Life is a Dangerous Road: Do You Have the Right Map? Torah's Purpose of Life - Rabbi Yoram Eliassi

As usual, we're talking about ethic of the fathers. Okay? Seems that the father said it, but it was actually said by Hashem and Harai. But every generation, the father said a piece that was more relevant in that generation or he felt it was more relevant. Right? But in any case, everything they said has a lot of depth in it and has layers after layers. We try to touch upon few points that you can take all all your life. So I'm trying to give you ideas that is not just for today, not for tomorrow. You can take it with you and just insert a tattoo it in your mind. Whatever you got to do, you got to do. Okay. So, let's start. Today, we're talking about what Rabio Benisma says. Rabi Ben Kisma says, "I was once walking on the road when a certain man met me." Okay. He greeted me. He said, "Shalom." And I responded, "Shalom." Okay. He says, "Rabbi, from where are you? Which place?" And I said to him, I'm from a great city of Torah scholars and the sages. Okay, clear up to now. He said, "Rabbi, if I will, if you come to our place, I will give you a million dollars, perils, gold, silver, today gold and silver is really high, you know." Why not? Just come to our place. And he says, "No, I won't leave a place of Torah. Even if you give me all the gold and silver and the precious stones in the world, I won't leave." Right? And then the ethic of the fathers brings proof okay brings proof okay he brings from palm David says I prefer your Torah okay over thousands of gold and silver Torah is beyond every money in the world right and then he says you can't take your gold and silver with you but you can take your Torah and mitzvot and good deeds with you so why what's By the value of you giving me Torah, giving me uh gold and silver, right? And it says when the Torah directs you in this world, it watches over you in the grave and also is your speech in the next world. Meaning Torah is going to be with you all the time. You can't get a any better deal than this. It's with you. It's like is a protects you. He's with you. Converses with you. And then he brings who was a Nav'i who's a prophet who says Hashem says mine is silver and mine is gold says the lord of host meaning all the money in the world all the gold and silver at the end of the day whose is it it's hashem's right so this is the ethic of the fathers of y and kisma now in every ethic of the fathers we always have questions okay tell Why he has to bring all these story that he was on the road and he met somebody and he told him would you where you from would you come to our place just say I won't leave a place of Torah for no money and no silver no gold not the highrise in New York and not the highrise in Los Angeles just tell that you don't need to bring all this story and go into the depth of he told me this and I responded to that and the other question is why he says why didn't Rabbi Yosi tell him shalom first? Isn't it more respectful for Rav who's elevated status to meet somebody on a road to tell him shalom right? Isn't it better to be with somebody else on the road, right, than to be alone? And so why does this man continue to asking where are you from? And why did he respond not say I'm from Los Angeles or from New York? He has to say I'm from a place of tourist scholars and the sages. Say I am from Canada. Where are you from? Montreal or Toronto. Just say I'm from Toronto. You got to say I'm from a place of tourist scholars and the sages. These questions we're trying to open up the path in the minds to see deeper and to something see something beyond what the eye sees. Right? So these are some questions. So we're trying to any questions on your end. Anything that you didn't understand about Yoshi and Kisma saying he was on a road they told him shalom. Someone met him said shalom. He responded shalom. The man says where are you from? He says, "I'm a place from the place of Torah scholars and the sages." He says, "Would you come to our place? I'll give you all the money in the world." He says, "If you give me all the money in the world, I won't come. I won't leave a place of Torah." That's the story, right? Any questions? Anything not clear about this story? Okay. So, let's try to answer the these questions. Okay. First principle you can take all your life. A road is a place of danger. When you're on a road is a place of danger, right? So what protects you? Stick to Torah. When you stick to Torah, you're protected. Torah is a protection, right? So Ysephisma, right? He was on a road and he was thinking Torah thoughts. He didn't want to be distracted. Now a man comes to him and tell him shalom. It could be a demon, right? covered them in a body and you know clothes and everything. But he told him shalom. When somebody says name of Hashem, Shalom is the name of Hashem. You respond back shalom. And shalom is the name of Hashem. So he's a protection. He's not really digressing from what? From his Torah, right? But still attached to the Torah, right? So he's still connected to Torah and he's in a place of danger. He doesn't want to leave Torah. So he says what? Shalom back. Now the man asks where are you from? If he says I'm from Los Angeles, he's a little bit digressing from his Torah, right? So what he says is I'm I'm from a place of Torah scholars