R' Kadi - Siyum Sefer Bereishit

what you guys did is amazing it's beautiful it's something to be really proud of to finish the sephir schneidermikrava khattargum to understand it to catch it to capture it is truly a great achievement and you guys deserve a tsuyun for that you deserve the bottles of wine that are over here everything all the simha that you should get elad and rafi it's the light that you're bringing truly is a great accomplishment i am jealous but in a good way of your olamaba that you're getting for this i was asked to answer questions i don't know how to answer questions well but i was given the email i was reminded on friday also again to look over the email and look at the questions so i'm gonna go according to that because that was the topic that i was asked to speak about first question is is what is the makor i'll read it in english what is the source of this mitzvah this inyane of shnaymikrav khattargum so the first place that it's mentioned everybody thinks it's it's not it's a midrash that brings that seven things reviewed on who put the mishnayot together told his children three of them are yirachamai and four of them are the rich the first thing in iraq he told them before you go to sleep you should say before you go on your bed you should say kriya that's when you lie down a person has to say kriya shema the next thing that he says is that you should not be late for betta knesset should be from be from the first ones i know we start very late these days the bit knesset you find me on him at seven o'clock at eight o'clock i'm being facetious a little bit but but a person should be on time in the technician you should be from the first ones open it up ribanosha alam is over there waiting for everybody to come together like we see in the mara barachot it's a beautiful bracha to be from the ten first ones and then he says another thing and you should you should read your parshiot of the torah before you sit down to eat your meal the roshanim understand what meal is that soda a person should be ready by the morning before he eats his challenge and kugel or kobane whatever he eats he should be over there ready already with the parshiot which nay migra hathargum under his hands so that's the first place it's mentioned the second place it's mentioned is in the gemara rav said in the name of adam a person should always finish his parasite with the tsibor shnaymikrav and even the words which are cities which really don't get translated or revenge shimon levy like we have in shimot it doesn't get translated but you should read the translation the targum three times you should read it two times humash and one time targu so those are really the two mekorot that there is but where do we see it in the torah where do we find it in the torah we find it in the first pasuk of shemot the it's not in this print but the balaturim i have it i wrote it down in my hand i wrote it down mine but um let's take it the letters the acronym it's also brought down before him in the rabino ephraim who the hedda brings him down in he goes and he says not how does he say the adam asher lumeda said he says a different adam not only does he bring it in who was a rabbi in tehman about 400 and some years ago he wrote a book called siddala derek he has a whole also another way like the balaturim like the rabbenue frame and he also starts the adam the is it's brought down in the rambam it's brought down in the baha'i it's brought down in every single place what the mara goes and tells us not only it's a good thing that he should do it's a he you've to do it and the marathon continues on and it says we'll get to that in a moment maybe the question to be asked is why did rabona shallam only bring it in shemot why didn't he tell us a rem is a secret a hidden in bereshit you could work out with bereshit or atash so something over there work it on better sheet why do you wait until el estremoth i think i understood it through a story which is quite a very nice story there was a great rabbi alava shalom in england he was the chief rabbi over there who his name was rabbi lord jonathan sachs he was by the lava of yitzhak rabbi i don't know if all of you guys know he was the prime minister in israel at one point and he was standing by the levaya as the chief rabbi of england and who taps him on his shoulder prince charles i'm not going to speak in an english accent because i'm not good at it but he asked him rabbi how are chief rabbi how are you going back to england rabbi told them i got a ticket with ella say says rabbi can you please come on my private jet i'll take you home so the rabbi goes on the private jet and who's on the plane also he wasn't then yet the prime minister there was a guy in england called tony blair tony blair was young smart everybody loved him charismatic and he was on the plane he wasn't yet elected yet prime minister so the rabbi is on the plane prince charles is watching tv playing with his whatever the the screen over there tony blair who was more intellectual was reading a book and the rabbi allah used to say there's two books that you could put me on a strand on an island by myself and i'm nothing is going to bother me i'm going to be okay if i have my homage and if i have my gemara i'm a happy man i don't need anything else so he's sitting on the plane learning his homage preparing mikhail everything nice everything good and they see him over there sitting and tony blair is looking at the rabbi and he