Lech Lecha: Circumcising The Heart

This Torah class is brought to you by tora anytime.com. Okay, good morning. The first mitzvah that was given to Abraabu of course is a mitzvah of and uh the question you want to deal with is that we know we have a tradition that Abrau was even before it was given right that's our messiah that's our tradition the says Abraham listen to my voice you know kept even right even the laws of uh in order cook from uh from Yam to Shabas. So even Abrainu kept the laws of even further right ate matzah he sat in the suk kept the entire Tyra with a >> so here's the question >> we just ended the last mill >> oh yeah okay so um yeah they sent me a message you know right before the show what I should talk about I told them whatever you end off with that's what we're going to talk about >> you with a to >> so a mino Mimula even before it was given with the exception of one mitzvah. There's only one mitzvah didn't do. He only kept 612 mitzvah. He didn't keep 613. Which mitzvah didn't he do? Because he's 99 years old and he still doesn't have his bris until Hashem comes and he said, you know, Abraham time, you know, shine sight. You know, what are you waiting for? It doesn't get any easier. So, so that the question is why is it that mimula did pen? He did he did everything. >> He didn't do >> sure he did chuma mister he did everything >> he did. He gave me right >> no. >> So the question is why did he not why did he not do mila? Why he didn't do mila? So the famous answer of reom is rai the famous answer of we'll see about he may not have done but the famous answer of reom is one of the what we call the super commentaries on rashi is a commentary on a commentary says he did not perform until he was commanded why he knew he'd commanded and then he would perform it when he's commanded which is greater than someone who wasn't commanded. So knew about he knew he could have done the ma but he didn't do it cuz he wanted to do it on the highest possible level which is when he would be commanded. So wait a second. So why didn't he do any of the other mitzvah? Why do you sin in the suka? Why do you eat matzah? Very simple. He sat in the suka and he said to himself, "Let me sit in the suka and when God commands me, so then I'll continue to sit in the suka and sit in the suka as one who's commanded." But brisma, >> you have one chance, >> right? You only have one chance. So said, "If I do bris before I'm commanded, I'll never have the opportunity to do bismillah when I'm commanded." And therefore, of all the mitzvah in the Tyra, the one mitzvah he didn't do is >> he could have done it. He could have been he could that's not the full mitzvah. >> He could have taken himself out of being a >> he wouldn't he wouldn't fulfill the mitzvah completely. So this answer the is not so simple not such a great answer as the asks and you have it on your sheet in number 30 the asks that this answer the is not going to help you right why not >> to do it at 8 >> because first of all that's a that's a a very difficult answer to say he was waiting till he was commanded and it doesn't really explain Abraham's whole life you know why cuz what about the fact that Abraham married Hagar. Hagar was from which nation? She's Italian. She's a mitzv. She's a mitzvah. Even if you you cannot marry a mitzvah, right? A mitzv cannot come. So don't tell me that the reason why Abrau didn't do Mila is only because he wanted to be commanded because there are other things Abraham Au violated. For example, he married a mitzv says the Mara. This is a problem with misrai because it's not going to explain all of Abraham's behavior. Okay. So what we would like to explore today perhaps is another beautiful reason why did not perform before he was commanded. Okay. There's a can say for that says the following. So says if not for my covenant of day and night I would not have created heaven and earth if not for my br there would be no world. What what is this talking about? What would you say? In fact, the Mishna says is very great. If not for God would not have created the world. You know, God says, should I create the world? Should I not create the world? Oh, fine. I'll create the world. How do we know this? Like the says, "If not for my covenant of day and night, I would not have created heaven and earth." How about >> no? He could have gone without the world. The Brisbane would not have met would not have cut it. No pun intended. He needed brisma, right? He needed brisma. If not for brisma, God would not have created the world. That's what the Tory says. That's what the That's what the Yo says according to the Gar. The problem though is if this what's the Garra saying it's referring to? What does the Misha say refers to? How do you read the words if not for my day and night? How could that be referring to Mila? You can't do Mila at night. Says, "So you can only do Mila during the day." >> But you have a What does this mean? >> But once you have it, once you've done it, you've done it, then you have it at night, too. >> In fact, I'll tell you why. It's very because simply put the is not referring to the you know it's referring to in fact right look in the look in right the first the second mission it says the world stands on three things God created the world for three things. One of them is