
when I was younger, why don't they argue
and go,
it doesn't happen like that. It's always
one next, one next, one next. Why don't
they ever argue at each other
simultaneously? And the answer for those
of us who are a little bit older or
educated understand that the reason is
because one person cannot speak twice.
You can only speak one time in one time
at a time. That doesn't work more than
that. He speaks and then the puppet
speaks which is him also. So in as much
as you're going back and forth, it has
to be not simultaneously. And in this
week's para we have an tremendous
phenomenon revelation that occurs by
that was said by
both of them were said simultaneously an
incredible miracle in order for us to
learn that the kdush also women are in
kdush just like the and the rest of
shabbat and other we learn from there.
Now this causes a little bit of wrench
in his theory in this in this big rough
se and also the morning to certain
extent because this is not only a
miracle which is wow I can't imitate it
and it's a lot of something but it
boggles the mind it doesn't make any
sense it makes kind of like smoke coming
out of your ears when you're trying to
figure out how that works you can't do
that you can't speak two things at once
like Rashi himself points out
we have no of enough doing that and not
only that they heard two things at once
punch which is also a little bit
difficult to understand or they heard
both words meaning they didn't just
at the same time they didn't just hear
it like that they heard simultaneously
and they said
and they also heard separately they
heard it separately but simultaneously
can you figure that out well neither can
I but that's exactly the point we have a
miracle in this week's para which is
unusual it's a miracle that you can't
even put your brain around you can't
even figure it. You can't even figure it
out how it even started. That's the
question. You understand? And that is a
big query.
But the answer really is sort of to
speak that matra my hari is in a
different rule book. We're in a
different area like this doesn't get
described by anywhere else. And hara
something happened that will never ever
happen again. All of Kai Israel received
pro prophecy. We all saw prophetic
vision. Even uh people who are on the
lowest of levels, even people who are
not deservant to be Naveim to be a
prophet took going to a school, a
university called Ben Naveim. They had
to educate themselves till they turn
their tassel. I don't know how many
years it was. I assume it's more than
getting a medical degree. And when
they're finished after going up the
ladder of going through all the ladders
of the Mild Shim, then tada, you deserve
to be a prophet. If you're lucky, you'll
get it. If not, well, maybe you'll be
Harry Potter. I'm not sure what you'll
be able to get up to. We see that to get
there requires effort. And they got it
all as a freebie. It happened a one-time
thing. Prophecy that will never happen
again.
This is a one-time phenomenon that we
were able to see.
Why did Hashem do this incredible
phenomenon which is not replaceable,
which will never be done again? Because
Hashem wanted us to see with our own
eyes.
We shouldn't just assume Mosher Rabenu
comes and reports to us what happened up
in Shayim. Because then later in the
generations, we might come along and
deny it. We might play games. We might
say, "Well, he was really just making up
a story." We need it. It was a
requirement for us all to hear it
because otherwise it won't be different
than any other religion because every
single religion go through all of them.
They all are based on one or two people.
One Muhammad told them all the
prophecies that he had and made it all
up on the way. One guy known as Yeshu
went ahead and said a bunch of things
with about three or four or five Talmid
five students are watching him do some
things here and there. And that's it.
And he was telling them his prophetic
visions. There is no religion that has
ever tried and will try to copy this
statement, this testimony that we all
were there by Harena and we heard it and
we were we were able to see something
phenomenal. It broke the rules. And
therefore the miracles during Hari break
the rules. They're not typical to the
rule book of miracles. Like I said
already on the one count to be able to
hear two things at once. But don't you
remember there's also another miracle
that happened by Arseni. What's that?
They were at they were able to see the
voices. Now what does that mean? I don't
know either. But they saw voices.
Something happened over there. When you
have a voice, usually it's auditory.
Usually it goes through the coccia. It
goes through the hammer. But how is it
going through your cornea? It doesn't
make any sense. But the answer is it was
such a a clear vision. And it was so
clear that they were above human nature.
They went into such a prophetic
phenomenon like like a highlevel nvi
like a prophet that who he himself also
can see voices. He also sees a vision
which is something which is
uncomprehensible which we ourselves as
physical beings don't understand but it
happens. And that happened to three
million people all at once.
