Pirkei Avos 3:8 Guard "YOUR" Torah - The Great Teaching of Rebbi Eliyahu Hakohen of Izmir

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and you know who the town of this mishna is rabbi mayer ravi dostoy brabyana shimra mayor oymer rabbidustai and the neighbor of yanai said from ramirez anyone who forgets something even one thing from his learning it is considered as if you're liable for your own life this is a very harsh criticism the mishnah says if somebody forgets one thing they learned it's considered like they're liable for their life only be careful and guard your soul very much lest you forget the matters that your eyes saw that's a very harsh critique anyone who forgets even one thing from their learning is considered like they're liable for their life tell me somebody who remembers even one thing they ever learned most people forget not some things they learned most people forget almost everything they learned and here ramirez saying if you forget even one thing that you learned and then the mishna says i would think even if your learning was so difficult and you couldn't hold on to it you're still high with me therefore it says unless you remove it from your heart all the days of your life that you're not you're not until you literally remove it from your heart so i want to share with you the approach as we did last week from the swarm of rebellion of izmir a number of uh ideas that are brought out in the form of roblio aquino izmir this week we're going to do some news forum of his the mizbeach and he analyzes this uh he analyzes this mission on the following way in his safe era on ms mr he brings this mishna the fact that there's a phenomenon of forgetting is it from why god made us forget because he wants us always to review shimla because a person wouldn't forget how yolo made he would learn okay i already learned to hotaro now what let's say a guy he's a daffy immediate so after seven years he could go golfing for the rest of his life because he already learned it and he remembered okay he didn't do you xiaomi okay he'll spend another couple of years and that's it so god made us forget because he wants us always to learn so what do you know anyone who forgets one thing is me story me it's not it's not our fault i would love to remember god made me forget um we're afraid a person said why should i learn further um because forgetfulness is common and likely therefore we always learn how could the tana say for forgetting one thing and if you're going to say nah you're not actually higher for shikha kiyama um that's only if you remove it from your heart move on kane mirai is not understood from the passage the passage says pentish lest you forget the master the passage seems to be saying for forgetfulness why are you high for forgetting who made us forget god made us forget in other words i would love to remember the gemaran brachas that i learned today the only thing is tomorrow i'm going to forget it because that's human nature says this mishna does not mean what you think it means it means something else entirely um nero le phara shaindirayatana feylim you could review and then you might still forget and maybe you'll remember but it's not our fault you know what the tana is saying you better remember allah and he had a kidus but he forgot the you know why because he's lazy and he didn't write it down he says great hashem this mishna doesn't apply to me because i don't have any kedusham i just listen to other people so i don't have to worry about this mishna no we're going to see hidush means something you didn't know so you learned something you didn't know but you forgot it you know i forgot it because you were lazy you didn't write it down so why should i write it down because when somebody tells it tells you okay here's the account number call in the number and you'll redeem it for a thousand dollars you say wait a second let me get a pen so important things you write down so why don't you write down things you learned the same way you write down information that you need to remember ah in other words if you lend somebody a thousand dollars you'll probably write it down alzheimer's regarding your learning there's a visel if you forget it there's a big problem you see if you forget the gemara brachas guess what life goes on because you might not remember but there's still a talmud babali written down there is even an art school gemara and if you don't remember someone else will remember but if you don't remember your khidosh that you came up with if you're not going to remember it then it's going to be gone forever kevin shudover shalom if it's yours who's going to remind you something you thought of something you came up with if you don't write it down that's the problem and listen to this um that brings a clear proof that since what does it say pentuska has advanced maybe you're going to forget the matters that your eyes so daikov have if it's just talking about somebody who learns out of a book and he forgets that's not your friend also um fortunate as someone who goes upstairs the talmudi beyadai and his learning his learning talmudi his contribution is in his hand was written so now your tamuda is this is what the mishna means be careful in an old man who forgot his learning right he's zoya bizaken because that's uh it's tough for allah it was something he couldn't hold on to so this is the idea the idea of is that the mishnah is not so much talking about somebody who forgets something they learned he forgot apostol he forgot a gemara that's a hal basara the gansadzara is if you have a contribution and we'll see what the definition of torah is but if you thought of a good question or you