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Questions and Answers Session - MUSSAR / Pirkei Avot (16)

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] n said a fews ago and said BG I forgot the least no he is was the least of his students saidel was the was the highest oh so who theast Z you both in both of them are in it says that when he would study T was would create a spiritual fire that any bird that would fly above him would burn right and knew all the T all the oral Tor all the written Torah all the languages of the trees Lang of the languages of the knew like wisdom that we can't really even understand his wisdom huh of course he was the highest so he knew everything that knew and more when when was the first one that actually wrote parts of the of the oral Torah there was a earthquake uh in Israel and a but call came to sh this is talks about when he when he started putting a commentary on giving some Secrets giving some secrets of the Tor in his commentary he wrote books yes he uh he wrote like a mid like a commentary he's the beginning of oral started with him before him it wasn't WR 2500 years ago yeah I don't know why I thought about this but we were talking about JC they say this birthday Xmas but how can they not his birthday there's no no no as a matter of fact all all Scholars all of the people know that it's not his birthday December 25th has nothing to do with his birthday uh it's a uh no it's the same date every year December 25th but has nothing to do with his birthday but it's this year it is but it's not it's not always the same day um but it's uh it's not his birthday everyone knows it's not his birthday but it's uh has to do more with their uh to do with idol worship it was a day they a lot of uh Idol worshiping and it was a day that they actually celebrated for murdering Jews andur muring different types of people that were innocent and unfortunately new cult it's like every day I hear something new yeah it's more there's more there more confusion saying maybe there's a half of a 1% is true like it's I don't blame people for not knowing the truth because 99% out there is false right so I don't I don't not everyone has the right rabbis yes the problem is the problem is is that we have deep down ins everyone knows what's true and what's not deep down inside everyone knows that if the Torah says that someone that is not doing the will of hm is going to get punished but your Rabbi told you that there's no such thing as punishment you know the rabbi is full of it told me yeah it says but there's a thousand this is what I wanted to ask exactly what me so I tell I tell a guy know you can't had problem so I tell him he he says but the same way it's written there's there's 10 interpretations to every PUK so even to this I'm sure you'll find a different interpretation that is considered thew yeah but so somebody like that you're talking about the plain meaning is always valid meaning they say that there's 70 faces to the tah meaning there's 70 different interpretations to the tah but they cannot contradict themselves they can't say like on one end it says Mo and it means death but then one commentary will say it means life cannot contradict each other it has to support it meaning that it could say death means death in this world and yat is also death but yat means death in the next world there's no so that supports it that's not contradicting it so that's the thing so the plain meaning of the verse always stands meaning if it says death it's death that's the bottom line this is also actually the same thing with the people that uh you mentioned already JC Penney and falsity is also one of the major mistakes that this new cult or religion or whatever it is that believes he was a rabbi uh and uh they use Jewish sources of different rabbis that mentioned him uh favorably saying uh he wasn't that bad or different people that make commentary on him first and foremost they're not using the Full Source they're using part of the source if they actually put part of the the Full Source it'll be something completely different second of all anyone that mentioned him in a favorable way is also saying that that the Jesus that they're talking about is not the same Jesus that's mentioned in because the Jesus in the is not mentioned in a favorable way in any way he mentioned he's G mentioned he was a he mentions that he was a and he did a lot of different little a lot of different major sins he did the beginning but then doesn't matter the point is still he's still he's still in Gom for the rest for forever right still still in in Gom forever so one of the guy said yeah but you could interpret it differently you interpret this differently yes you could find different understandings of the same but the plain meaning is never not valid when onos did a seance onos which is the one that gave us commentary on a Tora even before Rashi onos gave us did a seance it gave us inar it says Unos did a seance and brought back JC Penney and JC Penny says that he's being burned in uh in feces in uh uh uh in the seventh level of G you can't interpret that in a different level it only it doesn't become no he's really in GED you understand so that's the thing people people take this 70 faces to the toraat too far they take it too they start interpreting it in their own way and a lot of people want to become Rashi all of a sudden this generation has a lot of people that want to become Rashi they want to put commentary to the T they want to add to the Tor they want to add different things it's it's all nonsense if you're going to have a k that contradicts anyone before you even a rabbi from a previous generation from 30 years ago your is worthless can never contradict could but he can never exactly so