Parshas Beha'aloscha: The Rambam's 13 Principles of Faith

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay uh welcome everyone tonight's subject is going to be on very fundamental material uh the basic material should be familiar to everyone however we're going to try to analyze it in a new way um and let's start in the following way the end of the par we have the episode that Miriam speaks the about mhu so let's get to the bottom of it what exactly did she say she really didn't put him down she didn't say anything bad about mosu all she did was she equated him to the other n she said look Abu is a great man he never had to be perished from SAR y was a great man he never had a separate from Rifka Yakov never separated from his wife there were there will be other great n they never separated from their spouse who does mhu think he is well he thinks he's greater than yov so Miriam didn't puta down she didn't embarrass him she didn't disparage him she merely equated him to the other of I mean I think it's not so bad if somebody thinks you're like yaku you know it's not really uh it's not that derogatory and yet she was punished very severely and the rambam in says that regarding speaking lashara the Torah warns us and the Torah says guard watch out in the Affliction of SAS remember what re did toam and the ramam says you know there are so many mitigating factors that really should not really have punished Miriam that severely number one she was older than him you know she's talking about her younger brother number two she raised him we know that after Basia found him floating in the in the Nile Miriam was the one who cared for Misha she risked her life to save him obviously she really cared about him and if she said anything it was for his benefit number four says the r she didn't speak about his deficiency she merely made a mistake equating him to the other prophets she didn't realize the supremacy the greatness of fact was greater than AB that mha was greater than all theim and besides that the ra says M did it didn't bother him he wasn't hurt he wasn't insulted because the very next is says the if you talk about somebody with no good intention just to bad Mount them just to undermind them just to speak derogatorily about them says the r if you do so you're a Russia the ramam says you're a tip and you're following in the ways of the wicked okay so R makes listen to the if Miram who barely did anything wrong was punished so severely when we speak severe it is comes and it's amazing I took out my saer today and out of the saer falls a picture and the picture was given to me by a gentleman who for many many months maybe over two years sat in that chair right over there his name is you remember him Bernie Eon he was a Cen he remember him he was in the high 9s he flew in the RAF the Royal air Force in World War II in London remember him he came to the shear and queens for for six years he came to the sh he's in his I think in his high 90s he gave me a picture that he took of Rebel Khan in 1937 when he was in the the Royal Air Force when one time he came here so I found the picture I visited him today so he he he used to drive here from Queens his high 90s but he's doing well um so I took and asked asks we know the ra has 13 principles of Faith the seventh principle is that the sixth principle is to believe that there's a concept of n concept of Prophecy God communicates his will with mankind but the seventh principle is that the N the prophecy ofu was the highest level of Prophecy that we have to believe thatu was there was no one ever before him greater in any area and nobody after him will be greater he achieved the highest level of understanding of God that is humanly possible he ripped all the separations between him and knowledge of hasem he abolished he eradicated any human Force within himself desire any human force was eradicated elevated himself to the status of Mal and this is one of the in other words if somebody were to believe that was a good goodi like Yeshua and like and like like what are they if somebody believes was equal to the other what would we call such a person a he picks up the bottle of wine there's not yeah if somebody were to have such a belief that m is equal to sh they would be a they would be somebody who's denying one of the how could the make foram that if Miriam who barely did anything wrong she loved her brother she risked her life for her brother she hardly said anything wrong about her brother if she was punished if we speak we're going to be punished what's the Miriam did something much much much worse than her you know what she did appic carus she didn't believe of the greatness of M raenu she equated m raenu to the other so you can't make a from Miriam did something much more severe than lashar Miriam violated one of the 13 tenants of Judaism as how could the ra make Miriam didn't just speak Miriam violated one of the big 13 more than that asked are you telling me sham that Miriam was we can't even say so but but it seems that Miriam is violating one of the 13 principles of Faith was she not be I mean if she thought was equal to then according to the ra she didn't believe in the basics of Judaism that's Reb's and forb an amazing idea and that is how do we know that m is the greatest of all the how do we know that mosh's level