Rabbi Benjamin Yudin Discusses Parshas Yisro on JM in the AM (5786)

Good morning, good shabas everybody. Tomorrow we have the privilege of reading paras. Whoa. Parasro is not just any para. Take a look my friends in the first chapter of bacious the right day three, day four, day five. When it comes to day six, it doesn't say yishi. How many extra letters in the Torah, my friends? Yomishi, the sixth day. So, it means not only the day after day five, but it refers says rashi to the sixth day of Sivan, the day we receive the Torah. Yom Hashi, Hashem made a condition with the world. If the Jewish people accept my Torah at Sinai, there'll be existence and continuity to the world. If the Jewish people do not accept my Torah at Sinai, the world will come to an end. How important is paras Israel? And the answer is very okay. Now I am very excited this morning because we are all familiar with what is known as paradise. Paradise is that which the Gomorrah tells us in that it's not just an orchard but that it stands for that each verse could be understood literally and then there's the r for rem there's a hint that the Torah is hinting at something and this is all part of Torah and the dalid is dash that which we learn and deduce from and Sam has sold the secrets of Torah. So I'd like to discuss this morning something a little bit different called noon. Notion is an acronym. So let's go everybody to the very first word of the ten commandments. The first word of the ten commandments is I am your god. And we know the rest of the dbra is I took you out of Egypt from the house of bondage. Good. Now what didn't you understand? Okay, it's quite clear. Interestingly, how many extra letters? meaning why does it say it could have just as well said I what's the ani also means I why use four letters when you could have used three letters ali why four letters The Gammorrah in Shabis page Kuf Omar Olive tells us two different opinions between Rabanon and Rabanon as to what the extra letter in on comes to teach us. So the Gmorra tells usra where do we know that you have acronyms in the Torah whereby the Torah the word means I but that it comes to include something deeper namely here comes the first one what's the acronym for an I Hashem is speaking Nafi, my soul civas is written and I'm giving it to you. In other words, what's in the Torah? So, you're going to tell me everybody what's in the Torah is 613 laws. And you're right. But I'm going to tell you there's more. There's more to the package and the parchment than just 613 mitzvah. There's more to the book of boratious than some Bible lessons used to be called Bible stories. And what is that that the Torah says? The notion says ani that included in the Torah is literally God's nephesh. Ooh, literally a in other words, listen carefully my friends. What an incredible present and precious is our Torah. When it comes to any other constitution, which the Torah is, it's our constitution. So, you have a one one law and another law. Do you necessarily get the flavor and the character of the quote authors of the constitution? No. This is the language that they're using and this is the idea that they are communicating here. There's more than just do this, don't do that. included in this we are getting part of the gavra the gabra which usually refers to the person the individual I'd like to say the being part of elus whoa so that when you study you are like the policeman in the holland tunnel I every Here he goes for a uh physical and every once in a while the doctor says everything is good except your lungs. Oi they're tired. They're polluted. What do you expect if he spends 6 hours or eight hours a day in the Holland Tunnel? An hour in an hour out. Of course it's going to pollute his lungs. Uh the same way that that policeman in the Lincoln or Holland tunnel has polluted lungs, we embibbe godliness, woe into ourselves. Wow. I'll never forget I years ago the late Yoseph came to visit our yeshiva and hundreds of sparic young men stood online and waited for their chance to greet the god Hador and to kiss his hand. Whoa, why are you kissing his hand? And the answer is he is a walking safety Torah. I'm not talking only in terms of knowing the 613. No, but embibing. Whoa. And that's what the Gmorrah says at the end of Makos. The rabbis says how foolish the people, the Babylonian people were that they stood for the Torah when they took the Torah out of the but they didn't stand for. The Torah says, "Oh my goodness, those violations that a person might do and commit a transgression for which he is to be given macos flogged." How many? The Torah says, "Our boy, give him 40 