DETERIORATION OF THE GENERATIONS

[Music] Robert why does the spiritual level of each generation decrease over time it's part of that to get us to this point in which it does not even make sense to Many religious people to follow the T and the is this the ultimate test the world that Hashem created has certain rules instilled in it um now the ways of the to of the world came before the Torah itself that's how the mishna goes so the rules of the world were instilled into the world before hasem officially gave the tah to the world even though he wrote the tah 974 Generations before he created the world according to still he didn't give us the Torah uh right away we waited we waited a long time before before he gave us the Torah now this was in the year 2448 from creation so now as far as the um 2848 something like that now the uh the uh rules of the world didn't have to wait for the torat to come we already knew there certain rules of the world that gravity was in the world uh the uh the certain things when it comes to air certain things in in nature itself photosynthesis and so on and so all of those things came into the world one of the rules in the world is that the deterioration of the generations why because the further you go from The Source the further you go from The Source the the more you're playing telephone the more your there's a uh a risk and this is in essence just simply nature uh that you could understand if let's say for example you have a game of telephone you have 10 people okay one guy starts with a secret and he says tell him that I went to the bank the N guy says tell him to go to the bank the next guy says tell him about a bank next guy says go rob a bank next guy says he's a murderer next guy says he's a Kill by the time it gets to the 10 person you have a completely different sentence why there's more problems now is the same that we got from Mount saai but the level of dedication for the Torah has deteriorated drastically hence the reason of why people do not have as much honor to the now when it comes to when it comes to honoring the the problem that people most most people have is that it's not that they are learned and therefore they disrespect theim is that they're arrogant and therefore they disrespect disrespect to the sages disrespect of the Torah does not come from knowledge it comes from ignorance combined with arrogance that's where it comes back from the in number two one of the by name of G says anytime you are going to make a statement in the name of one of the any of your generation of previous generations you must visualize and picture this Sage that you're mentioning his name this Rabbi that you're mentioning his name even if he's your local Rabbi and you're mentioning what he said to one of your friends or fellows you have to imagine as if he's standing right next to you why because if he was standing right next to you you'd act probably differently than if he standing not next to you a few hundred years ago the was one of the uh just a few hundred years ago which as a side note he was one of the ones that was a very much against wigs even during those days when wigs looked like broomstick heads the got to a point when when he would learn he would say certain sages names for example one of the sages names that's most common in thear is AB so when he would say which means AB said follow would say it says he would actually see the of of the sage he would see the when he would mention something in his name say he would see it he would feel it the point being is that you don't get to that just because you're bored and you read some books you get that because you enjoy their words you you Mesmerize in their words you love their words you're uh you you just want to feel everything that they said and do everything that they said because you respect them when a person does not respect the it's simply because he's ignorant about them for example one of the that we have is uh from previous generations isi palachi in uh one of his books he writes in the beginning of the book of how he just dealt with a enormous tragedy where it was a fire and in that fire it burned tens of thousands tens of thousands of answers answers that he wrote for questions that people asked and 54 of his books that there was only one copy of 54 of his books there was only one copy of that he wrote tragedy to say the least we're not talking about books that were you know three pages I my name is RI and you know we're talking about serious books each book with a lot of serious dedication now an average person today that goes through such a tragedy most likely will commit suicide to lose your entire life's work in a fire I mean it's very very horrible but what did do he lived from that fire he lived another 27 years and during those 27 years he wrote he didn't have much of his work left that he wrote from the first 34s of his life or two-thirds of his life he didn't have much uh much much of it left he had a little bit left so what did he do he wrote another 73 books covering practically all facets of the Torah the commentary on commentary the entire commentary on the entire commentary the entire commentary on on the commentary on all all he covered everything literally when you write a CH you write an answer and you're bringing sources if you don't bring some going to frown upon it like how did you not bring him he's everywhere how did you avoid bringing him into your answer it's like not bringing a r like how do you not bring him he's he's he talked