Unleashing Your Potential - Novominsk End of the Year Shmuz

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com it's really a great cover to be in this uh rash and I have to say you know I did want to come see for myself I did hear a lot about you that's now I I got a little nervous when I started because my recorder is full but looks like there are enough recordings over here on the desk every day you have this to come to this and of course you spend ymer in Li and sometimes it's Kad it's worthwhile to stop for a moment and to really identify and try to understand what am I accomplishing by Li what does it do for me what does it do for the world what does it do for cl Israel and I think you'd be surprised to understand the effect that tah has not just on the whole world not just on CLA Isel but the effect that toyra has on you there's an amazing Gara you know they say that R kki everybody knows would finish Kula every year but the K said that the shagas coulder the entire sh in 30 minutes what does that mean it doesn't mean he said every word of sh it's that the of could be reviewed and crystallize in 30 minutes but the gar tells us about somebody by the name ofes and Ames would finish the entire talmud every 30 days when he finished the T after 30 days the says he would go up to the top of a boat and he would talk to himself he would say he would say rejoice my soul Rejoice my soul he would talk to himself he would so to speak give himself a pat on the back say good going he would say to himself but he would continue his conversation he would say I learned for you I learn Mish for you I do it for myself I did something good for myself soar ask right away what you're supposed to learn for yourself isn't isn't a person supposed to learn to hold up the whole world doesn't don't we know that said the reason the created time zones is because this way every moment of the day somebody's learning T if if the learning of T would cease for one moment the world can no longer exist so why Isa saying that he learns for himself aren't you supposed to learn to uphold the whole world you know there's amazing says in there's one yum a year that have two different days it depends where you live so if you live in a open City it's y you live in a world city is T how could such a thing be there I'm in the very beginning asks ra says what do you mean by everyone keeps the entire exact same Why by do we have different days say you know and I know that on you know not everybody is sitting in the Bas Med learning so there's a danger that if all of CLA would have the same P then maybe there would be a moment in time that there's no so were two different days of P so Tyra upholds the whole world the sun couldn't exist without Tyra the moon the stars the oceans everything would just cease existing if Tyro would stop for a moment soes should have learned to hold up the whole world says the gar no how do you tou literally means in the beginning when a person learns he should learn for himself in the beginning when you learn you should learn for yourself the problem is that's very nice if you're a beginner but we're talking about rasas was not a beginner Ras did this for 30 days every 30 days he did this every 30 daysa said what does the mean in the beginning when a person learns they should learn forsel so there's an amazing that everybody needs to know the is the is maybe you know the general idea but the says the go says there are three categories of Mitzvah we're all familiar there are two categories of Mitzvah there's and there's a big debate which is more important could you say one is more important than the other the right side of the the left side of the there are three categories of there's when you D it's between you and the sometimes people get very friendly when it comes to daving you could be friendly any other time you want to be you want to do good not then there's there's that's between you and your friend between you and your says the there's a third category of Mitzvah it's not between you and it's not it's not between you and your friend the says it's between you and yourself says the as the says what does the G what does the going mean like the G says how is you're learning to yourself you're teaching yourself how is so I want to share with you a very P mishna everybody knows the mishna the tour even begins with this the says does that mishna mean anything to you I want to ask you a personal question does this mishna mean anything to you imagine you're going to Yeshiva and the rebbi says come on let's go already well you're walking like anel that's how you walk to Yeshiva put a move on it said Reb I'm going 20 miles an hour no have you should go 50 miles an hour like a deer what do you mean like I'm not a deer I'm a human being what do you mean have R does that a meaningful comment be Swift imagine somebody said fly like a rocket ship that's a very meaningful comment fly like I'm not a rocket chip I'm a person I'm not a deer I'm not a lion I'm not an eagle no you're doing the Mitzvah don't be embarrassed be like a leopard what's that supposed to mean that means something that has any meaning that resonates with you do you remember rash at the end of the says I call to testimony Heaven and Earth what does Rashi say Rashi says you're not going to keep the mitv every single day what are you going to do you're going to say today I'm going to keep the Mitzvah tomorrow I'm not going to keep the Mitzvah look at the sun the sun rises every single day so be like the sun be like the sun that mean something we be like the sun the sun is programmed theam created the sun it rises it sets it has no choice there's no off switch it can't do anything but listen to the rean so you're saying I should follow the toah every day like heaven and earth I don't know if I was at a mus and the the got up the mash got up and he said you're you're you're tired you're not in the mood of learning today what do you mean the sun got up today come on yeah that talks to you that that that means something to you I should be like the sun come every day to Yesa like the chair the chair is here every day so I should come here every day yeah that's good for the chair but I'm not a chair so what does this mean why do kazal continue throughout their dozens and dozens of go to the ant learn from the ant learn from the