Torah Study Keeps Atoms Spinning

[Music] now the answer it is is based on the fact that we have no idea what it actually means to study Torah the book of Jeremiah Hashem says to Jeremiah if not for my Covenant day and night the laws of the world the laws of creation will cease to exist andat says here refer to Torah learning meaning hasem is telling Jeremiah the prophet if someone is not learning tah in the world at all times 24 hours a day there has to be somebody learning tah the world's laws will cease to exist meaning now you have gravity no longer have gravity now you have oxygen no more oxygen now all of the atoms is spinning to make everything look like it's solid no more spinning and for anyone that understands science when Adams stop spinning the subject evaporates it dis disappears doesn't explode doesn't break just disappears what you talked about in a different lecture but nonetheless Hashem is telling us here that if it's not for the Torah someone in the world is learning the world will cease to exist meaning that you little guy that's studying a little Kash at 11:30 at night you're studying a little whatever you're up to at 1:00 a.m. at 1 p.m. whatever that is you barely understand what they're even saying but you're studying you're trying you're breaking your head a little bit of sweat almost as much as I'm sweating today because no AC you're breaking a sweat you my friend are responsible for a certain part of the world at that moment why now out of let's say right now we have about 7.37 billion people in the world let's just call it 7.4 billion people in the world out of the 7.4 billion people approximately 20 million are jeice give or take some say 13 million some say more some say less let's just say 20 million 20 million or 13 million it's the same on the grand scheme of things out of 7 and a half billion people it's a rounding error out of the 20 million people 2 million keep Shabbat which in essence means that out of the 20 million people the 2 million that keep Shabbat approximately 2 million maybe 3 million they're the ones that are more likely learning T the ones that are not keeping Shabbat most likely are not learning t on a regular basis maybe once in a while they watching but on a regular basis they're most likely not learning to so now you've already lowered the number out of let's say the 3 million that are learning to on a regular basis not all of them are learning at the same time some are learning at night some are learning a day some are learning for an hour some are learning for 15 hours so I'm learning for 15 minutes so now you've narrowed it down even more to that one hour now there's different time zones one guy is learning at 1: in the afternoon but the other guy that learns also learns at 1 in the afternoon but here in one in the afternoon is 24 is 17 hours later 8 hours later 7 hours later meaning they're never learning at the same time so at any one particular moment I don't know maybe you have 50,000 let's say give or take 15,000 even they're actually learning to in the world 15,000 or 50,000 even if you have a 100,000 learning tah 100,000 people learning tah now if you had 2 million people studying toah that means that each person is responsible for approximately 3,000 700 people in the world meaning 3,700 people in the world are alive because of him learning to that's if all 2 million are learning in reality it's not all two million you have a half a million learning at the same time times it by four approximately 14,000 each person is responsible for 14,000 people most likely it's 50 ,000 which means that each person is responsible for 140,000 people being alive that 15 minutes that he's learning that one hour that he's learning meaning that if he didn't learn hasem would end the lives of 150,000 people you understand what it means to learn T people celebrate because they have 5,000 friends on Facebook that they don't even know I'm telling you you learned t for 5 minutes you're responsible for 150,000 people being alive the book of Jeremiah chapter 32:32 Hashem talks about how upset he is at am is this time they angered him many times we've let him down unfortunately but here he specifically says that he kicked us out of the country because we angered him not only did we do evil but we angered him it says in the verse because of all the evil that the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they committed to anger me they and their kings and their officers their priests and their prophets and the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so what do they do so bad get angry like listen hem we let him down many times but he specifically says we angered him to me they turned their back and not their face and though I I taught them arise early in teachings they they do not listen or to accept rebuke he says listen I taught them many things they won't even listen to what I'm saying they won't even accept the M the prophets that I'm sending them to tell them the truth they won't even listen to them people that are talking to me directly they won't even listen to them but he says something different here from all of the verses he says they turned their back and not their face now if I turn my back to you that obviously means you don't see my face face why is there a repetition of