about everything so now why did I mention this the fact that he already wrote 50 books 54 books is extraordinary and you know this the ones that got burned but put that aside he wrote 73 books in 27 years that means every 3 months he finished a whole book not to read a whole book to write a whole book so much so that they said to his son surely your uh your father he used cabal special type of cabala for for for the Countess for the uh for the uh thing for the pen that's made from a uh feather for the to write for him because how do he write that fast forget about how much knowledge he had everybody knows he was a genius but I mean how do he write that fast a whole book every 3 months for the rest of his life when a person disregards what what he says would you say that person is a normal person no he's either a crazy person an ignorant person he doesn't know what he's dealing with or he's an arrogant person he's so arrogant that he cannot see anything other than himself such a person is spiritual sick he's spiritually sick and the problem is there's a lot of that there's a lot of that and guess what who was bigger or the r surely the r r was precedes him by many many years hundreds of years 800 years ago is the ramb almost 900 years ago is the raes there was nobody like the rambam people disregard him whenever they feel like it even though no one in their right mind would cons would would go against or you go with Rya wrote dozens of books dozens of books if you simply just are able to go through any one of his books without being enamored at how smart he was how much of a genius he must have had every bit of his brain used it was unbelievable how he thought about everything and knew everything in his head remembering 60 70,000 books by heart to the extent where there were certain places in Middle East where the Arabs had control of a lot of old books and they wouldn't let the Jews take them he would go to their libraries look at the book One Time come back home and write the whole book that's the type of brain that he had that's the type of that he had and somebody today dares to disagree with one of the things that he wrotes is this person normal or is he an ignorant or is he arrogant so that's the thing when people go against the T they're not going against the T the because of knowledge they're going against them because of bad character traits typically it all stems from arrogance and that's why actually the in page 19B page 19B talks about it where says R ABA said in the name of RA who said in the name of R what is the meaning in what's written in Proverbs 7:26 for many victims has she fled what does this verse mean say this means this is a Torah student who has not reached the level of maturity to decide the law to decide what's really the what's right what's left and yet he decides it nonetheless and also and the mighty all all she is slain this is referring to this is referring to a Torah student who has reached a level of maturity to decide the law he has the knowledge but yet he stays quiet he doesn't say anything so that's the says says that somebody that doesn't know enough but he decides that he knows the law he decides he knows he knows everything he knows he goes against the big rabbis and so on says this person is creating a damage what kind of damage so 15,600 years ago we need some commentary on this where do we go you can't go anywhere without going to the ramb so you go to R says the following and he uses this particular this particular Proverbs 7:26 he says any student who is not worthy of rendering judgments and does so anyway which is what thear was just talking about somebody doesn't know enough but he decides that no no I disagree with ra I disagree with I disagree with the ra I disagree with I disagree with all these big sages I know better I decide if it's allowed not allowed I decide he decides to be he doesn't know anything but he decides and we're not talking about doesn't know anything he Al talk about he's not mature enough to pin why he doesn't know yet he doesn't cover the whole shot many times he's not considered somebody that's a yet he just read a few books and what some YouTube videos that's it and he thinks that he could decide whatever he wants his Rabbi didn't give him the authority to do such a thing he doesn't have the knowledge to do such a thing the rambam writes he elaborates on this he writes Clarity here he says any student who's not worthy of rendering Al judgments and does so anyway is foolish Wicked and arrogant as it says in Proverbs 7:26 she cast down many corpses it applies to him on the other hand a sage someone that is a who is worthy of rendering Allah judgments and refrains from doing so holds back the spread of toat and places stumbling blocks before the Blind and the verse that same verse second half applies to him how prodigous are those that she slew it applies to him someone that has the knowledge but he wants to keep his mouth shut because he doesn't want to debate people he doesn't want to say anything he doesn't want people to disagree with him no if you have the knowledge you have to say it you have to spread the Torah but then the r goes back to the original this arrogant person that thinks he could just disagree with all the no it's only rabal no it's only the that said it like some of these jokesters that you have in in the world today that they simply dismiss the sages the and so on they just dismiss rabbis just rabbis the r continues meaning in sh this is what they think these