thought of a good teres or you thought of a good shot you better write that down right away because if you don't remember it that might be lost from the world forever the rabbi yo coin of izmir and his safer sheila and moser he writes a person should be careful to try to innovate new torah thoughts to achieve more than his ability so you say now that's beyond me i can't do it it's above my capability that's right it is above our capability because we're only a boss of but the espalo la misha mashallah you should pray to the one who belongs to the shame of the period the same way a person has a mitzvah to procreate to have children an obligation to procreate and torah create new ideas let the water swarm the in maya melatora you should innovate ideas they should be inscribed on your heart that will be your crown says the shade and mostly it will be embarrassing when they ask the soul no what were you makhadesh and you say um uh i don't know i came up with a new color of paint in my den i spent many days pouring over paint samples no no that's not what we're talking about we're talking about what did you innovate in torah and then the shiva muslim brings a very powerful story he says on the salik rivenova i believe that is the kava yosha that he had a say there reviewing his own hidusham shamatsu is he had a sad sader reviewing his own hidushem now when i saw this yesterday i was reminded of something i read about the sam seifer that i have to say i didn't really understand and in this context i think we understand very well in the safe room in cypher i have it right here this um minha some sofa it's not a rare safer it's available but this one is uh very dear to me i have it for my grandfather i'm not sure if he brought it over from europe he may have many of his swarm are brought up from europe for example this safer it's called the seifer kharadim rebellio as kiri and um it has the stamp of one of the dp camps in it so this is from the dp cams and i have a collection of letters from the guerra reba's that my grandfather brought over from munich and and other dp camps um but this safer i'm not sure where it's from it's a collection of different costumes of he says that when the samsuffer gave shir any swara he said on his own any answer he said anyhidush that he asserted that talmidim had to then review right after the share miyar khazrat al-advar bin khalam and during the khazrah he was mafalba with them and they would be muthafu with him during the drosha whether it's by agatha whether it's bashmite saw anything that some sophists said they had a review and he says this fortune is the eye that saw this love of the torah but it says very much on review his learning always he reviewed that four times every day i always wondered why was i'm sorry for so busy reviewing the shiram that he gave the answer is it seems like aside from the obligation not to forget torah there's a special obligation not to forget the torah that that's your contribution and here he says the khidusam serves mahadesh every week he would write in a special notebook and on wednesday he did not give an ian shear and there's nothing the same sofa ever said that was not written down and this the shiva mustard says is the meaning of ashrae me shabba khan and i know you're thinking you're saying this is not relevant to everybody many people halaway they should be koiveya itim la toira and uh review their learning but not everybody is capable of being mahadesh khidushim but we're going to address that as well but i want to show you an interesting uh paragraph in the shavette monster of rebellion kind of izmir and in this paragraph he learned he gives us examples of what we could learn from everything in nature whatever you see in this world you could learn from whether it's a blade of grass whether it's a cow whether it's a cat whether it's a bird whether it's a cactus everything in this world you could learn from so he gives examples he says it should not be low in your eyes something that you learn or a kidus that you innovated even if it's small it should not be small in your eyes you should elevate it magnify it make it great because this will bring you to be mechadesh until you're accustomed to makhadesh great and you plant in all the world's beautiful plantings from your hidduche torah to make gardens and orchards what do we learn from here yil madman has zairea zerakot and kahada let's learn a lesson from someone who plants a small seed like mustard zojira may say you plant a small mustard seed vanasa ilan gadon let's like this somebody plants an oak tree in uh 10 years and 20 years it could be 100 feet tall hasha rosh rose roots branches leaves fruits and you could plant from the branches plantings until it becomes gardens and orchards where did it all come from the fact that the person had the good sense not to throw the little tiny seed in the garbage there's a little tiny seed and from that little tiny seed there came from it a tremendous tree but ellen is goddamn it was elevated in his eyes it was raw you smart the guy had the good sense to care and to protect the seed so even if you have a small in torah it's like a seed preserve it record it write it he says um how proper it is any novelty that you have in torah as soon as you have it you should write it down le mans so it should have long shelf life like i said that someone who doesn't write down is kadusan because it's small in his eyes is us because we tell the guy i don't understand you have a whole notebook you have a whole record book of all the uh imports and exports and all the expenses and all the credits and all the debits and what you owe what other people owe you and you have