The Torah Reading and Priestly Blessings Connect by Rabbi Dr. Ahron Adler

boov as I mentioned the whole week U the whole year year as long since we've gotten back on track the thisum is in memory of Elish Elish Sima but zman and um at the time that we ask to look out for all of our unfortunately we heard the news of two who fell last night in theunis but there was also a glver of a glimmer of good news with the unbelievable Rescue of two of the hostages um it shows what kind ofes our have and you should can your boo a and I can tell you that um without knowing all the details our when they infiltrated that apartment house in in RAF on the second floor they bodily covered the hostages so that if there was going to be bullets and there were bullets they should take the bullets and not the hostages I'm tell you're talking about a level of mes that's um that I think AB would be very proud of in every sense of the word um and and we know that sometimes it's difficult to to express Hal when there's so much grief and sadness that goes along with it but the r taught us many years ago that our Hal is actually a fusion of of petition because we say that's wonderful you can't get better than that and the next breath you say the next breath we call out from distress and which ends with said so the explained this in the context of the Seder night where we say hallelujah and we will have we worthy of singing the new song so what does that mean a new I mean what does it mean somebody's going to write new lyrics to Hal he said no no it's going to be a new style of Hal Hal without it's just going to be pure unadulterated Hal and that's what we're looking for the and we're not there yet unfortunately so we do have to offer our great that he allowed this to work out and it worked out and one was scratched but nothing to write home about and really we came back uh and it just it just went well thank God and we know something that the the the business of RA is starting and it's starting big and um we're going to hear news unfortunately because that's dark shal but the shall allow us to get this job done as efficiently and quickly as possible so that we can bring all our home I'll repeat what I said last week Shalom the in that means the of but our soldiers are our and it should be Shalom but more importantly in the Aron in the in the in the seat of government there should also be some Tranquility it wouldn't hurt it wouldn't hurt we need that as well we'll see if we can finish with this one page that we're sitting on for a few weeks because I do have things to continue but uh the illustration of bir Tora for purposes of of different shades and colors of is so um in Hebrew we say bate it's so outstanding the um to make a few points further that we can continue from last week so on Source number three where we talked about the I'm going to read it again guy gets up early in the morning I guess cuz he was watching the Super Bowl so uh and I'm going to mention that Robert Craft has a in for shelling out $7 million for 732 Slots of instead of stupid commercials that they produce for the s bowl they were pro-israel comments and about the hostages and so on um okay so his team didn't make it this year that's part of the yuum that uh that he had who won who won you don't know who won okay so I didn't watch the game either but the 49ers won in overtime 22 to no Kan city oh Kansas City see I didn't even know see I got it all wrong look at that see wrong team Ken city won overtime 22 to 19 yofi right okay there you go thank you for being corrected do you know that when I was doing Army and my Army was to give shum 40 shum in the Army in the Air Force I had the best miluim in the world so um I once got an a notice of a court Marshal Court Marshal I mean how what did I do wrong that they should summon me I got a summon to a court Marshal so I I um I somebody one of the ramen Haron Ezra he said what you said bump shot in the ramom I mean what happened said a bad shot in the ramom and they're summoning you to a it turns out it was a mistake in the mispar isi in the the Army ID number there was a mistake by one number and I got the call so it wasn't me you know yep so the raham says if you get up early in the morning before the time of kma get up 4 in the morning and you want to do Dai you know it's a nice time to learn nobody's going to bother you guarantee you no phone calls and and so on on so whether you're studying what makes no difference if you're learning or or or learning mishna gar whatever it is and the reason the ra says this because in the there's a discussion what type of Tor do you have to study in order to be obligated in the bottom line is everything makes no difference ra just broadly says makes no difference whether it's the written law the oral law what do you do you have to wash your hands in the morning you say three and then you can study here are the of course it begins with as every other so you know if you this morning said Don't Panic out we have here on this and um T it means involvement and many uh many commentators have tried to figure out what the addition of means involvement activity means and God has commanded us over that we should be studying T that we understand but what is so the one said one said that it has to do with um that t is not necessarily A Mitzvah of a accomplishment nobody's going to ask you at the end of the day all right how much did you accomplish how many did you study how many did you complete nobody's going to ask you that question the question was um whether you did you have in your life schedule for some person it could be daily for some person it could be weekly whatever it is it is did you have a a a block in of time in your