Tyra learning says Rashi. How do I know the world stands on Tyra? Look at Rashi number seven. If not for my covenant of day and night. Now if the P is going on the P reads beautifully because if not for my bris which do you do which does it say simply put the P is referring to Tyra if not for the covenant that you performed day and night would not have created the world yet the Dharm says it's not going on Tyra it's going on so how do you read the words. You can't do the brisk day and night. So there's a well-known look at number five. So he said like you said once you have the so the is on you day and night. But then he says, "Read the PK a little differently. Give me a knife." You know, you have one anyway, right? For the ma, you're going to cut up the You read the P like this. This is what Hashem says. If not for now take your knife and cut the If not for then guess what? Day and night, heaven and earth would not have been created. You read the like that if not for my you know what would not have been >> what is in the town >> yeah but but you see here's an important thing a lot of ballet ka they have a disease calleditis and a lot of let's say this um if you read it like that you're the if you don't stop after or it's also right is what we call a mel in it's a pause you need to pause after aka is a major stop says if not for a tipka the world would be destroyed we'll talk about that a different time but you read like this stop yeah who runs over the tipka Bruce says you gota you got to stop him right you got to correct him but any event so we have another number of uh problems over here number one I don't understand something what's this talking about is it talking about brisma or is it talking about tyra the Mishna says what it's talking about it's talking about bris elsewhere in like rashi quotes in It's talking about Tamatyra. So what's this Pik talking about? It can't be. Did God create the world for brisma or did he create the world for Tyra? >> I mean we in 2,000 years until there was no bris. How did it exist? >> Well, how did the world exist? >> Yeah, for 2,000 years. >> What is this Pik talking about? Did God create the world like the says in this of or did God create the world as as the Mishna says in this of I ask you another question right let's go back to this uh yeah says the world stands on three things Torah he left one out which one did he leave out >> what happened to Bris you know he he he doesn't like bris doesn't like bagels. What? What is it? So here. So we're going to have Rabbi say 10 questions here. Okay. So hold on to your socks. The first question is we want to know why did Abraham Au not perform brism before he was commanded. He performed all other 612 mitz. Why not brismah? Number two why in doesn't it say that the world stands on brisma? After all, the Mishna says in if not form, God would not have created the world. And let's let's see number let's see number nine. The Garam says Tyra is very great. If not for the Torah, the world couldn't exist. I don't understand. You can only learn one thing out of out of a how could you learn out from the same the world stands on and the world stands on Torah. I mean there's one PK it's telling us the world stands because of Bissi. What's Brie? Is it the Bris of Mila or is it the Bris of Tyra? >> I can't be connected. >> Yeah, that's that's why I have a job. Right. >> Um so we have to see what's the connection. >> Well, no I have a shear. >> Okay. Another Gumarra. Very interesting. The gar says a little bit later on in great it's equal to all 613 mitzvah. Let me talk about highway robbery over here. It's equal to all 613 since when I know every morning what you wake up in the morning you say can I so says you know what you know once in a while you could switch you could say can I get kam where where did that come from since when is brisma equal to all 613 mitzvah okay now next qu that's question number four next question is very interesting if you want to say that we have a covenant in just between me and you, right? Per let's keep this between me and you. What does that mean? Nobody else knows about it. No one else could see. No one else could know that know such a thing. Why is it that byris it says this is a bris that's between me and you? Between me and you. Yeah. Now this is not my question. This is the question of the bris is not a private. It's a brisk between us and Hashem. It's a public spectacle. You have a brisma. Everybody sees. Everybody Everybody sees what's happening. It's not a It's not some kind of secret. Some kind of So why do we why do we say the bris is only between us and God? As if to say like only God knows about it. Only God knows about it. So it's uh it's not a secret. Anybody could tell. Why? This is a question of why by all things it says it's specifically between us and God as if no one else could possibly know about such a thing. Okay. Hashem gives a toal and says what is right? >> Not really. That's the second time. But what do they say the first time? >> Nasha. >> NASA. Which para is in is in number 13 and they say but that's not what they responded originally number 12 what changed what happened between par and That first says and then they respond. >> Very interesting. >> Look at number 14. Was born. How do we know that? God created man in his