ant that means something quotes an amazing Z brings out a certain point but I think we could bring out another Point as well when created Adam when created man so the says let us make man rash's who's us who's talking to he says let us make man who's Hashem discussing this with rash says you can make a mistake AK who's talking to so Rashi says the truth is it's a little bit misleading but it's Kad to write it this way to teach the you learn out that a superior should always ask the advice of people beneath him the Z says a different you know what the Z says on this p on the first day the created light and darkness on the second day the created the sh then created theats then hashm created trees then hasm created the Sun and the Moon and all the animals and the Lions and the deer and the leopard and the eagle and every creation has a force has a power has auna has a talent has an ability and then he created fish he created Birds and then made a big meeting andam called in the Sun and he called in the moon and he called in the stars and he called in the fish and the birds and the lion and the leopard and the eagle and he says I created this world with innumerable amounts of ability and talent and K I want everyone here to now put your into the pot now let's make man so what is man so says man is a dangerous being man has is like a lion and a tiger and a bear and the thing is reban says there's limited damage a lion could do because a lion doesn't have SE and sometimes a lion is Chained down but if you take a lion and a bear and a tiger and you give it SE there's no end to what kind of Destruction this entity could do and we know we know from history we know there were sh in history that were able to commit such disastrous effects throughout the world because what is man man is the composite of the whole world plus that's why says ends you see if you have a lion you could put it behind bars but what if you had a lion who's a tiger who's a bear who's every in the world what kind of chain would you need to tie down this creature only one thing is the one thing that holds thisam back from terrible disaster that's why says at the end of the day when everything is heard fear the that's the entirety of man man is nothing without that's one way to look at it but there's another way to look at this when you wake up in the morning and you ask yourself what could I do with myself what could I be what could I become what could I accomplish in this world what could I do for myself for my family for for the sometimes a thinks M what am I there are 10 guys in the in the she who are smarter than me there are 50 guys in the sh are smarter than me what am I what could I do with my life but the answer is you know how great you could be you know what your potential is you know what your ability is infinite it's infinite really I don't have any strength yeah you do you have the gura of a AR in you you have the power you have the boldness of a num you have the swiftness of an eagle it's all in you it's in your Nish it's in your psyche it's in your personality you have infinite ability there's no end it's Limitless what you could do what you could be and what you could accomplish it's one problem how do I access it what's the key I didn't know I have all this ability because it must be really bottled up cuz I'm not seeing it I get up in the morning and I'm thinking what am I going to do today do I even want to get up I'm sitting in the Yeshiva what am I doing what are you doing the whole world is at your beckon call you could accomplish anything but how do you access it the and the says they're different kind of some and then there's a you're over here how do you reach the sh how do you reach the highest Heights how do you access man is an man has within them the entire Bria if you ever think you know I learned yesterday I learned the day before I learned the day before that again I'm going to come to the yes you have the consistency of the Sun in you day in day out day in day out don't let the Y say know you already did that already I'm worn out no you have within you the is not telling you a far out fact look at the sun look at the Moon you have in you the of consistency of comes the and V says there's aah what is mean that the says the is learning the word doesn't mean in the beginning what does Mayar mean fundamentally fundamentally fundamentally why does a person learn you learning subis yeah you know how many prar how manyas 13 why you know the re I was just at the C of the Reka the re said by the way that there's no way to be mades anything in Tyra unless and says is yeah so since it's and is is built on so therefore the 13 that's why the RAB says you know say you never supposed to start a sentence with the word AF whoever starts with the word AF doesn't have a good ending you know first the says um the didn't have a good ending who else who else didn't have a good ending who else don't start with SOB asked but we have fifth per how can you start with so the re says because the fifth per is ConEd the fifth of the the fifth of the it's so if you have a bad temper you should learn that's you know you're learning subas how can you not where are you up to all over you're holding the r in the shim talks about the various levels of mitzvas talks about he talks about he talks about he talks about say you might say that AZ is very weak maybe is not as important as a for instance a if you violate a you're if you violate say you're not even says if somebody does you don't need you don't need says but don't make a mistake says the what does that mean what are examples of mil so I'm going to skip the first Milo of RA and I'm going to come back to it number two number three meaning saying you know how don't make a mistake it's not just okay you think shaking a okay that's just a a quick says there are entire Realms of accomplishment called and then I skipped the first one I'm going to come back to the first one says you know what the first mil is says what does that mean is not even a Mitzvah you could look at the ra the ra doesn't list as a Mitzvah what kind of Mitzvah is that if I have a whether to do a Mitzvah or not I have to do the Mitzvah but when I do the Mitzvah I'm not mvah of what's saying is not a it's a is we believe that controls the whole world except our decisions he lets us us choose what