The Maamad of Maamad Har Sinai - Rabbi Aryeh Leibowitz

in sixth grade i had a fantastic homis teacher i don't remember so much we learned that year it was 30 years ago but one thing that i continue to remember to this day is a ramban on one possum that we learned why do i remember that ramban because my rebbe jumped up on his chair and he yelled one word from the ramban but he brought such passion such excitement to that day that all the school days of that year i don't even remember sitting in class but 30 years later that ramban and that image of my rebbe on the chair yelling the words from the ramban with excitement that's something that i have never forgotten and there's a very similar message in this week's parasha moshra banu says to call you swallow on behalf of hashem he says rakhi shomeron be very very careful don't forget what you saw what you heard at harcina don't allow it to to be forgotten yo marital that day that you stood at rc night i share yo made i'm skipping a few words i share yomadu niro use and from that you will always no you will always learn to fear me there's something very profound in these okay mosher bane was basically telling clients well we learned important information at harsinai but in addition to that garcinia was also a powerful experience and as much as i want you to remember the torah that you're being taught i also want you to remember what the experience was like everywhere rebbe has to remember this when they're teaching there's a lot of information that we spend so much time preparing to give over great content but at the same time the way that the content is given over the experience the learning experience is something that's going to stick with the children with our talmudim with our javas perhaps many many years after they've unfortunately forgotten some of the torah that we've taught i know from my own personal experience i've had rebellion that their lasting impression on me is not a toast that they taught me unfortunately i don't remember a lot of the actual torah that they took but it was the experience of sitting and learning by them it was the the shamayim it was the experience of learning torah it was the mom in our sinai that i experienced in the classroom and it's those types of memories that you're ashamed that a person acquires that sticks with them sometimes many years after the information has been forgotten so that's the job of a rebel and it's something also that coming from the perspective of a talmud that a talmud takes the most from the rebellion you know sometimes when we choose our remain we sometimes choose based on the content that they're giving over we also have to take account of the experience so this is a message from this week's parsha that we learn a lot of torah but we also have to make sure that the experience of learning torah is something that's equally powerful and equally impactful