life schedule for T and hopefully we're going to be able to answer yes because it's Monday at 9:15 so you can say yes to that question yes there's a blocked out time for Tam nobody's going to ask you oh oh what do you remember from that CH don't worry don't get nervous nobody's going to ask that question it's not has nothing to do with accomplishment has to do with involvement and involvement comes also in different levels some people people's involvement is superficial some people involvement is a little bit more deeper so we say to get involved in it there's an involvement of intellectual sometimes even emotional in Torah study so that's what the basically comes to add to the rambam's standard version as all of our Brethren say till this very day V but there was also another exam understanding to from the word which means business there is a concept called so tail end of the T we lay it on and believe me next year is going to be different than all previous talks about talks about the um talks about the um the partnership Arrangement between the Torah study person and the person who's bankrolling the Torah studying person uh which is a legitimate Enterprise now not everybody is either capable or has the time or the ability to be involved in uh much Torah study everybody is is obligated for some Torah study but to get involved into excessive Torah study that for people who have the time the effort and the the the capability but that usually comes at the expense of making a living but if somebody and I'm going to stress now volunteers this is the ROM's Point somebody volunteers to um finance and bankroll somebody's sustenance and parasa that's a wonderful thing that's called Z were International merchants and they worked on from the from the sea from the from the Mediterranean and they bankrolled people from yaka tribe of studying Tor so this became an acceptable relationship where said that will reward the people with reward of talm even though they may not have cracked a book but they were busy making money essentially but then supporting the Torah studies that's okay there's only one little thing that people sometimes forget to say but Mr Zulan is going to remain in ignoramus in amarat he's not going to become like that he'll he'll receive credit for the mitvah is not going to fault him for wasting his time because he's doing something constructive with his money so the ramam had an older brother his name was David David Ben Mayon who was a Zan person he was an international shipper and he allowed his younger brother Mela to sit and learn and be able to be creative and write and study and so on so on so on until the cast rophe happened with a boat sunk in the Indian Ocean with all his Wares he had all kinds of stuff to bring him from India so all of a sudden the family is now poor without support and the rambam slips into a depression in the clinical sense he cannot get out of bed for a year he writes this he's not embarrassed to write this that he was depressed for a year and and the sad part was that he didn't have Prozac Prozac would have helped him I'm not joking it could have helped him but he just had to work himself out and uh when he finally is able to put himself back together the community in fat which is old Cairo wants to support him so he can continue with his learning Endeavors he doesn't want to accept from the community he says even though it was voluntary people are going to get the wrong message and think that this is a nice thing to ask for that that somebody else should should support me and he said that's a that's a says the ra so if you have a fellow who's got an eligible daughter and is looking for a top Co guy and he says you know what I'm willing to support you for 20 years vak that's fine go right ahead but if a guy sitting in Co says and I'm worth $100,000 a year because I'm the next villo and you better shell out you know to have me as your son-in-law theah says that's a you're not allowed to do that so the ram goes to work and he becomes a doctor I mean he knew the medicine before and in those days you didn't have to have a certificate from a medical school you had to have a proven track record that you were a good doctor and somehow word got to the Sultan of of of of Cairo and it was a tri trip the r describes about three-hour Journey daily to get to the palace and treat the the the royal family the the royal family and he does it and he makes a living He makes a good living and that's because he felt that uh he didn't want to accept anything from the community but his brother David was the one who supported him so is legitimate and that's why some say the language of the is for some people their connection to is through their business is their asek okay it's that's sounds htic that sounds htic I think what the r suggested was more in theat range that the asek means involvement involvement a deeper involvement and not a superficial involvement and L but the rambam's language is V and then comes the next word which is what we talked about last week is it or the story of the the which is the conjunction and and it makes a world of a difference if you are in the middle of a bra you God should sweeten means sweeten here sweeten the words of T to us make it Pleasant and then you're still in the middle of a and if you overhear somebody saying and he says you do not answer a because it's the middle of a or is it the end of the and you do answer and the next begins with without the conjunction end without um I pointed out that if you look at source number four you see the author of The is the one who wrote comments on myON on the ramb he happens to be the nephew of the Mahar morenberg Moren and he too I I I don't have his name