MUSSAR OR HALACHA?

[Music] K says the following people who have spent their time since youth perfecting their character traits by studying books that teach people how to do so meaning M books whether it's the the path of the just and countless other books that have been written by our sages to teach us diff how to develop our character traits but these people that have spent a lot of their time studying m many times they uh they're b or people that are just trying to improve themselves and so on they' have not learned the laws of judicial matters meaning they haven't learned Al and therefore have not acquired the love of justice so here we repeating same thing he said so far where somebody says Rabon I listen to every sh that you have good do you also learn no I learned from the sh okay that's good that you're learning from the sh if especially if it's in the beginning but after a little while you have to learn some along with my Not Just My My by itself is not going to be enough to teach you everything you need to know how to keep Shabbat you have to learn the laws of Shabbat it's not going to teach you everything you need to know about the holidays you have to learn the laws of the holidays it's not going to teach you everything about K you have to learn the laws of and so on and so forth is going to teach you the right how to become a better human being a few here and there but you have to combine it with Al from books oh no no it's enough for me just your is just enough for me it may be enough for you because you think the sh is great and I appreciate that but I'm telling you as the one that's telling you the sh it's not enough why you have to learn if you don't Lear the sh is not going to be enough for you and the K gives us an atomic bomb an atomic bomb for people that only learn mus needless to say this is also for people that only learn Al if a person only learns Al he doesn't know how to apply the he also has the same results as what the Kish is saying here but nonetheless here the K says people that spend all of their time learning mus no time learning Al therefore they have not acquired the love of justice and are more susceptible to moral illness of perversion of Justice than those simple people who have not studied the matters of fear of God and the ways of perfecting one's traits at all clarification a person that only learns m needless to say if he only learns Al only learns one of them is now more inclined to have this spiritual sickness that will make him a complete heretic make him completely horrible in the eyes of a why because he will pervert Justice he will pervert the why would he pervert the if you learned so much M if I worked on my anger shouldn't that make me a better servant of hem if I worked on my humility shouldn't I make me more humble like mosenu and therefore accept everything Hashem says if I worked on my generos shouldn't that make me a better servant of hem by giving and throwing my money around to all of the K andot and the que of organizations so how could so much M be bad for me how Kish continues it's not only bad but it actually is worse than if the person never learned it at all meaning a simple person never learned a little bit of M in his life he just knows a little bit of he learned in Yesa he learned at the local mid and so on never learned mus that guy is less likely to have terrible traits and perversion of Justice than the guy that learned only mus even mus is a requirement so much so that rabo the the uh B the father of all that all of complies with the he himself wrote that he got rebuked by the angel that he learned with that he has to learn more M every day he only learned hours a day he had to learn three if he have to learn three we have to learn 3,000 but that's a different story point is is prerequisite for all of doesn't matter if you're the biggest Rabbi in the world or you're just a brand new person so how could it be that someone that learned only m is worse off than someone that has never learned it at all K continues and there is no question about is the K right or wrong here this is the K this is the K says the following the yet the evil inclination has a way of placing undo pride and firmness of opinion in the heart of a person who seeks Perfection by learning M so that such a person looks at the messes from above in so many words he learns about M he learns about perfecting his character traits he learns humility he learns anger and not ala so he doesn't know when he's allowed to be proud he doesn't know when he's supposed to be humble he doesn't know when generosity is a must he doesn't know when generosity is forbidden he doesn't know when L is forbidden he doesn't know when is a to say he doesn't know when to share the news he doesn't know with who to share the news with he doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut he doesn't know he just knows listen I should just be humble like mosu I should never be angry about anything and I should love everybody right that should make me a better person or better yet I'm going to be like Pinas I'm going to hate everybody that is not aad or best yet I'm going to be generous with everyone that comes to me or better yet I'm not going to give to anyone cuz it must be that everybody's a criminal cuz they're all asking for money so they must be criminals in so many words he perverts Justice he goes to the extreme on everything why he doesn't know when to apply the law he doesn't know when to apply these traits and that is one of the things that happens to a person that only learned Musa where he starts looking at everybody else in the world as if they are below him he feels much Superior to them and all his actions are in his eyes the most generous and perfect Deeds he has become an arrogant person and doesn't understand that his own perspective of himself is completely demented completely off and in fact his actions are despised by Hashem not loved by Hashem he will be amused to think that he is being suspected of robbery for he says for my Deeds are always beyond the letter of the law he thinks and are straight and good this person start starts looking around and he says how