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Daily Chidush: How much Torah do we have in this world vs. Olam HaBa?

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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hope you had a wonderful Shabbat amazing time to relax with the family learn some Torah eat drink and rest but now we're in a new week and we have to start off the week with a uh stimulating that will give us strength for another week sticking to myself we're getting closer and closer to the extraordinary day of shab and it's a Biblical mitvah to count the omm told us in the Tor that after the second day of PES we have to count 49 days and the 50th day is sh so we go from celebration to Celebration from the celebration in memory of The Exodus leaving MIT leaving slavery leaving idol worship and going all the way to the greatest day in history which is receiving the tah from hasem day that gave this world of meaning and Hashem told us to remember those days and celebrate those days but even count the days in between but one of the things that most people are remembering during this time is the 34 days the first 34 days of of shab of the countdown to shab are the days we count the OM in memory of the loss the giant loss that we had of losing 24,000 students of ABA each one of these students was a Tana was an extraordinary stage where the least of them had enough and Tora in them to revive the Dead and each day we lost about 700 of them to give you an idea of how much Torah each one of them had if you combine all of the rabbis in today's world together it would not be equivalent to just one of them and we lost 24,000 of them so I was thinking to myself why is it that Hashem wants us to go from celebration to Celebration but in the middle we have some sorrow and I thought maybe the sorrow will also remind us of what we have tractate page 14a it says that there are only 55 prophets mentioned in the entire tanak 48 male and five femal but the same gar says that throughout history we had at least 1.2 million prophets so the question goes if 1.2 million prophets people that spoke to God in different ways not like mosenu of course but in different ways whether to dreams or meditation and so on but they got the word of God and we had one point 2 million of them and our entire Torah is from 55 why weren't they mentioned where is their Torah and Hashem responds to this question it's saying that the 1.2 million had prophecy that was relevant to their generation meaning that the prophecy of the other 55 the entire tanak that we have the five books of Moses and 19 other books after it is relevant for us forever for eternity but here we see that this extraordinary Torah is really from 55 extraordinary people and those 55 delivered their Torah to 24,000 24,000 Sages that each had the Kusa to revive the dead and then again as a result of the lack of unity there was a Heavenly decree to bring on a plague and kill all 24,000 putting rabiaa in a situation where he had to start all over again with five students rabud rabi RAB shimoni rabar Ben shamua this is in the tractate of yeot in the gar page 62b says that 12,000 pairs of rabaka students were killed in this plague and it specifically says 12 th000 pairs rather than 24,000 students to symbolize the lack of unity but now we see that again we went from 55 prophets to five or six people sages extraordinary sages AA and his five students and that Torah of the six people is everything we have and if you look at the understanding and explanation and commentary that we have on their Torah which is the entire mishna the entire gar the entire the entire mid and tens of tens of thousands of books that are still being written to this day if you go to Hebrew books.com you you'll see that they have about 75,000 free Jewish books that you can download online and this is just a small part of the Torah that we have because there are many books that you have to purchase but nonetheless tens and tens of thousands of books of Torah that we have today that if a person could just read a few it would change their life and a m in fact if a person would just read one it could easily change their life but this is only from a few from a half a dozen what would we do if hypothetically Hashem would skip one of those 34 days and instead of letting six survive it would be 706 how much more Torah would we have what if he would skip two days and he'd have 146 sages and we would have their Torah so the question that everyone always asks what do we do Inaba what do we do in ganeden and the answer goes you see Sage after Sage after Sage after Sage learning to and people always ask myself including in the past how much Torah can you possibly learn I mean okay so you finished the you finish the sh took you let's say seven years if you're a smart dedicated and persistent person you finished thear in seven years you finished the K in one year you finished one par per week and then let's say it took you another year to finish the rest of the tanak then the another seven years then the Mish another seven years then the mid another seven years okay so you spend 30 40 years you finish the Torah no that's what I would think how much I mean G which are two different things but they're Eternal what do you do with the rest of the time and if we understand how much Torah there is we understand that even eternity is not enough the gar says story about razar Ben hinos razar Ben hinos one of the greatest sages that ever lived was actually one of the rabbis of RAB AKA one day RAB AKA comes to visit rabar hinos after not seeing him for many years elzar gets upset with him he says AKA how come you haven't come visit me I have so much Torah to teach you he says you know that the situation did not allow me to come visit and I know you have a lot of Torah he says no you don't know how much Torah I have he says how much Torah do you have how much Torah do you have he says if all of the ocean was water and all of the trees were pens and all of the land was paper it would still not be enough to write down my Torah that I know and the Torah that I know is not even a percentage of the Torah that's available so you see my friends the Torah is endless 974 Generations before Hashem created this world he wrote the Torah white fire on black fire and that Torah is part of him and he it's Eternal and there's no end to it so when you ask yourself what are you going to do in don't worry you'll be very very busy consuming more and more Torah you've yearned for your whole life but how does this connect us today how does this connect the story of going from happiness of Exodus to happiness of Matan T receiving the Torah and in the middle of it having this huge sorrow that we don't have this Torah we have tens and tens of thousands of books that we haven't read but we want to but yet we still mourn for the Torah we don't have that even if we could we can't read reminds us that the main reason why we don't have that part is Unity R AA students did not respect each other in their level not in a level of disrespecting other like people do every day treating each other like animals but respecting each other in their level where if one stated an Al and an understanding of Torah and was perhaps mistaken by 5% his partner his K would not correct him and in their level that was considered disrespect in our level it's not only that we have to respect each other each other but more importantly we have to be reminded that if we have the unity combined with the Tor we will have and the rest of the Torah we all yearn for so how much Torah there is it's endless how do we get it unite and learn it thank you again for learning with me and we'll learn some more to about the rest of this week call to