says rabbi what are you studying he says i'm studying the bible so tony blair tells him rabbi that's a messy bible by us the bible is one column or two columns and it's very misuddar by you you have over here this and big letters that over here this over here that over there what is it can you please explain it to me so the rabbi goes and starts explaining to him this is homage that was given the bible given by rabbanus to us this is he was a girl he was very smart he went and he brought back the targum that was given to us by harsinai this is rashi he was from france he was into wines he did grapes he was very he was a very intellectual very very very proficient very good explainer rashi goes and explains everything and he explains it in a way that you understand from provence and then there's the ramban the ramban was a spanish you know spanish are very hashu of there he even met with the king he had a argument with the with the with with the with uh fry pedro in front of the king and the king the whole thing the sephirah vikuach and he says his understanding and then he told him about barb was this great person in the palaces and the courts and his pirush you could see how we understand reality how we understand how the world was being run and he tells him about all the other mufashim that are on the page so he so who's listening in prince charles shut off his tv and listening in to rabbi jonathan sacks giving a whole shiur on what mikraat gedolat looks like when they got off the plane he asked the rabbi tony blair can you learn with me once in a while the bible it's a sheila there's a chuba from the rambam that says for not swim you could teach but it's a whole big it's a whole big halachi question but he went to 10 downing street which is like their white house and he went to teach um tony blair they studied bible together one day tony blair goes and tells the rabbi rabbi i am so confused i i'm so it's becomes very difficult it's not like it was before him so the rabbi tell them guess where you're holding say he says yes rabbi he says you're in the end of exodus the end of shemot see ghosney says rabbi how did you know he says yeah i could understand it's very difficult for you one cubit a cubit and a half and then it's repeated again in everything that was brought and everything else like that it's quite what's his name it's quite long it's quite this so he asks him why did rabonom do this so we'll leave that for a different time the answer but the beauty is that this parashiyot until now bireshit was a page turner who doesn't love the story of creation adam abraham going the story of lots and then you have the story of itzhaki what a moving story with the brothers and the father and the whole family you can't put the book down it's easy to do schneiderlin but raven is telling you boys we're coming to shemot the elizabeth it might be a little bit more difficult but you guys better do it now but put yourself to it so i wish you guys really you guys went 20 in there's another 80 percent the beauty of knowing this now so why was this mitzvah so the next question before we do that when did this mitzvah begin who instituted it so there's a magnificent aruha khan shah malayam there's an amazing aruha that says that who instituted it he was the first one to say to dushnay mikrava hathargum and where did we find her also the sephir haroke brings it in the spirus allah and sefer de varim that moshe rabbenu went and instituted but there was a great rabbi maharat youth that asked the question he says i don't understand this it can't be from the times it must be that rav ami was the first one rabi ami was the first one that said that we should do it he was the first one to institute the s what maharat youth says but if we go back this is when did we start with kriyata torah who was mrs says that it was niveem rishonim that were in the times of dorami that went in the institute it wasn't moshe rabbenu so maybe you could also say the truth is i can't start up with them the simple explanation is is that they instituted and then moshe rabbin went and said you have to do it when is the rabbi going to speak i'll wait okay so why do we do schneider mikhail khatergum why do we do it so there's a few explanations why in the olden days you still see this by the yemenites if somebody goes up to the torah what does he do he doesn't make abraham this is mizonot maybe let's say this is mizonot so he doesn't make mizunot and give it to somebody else to eat he makes mizonot and he eats it himself he has a gif and he drinks it so when he reads the torah when he goes up to the torah he reads it himself so you have to be prepared to be able to read the torah that's one pirush another pirush that marambit yourself brings down in the bit yourself he goes and he says that a person you know like the duffy daffodil me raf shapiro again what did he do he wanted everybody to be able to be involved in the same gemara you meet a guy you could talk with him you see a jewish guy you tell him listen what's happening this that so also over here this was the first daphyomi me this is the first one that was instituted like that every single jew that you meet a jew on the street you tell them do you understand the homage this week did you understand what does rashi mean over here what does the pasuk say over here what's the story can you explain it to me a little bit better so we all have a conversation and we're all at one place together another reason