could it be that anyone is questioning me what you're asking me when I showed up to the prayer I showed up don't worry yeah but you're late you're late every single day prayer starts at 7 you're showing up at uh eight we're almost finished you're questioning me don't you understand that I'm already doing all types of cavote and stuff he starts thinking that how could anybody question him even in fact he goes to the bet midash and if he's a new he has a lot of especially during the first year or two where he's able to learn a lot of T A lot of T it's very common in B beginning you're able to learn a lot of T understand a lot of different things and you start looking around and you don't like what you're seeing wow these religious people wow they're really slacking goes to Mid and he sees the guys are learning all day once in a while the guy goes for a bathroom once in a while the guy takes to sip once in a while he discusses a few things they're not M like me they're not dedicated like me I learned eight hours straight these guys are nah we got to change things around here and he looks at the rabbi sees the rabbi's going in out in out once a while he's answering the phone call he doesn't understand the rabbi's running the show has to raise money has to pay the bills has to run the operation ah looks the rabbi nah Rabbi soft even if it's the rabbi that helped him do cha in the first place Rabbi soft he's listen he's doing it already for 25 30 years already listen you need new blood in his place I could do this I could do this this guy he's still on his uh Chua diapers still hasn't completed a single in theah but he thinks he could do a better job than a rabbi why rabbi's Old rabbi's Slow he's not dedicated like me he's not learning as much to as me Rabbi maybe learning an hour two hours a day I'm learning 12 hours straight I learned yesterday 12 hours straight he figures nobody here is like me I could run the show they should just give me the keys to this bet midash I'll turn it into what R AKA built he doesn't understand it's maybe what after what when everybody got killed but that's a different story reality is is that the person looks at the religious world around him and he sees deficiency everywhere nobody is good enough nobody's good enough I'm not talking about he finds deficiencies in the Heretics that are distorting the tah and changing it and so on I'm talking about even in the good people the good places n these people pray too fast maybe you pray too slow doesn't think that ah these people don't have kavana why don't have kavana how do you know they have kavana well you're in their brain no listen they finished amida in 6 seven minutes how could they have kavana in 6 seven minutes minutes maybe there like who prayed in less than 5 minutes amid still has more kavana than you would have in your entire life maybe never thought in your head nah there's no way there's no way no way you need at least 20 minutes 20 minutes am in order to have real kavana you need 20 minutes maybe maybe they don't no I never thought that never thought that ah they're not really serious about their learning what what makes you think they're not serious about their learning ah they get up they get down oh maybe they have bathroom problem problems maybe they have stomach problems maybe they have financial problems how do you know everybody's story no listen I saw the guy playing with a phone he was watching on a phone he was watching something and you never play with a phone you are BBA 6 months a year two years three years you don't have a phone you don't have a uh issues you don't have a lot of pro no nothing you're perfect he says you're questioning me you know what I do you know how I learn you know how much I do you know how dedicated I am there's no call that's the right fit for me he expects to walk into a k and for the ocean to split for him like it did for is coming out of Egypt oh listen I need a k that's going to teach me but Teach Me in My Level oh what's your level I need to learn cabala oh cabala how many times you complete the sh excuse me what's that the the how many times no no no I don't learn that type stuff I learn straight cabala that's what I think I dream in my mind all know the and the and this and and the what what are you talking about what because you read a few RAB breast books andal you read a few lines here and there you heard a few terms from cabala you think you're a cabalist no no no listen I want to learn Z St Z that's what I I go straight he's a baby not even in diapers yet he's pre- diapers and he thinks he goes to the highest level I want somebody to teach me already the mystical part of Judaism the highest part of mysticism little by little take a step at a time no no no I'm fastpaced I want to go straight to the source that and that's the reality the reality is you see people coming in and expecting the world around them to change because they came in why cuz they learned a little bit of M they think that they've become humble but in reality the M that they learned has made them more arrogant I've seen with this with my own eyes multiple times not too many times but nonetheless many times for in comparison to i' say what other people see where you see people learning M loving to learn about gay and Punishment and horrible things but you ask him a single shabat Listen by the way what's uh what do you do what do you do if uh let's say you uh you notice that as soon as you leave your house there's a light coming on light coming on you forgot to turn it off what do you do what do you mean you keep going I got to go to Sho oh really it's your light you keep going to Sho you keep turning the light turning off the light every single time oh no you don't go to Sho oh so you don't go to Sho you don't pray then oh what do you do wait but you learn Z how do you not know the simple what to do oh I didn't get to that yet oh you didn't get there yet but you already know the name the family name of Gabriel the Mal the angel and that's the reality people do not basic do not know basic basic alot of what to do and how to operate their Shabbat table but they want to Skyrocket to the upper