and the sages and Torah. Meaning still sticking to what? Nathan is still sticking to what? He's still sticking to Torah. He's sticking to Torah. He's not living Torah. He's in a place of danger. A man comes to talk to him. He doesn't want to be distracted. So whatever he's doing, he's trying to stick to Torah. is 100% attached to Torah, right? That's a protection road danger. What's the protection? Torah. And he says if you come to our place, what he offers is money. He's trying to digress digress from to go into the discussion of money AI. Let's make a few billion dollar Nvidia. Buy it today. It's going to go double, right? No, no, no, no, no. Give me all the money in the world. I'm not leaving a place of Torah. That's my protection. In any case, you can't take the money with you. You can't take the gold with you. You can't take the silver with you. So, what is he offering him? He's offering him nothing. What do you think? He's offering him what? Something. The I, the general mind thinks he's offering me a deal. In reality, he's not offering him a deal. He's offering him nothing. Because Hashem says everything is mine. You see the trick? Yet the Torah, if you stick to Torah, the Torah could be your Torah. It's your Torah. Where do we learn this from? We have a Everything we say, we have to have a backup for it. We don't make anything up. Hashem, whose is it? In the beginning is Torah of Hashem. Whose Torah is it? Hashem's Torah. God's Torah. So, if you desire it to it will become your Torah. If you work for it, if you fight for it, if you struggle to learn it to it will be your Torah, right? It'll be something that will be yours. Meaning you could gain access to something. What Torah is something infinite, right? You could tap into infinity. Okay. Up to now, any questions? Have you ever seen like this anything like this before, Nathan? No. So let's try to let's try to get deeper. >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But I'm saying the idea. >> Okay. So to you can the Torah becomes your Torah in the beginning is Hashem's. Then if you struggle for it becomes Torah. The money you can't take with you, right? And it's Hashem's. You might be able to use it for a little bit, but it can't be yours in the end. You don't take it with you. But the Torah could be yours. It could be yours right now. Rabbi Yosi he's not something something extreme. We have other pots that say similar thing. Rabbi Nhar he says exile yourself to a place of Torah and don't say that Torah will come after me. No you know let them come learn and then come to teach me. No no no no. And don't rely on your own understanding. Don't say oh you know I can open up a book and read it and I'll understand it myself. He says no. Don't rely on understanding. You need to be in a place of Torah to ask questions to doublech checkck your thinking process to confirm it. Make sure you're not making a mistake. And then Rabbi Mat says what? Be a tail to the lions and don't be a head to the fox. If you're in a place of Torah, there might be to more Torah scholars higher than you, right? But at least you're tail to who? To a lion. If he had gone to a place that it was giving him all the money in the world, he would be a head, but it would be a head to who? To a fox. He says, "No, I rather be a tail to a lion, but not be a head to fox." Go ahead. >> Basically, it says be the it's better to be the worst of the best, the best of the worst. Is that kind of like that? >> Right. Exactly. Exactly. In >> very common expression is a big small fish small. Yeah, >> he adds to be a tail to a line as you said instead of being a head to a fox. Right. Good, beautiful point. Let's move deeper now. Aren't we all on a road? Isn't this world really a temporary road? And if you're in a road, as it says, there's an element of danger and you need to stick to Torah, right? To get to the destination, which is the next word. Shamim is from the word sham there. There is the destination. Now the Torah, the word Torah, what does the word Torah means? The word Torah says it itself. Torah is from the word instructions. I want to get to a destination. Anybody has ways? Anybody doesn't use Google maps or ways today. Everybody uses it at some level. You want to get to a destination, you need instructions. How do I go? Left, right, straight, stop, red light, there's a police there. Be careful. Torah from the word. Instructions. Instruction how to get to the destination. Meaning this world is not the destination. And people fall into the trap. You know there lights in out there, right? So you think ah I got the light you know I know what what the how how to uh how to maneuver or go to the where I think is the place but you have to be careful you got to stick to Torah to guide you. Okay now when we learn Torah right when you eat what do you do before eating or you should be doing before eating >> say a blessing. Why do you say a blessing? No, the the food is already kosher. [clears throat] >> Thank >> no bless thanking Hashem is after you eat. What do you say? >> Hashem for what you have. >> No, thank afterm. >> Hashem doesn't need my prayer. Praise. >> Ah, you're unlocking the food. Why? >> You're establishing connection. But you're unlocking. How you unlocking? First of all, this water it's Hashem's. When you say a blessing, Hashem transfers it to yours. >> You're