of Prophecy was asak with Clarity of Vision Without images without riddles but just straight on exactly the way the meant that idea is only articulated and enunciated after M speaks God says Miram let me tell you something m is not like he's not like yes he's not like he's much much greater look at number four if you if you'll be a prophet I'll appear to you in a vision I'll speak to you in a dream speak to him personally not with a riddle he sees me directly why you not afraid to speak about says when Miriam spoke about lhara this had not yet been articulated in the T it was not a major violation to think that M was equal to sh because nowhere in the Torah did it say that was Far Far surpassed the other it's at this point in time is educating Miram and educating CL through the to that in fact's level of is on a much much higher level now if someone were to do what Miriam did they would be an aiar but at the time that Miram did it she was not speaking AI carus because it was not yet one of the Y which by the way is a very big because I would have thought that we already knew that M's level of was after all the r says that in the T came from the fact that on communicate that's the whole strength of the T but nevertheless apparently that yet it wasn't clear that one was required to believe that reached a level of Na higher than anyone else it only was articulated at this point in time so the topic I would like to speak about tonight is a topic that everybody knows about and nobody knows anything about it everybody knows the ra yeah in fact many people they come into sh and I don't know what in the world people are doing but when it comes to sh people are not starting with the so let me explain something to you first the reason you with come is for one thing basically to start sh with a minion meaning if you don't start with a minion you did not D in with a minion you know most Jews like to Pride themselves yeah I D in in sh the MIT not ding in sh that's the mind the mitz is ding with the minion the definition of ding with a minion according to the Mish is starting with the minion which means you knew you need to do whatever it takes to start with the minion so people come in I'm not talking about people who talk who they'll get much more if they snore in bed the whole morning I'm talking about people that come to sh and they open up the Sid and they say who told you to say because you did it in kindergarten you do every you still do everything you did in kindergarten it says in to say it says it in it says it in you show me the saf for you answer is if you is beautiful as long as you're going to start with the you're going to say every word of if this is going to delay you by the way never said said not to say it it's a big where it comes from that's not the subject of the point is that people are busy saying things in the Sid because they're in the Sid not everything in the Sid you have to say or should you say you have to say you have to say and you have to say but the reason I'm talking about is a is a h is a of the who wrote the the r where did the r write this the rambam never wrote words who wrote those words not the ram I don't even I don't know I'm not sure who wrote it the anim are basically a summary of the r now where did the ra write the in his toin and the Parn the ram wrote a which by the way we're going to learn something that I was not aware of the ramam wrote it in Arabic it was translated into the r wrote extensively of what theim are in the Sid they summarized them in one line but the ramam did not write in one line the rambam wrote it in in uh bigger paragraphs I remember many years ago in Camp gave a are just like a um a popular version of the what are they so ra says look at number six number one to believe Hashem created the world and he guides everything number two God is one number three God has no body he no no physicality is applicable to number number four God is first and God is last God is eternal number five pray to God don't pray to dead people don't pray to rabbis pray to God people have a hard time with that one okay number six there's something called prophecy number seven m is the greatest greatest Prophet number eight the Tyra we have today was given to M number nine there will never be another Tyra number 10 God knows what you're thinking he knows what you're looking he even knows what you're Googling you hear thises God knows what you're Googling okay and the so by the way so does your phone it's not even your phone knows you think and and what so does the government right so does Obama if Obama knew then re what no no no I know that but he still knows I'm aware of who the president of United States is but he's still looking you know but um Pua knows all these people they know what you're Googling okay fine um the re knows what you're thinking he rewards and he punishes mhia is coming which includes two things that there is a concept of M and you need to wait for M and finally there's a concept of these are called the we all know this some people say it after daving what are the y That's the what we have to analyze tonight what in the world are they 13 what principles 13 important things what think something in as opposed to other things I have a question you've been in the I've been here long enough right if you were to ask what is