echelon of of of cabala upper echelon hey Rabbi listen I love Judaism oh yeah you love JM is good what what do you love about it I love talk about the mystical part I like the you know we we learn about the we learn the what are you talking about what do you mean RAB you never you never learned about the and the and the uh and all these other things and I'm looking at them do you know what you're talking about do you know what this G is that you yeah yeah it's the it's the it goes to the yes and yes goes to the Mal and the Mal is what makes me feel like that I said you need to go to an insane asylum with the and the and all the other things that you learned and take the guy that taught you all the stuff with you why it's not true it's true just not what's in your head you have no idea what you're doing it's like you taking the tools of an engineer that builds rockets and start working on your car with it doesn't work khabibi it doesn't work it's like you taking the tools that the surgeon operates on the eye and you use it to uh maybe fix your shoe it's not gonna work you mentioning those terms doesn't mean you know what you're doing and unfortunately many times people go and they hear these different terms and fakers love to mention those terms fake speakers love to mention those terms because they know for sure that the crowd has no idea whatsoever what they're talking about but since everybody is self-conscious about their own knowledge no one wants to admit they have no idea what they're talking about and they know that their friends don't know what they're talking about but if they tell them these terms it'll sound like they know what they talk about and they become the smart person in the room but in reality nobody knows what they're talking about including the rabbi that's talking about it why cuz he did the same exact thing just did it three weeks ago and then he became a rabi and that's the reality many people that you hear talking about these terms have no no concept whatsoever of what what a is of what of what anything is why because this is not for babies this is not for little kids this is not for little children in fact this is not for the vast majority of the population even some of the great sages that we had denied studying these issues did they know them or not we can never question their knowledge surely they knew a lot but did they teach it did they talk about it on a regular basis absolutely not but yet your average person starts talking about like he's bre Jr why because he thinks that he read a few terms in a book and therefore he knows it and that is all Gava you see many times you have these different speakers where they have their uh whatever you call their shim they have you see the comments of people you see the comments of people of different women saying yeah I love this guy sh I love this Rabbi he really helped me get my and you see the woman says well I wish he would have helped you get clothes because your profile picture would be more appropriate if he had clothes she thinks she got from the GU she doesn't know what modesty laws are another guy says oh this guy is the best this guy is the best he's helping me get to my Mal your Mal what because now you think you're a king for Mal that just means you're arrogant that's all that means but yet you'll see time and time again people teach it people yearn for it and I've even seen with my own eyes one time I was in a sh and uh this is probably maybe seven years ago six seven years ago and were praying and they had some guest Rabbi that came to the sh and then uh the sh was not exactly full of let's just say that I knew everybody there there was one guy that was a uh really learned guy and there was the rabbi which I later found out was a clown and then it was the Kila which were just B that you know some of them kept Shabbat some of them not so much none of them were a scholar let's just say that but there was maybe like 40 50 of them anytime the RAB would ask him to learn a everybody will be checking their phones you know not really interested in Torah at all not on Shabbat not during the holiday not nothing that's just the way it was a tough Kila but anyway this guest Rabbi came and uh he says to every listen we're going to shimon's house to do a shoe saw people weren't really buying into he goes no no 40 minutes it's strict Z all of a sudden it was oh oh oh like little mice like little mice little ducks everybody followed him like is IM a duck IM duck everybody except the me myself why first of all none of these people are qualified to learn Z number one two he's not teaching him Z three the whole scene was a joke but but why do they run because stolen water are sweeter water whether you bought it or you stole it stay taste the same but says when it's stolen meaning when it's forbidden water when it's water that's Out Of Reach suddenly we want it and that's what happens a lot of times and sometimes speakers lower themselves to their crowd and in essence tell them that they're teaching them one thing when in reality they're not teaching them that one thing they're just telling them they're calling it something because they know they'll get more views or more people so they'll put on their flyer cabala secrets in reality the guy is teaching you Kashi with maybe a little bit of ramban oh the secrets of the cabala in reality he's teaching you the mid of maybe the Z perhaps a few nothing else maybe a little bit of his opinion nothing else but he knows if he writes cabala mysticism or something like that everybody jumps in now he may have good intentions the rabbi the problem is what the Kish is making is mentioning here is the student the student now he has attended she has attended several of these so-called shim learning about Mal and this hoot and that hoot and all types of things great and she now thinks she's a she thinks that she's the B but female version she thinks that she is the B but just is maybe of his wife she is already thinking about everything but she doesn't even understand the basic law that requires her to cover her hair with a she doesn't know the basic law that requires her to cover her arms she doesn't