in my head right the second but he too the author of the haot one second I may have it here see I wrote it RAB mayor hakohen from rotenberg his name was R from Rutenberg and he dies also as a modder as his uncle did Mar Rutenberg mberg was taken captive was a hostage and gave up Sak nobody should redeem him because that would encourage more kidnapping and he dies in captivity and I think his body is left 9 or 11 years until it's allowed to be buried his nephew is murdered in the pum of 1298 in Germany one of the many many PS and I'm going to repeat what I said two three weeks ago what happened on was not the sh not even close to the Shah but it was a pagram it was a pagram in the classic medeval Jewish history sense with one big difference after the flash PR or any of the other prams the only thing we can do is say Kadesh and isar and now we can fight back there's a very very very big difference very big difference and B we're here we're not there that we able to fight back so the what he does to the ramb is basically what the ra does for the he makes it asazi friendly the the rambam is ay Enterprise and and if asazi is reading it so just to draw your attention to the fact that we do it differently we do it differently my great example is I mean it's already it's only but we have to be prepared for a month and a half to read the Milla so make twice at night and in the morning only do it at night and no need to do it in the morning and the truth is and that's the Ram's opinion so the on the section of the rambam saying that there's no repetition of Shu in the morning says but we as do he quotes I think his uncle he says we say the again so that's what so if you're following the as you're studying M the r you get the asazi point of view and here says if you can look in Source number four with it's all one long one long and then of course there's a second but if the r doesn't have the and it's have but but don't so it becomes three and then three there's only one problem of all this if you just go back to Source number three you see it's printed with and I'm quoting the ram what happened here so I mentioned last week that this is a phenomenon that I wrote about in my book it's chapter nine for those who want going to look it up it's um in the how in the world can there be in the rambam's writing and the answer is it's the printers it's the printers When U I mentioned that I had a a colleague at Harvard two years ago uh Professor Tamara Ro Eisenberg Morel Eisenberg and she taught me about how the process was uh from the manuscript to the print from the r sun Professor salek I heard 52 years ago that when you have ay text being printed in ashaz look out for the N that sometimes they might erroneously print theas and what really what happened was it was a very painstaking type of activity to print because it's not like we do today I sit at the computer and I type what I want and I just send push the word print and and next thing I know I look at my printer and I have what I want and that's the end of the story in those days every single letter had to be set type set every single letter so you had to look at the manuscript make sure you're reading correctly which wasn't always the answer because the the handwriting was always an issue of handwriting so you can make mistakes easily Enough by misreading what you saw but even if you're reading and you're careful and you have it right it was it took a lot of time every word every word so if a typ Setter is in Europe saw that the rambam thei is quoting a or and he says to himself I also D I know this BR by heart so what does he do is he saves himself the time of checking and checking and checking the text because he knows oh rah's quoting a hey I know the I'm just going to typ set the BR the way I know it not thinking for a moment that the N might be different so that's one way ash makes it into the Bram bam print the second way is the types Setter did look and he says Ah the last guy who copied the the manuscript made a mistake so I'm going to do a favor I'm going to fix it and the third type of problem is I know that the rambam has a different n but I'm printing it in Europe and I want to make the book ashkanazi friendly so I'm going to already incorporate Ash into the text all three are true they all all these three are phenomenon that happened but now to siphon it out was already a job because nobody's really ever written about this as a topic because some people here and there may have made a comment but to to really see it in this particular example it happens three times it happens three times so the first time is the so how do we know that the ram didn't have the V we know it first of all from the comment of The Who Says we and ashas have it so obviously in his rambam it didn't have it if he's making that comment the second is manuscripts so we have manuscripts and we have manuscripts that that were uh edited by the raham himself sent back to Aleppo to to Syria we have these manuscripts if you go through the edition of RA Kapak who brings manuscripts from Yemen you go through a manuscript a edition of the rambam and he's using that manuscript from calab from Aleppo and if you look at the chap Fran which is a Enterprise from 1975 and they're already aware of things that have Incorporated because of manuscript so it says so today and and ra he's he's now one of rash and he publishes his own version called Rak the precise Ram it's all and then of course there's the fredberg Gesa project which I bring up on my screen and I get a span of every single version of this particular rambam in all the old prints the modern prints the the G of fragments whatever we have it's a done deal the rambam wrote and so you