The Malbim Uncovers the Deeper Meaning of Na'aseh V'nishma {Daf Hashavua Iyun Sugya Nedarm 31b}

Okay, good afternoon everyone. Thank you for joining. I know it's a very hectic day. It's Arab Yamiff, but I would like to share with you something not only an insight on Daflam Alf, but also I think something that will be uh relevant for the of Shivus. Let's begin with the Mishna. The Mishna Alfmed B teaches us. We're talking about all the ways that if not for my God would not have created the world. So says Hashem if not for my covenant of day and night. Now we're probably familiar that that is generally uh referring to for example in the Rashi says how do we know the world stands on Rashi brings the So if it's going on it's understood if not for my covenant of however this Mishna is learning it differently. This Mishna is learning it's going on. How is Mila a bris of Yila? So the toyus says, let me try to pull it up here. Yumpt says that it's going on. And this is a toiser feels it's ah here it is. Beautiful. Let me get it up. Um. Nope. Are you with me? Yeah. Okay. Here you see it. Okay. So the feels this is a that um that I'm sorry the says like this either if not for which is on the body day and night. So y vala is going on the fact that the bris is present on the body and furthermore says you have to cut the pik with a knife if not for brisma now cut it there with the knife then day and night and heaven and earth I would not have created so that's how it's going on mila so our Mishna says ma is great that the world would not have been created if not for bismah the thing is that if If you look on look in about a third of the way down the first word in line is heaven and earth would not be sustained. That's a different point. The Mishna says God would not have created the world. The gar brings the world cannot continue to exist. There's a difference between and okay this is the observation of the clear he says um in the we say and in the That's one har number two. We know that is a celebration of Satra and we celebrate the response of the Jewish people and that is one of my favorite trivia questions is you know what para does it say and everyone thinks it's paras and of course it's in paras in parro what does it say in it says We will do inbatim. It says, so question, why at first the Jewish people say and then they saidishma? In other words, what changed? How did they they have this uh aliyah that first they said nasa and then they said nasa venishma. So there is a amazing idea. I guess one of the earliest sources of it is Tyus. Let's see if I could figure out how to do this. Okay. Typhus in Paris Mishmatim who brings the story of Unlas Hagar, the son of the sister of Adaranos Khazar. That's funny. Actually, if you could join us in the summer, we're going to Hadrien. That's a city in Rome. Adaranos Khazar city. Okay. It's a city in uh Italy. Anyway, he wanted to convert. So, Unlas was the nephew of Adaranos and he was afraid of his uncle. He said, "I'm going to do some business." He said, "What? You need money? I'll give you money." He said, "No, I need to go check out what's going on in with merchandise." Okay. So, Adariano said, "When you something's at on the low, buy it because it's going to go up." You know, it's good stock advice. You know, when do you buy stock? When it's low. you know, buy low, sell high, right? So, what did he do? He went to he asked to teach him Tyra before he was circumcised. They said, "No, Tyra can only exist in someone who has circumcision." So, what happened? He went and he circumcised himself and he learned Tyra. Rabbi and Raish found him that his face was changed. They said this is uh Uncle that learned Tyra and uh he was successful in learning. He went to Adaranus his uncle. He said why would you do such a crazy thing? Why do you look different? He said I learned Torah and I had circumcision. Adanus said who gave you such a crazy advice? He said you did. You said buy low and I went to all the nations in the world and there was no nation as low as Israel. and uh I stuck with them. Okay, but we learn from here something very important says Tyus. Um so basically they asked him why do you have to circumcise yourself? He says to someone who's circumcised like who is Mah could learn Tyra but someone who doesn't have a Mila cannot learn Tyra. So the clea yakar advances an amazing idea and that is that corresponding to the uh foreskin of the maka there's a foreskin covering the heart and by cutting the masid it opens up the heart and makes the heart a receptacle says The um according to our premise look where my the cursor is talk about two different the outer the inner the inner is the foreskin of the heart the heart should be open wide. to understand and comprehend to understand the of when the Mishna says Hashem created the world for me. What he means is Hashem created the world for the inner ma to open up the heart to understand the Torah because the entire purpose of creation is learning Torah and understanding Torah like or like it says and this is true and clear God created the world so that there should be people who recognize him and understand him And when the garra says the world could not continue to exist that refers to the physical outer external milah that without that then society could not exist if people did not have were not circumspect in their behavior which comes about through circumcision. In other words, the inner ma to open up the heart is the purpose of creation. The outer ma keeps the world going. That's the of the Ephraim. That's why we'll see on B the gar um we