Journey to Spain: Torah In Gibraltar - Rabbeinu Yona's Earthshattering Teaching

this tour class is brought to you by torahanytime.com so remind me your names again Daniel Daniel notice I'm actually from London who's Danny then I am I don't even know him and Daniel or that's what's your full name is Daniel Danny my full name is Daniel we're confusing everyone yeah yeah no problem is it okay okay are we on recording maybe you want to stop and start it you know how to cut it whoa okay so first let me Begin by uh welcoming everybody who came tonight Brooklyn it's really you think that uh you came to get his look really you came to give khazuk he came to give me because I'm here I came to Spain and as you know Bach Hashem I try to keep myself out of trouble trying I try to keep myself busy and I came to I was thinking should I come to Spain look I'm gonna give some shoe room in Spain but it's not like my regular schedule and look uh you know the town of Torah can I get cool on how can I really give up of uh giving shiram to come here and sort of downgrade and I remember I went to Italy in the summer and I actually got a big physical preparing about oligidolum in Italy and I figured maybe that's a good excuse to come to Spain but now I realize the real reason I came here because you know I give shirim and there's sometimes not so many people who are there alive and sometimes you think to yourself is all the time invested and is it really worth it and you try to be Mathis yourself but when I see when I see you guys in a foreign country and you say that you listen to the shoe Rim so about yourself is giving me his hook and you're giving me Hashem that we learn together every day and uh hopeful now we'll go back to the States revitalized and knowing that thinking of of here on in in Europe and uh hopefully are learning my learning and your learning will take on an even higher level okay I want to begin just and leave you with a message and a thought and something to take with you until God willing the next time we meet not just the sheer not just the Vitara but really [Music] that I feel very strongly about and and the message I want to bring out is novel in other words I didn't see it anywhere but it's clear that this is what's being said and it's it's something very Innovative and it's also something from one of the godolam in Spain and one of the great all-time godolm of Spain was Robin was the revi of the rashva had a very unique relationship they were related doubly first of all Rabino Yona and the ramban so the rambans mother and Robin's father were brother and sister so Rabino Yono the chariz father avraham and the ramban's mother were brother and sister so they were first cousins right it's called in Hebrew in but then revenuyona had a daughter and the ramban had a son and they married so now they're in makutanum the miniono passed away and his daughter and his daughter had a baby boy so Ramadan says in all right the Minogue in Spain is that the baby boy should be named after me the living grandfather but in deference to the fact that Robin just passed away and we know a child is born so to speak the mamale mukum the replacement of the of the person passed away at sitsvilla please name him Yona don't name him Moshe this way maybe he'll be a godo and it'll be in in place of Robin so I want to begin by complimenting you you um with the concept and this is really what we want to bring out today we say in the Shall Pass after it's going to be coming around before we even know it the wise men what does he says what are the laws and the statutes and the judgments down that God has commanded you I remember hearing from godob Israel somebody who had the privilege to hear firsthand Victor Miller I remember he asked this question doesn't know what the edos are and what the hookum are and what the mishpatim are then he's not rocket science here it's pesoth and he wants to know why we're eating matzo and why are we eating currently more you don't have to exactly have learned in brisk to know you know this is Matt's uh it's a push of the thing every kid why do we call this person there's a plastic since we have I think this is the largest concentration of Daniel's at one table on planet Earth I just want to speak out uh Apostle can say for Daniel and number four y'all have God gives wisdom to the wise so just think about it it's very circular who does God give wisdom to he gives wisdom to the wise that means if you're not wise he doesn't give you wisdom so God only gives wisdom to us so how do you become wise in the first place for God to give you the wisdom in other words if God only gives wisdom to the wife so where does the first sakhma come from let me speak out another uh concept from one of the Spanish talks about those who made them the mishkan moshabino salmon College anyone who's heart elevated himself so the question is what's this expression College so amban points out the fact here the Jews just came out of Egypt think about what they did in Egypt for 40 years they were building pyramids they were dealing with very Elementary basic construction it was not a very sophisticated talent to build a pyramid now what they need to do to carve out delicately or need golden vessels they need to weave tapestries imagine you take a guy a guy in New York you know some Con Ed worker you know he's sitting in a manhole you know he his jeans are halfway down to his knees right the guys like a Bahama Casa and you tell them you know come here I want you to I need you to paint the replica of you know Rembrandt or Van Gogh give me a break he'll have no clue how to do it so the half deal the Jewish people that just came out of Egypt how would they have any idea how to build and craft and weave all of these furry ornate objects in the base I think it's in the mishkan foreign and that is in life there's something called ambition with others points out that in any Endeavor in life who is successful it's more than the it's not the talented and it's not necessarily the smartest or the wisest or the most creative it's not usually the most ambitious the inner drive to do something the inner drive to do something could sort of overcome any obstacle if someone is really motivated and inspired and ambitious to accomplish something they'll get the job done without Talent without smarts without wisdom without intelligence the the the motivation that sort of overcomes any obstacle is ambition this is the concept of Hashem it's a posse number ten your heart is arrogant in the ways of Hashem in other words even though arrogance is a very bad thing and one should not be argument when it comes to serving of Hashem a person should Infuse himself with a certain contest I'm gonna do it person should have ambition a certain a person should dream a person should desire what