Mitzvos Hashekulos Torah (13)

Okay, last time we're in Parshas Shemini Atzeres. Last time we learned the first paragraph about the Adam Sheba Adam, right? We learned about the Adam Sheba Adam. The das of a person is the Adam of the Adam. It's a possuk in Parshas Bereishis. See if I can find it quickly. Vayivarech Elokim osam. Vayivarech osam Elokim. Hakadosh Baruchu is mevarech Adam and Chava. Vayomer Elokim Elokim and Hakadosh Baruchu said to them, "Pru urvu umilu es ha'aretz vechivshuha. Multiply, multiply, and fill the world and conquer it." Uredu. What does redu mean? What? >> Go down. >> No. >> Conquer. >> Conquer, dominate. And dominate. Virdu. Ushlutu bishalete. The Targum is. Bidgas hayam and the fish of the sea. Uve'of hashamayim and the birds of the sky. Uvechol chaya ha'remeses al ha'aretz and all animals that crawl on it on the earth. Says Reb Nosson Zaidman tzaddik livracha. That when it says in the Torah that Hashem tells Adam to rule over the animals, Hashem is also saying that the Adam Adam should rule over the Adam. Right? That's also within us that it's in the Torah. The concept that our should be in charge is wired into the Torah. Just like you as an Adam were given were empowered and given the mandate that you should rule over all the animals of the animal kingdom. So too the Adam Adam the the of a person rules over all the parts of his body the Adam. It's interesting there's a there's a something somewhere in the Torah that says that says that the truth is that Like for example it says it says in the Torah that someone who's a fellow Jew from the Torah is a fellow Jew from the Torah. Right? As if he kills a person. It says in the Torah like that also that if somebody takes even a from someone it's as if you killed him. Sounds very dramatic. Why is it like you killed him? So the the answer that's given is that every part of your life meaning everything that you own from the the you know the the shirt that you're wearing to the car that you may or may not own to the to every every possession that's yours and not just possessions also the people that I put within your domain like like a wife and children are all things that gave you because your needs them in order to do what your needs to do. So if somebody steals from you they're taking away something that your neshama needs in order to live. So, it's ke'ilu goizel es nafshay. Says Rav Tzadok, lema'aseh, there are There is such a thing as animals in this world that are not owned by anyone, like lions and tigers, except the ones in the zoo, but in general, they roam the wild, right? Not all animals are owned. Some of them roam the wild. He says, that's because our neshamas are not mesukan. Our neshamas are not complete, so there are things in the briah that are outside the realm of our shlita. But he says, when Mashiach comes, it says that the lion will will lie down with the with the sheep, right? I forgot those psukim, you know, that they'll they'll you know, you know, all the I forgot the I forgot the lashon lashon kodesh. I'm too tired now to remember, but but the there's the shinais that the ayev and the dayev, the fox and the bear will will will be like basar, they'll be like like like like like farm animals. So, he says the eimek of that is that our neshamas will be big enough to even be shalit on them. So, that's an interesting thing to think about that the greater a person's adam sheba adam is, the more shlita he has over himself. The tzadikim used to have such a shlita even over their thoughts and over their, you know, like the smallest parts of their body had shlita over. We are lucky if we can like like riding a rodeo, you know, like those things, like if we can have some grip on ourselves, we already consider ourselves fortunate. But that's the dibur gasa yom uval kol beheima is that the essence of me should dominate over the rest of me, and that's why we've said this before, that's why an adam is bekoyem kupa and animals are on all four because animals their seichel and their impulses are equal. Animals act based on impulse. There's no There's no loy mishpat have bechira. There's no preference of the mind over the impulses. Animals are impulse driven. But people not all people but the goal for people is that the adam sheba adam should be the melech. That's why we stand the kima zekufa. That's our maila. We stand the kima zekufa. It's brought down once I'm talking. It's brought down that every species of the different levels of creation so domem, tsomeach, chai, medaber, Yisrael so each one has one in the lower level that's like the makat ragel that says I'm like you. I'm not going to go into all of them but it's been said it's been said by Shudis we say that dogs have chutzpah. Have you ever heard that? What's the words? We ask Hakadosh Baruch Hu to deal with the kalban d'chatzifan. The the the the chutzpah d'kiga dogs. Did we talk about it on Shabbos? No. Yeah, kalban d'chatzifan the dogs. So the the What's the chutzpah of the dog? What's the chutzpah of the dog? So I have a mesora and you can find this printed but I heard it from my rosh yeshiva b'shem his rosh yeshiva b'shem Reb Hutner and it recently was printed that he said the chutzpah of a dog is that the dog thinks that he's like a person. And that's why you find that dogs are man's best