image. So if God created Adam in his image, it must be Adam was created already circumcised. >> Yeah. What does that mean? >> That makes sense. Oh, how do we know Adam was created with already gamal? Because he was created in the image of God. >> We're also, >> you know, where the, you know, when you take a copy and you make a copy of a copy, you know, sometimes gets a little Yeah. >> What does this mean? that since Adam was created, he must have been created with a with a and then later on the son tells us that after the means he hid the he pulled back the foreskin. What does that mean? Why did he do that? >> Yeah. Like what does that mean? Okay. by the you know by so you say the father will rejoice the mother will rejoice the free like the says okay the father will the mother and someone else the third person will rejoice the one who bore you. Who's that? Well, says you teach someone. It's like you taught him. It's going on the Rebi. What do we bring the Rebi here? >> Five years away. 5 years away. >> Yeah. The Rebi, you know, you know, he's the kids still got time before the Reb is going to see any from this kid. You know, why do we say the fathers will be happy? The mother and the Rebi. Why the Rebi? You know what's the Rebi gonna be happy about? Why do we invoke the Rebi at the brisma? Okay. And finally, a question that um we really all should be bothered by, but we probably say it too often to ever think about it. And that is inventing. Okay, we say the first thing we thank for Okay, so the first problem is what? No, it's out of order. Thank you for Thank you for taking us out of Thank you for Thank you for Why do we first thank Hashem for Israel? First we should thank him for taking us out of and then we should thank him for I mean the order makes absolutely no sense. Why do we start off by thanking Hashem for then writes in his commentary on the first thing we thank Hashem for was what the ultimate goal of everything was he took us out of and he gave us the and he gave us the Torah so that we should enter Israel. So first you know we get down to the first we thank for bottom line. Bottom line is thank you for and then we go back to order. So then says the order is still bad. Why? Okay fine. Good form. Does anybody know when did we get brisma historically? When did we get right the nightm looks he sees we were naked and bare of mitzvah. Hashem gave us two mitzvah and dam when was bris before we left. The night of mim we had brisma. So then why in the benching what? >> Oh night again. >> Good kasha. This a the good question. So we have a share on that but maybe pes time. Um right. When did we get the night of time? So if that's the case, so the benching should say thank and thank us for taking us. Thank for taking us out of but why do we first thank Hashem for taking us out of and then thank him for it's out of order. Mhm. >> So then says, "Oh, well, even though did the militim, they didn't do the pria yet until they came into Israel." >> So people who died in the Midbah never had it, >> right? In fact, people who were born in the Midbra didn't have MIA at all. >> No, maybe >> until they came there. So I think that like, right, you you you do a brisk meal before you bury him. >> Yeah. >> So maybe over here also when they bury them, they they did the priest. >> Okay. Maybe. But listen to them saying the reason why we don't mention bris first is because they had the bris in the time but they didn't have the pria until they enter like we find in the time of Yeshua and parake what's priya >> priya is when you pull back the you pull it after you cut it you pull it okay so >> about the sons of >> you know that was a long time before that was uh you know they they may have they may have but the problem is if they didn't have the pri until they came into Israel That was after the Tyra was given. So then the order should be thank you for taking us out of thank you for the Tyra and then thank you then should be last. In other words, make up your mind. Why is ma stuck in in between and Torah? It really happened before Elm. What do you want to say? The full Pria didn't happen until later. So then it should be listed after Tyra. But what are we stinging it in before Tyra for in the benching? I mean this order, right? If somebody handed in this composition, right? You're a principal, right? >> Someone handed in this composition, you ask them put it in order, they would fail. >> They would flunk. They would flunk. So >> Okay. Okay. And finally, the Shiba brings down. Look at number 19. The numerical value of bris is >> 13 >> 12 >> 12 12 >> 12 >> right bris b is two ra is 200 v >> is yud is 10 and tough is 400 612 >> and plus the bris itself that's a 613 >> yeah but that's a little odd you why you know why specifically brisma ma do we say it's equal to 612 plus it That's 613. I mean, you you should be able to do that for any mitzvah. You know, every mitzvah should be 612 plus it is 613. But we don't say that specifically bris bris is 612 plus itself is 613. Okay. So, let's see if we could uh shed some light on some of these issues. We have an amazing story brought down in the tus in parish. A story about UN right was the nephew of Khazar. Let's take a look at it inside. There's a story with he was the son of the sister of he wanted to convert. Wanted to convert. He