have here in the standard when I say standard rambam I'm talking about 95% of the people in the world who own a set of rambam who are not into buying new updated set why should I buy it I have my old one for my grandfather it still works right it's the photo offet of the vavar text and and it has that's what you have over here furthermore the end of the where it says the rambam was actually asked about this there's a Chua there's a respons him he says is that the correct is that the correct ending and he says AB that says God doesn't teach us T we teach each other T God gave us the T so the ending is yet in the v print you have printed in so you have a second example of this and there was even a third I'll get to in a second which one it was I think it was that I underlined um where the ram actually had something else right the ram had it's also a big mess up in the manuscripts and they printed the rambam's uh version ofas but here I must confess there are different Nash on the word so there's a manuscript issue but what ultimately comes out of the fact that the RAM does not have the the conjunction and is he has three and he says it twice in the second line of source number three and in source and in the next paragraph of source three every day we're obligated to say these three and then you read a little bit of Torah why do we read a little bit of it's like when you say take a bite of the Apple you have to have a k you have to learn a little bit you can't just make a without some learning so there are things printed in our s that become the Kay the tasting of Tor what do we have we have the and then we have the Mish of which is the first Mish of and that's important because the ends with that's like singing the the Praises of the mitah so if you're going to cut and pay something out of the world of to the oral law here it's concise it's short it's got the point it's got a beautiful Point why you can't find the few that talk about Torah study why did they pick so I'm going to put this question on hold we'll get to it in a few minutes the um the idea of uh the three why does the ram repeat saying that it's three I mean that's that draws our attention to the fact that there's no but fine he says it and then he repeats it says it again why does he do that so gave a once a a yide share on gvat many many years ago and it's imprint in the second volume of the book called the r son-in-law R Professor tki Z in the 1980s worked on the shim and we remember those who were there the share was a 4H hour uh production about two and a half hours of and an hour and a half of drwi of unbelievable philosophical htics it was unbelievable that was a takeoff it was built on the foundations of the of the two and a half hours what he printed rori printed was just the first half was just the halic part here and there some other of these shim the second part was printed as well but not for this particular sh we don't have it as yet maybe one day we will have it but in that she on T in the second volume of the raised this question why does the ra say three we got the point I mean you don't have to say it a second time that and this is a classic brisk L brisk answer it comes to teach you another or what the used to call two two different number one is that if you get up at 4 in the morning before the time ofma you can't learn Tora yet because you slept now okay so you slept we have to take a step back how come if you go to a sheer at 9:15 and then later on in the day let's say this evening you go to another share you don't say bat again I mean you're not somebody who who who got up in the morning and is learning T and hasn't budged from his until he went to sleep we're not that we're not in that category at all so why don't you make a beer I mean if you eat you ate breakfast you made you ate lunch you make another BR you make supper you make another BR midnight snack even another BR right the why is it called five star hotels they serve you five times right during the day it's uh I I once I was once on a cruise and you know I told people you wash in the morning you bench at night because there was no 72 minutes that you weren't eating there was no heick there was just no Heck from The eating so why why do there is a HCK there is a HCK there's an interruption so why don't you go back and make the has a biges he said it once at a c in the Yesa on the first per of M it was in class in she my brother was there I wasn't there but it's written up this see and the said that what is the word why didn't say Yeshua per why didn't say you should learn day and night what does it mean means something about contemplation it comes from the phrase he so in tanak language La Means the seed of of of of intelligence it it's not that they didn't know Sor not that they didn't know that the heart is a is a pump for blood they knew that that they they knew trus they opened up animals you know for they knew but it was a symbolic they knew that something about the brain they didn't know the brain as we know it today but um the SE was always referred to as the heart was the seed of the SE so be me means a something about meditation meditation and the said that there are two types of meditation there's an active awareness and a latent awareness latent awareness means even if you're not focusing it on it right now but in the subconscious it's still there and he gave an example says um mother sends off a child to school right first grader or kindergarten going off to school and then of course she goes off to work so when she's at work does she think about the child the whole time most probably not because she's focusing on our work but let's assume you know somebody me something about school ah yeah my kid