friend. And dogs live in houses with people. And sometimes dogs wear cute sweaters. And they go to dog hotels. And they have dog graveyards and dog psychologists. But it it comes from a certain chutzpah. A certain meter. Of course it's in us the chutzpah and also that that there's there's this idea that the dog says I'm like you. You live in a house, I could live in a house. In fact, maybe I could even live in your bed. I'm like you. That's the chutzpah of the dog. He's taveya on the gadlus of Adam. That's why when the when Adam was emerging with all of his gadlus, which was at the end of the stay of Klal Yisrael in Mitzrayim, with the Adam k'ruyim Adam, Klal Yisrael was emerging, says lo yecheratz kelev leshono. A dog doesn't bark. Because the dog's taina was nistam. There's no taina in front of such a great Adam. The dog doesn't think he's like an Adam. When the Adam is that great. Okay? Um The stature of man is the answer to the taina of the dog. Says the Vilna Gaon, that's the p'shat in Chad Gadya, if you were up in the end of the Seder, that we say v'asa I'm having too much fun. V'asa chutra, the stick came, v'hiko l'kalba, and it hit the dog. The stick represents the spine of a man, the koma zekufa. And the koma zekufa comes and it's makeh the dog, meaning as if to say that the stature of man is the response to the tiner of the dog. That's the the the Adam Shaba Adam because because the dog doesn't have an Adam Shaba Adam. Anyway, okay, whatever. That was all Tyva. Says the the second paragraph. Says the Mashgiach. We're talking about being Zoycha, a person being Zoycha to the to the Das of Tyra, to be able to to to to be able to plug into Tyra. He says the love Milsa Zuchrisa he Lizgais Ladas Tyra. It's not a small thing to be Zoycha to the Das of Tyra. HaTyra HaKadesha He Giloy Retzoyno Yisbarach. You have to remember that. Tyra is not just what we're supposed to do. The Tyra is the closest that you could possibly get to Hashem. It's the essence, Kaviachol, if you can even say those words, of HaKodesh Baruchu. It is HaKodesh Baruchu on some level. Kucha Barucha Ve'oraisa Chadah. That's why the Bracha of loving Hashem is the Bracha of Tyra, Ahavas Rabbah or Ahavas Olam. It's the Bracha of Tyra. It's it's Hashem. When you learn Yevamos, you're like swimming in Hashem. It's hard to even imagine what that means. Umi Yuchal Lehisyameir? What does Lehisyameir mean? Huh? Lehisyameir? Lehisyameir means to to to be presumptuous, to be a Baal Gaiva. And who's the Baal Gaiva that could say Shehu Yodeia Mahu Rotzeh in Hashem Yisbarach, that he knows what Hashem wants, Afilu im Hu Yodeia Shas, even if he knows the whole Shas. Do you know what Hashem wants? Al Lo Ein Sheur Le'umakei Retzoynoi. There's no depth. There's no There's no There's no share to the depth of what they said. So, if we we want to say that not just that we want to learn the but we want to connect to like what the If you notice, he says sometimes the Torah. The will of the Torah, what the Torah really wants. You want to do that. We have to know how a person How can a person reach that's Torah? I just have to make a ha. I want to make sure that when we're learning this we don't confuse with a political term called where I have to ask or it's against Those that term has a lot to discuss. There is such a thing as asking and stuff. I'm not against that at all. There is such a thing. And maybe there's even for the usage of the term but that's not the source of the term and it's not what we mean here. And I'm not knocking it. If anything, I'm saying we don't understand it. Let's understand it. Because that's Torah means You have to stop and tell yourself that's Torah means that's Torah. Like what the Torah wants. It's not a political platform. Right? Be very careful about that. You ask your I'll ask my Torah. Sorry as last time I checked there's one Torah. You know what I mean? So, I know what it means. It means the one who teaches you the and the one who teaches me the We have to be very careful not to confuse it with like a more political cheap statement. That's Torah here is in capital letters. >> He's saying here even if you know shots not that Torah. >> He's saying that who could say that they're really truly plugged in in a way that their mind is open to absorb its full meaning and its implication. In other words, the Godol is able to learn from the Torah how the Torah would want me to react even to things that are way outside the world of those Sugyos because they're plugged into the real depths of the Torah. I'll I'll tell you some stories as we go through this perek, but you find by Gedolim sometimes that they learned how you rise of how a person should act from Sugyos that you wouldn't even think of that that's like gay at this, but they understood like what the Torah is truly telling me. Let's learn what he has to say. He'll He'll lead the way better than I can. Okay, so like we had when we did Kedushas HaGuf, there's several there's two there's two eyes here, and then we'll see where what he does with it. HaTorah Niknes Dvorim She Nimnu B'Perek Vov D'Maseches Avos. You familiar with the Mem Ches Dvorim? Where some people Mem Ches Dvorim is a in the in the Brysa in the Brysa of of of Torah that's in the sixth perek of Avos. It's not a Mishnah. Perek Avos has five