underdeveloped students he's talking about these same these same arrogant people these same foolish people who have not gathered much Torah knowledge seek to gain prestige in the eyes of the common people and the inhabitants of their City by jumping to sit at the head of all questions of and judgments in they spread division they cause they destroy the world they extinguish the light of the to that's in the world and they wreck havoc in the vineyard of the god of hosts in his wisdom schl said he alluded to them in the song of songs 2:15 take for us foxes little foxes that spoil The Vineyards are Vineyards are blooming he says such a person is a rash is arrogant is a fool anybody that simply does not respect the and better yet dismisses him as such already has problems but if he thinks he's smarter than than them or he's at the same level of them he has a report card that's going to arrive in his spiritual male saying R arrogant and stupid from who rambam school rambam school why this is what it is this is what it is so in today's world you have a lot of ignorant people and that's the reason why people are are uh not as religious if you will or as connected to the as you would like him to but that's coming from ignorance I have many people many many people that grew up religious their whole life but once they started watching my shim they told me I was religious my whole life but I only did chv and became really religious when I started watching your lectures why cuz the things that I learned and the things that you teach weren't always on the same page why I learned a you know a fluffy type of Judaism Judaism that fits my life you taught me what said what saidu what said directly to us that's what you taught me so person that was religious the whole life doesn't necessarily mean that he knows theah better yet a person that was not religious their whole life surely doesn't know any of this stuff so as soon as they watch our lectures they get spiritually invigorated they wake up with a huge amount of Enlightenment in their mind they realize how much their life is full of lies and upside down so as far as the deterioration that we've had throughout the generation it's not necessarily just a rule in the world that Hashem wanted in order to give us a big test but it's in essence it's just part of nature of how things are as a result of people's actions if you give a uh certain message to one particular person it may not necessarily arrive the Same by the time it gets to the third four the fifth person and I'll finish this question with a story uh by zil in in a called where he says there was one time a rabbi that uh came uh to raise some money for his Isa but he was also a speaker a good speaker and he came to a uh certain Community for Shabbat and he started giving a uh a lect CES he gives a lecture in the morning everybody likes it fantastic wow amazing can't wait for your next speech later on today all right guess in a second speech everybody shows up but no one's really smiling at him no one's really excited to see him but you know everybody has to go to scho sometimes anyway so but everybody's being a little bit cold shoulder he starts talking and he sees people start looking at each other he there something wrong here he continues talking and he still sees the cold shoulder he stopped he stopped in the middle of the speech he says would somebody please like to tell me what I did wrong that everybody's like this like what happened between now and a few hours ago so the gab the gab of the says no no you know no I don't know he says you WR you WR you describe Rabbi says yeah sometime sure it's part of what I do all of a sudden the gab looks at go see he's not even lying about it Rabbi says what what what's the problem with WR he says come on tell the truth you stole the from back in Israel and you only came here to hide the trying to make some money out of them the rabbi's face turned white and he says what I stole what when did you ever see me steal anything what are you talking about he says well I know I know that's what you did he goes who told you this and he points to another guy hey Ruben tell him he says Ruben you saw me still he says no I didn't see you see Ste but I saw that uh you took a book you took a book that didn't belong to you cuz you you saw me took a book take a book when when did you see me take a book about you cuz now I didn't see it actually Shimon over there told me he took a book so he asked Shimon go Shimon you saw me take a book that didn't belong to me Shimon says no I didn't see you take a book it didn't belong to you I just heard you say something in your Sho and you didn't mention the source and I figured ah he probably stole that from some book that's how it all started real true story one guy makes a comment that the speaker saying ah he just said a story he probably stole that from some other big and he's mentioning it it's not not really his story ah you know this guy is faker one thing he said by the same day within a few hours the last guy thought that he stole from Israel he was stealing millions of dollars craziness this is this is but also and so on and so forth you start with one message within a few hours it could be something completely different so the more a person is glued to the Torah the more clarity he will have at a a that is always valid No Matter What year no matter how many people no matter what's going on there's a single that we have in the Tor and that's what he'll know one or two more questions