is in school you know that you recall it immediately you don't have to start thinking a lot because it's been there all the time it's called a latent awareness of the child in school the said we have a latent awareness of tala throughout the day whether we're studying actively or it's on um sometimes we have this in the computer too you put it to sleep right it's on standby it's on standby and therefore because it's always on standby there's no need to make another BR because from the point of view of he what kicks in is day and night and there there was no interruption and hence there's no need for a new during the day so the obvious question is maybe you should when you're Mitzvah or Mitzvah and it'll cover you for the whole year so said when you sleep more than 72 minutes which is called CH that's an interruption because there there's a break of Consciousness and somehow kazal saw less than 72 minutes it's just a you're dozing off but you know you're still there it's not a deep sleep made a distinction between dozing off and a deep sleep a deep sleep is a heick and therefore you get up in the morning 4 in the morning you want to learn you have to say but what if you don't want to say BR because the Super Bowl is on right so you don't want to say the bra and you go through a day and today I'm not learning today it's not in my schedule's GNA ask me about you know Tuesday is the day I go to the you know whereever I don't learn on Monday I go to work on Monday so maybe I don't have to say today because it seems that the said so you have to say fine but if I'm not learning toah that day like you know s we have a Min that we want to be obligated in SAS but if I don't have a four corned garment I'm not obligated in SAS doesn't say anywhere in the torat they have to put on a four corned garment it says that if you wear a four corned garment then you have have to have titas on it so we want to obligate ourselves so we've manufactured this B this it's called tal Katan and and so on fine but uh and there are mitzvot that only if you're in this situation put a a fence around your roof I never built a house you know I never had a roof let's assume so okay so Kosh is not going to say why didn't you fulfill the Mitzvah of I never owned a house never had fine so they're going to many that you know how come you didn't fulfill the Mitzvah of return to stolen goods because I was never a golin I never stole anything what do you want for me like okay so there are t right I always tell people that getting divorced the G is one of the 613 but you love your wife and you never got divorced God's not going to hold you accountable for not fulfilling that Mitzvah it's it's a it's a there are different mitv that that are for par situations and if you're not in that situation you don't have that Mitzvah so if I didn't learn that day so then I don't have the Mitzvah of of to say so ra comes and says every day you have an obligation to say whether you thought you're going to learn or not you have an obligation that's Source the and then take a tasting of Tora even though you're not planning to have a that day go to AAR that day learn by yourself that day a little bit of Tor you have to have you know One A Day multiple vitamin you have to put a little bit in your in your mouth a little bit of Tor and and that is important so said the r is teaching us two different things one is that when you get up in the morning that there you have to say and you can't say I said the BR yesterday already even though it's still night time because if you learn at 8 at night 9 at night 10 at night you still don't make a new braa cuz you're still covered from the braa in the morning it's just that you went to sleep and that sh causes the interruption so now you have a that kicks in you have to say the again and the second is that whether or not you're planning to study to that day you have an obligation to say b t daily and taste Tor a bit so that's how the r understood it and I'm not here to contradict my great rebi because this is a wonderful understanding of the rambam whether or not the rambam had it in mind or not you have to realize this is what's called a this is a novel understanding of the rambam's words because the ramam doesn't say it it's being inferred by what the rambam did by writing it twice and seeing it in the context of in the context of and making his point and um I wrote in my book on the conversations r that I escorted the r ones back home from the yard side share and the yard side share was one great after the other those who had the of being there he just walked away blown away and I asked the R I said does rebi believe that the rambam had these things in mind and he looked at me and he said what's the difference was it a good sheer I said maybe it was a great sheer what's the difference and the next morning I had an opportunity to talk to the rough son was in the apartment and I said this what happened yesterday and and what do you think because he's a scholar also that's just also into the scholarly world he said it's legitimate you take yav said you take the US Constitution and the founding fathers wrote it when they wrote it with whatever they had in mind and then 250 years later the Supreme Court Justices are reading between the lines of a particular Amendment and saying what the founding fathers most probably had in mind do they know what he had in mind no but it's legitimate you can do that you can come up with ideas you can you can somehow expand you can condense and so on based on you know a certain usage of a language that we call a you know your precise language and so on is as legitimate so you can squeeze out from the rambam's language whatever you want it's it's