Artscroll vs Bitul Torah: Are You Wasting Time In Yeshiva?

They'll study three, four, five hours just to complete three lines in the and they think, "Oh yeah, I learned to today." Not learning Torah to I'd be surprised if anybody if anybody's even going to get what they're doing. Why? Four hours, two lines intentionally, [snorts] three years for one m after you've already been learning to 10, 15 years. When are you going to finish the shas? When you're when you going to live like 1,200 years. When are you going to finish the go learn learn the art scroll unless you're a biki in in the language itself and you understand it like you understand English. Go learn it understand it. See the commentary. Finish the sh a few times then learn it with you know initially you learn it with rashi. Then after you finish WITH THE SH A COUPLE times you can learn it also with toot. You can learn it with some and so on. BUT IN INITIALLY LEARNED, UNDERSTAND WHAT IT SAYS. LEARN NO. We're really going and investigating deeply in it. And and I know it took me two years to finish, but I did it with my rabbi and and I really understand everything. Okay, buddy. By the way, what's the next? It's let's say it's Shabbat. By the time you get to the half of Shabbat, which is probably in five years from now, according to that pace, you'll figure out that what you understood in was wrong until you got to Shabbat. And guess what? By the time you get to that same half of Shabbat, you'll realize that you need to LEARN ABU D IN ORDER to understand Shabbat. But you're not going to get to Abu Dhabi for another 15 years. Why? Because the Torah is a nervous system. You need everything. And if you take too much time, you're never going to finish, never going to know nothing, never going to know nothing. And guess what? Even by the time you get to that answer or um or or anything else that's out there, guess what? That content that you spent two, three, four, five, six, 7 thousand years learning, you forgot it already. You forgot already. This is the reason why there's so many people that even though they've been learning Torah for 20 years of their life, they don't know nothing. They don't know anything. Art school is a gift to the generation. Giving people an ability to learn the in a correct manner and then be able to build upon it as much as you want. But first learn the correct foundation. Correct foundation. People are so arrogant they refuse to change where even when spoke against it they don't say nothing wrote about it in his one of his responses and I think it's al yeah if I think it is a he spoke about it uh bringing many sources of how many of the were against this this form of learning that's standard in the world so what I tell kids that are going to yeshiva today and they're yeshiva rash yesa forces him to study uh in this fashion where it's like you know like a like a turtle that's reading upside down uh while he's in the shell uh then uh listen to the rabbi do what he says but as soon as you have a break for lunch as soon as you have a break for whatever as soon as you go home on the way home open an art scroll read as much as possible learn as much as possible outside of the why that's what's going to become you the stuff you're learning over there is not going to help you in life You're going to learn a few things of how to do certain things, but the content you're never going to get to real significant content. You're never going to finish us, which is what's going to end up happening is that you're going to have the what's happening in the world today. You have a bunch of kids, a bunch of guys 20, 25, 30 years old in America never completed the shash one time. But there's that work 9 to5, work 8 to 8, but they STUDY A DY DY. THEY'RE NOT obviously going into every DETAIL, BUT THEY LEARN DAFF an hour a day. They finish the every seven years. So what ends up happening? This balabite goes to the he doesn't have any respect for the rabbi. WHY? THE RABBI IS STILL on I don't know. He's on on he's still halfway through the shas even though he's already 50 60 years old. But this he finished THE SH IN HIS MIND. HE thinks he's bigger than the rabbi. He doesn't realize the rabbi obviously usually learned a lot more than just that. But that's the point people have to understand. It's it's it's it's necessary for you to learn the entire Talmud multiple times your whole life and the traditional way that's being done today. It is simply not possible. Simply not possible. Art scroll has enabled people to complete it. If it wasn't for them, I could promise you many, many tens of thousands of Jews would not even be learning Torah today. Needless to say, finishing the Talmud and and becoming and so on. Uh, and again, anyone that knows anything about Torah, anything about Torah knows that there are [snorts] from the previous generations that wrote their books in different languages. THE TALMUD ITSELF, THE TALMUD ITSELF, you'll see Talmud itself, part of it is in Aramaic. Why are they writing Aramaic? Why isn't all of it in Hebrew? Because the language OF THE DAY WAS ARAMAIC. Meaning that if the language was so important for you to read it in the holy language, then why is half of it in Aramaic? Let all of it be in Arabic or none of it in Aramaic. If the language was so significant, then why did some read write their books in French, in Arabic, in many other languages? Why? Because when it comes to the oral Torah, the key is to understand understand very very few things outside of the written Torah have to be read in the holy language only. You know, things from the Cabala uh the the Rambam few things. But generally speaking, the uh it's it's a known thing that a person needs to read the uh oral Torah in his first language when it's possible. It's not possible. It's not possible. Uh I wish that uh you know Archal and would would would replicate itself and you know translate every book that uh that was ever written in any language that's in the Torah. uh but uh you know because certainly there's other people that are trying to do something similar but many times you find that the uh translations are not reliable or the commentaries they use are not reliable or a combination thereof like for example I've spoken uh out against Safaria a few times even though they provide a service that I think is has benefits to it they provide a lot of translations that nobody else has translated but unfortunately unless you are somewhat Torah knowledgeable There are certain traps within their their translations uh and commentaries that if a person is not aware they could literally be learning things that are heretical, things that are a part of idolatry like in uh they have commentary from Christianity. Uh in in other places they have all types of strange things that are forbidden forbidden. Now, of course, majority of what I've seen, you know, is good, but uh many times there are problems there. So, that's that's that's that's the key. Uh whereas art scroll, they're f they're ultra fume Jews with you. One time I remember I heard a story from them that uh from one of their founders uh that uh there was a person that they hired to uh to uh uh translate um I don't know one was one of the one of the uh one of the uh great uh books of of Judaism. Maybe it was the prophets or something something significant. And when this person, you know, translated, they paid him, you know, it was it was a big job. And then when they got the translation, they saw that he added a few tidbits of his own as far as the commentary. And in one place, he wrote, "Rashi is wrong." Meaning he decided Rashi is wrong. They're from Jews. They're tadikim. What do they do? They paid the guy the money. They took his job. probably threw it in the garbage. Why? Anyone that says Rashi is wrong clearly does not have [clears throat] clearly is not someone that you can rely on for anything. Can't learn his Torah, can't read his Torah and nothing. Why? We have a tradition. It's part of that tradition that is staying there and it's without Rashi, we cannot take one step right or one step left either in the Torah or the oral Torah. Rashi is across the entire Talmud. He gave the commentary in the T before even the Tanakh. You cannot even understand a single word without Rashi. Needless to say in the show, show me one person that could actually interpret a verse the correct way, you know, without Rashi. It's impossible. Why? Because there's traditions. There's traditions. There's there's something that uh people are not, you know, aware of. So the point is is that the when someone is willing to lose that much money because they paid the guy and not even try to edit the work, they just simply threw it out and started all over with somebody else, a whole new payment. Meaning that they had to pay double practically or more to get someone with to do the job. When someone is willing to do that and not during the times where they made zillions we're talking about during the early stages where it was still struggling to make ends meet, still struggling to paychecks and so on. When you have that kind of I am happy to learn your Torah, to promote your Torah, to even sit next to them. We are meant to be a light unto the nations, not to follow their misguided practices. [music] Remember, every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew. We don't celebrate non-Jewish holidays, even if they seem harmless. It's [music] aili disrespect to the Torah.