Parshas Vayigash: Is there Life on Mars? The Proper Way to Approach Torah

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good morning hope everybody is having a great AR of chabas as we prepare for we all know that the Torah tells us that when Yakov ended up in MIT the total sum tally of Jews that were in MIM are 70 even though the PK says 66 went down but of course Y and his two sons and was born and sah now let's just make a simple who was y y was the daughter of Ley so oh so we're counting Grand granddaughters yeah cting granddaughters how many granddaughters are we counting and sah well wait a second you're telling me that of all the 12 sons of Yakov and all the grandsons Sons there were only two granddaughters how's that possible how is that statistically possible what happened to all the other granddaughters you say no they only had males well then they need to Market this product if the children of Yakov only had I mean how they do that does that make any sense you know orange juice some people say that it's too much orange juice I mean I mean what what's going on over there there are no Grand daughters except for and that only gave birth to boys and not girls and the proof is doesn't it say that when was taken all the sons and daughters well okay so that means we know they were daughters says they had many females they were not counted among the 70 himself had daughters what you think yob only had well how do he pull that off you know that's like only males you know it's like somebody told me uh SP guy told me you know his father said you know I don't care if you have a boy or a girl but you better make a bris you know that's that's the so how did Yu figure out how to do this the answer is you know what we learn from here the reason why the Nikos are not mentioned is because it is irrelevant the Tyra only records information that is necessary for for us to know and that is vital to our uh knowledge as a people meaning a yob had daughters yakob had grandaughters the tah only mentions the individuals who we need to know about the tah is on a need to know basis you know sometimes you're talking to people and they're telling you things and you think to yourself risham why are you telling this to me I don't need to know where you went what you did and why you did it I really and you're sitting there you're nodding your head you're smiling politely thinking I don't well the T does not give useless information the T does not give historical information the T doesn't give any information the the the matters in the T are only what is necessary to know to be a good Jew and therefore don't wonder even had a daughter and the T doesn't tell it to us why not answer is because who cares well what so we should send him we should have to go to some some ridiculous store waste money buy him a baby gift and send him a package with a note why do I need to know that I'm had a daughter of what of what significance is it the T does not give IR relevant information but let's clarify this meaning the only gives information of what there is some kind of Eternal Legacy there is no Memorial there's no memory of that daughter and therefore it's not necessary to be in the and therefore don't ask that it says that there were 70 and really there were much much more so the's opinion is you want to know how many Jews were in many more than 70 but the T only records what it's necessary to know about I'll give you three more examples of this no that's what the says I mean y what he only had uh two granddaughters it's not no they did it was to them it was P they didn't need to tell it us I give that's why this is just between the two of us and all the people who are watching on the camer fine the says that um was left rash says when we say the refugee the meaning is the well-known and designated Refugee and this is O who escaped from the DAR like it says how could you say that was saved from the Mable but it says by the uh mael by only survived so it says only survived that means and nobody else so how could you say that the pit is but the tah says only survived the in the answer is that even though the Torah doesn't say that o survived and even though the Tora Mas only survived no the Torah only says the people who survived that last till the end of time but the descend of O were destroyed and they had no and therefore the T does not record that o survived because it's irrelevant there was no Eternal uh Kum and existence and maintenance of the family of in other words again the same hash the same point if you look at the tah and you examine the tah and you want to know what is the Torah telling me is the the answer is the T is not giving any historical information the t is not putting things in context the t is telling you information that is needed to know information that is true until the end of time only survived the M what do you mean o survived no but O's family had no Kum because O's descendants were wiped out ultimately when CL came into through their land and therefore just like the descendants of the daughters of the family of Yakov the granddaughters of the family of Y the daughter of Abraham is not mentioned because there's no Memorial of them also for all intents and purposes it's not necessary to know that he survived the T even though he did okay next example of this and then we're going to talk about Mars we're getting there okay oh so you say why do I need to know Al asov the eight Kings oh so we had a share on this uh on Wednesday the eight Kings of asov is a whole cabalistic concept of shm in fact the first seven Kings died and the eighth King was Hadar and Hadar is eight for the eth day of Kaneka Mahin that's why he did and uh we had a whole the eight the kings of asov are very important in terms of the future history of the Jewish people but yes we have the authority to ask if you see a whole long list of names you know I need to know this right now I have to figure out when this year is over and I have to pick up potato coule and bring it home for shabus no you have you have the right to ask every detail in the Torah what is it teaching me I'll give you one more example ex Le the penultimate P of Migel is right if you want to know the power the might and the greatness of Mori and how the king raised him up if you want to know the history of the PM Story look in the chronicles of Persia and media so what's Milla telling you is Milla recommending that you get a library card in Persia and you go to the Persian library and you pick up a copy of the uh Chronicles of Persia and media is the is the Milla recommending that we listen to the media no right it says we don't listen to the media what is what is the Milla telling me says absk what media media oh well right so says Rees says Rees abramski the Milla is telling you what Tyra is don't think that this is a historical record of an event this is not a historical record of this is a book that every detail of it is is proclaiming the miraculous intervention of the creator of the universe there is no historical information given you are entitled to ask why is this detail given why is that detail given how does it enhance my appreciation of the miracle because if you want to know history then you got to look elsewhere this is not a book of history no information given in the Torah for historical purposes yes so we sing in We Sing in yeah we sing about that the majority of his sons were H most of his kids so when the Milla says 10 of his sons were killed what do I care about the other why is it l those 10 they're wiped out okay again if he had other Sons you're entitled to ask I didn't say you're entitled to ask now in general you're entitled to ask I'm just saying yeah we'll have to talk about you know if you you want to know about every detail of Milla we'll discuss that but the gamar says he had more than 10 Sons he had Ro gach right 208 fine um one more example so let's discuss the following very important question is there life on Mars I'm sure everybody wanted wants to know about that sometimes people they toss and turn at night people tell me they can't sleep at night presumably it's because they're wondering if there's extra ter life on other planets and they once asked is there life on other planets and he answered it makes absolutely no difference it's completely irrelevant because if it did make a difference it would be in the t meaning the tah tells us what we need to know and if it's not in the to we don't need to know it other words T is a it's a handbook of life it gives us all the information we need to know to be successful in this world now you want to be is there life on other planets you could choose to waste your time but it's a relevant information because if it was relevant the Torah would tell us about he says over here this is in the of the gates he says whatever is given us is only for a specific purpose whether not pieces of information or teachings like the ramam tells us that if you see something from kazal that seems that kazal are just teaching me scientific information you obviously don't know what they're they mean the and the gar is not here to teach us any information the purpose of t is to tell you what we need to know to guide us in the right path but information and trivia that is not the purpose of the says if someone would ask me Mars are there martians are there aliens you know from other planets says Ken could be on Mars they're like these three-headed martians with four noses and they have spaceships with like those things that could suck you up into them and capture you in the middle of night it could be they they have that stuff up there and there could even be people up there and those people could even I don't know who knows what's going on upstairs but it could be they even have a toyra could be could be they have shs it could be they have a KES could be what you know I don't know but one thing we know is that it's irrelevant why cuz if it was relevant and if we needed to know about it hasm would have told us about in the T and the fact that it's not in the t means that we don't need to know it has no bearing know everything inora whatever you need to know is straight out in the Torah it's not straight out in the Tora that means you don't have to know about it that is a very important Li we learned from Vash that really in fact there were more than 70 so why are they not recorded because we don't need to know about it okay you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com