recorded B last night. The garra darians the same on the mil and the gumar darian it on tora. Why? Because they both work in tandem. Through the mil the heart is open wide for the heart to be able to understand and appreciate and comprehend the Torah. By the way, they inadimar was asked there was a yim who needed a and the grandfather was going to be the mayel and the grandfather wanted to make the bra and people protested because the mitzah of ma only devolves on the father not on the grandfather. What place is there? Au. So that says an amazing he says the is not only on the mitzvah of the father is praising Hashem that through the mitzvah of it ushers in the child to many mitzvah. So part of part of the purpose of mit of mila is to usher in the child to Torah. So even though the mila per se does not devolve on the grandfather but tama does devolve on the grandfather. Why? Because kazal say that there's a for a grandfather to teach his grandson Tyra. That's a father's father. A father's father. mother's father maybe I don't know if it's a a father's father now interesting the garra says anyone who teaches their son's son it's as if the son's son receive the Torah on hari so I don't know why nobody's talking about this what's the the best thing to do today is to if you have a grandson you should learn with your grandson that's the best thing you could do it's like the kid was mabo de on Hari. Um, now therefore says the grandfather is allowed to make the [Music] braha. By the way, you know, we spoke about this in the past many times. There's a say for Yala David who asks well Abrau learned the Tory before he had a brisma. So how did he do it? He didn't have a bris. I thought you need a bris to learn Tyra. The yal so a suggestion would be that and I I saw this in reveler Ginsburg that we know by it says He circumcised by it says it doesn't say ace. Rashi says abshot but the hafla says that by he had to circumcise his physical arah and he had to circumcise his heart. But Abrau did not have to circumcise his heart because his heart was already his um his heart was already whole before Hashem. His heart was already the says God selected a that's 243. Abraham is 243 and he made him Abraham by opening up his two ears his two nose nostrils and his mouth I What about his heart? No, he didn't have to open up his heart because his heart is his heart was already open. Okay, here we come to the the punch line. You ready for the punch line, friends? Why in paras didl respond and by mishbatim he said nasaishma. Now what does nasa vanish mean? the I would say the uh the way they taught you when you were in kindergarten was claw Hashem will do it even be we don't even have to hear what it says. Can I just ask you one simple question? How in the world are they supposed to do it if they don't know what it says? So it means they'll do it. We're committed to do it. Whatever it will be that you will tell us we're going to do it. we're going to do it. It's like if you ask somebody, you want to do me a favor? You're hoping they're going to respond yes. You're not, you don't want them to say, well, tell me what it is first. But there's a deeper shot. The Malam says nishma. Nishma does not mean to listen. We've explained many times nishma does not mean to listen. Nishma means to to understand. Nishma is nishma is nishma means to comprehend. NASA means without investigating the reason and by doing so you'll understand meaning. So basically what does nishma means? Nishna means havana. So the answer is like this. You ready? In paras it's before did and before they did their ma doesn't do anything because in order for ma to be activated you need. So therefore, they couldn't say nishma because nishma means they'll understand the Torah. But you can't understand the Torah before your is effective. In parasim, we read about how at hari they had the blood sprinkled upon them and they had the which activated the brisma that they received when they left uh mitim. So in other words, originally they couldn't say nasma. They didn't have a without a is talking about that's talking about the talks about that's talking about the so since you need to understand originally in paras their mil was not effective because they weren't Jewish. yet. So they couldn't understand and then once they had the invatim they were able to be elevated to the maj of venishma. You know it's interesting even though shuis is the yumptiff of kabalasra but one of the reasons we read migillas rus is rus was misdal saying where do we see that every puk in Russ begins with the letter v except for eight the says because r was dab Mila R was to Mila that was given on the eighth day. Isn't that interesting? That's you don't refer her to her as she connected to the Tory. She connected to the mitzvah of Mila. So that means think about it. We're reading on the of the gillas. We're celebrating the Russ's connection to the mitzvah of milah cuz is not only in order to understand the Torah you need to have the so therefore says in we say like this we say thank you for giving So wait a second. But it's out of order for giving us and taking us out of well you say well was the purpose of it all. But then we say that took us out of the reason why we mention before is because a prerequisite to understanding the Tory. Okay, Rabbi say have a beautiful Yam. have a wonderful Yamiff at 12 p.m. which is in 90 seconds. Actually longer than that in um 150 seconds is the uh say have a good day. I'm I'm just turning off the video. I'll be back with you in for those who want to save in two minutes. Recording stopped.