Shaking The Lulav on Sukkot Is Like Fulfilling The Entire Torah

say if someone that fulfills the mitzvah of love, it's like he fulfilled the entire Torah. How could a little stick you got from a tree be fulfilling the entire Torah? >> Where did he say that? >> I heard a rabbi say, >> "Oh, you heard a rabbi." Oh, so you don't see it where he said it. That's because he's never said it. A lot of people hear things. It's very easy to get, like I said before, it's very easy to make a mistake is very easy to say that such and such said it. It's very easy. I could quote you 5,000 names and say a bunch of things they didn't say, but I could tell you they said and you'll believe me. Does that make it true? No. So, a smart person that's looking for the truth has to verify. Especially when that new bit of information contradicts all other existing information. The fact that many Jews will die at the end of times is not a rabbitical thing. It's a prophecy in the Torah. It's a prophecy in the Torah. It's a prophecy that's mentioned in your in your It says it the Messiah is coming to what? to rescue to to bring salvation to those that used to be pushim used to be criminals meaning to those that used to be criminals but have done cha meaning that whoever hasn't done chouba he's not coming to save them if he's not coming to save them what is he going to do with them leave them to watch no he's going to kill them so in sukkot first day of sukkot what do we read we read Zechariah chapter 14 what does zechariah chapter 14 say in sukkot you just read it where zakaria Chapter 14 says it gives you exact details of the end of the world. People try to save each other and their uh hands melt. People try to look at each other and their eyes pour out like liquid. He's defining in Zachariah 4,000 years ago. He's giving you the exact description of a nuclear and biological war. So obviously the Zadosh also says that during these 15 days of darkness all of the people that did not do chuba will be destroyed during those 15 days of darkness. So no rabbi can contradict what the Torah says and what the sages said in the previous generation. Anyone that says otherwise is a simply a kofel or option B is you misunderstood them which happens a lot. So I'll give you an example something that's easy to misunderstand. A lot of times in the Torah you'll see times where it says that if you did this mitzvah it's like you completed the entire Torah. So a fool a fool that's looking for excuses and looking for easy life says no I don't complete the entire Torah only I do is I complete this one mitzvah it's like I did the whole Torah so I complete I learn to every day so therefore it's can I get I learned to so I don't have to do any other I don't have to keep Shabbat I don't have to keep I don't have to keep kosher why because I learn to do anything else because someone says that if you learn to it's like everything else or it says if you keep Shabbat keep Shabbat Can they get kam? It's like you fulfilled the entire okay so I'm just going to keep Shabbat but I'm still gonna eat still hang out with the goim still be a still do this or they even says it on pay attention say on sukkot the mitzvah of lav mitzvah of love says say if someone that fulfills the mitzvah of love it's like you fulfilled the entire a little stick you got from a tree be fulfilling. How is it even connected? Why is the love connected to Shabbat? How do love connected? How do love connected to being honest in your business, giving? How's it connected? Giving the love is connected to being so we learn this on Sukkot. First and foremost, anytime it says in the Torah that this mitzvah is like the entire Torah, it's symbolic. It's symbolic of something, a bigger meaning. It's not like you mash fulfilled every mitzvah in a Torah. It's symbolic of a deeper, deeper meaning. It also is telling you that that mitzvah takes preference over other mitzvah. If you had to choose, for example, if you had to choose whether to go learn Torah or to go attend your friend's uh wedding, you go learn Torah. Why? Because other people can attend his wedding. But learn Torah only you can. Unless there's nobody else that can make him happy in his wedding, then you go do that. But the point being is that anytime you see it in the Torah, it's symbolic of a deeper meaning. So what's the symbolism when it says that shaking the lulav the palm tree is like fulfilling the entire we saw this. You ever look at little love? I don't mean just look at the outside. I mean mas look at it. Open it up and look at it. Look at the beauty of the creation. You see that the love little palm tree. It's very very symmetrical and every little piece every piece is slightly smaller than the next. And the next one is slightly it's never goes up and down. It's all symmetrically continuing to decrease or increase depending on which way which perspective you're looking at it. And inside it, you see every Ula is the same thing. You see inside it, there's a little bit of green spilling over from the sides, but then inside it's light. It's always light. Very pretty light color and it's always has the same ending where it's always pointy. You're never going to see a squared off lul. You're never going to see a palm tree where at the end it's a rectangle. It's circle. No, it's always pointy. It always has the same little looking points. Everything has a little minor details that you can see with the naked eye. But tless between us, it has absolutely no purpose in the world other than the you don't eat. You don't build anything with love. You don't do anything with it. There's nothing you can do with it other than fulfill the mitzvah of the love unless it is written Hashem looked at the Torah and created the world. Not created the world and then created the Torah. He looked into the Torah, saw all of the inside the Torah, said, "Oh, we have love. So I'll create a love. Oh, so I'll create the woman has to have a time of the month. Oh, we have mitzvah. I have to make kosher animals, non-coosher animals, and so on and so forth. Hashem looked at the Torah and created the world. The lul love has literally no purpose in the world other than the mitzvah of lul. The whole palm tree of the fruit obviously comes from the palm tree, but that's the fruit. What's the lulaf for? Hashem could have just made the palm tree with just just a fruit. He didn't need to make the lulaf from it. The secret is love is trying to tell us is to understand this to really shake the love and have to have coven you have to understand that there's certain things in the world that are beyond your understanding. beyond your understanding. You're not going to understand everything in the world because you're still human. You're not going to understand the bigger purpose of other things what I just told you about the love. Why did Hashem make this mitzvah this way? Why didn't he make it a different way? Meaning that in order for you to fulfill this mitzvah completely, you have to beem. You have to be complete with complete with completely believing everything it says, even if you don't understand it. And that's our Torah. Our Torah is who does Hashem give Torah to? To someone that's complete with him. If you're complete with Hashem, Hashem will give you the Torah. How you going to be complete with Hashem? Be complete with the love first. Be complete with the love. So if you're complete with the love, that means you're going to be complete with the Torah. And that's why shaking the love, fulfilling the mitzvah of the love, it's like you fulfill the entire Torah. Because by doing this you'll be led to the second >> Rabbi Ruven Ai speaking here. The main lesson from Sukkot is [music] complete happiness and joy in serving Hashem. The Torah commands us specifically for this holiday. You shall [music] be completely joyous. But this is one of the hardest mitzvot to fulfill because you're outside for a week [music] dealing with weather, bugs, guests, family dynamics, and all types of challenges. Yet, this is exactly the [music] point to serve Hashem with joy regardless of your circumstances.