#29: Iggeres HaRamban (10 Minutes of Meaning)

good morning Bo welcome back to 10 minutes of meeting tremendous gratitude to our generous sponsors say mother this morning our learning is also for a complete Speedy a young man in our community who had open heart surgery yesterday aan Zev Ben leina an extraordinary young man he should have a speedy speedy Rua as always please help yourself to coffee and slushies and pastries and water as we uh feed your body and nourish you so ran the letter of the ran to his son the letter of the ran to each and every one of us the ran is helping us become a better and better version of ourselves how to not only manage anger and Conquer anger how to eliminate anger if we speak gently and softly then we'll find will be spared from anger and in the absence of anger if we never raise our voice if we never yell and scream if we never lose our cool if we never get angry then we'll be filled with humility we'll be filled with being humble with your mind with a of Hashem we'll see him and we'll feel him everywhere around us how to be able to live with humility in the posture and our disposition in the way we communicate in our thoughts and our actions and our speech and how to be able to with humility build and enhance and enrich all of our relationships including or most of which with Hashem and then the ran goes on and he says we're really towards the end of the letter and I bet you're all curious what we're learning next so am I have person should be vigilant and careful to read the Torah t t if I had to repeat any if you had to say there's any word that repeats itself in the raan's letter more than any other it's the word tmid he keeps referencing and he keeps referring and coming back to always always be humble always speak gently always feel Hashem is in front of you always be reading the Torah the ran is telling us the notion of consistency and constancy the importance of consistency you know the carbon of a famousy med it's a famousy but nobody's ever found the medish but the lesson is the same nonetheless which is the rabbis got together some was the homak hotel somewhere like that they got together for a conference and to take a vote which PK is the best best summarized is the motto the bumper sticker of claw which is best summary of the Jewish people and one voted and the other V is it the statement of the unity of hm's existence our theology our philosophy what all the is built and based on love your neighbor as yourself and the third came along and said no it's the the morning offering and the to noon offering and we don't have time to be dramatic but they put it to a vote and they voted the bumper sticker The Motto that best represents the billboard that best represents what Y is all about is the carbon T the carbon T are you kidding compared compar what's the answer if you're not consistent what are you if we don't live it regularly you can't you can't be a parent some of the time when you're a parent that's your identity it's who you are it's the responsib ility that you bear you're not married part of the time when you're married it's your identity it's who you are an evidem to be an evid hem to see ourselves on a mission of service to Hashem to repair and redeem his world is not when it's convenient it's not when we are in sh before we go to work it is T there Bond keeps coming back to t t t constant consistent over and over and over so here he says T person should always T always so that you can keep it now it's a funny thing why does raan use the word loss to read from the Torah regularly what would you have expected the Raman to say to to learn from the Torah regularly every morning every evening as often as you can as long as you can when you're not doing another reasonable justifiable activity you should be learning Torah engaged in Torah learning so you'd expect to to say in Tor learning Torah but instead there right Torah be somebody who reads the Torah reads the Torah why reads the Torah and he thoughts licus as opposed to so done SE on his commentary gu ran suggests that maybe to learn Torah at the level of to be learning at a deep level you can't do T to be able to maintain that level is something that you can't do constantly and consistently you can't do always throughout the day but minimally licos licos licos could mean to be reading to be reciting you could be online at Disney or Epcot you could be make the best use of the lines I uh must have done something wrong I was punished the last two days to have to be there bem I escaped and got back last night and left them there hopefully they're not listening or watching right now but I thought to myself I should have you could have finished a Seder of mishas on those lines M you could make a a Disney what a it would be Mish unbelievable so licos you can't always be but you could be at a red light you could be what are you listening to when you're in the car what are you doing when you're shopping licos that level of learning is something somebody could be doing somebody could be doing have isar be vigilant when you go press play what are you listening to when your mind is lost in thought where is it escaping to are you considering the lesson that you learned the paraa a good question a good answer Adar Torah reviewing a it's a vigilance it's a mindfulness it's a mentality that that Torah is the filter it's the prism it's the glasses through which we see the world we're interpreting the world why so that we can observe it so that we can we can keep it because after all what's the purpose of Torah the gamar has considers which is greater Li Ora is learning greater or his action greater the gar concludes sort of a riddle it's better to learn because it leads to to active is or better to learn because it leads to action so which is better the action because the learning leads to it the learning because the learning leads to action it's a conversation for another time it's a fascinating gamar but you see that the goal the the the purpose of our learning is to mold us and to shape us the Torah is there to craft us into being Torah personalities we're not people who learn Torah we are Torah people become Benet Torah become Torah families we become a Ben Torah and a Bas Torah we become people that Wherever Whenever Yeshiva week Nona week wherever we are displaced from our regular schedule on schedule but if Torah is who we are and how we identify Torah is what shapes us then then that's our lives that is our lives that's how we make our judgment that's how we perceive that's how we analyze and investigate that's what regulates our our behavior and our lifestyle so therefore we're learning Torah so that we can we can observe iter when you get up from the book the ran says something magnificent a thousand years ago the ran says that when you get up from that learning don't walk away from every time you learn without asking yourself how will this change me how will this transform me how do I Implement how do I execute what do I do with this I think unfortunately a little bit we've lost this unfortunately sometimes we learn to put the check mark I did the da Check I did the check the M check M check Nick or check then we close the book and we move on now I can go watch the game now I can to go follow the stock market now I can go get on the ride no no no don't ever close the book without saying how did what I just learned touch me how did it transform me how did it change me how did this contact with the Divine how did this experience of Eternity how did whatever I just engaged or learned how do I look at something different how will I practice different how will I be more mindful how will I find more meaning how will I be a better every time we learn every time we learn imagine if we incorporated that into Jewish Education we're not just memorizing and gamar who said what where when how did it happen do you have it did you take notes it's going to be on the test if instead of just the notes in the test imagine Rim who are incredible we have amazing R and moras and so on but if if they were empowered not only what will be on the test and did we cover the curriculum but at the end of every single class every sheer to say okay before we close the book how does this change us how do we live differently how do we see differently how do we feel differently how are we different because of what we just learned the a thousand years ago is telling us when you get up before you close that day da before you close that day alah MRA before you get up and leave that class that she to why do you have to be why do you have to search because it's not necessarily right there on the surface it's not necessarily obvious sometimes you got to dive you got to delve you got to look for it what can I Implement what can I do what can I do differently that's our mission Torah is not academic it's not conceptual Torah doesn't sit up on a shelf we learn it engage it so it Fashions and molds us to be Benet Torah to be people families of Torah Torah houses Torah individuals and what it means is that every engagement with Torah leaves us changed and transformed and that's the question don't get up don't close that book don't move on so You' asked yourself what will I do or believe or think differently now that I've learned that Torah and analyze every morning and every evening all of your actions we'll pick up with that next time may we hear yes