In Defense of Artscroll Gemara (12 minutes)

[Music] so musar crisis we have musar crisis for sure we have and one of the reasons we have it is because the foundation of much of our teachings is wrong so one of the examples I can give you we'll finish off with this point is that today there's something that hem did for us as a he did us a did us a favor and he gave us such a easy way to learn Tor that for anyone who doesn't learn Tor it's m will be a special punishment I don't even know if if Gom would be enough for them for not learning to because of how easy it is to learn T today so easy to learn toah you want books not like the old days you had to travel to a different town find a book you have books $5 you get T $10 you get T any language you want Russian Hebrew Spanish whatever make a new language they'll make you a book you can't read watch videos you can't hear there's even certain places you can actually get it on Brill so easy to learn toah so easy one of the one of the that did for us is he gave us Arch SC I call it a and the reason why I call a is because art scroll is in essence was a prophecy that we're going to be a generation of stupid people no B I'm not this is this myself included we are going to be a generation of idiots that are not going to be able to translate what RAB AKA rabos ran B Zak all of theed all of We're Not Gonna understand what they mean we're not gonna understand what they mean we're not gonna understand so now when we had Rashi it was wonderful for the previous generation because everybody knew how to read Rashi problem is people don't not only don't know how to read Rashi they don't know how to read Hebrew many people know how to make the sounds of Hebrew many people know how to make even before I did Chua I was born in Israel so I already knew how to make the Sounds in Hebrew understanding what the sounds mean is a different story completely so now even if you know how to read Rashi in this generation most of the time you're not going to understand even Rashi why deep in many cases it's deep you're not gonna understand the T the point you're not gonna understand it so what art scroll did for anyone who studies art scroll properly not just reading the top and that's it reading every single word on the page the bottom the top the little footnotes the small print the side print this everything everything on the page takes you six hours let it take six hours when I first started learning it took me six hours per page six hours per page I wanted to kill myself I used to be considered a scholar in the secular world and now six hours for a little page you know how many books I read in my life six hours for one page I'm like I could build a company in six hours so I started looking 6 hour eating myself up my brain is boiling I have smoke coming out of my eyes and my ears finally I finished a page I feel like I gave birth but art school made it easy why because by the time I finished I knew what was going on I knew it was going on basically I knew what was going on I got to the conclusion why they told me what the conclusion is I got to the conclusion then from the conclusion you build other things you build on it the more you learn you finish one two three four five you finish the sh you get a basic understanding of knowledge you finish it again got more understanding this you can learn this a thousand times you still learn more new things a thousand times you're still going to learn new things problem is that without art scroll we leave ourselves very vulnerable in a way that people just read the basics and they're forced to come up with their own conclusions now now if you're learning in Yesa and you have a raav it's a that has finished the several times knows what's going on knows this specific has gone over it with his R he knows what's going on not uh some guy just uh started learning six months ago someone serious is your teacher that's overseeing you and double-checking the conclusion that you arrived to by using your own intellect you have somebody like that don't use art scroll don't use art SC why because you have somebody overseen you don't need art scroll cuz he's going to help you get to the light he's going to help you that when you make a mistake which is 99% of the time he's going to tell you this is why you made a mistake because he's D you're an isba you're in a supervised learning but when you're not in that type of learning and you're just learning K with one of your buddies and you're newal cha or you just learning on your own if you don't use art scroll you're an idiot why because you're going to be wrong you're going to be wrong and I can I could tell you stories of how many people are wrong every day that send me stuff the world will end and my Stories won't end the world will end and my Stories won't end of how many people get to the wrong conclusions by learning it by themselves without art scroll why we're not at that we're not a generation of giants we're not you can get to be after you finish the sh several times you'll learn it you'll finish it you'll do it you'll be but in the beginning you don't use this you're gonna be wrong you can live your whole life thinking you're bik 50 years you say someone who doesn't have a r God hates him someone who doesn't have a rabbi God hates him why does he hate him says because he's too arrogant to have a RAV he thinks he's his own RAV he doesn't think he's ever going to be wrong he has too much Gava he doesn't think he's going to be wrong he thinks he's God I hate him so for all of those people that say and I hear this very often in the FR World they say no no if you're studying toah you're not allowed to use art scroll first of all that's wrong on many levels number one because if you're not in a Yesa environment you should and you have to use art scroll or something similar to it to arrive to the right conclusion two the right conclusion is just the basics what you're going to use your intellect is after you go over it several times but at least get to the basics if you get the basic answer wrong everything you build on it is going to be wrong anyway so at least get to the original right conclusion so you can build on it something bigger so without getting the right conclusion in the beginning you're going to be wrong in general which could get you to stay in get for a very long time so first of all it's wrong to tell people not to use it second of all in a generation where most of the religious Jews are to say you're not allowed to get help is 100% wrong because you are discouraging anyone who even wants to learn tah by tell them your Torah is not worth anything you tell them oh you're learning with out scroll you're learning with assistance they're making it's easy they're making it's easy to learn three four five hours two an hour it's they making like it's easy to learn oh you learn look at these faces like like they have some type of uh muscle deformity or something like that make these like you likeing the fces hey you learn what o yeah I learn I don't learn o i i don't even learn what Rashi oh okay you R wow you're you're R you're rashy you're rushy let me kiss your hand you're I had one guy one guy said no no no give me the without rashash amazing you're amazing sadik cabalist who are these people who are these people the guy didn't even know shabat no no give me the without Rashi so these people stay away from them stay away from them stay away from them why they are going to be or they are already the Kim of the generation they discourage that's Point number two point number three what do you think is the biggest sin let's say let's just say it's not obviously it's a mitvah huge Mitzvah let's say let's say hypothetically we're going to go far now we're going to go far let's just say that learning with art scol let's say it's a sin because you're getting too much help because you're not using your intellect let's say it's not obviously but let's just say it is what do you think is the biggest sin what who do you think goes to G the guy that's learning with art scroll or the guy that says about art scroll about to in public who do you think goes to G on for eternity which one which one who's the newest student here you can answer it so when you go out there you go into public you write articles hey no no you shouldn't use this you shouldn't use this you tell people like this it's you're hurting their business you're hurting the students you're hurting the B you're hurling everyone and last but not least says you have have your Torah is not from sh anyway if you have Gava you have too much pride whatever you're learning with Rashi without Rashi with ar without AR it's not from sham it's your own knowledge it's nothing it's worth nothing it's worth zero your Torah you want to get Torah Torah is use an analogy to water why because water travels to the lowest level water travels to the lowest level water travels to the lowest level it's the only way you could explain how a guy who just started keeping Shabbat a few years ago telling you all these three hours for the last three years only way truth is it's all from hasem We have to know how to treat it stop with the stop with the Gava with thinking who we are every single guy is a POS listen to the sages do the right things relax be a decent human being learn some M stop thinking your little ramban start think stop thinking your little mosu because if you were the dust under the dust that Ramba may be stepped on maybe maybe you'll be something one day but you're not even that yet [Music]