know the basic lot that she has to be modest even with her speech and stop saying and stop laughing so loud and on and so forth she doesn't know but she tells her friends and her girlfriends about the and the and and all these different things and the reality is she makes a mockery of toah and this is no different with the guys I had one guy I met one time not too long ago he wanted to uh marry one of my students so my student asked me to speak to this person and I spoke to him and I said uh you what do you do there keep this don't keep say no no keep we keep him B already for x amount of years and okay good who's your Rabbi N I haven't found a rabbi flag number one biggest flag of all how could you be a b Chua or a religious person altogether without a rabbi how how is that possible no listen I haven't found the right one cuz my Rabbi that was really good he moved to Israel I don't my Rabbi has always been in Israel he's still my Rabbi and I talk to him as often as I need to talk to him no you know I need to see him what are you looking for a girlfriend what do you mean you need to see him you have a question you send a letter you send an email you make a phone call that's it everybody has this thing about seeing the rabbi why do you need to see the rabbi do you think that every student that the rambam had he saw him the rambam got a letter from some young student who asked him to to translate his Mish to Arabic he never saw him in his life but he did what he asked me to do he translate the entire M which is amazing to Arabic did he see him no you didn't see him many times rabbis don't see their students but people have no I have to see him okay okay so you didn't see him so there's nobody else good by where you live now you know they're all modern and they're very into theat flag number two what do you mean they're they're only into theat that's what we're supposed to learn the the basic meaning of everything no no I'm already I'm above that oh oh you're above the you're higher than rash you're higher than Rashi come here I want to kiss your hand I want you're higher than Rashi wow wow he's higher than Rashi I couldn't believe my I said Thank I didn't know I didn't know they going to give me the to speak to somebody that's higher than Rashi who's higher than theat this clown tells me no I I learn I'm not's not for me oh yeah what's for you no I go straight to the Z cabala don't misunderstand this I love the it'ses but when somebody tells me they only study the Z I know without a shadow of a doubt that person is a clown that person has no idea what he's talking about it would be surprising if he knows the basic laws of of just praying forget about the laws of Shabbat or the laws of anything else just to pray the right way it will be surprising if he knows why anyone that understands how you're supposed to learn Basics what you're supposed to do in life as a Jew here somebody says I only learned the zor unless you are an extraordinary scholar that has already covered everything know everything you're one of these geniuses is that's KES yourself you know the entire by heart you know all of the you're just something you're and now you've decided that okay I'm going to be R Kadri and I'm gonna focus on the on the Z for the next few years okay but who are you you're B CH for five years 10 years and already you think that you know everything that's what happens I've even seen one guy claimed to be a rabbi came to visit you United States he was at a friend of mine's house and uh this guy dressed weird looked weird but you know I kept my mouth shut at those days it was still early on and uh we were hosted by uh my friend's uh by my friend and we're sitting there after the meal and the Rabbi says to his uh helper go go get me the uh go get me the zor go get me I think it was the zor so the guy goes go wa hold on but make sure it has no commentary I don't need that stuff that was when I knew he's a joke he's a scammer he's a liar why the greatest sages in the world read with commentary why you double check who knows that you're actually know what you're talking about but he made sure to say loud enough so the owner of the house hears wow this Rabbi is such a scholar he already doesn't need commentary anymore he already doesn't doesn't need commentary anymore if you're really that much of a scholar that you really didn't need commentary guess what you'd also be humble not to tell people about it but that's what happens in the world so now what ends up happening is that these types of people they are people that learn different things without completely learning what they're supposed to and in many cases a person could start learning M and think that that M by itself makes him better than everybody else makes him more humble than everybody else makes him more generous than everybody else makes him uh cleaner than everybody else holier than everybody else and in fact if you question him he mocks the fact that you're even questioning him because he is the the the mentality of you know what you're talking about you know who you're talking to you know who did it and I've seen that too is one of these people that used to come to my shim and he was one of these people that if he did something something he would make it seem as if nobody knows that he did it and he doesn't want to tell everybody who he did it but you'd make sure that you know he did it you guys notice all the coffee is there right yeah thanks thanks appreciate it you don't know who did it though right no but whoever did it thanks ah you don't know you don't know okay all right by the way you guys notice that the place is clean right yeah yeah it's clean it's good clean lady came no no clean lady didn't come no cleaning here oh but it's clean though yeah it's not something you don't know who did it though right no we don't know who did it but whoever did it thank you yeah you should thank him you should it's like one of these jokes like it's like okay buddy you want the credit what you want to take 75 bucks out and give it to you like what do you want some people like that who you know was like that was one of the kings that is had who was an