the most important mitz the Tyra learning Tyra uh how come it's not on the list what's the second most important M on the Tyra also not on the list I have a question if you believe that you're pre-programmed I once gave a shear and I said I said you know everybody knows that a person has the right to choose whether they're going to do right or wrong guy was arguing with me he said no it's not true Hashem controls everything whether you do a Mitzvah Hashem created you that way do a so unfortunately this person after the she he was no longer an right but if somebody doesn't believe that a person has free choice they're a it's not on the So What by what is the criteria by which the ramam selected these 13 what about you know they asked tell me the whole Torah on one foot you know it's not even here so important it's not even here by the way 13 yeah so on some AR they had the ass how many of the how many are in one I mean what who how did the ram decide what the 13am are what is the criteria and this is the topic of the saer SA of Al Alo was one of the great reim from Spain I think he was born in Saragosa he lived in castill and he questions what is the definition what does iar mean what by what criteria did the rambam select 13 ikam so he says at first iar probably means let's say you have a tree what's the iar of the tree that which everything else stands on that which everything else is dependent on meaning everything depends on it and it doesn't depend on that so in other words the branches of the tree dep depend on The Roots the Roots don't depend on the branches so maybe in or like the gamar says some things have an in in the T some things are not well says in his opinion the we have to assume that the word is taken literally means those Concepts that everything else in y depend depend on and these Concepts don't depend on anything else meaning what are the concepts without which you could not have a T for example let's sayin what's the if somebody says I'm going to keep all 612 mitz except for what are they they're a heretic they're a k What If a person says I will keep the whole Tyra but I don't shess I can't handle I must wear youo boss laiden with shess that's my thing I just I feel really good wearing shess so what's the person AER if a person says about one letter of the T I believe in the whole except for one crown on one of the letters I think added for flare so what makes something in what makes something inar it must bear means without it you couldn't even have a Tyra if somebody doesn't believe Inus he's AER but TOA is possible the concept of tah is possible without situs you could have a tah without having sitas Hashem happened to give us situs and if you don't believe in it you're not but the concept of T is possible without situs but the concept of to is not possible without a God so therefore is an because you can't have without a god number two you can have Tyas eliss without prophecy there's no such thing as prophecy if God does not communicate with human beings you also can't have a t because how do we know what Hashem wants also if if mosu is not the greatest Prophet who ever lived you can't have a TOA because if if you're going to say mha is equal to all the other prophets what's stopping some uh schlam from coming along 500 years later and saying by the way Hashem changed his mind so belief that is the greatest Prophet is in you can't have Tyro without it God knows what we do is an Niar because you can't have checks and balances and a reward and Punishment without God's knowledge but says the if the definition of is those ideas and those Concepts that everything else is predicated on and you could not have TOA without it there are a lot of questions you could ask on the ram so I broke up the a little userfriendly bide pieces because it's he's very so if you look in says the you know if the definition of are those Concepts that everything else is predicated on why would the ram say that one of the is that you can't believe God has arms right you can't believe God has physicality why you can't have Tyro let's say somebody believed that God had physical properties you could still have a Tyra God this God who the person mistakenly thought had physicality gave us a to why would you include ha God's physicality if the definition ofar is without which you couldn't have Tas why include the principle that God is Not physical why include the principle that God is one and and let's say you thought God is three and a half they're three and a half you could have a you could have a tah why couldn't you have a tah you're right it's AIC carus and it's wrong we're not we're not arguing that the idea is not true but if you if you're trying to understand what by which criteria did the ramam select the it does not seem to be those Concepts upon which everything in Judaism is based because why is everything in Judaism based on the fact that God is one and has no parts another question as to say why does the ram include only worship God no I don't want to worship God I want to go to a rebba and I want to pray to my rebba you could so fine so if you pray to a human being you might be anas but you could still have a TOA you could still have a TOA the tah is not uh would not dissipate just because somebody worships an entity other than the why would the r include the