saying, "Hashem, I want to eat. This is yours. Can I get a permission?" H you recognize from me now. I transfer it to your to your box, to your you know, bank account, to your uh whatever house. And then >> maybe getting cold. >> It's getting cold. and what you can now eat and drink. So you're getting in essence permission, right? And you're transferring it to your right and then you're eating from it. Same thing from Torah learning. When you want to learn Torah, there's blessings that one makes because everything is Hashem's, right? Even Torah in the beginning afterward you learn Torah, you can make it yours. So you say blessings, right? And each blessings, there's three blessings for Torah. And each blessing, right, has an element of a message. The first blessing says Torah is a must. Meaning the world stands on Torah, right? So the first blessing that's the message. The second blessing has a message that Torah learning gives you a taste. Like you have azi. I don't know if you like the kebab from far. >> It's not. >> Yeah, I know. I'm just joking. It's not kosher. Don't go to far. Um but if you go let's say to market or buy something from what's next to market? Gladmark. You go to Gladmar and you buy kebab over there, right? He has a taste. You won't eat a food without a taste, right? Same thing with Torah learning. Torah learning, if you get into the depth of Torah learning, you get a taste. So the second blessing says Torah learning has a taste. Believe me, has a taste. I guarantee you. The third Torah blessing says, right, that Hashem gives the Torah every day because it's not that Hashem give it one time in it. I'm done. No, every day Hashem gives a Torah and every day the world stands on Torah is live is active, right? And there's no end blessings, right? When you eat food, after you eat food, you say thank you. You want to say thank you for eating. So you have an end blessing. But there's no end blessing to Torah learning because there's no end to Torah learning, right? Now there's laws if you sleep, you say blessing at night, morning. There's laws in the for the be beginning blessing, but there's no end blessing. Meaning you're constantly could be learning. If you're not doing something else, you could be thinking Torah. As our Kisma was walking on the road, he was thinking Torah. Right? So there's no end blessing. There's no end to learning Torah. Clear? Good. Okay. Now I want to give you few more principles before we get to some other aspects. Torah is not given to individual person. Meaning even Abrainu who was one of the forefathers he wasn't standing in har receiving Torah because Torah is not given to one person. Torah is given to the Jewish people as a nation. Right? That's one. Number two, Torah is not inheritable. You know what the Persian says? Oh my father, my grandfather was a big rabbi in Iran and he was head of the big synagogue in Shiraas or I don't know in Espahan. You know how big he was? He was big. Torah is not inheritable. We can't say oh my dad was Torah learned and I'm I don't need to do anything else. Mosher Abenu who was the head of the Jewish people the most humblest person we don't know his kids they didn't become like him meaning every person needs to struggle for Torah himself you can't say oh I got it as inheritance right it's not a bank account transfer now every Jew has a portion in the Torah meaning in the womb Hashem gives every Jew a portion and you need to find that portion of Torah right And when you're born, an angel comes, hits you in the mouth. You forgot what you learned. And now you have to struggle and find to find that portion of your to again. Now tell me why Hashem comes and teaches you your to your Torah in the womb. When you come out, he hits you in the mouth. You forget and you have to struggle to find it again. Give me a reason. Anybody? That's part of it's part of your life's purpose to to go seek answers to to learn about >> fine is a purpose but give me something more. Any ideas? >> Okay, let me just let's you have you have an element when you learn something already and you forget it and you see it again. You have a feeling of recognizing it, >> right? Second, Hashem brought us in this world to struggle to find it because we don't want freebie. The idea of freebie is embarrassing. Nobody wants a freebie. People want to struggle. Said I worked for it. I made an effort. I made a decision to leave LA or New York to come in Israel for learn two, three years. I made that decision. I could have been doing what? being a developer in Los Angeles and try to build another bending another remodeling and make money uh aiming for AI but I made a decision that I want something beyond something deeper something infinite and I invested I made that decision right so Hashim wants your struggle that's part of the process nobody wants a freebie right the freebie is not the same feeling when you work for it right when you have an insight in learning Torah say learning Torah as a taste right we say when you have an insight ah that's [clears throat] the best feeling right? When you work for it, right? Okay. Now, we said in the Torah is infinite, right? So, we say there's 613 mitzvot and they're all in the Torah. Torah is a gamatria. Everybody knows what's a gamatria. Every Jew, every alphabet in Hebrew has a number associated with it, right? So, if