Should You Study THE ZOHAR?

[Music] at this stage my recommendation for all of you and anyone that's still watching sh online is to learn number one basics of basics of Kash meaning what does it say basically according to Rashi if you have a little bit of extra time also maybe look at one of the other commentaries maybe be the ramban or you could look at midash r or something else but at least one commentary being Rashi of course if you can do onos as well that would be fantastic it's even better but needless to say one commentary basic basic not everything he ever wrote about it just like basic meaning of what the verse means that's Kash secondly a few every day two three four every day so you know how to be a Jew four laws a day two laws a day one law anything at least two laws a day so you know what you go what how to be a Jew because you can know everything and anything about tanak and still be a heretic because you don't know how to keep Shabbat so you have to learn the basics of laws every day couple of laws every day are going to help you that's number one that's number two number three M you have to learn how to become a decent human being if you don't know how to be a decent human being even if you know the entire by heart and the entire by heart you're still going to again why because you have to use all of the things you learn in order to become a decent human being the only way you can become a decent human being is by softening your character which comes through M it's character development this is my and uh I'm sure there's a uh many other places that we've discussed in the past way you can learn M that's the third thing now this is the basics one you're a little bit more advanced if you're a guy start learning learn a little bit ofar why that teaches you how to think like a Jew you may not understand a single word that you're reading in your gar for a while but guess what your brain is still going to be rewired and little by little become more advanced and you'll start learning what questions to ask what questions you should know what questions you should want to know and so on and so forth you learned how to think how to think because you don't have that naturally people don't have that naturally of how to think so teach you how to think now you have you have you have you have a once you have those Basics covered then you know you get little by little advance and I can recommend other things for you at different times different books and so on but until you have all of those bases covered the deeper meaning of certain things whether it be learning the uh the roots of words uh or it's uh let's say learning the zah uh not just the MIM of the Z but some of the deeper rooted stuff the cabalistic stuff of the Z uh or it's a other types of things that are above and beyond the average if you don't know the basics and you do all of that you're simply wasting your time for a couple of reasons number one if a person doesn't know anything about the basics but he's an expert in mystical teachings is he going to go to heaven no why because if he doesn't know the basics he doesn't know how to keep T he doesn't know how to keep Shabbat he doesn't know how to eat kosher he doesn't know how to what is he doesn't know anything so surely it's not going to help him two you're not really going to understand those upper level teachings anyway without having the basics without knowing basic arithmetic learning calculus in mathematics is a complete waste of time now you can say no no but I can pronounce the word coign and I could pronounce the word tangent and I could draw those little Squigly lines yeah but you have no idea what they mean and you don't even know how to apply them to real life you have to learn basic arithmetic do you know what a diameter is what is that a special word the code word kabala no it's in mathematics you have to learn what a diameter is and you have to know what a pi and and all these different things once you know the basics then little by little one two three you go up a grade you go up a grade you go up to uh Calculus if you want but to go just straight up and and become a rocket engineer needless to say the same thing goes with to I'm telling you that I personally know I personally know maybe two people that are experts Ines talking about expert I'm talk about they knowes a lot of people knowes experts Ines it is a unique teaching of its own it's perhaps the most difficult because how uh intricate the nuances are but those people are even much higher experts in the rest of the foundation of the Torah why because you need to know the rest of the foundation of the Torah in order to know what to look for where to look for so all the it is very interesting to find intricate things about words and sometimes I'll use it in lectures and sometimes you'll have fantastic questions that he brings that I actually learned from the question itself about certain words I still do not recommend and my own Rabbi told me I don't recommend you spend too much time analyzing the words because you don't have the luxury of as much time as you want you're not a little Yesa B that goes to school at 8:00 in the morning and you study till 8:00 at night and you could pretty much do whatever you want you don't have that luxury you probably have on the average an hour two hours 3 hours four hours max to learn a day Max and that's already cutting it uh it's a lot you don't have that much time and you're not starting at uh 10 years old 8 years old 6 years old you're starting at 30 40 50 years old you got to get as much of the basics into your system as possible as soon as possible once you have that you'll have the to learn a lot of other things faster but again A lot of times people make a mistake by jumping the uh jumping the gun and going into advanced shim Advanced lectures Advanced books Advanced teachings of all kinds and you see the person loving it fantasizing about it 10 years into it still completely clueless about everything I know a few people that are simply addicted addicted to mysticism addicted to anything mystical basic knowledge you know they get that error message 404 error on the we website doesn't work that's what you get yes listen uh uh you realize that uh you have milk on the table and there's also meat too that's not a good thing oh no oh okay listen what about that uh new cabalistic teaching what you mean cabalistic just meat and milk is on the table right now and you're uh you're woring about cabalistic teachings a lot of people like that there unfortunately some people I know a few people that are addicted to it it's a sad reality uh because they want to uh they want to delve into things that are Beyond them and uh the truth be told is that they don't even understand what they're doing they don't understand what they're doing but they want to they want to skip there's not much you can do there's not much you can do you can tell people certain things don't do this do this do that people will listen to themselves at the end so again I advise you you you everybody that's here and everybody that's listening focus on the basics the basics are enormous you know people say no no maybe you know the basics are not enough for us how do you say the basics is not enough for you if you never went into it it'll take you 20 years 20 years of learning every single day in Hope that maybe you know a little bit about the basics that's how big the basics are and all of the things that you're looking for you'll find in the basics also because the basics are not like the word Basics it's enormous it's a huge amount of information a lot of beautiful things mystical things Supernatural things mentally stimulating things a lot of things but again to to uh just jump the gun and go to different places you're going to end up in a lot of dead end streets you're going to waste a lot of time you're going to regret it B we're very excited to offer you the new 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