was afraid of his uncle. Yeah. Say his uncle would, you know, beat him up or something. So he tells uncle, "Look, I need to go somewhere. I need to go on a business trip." Yeah. He said, the uncle said, "Why do you want to go do business?" "Well, you don't have enough money. You're you're lacking money. Here are the keys to my storehouse. You can take whatever you want." No, no, no. He says, "I need to go out on my own and make my own way in life." You know, he says, "I need to go out to the outside world. game. If you're just going to always give me money, I'm never going to develop my own talents. I need to go out on my own, right? To be able to deal with people, do me a favor. I trust you. What kind of business deal should I should I engage in? He said like this. He said, "Find something that's, you know, down on its lux, something really low cost, you know, a little bit, something that's nobody's interested in. Invest in that. You can only go up." That was this. I'm like, >> be a contrarian, >> right? If you see something, you know, that's really down on its luck, be involved in that. You'll make a lot of money. So, what does he go? >> Yeah. He goes to go to Israel. He says, he comes to he says, "I'm here." He said, "What's your name?" My name is You're You're Jewish? No. You have a No, but I want to learn Tyra. You won't understand it. He said, "Why not?" Said, "Because you don't have a" He said, "Huh? >> You know, you're not you're not supposed to. >> What does one thing got to do with the other?" Cuz I don't have a mil. I can't, you know, I'm learning with my head. He went and he had he learned a lot of took a look at uncle all of a sudden they see his face looks different they said to each other it must be he learned he's a different person he asked his a lot of questions then finally he's making he's headed back to he goes back to his uncleanas oh my life. He said to him, you know, your your face is is a flame. Your face is shining. Why? I learned. But not only that, who gave you this ridiculous advice? You You're the one who told me to learn. You told me get involved in something that's down on its luck. Eventually, you know, it will go up, right? I went to every nation and I didn't find anything more downtrodden than the Jewish people, right? Eventually they're going to go up, skip a line. He smacked him. What do you do this for? He said like this. I wasn't interested in the mil. I wanted to learn. So he said, "Yeah, right. But what's with the so learn the why do you have the you can't learn without why does it say why not only someone who has a like who was born with a says bal begins with a ends with. If you want to learn what it says in between the B and you need to have a so the question we need to ask is why in order to learn Tyra do you need a what in the world does ma got to do with Tyra? Seemingly they're completely cannot you know I couldn't possibly think of two mitzvah that have no connection to each other than brisma and tyra and yet hager is saying you know I wanted to learn to but they said you know one there's one thing you need to have a ma why why so we come to really an amazing concept and the concept is that the main function of ma is not to cut the foreskin not to cut the ara. That's only the external act of the but we're going to see in many many sources that when you cut the external foreskin it removes somehow spiritually something that covers the heart whether it's it may even be a physical thing. It may be scientifically intertwined or maybe it's a spiritual covering and by removing the physical foreskin. The spiritual covering of the heart is removed and now the heart is open wide to understand the Tyra. But with the foreskin the physical foreskin the heart is sealed shut cannot comprehend. Who says this? Number one, was the author of the Okay, the writes in um should be shini bay. He writes like this. It is true. is equal to all the inra the numerical value of 612 besides itself is called bris which has numerical value of 612. Now listen to this. The is the cause that removes the covering of the heart. What's in order to have to learn Torah? What do you need to have? You need to have a mind. You need to have a heart. Right? In the mind is called God put wisdom into the heart. No. Why doesn't it say the brain in Tanak the brain the mind is called the heart the Torah be right that's the introduction if you want to learn to you have to have a that's why the last letter of the is the first letter is a base without a your heart is clogged up it's stuffed up it's up you can't understand anything the cutting of the physical removes the is what opens the mind to understand any spirit spiritual ideas. In fact, the amazing thing based on this idea of ask okay they ask the following question you write when when so there two you make who makes that then you have another right who makes that >> the father >> why does the father make that braha >> if the is the one who's entrusted to do the mitzvah >> the father's just >> so if the is just the father should make the also >> right you can't you can't you can't have it both ways if what >> so if he's doing the m on my behalf so let me make the alham if you need to make the because you're the one doing it then you need to Say I mean these are two mitzvah. These are two that either