should they desire not food not money spirituality and if you desire it and you want it bad enough and you're ambitious devotion will Elevate you to Heights not only that you think you could not have reached to Heights that you could not have reached not only Heights that you do you don't think you could have reached that is what allows a person to reach higher level levels so I want to share with you something that occurred to me that in a way it's not because I think Rabino is saying it but it is because I never saw anybody say it in fact I've seen many mepharsham struggle to explain these words and to me not only is what we're going to offer a correct shot I believe himself says it and that is we know the most famous work of Rabino is the Shari chuba let's go to number 23. and it's we have a short get-together but I really want to leave you with a very powerful thought he progressively describes different different aspects of Torah the different levels of Tora midsource we know there's 613 Mythos obviously the most severe is let's say in Avera that carries with it and then a little bit below that are uh or our lavim violate uh negative Commandments and sort of the lowest level is because there's no punishment if somebody does not fulfill Mississippi if somebody doesn't wear filling in one day there's no malcolis if you violate a lab there's malkus if you violated I say there's no there's no legislative punishment yeah but on the other hand a beautiful expression I want to read to you his the greatest attributes are given over with amitsus assay meaning the high is even though technically speaking if you violate it there's no punishment but the highest level of Jewish achievement are Mitzvah SASE so without looking if I would ask you tell me don't tell me specific Mitzvahs like uh don't say it's fill in or mezuzah tell me like madrigo is that are really the main achievements of life that are amits us say you know if I would go around the table what would you throw out are like some of the great achievements in Judaism than our missus assay you know like it says uh it says or kadusha those are all those are all uh [Music] yeah I would definitely put talmatore up on the list I'll definitely put up on the list by the way the two most important Mythos in the Torah are learning Torah and doing hasad those are the two icarim you know people get carried away and these red bands and this is and if I carry if I sleep with this thing under my pillow and I sleep upside down then I forget the nonsense the two e Karim and Avada sashem is number one Camila is number two says it's not my words how do we know the gemara says that little children came into the base matters and they said the followings Russia aleph Bayes gimmel dalid alephe stands for aleph Bina learn Torah gimldal it stands for says time from here we learn that the two ikarim in serving Hashem is now people think what's the biggest myths on the Torah saying pitamak Terrace from a class all of a sudden it became like you know the Tui Karam and the Torah is Judaism those are the two most important bits for us none of the Hocus Pocus stuff okay so I have Torah said I have your vehicles I think that's a pretty extensive list and if I would make the list I would make it in the following order first said maybe then and amazingly look around [Music] huh what's Mallow sabahira the Milo of free choice since when is bahira free choice amitsar say that's just something we're able to do we could exercise free choice even call it amitsa SASE let alone it's half the list because look at the rest of the lists um got it right that should be number one and then he says I'm walking in the ways of God ding ding ding he got it right that's her said and then that's number three and then thinking about God's greatness and then it's just an interesting list one of the great attributes one of the great achievements in Judaism is his Hashem you should know if you walk down the street and you just think to yourself wow thank you I'm grateful to you I could see you have just achieved a Mitzvah not just a regular Mitzvah you've achieveda a great attribute so we understand these are all important things so what's Rabino talking about that there's a Mitzvah says three choices I say I mean did you did you ever think that what's the Mitzvah say first of all the money I miss us the rambam the ramban they don't list as one of the 613 Mitzvahs yeah bahira is sort of a prerequisite to the Torah it's not a mitzvah's assay it's it's a concept it's a concept that God gives us the ability to to choose as opposed to other religions that they say that we're sort of a pre-death where everything is predestined but it's not something we do why would free choice be something we do it's a concept that's true and therefore we could exercise it what's your opinion talking about and it should be the first on the list so Hashem sent me special Matana and we'll end with this piece and we'll try to wrap it together and that is safer called it's number 25. and in the safer of Rabino Yona he writes really words that we should we should cut this out and put it in our wallet and think about it all the time and that is Rubino Yona says that a person who's alive should focus on the fact that he should try to utilize all of his energies to serve Hashem with all his heart and all his soul and all his money try to achieve the levels of because even they you say what how could I ever achieve their levels or why should I be ambitious to achieve the levels why not they also only did as best as they could so we should also strive to do as best as we can find out where you are and then Revenue says like this everybody knows that to achieve lahasig this is like the one two three four five six line viasco any person with intelligence will understand that lahasig to achieve wealth and honor is he will try with all his energy below yes Russia everybody knows if you want to make a buck you can't say well let me sit home and hopefully someone will call me today with a good deal you know life doesn't work that way you got to be a go-getter you got to go out there even though money is emptiness and it's nonsense and yet we know you got to be ambitious and you have to go out and do your best or the morsel to achieve the levels of avraham yutsukanyakovirus which is the greatest most desirous trait and achievement at one capacity one that if you want to get there you need to put in your heart that all I need to do in life is try my best to achieve these high levels now listen to the words of the Holy Robin look in the second paragraph from one level to the next and here's the key here's the million dollar secret of Rabino Yona look on the third on the second line in the second paragraph you should desire the year and you should hunger and thirst to achieve what