The Greatness of Our Sages (8 minutes)

[Music] so today we have many people that like to argue with rabbis when they hear things that obligate them when a Rabbi says it says in the Tora it's puts the person's Judaism on suspension according to the Rabat Chapter 30 person is consider a Jew that violates Shabbat is considered an idol worshipper so immediately you say such a thing in a lecture or in a video and people want to go to war with you like you wrote the Torah now you're wrong I said it says it in the Tor it says it here it says it 12 different times the r says it says it seven places the Z says it there's many many sources no no I think the the answer is no no I think the rambam is wrong I think the rambam is wrong I disagree with him here now before learning Torah it's very easy to think rambam was like us they think rambam was like us like he's like yeah it's just it's a rabbi it's like a local kabad Rabbi or Brea Rabbi or Orthodox Rabbi this Rabbi they just don't know it's a rabbi big deal so I don't agree with him he's human but little do we know that he's as far from us as as we are for monkeys in fact with all due respect cuz I'm included as well in this argument we are closer to monkeys than we are to the rambam when it comes to intellect when it comes to wisdom when it comes to Torah and when it comes to just overall overall midot and character traits now this is hard for us to understand because this is far from us so let's understand what we're dealing with the rambam got all of his laws from the gar the gar preceded him by almost a thousand years and the laws were transmitted for 2,000 years before that from mosenu and Mount Si 3,300 years ago approximately it was orally transmitted until the mishna and then into thear and so on and so forth now in thear there's a rule that anyone that's mentioned by name any Rabbi that's mentioned by name can revive the dead meaning that they themselves don't necessarily have powers but they have the Holiness they have the that their prayers are so significant hasem answers them to such an extent that he would revive the dead so one of the MIM one of the times that uh they had a very interesting story where R is was antonos antonos was a uh the the Caesar but at the same token he was isit he was an is he was he he looked for the truth he found the truth and his to learn Tora was rebi which all of the sages at that time agreed he's such a perfect person such a Holiness Beauty he's descendant of David I mean this is such a perfect human being that if the mhia if hasm decided the mhia would come he would be it this was anonos they would study together how they study anonos built a cave or a tunnel under his place that went directly to re's study hall and every night he would take two of his uh because as a king in essence as a king he would always have somebody with him so you had two guards so one guard he would kill right on the spot so there's no Witnesses and a second guard as soon as he arrived at at Reb's Place he'd kill him also because he knew that if they knew if they were these guards knew what he was actually doing he's learning tah with the Jews he would tell the people they would kill him so the dean to allow him to kill this guard was meaning that if he comes to kill you you're allowed to kill him first so he wasn't a murderer he was protecting his own life he was just obligated as a king to have these guards so nonetheless one time he arrived at a study hall with re a kadosh and he sees rebi one of his students is there one of the students is there he says all with all do respect I told you the studying is just between you and me not your students you know I I can't have witnesses he says don't worry he's not a human being he's not like regular people he's not like regular people goes okay if he's not like regular people if he's a he says he's like an angel so if he's an angel tell him to go tell my guard bring my guard inside the guard's dead but he doesn't tell him that so he send go go bring the guard go bring the guard he goes to bring the guard now a saying in the Tora in says only a fool brings bad news only a fool brings bad news so now the of sees a dead guard he says maybe he didn't know he dead maybe he knew maybe he didn't know I'm GNA be I'm GNA give bad news to the king of the go only a fool does such a thing what does he do he brings him back to life why because he was kados he brings him back to life they go inside knew he killed them he says Ah Reby you're right you're there students they're not like people they're not like people why because they're named in thear they're not like people they can revive the dead but please next time don't bring him anyway now why do I say this rebi was in a generation after R AA he was a student of of the student of RAB AKA and RAB AKA was a student of raros and it keeps going up and up and up and up and up and up all the way to MOS the amazing thing is that just when you talk about rebi in order for you to be a student of his student to be mentioned in the by name you have to revive the dead meaning that even the the r wases was not even able to be a student of rad but when it's compared to us like I said before we're as far from the rambam as we are from the moon for as well we are from the sun it's it's it's beyond us and the way that we see it is that there was one guy one intellectual a Nobel Prize winner one time said what's the big deal about this rambam what's the big deal he wrote some laws you guys are studying how he wrote it just study what he wrote no no no we don't study that way the rambam has such wisdom we study how he wrote it what letters he used as if it's like how God wrote the Torah it's not just what he wrote but how he wrote it what's the big deal it says listen he wrote not only the law but he wrote it in the least amount of words the most amount of information with the least amount of words but Einstein said if you don't know something to explain something in a simple way then you don't know well enough meaning you have to be able to explain to a child most amount of information with the least amount of words so he says pick any law that the rambam said that we have in our Tor write it in the least amount of words the guy studies this law simple Law whatever it was after a few months he comes back okay I wrote this law in 21 words Rabbi said lower it a little bit okay a few more months 17 words lowered it a little bit what do you mean it's less than 17 he lowers it to 13 words 13 words and then it's gets to a point where he's convinced that at 13 words he's we're finished they look at the rambam we seven words and not only that at the seven words at the seven words it's actually more clear and more educating than the 133 that's how far we are so when we understand that how holy and smart and wise and far from us the sages were we have to think twice before we say I don't agree with the rambam I don't agree with Rabbi I I don't agree with the gar because in reality you're only saying it because you don't understand who you're dealing with [Music] [Applause]