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DIVINE RULES: Contradictions Exist In Torah Intentionally (10 Minutes)

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] there is no wrong answer there are certain things in the tah that have multiple opinions and they're all right even if sometimes they contradict each other even if one says black and the other one says uh White they're both right they're both right and Hashem wants both of them to be in the world both of them studied and even if one of them is clearly wrong it's still considered it's still considered the words of the Living God why because the Torah is not like a uh the simple secular subjects that you learn where there be 1+ 1 equals 2 or 1 * 2 = 2 or 3 - 1 = 2 and everything is just basic you know like black and white the Torah is something living the Torah is something that's Divine so it's not necessarily all black and white all the time this for me personally was one of the most difficult things to accept uh through my chuba because I constantly you know in the secular world I studied a lot psychology math sciences and all types of things and I was used to rules black white black white black black No Gray There's No Gray There's No Gray there's no you know one guy is up one guy is down and there's one guy in the middle no nobody in the middle that's just theoretical if it's theoretical it just means it's an educated guest which is the reason why I like to make fun of people that are love these theories and act as their facts like dinosaurs lived three zillion years ago or three billion years ago 50 million years ago and there's a lot of theories running around but people act as all it's all facts it's not facts just theories theories means an educated guess so for me I was used to black and white so when I started learning and I started seeing like you know what a lot of things are indeed black and white there is a lot of black and white where yes allowed not allowed allowed not allowed Moses was Moses yob was yov and so on and so forth but there are certain things in the tah that are more complicated where it's not necessarily black and white the right and the wrong are both right meaning there's two opinions that contradict each other but in some cases they're both right why because it's a living Torah both and are right only in this world we go with bet for the most part not all the time but for the most part we go with say that when the mashia comes we're going to go with why do we go with if bamai technically is ultimately going to be the one that we do forever which is much longer than a 70 80 years we're here why because for this world H is the appropriate answer for that doesn't have yet Shai is Right Shai is more appropriate Shai we can't handle here why we have yet it's too stringent for us he is only thing we could barely handle barely we're like skidding in with he so that's that's the thing so sometimes some of the mid that talk about different ages names uh different things like that numbers and things like that there's different opinions because there are multiple answers to the same thing uh and there are certain things that we simply don't know actually like for example the the real significance be behind like how does it work why does the guy the Coen that's pure be make everyone else that's unpure into pure but then after he finishes his job he becomes unpure himself what happened why does the purifier become unpure and why does the unpure become pure how how if it was just him making everyone else pure when they became from unpure fine that's no problem if it was they stay the same and he becomes unpure fine but the fact that the same activity makes both the opposite of what they are does not make sense logically so so the answer to that says it's far from me he doesn't know it's far from even with all of his wisdom he didn't know there's certain things that are just simply Divine simply we're not going to know in this world uh but for the most part there's answers for everything and just sometimes those answers are a little bit more built up and the reason one of the biggest reasons for that is because if everything was simple black and white no one would toil in Torah they would learn it they would memorize it and become robots they wouldn't just toil in it if M for example was simple to learn you would just have to learn it okay a learn don't be angry why anger is okay I read it okay I'm finished with I'm finished with anger okay don't be stingy we're raising money okay I'm gonna send how much okay no problem 5,000 no problem here finished I'm generous now if M was that simple where as soon as you learned it similar to other intellect you would change everyone would do it there would be no purpose for this world when you learn math you go to school you learn math the teacher tells you forever more 1+ one will always be two forever more never will never change anyone tells you otherwise you send to a mental institution 1+ one will always be two 1 Time 1 will always be one one divid one will always be one one minus one will always be zero these rules rules will never change doesn't matter who the teacher is doesn't matter if he's tall short male female black white Indian Hindu that doesn't make a difference the answers are the same can't change it nothing changes you say no problem I read it I know it it never changes it's stagnant it's here it's permanent become a tattoo engraved into your head now Torah is not like that Torah is not you learn it you finish you're done Torah is moving Torah is dynamic Torah is something that's applicable today but tomorrow it'll become applicable in a different way completely you learn the CH this year for whatever your parasha is right now you will find a that's applicable to you right now next year next year the same exact par the same exact the same exact line will mean something complet completely different to you why because something completely different is applicable to you at that moment it's something living it's something that's Dynamic and that's what makes it Divine that's what makes it Divine that's what makes it different than anything else that you'll ever have so when it comes down to the Torah hashem's made it this way because that's the way that will constantly keep you coming back to to and tah because there's no way for you to finish it you could read the same Paras a million times not a thousand not a 100 a million times you could read the same Paras the same the same word it'll always have some other significance always if it doesn't you haven't read enough times [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music]