has a has of and you have to say on that also but whether or not the ramam actually had it in mind once it the once says you know maybe we're going to find out that RAF Kapak understood the ramban better than my great-grandfather rim and I thought that was like heresy coming from Sal wow and basically we were saying was that RAF Kapak from Yemen has this direct line of mode of thinking of the rambam because the yemenites in the 12th century they embraced and endorsed the rambam totally and the ramam had much communication a lot of communication between the ramam and the yemenite Jewish community so RAF Kapak who's like a c of that Community has the rambam's mindset and rim Sal was willing to admit that maybe RAF kapas got it right and his great-grandfather Rim who had all these no on Kim it's nice you know it's nice for for air and the Yesa but that may not be what the ramam had in mind you know yeah you're going to ask them yeah I'll get the what if later on someone I make a living doing that that's where that's going to be engraved on my Tombstone that's what I do I I'm working with uh with manuscripts and and believe me I I've and I give all the credit to all the great do Israel who wrote what they wrote I remember telling my brother over a uh a whole idea proving unequivocally in in in the famous contradiction in the rambam in the Mish place a place B we can show manuscript that ramam changed his mind in a one place it wasn't corrected and that's why when it got the print um it was it it shows up as a contradiction and there's a great sheer by R on this and everything my brother says you know you might be right but you're going to say this in a sheer CL in the Yeshiva I mean that that's what you're going to say that the raham Chang his mind I said yeah listen this is what we're going to say and you want to know what the Rama meant what he actually said not what you think he could have said so a lot of times these Kim are really standing on the shoulders of the greats and and and they're building themselves up okay it's okay it's perfectly legitimate Enterprise in tal don't get be wrong but you know you want to say ah this is what the Rah said let's be careful yeah can't you say that is also and since you govern every day you have to say okay so first of all whether per se is considered tal that I'm not 100% sure but I would agree that in the sidder there are ample amount of Torah quotes that demand before and that's why it's there in the whether it's I mean my gosh that's all right right there whether it's that's Tyra and so on so there's an awful lot of whether it's so there's awful lot of to in the S itself which is one of the reasons that when in it says and it's in the very last full words with no comment of the RSO thei he says women say the That Trick Ed A whole discussion why what do you mean why well doesn't it say that we shall teach our sons my daughter took that out ofar already she threw it in Gesa but I explained to her that there's no need to put that in G because the r explained that what the does is does not exempt women from the lowered the bar of and how that sits in modern day feminism and so on you have to work that out but the r goes further and says that within the framework of Li there is a difference in obligation between obligation of man obligation of woman to but there is an obligation of woman for T no doubt when we talk about the mitv that women are obligated so I made a calculation that women are are obligated in 95% of the mitzvot and about 5% of the mitzvot women I'll use the word enjoy I don't know uh have an exemption 5% no more than that and if I would open up a k and take 20im and and support them for 20 years that they should study only the Torah that women are obligated to study and never to repeat the same subject twice in 20 years they'd never repeat anything so nobody should tell me that a woman doesn't have to study T and that's one of the lines that some of the poskim say of course women have to study T but there's a there's a a little difference a woman should not say in the context of her um Family Life put all her children on hold and put the family on hold because you know she's got to study six hours now the didn't want that to happen that doesn't mean a woman in whatever context she may be in she can't learn 6 hours but the rub went further and said there's another Mitzvah called love of God and there there's no distinction between men and women and the ram defines the Mitzvah of as intellectual study he says you have to connect to God intellectually which and he says it clearly that women are part of that and there's no difference between men and women on this so certainly women have to say some of the like the that's the he says because women DAV so they open up a s and there are sections of Torah in the Sid as part of the daving so of course they have to say beforeand so that's his line that's but but from bris the's grandfather took a completely different step and he said the is not a to engage Us in the mitv it's not like saying a before or any other you say before a Mitzvah he says the is not that it's that the Torah itself requires that before you study it you offer praise to that he actually gave the tah and it's based on a that when mentioning merely mentioning God's name and in a wide sense is called mentioning God's name bring offer words of words of praise to God and that's what led the ran to argue with the ram he says you see that is a Biblical mitvah because the ra only counts one as biblical that is benching all the others are rabic says the ran ramban says no no no there are two that are biblical is biblical so also knows of that but he's nevertheless he saw that the obligation