we do shnai mikra the khattar and then afterwards what do we do this answers a different question that somebody asked is we listen to the baal kore the gemara tells us tells us that in the olden day when moshe rabino came to teach torah he first taught aharon and then they taught them this canim et cetera it was four times that they learned arun learned it then moshe rabino left the room and then he taught it to his students four times and then they talk to their students four times and the gemara says over there that a person should always teach his students sometimes four times my son reminded me this week and i don't remember that well he reminded me this week that i told them that rav gifter used to say that until the fourth time you didn't learn the gemara so we're learning the homage four times in order that we should really know it understand it and acquire it so the whole inanimate argument is it's something that a person has to learn on a daily basis has to know it now the question is what do you do with targum how do you go about with targum do you do rashi do you do targum uncle do you do art scroll english what do you do over there how do you go about understanding it because the reason why it was given the torah was given in har sinai it was given in mishkan and then it was given in our vote which was explained to them he really explained it very well to them the what's his name he explained to them very well so that's why we do it so what's the explanation and what's the translation and what do we do i'm good sweetheart i'll tell you guys something that i used with my father i love shalom my father's when i was about 12 years old i think maybe even younger i still learn with him gemara and we had never a problem every word he translated when he read it every single word he knew there was nothing that was there's no problems no jastro no nothing then what i used to go over when i was older i would walk over to him with magmar abba what does this word mean and you were translated for me i said abba how do you know all of this says as we know in english means what is in aramaic the gemara is written aramaic so to be able to get the basis to be able to know the gemara because we're starting with schneider miyami soon a lot of guys are going to do daffy on me etc etc etc and i'm planning on you guys doing something really good with it but but the thing is you have to know a little bit of targum but what do we do some people don't understand targum it's hard it's not easy and we were born in the united states of america if you're born in israel i understand you understand everything they're smarter than anybody else they know hebrew without any problems they could figure out targum they even could speak arabic and chinese whatever you need them to do they're able to figure out but we're american-born boys we grew up on baseball we grew up on basketball we don't know we're not the same thing so what do you do so maranam habers says as follows he says that a person should read shnai mikra and to read pirous rashi because rashi explains to you everything and then a year shaman what should he do he should also read it because al piaka by light is very important it has an importance that ra those foot in the head goes and says as follows you could also translate it into french or into italian or into spanish whatever language you want to translate it to whatever you speak but those foot doesn't because it's like targum but tell us what says no no no no no veloni because the targum explains a lot more really has a lot in it every word is translated with an explanation into it rashi works with it everybody works with it if you took kohanim and you read and you read how he translated it it's a total different picture correct or not a lot of words i had a lot of words explained a lot better so my advice is of you speak hebrew and you know it well you do micro you do rashi you do targum and you're good if you're from the united states of america you take the art scroll do the mefashima shimon there etc etc but to know which book you take because you can't just take any translation you have to take one that has sense that's clear that goes according to the direct that we learned until now and you learn that and then you do um and i guarantee you that you're going to learn a new language aramaic which is not used that much anymore today so and the truth is it is look at the jewish nation we all use aramaic it's used more than most probably other languages that it's a live language it is a live language now how do you do it what do you do do you do two times the pasuk then you do the targum and then you do the english hotel room how do you do it what do you do so there was a whole big mahloket about it the gowan mevilla had one way of doing it the levus this allah did it one way the hazonish did it different than everybody else said and the truth is i used to do like he did and i felt bad until i saw what he said used to read the pasuk first then he would read the targum and then he would read the pasuk again why because the targum is giving me insight into the pursuit so i want to read it to be able to get the insight also when i learn rashi i do the same thing i read the pasuk i look at rashi and then i look at the pasuk again and i put rashi inside of it to be able to understand how was explained and how it is so everybody do the best that they can the most important thing about this is really to know what it is