the M should make both or the father should make both. Either the m should make the or the or the father should do it. So the quotes that the wonders why in the world should the father make the after the is doing it for him says the is not going on the is that now that he has a now you could teach him something now the the kid will understand tyra without ama the kid will never understand tyra who is responsible to Make sure the kid understands the father. So what's the going to make the father makes the So listen to this case. >> There's no father. >> So wants to know what if the father's not alive, >> right? Who should make the if there's no father? So some wanted to say let the do it says no the grandfather has to make the so people said the grandfather if the grandfather is not commanded to make sure the kid has a why would the grandfather make the is not going on the >> it's going on teaching and the same way a father has a responsibility to teach a kid Tyra the grandfather has a responsibility to So even though the father makes the braha what? Even though the father makes the bra of even though the makes the bra the grandfather can make the why because it's the grandfather's responsibility if there's no father to make sure the grandson learns. >> Why is it called where you say the Torah? How does that relate? >> Oh so maybe maybe we'll be able to come to that. Okay. Says that Torah and Ma are not two independent mitzvah. They're really two sides of one coin. Because since if you don't have a brisma, you can't understand one word of the Tory. Yeah, you could say it, but it won't register. It won't be absorbed in in your mind. So therefore, Mila is what allows understanding of Tyra. So we had a question. How could the garam say that the is going both on the mitzvah of and on the mitzvah of it can only be talking about one thing? The answer is very simple. Rabbi says it's going on but without a bris you can't understand it. It's not going on two different mitzvah. It's going on one mitzvah. It's going on learning but without a bris you can't learn. We had a question since when is connected right the says mah is equal to the all the 63 mitzvah no it's not right we've called it highway robbery only Torah is equal to 63 you're right only Torah is equal to 63 mitz but if you don't have a you can't learn anything we had a question if so important that the whole world stands on brisma so why did the tana andos not list brisa as one of the three things the world stands on there's a fourth It did list it. Where did it list it? Torah. Because without a bris, you can't learn. Without a bris, your heart is clogged up. It's stuffed up. It cannot comprehend the Tory. Says an amazing thing. Amazing thing. When tell us that was created in the image of God, right? Remember the right look at number 14 inn. It says Adamish was created mo he was created circumcised like how do I know because he was created but just like God is circumcised Adam was circumcised that doesn't make any sense yeah that doesn't make any sense that doesn't make any sense because he was created with someone like him therefore therefore he was created with a says look at Rash He was created. What does it mean that man was created to comprehend? Just like God has havana, comprehends the true nature of the world, Adam had havana. So now the question is how did he comprehend anything? If he didn't have ama, it must be he was gamalat. In other words, if Adam was created, which means according to Rashi, he was able to comprehend the world, it must be he was created with a but of tell us his mind was clouded. So then figuratively was he lost the ma. The mil is just symbolic of the heart being open to comprehend the I'll tell you something very interesting. Look at number 28 writes when you eat an animal you need to remove the aras of the animal. You need to remove there's a covering there's a a covering of fat on the heart of the animal before you eat the animal. You need to remove that covering. Look at the Rama writes in the last why why the says it's only it's only the says the look in the recantra that since bris the brisma represents the so how could you eat the of an animal it's going to be mat your heart it's going to be mama your own heart so therefore That's what we do. Go ask a butcher. The the last of an animal needs to be removed. >> Says of what >> does not have >> because she may not have an >> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. >> May not have an >> I think the brisk says that he says of listen to this. The benching is not out of order. It's in order. First we thank Hashem for what the goal of everything was which was what >> but then we go back thank you Hashem for taking us out of Mim. So what do you want us to do? You want us to thank Hashem for brisma after Tyra. No we're not listing it in sequential order. We're listing it in order of necessity. And order of necessity is first you need bris and then first we thank it's not we're not ordering in historical order. We're listing in order of acquisition. First what needs to be done is then what needs to be done is because if a person does not have a brism the Torah does not register in his mind. the other way around, >> right? >> It's very interesting. >> One question. >> Yeah. >> You know, you said the skin doesn't