principle of sh not not I could still have a Tora I know there's a Divine he gave us a t and that t includes the information wants and there's reward and Punishment El the person made a mistake and he worships another entity as an intermediary fine it's wrong but what makes that an look why includ in other words the you couldn't have a to without the to that we have would be a different T without the belief in why include the concept of again you have to listen carefully if the definition of is that these are principles without which is not possible there are manyar that the ram included that would seem to go against this rule one the God's Unity go that God is Not physical therefore says the perhaps you'll say the definition of is not Concepts upon which everything else rest but these are just 13 important beliefs and that's why the ram include God's Unity it's important to know Hashem is one and it's important to know God is Not physical and it's important that there's well then says there are many other beliefs that the ramam should have included why didn't the ramam include that when CL Isel keeps the T God dwells among them and when we don't keep the t god leaves us isn't that an important principle to believe in why wouldn't the ram include and this is the million dooll question of the night the ram seems to have excluded the most important Amun in the T you know what that is that God created the world EXO something and a nothing you know it's not one of the Y we in the Y does it say that there was no original matter until God created the whole world y why is that yeah it says God created the world but where does it say that the original building block of material the the Y was created May why doesn't the ra say that the truth is that the RA in the says is the most important it's not in the says the why didn't the r include belief that hasem took that that seems to be very important we only do about every single mitzah we do is to remember God took us out of you make Friday night I mean it sounds like it's a pretty important thing to remember God so why isn't it one of the will go back and say iar means that which everything else is predicated on well says the then why didn't the r list what he writes in the r says permission is granted to everybody to do to do or not to do it a person has free choice Wednesday night to come to be or to blow it that's the bottom line nobody's forced to come here we try to entice you we try to give you some good food try to make it interesting but bottom line you know it's your choice you want to do the right thing or not says the ra listen to ra says the so why is not one so says you know there's another important principle and I never realized this why didn't the ramam include the principle that you should accept what your parents teach you about what happened in their past which is the basis of the T that we accept the traditions of our parents what they heard from their parents about going back to Kabal M where did the ramam get the number 13 from right like like how did he come with number 13 so listen to this says the sa I heard some people say the rambam conveniently picked the number 13 because says the let me tell you something you ever hear that there's something called intelligence and SE well those who say that have none of the above because if you think that the ramam predicated Judaism on principles with a convenient number to fit in to pal the ramam is not you know this is not like a cutesy work over here where the ramam is trying to fit Judaism into a pre-existing working number and therefore the sort of throws up his head and he says we really don't have any guidance of what is the definition of an iar and what's not you know you know throughout sh you could go through the entire timei you will not find any discussion ofuna it's not there and therefore he says in my humble opinion the r is absolutely incorrect there are not you know how many there are three and means ideas upon which everything else is based and you know what the three are number one that there's a God number two that God revealed his will to mankind mind and number three reward and Punishment he knows what you're thinking he knows what you're looking at he knows what you're thinking about he knows why you're doing what you're doing why you're thinking what you're thinking he sees into your heart more than your heart he sees into your kidneys he understands why your heart is inclined the way it is he sees into your liver he knows what is motivating your kidneys to advise your heart to think certain thoughts these are the three principles of Faith there's a God he communicated his will to man and there's reward and Punishment everything else is just an offshoot of these principles an offo of that there is is you know what and who is the Bo the is one he has no hakama he has no physicality he's Eternal worship him alone a offshoot of is God communicates to was the greatest God will never never give us another T the to will never change and part of reward and punishment is perforce God knows what you're thinking he knows what you're doing there's reward and Punishment there's and there's but the three principles of Faith are says you know what the that these are the three he says the proof is in the pudding on the most tenuous and dangerous day of the