you connect every letter to its number, Torah has a gimmachry of 611. Now the problem is we have 613 mitzvah. Where other two mitzvah anything >> two were given us? >> So two were given us at hari directly by god. One is that I am your god. We heard it from hashem. The second there is no other god. So 611 plus two mitzvah we heard directly at har 9 right makes us 613 mitzvah. embedded in the Torah. You know, have you heard of embedded chips? Embedded in the Torah is 613 mitzvot plus everything else in the world is in the Torah, right? The Torah is the plan, the blueprint that Hashem looked, right? Hashem looked at the Torah and Hashem made the world. Meaning everything else is in the Torah. So, we have two elements, the mitzvot that are in the Torah and everything else in the world is in the Torah. You know, Anybody great in mathematics? Anybody is mathematic guy? He br he showed in the Torah how you can show the pi. The pi in the mathematics. >> Yeah. He showed in the Torah. Everything is in the Torah. Everything in this world is in the Torah. >> Show. >> He showed how from the verses you can calculate the the pi. >> Pi is >> pi. >> Yeah. I'm not a mathematician. He's a mathematician. You can talk to him, but you can uh >> he he he is an amazing I'll send you the lecture that I heard from you. >> No, no, the Torah, they bring that in the Torah. God, they bring they they show that. They show that. But anyway, everything is in the Torah, right? Because that's the blue of the world, right? Even the negative forces in the Torah. We saw that the snake talked to who? Toa, right? We see everything in the Torah. So embedded in the Torah is a mitzvot and everything else in the world is a blueprint of the world. Now I have to do a distinction between Torah and mitzvot. Okay? And that kind of gives us a clarity. What's the difference between Torah and mitzvot? First of all, Torah is not time bound. It's not under time. It's beyond the world. It's before the world was created. There was a blueprint. Mitzvot which are embedded. Okay, we have mitzvah that are time bound. Right? When you say let's say you have certain times you can put on, right? You can't put on at night. create saying there's certain time bound mitzvah right so one element Torah not you know beyond time mitzvot time bound Torah protects you if you're in the business of learning Torah Torah protects you even when you're not studying it when you're doing mitzvot while you're doing a mitzvah you have a special protection right to what's the effect of Torah purifies the mind what's the effect of doing mitzvah fixes the body and the world, right? We have 613 mitzvot 248 limbs plus 365 senus in the body fixes 613 parts and in the world you have 248 you know limbs that's the body and 365 days right so we have difference of opinion one says 60 365 days it fixes part of the world the days of the world and we have another opinion says no it bring it fixes 365 senus in body, right? What's your question? >> No. >> No, there's no difference of opinion. There are the rabban mitzvot that the sages put for whatever reason, then they brought proof for it why they did it. If you kind of look deep, you understand why. Some of them as a protection so you don't fall into making a mistake. Some of them for other reasons. But from the Torah aspects, we have 613 mitzvah. No uh difference of opinion on this, right? And the and the non-Jews also have seven mitzvah from the Torah. They have mitzvah from Hashem that they're obligated to do. Okay? They're also have responsibilities in the world. They have tasks. They have a purpose. Right? So now we said purifying the mind versus purifying the what? The body. We said Torah learning has a taste. Doing mitzvah. Unfortunately, right now we don't have a taste. If you put on your taffiling right now, you don't get a wow as a taste in my mouth. I always feeling wow because what happened with the levyan hashem, there was there was a men leviatan fish. The big fish and there was a woman big fish and the men big fish was a emasculated right. So there is some taste if you work hard into learning Torah, you will get a taste. You will enjoy it. But with mitzvah unfortunately don't expect taste. You know you do the mitzvah because you have an obligation. Question. >> What's that? >> What is the gun like being killed? >> So So there's this fish that uh it's kind of deeper stuff that at the end of >> Yeah. Because everything in this world has a male and female component. Right? This world is a dual, right? Only God is one. Everything else you have two. So this fish is a representative of in the next world, right? When everything's be, you know, when Mashiach comes and the the king, the righteous people get to the next world, right? Like in this world, you have a eating and you enjoy from eating something in this world. In the next world, you also will be eating, right? And enjoying, right? Something spiritual, right? But because of the sin of Adam Harishon the the first man these theatan which is the big fish was damaged right it was affected so we don't have this effect today until we get to stage in the world right where we actually the fix that needs to be made in the world is made through Torah learning and the mitzvah and the fish will be enjoying that spiritual element of taste that we can't get right now Right? So in the