extraordinary Torah scholar the says that he had 127 different insights about every single in to have one insight about everything in the Torah you're already the greatest of the greatest he to even know the entire 127 new insights about every aspect of the you can ask him but yet went to idolatry and led the rest of the people to idolatry led the rest of the people to idolatry was afraid that people going to go to bet mikdash afraid that people going to go he put idolatry in the way no no you don't need to go to bet mikdash you go pray to this and he became a he sinned and he led others to sin but he had Merit of a lot of Torah that he had a lot of Torah that he had that was ruined by his pride but yet says himself came to and told him come and do Chua and then you and I and David benai will be walking together in GED now if comes to me and he says do something and then you and I the end whatever you want where where where where where am I going forget you don't need the rest of the sentence anybody normal hasem says to you go do Chua go do whatever and then you and I will you don't need the rest of the sentence sure let's go that's any normal person y was not exactly normal why he knew a lot of Torah and he says to Hashem who's in the front who is walking in the head now say what do you mean AEM clearly said it he said you and I meaning that hashm is going to be at the head Y is going to be second and then are going to walk together in gedan in reality who cares that's what we're thinking but that's because we don't have the same test as yov but anyway you are in the head you are second what difference does it make yam knew this cuz hem said it it's going to beem yam David so why did he ask he's a smart guy you know why he asked he knew hasem said that he's going to be ahead but he like to hear it he like to hear so he wanted to hear it again you know what it's like wife makes good food and you have guests over and she wants to sh off the food a little bit why she worked hard on it she worked hard on the food and you know the guests are coming every everybody is eating like they've never eat in their life wow oh this is good what' you say what' you say oh I say it's good oh okay it's good it's good okay good go oh you like it yeah yeah watch it's very good well okay and another guy says yeah it's delicious what' you say what' you say oh you like it yeah yeah I like you like it you really you like it yeah I love it oh why are you asking so many times you deaf the guy is a half a foot away from you why why you asking again I want to hear it again I want to hear it again why you want to hear it again people like to hear compliments that's G that's pride and says hem finds people that have pride and Abomination disgusting and that's exactly what happened with when he got the opportunity of a lifetime and himself came to him and said to him if if you do chuv I and you and Ben is which is DAV will be walking in G meaning you're going to be AE but when y says well who's going to be AE says benai is going to be ahead why you were ahead but now that you're expressing still G with me you lost that right you'll still you could still do cha and you'll still come but doesn't have this gav doesn't have this G but then there's other commentaries I learned today from he says that he didn't just ask who's ahead to hear that he is ahead but rather he was saying to why are you ahead asem I should be meaning he wanted to be aead of even AEM say you're humble is humble okay so I'll be ahead of you you can let me go what do you care if you're so humble what you care if you're so humble this is a person that had an opportunity to be walking with hem in GED instead he's walking in Gom or rather yet being burned in Gom for now and forever as the says certain people people that have lost their share of the world to come and have eternal punishment one of them is y who had an opportunity multiple opportunities to utilize the to that he learned in order to get to the best possible heaven but instead that disgusting Pride turn as Tor instead of the potion to life it turn into a potion of death says the Kish when a person has this gav this pride and Views all of his actions as perfect and generous he's even amused to be suspected of any evil or robbery of some kind because he says my Deeds are always beyond the letter of the law I'm stringent in everything I'm stringent in everything I only learn the the stringencies in reality anyone that's only strict on everything he just automatically goes to the strict side for sure is an idiot why it doesn't require a to know when to be strict a is one that knows when you should be strict and when you should be lenient that's what is but not should be strength and should be lenient based on feelings when it's it's allowed to be lenient and when you should be but someone says no I'm strict in everything cuz I learn the the highest above the letter of the law I learned the Z I learned the cabalistic books and so on this person is surely an idiot again I'm not talking about the real that are really and are doing it I'm talking about your average person if you're talking about the obviously they're not really part of this conversation but I'm talking about your average person that thinks that he could be stringent with stringent without even having a rabbi without even knowing Shas and POS which is to learn the multiple times to know it to know the POs to know how to understand how to determine Al and so on and so forth but he strictly he wants to be strict without even understanding why he's strict these are people that usually T torture their families because nobody even knows what they're doing and why they're doing it and many many times their kids go off the many many times their kids end up hating the Torah hating religion hating God because all they're learning is that you're not allowed to do anything and you don't really know why cu the person that's telling you he himself doesn't know why but he tells you no no this is the way it's supposed to be done but in reality that's not sufficient for anybody else other than him [Music] 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