to know what you're learning to know what you have and to be nobody brings this shot but shnai mikrava targum is really shalom by it truly is imagine you sitting on your shabbat table what are you going to talk about of your republican and she is a democrat oh you got problems you're interested in one thing and she's interested in another thing and oh valdavalha but if you're able to sit down by the friday night table and tell your wife and your kids the story of the parashah and to bring beautiful midrashim into it you have the most beautiful complete shabbat what was shabbat given for the tana de vegas is an amazing thing he says shabbat was given that a person works the whole week and he comes home to his house friday night and he's stuck it's not stuck but he's together with his family and he finds out what his wife needs what his kids needs and he builds a relationship so that's what shabbat is for so you sit down what better relationship is there with your kid then learning torah together then speaking to them then having a kesha with them for the rest of your life in learning in mitzvot in mahasim tovim so truly you guys are amazing really amazing okay next question tell me when to stop please okay now this one is a this one is so we did does english count as targum we did rashi english targum order priority i think we all understood the priority the true priority is according to and if you want to do rashik the truth is there's an amazing pirkei yosef the berkeley yosef miranda yourself had a mageed magee is a malach that would tell them things in his book magid sharim he goes and he brings down the malach told him when you learn don't do it like you're doing tehilim that doesn't count you're supposed to understand everything that you're going on over there you're supposed to pay attention soon live listen look understand what the pasuk is telling me not like i got to get it over with okay i got a two minute schneiderman i'm gonna fit it into another two minutes i heard that a lot is giving a little bit extra time sometimes but but i'm gonna finish it really quick no no no no it's getting it it's understanding the reason why the speaker is there beforehand is to give you an overview when you look at it you know what you're talking about it's called elaining in yiddish you prepare it and then you come to it and you look at it different the sofa some cipher used wrote on his wrote when he used to do some he used to write all the hiddushim that would come to him when he was doing so this learning is truly an amazing learning so somebody asked the question why is this and i love the words why is this mitzvah considered underrated or unpopular no dispress don't no disrespect of course i love that until then but we'll get to that in a moment one second there is age of 10 a person is supposed to learn me homash age of five i'm sorry ben hamesh age of five a person is supposed to learn humash now when he's 10 he learns mishna when a person is 15 what he's supposed to learn gemara on benchmark what is he supposed to do get married i love this in the united states what do we do benchmark i said forget about it nobody gets married at 18. we wait when we go to 20 something or whatever it is but when do we learn gemara about 10 11 they start learning gemara so what does that make sense to you does it's a little bit difficult for me to comprehend on one thing you're making one thing your mahmut one thing you go over here 10 8 15 and then 18. i'm gonna use this if you don't mind so so of you so if you're going over there so so what's the ages the ages is so people love to be smarter than they are there's a lot of what there's there's a bunch of how to learn how you're supposed to learn and all of them agree that a person has to learn all of tanakh how many people do we know in this room that finish tanakh i'm telling you people with long white beards that did not finish tanakh yet so we went and we changed a little bit the things why because what does a boy start gemara with elo mitsiot right or wrong why don't they start with you start with elo mitsiot because whoever wants the iguana tells us whoever wants to become smart he should be our sake with the name so we want the kid to become more intelligent brighter so people think they're in university before they even so masha feinstein says and the truth is says it supposed is divide into three parts one of them is that he's supposed to learn the other one he's supposed to learn um and then afterwards he has to learn talmud those are the three he's supposed to divide his life but of a person already finished hamas and he knows well he knows naveem then he reads it once in a while what's the once in a while at least and then he finishes naveem at least once a year but people forgot that so if i'm walking around with a homage and looking at a homage and the other guy has the gemara what do i feel like i feel inferiority complex he's a smart guy learning i'm over there learning what is this no no no no no you know the gown me will not be sofian at the end of his days what did he learn in he used to learn the homage he didn't learn gemara why did he learn the homage because is that me why did he learn the homage is because when he learned the homage he remembered every single thing that was around it when he learned bereshit he knew what the zohar said what the gemara said what the midrash said what rebecca vegard said what every single person said on that word it was just