year namely rashishana when our lives are on the line kazal want us to master the three principles upon which the whole tah stands and therefore they wrote special Three Special BR to integrate into our souls these principles so that if we integrate these ideas we will get a good judgment namely Mal is about one concept only that God is help me out I'm going yeah okay says many people think that is about what has absolutely nothing to do with in fact we don't even mention we mention it in is about one concept and one concept only you revealed yourself at and you gave God revealed himself in an unprecedented way why is it called says because we had lightning before we had fire before but there was never the sound of a Sher so powerful ever in the history and therefore the hmar characteristic of was if you have and you integrate and incorporate the in you're gonna have a good judgment knows every act that was ever done ever thought that would ever was done any inclination that was ever done that's remembers everything understood that the when everything's on the line you got to stick to the meat and potatoes forget all the Z and get the main thing down get down that there's a God get down that he knows what you're thinking and get down that he gave us the T I'm going to tell you a very personal thing I'll tell you about myself I Was preparing the shear and it hit me you want to hear what it hit me that hasem knows what I'm thinking so what do you mean every Jew knows that every Jew knows it over here but you know what I felt it a little bit more and I the I the rant would say the distance between The Head and the Heart Is the greatest distance in the world we know every everything's up here the question is is it over here that's why you have to constantly learn and you have to learn you have to learn that hem knows what you're thinking so that maybe one day you're going to wake up and say meaning when I'm if my mind wanders knows that I'm not being that's that's a very important idea of course we know Hashem knows what I thinking what we're thinking but do we know it do we feel it do we feel is it coursing through our blood knows what we're doing what we're thinking says if a person is that there's and there's and there's look at number nine then and vouch safe for us you're going to have a wonderful judgment it's a look at number nine the says God's our judge God's Our lawgiver God's our King he will save us says a saim this this is the of God is our judge meaning he rewards us he punishes us if you believe God is our judge it's a for yes God is our lawgiver if you believe God revealed himself in our and gave us the T that's if you believe he's our King the that's that is for Yeshua if you incorporate these three ideas he's going to save us and you know therefore kazal instituted that the three main ideas that we think about on the yeah so that means the sa basically dismisses the ram argues on the ramam and says there only three but based on the Ram's understanding of he doesn't understand which things ramam included which things Ram excluded and then he says you know what maybe the ramam agrees to me that they're really three but all the ideas that the ram added are the sort of the offshoots of the three main ideas meaning like this maybe the r really agrees there three and so the ra starts off that there's a which is the first from that the is spreads out four more ideas which are part of the first ior that what that Hashem is one that Hashem doesn't have a goof that Hashem is eternal that Hashem alone is worthy to worship then the r enunciates the second e which is and part of that is prophecy the prophecy ofu the Torah will never change and there will never be a new Torah and then the go the r enunciates reward and Punishment so the is just including the three principles upon which everything else stands and the r also includes the ideas that emanate from these three and says for that would explain why the r does not include creation ex creation because that does not emerge from any of the three main and maybe that's why the ra doesn't count because it's also it's a separate idea does not emerge from these three ideas but one thing we see from the that he gripped the Ram literally that these are 13 principles of faith and he could not wrap his head around why the ramam picked certain things and omitted other things comes Abel Andel says the made a big mistake wrote a sa on the Y called Andel says let me tell you something Tyra is not like math or science let's say you're learning science so regen season and you say you know what I'm a cable of everything I just don't believe there's something called mitochondria I except there's a cell and there's a cytoplasm and a and um a nucleus I don't accept Okay so you you're your mamm in 99% and one thing you're a Kyan when it comes to Tyra if you select any one Concept in a t and say you know I don't accept that you're out me callula you're already in apiar there's no difference between you somebody says the whole Torah is made up and if someone who says one letter in the Tora is added are equal so says can you say one thing is more important than another thing what would that even mean the ram himself writes there is no difference between the mean r is saying every in the Torah has equal value every thought and idea in the