What Will You Be? - Academia Hebrea de Panamá

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com I want to thank my dear friends Isaac who brought me here in the honor of the wedding of his daughter last night and I want to thank my friend is also at the right time [Music] first we come every day to learn and sometimes we have to ask ourselves friends if I could have your attention for a few minutes this might be the most important thing you ever heard we come every day to learn Tor by the way does everybody speak English yeah you prefer Hebrew no no no no okay we come every day to learn Tor and sometimes we have to ask ourselves we have to remind ourselves why do we learn Torah what exactly are we accomplishing by learning torat does God get something from our learning torat who are we learning Tor for what does it do for us how does it help us the tells us there was a great Rabbi by the name of every 30 days he would review the entire Tor he he would review the entire Tor and at the end of 30 days he would climb up to the top of a ship and he would talk to himself he would say Rejoice be happy be happy I learned Tora for you I learned for you I learned M for you I learned for you and the says what learned for himself aren't you supposed to learn torat to uphold the whole world did you know that learning torat upholds the whole world if it wasn't for the torat the world could not exist you know right that the reason why God created time zones you know in in uh Panama is now 12:30 in America it's 1:30 I don't know in Cleveland it's 2:30 in uh Wyoming it's 3:30 in California you know it's very interesting why did God create time zones so that every hour of the day somebody's learning torat because if a moment would pass where there's no torat in the world the world would stop existing thing so why Dida say I learn for myself he should learn to keep the whole world going and the gar says something very interesting which literally means in the beginning when a person learns T he learns t for himself but the question is what do you mean in the beginning wasn't the beginner he was a great he's not a beginner so there's an amazing you know we always think there are two kinds of there's for example prayer what you say prayer is it's between you and you're not doing it for your friend you're not doing it for somebody else you're doing it for it's between you and God and then you have acts of kindness that's says there's a third kind of between man and himself between man and himself so what does that mean between man and himself [Music] says what does that mean how is you know when God created man he said the words let us make man what do you mean let us make man it's a very problematic is who's God talking to when he said let us make man so Rashi says he's talking to why is God talking to God has to ask advice soash says it's God's humility he's asking says a different explanation Z says man is a small world you know what it means we're a small world that means first God created the Sun and the Moon and then God created the Earth and he created the water and the plants and the animals and God created many animals he created animals that fly they soar in the air like an eagle he created animals that run very fast like a deer he created anim animal that are strong and bold and courageous like a leopard he created Mighty animals like a lion and after God created all of creation he turns to the Sun to the Moon to the Stars to the Earth to the Lions to the leopards to the Eagles to the deer and he says let us make man meaning I want everybody to donate and to contribute your to make an you know do you remember what it says in be strong like a lion does that does that make any sense imagine if uh you get up in the morning and your mother says come on you got to run to the run like a deer is that an spiring message run like a deer it's it's irrelevant when do you run like a deer I'm not a deer I'm a person I'm a little lazy imagine if your mother said be strong like a lion be strong like a lion I'm not a lion I'm a I'm a boy I'm a young man I'm not a lion what does it mean keep Z says and when God created man man is a composite you know what composite mean he's a combination of the consistency of the Sun and the Moon and the strength of a lion and the swiftness of a eagle and the quickness of a deer the entire world is in one man so if you ever get up in the morning and say man what am I I'm nothing I can't accomplish anything I can't do anything it's you know how great you could be you have in you the strength the quickness the ability the creativity of the entire world every Power of every creation is within you you know sometimes say every day I have to get up yeah you can do it every single day like the sun the sun rises every day sets every day man has within them the consistency of the Sun the question though is how do you bring out from your the greatness that is inside of you how how do you access it how do you open it up you know when we say a person was created in the image of Hashem right are you familiar with that the Tor says that God created man in the image of hasem which means how did our again inside of us blew it into us he blew it within us Z says one who blows delay he blows from within himself so when God blew our soul into US imagine for a moment blowing into a balloon when you have ear in a balloon where does that ear come from it comes from the one who blew it up so when God blew our soul into US it comes from Hashem that means we have within us a piece of God that means how great could you be how high could you climb how much how much could you achieve infinite it's endless God's greatness is infinite your greatness is practically infinite so the question is I'm going to take questions after Okay question is how do you access it how do you open it up how do you unlock and bring out the greatness that that lies within you what's the key t t is B it's between you and yourself by learning Tor you bring out from your the greatness that lies within you without the Torah you can't even be what you could become you remain very limited the Torah activates and accesses all the greatness that lies with inside yourself you know it's very interesting mitvah the Tora theah is and shoose life you ever see that choose life now at first glance you wouldn't think it's aah not aah did you ever hear of the concept of free choice you know I'll tell you in the I I'm I live in New York so I was once giving a Shure to Old Men and there was an old man there in his 80s he never knew this he can you imagine he was never aware I was talking about free choice and he said what do you mean free choice if I do a Mitzvah God Made Me Do the Mitzvah and if I do an God Made Me Do the he was making a very big mistake God controls everything except for MIT we have free choice this is one of that when it comes to doing the right or the wrong thing it is our choice God says that's up to you it's not a it's an idea it's a concept but some learn [Music] that what's theah what's theah in fact if you look at seems to say is the most important of all the mitv what do you mean it's not not even a Mitzvah free choice is just a concept let me tell you what this Mitzvah is did you ever hear teach us a person is obligated to say when will my Deeds my actions reach the you ever hear that statement of that a person is obligated to say meaning here I am how old are you guys 17 that's