does says what does mean what does mean that it's a what does he mean it's an say what's saying you ever wonder about that they learned sha right there's must say there no and I would add okay if I were to ask you okay even though it says in but there are MIT that we could say maybe are more important than others for example what would you say is the most important mitv what would you say is the number two most important mitvah I saw many places in the writings of writes the two most important in the wres so many places one brings us from the the says that children enter the they said that from the time of nobody said such a they said says if there is a learn and do from the beginning of the Al B from here we learn these are the two most important and brings many RI to this so if I were making a list of all the I would have kept Ra's order because Mitzvah number two is Mitzvah number three is but what does mean Mitzvah number one is the Mitzvah of I had a very interesting question I was thinking about this question for a long time there's a t says you know what I'm about to say m y Masai L aai Abraham a person is obligated to say when will I reach the Madre ofrah and you ever hear that person is obligated to say now that first if you learn if you ever learned the say for is from the AL ofka he's Med in the extent of the words that use I'll give you an example does the G say you're to be are you says does the say the is why doesn't the gar cuz if the says if say it means but they but they didn't even say imagine if they would have said you hear the says the T says says that's how speak means they don't have to say the word the understands if the says means so imagine if say the word imagine how important it has to be say you're obligated to say not when am I going to become the god not when am I going to become an not when am I going to become a when am I going to reach the MGA of so I have one simple question vate where does it say where does it say this where in the tah does it say the the T of Val was where in the does it say the r doesn't even talk about this not even a mitzvah R has an amazing piece RAB says how do we account for the difference between what was it about that they're greater than you ever wonder about that what is it about them were they smarter were they did they have more what's the nuda what's the nuda that as the go on so there's what exactly is the we're not we're not we don't have as much we don't have as much we don't have as much as amuna what's the nuda R says a word I don't think you'll ever see this word anywhere else says the main between a Rashi and a rash and an is a word y what does that mean RAB says the word y means ambition ambition that Rashi and the rambam and the rash and the Riff they got up in the morning and they aspired to be greater than in the times of the where their ambition was not as great that is the says between between and between and ambition rabim says it's not only by tah you could look around the world who are the most successful people in any field it's not the people who are smartest it's not the people who are the most talented it's not any specific ingredient this is the key ingredient Y what is their ambition if they dream big big they'll be successful if they have small dreams they won't be as successful this says in a nutshell if you could boil it down to oneuda obviously there are many factors many considerations and many other points this is the say says this is the great mitvah of so if you wanted to know when you come into yes what's the first thing you need to do so some people say first thing is you have to open up the book you have to open up the gamarra no keep it closed for a minute even before you open it the first thing you need to do is put the gamar down and walk over to the entire shelf and you need to say I want to know the whole thing with Rashi and to and the mar the rush the Riff the [Music] ra and all the and then need to walk over to the mishna and say I want to know that also and to all and all to the that's the first thing now you can open up the SA as they say that's da Al that's da Al before you learn you need to want to so once came to said give me a I should become a I can't give you to become that's up to you so the give me a I should want to become a I can't give you a for that either that's also up to you that's your you need to want it so says give me a I should want to want to become a smiled he said that I give you a for you know which Mitzvah this is I would say it's the first Mitzvah in the T it's a Mitzvah that many are not even aware that it exists but it's the Mitzvah that says and lists as the first of the mil the Mitzvah of how do I know that because hasem led me wrote another saer it's called you ever hear the sh wrote wrote at the end of sh says I'll read to you says every day strengthen yourself to Rise Up from one level to the next you need to desire you need to yearn don't make a mistake I should only yearn for something I could do no yearn for something you can't do you imagine R says yearn for something you're not able to get says those who have achieved it them be friends with them learn from them says for alone you'll be rewarded you want it that's your goal you're choosing it that's your ambition you go up to sh you got it it's yours you'll be rewarded as if you got it says and then says if you really want it you chose it you aspire to it will help you to achieve what you're not even able to achieve you know how important this Mitzvah is it's not just a I would say if you look carefully in the sh Chua and you look at the listing in ra number three number two number one that's the all now I would say we know where got how does know this how does know that it's a because it's a you know sometimes we think we underestimate our own value we underestimate what we could do I know in by the way says I have a RAB one of the reasons that made one of the reasons because is 72 and this is and gave the T to with the shame that's 72 you know in the says it has 10 words conect 72 words connect 12 words conect the says says been saying that for a thousand years from the times of the the words what does RAB mean you could look in the English translation Ru means literally with the great love has loved usab writes that's not a correct translation AA does not mean great AA means