turning back and the face it's two the same thing it means the same thing why is there repetitional explained that this is Hashem is trying to tell us that this is a double sin a double sin which we learn in Chapter 2 of Jeremiah in chapter 2 verse 13 says for my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the source of Living Waters to dig for themselves ssts broken sisters that cannot hold the water soem is telling us here you made two sins first you left me you're making sins first you said listen I can't keep Shabbat cuz I got to work I got to work on Shabbat but what do they replace me with they replac me with falsehood Satan showed up so the Facebook live died cuz my phone died let's see let's try it again sorry Facebook live people the uh battery is dying we only have a short period of time left but nonetheless anything you miss you'll be able to see on YouTube or to anytime or b.org but here hasm is telling Jeremiah they made two sins first they left me that's already a sin said I can't keep Shabbat then I asked them why why can't you keep Shabbat he said I have to work but in reality 6 months later they use that money that they made on Shabbat to go on vacation to Cancun to go buy a fancier car to go buy a bigger your house if you have all this extra money to go on vacation what you need to work on Shabbat for how come you have extra money to give to vacation but you don't have extra money to give how come you can't keep Shabbat you have to work on Shabbat all year but on your vacation it's okay you don't work you can take two weeks off for vacation but you can't take off one day a week for hasem so it's not only the sin there theah of the sin so that makes it a double sin and hasem says that made me angry it's not just a sin they made it's not that they just went and worshiped Idols they worshiped nothing they replaced me the source of water with a little hole that can't even contain the water that I gave them to fill in it what happens to people that make this double sin we go to Psalm 115 verse 17 King David says translation neither the dead can praise God nor anyone who descends to Duma what's Duma Duma is the Angel responsible for the excuse Department in G all of those people that had special excuses of why they're not keeping Shabbat cuz they needed to work but yet it wasn't because of work all of the women that said I can't be modest because people make fun of me but that really wasn't true it's because they want to get attention all of the people that made all types of excuses for hem says don't worry you have a special Department reserve for you Duma will take care of you you become BFFs real quick and Jeremiah gave us a pretty serious K we got today sunny and I we saw something very scary continuing in Chapter 2 here in verse 20 hasem is telling us that we've let the yet control us to the point where we are acting like a harlot we're acting like a prostitute chasing money we're just oh you have a thing so you could take it off yeah take the thing off and then uh there you go Facebook you uh get to the rescue okay look at that got it okay we got an extra battery yeah I think so yeah it's good looks professional looks like I'm doing I know what I'm doing here so Hashem says here in verse 20 chapter 2 verse 20 for I have always broken your yoke and torn off your straps and you have said I will not transgress yet upon every lofty Hill and under every leafy tree you wander like a harlot Shem says you're the one that says you're going to be religious you're going to do chuva you're going to start keeping what keeping you started keeping Shabbat but you're still a thief at work you started keeping kosher but you still yell at your wife non-stop you started learning to but you don't listen to a word the sages say you you go to betet but you're thinking about the baseball game instead of thinking about the fact that you're in front of hasem everywhere your yet is taking you you're going just like a prostitute to such an extent that he talks about the end of times in verse 27 saying yet got us to a point where we're worshiping Idols it says they say to the wood you are my father and to the stone you have borne us if any of you remember in my other in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 4 Hashem gives us a prophecy of what's going to happen at the end of times after we've made many sins we're going to get to a point where hm's going to throw us out and we're going to continue sinning and what's going to happen we're going to follow the god of wood and the god of stone if you remember in chapter 4 verse 27- 28 it says Hashem will scatter you amongst the people and you will be left few in number amongst the Nations where Hashem will lead you there you will serve Gods the handiwork of man of wood and stone which do not see and do not hear and do not eat and do not smell he's saying these two Idols fall the handiwork of men of wood and stone is what you're going to follow wood representing Christianity Stone representing Islam you're going to follow this idol worship you're going to follow falsehood all types of heresy before you come back to Hashem that's what you're going to do Year many many centuries later he's telling Jeremiah the very same thing he's saying that these they already went to that they're saying to