future future just like in this world you can eat and you benefit in the next when you reach the next world you should be eating and benefiting. Right? We want to enjoy. They say in the next world you're watching Hashem as if and you're enjoying the being the presence of Hashem. Right? It's all about the enjoyment. Hashem doesn't want to punish you for the purpose of know just knocking you on the head. Hashem wants you to enjoy. He wants you to get the feeling that is you know elevating. I don't know what you enjoy. Some people, you know, elevate by uh reading books. Some people want to listen to music. Some people have a different way of enjoying, right? So, Hashem's purpose is to get us to a stage where we're also enjoying the spiritual aspect as well. And these fishes kind of aim for that. We can discuss it more a little bit later. Okay. So now, so in a nutshell, learning Torah brings you elevation and elevation is first. That's why Kisma, this rabbi asked him, they ask him, "Rabbi, how do you know he was a rabbi?" He saw the man in elevated status. He's not just simple man. He's reached something. He's he's learned Torah. He's become something. So Torah learning gives you elevation. He's giving you something that people look at you and say, "Wow, this guy has changed. He's not the same dude." Right? But when you do mitzvot, which is actionbased, you aim for completion, right? And completion is after. You see the difference? Beginning after learning brings you elevation also tells you how to do mitzvah and then you reach by completion by doing the mitzvah. Okay, are we good on that? >> Yes. Changes as a person and completes complete you. We said here you purifi purify your mind doing the mitzvah also fixes your body. You know a lot of people have like you know a lot of negative forces trying to push him to kind of different directions right when you put onim when you pray to hashem when you ask for his help it affects you it open up different mindset different looking at different way of looking at things right so now let's let's look at this a little bit more deeper what is bigger now the elevation or the completion the mind or the body right what do you think >> what's more important >> you say the mind. >> What's um what's bigger the mind and the body? >> We have the Torah and the mitzvot. Torah brings you elevation. Brings your completion. >> You mean the mind consciousness? >> Okay. And you have >> Oh, actually >> everyone's saying mine. >> No. >> Okay. Okay. Any any other opinions? You have no consciousness. >> Okay. So we have in the opinion in the G in you can look it up. >> Let's let's we have this debate in the G my friend. You're not we had it 2,000 years ago in the G. Rabbi Taron says the body completion and comes Raba says no Torah learning is bigger the mind the elevation and then at the end of this debate in the Gar says everyone says Torah learning why don't jump because Torah learning leads you to doing the mitzvah If you don't know how to put on, if you don't know what's kosher, what's not kosher, what's what'sal, then there's no point. You got to learn. Once you become refined, you realize ah what's the difference? Why is it such a big deal? It leads you to action. Meaning, as you said, you need both. >> Huh? >> Both. But you start with the learning which leads to what? The action. >> Rabbi >> like what what is this? What is this question on a deeper? What is bigger? What is that? >> Let's let's let's talk about it after me and you directly because we have to we have a certain time limit but I'm happy to communicate with you after. So now the next question is how do you choose when to learn when to act? You got to be able to decide right. So let's let's let's see what the Gumarra says. The garra says, let's look at an example. You have a sick person, okay? If I'm the best doctors in the in the I'm in the best doctor in the world and I can help him right now, then I have to go and help that sick person. It's my obligation. I'm the best doctor and he's sick. I have to go and help him. If I'm not the best and there's a better doctor, that guy goes help him. And I'm what? What am I doing? I'm learning. You see how it goes? If there's someone better than you that can do the job, have him do it. If not, you do it, right? If he's better, let him do it and you learn. You need to elevate yourself. But if he's not around or he's not that good and you're better and he needs you, you leave learning and you got to do the mitzvah. You got to help the sick person. Another example, reading. You know, when you read Shama, how many times we're supposed to read Shama is twice, morning and night. Is this something that you can do for me? No. I have to read Shamat. What am I doing when I read Shabbat? I'm I'm accepting the kingship of Hashem, right? We have to do it twice a day because every time the the night changes, our switches turn off. We have to turn on the switches again. So, who's the king of the world? There's a creator. So, you have to accept the kingship. The is the connection channel. So, you can't do it for me. I got to leave learning and do the mitzvah. You see how it goes. If you can't, if somebody else can't do it, you got to do it. Leave Torah learning. >> There is a Raban laws that are added as far as dita twice, >> right? There are there is a shama before sleeping, >> right? That's