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i remember about a number of years ago i
was learning in yeshiva as i was sitting
in the batman rash
suddenly i turned around i noticed an
elderly man walk in
to the yeshiva he looked very put
together very well dressed nice tie
nice cufflinks nice watch fancy belt
fancy shoes
i didn't think too much into it i just
went back to learning about an hour
later
i hear the doors of the roshiva's office
open roshiva walks out and he looks
around
and as he's looking around he notices
this elderly man who's still standing in
the back of the yeshiva he approaches
him and he introduces himself to him
and he says oh can i help you what's
your name and the man says oh my name is
stephen so and so i'm actually professor
from harvard university
he says also what brings you here to our
yeshiva he says you know
in our universities and our colleges in
the end of the year
during this time we have something
called the graduation and in the
graduation we have a custom where all
the students come together
and we take all the books and all the
papers and everything we've been
studying throughout the course of the
year
and now that we're done with the
curriculum we take the books and we
we tear them apart and we throw them up
in the air like it's confetti
because we don't need them anymore we
don't need this information anymore it's
out of our sight out of our mind and i
was wondering
what do you guys do in shiva with all
the torah that you learn over here
do you throw out your gimarot and your
talmud you throw the machine in this
room when you're done with it what do
you do with your suffering with your
books
so i came out of curiosity to see and as
i was walking into the shiva i was
looking around see if there's any
bonfires anyone making fires throwing
books into fires i didn't see any of
that
i was looking to see if maybe there's a
dumpster filled with books and i didn't
see any dumpster with books
and as i walked in i admired what i saw
and rabbi i want to tell you i was very
moved by what i saw
i was looking around i saw at the end of
the day had the boys got up from their
chairs
and they took the safer this that they
were learning
the gemara and they picked it up and
they gave it a kiss and they showed us
such respect and such honor
and then they placed it back onto the
shelf so they could return to it and
come back to it
and i said this book must be very
special i don't know what it is that you
guys are learning
but whatever it is it's for sure eternal
because you keep going back to it and
learn it again and again and again
and although our books they're very
limited very rigid you learn it one time
you understand it you move on
and then you delete it from your head
you dispose of this knowledge but you
this information doesn't just
hit you over here intellectually but it
hits you right over here in the heart
and it penetrates through your heart and
it seeps into your souls
and you become better people as a result
of it it
molds you into the people that you are
it makes you more refined
it makes you more moral and more ethical
and it gives you values and that's
something our books will never give us
because what you have must be divine and
so you treat it with the proper respect
and i say this professor is right that
the torah that we have
is infinite it never ends because it's
written by the one who's infinite by
hashem himself
and hashem has no limits he has no
bounds and so this
torah that he has given us it has no end
and the more we learn it
the more we develop our character the
more we improve as a people
and the more we become the people that
we came to this world to become and
even more so we developed a relationship
with hashem that hashem so much longs to
have with us
and our souls long to have with him so
learn the torah but don't just learn
intellectually
but take the lessons that are hidden
within it i keep learning it because the
more you learn the more you will see
there's so much more
there and the more you think that you
know the more you realize that you
really
don't know
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