the Wood meaning they're saying to Christianity hey you're my father and to Stone saying you're born to us and we all came from the same place and then he continues and he says to me they turned their backs and not their faces again he's saying the the double sin but in their time of distress they will say arise and save us said eventually when they get into serious serious trouble they're going to say hasem this God of wood and stone is not helping us this falsehood is not helping us you need to help us now all of this sounds wonderful sounds far away until today I saw a clip that was published maybe a year ago anyone that's been following some of the current events what's happening with terrorism and things of such you see that Isis is doing everything they possibly can to not only kill as many people as possible but to scare everyone that's still alive so one of their Scar Tactics is that they brought some Arabs that speak Hebrew to make videos and send it to Israel to scare them saying we're coming to you we're coming to scare you we're coming to kill you we're coming to fight the war don't think that just because we're in Syria we're in Iraq we're in all these places that you're okay we're coming to you now this has happened several times there several videos you can find online quite a few of ISIS killing people and so on is even a handful or so where they're actually speaking Hebrew which is more intimidating for anyone that speaks Hebrew why because it's showing that these people lived in Israel at some point meaning that they're they were bred in Israel but the rest of these terrorists that live over there that uh you know these Arabs that hate Israel live there but they hate them but what's the scary part the scary part is that in the clip we're about to publish in the next few days you're going to see this terrorist makim from Isis talking in Hebrew and he says we're coming to you it's going to be a big war not a war it's going to be a big war the war of stone and wood just like the prophet said in accordance to what Hashem put in his mouth the end of time there's going to be a war of stone and wood it's not so far away from home sages ask why did such big punishment come to am is that's mentioned in Jeremiah chapter 32 CH threw him out got angry why for what what did they do that was so okay you know many times we made other the sins but here he's not just talking about idol worship here he's saying they angered him what do they do he says the punishment came meaning because they didn't make a blessing before they started learning to right a blessing that's it that's our problem is a problem not eating koser wasting seed this is what you're telling me we didn't make a blessing we learned toah we didn't make a blessing that's why you destroyed everything another page 818 says some some Sages have sons that don't end up being not everyone has children even he's a they don't end up being just like it says in apply yourself to T study for it's not yours by inheritance just because you're does not mean that your children will also be so thear asks why and it gives the very same answer because they didn't make a blessing before they start to learn to is asking it's that much of a big deal to make a blessing to learn to that to the point where you can destroy everything for it no it's not the blessing that's important it's what's behind the blessing these learned Tora they were prophets they were were they were amazing people they sat down they took they started learning they started learning started learning and Hashem says that's a problem today we'd be lucky if I could just convince everyone in the room to start learning every day and you're telling me that not making a blessing is a problem what's the meaning behind this the meaning behind this is the problem we have back then is the very same problem we have today we have no idea what it actually means to learn Tor because had we known what it is to learn to we wouldn't stop if we knew what it means to learn tah that every time you open the book AEM shows up you open a Torah 10 people learn together comes nine people comes K says all the way to the point where even if you're studying by yourself the comes meaning you have a meeting with the King of Kings is coming here and what are you doing you're learning and you're answering the text and you're looking at the bunny video hey look honey look at what happened look at the baby pictures what is this like someone is having heart surgery heart surgery is no joke the middle of surgery top surgeon in the world stops the surgery cuz he has buzzing in in his pocket takes the phone he starts looking he starts laughing everybody looks at him why is he laughing about they go over to his phone and they all watch and he SE his little cartoon videos that his grandson sent him and he starts laughing at this sees Bobby's World he starts laughing at this cartoon meanwhile the patient's Heart is Open bleeding everywhere and he's laughing at the video if the owner of the hospital manager of the hospital president president of the hospital even the patient's family saw this idiot doctor playing with his phone in the middle of the surgery what would they do they'd probably switch places with him make sure he has the heart surgery tomorrow this is us when