over there this guy owes me a nickel and that guy owes me two cents and i owe him three pennies and that's important in your eyes what about akhira shantara it says let me just move this aside therefore anything that a person innovates in torah anything in person he should write down this is again what it means your contribution how do you have your tamudabiyada because by doing so you won't forget it now this is also what the tana means and again this is what he said in the mizbeh helio someone who forgets something so what does it mean how do you make sure you don't forget it what do you mean so anyone who forgets something from his learning is what he's supposed to do the answer is what are you supposed to do you write it down because any time you forget it you'll see it and you'll remember the age tyler's goddamn so you say what do i need for tamil babli is big enough what do i need mychadesh for the answer is it ties you to that subject i love indian god or it helps you understand better you know what it's like it's like you have a big wall and the wall is made out of big stones but the wall is very wobbly and unstable because you need the little tiny stones to hold the bigger stones in place you put little stones in a binyan avadhim between stonehenge to hold it up so the avonim kitamnim are going to that the whole wall stand strong through a small kiddush in learning and this is myself especially among the darshanam that through a small new idea from there they could sprout a whole beautiful build building and a whole beautiful building um binion don't be messi writing down even the smallest idea even the smallest idea is by the way rebel yo akon of izmir writes in a safer madrid talpios then when the base amigdas stood when a person brought a carbon mescaper lie nowadays if you write down in a notebook a new idea that you had that it takes the place of a carbon so you say this is a beautiful shear that has absolutely no relevance to me because i just learn what it says and then when it's over i eat lunch so luckily i don't have to worry about forgetting torah because i listen to other people say tara so now we come to a very important principle and that is what is the definition of torah so the stipler writes that from in the safer shelters which are hidushim and ideas that the birkhas what is the definition of torah any time you learn something and it becomes clearer and more crystallized when you read it again that's called khidus in other words let's say you learned to gemara five years ago and now you learn it this time around and you understand it better that added understanding is called the torah you're learning a toisis at first you didn't understand it now you applied yourself a little bit more and now you understand it better that's a hiddushantara so you know you should do write down on the side of your gemara taisus's question is x y and z you don't have to write a whole megillah or let's say you're learning a gemara and you came up with a good shot or you saw a good shot that you didn't know before so let's say you saw a good oracle you're right write five words so you wrote it yeah but for you it's because yesterday you didn't understand that an hour ago you don't understand today you understood it you go to a shir you heard the guy spoke for 45 minutes and you could you picked up one or two or three if you're lucky three things how about you pick up one thing so write down i went to ashira take get print out the marama comments and write down one good thing you learned you wrote down a khidashantara you were macro of a carbon and then you put it away in a folder by the way you know the founder of the young israel program was rabbi rushfield rabbi george rushfield who gave the who really started this kabura and his family put out from him and i think it's a very nice thing and something really that anybody could do it's uh basically an english book of divrei torah on the parasha they're mo it's mostly from the save from ayano shaltara with his like um harass but any jew who learns torah could write down one dvara torah on every parashah and have a notebook a 50 devour diva torah it doesn't take a long time you know you spend 10 minutes a week you write down your favorite kanaka dikka tara on the parasha and that's those are your hidushem everybody with fema jay garcia when you write something down it creates a very a different attachment to it it's uh the marshall says ashrae misha balakhan with tamuda fortunately someone who comes to the next world that his learning was written because when you write something it engraves it on your heart so it doesn't have to be a kiddush on the caliber of there or but anything in learning that you didn't know or my biggest regret is always i don't even remember many of the things i say i'll tell you the honest truth i i thank hakka that some people listen i have friends that tell me oh you know last year you said i said thank you for telling me now maybe i'll remember it but so everybody needs reminders because the mind is very very weak and especially for torah torah is khachma kiss and it does not naturally stay in the mind of basham when somebody writes something down it makes a much deeper impression so thank you everybody for joining today i want to wish everybody a wonderful shabbos and you could join us sunday morning for our ian sharon vamas at 10 35 or sunday night streaming live the rebbe mayor event 9 pm please join us and in the meantime have yourselves a wonderful shabbos says that writing down you're publishing he's big on that okay but you got first you gotta write it okay cult of everyone be 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