let the heart to learn Torah, right? So when you take the skin out that the hearts opens up. So what about the co that they have the priest in in the hospital and they take the skin this is not just a physical thing. This is a spiritual concept. there's an like we say I'm going to circumcise the love of your heart doesn't mean Hashem is going to physically come and do you know a bypass right when when the Torah says that's not talking about you know um cleaning out the arteries right it's not not talking about bypass right it's a spiritual process somehow by removing >> mental cholesterol >> but that increases the intelligence of the of the of the one who is circumcised Yes. It's not a matter of intelligence. Learning Torah is not intelligent. You don't need to learn. Absolutely. So you take a guide >> and do do the procedure. >> No, it doesn't work. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. It's >> so maybe taking the skin of the of the that the says that enhances the uh with the >> No, no, no. the the is not it's by performing the mitzvah the mitzvah God made the Arlasar somehow intertwined with a spiritual but that's the purpose of the ma the purpose of the ma is by physically removing the habasar that somehow somehow that's the mitzvah somehow removes the blockage of the heart whether there's a scientific physical blockage that very well may be whether there's a spiritual blockage That is certainly the case. There's an which is removed by the says that's why after we say right the same way we enter the bris. Now when you enter the bris that opens up the heart. So now the heart is ready to learn. Okay it's not enough just to be ready to learn. You have to actually learn also. So, can he >> do you say that by your >> Yeah, why not? >> I don't know. I've never done >> Me neither. >> Neighbor was in a concentration camp and he told me a story. He had a friend who was afraid to go into the showers because he would be identified as a Jew. So, he undid >> his grist. Okay. >> That's what that's what he said by Marishian. He was but >> the Hellenist said the same thing. >> What? Right in. >> Okay. Rabbi said just a couple more interesting points. Now we understand that we say the Rebi will also be happy. What's the Rebi going to be happy for? What does the Rebi care the kid has a bris? The kid doesn't have a bris. Says the safer. Now we understand because now that the kid has the ma and the has been removed now the rebi has okay I have something to work with now that the rebi is very happy says the benai is an interesting it says like this right what is zamir could mean pruning right cutting once The time for the cutting comes the now we could hear could also be rearranged. Now we could hear the because without is not understandable. Okay. Very interesting thing. Remember we started the the sh by asking why did Abrahamu not perform a brisma right before he was commanded. He he kept all other mitzvah before he was commanded. Why didn't he do brisma? So, we're gonna learn a very interesting Marsha says the Marsha >> number 30. Go. 1 2 3 4 5. Five line. The fifth line. The fifth line. The fifth line. Look what the Marshall says. You know why Abrau did not fulfill? He says on the fourth line he didn't fulfill he knew he would be commanded says I don't like this answer that didn't do it because he wanted to be commanded it's also difficult why did marry marry an Egyptian. How could he marry an Egyptian? Says, I'll tell you why. Who said kept the whole Torah? He only kept the before it was given after he had a not before he had a brism. Because before you have a brism, there's no, you're not even shy to keep the Torah. Abra only kept the Torah after he had a brism. So you'll ask me a question. Why did Abrau keep the whole Tyra before it was given? But he didn't do a bris. He only kept mitzvah after a So you'll have a question. So why didn't he do brisa? He didn't do brisa cuz he didn't have a brism yet. That's why >> that makes sense, >> right? You want to know Ara didn't keep any mitzvah before he had a brism. So now we have a question. Why did Abraino do brisah? Because he didn't have a ma yet. Ravenu only kept the Tyra after his brisma. >> So what did he do until 99? >> Nothing. >> He didn't do anything at all as a mash. >> Maybe gave him a verse. >> No, >> didn't have one. >> According to Marsha, it's not a question to begin with because Abrau did not keep the Tyra >> before the bris. So you want to know why didn't he do a bris? He didn't do anything before the bris. So he should have done the bris before the bris. Yeah. Now a person who doesn't have a bris doesn't do any mitzvah. So I have a question. Why did Abraino do the bris before he was commanded? He didn't do any mitzvah before the bris. >> How do you know that? >> What he did and stuff before >> while you were there. No, I'm saying he kept the mitzvah but to keep the 613. >> What? How do you get that? First he gave them then he gave him. >> So you think he violated it? That was after Chris, wasn't that after? >> That was aftermah. Yeah, before >> that was already on the third day. >> Yeah, that's right. That was >> Yeah. The mash says au only kept the Torah afterm of the >> after the is not 613 mitzvah. >> The mar says only kept 613 mitz after brisa. So in other words, the the prerequisite