because to protect you against the negative forces, >> you could do just the first verse, but it's better to do all the sha. is a one of those debates in the Gmorra that if you need just one or all of it but if you're really tired say the first the point being before you sleep there's negative forces that can attach to your soul so you say shama is a protection even when you're sleeping the sh is protecting you so >> let's talk after you're going into a lot of complicated debates right so now you see how you make decisions helps you make when you understand how the system works you can Make right decisions. If you could do it, help. If somebody better can do it, have them do the action mitzvah. Right? If somebody else can't do it, you got to do the mitzvah. And afterward, go back to learning. Right? Now, how to acquire Torah? How does one acquire Torah? Other than >> work is a reason to stop the mitzvah. >> Yeah. It's a working. If you if you need to make a living and need to support your family in end and enduring the work, you're doing a mitzvah. You're doing working. Yes, we don't want everybody to be a beggar. What's there's no point in being a beggar. We just want everybody to be elevated. We're talking elevation and completion. We're not talking becoming beggar, right? >> Well, let's say you're working and you have to say >> then the standard is people accept you taking a break saying let's talk about it afterward. Okay? There's never an ending to this. Okay? Now, how do you acquire Torah? Who who Torah is elevated status made before the world infinite. How do you become deserve worthy of getting the Torah? And we have receiving the Torah every day. Nathan, how do you receive the Torah? You've been here how long you been here? >> Wow. For what a marriage. What is a merit? It's a big merit. How do you receive the Torah? Nathan Nathaniel, >> how do you receive the Torah? You want to marry receiving the Torah? >> How do you prep? >> Forget that. I'm talking to you. How do you receive the Torah? >> Oh, you have to like you have to already be in the state of mind that you want it to be good. >> No, but tomorrow you'll be out of the state of mind. >> You have to chase. >> No, you have to chase. You have to what say? But give me a character trait. Open mind. >> No, there's a lot of open mind in Los Angeles. They're they're not learning Torah at all. [laughter] >> Discipline. That's good. BUT BENU, the humblest man. How you seek the Torah? He was the humblest man. Humility. When you think you're so much of yourself, you're taking space. There's no room for Torah. When you humble yourself, you shrink. There's room for Torah. That's why mount Sai was selected to a place of Torah. It was the humblest mountain. It was the shortest simplest mountain. We don't ask him for complication. Simplicity become humble. Mosherenu spoke with Hashem upon him face to face. He was a humblest man. But we want to take out the mistake of thinking being humble means what? Being humble mean oh cancel yourself. No, no, we're not saying cancel yourself to become humble. You have a certain skill. You apply that skill 100%. But no, that's strange from from who gave it to you. >> David Hame, he would go to war and he would knock out his enemy. But every swing of a sword, he knew the strain is from a you don't take credit for yourself, but you use your tools. If a guy is a billionaire, right? He has billion dollar, right? He succeeded in his business, right? He used that tool, that money to do good things in the world. That's humility. He's not saying, "I don't have a billion dollar." He doesn't cancel, "Oh, just let's just cut a check a billion dollar and put it in the trash." No, he has a billion dollar, but he's utilizing it. He knows that Hashem is giving a blessing, and he wants to do good things in the world. So, he's giving it in the right direction. He's investing something infinite, something spiritual. So we're looking to in order to receive Torah, you have to be humble. You have to work on your character traits. It says it's not me. Hashem gave me a strength and I'm applying it correctly. Ericate before receiving the Torah. Everything holy, you need to prepare before receiving it. Shabbat. Why we don't start with Shabbat as the first day and then do six days? Every part of Torah you see talks about six days preparing to receive the Shabbat. Six days that are standard not holy standard days everything holy you need to prepare you want to get married what's the first step what's the first stage in marriage called holy you prepare and then you get married you have to make preparation that's why you come here you prepare this is a big investment in your life you can either make from this infinite or you can go back acting on the same standard. Give me the gold and money. You can't even take it with you. That's the problem. Now, once you receive the Torah, after working at it many, many, many years, we're talking about people that are high level. But I'm just putting this for you to see that these people that are learning Torah and elevating, they also need to guard their Torah all the time, right? So, the Gmorrah brings two aspects, two ideas to help people that to guard their Torah, right? The problem is when you're reaching elevated status, you're afraid that the material world pulls you back. Right? So