a simon frame it was a little sign for him there's a rabbi that came once to my office he was my wife's principal his name is he is the rosh kholel rosh shiva rosh most of keter torah in mexico he has thousands of students under him cool dude he learned a new shiva tara and yeshiva's mir and he's about 70 something years old and he's really a sweetheart when my kids meet him he speaks to them in english because then he has a mexican english just to get them really so he was in my office one time and he had this small michelle that is looking not the ones that but the small one the small printer had the rabbal vadim at martinura and the tosut yomtov you remember the one the plastic cover one rabbi so he's over there learning the mishnayot so i'm gonna tell him so he gives me a smile like i caught him in his act but that's what he was doing he knew everything so when you learn homash you learned rashi you invested in it you did the shnaymikrava khattargum you come the next year you learn the pasuk you remember the rashi you remember everything then you put ramban over there then you put something else you add you add you add and you have the most beautiful gift that you could give robert and to give yourself for all goodness so it's not underrated [Laughter] and it's quite popular because look at this right here somebody so somebody else asked the question if you have the option to do during the week what you should learn is it better to learn schneikera or any other type of learning good question so one of the things that we said i i don't know if i said this but we said this it's a little bit of a sword but uh let me let me tell you a story about israel once the guy came over to her visel celante he says rabbi i have 20 minutes to learn what should i learn got only 20 minutes a day rabbi to learn what should i learn so he goes and he tells them learn musa so he says why musa he says if you learn musa you'll figure out you have a lot more than 20 minutes to learn brings you we said that because these are the things of iraq spoke about seven things before he passed it three of them were iraq so one of them was what was nimikra so he goes and he tells you so so the revenue he tells you that this brings to you what it brings to you your mind somebody who learns musa gets here so a person that does guarantee you he's going to find so much more time in the day to learn other things also is that a good answer it's tango torah okay can you rely okay i think it's time this is the short answer is there any other texts that are halachically obligated to learn there you go that's the answer okay can one rely on the balcore as a second time so the mishna bera speaks about it he has to read it and then the mishnah brings them down over here what do you do if you come to bed knesset you were able to do one micro one targum can you count on the other guy first of all we said before and that it's four times not three right or so let's not say that so let's say it's two and one so you did one and one and now you want the second one what do you do with the balcory do you listen etc they all argue on him and they say what no you have to read it along with him word by word now if i have to read it along word by word and that's what you're saying also the mishna bras has the same opinion that what you should read it along word by word but not that everybody else hears you in the room i got a problem with that i don't understand it i'm sorry i i i don't understand of by megillah of i have a kosher megillah i don't read from the megillah when i'm saying why because i'm not going to pay attention i'm going to rely on my book i'm going to this i'm going to that you're telling me of the balcory of he's slow like by the yemenites and by the sephardim i understand until he finishes taking out a word you did three times migra but if you're in ashkenazi shul and they're reading over there by the hashem of michelle you don't even you you don't have time even to react you know he made a mistake you fight so came back and you're telling me excuse me you made a mistake so what to do it's you know when there's a fight what do i do i try to walk away from it so best thing to do is according to the mishnah barack is your what's his name is if you don't have time then you could do it but you say it lo that your neighbor next to you does not hear you according to magen of raham you could be you'd say like every single other case so we should always have time because the truth is it gives you are you know when you know that you have a lot of money to spend you spend you buy some people don't but the normal people when they they spend you're getting a promise you're getting a promise of arihuti not only you know there's a wonderful sephir hasidim he asked the quest the review that has brings down it says right let's say the guy has it he doesn't feel well he has problems he has this he has that can he stop saying because he doesn't want to be there anymore there's also it's also brought down in the peta khadivir he brings down the same some similar question to that says you got to continue but the truth is i saw i don't remember where it was i think it's the orzarua brings down that if somebody has that means that he's going to have a wonderful life it's going to be magnificent it's going to be great everything is just going to be beautiful we should come together at the end of sephir srimad at the end of many swarms hashem in happiness and joy barikutyam