a good age in a you could drive yet you allowed to drive a car no you need to come to New York New York 16 you can drive okay everybody's invited you come back with me but if you guys are on the road I'll stay off the road it's going to be too dangerous okay so you're better you're safer Panama what what age did you drive 16 in Panama okay 16 I'll tell you a story in in uh New York let's see if I have it on me I got a permit driver's permit at 16 years old okay you get a permit you get your picture and you get a driver's license they update the picture and then every 10 years for some reason on my driver's license they never update did the picture so I still have the same on my driver's license I'm 16 years old 16 years old so when I go now in America you don't need a passport to fly you can use a driver's license every time I go I fly let's say to Florida I show them this they look at the picture they look at me they look at the picture they look at me they say that's not you that's me they said no it doesn't look like you so it's always a whole B God they have to call the supervisor is it him is it not him I say they never changed the picture in the in the DMV anyway that's the story a person's obligated to say you could be 16 years old you could be 17 years old you could be 18 years old you have to say when am I going to be like Abraham when am I going to be when am I going to be you know learned the most important mitvah in the t is to have Big Dreams is to think go to the Bookshelf look at the sh and you have to say when am I going to know [Music] the what do you mean when you know I can barely read a page of the gamar without using a translation doesn't matter even if you have a hard time learning one line of gamar it's a greatah in the Tora to say when am I going to be I'm going to dream I'm going to have a goal to be bigad how big like AB according to that's the first would say his whole life he dreamed of being like that's why he you need to shoot for the Sun that maybe you'll reach the Stars this this is aah of means not what you're doing what would you like to do who do you want to be what's your dream what's your aspiration you want to hear something amazing who is one of the great he says if you look around the world in general who are the most successful people in the business world or in any area in life is it the smartest people no not necessarily is it the strongest people no usually he says I'm going to tell you a word in ladesh he says this word is the key to success in every any area in life and especially in you know y means it's a Hebrew word means ambition ambition ambition means what would you what do you dream of what do you aspire to what would you like to be people who have big aspirations people who have big dreams people who have big goals in life you may or you may not reach them but that's the Key to Greatness to choose you go to the Shelf you look at all this for him you say one day I'm going to know all this for him one day I'm going to help one day if gives me I'm going to try to help the Jewish people maybe we'll have the opportunity maybe we won't but the first step is one thing it one thing it you have to want it actually somebody once came to please give me a for what to be a big so says I can't give you a to you have to learn the then you become so he came to he said okay give me a that I should want to become a says I can't give you a that you should want to that's up to you that's your free choice so he said to give me a blessing I should want to want to be a so smiled he said that I could give you a blessing for I bless you you should want to want to the one of my favorite stories you know my grandfather was a survivor of the Holocaust and after he was liberated in 1945 he met a great Rabbi Rabbi isz who is the first Chief Rabbi of the state of Israel and went to meet the Pope in 1945 and you know during the Holocaust many families in po Poland in Germany and Hungary gave their children to Christian families because if the Germans would have come they would have killed all the children so they gave their children to Christian families to hide the child to in Disguise as a Christian they gave them over to churches to monasteries to nuns actually R Herzog had with him a list of 10,000 boys and girls who Jewish families gave over to churches to monasteries to Christian families and heride was going to the Pope that the pope should return all of these Jewish children Israel and the pope said no all of these children have been baptized meaning they were converted to Christianity our law is that once a child is converted to Christianity they can never go back to any other religion and they slam the door on refer space and he wasn't able to get back any of the children you know the famous stories of re are silver he would go into churches he would go into monasteries he would cry out and these little boys would like they would be awoken they they remembered hearing that 5 years ago 10 years ago and they came running to him most of these children were lost brother and then shortly after the Holocaust rabit came to America and he went to yes to speak to boys your age and and he gave a sh and when he finished he said I have with me the names of 10,000 Jewish boys and girls who were given to Christian families during the Holocaust and they were lost forever there's nothing I could do for these 10,000 children and R her he was standing at the Lecter he broke down crying he was weeping like a child that these these 10,000 children were lost forever but then he got up now R herad was a very aristocratic personality you know he wore a a shiny CP hat and he had a silver cane and he said there's nothing I could do for these 10,000 boys and girls but you young men you're still part of Isel you know that if you're a Jew today and you have the priv to go to and to learn to you're from the 1% of Jews that have survived the generations the 1% that survived the Crusades the Inquisition the PS you know writes that greater than the Miracles of greater than the Miracles of the spoting on the sea is the miracle of The Eternity of the Jewish people R her said to the those young men there's nothing I could do for those 10,000 boys and girls but what are you going to do for the future of the Jewish people every young man in Yesa today the first thing is he has to realize that it's a great it's a privilege it's an honor Hashem picked you to be from the small small small percentage of the whole world who are the Beloved children of hasem and if you have the privilege to learn in a and learn T and learn every day you have to ask yourself if God gave me this privilege what am I going to do for what am I going to do for cl is is means teachers CLA needs whatever talent you have you're going to go into business you're going to be successful in any endeav whatever you're going to be you're going to be a doctor you're going to be a lawyer you're going to be a businessman but we always have to ask yourself what am I going to do for and in these years the most important years of your life you're preparing Yourself by learning to becoming as as great as you can to do whatever you can because you're from the 0.001% who are in hashem's Legion hashem's Army hashem's special Network who are the ambassadors of hasem in this world so you have a great I bless you all [Music] well thank you very much you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com