for keeping mitzvah. What's happened to you? >> Yeah, prerequisite. So you have a question. Why didn't he do mis before he's commanded? >> Someone who doesn't have a brisk can't do mitzvah. As simple as that. >> When did he marry hagar? >> 13 years. >> 13 years before the bris. >> He married Hagar before the brisma. >> 13 years before. >> How did he marry her? If he had a brisma and had relation. >> No, he couldn't marry her because she was an Egyptian. But the problem is right the we had a question. How could Abraham marry an Egyptian? You know what the answer is? He married her before he had a bismah. >> That's true. >> That's what the Marsha says. But Rabbi say that we're not here to say the Ma's answer. We're here to say a new answer. Okay. Why a mu did not fulfill before it was given. Okay. And this is really a beautiful answer. I have a question for you. We know Arau his whole life he was learning Torah. How does that make any sense according to our share today? We learned today that it's impossible to understand Torah without a bris because your heart is clogged up and if your heart is you can't so how did Abrau spend his life learning Torah if he was uncircumcised. So there's a very interesting safer lab by laser Ginsburg art scroll and he brings down an answer to this question what he thinks the answer is and that is there's a medish that says who taught Abraham Torah who taught it to him >> who taught it to him says the medish his two kidneys became like two jugs of water and they issued forth Torah in other words there's a concept right the kidneys Kidneys are sources of knowledge, right? Even scientifically there may be a correlation between intelligence and kidney function, right? But that's what the med says the kidneys opened up and taught him Torah. So says Blazer Ginsburg, why is it that you can't understand Torah before bismillah? Because your heart is clogged up. Admino didn't use his heart to learn Torah. He used his clios to learn Torah. He used his kidneys. So he didn't he bypassed he circumvented the wave, right? he bypassed. However, we're going to explore a different reason how Abraham Au was able to learn Torah before he had and that is the commentary of the at the end of this week's par. The end of the par says like this listen carefully. Abraham was how old? 90 right 99 when now listen to this. What does it say by he was 13 by Abraham it says and says what does Rashi say? Rashi says we know that the word ace always includes by it was a bigger job than by Abraham by it was ace by Abraham it was just bas was a young kid the the uh a that part of the body was completely full so therefore it required a lot of cutting but was already an old man the a was already was already part of it was rubbed out due to tash is and therefore it doesn't say um it says that's a rash says comes the says a different that's not what it means you know why it says ace and by Abraham it doesn't say ace because by two things were happening at his he was cutting off the physical theasar but by and thereby cutting off >> theas So two things were happening. It was so two things. But by Abraham when he did the only one thing was happening. He was only cutting off his physical. Why didn't he cut off the sal? Because Abraham had already succeeded from the time he was young in removing and purifying his heart where he himself removed the sal without the. How do I know that? says the because the Pik says look at number 33 you are God. You chose Abraham. At first he was Abraham. This Abraham and he now became Abraham says where he ruled over all five added organs of the body. When he had the he ruled over his two eyes, his two ears and the and you found his heart to be pure says the you read this. At first he was a 243. He only ruled over 243 organs. When he had the ma, he now ruled over all 248. What were the added five? The two eyes, the two ears, and the ma. So the says shouldn't it be six shouldn't it be he ruled over his also now says no his was always pure why how do we know his was always pure because had already removed our last all the way in the beginning of his career says the how is Abraham able to learn Torah ifra if he didn't have a milah because the reason you can't learn Torah if you don't have a mil is because you have an aras. But Abrau had succeeded in removing the aras. So Abrau was able to learn Torah even without the Mila. So now you have Aasha. Why didn't Abraham do Mila before he was commanded? For what? For what purpose? He already succeeded in accomplishing the purpose of Mila. He had already removed the last h. So we want to know why did Abraina why didn't he do the ma before he was commanded there was no point in him doing a ma it was pointless he had already accomplished what ma was supposed to accomplish then hashem said I want you to do a hashem so okay I'll do the but it's not why didn't do before he was commanded was already his heart was already pure he had already removed our last he already fulfilled the tas of he already achieved the purpose of milah and therefore was not necessary for he already he already did it. So now that Hashem commanded him, he said even though the has already been fulfilled, I'll do it because you told me to. But it wasn't it's not a question. 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