14 Rabbi B Learning Torah part 1

[music] [laughter] [music] Come on, D'vorah. We got to go. We're going to be late for the Haknasa safer Torah. Well, I'm ready. >> [music] >> I have my camera, my hat for the sun, and I'm ready to celebrate the welcoming of a brand new safer Torah. Gee, D'vorah, that's a pretty nice flag, but don't you think it's just a little bit small? Yeah, I think you should get a bigger one. No one's going to be able to see that. I don't think anyone's bringing their microscope to a haknasa safer Torah. Oh, D'vorah. You know, D'vorah always has little things cuz she's just a little bee. So, I think we should just make her feel good about any size [music] flag that she finds now. Wa! D'vorah, that is one ginormous flag. You sure are ready for the Haknasa safer Torah and I hope you are too. Why don't you come along with me and D'vorah and we'll see you at the safer Torah parade. Let's go. Come along. Come along. Come along right now. We'll sing [music] together. I'll show you how. Come along. Come along. Come along with me. Come along with Rabbi [music and singing] Be. Come along. Come along. Come along. Right now, [music] we'll sing together. I'll show you how. Come along. Come along. Come along with me. [music] Come along with Rabbi B. We'll say [music] Moda Ani with the morning sun. Get into the mood and join the fun. Let's thank Hashem [music] for everything. Dance around with that simka feeling. Come along. Come along. Come along right now. [music] We'll sing together. I'll show you how. Come along. Come along. Come along with me. [singing and music] Come along with Rabbi B. Come along with Rabbi B. [music] Come along with Rabbi B. Today is a very special day. We are welcoming a brand new safer Torah to our shul. Let's join the celebration and see what happens. The new Torah has finally arrived and the people can't wait. Everyone starts to dance. Fathers and kids holding hands, spinning and smiling in the street. >> Moms and babies come out, too, watching and clapping along. It's a real family celebration. >> Kids wave bright flags high in the air. And the Torah gets carried around under a kupa just like a wedding. Barak Hashem. There are police there, [music] too, to make sure everyone can dance safely while the parade keeps moving down the street. Leading the way is a great big music truck. A live band plays happy music for everyone to dance behind step by step together with the new Torah. The music fills the street maztov. And no one wants to stop dancing. Everyone takes turns holding the Torah. Each person gives it a great big hug and smiles proudly. It's not just a Torah for one person. It's a Torah for the whole community. Now the parade [music] arrives at the shul. And look at this beautiful balloon arch at the entrance of the shul ready to welcome the new Torah. The arch even has Torah balloons on it to show that it's there for the Haknasa Safer Torah. >> Inside and outside, a big party is waiting with delicious food for everyone, yummy treats for the kids, and plenty of fun and laughter inside the shul. Hey, wait a second. Why is the Aron Codes empty? Ah, it's because the other Toras [music] have come out to greet the new Torah. They dance, too. Just like good friends welcoming someone new to their family. Now, the moment we've all been waiting for. The new [music] Torah is carried under the canopy of balloons and brought into the shul. And people are still dancing, singing, and clapping along as the Torah makes its way [music] to the Aron Codes. The Aron Kodesh is ready and waiting. The new Torah is carefully placed inside right before its Torah friends. The door to the Aron Kodesh closes softly and the new safer Torah is finally home, safe, loved, and ready to be read the next time we read the Torah in shul. What a celebration. Through music and dancing and joy, we welcome a new safer Torah to [music] our shaw. Masletov masletov. There are five books of Torah. There are five books of Torah. [singing] Beracious. Schmos schmos. Vra, vicid barbar bomid barbarim, tvarim, tvarim. There are five books of Torah. [singing] That's the five Wow, what a fabulous Haknasa safer Torah. It was such a wonderful time and it put me in a really good mood to learn some Torah myself. I think I'll go grab a book of Torah off the bookshelf now. Perfect. Aish, a book of Torah. >> [laughter] >> You're right, D'vorah. This book does not look like a safer Torah, but it's not a safer Torah. This is ash. Aish is a safer