up to 40. We have a doctor to evaluate and comes along the Raan." And what do they do? They change it. Don't tell me 40, it's 39. Unbelievable. What does that mean? that when the Torah says in parasim the Torah is literally welcoming the Jewish people when you deserve it to become part of a partner in the Torah Abdul LF Abdullah is a partner in the law firm you're a partner you can interpret Torah unbelievable the greatness of our over the years the Ra Salv same all these great individuals what were they doing according to the a delicious shot in talking about the sadros but not from this week but rather from pas for esan for the Torah describes Ink in book of Dvarim the Torah says what happened at Sinai god the low it was literally the listen carefully how does he translated here below is a great voice never to be repeated. Okay, that's what art scroll says. Rashi brings two interpretations that what does it mean either quoting the san meaning that this voice has never stopped. Hashem gave us a Torah. Wow. And guess what? That same Torah is being given now, right now. He gave it to us 3,500 years ago. And that same Torah is we have the ability to log into I'm not talking about on an internet that we have the ability with our guiding us that we can understand interpret the Torah. That's one explanation. And the other one is listen carefully now. Loaf means lo. That's it. Like the Rambam says, when Mashiach comes, nothing will be added to the Torah. The same way the parash is four, I'm sorry, three positive 14 restrictions. So too, it always will be. There's not going to be 614 mitzvah when Msiah comes. And there's not going to be 612. There's going to be exactly 613 mitzvah. Whatever they are, that's a mus. So listen carefully. Just as low has not added anything to his Torah, we cannot add to the Torah. When the rabbis say don't eat milk and meat, if they say that you shouldn't eat milk and meat from the Torah, you could. It's the rabbis that prohibit it. That's wonderful. If the rabbi should say you can't eat milk and meat, right? If you say this is from the Torah, you that's blasphemy because the Torah doesn't say that. The Torah says meat. It doesn't say poultry. Okay? So, it's always important to know, etc. So, listen carefully. The idea is that the Torah is ongoing. Now watch, we're all familiar with the bes namely that has given us or gave the mitzim come on 10 mos. Good. Now interestingly after we enumerate the 10 makos what do we do? We say Abraham would give a mummonic right an acrostic to remember. What is he adding? Oh, the answer is it's deep. It's deep. Each one of these three is following a pattern. The first of the three was the warning was at the Nile River in the morning. The second one is that there was a warning in Pyro's palace. So when it came to Dam warning at the sea, Sarda warning in the palace. The third one, Kenim, no warning. Arov at the sea. De Pal palace, no warning. Bor ar the same thing. And the Ramban says come on that the three sets. He doesn't say it specifically on the word but he teaches us the first three are to teach us that Hashem exists. The second one is his that the second one of de and is his involvement in the world. And the last three right which are and that there is none like Hashem and we can keep on going but understand the moral has other explanations. The idea being it's not simply that somebody in Yehuda's family couldn't remember. So he said, "Oi my son, my daughter, I'll make it easy for you." No, is literally bringing lessons and teaching us sophistication about the 10 plagues. I'm just going to close with a delicious emis when I say to you 10 10. So I don't know what that means to you but I'll tell you what it means to me says this is there were 10 mamoros the world was created with 10 statements of right Hashem said let there be let there be 10 times bes is also one of those 10 the second 10 are the 10 mos the 10 plague namely adash and the third 10 of it Sarah dibbros. What do the three tens have in common? Says thee so beautifully that Hashem created a world but he is a kale mistar the world itself you and I once you take a look wow you see but you have to look for it you have to find it he's concealed. How did how did he become revealed? He became revealed through the 10 makos. So the 10 mamoros which literally means 10 statements of God were followed by the 10 plagues which showed his mastery in the world. And finally dibbros the mamuros were transformed into dro because of the makos. Wow. What does it mean my friends? Just when you thought you knew it all. No, no, no, no. There's always so much to learn. Shabbat shalom to all.