And as a result of that, they were able
to uh receive a direct transmission of
the Torah to them to be able to receive
the Torah. That is the tremendous
miracle that is related here as related
over by Nebul in one of and therefore
this idea is here to teach us an
incredible idea and that is when did all
other miracles he wanted us to know that
he's around and understand but there's
one thing that has to be known by the
person intimately about
and as he writes over there he says all
the that we were given the 613
They're important and they're the main
things of all the Torah. But that's not
the end all be all of the Torah. Just to
do a mitzvah. It's to realize
and when you're doing the mitzvah,
relate, connect to it. Realize that
you're doing something that is the
make it real. Do something about it.
When you want to get angry and you
resist, think about not the fact that
you're just resisting anger, but that is
speaking to you. I just heard him speak
to me.
I just heard a nvu. I just heard a
prophetic vision. When you go ahead and
you're jealous of that guy who's got all
those likes on the sh who's got all
those people that are watching him and
you're not managing to be able to get
your status up and someone else is doing
it even though the guy is nowhere close
to you and the same phenomenon that's
one of the
you
with you he's talking to you
didn't give us a which is just a Torah
of cognitively of text of reading of
just doing that That's an important part
because we can't know the rules without
it. But it's one of le of leban of
living of trying to be part of what's in
front of you trying to be able to be and
relate to it because that's what we got
by hari. We didn't only get the mitzvah
which was that I shouldn't say only but
the mitzvah as a it's a physicality
which was there to keep forever the
sight that we saw. If we just saw a
sight and left it there it would be
inspiration that was forgotten. And I
gave a shir not long ago on is the
forgotten inspiration. We don't want to
forget the inspiration. We want to live
it. And you live it by every mitzvah
that you do. You keep it part of you. I
remember when I went one time I went
away to a certain place and it was a
beautiful area, tremendous sight. There
we were taking pictures and there it is.
And you come home and you start looking
at the pictures, pictures of the Swiss
Alps or the mountains or you start
seeing these beautiful views and you're
going, "Wow, these are pretty pictures."
But you know what? When you're there,
it's not the same as when you see it.
There's something more to experiencing
something than just pure education.
There's something more to feeling it, to
living it. Like I said, leban with the
heart with a lot of hearts inside of it.
When you feel it, when you see it, when
you experience it, it's a totally
different level and it elevates you to a
different status than if it's just pure
education, just reading.
So, of course, we learn Torah and it's
the most important part of everything.
But through the Torah, it's supposed to
be to be able to see it in real life in
real life experiences. When we're going
around and doing something, when you
have a certain and you hold back from
it, those are the signs, those are the
things that end up sticking with you.
Those are the ways that you're able to
be to be when everyone is doing
something and you refrain from going to
that restaurant from eating there or you
kind of hold back from going to a place
which you know is not appropriate
because of the sites that are around or
the people that are not dressed
appropriately you should know
just spoke to you. You've been in touch
with him. You should see that he just
ripped open the seven. He is there in
front of you. You are in front of mantra
and it should be experienced not just
understood. You should feel
because the you have now with the
connection is something real. It's
something to do. When you have such an
experience it lasts with you forever.
It's something that never gets teetered
out. It's something that you connect to.
It's something that's so real by you
like someone who L who has trauma from a
certain thing whether it's good trauma
or bad trauma. It could be something
positive or association but it sticks
with him every time of his life. Every
time he sees that person's name, every
time he goes into that house or that
city which he has those experience for
suddenly he connects them the amuna is
real. He feels hashem in front of him
like
they say that he said he just like the
table he was touching in front of me I
feel this table in front of me. He said
he sees in his eyes he got to a stage
where he actually felt it. That's what
the is of
if we say
brought us to
he didn't give us the would have been
enough huh without the would have been
enough just to have a cure what's the
point of getting to the answer is yes
because if the hari would have been part
of us if we would have made it part of
our experience then maybe we would have
made it just with that the harina itself
We would be living with it would be part
of our own life and that would be the
transformative person that it should
make