Torah, but in a book form. Why don't you sit down with me, D'vorah, and we will learn some Kish together. [music] Now, look inside, D'vorah. This kish has a lot of differences than a safer Torah. For example, this kish has letters with vowels. Nikudos. That's right. And a real safer Torah does not have any vowels at all. It's just the letters. Oh, and you notice at the top over there, there is a lot of different letters and numbers. So, this tells you page numbers because when you're learning inside of a kish, you want to know what page you're on. [music] And right here in the middle, you can see the name of the book of Torah, the safer that we're in. You see, Akomesh breaks up the Torah into five separate books. Bacius, Shimos, Vikra, Bidbar, and Dvarin. So, at the top of the page here, you can see which of the five books you're in. Now, here in the middle of the page at the top, it tells you the name of the para. A para is a section of the Torah that we read and study every single week. There are 54 paras in a kish and 52 or 53 weeks in a [music] year. Just the right amount for learning a para a week. Now, at the top you see other letters. They are all they are letters indicating [music] the peric the chapter that the book is in. So a para might be broken up further into smaller chapters. And then these letters here well they tell us which which verses or sentences of the kumish are on this page. You [music] see each chapter is broken up into sentences and there are lots and lots of sentences or [music] sukim in each per and there are multiple perks praim in a para and there are lots of parios in a kish in a book of Torah wow that's a lot of information to see on one page of kish how about we listen to a song all about para perk and puk Oh, para peric puk. Open up the kish and take a look. You [music] don't have to be a teacher or a sage. Look for that info [music] at the top of the page. The parha it means apart. Each [music] para has a story and themes to impart. [singing] Each section of the Torah has a name unique. We read a [music] new para every single week. Parsha perk puk. Open up a kish [music] and take a look. You don't have to be a teacher or a sage. >> [music] >> Look for that info at the top of the page. The perk is a smaller collection of the verses in the Torah as a shorter section. Each paric is numbered. Just take a look. It breaks up the humish like [music] a chapter book para. Oh, peric [music] puk. Open up a humish and take [singing] a look. You don't [music] have to be a teacher or a sage. Look for that info [music] at the top of the page. The puk is a [music] single line like a sentence or a verse but find divine design. It's focused on one topic on a [music] single theme. Each peric is made of many peskim para [music] perk puk. Open up a kish and take [music and singing] a look. You don't have to be a teacher or a sage. [music] Look for the info at the top of the page. Para peruk. Open up a kish and take a [music] look. You don't have to be a teacher or a sage. Look for that info at the top of the page. Look for that info [music] at the top of the page. There you go. Well, I hope you review and I hope you learn lots and lots of Torah and one day you'll be a Kumish expert, too. But for now, I'd like to go back to my studies. Okay, let's just see. We are in kish paracius paras [music] perk gimmel puk alif. [music] Hey, Mushka. Rabbi Newman, my teacher, taught me that when the Jewish people were at Harai, they were united like one person with one heart. >> That's so cool. Thanks for letting me know. >> I wish I could be a teacher like Rabbi Newman. He's the best. >> Benny, you are totally a teacher already. You just taught something to me. See, you don't have to be older to be a Torah teacher. If you know something that maybe someone else doesn't, you can teach it to them and that makes you a teacher, too. Maybe you know the letter alf and then you can teach that to someone younger than you. Or maybe you know how to ride a bike and then you can help teach someone who doesn't know how to ride yet. >> Oh yeah, that's true. So anyone can be a teacher. >> Yep. Even you, Benny. There are so many stories of great people who learned Torah that I can't decide which story to tell you. That's why I compiled a whole bunch of stories into a volume I like to call Legendary Learners. Let's read together. Throughout our history, the Torah has been learned and loved by many great people. Here are just some great examples of