expanding expanding Sayes who does ream love more you your elas I don't know loves not not the love of the for cl is an expanding love as much as hasem love theid Hashem love times of the more in the times of the more in the times of more times more and he loves you more than anyone in history why why now that's a shocker who would have thought that me what am I you know the would always tell you're so great you're so great you're greater than you know that that would tell you're greater than tan so one time said Reb stop telling me that you also told me I don't even come to the toenails of the reim S says like this the way Hashem judges a person is based on the times that we live in says the here in compared to the earlier Generations the are so out of control here that the are so great that you are greater even than the tan I have a hard time understanding that the were so great 500 years ago in so then what would the AR say to us if the said to that because the were so great is on a pedestal higher than the tan what would the say if he came into this Yesa today I don't know I'm afraid to to say what I'm thinking but it's a good thing I don't have to say it because RAB writes it R says and he says we don't like to talk about it too much that's why I don't come every day just once in a while R writes you could have a b learning a rashba he says and in shim the B doesn't really understand what the rashba meant but in sh the b i I couldn't even say this writes it I believe in the B is held on a higher pedestal than the reine whose words he's learning in the new editions of rabim it prints in parentheses don't get nervous this is already found uh in from what I just told you so when you get up in the morning you have to think to yourself I have Within Me endless capacity endless ability endless Talent the entire world is within me and when I come to theiva and I learn I'm unlocking a force and a power that there is nothing in this entire universe that could compare to it because it's not just the rising of the sun I'm unlocking it's not just a star I'm unlocking I'm unlocking I'll I'll end with the story you have the to hear from uh my father in the you know that my my father's his father was a survivor of the Holocaust he was a benas by R zba he was uh very close to many in pre-war Europe he had was the r of v and he was Mo nees during the Holocaust Mitzvah he risked his life to be M to make and after the war after Liberation my grandfather was made the head of the religious Department Of The Joint distribution committee so as a Survivor he happened to know English he worked for the American Army and in that capacity he he brought over for the Sur iors tzv he built mik he built yes in the DP camps in the DP camps he met a great go maybe in you might not be familiar with him he's with B of Thea his name was he wrote he was a going actually just if you want to know you know the r rebba uh tried to reinstate theas and Rag and R rebba was uh according to most did not come to the to correct and R also had an approach to try to ReDiscover he was one of the important personalities after the after the M after the M he went to the Pope he went to the pope he had with him he had with him a list of 10,000 boys and girls who during the Holocaust their families gave them over to churches to monasteries to Gim to save their lives because the parents knew the Germans were coming they were going to wipe out the whole mishak so what what could a parent do rev Herzog had with him the list of 10,000 boys and girls that yid had to give over and they were they were they were converted and R herach says to the pope here's my list I have every child's name you know when I I I used to be a ren Queens many years ago I was uh close to an old tal who was a tal M of Razer silver you Razer silver Blazer silver was also a going aome he he was a a talet of the rug Cher it's well known re Blazer silver used to go into to the churches and the monasteries and he would cry out is and a little kid was stirred and he came running to lasers and and he would uh rescue them so if herach says look I have with with me the names the addresses of these children give them back give them back to us you stole them we only gave away our K because we thought we would never survive give us back the children and the pope looks at R Herzog in the eye and he says sorry they've all been converted the law is once a child is converted they can never be returned to another religion and the door was slammed in R herz's face R Herz would come to America and he would go to various yeshivas and this is uh the early 50s and he went to skoki Yeshiva other yeshivas and he would speak for bam and he would always say he would say I have the list of 10,000 boys and girls who neb have been lost forever but he would tell benra he says you're from M de in the history of Cl you know throughout the we were in 80% of clo were lost forever in and then B over a million yid were killed and then by and Crusades and Inquisition and pgrs and the Holocaust for a Jew for a yid to be learning Tyra today it's not highly improbable it's not statistically unlikely it's downright impossible you all know what Rak writes R says when I contemplate the miracle of The Eternity of says I'm not writing this he says I swear he says I swear that to look in a Yeshiva at the face of a yid it's a greater Miracle then so writes and you were to be that Miracle 99.9% of Cl was not so you have a job in this world and RZ would say if you're still around and you have the to be learning T what are you going to do for cl what are you going to do for the re so whatever you choose to do with your lifea whatever you're going to do you're going to be a lay leader you're going to be in business whatever you choose to do with your life but you have to ask yourself you are to be the greatest miracle in the history of the world greater than what am I going to do with the gave me and those are infinite those are endless those are immeasurable that's the first Mitzvah in the the first Mitzvah the so when you come to the and you learn Tyra you're upholding the entire world but fundamentally when a person learns you're doing it so you could become who you are able to become it's a great to be with you this afternoon thank you very much you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com