anyone that has a whether it's in regards to whether it's regards to Mid whether it's regards to just general understanding they have to check it against the the sages if you contradict the sages you are wrong this is the same thing goes with this guy that wrote a book about uh no about how converts are allowed to keep not converts how uh Noahs are allowed to uh to keep Shabbat this is completely wrong uh and a lot of a lot of noahides a staying noahides because of this saying no we don't want to convert because really I want to just keep Shabbat if I keep Shabbat I can pretty much keep the whole tah that I want then I don't need to convert so in essence it's a according to the r but he decided to become the new rambam of the generation and he says no everyone is wrong before him but he says no they actually said what I'm saying but you just didn't everyone didn't understand them so but the sing the single this one sentence that invalidates his entire book there one sentence that invalidates his entire arguments and this is actually what you say in K you say in K uh you say that the the Covenant of Shabbat is between hasem and is not hasem and everyone hem and I'm is if hasem said it's between me and the whole world you would have said the whole world so this just one verse you know destroys his entire argument what happens though because he's looking for an argument to justify his actions he's going to ignore it or he's going to mistranslate it and become the new Rashi Ram whatever but it becomes a big failure becomes a big becomes a big misle no no no he's an orthodox Orthodox Rabbi he's just mistaken so the thing is though is that it's a problem when people don't value the sages for what they are they don't value what the Torah really is they think that people everybody thinks that you know they're in a the same level and they're not we're not in the same level of the rambam we're not in the same level of even a shoe we're not in the same level of Rashi we're not even in the same level of the Dust under the shoe of Rashi uh and I think I told you guys a uh a story about um who was it a uh oh R prayed one day to have because he knew obviously everything we just learned and more a million times more and he says he knows that is the foundation of connecting to hem you know as uh said the beginning of wisdom is so what he worried about he's worried about testing his own so he prayed to hem he's like hem give me the that the r had during his uh his lowest time the lowest time like not this highest level of but his lowest level of when he's you know helping Pati patients that are not Jews if he's helping Jews probably has because he's it's children of but if it's non- Jews maybe it's less so give me when he's taking care of patients that are not Jewish his prayer was answered R's prayer was answered and the next day he wasn't able to leave the bed the entire day because he was petrified petrified he had the the lowest level of that the r had from 900 years ago he had it and in his generation which is much higher than us yeah uh in his generation which is much much higher generation than us he wasn't able to move was completely completely disabled so when we treat the rambam or Rashi Ora or any of the sages from previous generations from previous Millennia like we're on the same level of them and we can write commentary on what they said and all that stuff then we haven't learned anything we need to pray for ourselves then we have to start worrying about level number one which is right so he says that if you keep then you actually but says until you see three stars I checked Shabbat they said Shabbat was over 6:15 I think and just at that time I was able to see three stars M so according to him said you have to follow goes with rash doesn't go with you didn't follow his way it's good to it's good to you shabbat but you can't contradict is m is superior but the point is same thing with same thing with you some people uh do both feeling the the Rashi and they're slightly different but overall uh many people do both but you don't do the blessing on raash you do Rashi so even though so so so R would say listen do it but you don't do the blessing why because the acceptable is not his some people will wear both at the same time you can you can wear both at the same time no problem but the point is the blessing is on Rashi it's not you don't bless on if you're blessing it's a sin so it's better to keep to take out 72 minutes after just to be it's up to you it's up to you if you want to if you want if you want to hold by him you hold by him I heard if you if you if you keep it after and you keep like you got I heard this that every time you add another hour to the Shabbat like you take a little bit before take a little after at the end of the year you actually like created a whole shabat for yourself can 100% the only thing is is that whatever you do you have to stay by it meaning you can't just add and subtract minim on a regular basis if you start keeping Shabbat like a lot of people keep Shabbat during the uh during the summer months they uh they you know right so they uh they start it later they started early you know they Chang the hours a little bit of when it's supposed to start and uh you have to understand that if you're going to do that um like they want to bring Shabbat earlier during the summer they bring it early cuz Shabbat comes in late so they want to bring it early instead of bringing it at uh 8:00 they bring in it at 700 an hour early now anyone that does that because a lot of communities do it they have to already say in their mind this is only for now this is not like the whole year this is not permanent and this is not even for the rest of my life this is only for this Shabbat they have to