t is equally important even though RAB said there are certain Mitzvah that are more General we have to nevertheless if somebody says you know I'm not certain Mitzvah they're out and therefore the says that the as well as R Who the re of the they misunderstood the raban you know what the rambam really means the rambam really never meant to write you know who Y is for for amarim people who don't know Tyra and who are uneducated so people don't know uneducated so what do we tell them to do hey uh you know they don't know anything so we say but a guy who knows epis abysal knows you come at the show and you dve in the daving not what they said in sang in kindergarten the ra he talking to people who don't know nothing they don't know T they don't know mitah they can't read a they can't read mishna so the rambam wrote in Arabic 13 principles of Faith basically for people who cannot get um en compus so he gave them 13 important ideas why these ideas ra felt these were that people were LAX in these were ideas that people needed to be in but no way did the r mean that these in any way are more important than any other part of the T the made them to people who think they're but they're not really says and the proof is and this is something I didn't know it says around says that the ram wrote his Parish hnas when when he was a young man he wrote the later the parish he wrote for simple people who all they do is they learn they learn mnas they go through mnas so the ra I'm WR in Arabic for people who are unlearned here are the basics of Judaism but people who are intellectually sophisticated and could probe the basics of the religion later on in life the r wrote theim and in the the r never said that this is more important than different and this idea is more important than another idea all the is important and is important the r never get any more strength to one idea than the other idea so the ramb this I was not familiar with he wrote this says and in it he wrote it you know like you know Judaism 101 but it's not really there's no difference between you know in other words what's more important belief that God is Not physical or belief in free choice so you say oh belief that God's not physical because it's in theim theim have no significance right imagine if somebody would come to a rabbi and say you know I don't understand um I think the most important Concept in Judaism is Hashem is everywhere why why do you think that because Uncle mhi wrote Hashem is here Hashem is there Hashem is truly everywhere he didn't say anything about uh about Amun he didn't say anything about sh so that's the most important thing so we say depending on his level if he's still holding by Uncle Mishi we say very good galic very nice but if he's actually learned something we explained to him that do not make a t out of says the ra wrot I don't know I don't know says barel the fact that the and chriscas took the ramam literally is a mistake and listen to what he says I'm going to bring you four proofs that they made a mistake number one if these were really then when God revealed himself on he should have said I am Hashem your God I have no body I am one I'm Eternal there's is the greatest why aren't any of the in the say number two then if it's not say it should be in the beginning of the Tyra God who's one who's non corpal who's who is eternal created the world it's not there in the beginning of the Tyra another question I have a question who gets punished more someone who thinks God has an eye or somebody who wear shus somebody wear shus gets malus someone who thinks God has physicality nothing happens to them why who think got his physicalities over one of the and he spoke sh it's not in the answer is there's no such thing as is for people who before daving they sing and after daving they say it's not for people know something there's no there's no significance of and finally says the strongest R of all you know what the proof that there's no such thing as say not one word that there's something called ikuna there's no such thing Asuna you have to fulfill and believe in every every concept of the Torah equally and therefore they mistakenly took what the r meant to write for beginners as literal that's the opinion of the now I believe brisker argues on he does argues on this is an amazing actually I saw it last year this time of the year I put in a file that's not the miracle the miracle is that I remembered I put in the file for this week's para CU it's not even on this week's para asked the million dooll question what are the what's question says if a guy says I believe in everything in the T except for the fourth par of the what are they right the guy does everything he he believes inula he he just believes the last inch of the rsua needs to be pink in honor of Mother's Day the last inch of the has to be pink so he's not pus yeah so it says so why isn't that Anar what makes one thing Anar over another in fact the saim rites there really three ikim and everything else you could figure out so how's the ram goingon to answer that this is the number say as only can here's the na between an and not an and this is is mish it could send shivers down your spine says if you don't believe inness you're a you don't believe in you're you don't believe in you're a if you don't believe in any but here's the