prakim. The sixth perek is Brysas about Torah. And in those Brysas about Torah, there's a list of 48 Midos that with you have those Midos, you can be Zocheh to Torah. Okay? I once heard a beautiful beautiful thing. I was once in Toronto, and my wife My mother-in-law has a cousin who's a Rav in Toronto. Anyone here from Toronto? Rav Felcher Levitz. You know who he is? He was this Rav Felcher Levitz's brother. Okay. Anyway, he's a Rav there. He's a Rebbi there. And he's I was was once many years ago. I don't even know if he remembers that I had this conversation with him. I was there about 29, 30 years ago. And I was in his house, and he told me this verse, I don't know why, but it stuck with me. He said that you know, there's a some say that that Eishes Chayil is a song to the Torah. The Eishes Chayil is the is like the is like the Talmud Torah. learns Torah. So, Eishes Chayil mi yimtzah verachak mipninim michrah. Chayil is gematria mem ches. Eishes Chayil mi yimtzah to find someone who can have all 48 middos, which is like every good middah you could possibly imagine. Mi yimtzah, who could find such a thing? And and he said and he said the shame the grow, that there used to be generations where there were actually people that have 48 middos. Should I tell you a nickname? Go ahead. Nowadays, says the grow, it's hard to find people that have all 48. And the way that we're zocheh to the whole spec Excuse me, spectrum of the kinyan haTorah, is that together we have the 48. Cuz you have some good middos, and you have some good middos, and you have some good middos, and together we form the 48. Says the grow, that's the pshat. Rabbos bonos asu chayil. Many daughters made it chayil. Isn't that great? Rabbos bonos asu chayil. Sometimes that's the way you're zocheh to Torah. But in any event, he says there are 48 dvarim. Ve'ein lachem middah tovah shelo nimnisah. You will not find a good middah that's not counted there. That's every middah that's precious is in that list of 48 middos. Ve'amar Rabbi Yochanan, he quotes from the Medrash in shem Rabbi Yochanan, mem ches half level fellah, mem ches it says the word well says the word well 48 times in the Torah can navigate can navigate the 48 meters that the Torah is given with I don't that's what the means when it says my own garden it's like a spring of gardens the air my own a well of living water the noise in the van and flowing from the van 9 so you know you and I read a message like that we're just like okay it's nice poetry listen to how the understands what that means he says like this he says he look on if you're revealing incredible thing Shakur each one of the 48 meters that help a person connect with the depth of Torah he it's a well meaning it's something that you can draw from shaming that from them we draw my own show Tyra the living waters of Tyra my own a little noise lemon livin on and the this my own flow from livin on which is up in the up in the mountains he says what does that mean he says hi new may have the waters of Tyra flow from the highest of places and you by you being kind of a bear by you having a well of these good meters you're able to draw the water that's flowing down from the highest of places the who I make with these high places are with the depths of our clothes for her Shall I measure lace my shoulder and higher than those places my shoulder can't grab the other like the heights of what a human being is allowed to think about are available to you when you lean into having the meters that a person who learns Torah should be adorned with in order to approach the Torah. In other words, if you had imagine if I if I teach you a way to think and I give you a puzzle, you'll do better with the puzzle than if I don't teach you how to think. If you have another if you have sensitivity, if you have acid, if you have you know MS or whatever all the different meters of the Torah, if you have those meters, you're primed to be able to plug in to the depth of what I Baruch wants Torah that you see the and the and the and you sense even the deepest that are flowing down from the highest places up to the last place that you're even allowed to think about because your is completely primed to absorb. You know like they say that a lot of vitamins when you take vitamins, they say a lot of vitamins you're wasting your money. Your body's not absorbing them. They're going in and going out. That's what they say about vitamins. So the trick of a good vitamin is that it helps the body digest the vitamins. If you can't your body can't digest vitamins, there's no point to taking the vitamins. So with Torah, the helps us digest the Torah. Of course, it's a big mile to learn Torah even if it goes in and out. There's a measure that says even if you forget everything you learned, but it went through your system, it purified you. It's like the measure is compared to a bucket with a hole on the bottom that when you pour the water in, there might not be any water left, but the bucket is clean. So, at least we end up tahara from the Torah, even if nothing stays. But, if we have the right digestion of the Torah, then the Torah becomes a part of us. Wow, that's an incredible, unbelievable thing. Okay, I think we I want to stop before I get cut off mid-sentence. We'll finish this paragraph next time.