we learn Tora and we let the world around us distract us this is us we have a meeting with the King of Kings but we're looking at our phone we're looking at the television in the background we're managing a conversation with the wife or with the friends thinking not a simple this week it's just Moses just cry you know past the Sea of reads great Miracles oh what's the game What's the score oh yeah yeah he continue reading like it's a Harry Potter book that's what the means here they sat down even them even the sages sat down and they didn't think enough about the fact that they're about to meet AEM when they're learning so they didn't make a blessing they were so Focus they wanted to just go down to the learning oh even if you're a sage even if you're is considered higher than a prophet higher than a prophet even if you're even if you even if you're a you must prepare yourself to learn toah not just learn toah prepare yourself to learn toah because when you open that book The comes you have a meeting you have a meeting with the King of Kings act with some respect act with some care don't act like it's a baseball game don't act like it's just another thing I'm just opening a what's the big deal just learning he says if you don't treat it with respect not only is that enough to make AEM upset but it's to the point where your kids are going to see you you see how disrespectful you are to the Torah okay so you know a few verses by heart okay you even know a few d by heart so what so what to them there's no book he's reading this old book from 2,000 years ago that's why they're not going to come in and they're not going to say Hey listen that's your you own that it's not my inheritance I just want money I just want money so to end it off says everything that you do must be for the sake of Heaven you want to get to a point of learning to like you're supposed to you want to get to a point of becoming a you have to start adjusting your life to make sure you're ready to learn toah you have to start adjusting your life to start learning toah for the sake of learning to not just learn T but learn learn for the sake of learning t as the says chapter 31 all of one's motives should be directed for the sake of Heaven everything that a person does has to be sh not because he's getting money not because he's expecting a reward not because he wants Hashem to help him on something specific he's doing it simply because he has to do it says do do says keep Shabbat you keep Shabbat not because there not because you may get P not because you want AEM to send you anything no you do it purely because that's what you have to do you start treating Torah like that where I have to learn just like I have to breathe just like I won't go a day without breathing I'm not going to go another day without eating and I'm not going to go another day without learning Tor you start treating the Tor like that you have a chance to succeed in the book to remain a Jew by robak zilber he gives an amazing example on page 364 says all the things that he did in his life he went through practically a holocaust and a lot of craziness and Russia persecution beat him up took his money tortured him and his family went to jail for just being a Jew he says my most important thing that I wanted to do every day aside from obviously teaching the public Torah was to teach my son a little Torah also teach my son one day I was really really tired in the middle of the sh I was starting to fall asleep start fall asleep in the middle of a sh get tired it's 12:00 at night fall asleep and my son said ABA why don't you take some rest and I thought to myself yeah you know what I really should rest I really was tired but then I said to myself maybe just the maybe she had s just making me tired so I said to my son okay wake me up in a half hour that's all I need I need a half hour just to get myself power nap I got a half hour I woke up and we started studying we had a great lesson but the most important lesson of that day was this was that I finally realized and learned what it means to do everything the sh what to do everything for the sake of Heaven two people exist two people have the same exact job both made the same amount of money both let's say make $75,000 a year as an example I'm going to give you now two people make $75,000 both of them work same am ount of hours they both work 12 hours a day let's say they both make $75,000 one guy makes all of his money and works as hard as he does to make sure that he has money to pay for the vacation to Cancun or to Israel or to Mexico or different place I think Cancun is actually in Mexico so somewhere else to Greece or to buy some furniture or to buy a newer car the other guy he makes the same amount of money same amount of work same amount of effort but he works this hard so he can afford to give his children Torah education they go to good Yeshiva where the teachers are Kosher and they're not beating up kids like we hear every other day kosher teachers kosher teachings not boys and girls separated real Yeshiva like it's supposed to be and then he has extra money to give some for people that are in need and he has some money to help other Souls come back to hasem do some K now both people make the same amount of money both people work just as much they both work 