difference you know the difference between an i and not an ier if a guy grew up in kitchen sink Idaho and he says we say Do you believe inin no why not I never heard of tan so he doesn't know it and and deny it he never leared it is he a ker not a ker you can't be a ker if you don't know it ker means you deny you can't deny something you didn't know so if somebody does never learned something in the Tyra that's why he doesn't do it he's not a ker but if somebody believes that God has an arm why cuz he never went to Yeshiva he's a Kyer Baker there's no such thing as there's no such thing as if somebody thinks you know what there's no such thing as Messiah you know why he doesn't know about mashiah he never went to Yesa he grew up in uh in BO Idaho yeah in timb too so he doesn't know there I mean you you you you you think that he's at fault he doesn't know that one day dead people are going to walk out of his out of the grave you blame him he never leared it he's a he's not that's you know why the because everything else in the you have to learn but you only have to learn it because it's t and if you don't learn it you don't know it and you're an but says there's no when it comes to if you don't know it you're a you're not you can't be a yid you can't be a yid if you don't believe that one day the righteous sadim are going to walk again you can't be a yid if you think that God doesn't know what you're thinking imagine if somebody says I don't believe that hasm knows what I'm thinking why don't you believe that what do you mean I never went to Yeshiva how am I supposed to know he's not he's not a Jew he's not a Jew but it's not his fault you're right it's not his fault but he's still unfortunately not privileged to be part of the Jewish people very frightening thing that's how is quoted from ra and I'm going to ultimately show you that R quotes this from and it's unbelievable quote quote you have to remember for the rest of your life let's take it one more step the ram writes look at number 12 there are five people called a men one who says there's no God there's no ruler of the world one who says there are two Gods one who says that God has a body that's what the r say somebody believes God has a body they're AAR comes the rivid and the rivit said I know big sadim that think that God has a body because they were learning and or learning garas and the learning steered them the wrong way and they think that Hashem has some type of H says the rid why is the guy called them in there many who they sort of did not have an accurate has because of a and they think that has so says the rivid they're not me they're not not they were just misguided that's the Kasha on the r then how could the ram say that somebody who believes in a he's still a good guy by the way the quotes the riv and he explains the rivit Kasha that the gamar says you know who's a Russ Elisha because he's that's a a is someone who knows and intends to reel but says the says what about who's learning in about a story about hasem watched the people and sent forth his Fury and because of that he believed that Hashem has some physicality to him he's an that's the RIT KAS on the r says you know what the Ram's going to say is the guy be just because he learned an and he was steered wrong yes he's an he's not a Jew no he's not a Jew but it's not his fault it is his fault it doesn't matter if it's not his fault to be a yid You Must Believe In These 13 ikim you must Master them you must know them and if by accident to no fault of your own you're misguided in them you're not be if you're misguided in let's say you say I think when the tah said to put F on the left arm that's talking to people who are very strong in the right arm but I'm a I'm a muscle builder so to me I could put on both so guy's not pus but he's not because he never learned any better but if a guy is misguided and even though it's not his fault it's not my fault my rebi never told me one thing about I learned Ina 20 years I learned every every and every I never learned I'm not an still an you have to know you have to know it correctly and now listen to comes and he says let me tell you the words that said you may have heard these words you ever hear that say that lot you say what do you mean it's not their fault they don't just throw no who told you to throw around that statement it's misguided it's misused is if someone doesn't keep shab they could be a but if somebody says I don't believe in why don't you believe in it it's an ancient hebraic belief and why do they say that because NE they never went to Jewish school they were never educated unfortunately it is very painful for us to say they are is only mitvah observance not there's no so here's a big question and there's a question asks and there's the question to for masks because there It quotes the opinion of RA you know ra says says there's no such thing as mAh yeah there's no such thing as mhia and the gar says you know God should thear says heill was wrong God should forgive raill God should forgive him he made a mistake based on his interpretation of theim RA interpreted that Messiah already could have come and it didn't come so wait a second according to the r belief in m is one what would the ram say about R uh nothing good so then why are we calling him raill why is he in the gamar why are