was rinic in origin B but you have here um with regard to um the's idea that the bat the very study of T itself demands whether a man studying whether a child studying whether a woman studying makes no difference and therefore that's why women are obligated in the of Tor yeah I'm listening hour so it's it's there would be a fake because this 72 minutes is also it's not so the is even if you take a shab in the afternoon and you go over the 72 minute marker and you go to a sh and you hear a Shear you no the Min is not because it's a suff and whenever is's a doubt whether you have to make another not we always go lenient and that is we're strict not to say the we say Lula we go lenient not to say but the reason is because you don't want to say a in vain so we're not sure so that's the Min the Min is that even if you SCH a little bit but if somebody has a night shift and and and he sleeps eight hours in the daytime and then he you know cracks a safer so there might be a good reason you know yeah we're getting there thank you thank you thank you thank you that's why rif is here that's why Rifka is here cuz I said I'll get to it later right so later can be in 3 weeks later I told my wife I have Rifka here cuz you know cuz sometimes the last few years sometimes I I open a window in the uh computer sense and I forget to close the window I don't know where I'm holding but Rus he always to remind me how to close the window I appreciate I really do appreciate it I really do appreciate it so so no no no so so the question of U why beer is the sampling of Torah I understand it so the Who's the who lives in the late 19th century and it's phenomenal series it's based on the style of sh but it's much greater than that it's a type of Encyclopedia talmud and it's it's just wonderful and um came out the end of the um in the in the 19th century um and he he actually says draws attention to the fact that have two of the and the r has three he says you know what this might be he says the rambam divides Torah study into a triangular uh type of syllabus on top it's called mikra mikra means and then on one side of the triangle it's mishna and on the other side it's talmud SL now what's the difference between mishna and gar Mish is two different styles of learning Mish means setting out theim it's a it's a it's a ledger of denim of one after the other means analysis discussion so it's two different things so why do we call the mishna mishna because it conforms to this style of learning but so does mishna the r it's also mishna learning and and so is the mishna type learning whereas gamar is called talm because it's discussion and Analysis it's a different type of and I would put the the letters of Raa Fein into that category too because that's what it is he's not telling me here's the question here's the answer here's the question here's the answer it's an analysis so it's talmud so according to the ram because he says we should divide our Torah study day into three he says it and it's based on on the word v don't read Vish but V to play on words here divided by three M so the ra says you divide your day so thear even says what am I supposed to do does that mean a third of my life mikra a third of my life mishna a third of Life how do you know when the end is if somebody would tell me I'm going to live till 90 fine it's going to work 30 30 30 but nobody tells you these things so so how do you how do you know so Mar says all right all right um um you know every every week okay every week week so so you know so that's a two days mishna two days mishna two days mikra two days mishna two days Gar so how do you know you're going to finish the week soar says all right each day third of the day you're going to study mikra Third Day mishna thir day because thear says do even bother asking if you're going to die 2 in the afternoon right so thear doesn't bother that that's that's really ridiculous but basically gar says if you have an hour to learn so 20 minutes mikra 20 minutes many of the poim later said that that's at the beginning of your learning career but once you have the hang of it of tanak in the back pocket you can shift more to the gamar side what they do incorrectly in the yeshivas today as they start with gamarra in fifth grade before there's any solid basis in mikra in tanak and in mishna and it's wrong now some here in Israel they have gone back to the old system the old system is mentioned in it says 5 years old you start with 10 years old mishna now that word tal is in a mishna so which tal is it it's the style of learning the analysis and so on which means according to K you should have five years of tanak in the back pocket before you even open up the first mishna and you have five years of finishing sh Mish before you start learning gar but they don't do that today and it's a big mistake it's a very very very big mistake today there are Yeshiva Boys who they they know of auk because the gar in sanedrin quoted it or it happens to be other than that they don't know tanak in America we didn't learn tanak properly here is being studied properly his M being studed I mean has a lot to do with this but uh for sure so let's get to the B before Rifka tells me again have to get back to it right with a clear head right should go with a clear head right okay so um so we have three a division of three according to the RAM and the tosot who we do we have it's a division of two so the response is a response of two what is he why is it two one is the written law and one is not to split Mish talmud but mishna talm hyphenated is the oral law and that's why have two that's good enough two and we respond with which is and we respond with what does that have to do you could pull any out