12 hours a day they both make $75,000 but when they both arrive to shim their is Worlds Apart the one that made 75,000 for the vacation and the furniture and the car and all the stuff that he had they say that what did you do in this world and he says listen I worked I worked I worked I worked and I worked so how much T did you learn no not so much ah maybe like 15 minutes a day okay so you have 15 minutes a day times 100 years that's what you have the other guy comes said what you do in the world like I worked I worked I worked I worked I worked and what' you do with the money I did this oh every single minute of your job is considered as if you learned T why because the only reason you worked is not because you wanted to get fancy hotels and fancy cars and fancy anything even if you got them even if you had a big house even if you had a fancy car but the main purpose of you working hard was to make sure that you're supporting Torah supporting supporting and the other things were just a byproduct it's considered as if every minute of your job was considered as if you learned Tor in addition to the Tor that you learned obviously in reality you can't say listen I work all day and I learn T there's no such thing as a righteous person that's also an ignorant you have to learn T in addition to working but nonetheless if every job that you did everything you did had AEM in mind I'm doing this so I can learn more tah publish more tah support more Tor it's considered as if it's all Torah and r z says that half hour nap I didn't nap just because I wanted to sleep just like any other animal I need to sleep but I slept just so I could learn better to if every one of your AC is for the purpose of getting to Tor then you can fulfill the issue we had in the past where we arrived at Torah but we didn't know what to do with it we didn't even make a blessing and that's one of the most important things that a Jew needs to understand if you start valuing the tah what it really is it becomes easier it becomes more valuable if every time you learn to you start thinking you know what there's 150,000 people or more that are alive just because of this very simple we had for the last couple of hours couple hundred thousand people are alive because I sat here I learned to that seems more valuable that seems more significant that makes you feel like the Superman you really are but if you're thinking listen if I know or I don't know if I know the shabat I don't know I'll just follow what everybody else is doing then it's very easy for us to fall and the fall as that we talked about in the beginning of this sh is very very far we start with a little thing that doesn't seem like a big deal listen I don't know what the is but I'll just read along I'll read along I don't know what I need to do on Shabbat but I'm going to his house I'll just do what he does seems like it's not such a big deal I'm knew anyway next thing you know you've become used to this small nonsense sin then you start actually sinning but it's a small sin then it's a bigger sin and little by little the takes control and makes himself comfortable inside your n and lo and behold eventually takes complete control and you're back to where you started before chuva or even worse and it's much harder to do chva a second time that's why some of the most difficult people to help come back to Hashem are people they used to be religious cuz they already think they know everything so is telling you be careful with all of your Torah because it's not something that you're just going to get by default just because you read a book just because your father knew something just because your uncle knew something just because even because you used to know something if you don't learn to on a daily basis you'll lose it Hashem says you leave me for a day I leave you for two not because hasem is punishing you and he's being Tak Vengeance but because the Torah is a moving Target if you're not growing with Target you're not growing with Torah you're shrinking meaning the Torah is moving forward with or without you it's moving if you're not going to find out this tonight someone else will it's moving you're either going to be on a train or you're not going to be on a train which means if you leave it today it's going to continue moving so by the time you figure it out oh wait I got to go go back to Torah you missed it for a day the Torah is already a day apart from you meaning now it's a two-day difference you went here it went there now you have to catch up it's much much more difficult to do Chua now you leave it for three days five days a week a month the next thing you know you become and you lost everything you knew and this is why the video that we talked about is so scary cuz while the Arab terrorists know exactly what's going on that this is the war of wood and stone we're still here twiddling our thumbs trying to figure out you know what can I really make it tonight to study for an hour We're still trying to convince ourselves to whether we're going to study to or not they're already on the page of where hasem is putting them and we're still trying to figure out where we are so this wakeup call wakes up our gets us to start honoring the Tor like we're supposed to and get closer and closer to any questions amen amen [Music]