legendary learners. Rabbi Aka Aka saw many tiny drops of water slowly make a hole in a hard stone. He said, "If water can do that to stone, then the Torah can change me." [music] And so he went to school as an adult to start learning Torah. Rabbi Lazar bin Aaria. Even though he was young, Rabbi Lazar Benazaria learned Torah so deeply that his hair turned gray so everyone could see he was wise beyond his years. Rabbi Yeshua Ben Khan. Rabbi Yeshua ben Khan's mother placed him in a crib in a shul so he could hear Torah from the very start. [music] The words of Torah grew with him every day. Rabbi Yosi Ben Kisma. Rabiosi Ben Kisma was offered lots of money to move away from his city, but he said, "No, I only want to live where Torah is learned." He was very proud to live in a place where Torah was learned. Buria Bura was an incredibly smart and curious woman. In one day, she learned 300 laws from 300 rabbis. Wow. Rav Rav learned every lesson again and again. sometimes 40 times. He wanted to understand Torah really, really well. The Rambam. After a long, tiring day working as a doctor, the Rambam stayed up late learning Torah. Even when he was exhausted, his love for learning kept him going. The Maharsha. The Maharsha would tie his beard to a nail in the wall so he could learn Torah all night long. If he would start to doze off, his beard would get pulled and he would wake up and get back to learning. Sarer Sarer would teach Torah to women and girls. When she started, she only had one student. The next day she had two, then five, and then many, many more. One small class changed the world. Rebad Masmid Reba de Masmid put his feet in cold water so he wouldn't fall asleep while he learned Torah through the night. Nothing stopped him from learning. And the last page is saved for you. Will you be a legendary learner, too? I'm sure you already are learning so much Torah and doing it so happily and joyfully like many of the people in this book. Great job. Oh, I think I hear Couggle. Let's go see what Couggle's up to today. [laughter] I knew it was you, Cougle. Hi, Cougle. How are you today? >> Hashem, Rabbi B, how are you? Baruk Hashem, I'm doing wonderfully. Any day that I learn Torah is a great day. >> Rabbi B, you've been learning lots of Torah. Did you know there are five books of Torah? >> Of course I knew that. I know there are five books of the Torah. Bacius, Shimos, Vikra, Bidbar, Devarin. Five books of Torah. That is correct, Rabbi B. But did you know a book of Torah is called ash? >> Of course, I knew that, too. That's why we call it ash. A book of Torah is called ash because there are there are five books of Torah. And the Hebrew word for five is kamesh just like shalos arba kamesh. Five books of Torah. [screaming] >> Rabbi D. Would you like to see other things that come in fives? >> H that's a great question. Can you think of other things that come in fives? I don't know. Okay, Cougle, tell us some things that come in fives. >> Sure. Did you know that there are five oceans? The Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Southern Ocean. Five oceans. And did you know that people have five senses? smell, taste, hear, see and feel. I also know that there are five items on a pesak sader plate. Maror, karosess, karpass, the zeroa bone, and an egg. >> Wow, that sure is interesting. I wonder if you came up with anything else that comes in five. Like maybe five players on a basketball team or maybe you have five people in your family. Everyone has different answers for things that come in fives. But you know, I think that deserves a high five. High five, Cougle. >> High five, Rabbi B. >> And a high five. Wave goodbye to you. Have a nice day. Well, we sure used our day wisely. I don't just mean because we use our time for good things, but because we learned so much and so much Torah. That makes the day a really special day. I think I'm going to go back to learning some more Torah. And maybe you can on your free time open up a kumsh or any safer and start to learn some wonderful, wonderful Torah, too. I just wonder what this week's para is. H is it Kadoshian or Emor? Maybe Bahar or Bukosai? I better check a calendar. [music] Welcome to rabb.org, [music] your one-stop shop for everything Rabbi B. On my site, [music] you can find out more about me, watch the latest video, or check out past episodes, check out all of Rabbi Bee's books, [music] albums, upcoming concerts, and events. 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