The Greatest Epidemic of The Generation?

foreign now you would think that when you write an Allah book you're gonna have you know listen I think a what do you think I think B what do you think well I think a because B is wrong I think a because of this that's that's how people think when when people don't learn Torah they assume a lot of things and that's actually one of the things that another five said today in issue which is really the biggest epidemic of the generation is not a coronavirus it's not even heresy it's not Christianity it's not you know what it is it's ignorance that's the biggest ignorance that's the biggest epidemic of the generation people are so ignorant in today's world that not only they do they not know what the truth is but they're out of point of such arrogance where they assume that they know the truth simply by reading a title simply by you know knowing what the subject entails simply by hearing a name and you know many times you'll see comments under my own shooting of these uh you know these uh special people uh special in a you know and more referring to like special ed really but special people that you just published this year the sure is two hours and they make a comment already within 30 seconds of publication about what they think why because they didn't watch the shield and they just read the title and assumed they understood the whole thing the best yet is these these these rude people that have a lot of nerve that don't stop sending me questions about things that I've discussed in the shoe without them actually watching the shoe like they just send questions Non-Stop and we try our best to answer but I think we're gonna have to change that policy because it's literally killing me already uh how many questions we have to deal with every day and to simply not answer questions of people that do not watch our shooting why because the reality is if you watch our shooting most of the questions you have you will find it in the Russian that's the seat is the Torah itself and most importantly that's that's that's really the way it's supposed to be you cannot just go to a rabbi ask him 500 questions and never read any of his books Never watch any of his shoes never do anything and just think that he works for you and that's unfortunately what people do and in essence what ends up happening is that these very same types of people they go to not only my shooting but I'm sure many other Rabbi shuim that allow comments and questions and so on and they don't even watch the clip they don't watch the sure but they immediately give you their opinion this is a a special type of hutzpah that exists in the world today as a result of ignorance getting to a level of extraordinary proportions dangerous proportions a epidemic type of proportions in such in such capacity that you literally can be sitting right next to such a person right now and not even know it you may even be one and not even know it now if you're watching my zoom in a regular basis you're typically not one why because at least you're making the effort to learn if you're watching even other rabbis shoot him on a regular basis that are good rabbis that are honest speakers you also most likely not one of them because Alicia making the effort to learn but there are many people that just simply assume that they already know and this generation is so much ignorance in the generation that people don't even know what they don't know and what makes them even more dangerous is that they assume they know because they read a few books because they watched a few videos or because they simply think they're smarter than their next door neighbor even though their next door neighbor may not even be Jewish or learned or both now the reality is about time is that in any part of life when you want to make it in life when you want to succeed in life you're never going to compare yourself to the losers unless you want to be a loser what do you compare yourself to you compare yourself to the best you compare yourself to the the people that you are admiring or you look up to or you want to be like and so on you know if you want to be a good Banker a good broker a good fund manager a good businessman a good investor you're going to read you know the the books and the writings of some of the best investors and businessmen and CEOs and so on and so forth that's what you're going to read about you're not going to read you know the Memoir of some homeless guy you're not going to read a cookbook you're not going to read a uh you know what's uh what's last year's best stock picks that were picked by some uh some uh uh um uh online online uh uh debates by regular investors you're gonna look up the information from the best of the best the people that have a track record of success if you want to be the best scholar in a certain field you're going to read the work of the best scholars in that field uh whether modern or past and so on and so forth but for some reason or another in the Torah world people think that they are smarter than what they are because they're not comparing themselves to the greatest rather they're comparing themselves to their friends they're comparing themselves to their enemies they're comparing themselves to the average ignorant person running in the street they're not comparing themselves to the sages one reason is because they feel these people are more like a uh you know they're so far removed they're so far away from me there's really no uh no comparison we're not in the same field or perhaps they are in a complete opposite Spectrum where they think no there's really you know it's just the only advantage that has on me and all these others have on me is they learn for longer so I really can't compare myself to them now because they were you know 90 years old and 80 years old and I'm only 25 and 35 and 45 so I'll only compare myself to them later on you know all types of stupid excuses so what do you compare yourself to now you compare yourself now to your peers that are next to you your average guy in Yeshiva your average guy in the cola or in a Bitcoin said or in a community unless it's because sometimes you know how to speak better than them or you know how to communicate an idea better than them or you're perhaps even smarter than them you assume that you are the smartest guy in the street so much so that your ego grows so rapidly that you start passing judgment on the sages you start passing judgment on the rabbis whether it be the local Rabbi or the biggest Rabbi in a community or in in the world literally by you know by uh within a matter of time becomes you know just a normal for a person which is the opposite of anything else in the world why because if you were gonna go into the scientific World philosophical world or any other part of you know scholarship you would only dare put yourself in the same sentence as one of these leading Scholars if you were simply introducing their work if you were simply admiring the work never never passing judgment on their work because you know you're not in the same world you're not in the same field you're not in a you don't have the same capacity but for the reason that we know which is the etzala but no logical reason people simply think that they could just cancel out rabbinical opinion cancel out the torah's opinion cancel out any opinion it doesn't jive with them so quickly so rapidly that they forget that they are still in the I don't know Department and many of them end up making mistakes because they assume that it's all based on acquiring knowledge and if you just read enough books therefore you will know they don't realize that the Torah is not something that's acquired as a result of reading books but rather the Torah is something that's gifted to you from Who as a result of the sacrifices you make for it part of which are learning books part of which are more than just learning books physical sacrifice spiritual sacrifice [Music] let 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