say it in their mind why because if they make it a something kav they do it on a regular basis it becomes in essence a partial it becomes a meaning that if they don't do it the following year because they moved Community or they don't feel like it or they had work or whatever the case is they're actually violating Shabbat so it's a problem uh or not necessarily VI but they're violating a and violating a is could bring some serious problems so anything that you do that's above and beyond you have to make sure that you're already saying mentally this is I'm just trying this out this is not a I'm not promising but in general in general what I recommend according to R according to um until you are fully acclimated with all of the mitv that are Basics B basic level Judaism good keep keep Kos keep watch your eyes uh you know all of the basic level learn to every single day don't waste your time don't watch things that you're not allowed to don't waste seed a lot of the basic basic level things that we learn about until you become a pro and all of them where it's pretty much part of your your n your blood everything don't even try anything above don't even try why because nothing last last yeah I heard that if you kept Shabbat in a row then you must from then on continue keeping them or it's like you violated same thing if you put if you start putting in the morning one week also that means you must continue putting it on not one time I mean yeah like I said it's if you have to you have to say it in your mind that if it's just you're trying it out you're trying it out you're not necessarily uh doing it on a regular basis it's a onetime thing or a one month thing or something like that stop right right so it's there no you have to be very careful with adding things also if you add two things in the beginning when you're only about for a couple years you add too many things and then you realize that uh you can't do all of it the Satan makes you think like Hey listen you're you're not a level of look so you might as well just give upashi too you're not a level of learning three hours a day you might as well not even learn an hour you're not on a level of watching your breed look you screwed up and you uh you wasted seed today might as well do it every day might as well dat a goyu might as well into Mar might as well eat might next thing you know you become Satan you know so the Satan is going to try to use this stuff against you when you fail uh if you fail so you have to be very very careful you have to take again the 620 mitv that we have not all of them are relevant to us somewhere about 300 or so are relevant to us most of them it's maybe like Les less than 100 maybe 80 something that we have to do and about 200 or so that we can't do so if you um right so the thing is you have to focus you have to focus on doing them doing all those mitv learn what they are learn Tor do the basics don't add anything to it don't subtract anything to it and I'm telling you as soon as you get to a point where you're learning Torah and you're actually a worrying about you're worrying about working on your mid even taking stuff that's extra is it's not going to look like it's extra to you you know like keeping Shabbat extra 40 minutes or extra hour or extra two hours it's not going to seem to you like she keeping it extra why because you're going to want Shabbat to be the whole week yeah you wait every week for it so you understand so that's the thing koser any of those things that are extra it's not going to be it's not going to feel like the same level of because you're going to want it but that's only if you're proficient in all of the basics if you're rision all the basics you really working on the right things you have the right leadership you have the right uh uh instructions and Direction you'll be fine you'll be much better off and there's people just make up uh What uh what they want and how they want and all of those things because yeah no that that thing you can't come every Tuesday every Tuesday you have to come listen live did 8:30 oh I heard said that there two that are rabal but one of the most powerful ones is people this but in reality it's one of the most powerful could really help you yeah we learned last week or two weeks ago that you can't really value two weeks ago you can't put a price on any mitvah as far as uh which one's important which one's not important because we don't really know the value of each mitah give you benefits more than others yeah but in general there's a that we don't even understand like like taking the uh you know the the eggs or the baby chicks from the mom it says that we get a long life for that who understands that I heard a good explanation that that the mother afterwards goes Christ to Hashem then hasem starts having Mercy something like that I I did a k about it about how it's in essence uh supposed to the fact that we feel bad as a result of it should remind us that hasem feels bad when he's not having his son so we does a few different about few different comment on it but it's still a tough mitvah to understand okay so it's great it makes this it makes that but why is yeah it says going to have a long life if I'll do it it means I'm going to live much longer than I supposed to point is yeah but you can't look for it is not if you go look for different uh thing it's only if it happens yeah like if I go and I see it on a tree if you see if you happen to see it not if you go look for it I didn't if you if you see it but you don't but you don't you're not looking for it like not if you become one of these Hunters looking yes all right anyway point is is that focus on the basics the everything work anything else amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music]