you can't achieve listen to this I would have thought I wake up in the morning I go to bed and I see on the Shelf the whole Shas and I say to myself no I can't learn it it's impossible for me to know the whole shot so why should I even want to know it it's just going to make me feel bad if I know that I can't achieve it no you should desire to do things that you're not able to do in other words right now all of us should sit around and say I wish I was exotic like Feinstein like the cafe like the villanue going like where I'm banned but I can't be forget whether you could or you can't the first thing is you should want to be [Music] really I should want to be on a level that I'm not able to be on yes those who desire to walk in the ways of the sages will become wise and Cesar menu you should want that in every meeting in other words look at someone who's the biggest that you know that you say to yourself I'll never be like him and say I want to be like him look at someone who davins with the most Cabana of anyone you know and say to yourself I'm gonna I wanna Diamond like him I want to learn like him I want to know Terror like him I I'll never get there and I'll never know it and no no the first step is you should want to the first step is the Shawano [Music] for yourself not only you should want to you should desire it in other words you should crave it when you see it Sadiq you should crave to be like that and here's the word and you should choose it [Music] choose it what does that mean you should choose it obviously saying there's a concept and I would say I would say most people are not aware of this concept and we see not it's a concept most people are not aware of it's the most important mitzvah natira it's amazing thing the most important it's on the Tyra nobody knows about you know what the most important is free choice I thought it's talmatara I thought it's classic yeah let's get before that the most important Mitzvah in the world is not to learn it's to want to learn the most important in the world is NATO in other words the first the first step of a Jew is we have to go into our minds and change the settings like I come here to to Spain and then go to Morocco back to Spain and I don't know what time it is but the first thing you gotta do is you gotta set your watch so before you learn before you do cassette the first thing is let's sit down and let's let's decide in our minds let's write down on a piece of paper let's set our goals my goal is today tomorrow in my lifetime then my goal is I want to be like the villner guy I want to be like the ramban I want to be like ravino tab I want to be like my sharabino like avram avinu yes I wanna really is it important no it's not important it's the most important it's even before talmatar even before that is the Mitzvah the hero what's the mitzvahira choose what you would like your path to be on forget whether you're gonna do it or not the first thing is you have to set your course not what I'm going to do what I would like to do that's the mailer and that's really what you gentlemen demonstrated tonight when a person travels to hear Torah so what they're showing is what they really desire what they really want sometimes you know it says in Perkins Exile yourself to a place of Tyra so the simple meaning is look if I don't have Torah in my backyard so but do you have it I'll have to Exile myself to a place of Torah but has another meaning no even if you have Torah in my backyard in other words a simple meaning is if I don't have Torah available to me go out even if you do have Torah available to you it's still very important to go travel to here Torah because you're you're sort of sending the message to myself this is what I want because you only travel and make efforts to do things that you really really want and this is you show your families you show your your wives your your mishbacha what you desire in life but listen to Robin says number one first of all you say what's the topless of wanting to be like avraham avinu if I want to be like avraham avino when I get up to shemaim God will reward me as if I'm avrah mavino in other words you could get up to shamayam and you're expecting who am I only Daniel no no if we vote some season your heart that you really wanted to be like Sadiq Soul Alum when you get up to shamayam you're going to be sitting there next to the villanue next to Rashi wondering you know what am I doing here and the answer is because we want it to be like them how do I know that were rewarded first he says like this I say here it is yeah there you go this is black and white the heroes amitsues back to the charity says he doesn't mean free choice the way we typically think of it he refers to this concept of choosing and Desiring and wanting us wanting Tyra wanting khasma and then Robin says something also to always bear in mind he says why will we why will we be rewarded as if we got there because the gemara says that if somebody wants to do a mitzvah and he tries and extenuating circumstances happen and he can't do it Hashem rewards him as if he actually did it so if we want to reach very high levels we try we try we try if we get there great if we don't get there in the eyes of Hashem we got then says on the Fifth Line another great um result takes place through the Mitzvah of choosing because if you want it and you choose it and you try your status Hashem will help you reach levels that you're not able to reach in other words someone who really desires to learn Torah like a great person to diving like a great person even though right now we're bogged down and we're limited Revolution says if you really want it I will Elevate you to levels Beyond Your Capacity so this is uh the message that I want to uh to depart from you with and uh hopefully we'll we'll stay the cashier it's a big zip plus that I have to to be together with you so let's say our audience santoy anytime we're here in Spain learning with uh Sadiq from Gibraltar and um we bunch of them should give us all the ability to bring out from our hearts the Chuka to be we should all have a tremendous desire and Hayes to become big time don't say you know what okay I'm working so I'll learn a little bit at night and I'll be you nice too at the very least you should want to be more than that we should all desire and ask of ourselves we want to be big tummy we want to know Shas we want to know hostgame we want to know she in the ramban we want to know we want to know when we get there it doesn't even matter if we get there because if we really want it then we got there and if we really really want it then Hashem will give us all to see after the shmaya to get there together I I thank you genuinely for coming out tonight and hopefully give us Allah you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com