we saying his name you see bisham according to the rivid the rivid would say if someone is misguided based on their learning that's not an Aus but according to the r if unfortunately a person's they're still an what would they say about rill so just throw out says a very interesting idea that when it comes to what the raham says that if somebody believes God has a physical form based on the way they interpreted theim God's physicality is so fundamental that even if they were misled based on their learning they're they're not their mind should have been strong enough not to be misguided by their learning but the concept of Mia is not as fundamental and therefore if someone is misguided based on their learning or based on their tradition maybe they're not an apar okay let's end up with the following you ready Grand Finale the million dollar question is the ram seems to have left out the most important what's the most important why is creation of the world something out of nothing why is that not one of the this is a question that struggles with in the and he says something that's and I'll tell you why because he was proven to be correct says the r did mention creation of the world out of nothing we are so most people would say in number one right in number four how in number four cuz what's number four who reine that God was first and he was last what does it mean God is first before who before me before you before your parents before your before your grandparents before before marish is that all the R means no before the world is that all the R means no before what the world is made out of before the rock before what The Rock is made out of before the cell before the atom meaning if we say that God is first that perforce means he came before the original matter so then if God was there before the original matter that includes encompasses the concept God created the original matter says barel in his humble opinion the main belief which the r omitted according to the which is is included in the fourth why do I say it's um because in the last 50 years they found the original manuscript of the of the RA in Arabic and in the original manuscript by the fourth in the Ram's own handwriting the ramam wrote included in the fourth iar is and in the addition of the he prints the words of the rambam in number 20 on your sheet exactly what theel says K Incorporated the rambam's own amend amendation into the words of the r if you look at number 20 on the fourth line in other words um that the preceded everything and he brought into existence the original matter so it comes out there is a very vast in understanding you have who really gives no significance at all to the it's basically Judaism 101 for people who don't know nothing so we'll say sing say afterwards we could have AUM we could sing all the together even though according to you know get get going crack open the gamar and really learn something according to it's not really that fundamental but the safe took the ram literally and that's how understands the ram that the ram means to categorize ideas as and of what significance is an i the significance of an iar is that which is not an if you're a you're Tak you're an you're excused they mitigating circumstances when it comes to the even though it's no fault of your own there's no excuse so you'll say that's not fair so says I'll explain to you why it is fair because when it comes to the tenants of Judaism it does not require any intellectual sophistication it does not require Faith it's Elementary common sense says if you walk in the desert and you see in the desert two letters written in the sand a b so you have two options the wind blew those letters that way or someone was there and wrote it and if you're a betting man and you have $10,000 on you would you bet all your money that someone wrote it or or would you say you know what that's it's always possible that the wind blew two letters perfectly written so they say I I personally and I think almost everyone I know would bet all my money that there's no way wind could produce two letters even with such plan and purpose and you look at the human body where there's more information on one DNA than in all the books in all the libraries in the world you hear this on one brand strand of DNA there is more info than not two letters than all the books in this room in every library in the world so what are the chances that so that obviously the concept of that there's a Creator is there's no alternative unless you choose not to cognitive dissonance unless you block it out of your mind the belief in the Creator is the most Elementary piece of information and once there's a Creator so he gave us instructions otherwise why' he put us here those instructions are the T the basics of Judaism are expected not only on all Jews but on Ben you know if a doesn't keep the seven no laws he'll be punished for it why how did he know the guy grew up you know in the South or he grew up somewh we grew up in China he's an atheist why will we be punished for the answer is first of all there's Torah anytime thatc but besides that it's Elementary it's Elementary it's Common Sense the basics of Judaism are mandatory because instilled us with common sense so this is a a very interesting uh analysis you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com