of for that matter to talk about the wonderful Mitzvah because the gar uses to say something about the reading of T the or the written law in public or we call laining and it's and it says that we have three people getting alot to the Tor on Monday and Thursday and we have five people getting alot on yam and seven people getting alot on Shabbat what does that correspond to what what what what is there any type of SAR says the says it corresponds toim because bat is a triple edged and the first has three words the second has five words and the third has seven words and as we say in Chinese so what so what that's just a technical thing three five and seven and the gar says from where does the three having three alot on weekday Monday Thursday and five Al and seven Al where does it come from K where's to what's the connection so here you have to employ some htic thought to it is actually a that you should succeed in your financial matters and sustenance we call Rash says in your belongings should be blessed shouldn't come and take it from you so not only should be blessed that you should have earning potential but you should also be guarded and fenced that nobody should take it away from you so that's number one which is a weekday concern it's a very much a weekday concern the uh you know every time the Torah talks about Shabbat it doesn't say it also prefaces by saying why does it say that we' all figure it out that if you're not allowed to work on Shabbat you are a lot of work on the first six days so the V says that you're supposed to work you're not supposed to sit around doing nothing what am I supposed to do ah take a look at the list of the 39 prohibited activities on Shabbat and pick and choose you don't have to do all of them on Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday pick and choose so he's a farmer and she's writing and he's building and all those things that are forbidden on Shabbat that's what you're supposed to be doing and this comes this idea comes from the G story where it says to the could have told them don't eat from the tree the fruit of the center tree that's it they'd figure out from themselves that they can eat from the other tree no eat from the old engage in in in the pleasures of life that's why I made this world for you you should enjoy it but these don't eat same thing with with Kash this you should eat and this not to eat tells what which meat yes and which meat not which fish yes and which fish not because the yes is not just by PR of Illumination I understand or not so I figured it out myself no the Torah wants us to engage in eating good foods and tasty Foods on Shabbat is a Mitzvah even and so on and therefore yes you do your work and will bless you and you'll expand and grow and so on and nobody's going to take it away from you that's a Monday Thursday concern that's a weekday concern so that's why that corresponds to the three alot on Monday Thursday the med in says what is it's what we say in shalom it is spiritual illumination the second has to do with wrong everything is p and as well ASU stood at the SN at the burning bush I used to say years ago that's when the president United States got got upset he was the burning bush but uh the doesn't work today right the um M was standing at it was it was and says that the proof you are coming back to this mountain which means everything about was the leadup to Matan T and we Echo this on SED night we're drinking the fourth cup corresponding to which took place at not and the mitvah that binds it's exactly what it is ran even goes out and says it's a type of which binds connects Bridges the gap between p and and Sh but don't leave Suk out Sukkot out in the in the cold because sukot was actually supposed to be a Nissan which means the S was supposed to be in the Suka that's what it was supposed to be but with his infinite wisdom wanted to split it by six months so it's not an accident that Su is also the 15th and there are many that are derived on the bridge called 1515 the 15th of Nissan and the 15th of and is categorically so all three of the are or and hence which has five words that's why on yam we have five alot and Shabbat you don't have to scratch your head to to figure out why the association of seven I mean the number says it all but furthermore the Shalom where we say shalom what is the we say shabbat shalom what is what does it mean when we say shabbat shalom where's the the shalom means peace and Harmony what is the Peace of and Harmony of Shabbat the answer is if the first is a week dayish bra of materialism and the second bra is the Yum bra of of of spirituality Shabbat is the fusion of the two it's making peace with materialism and spirituality at the same time that's what Shabbat is so it's a y kados with on Shabbat so the cougal is is is as much as a part of the experience of Shabbat as the N Shabbat which is a highly spiritual Mitzvah highly spiritual Mitzvah no doubt so it all goes together there was one said why do we eat Cal on Shabbat he say because kug is gatria Shabbat so quickly quickly made the calculation that it's way off I mean it's really way off so he tells this to the reab and the rebba says eat another piece you know the P you'll get to it you know so this is the so because is associated with the laning of of weekday y Shabbat 3 five and seven K felt this was a good selection of being the tasting of Torah on a no matter whether nice right you better say it over in my name because that was a Kish it's a nice htic thought nice htic thought to put this together okay I thought we'd finish this page we didn't so you can return it to me or bring it next week Miss Jim but we're going to move on to another page I promise you believe