the here the gimmar gives you two ideas. One idea is right if he gives you example if you have to eat one idea is don't make the big fuss about eating you know eat spend whatever you need like 10 15 minutes to eat. Don't spend five hours eating, you know, take your time, eat, be relaxed, enjoy the food, and then go back to your business mitzvot and learning, right? Don't make the focus the food. That's how you guard your Torah. Another opinion says, "No, you want to eat, you got to eat by 12, push it away. Go eat 132. Spend some time learning a little bit, you know, digging the books so your Torah is not lost." That's how you guard your Torah because the material world, right, unfortunately has an aspect that could pull you away from your Torah understanding and Torah learning, right? That's the danger. That's why you're on a road in this world. You're on the road. You got to stick to as much as you cannot be distracted. There's a lot of distraction. There's a lot of people think they got the light, right? And they're, you know, they got it, but they, you know, unfortunately, it's not the true light. It's a fake light. What is state that is true? >> Talk to me after money could be one. Um, a lot of people think, you know, I have to become a lawyer and doctor otherwise respect. You know, they're aiming for respect. They want status, right? They think, oh, this world I want to be known. I want to be famous. What does it matter? You're not going to take famous with you in the next world. >> Talk to me after you. You're asking a lot of deep complicated questions. The problem is okay at the end of the day the material aspect can pull you it's is a danger right you have to be very careful not not to pull you down to the ground right now in the next world the first thing you're judged upon is not how much your bank account was as the Mishna says in the next world you're first judged on your Torah learning why because before the world was created what was created the Torah and the Torah was the blueprint queen of the world, right? And it's close to Hashem. So in the next world, the first thing you're judged upon, did you focus on Torah learning? Did you ever hear that before? If I was going to the next world, I would think my judgment would be something else. But he says, "No, you didn't learn Torah. One who doesn't learn Torah doesn't know how to act and is making mistakes and he's damaging the world." We said, "We're trying to fix the world, fix our body." Right? If you learn Torah, you know how to act, how to make decisions, right? So the first judgment that a Jew has in the next world is in in his Torah learning. That's a big that's a big insight, right? And that's what should be they focus on, right? Because that's what guide us, the light that guides us in this world, how to act, how to make decisions, right? Now Torah is like a game. Who doesn't want to play game? Anybody doesn't like to play game? It's called a game. What do you do when you play a game? Is a turn and a turn. You never stop playing a game because it's so enjoyable, right? I love playing game. Shesh bes the Persian mafia. I don't know if you in your generation, but when I was a kid, the the cars, the hulk, the shesh, some people like to play the other games, but >> is a game. They never stop playing the game, right? It's called in Hebrew sha sha sha. You turn, you turn. People love playing it. Torah is a game. You keep learning it. You connect one piece of the puzzle to another piece. Is a is a never ending game. And that's what if a mitzvah leads to another mitzvah, Torah learning leads to another Torah learning. Why? Because you're connecting all the dots. Oh, I didn't know we were doing that because of that. Just to give you an example, I uh we have three times three times on Shabbat fish. Three meals, three times fish. Recently, I open bene amazing book and they give an explanation why we have three times now. I'm doing this for 15 years, right? I don't know why, but I'm doing it right. But you don't get to you that you know the taste. I don't know why. I open a book. I'm learning. I connect the dots. And that's a game. That's a turning after turning. And you know what also God is playing with the Torah. God is also playing. He's also doing Shashua, right? So how do you enter the play play field? >> Humility continue to learn and pray for God to help you because not everybody merits it. I mention this almost in every lecture. How many% of the Jews left Egypt? How many% 20% that left Egypt? 80% didn't left Egypt. They saw the same miracles. Why? >> No. 80% of the Jews died in Egypt. Only 20% left. And they all saw the same miracles. They saw everything. We'll talk about that after. Anyone wants to know? Come talk to me after. >> What do you mean they all saw it? >> They all saw the miracles. >> Yeah. All the people that were dead, >> but 80% died and 20% made it. Why? >> No, they saw it. >> They saw it and they still died. >> The first and nine play. >> No, they saw the first eight. I think they they died in the >> They saw it. >> They died. They saw it and died afterward. So they saw nine. He's right. >> They died. So 80% didn't leave Egypt. >> 20% MADE IT. WHY? 80%. And didn't pray for them. He only prayed for the three million that came out. Why not? >> Come talk to me after. >> Which number? >> We're stopping here.