What is The Backbone of Our Torah?

[Music] one of the biggest obstacles that we have today in this generation is which is the next part most likely the last one for tonight this is having faith in our sages unlike other religions that are solely dependent on one person that died or never lived whether it be Christianity F falsity or false Testament that is all dependent on some guy that was really an adulterer that came out of adultery that was a m himself uh him supposedly being righteous even though he's a wicked as wicked can be the whole thing depends on him meaning if he's not in the book the whole book is garbage it's garbage actually regardless but the point is is that the whole thing depends on him now even the followers of yesu go against his sages go against the people that put together the New Testament you see them having entire debates about who Paul was this Paul was that that some people hate him some people love him no one really knows who these people are no one really knows who Jesus was because the writers never actually saw him but nonetheless there is a major disconnect between the main character in the book is followers and the followers among themselves and the sages among themselves if you can call them Sages like it's everybody's their own entity that's why every you're never going to meet two Christians with the same belief every one of them believes something else every single one of them makes their own version of Christianity no two Christians believe the same exact thing they always this one believes he's he's mashiah the other one believes he's God the one believes he's both some believe he's a Pikachu oh everybody has their own little nonsensical belief that they create and they just pick and choose whatever they want to believe what they don't want to believe and most of them are ignorant anyway they just know just a little bit just enough to make them Idol worshippers but that's it now but there's a major disconnect between them and the sages if you will not very different when it comes to Islam Islam the whole thing depends on Muhammad if there's no Muhammad there's no religion you can't oh no no we pray to Allah it's not true they pray to Muhammad they pray to Muhammad if this Muhammad is is in the picture Islam is is good Muhammad is not in a picture Islam is in bad shape why that's that's up to them I saw one time a uh them reading their own version of what happened during The Exodus what happened in Egypt the own version It's like a midash almost or what happened with uh with Moses they call Musa they said that par was evil par was evil in his heart even though they're coming from the same place they say they said po is evil in his heart he's going to get us all in trouble they're writing in their own book he's going to get us all in trouble he's evil m is a good person blessed be upon him and so on it's in but if you keep going keep going keep going along the story somehow even though he wasn't even alive for another 2,000 years Muhammad comes along oh and Muhammad best what does he have to do with this he's not even alive for 2,000 years meaning without Muhammad there's no Islam why is this a serious problem because this first of all this could be idolizing but aside from that that means that everything depends on a human being and there's a major disconnect there's really even though they they have if you want to call them sages wise men whatever you want to call them they don't refer to them they refer everything goes always back to Muhammad Muhammad Muhammad Muhammad non-stop because their religion depends on one person Christianity depends on one person Buddhism depends on one fat person everybody has their person Judaism doesn't have a person with have God we have a sages with God we have a sages you want to be a sage you could be a sage how learn an enormous amount of Torah and make sacrifices from the morning you from the minute you wake up till the minute you go to sleep in order to become one but the reality is is that having faith in these sages from our previous generation is very much the Bedrock of our Torah because if you don't have faith in our sages then you're not going to have authentic Judaism only when a person understands that his teacher her teacher is her connection to the sages her connection to mount saai not a connection to God connection to God you don't need anybody but in order to know exactly what happened and the word of hasem and what does he want and how does he want and so on WE rely we depend on our sages not one Sage not two we have countless sages throughout history each one specialize in something else some the same things some others some debated among each other some agreed with each other but the point is we have to rely on many many sages and even if we determine that we want to go with one specific opinion that opinion has to be accepted by other sages you can't just decide no I'm just going to go with the rambam on this one I'm just going to go with this one and that one you can't just decide for yourself to mix and match make a salad out of Judaism it has to be accepted by also the modern sages and the problem is that when a person does not submit to the sages submit to theim submit to the rabbis he's not going to have authentic Judaism he's actually going to have quite the opposite because he's going to try to translate the law himself he's going to read the himself and decide what's he's going to read the ramb himself decides what's Al and the problem is that he's deciding what took our sages a lifetime to determine in five minutes like it's eating a bag of chips meaning he's not going to give it the same weight that he has to as if it's life or death oh okay so if I make a mistake big deal they made mistakes which means that he thinks he's on the same level or she thinks she's on the same level as the sages and that's one of the biggest problems in the world that we have today that people simply don't have they don't have any respect or faith in our sages and says that only a person understands that his teachers are part of the tradition of the oral law giving to mosu at Mount Si can he earnestly apply himself to Plumbing in debts meaning that only when he actually realizes that whatever teacher he decides whoever his Rabbi is that's his connection to the all of the teachers between him and mosu this is the connection there's nothing else this is it until he submits that this is it this is the connection he's not going to be able to really go deep into things why he's too busy questioning everything he's too busy picking and choosing whatever opinion picking and choosing whatever Rabbi picking and choosing everything like it's a salad like he's uh picking and choosing a new Alit to wear for his new for his bar mitzvah and a person like this will fall into the Trap of being very cynical and become like the ancient Sadducees and bans who rejected the entire oral tah I see this a lot today with different people that simply do not have a rabbi they say they have a rabbi sometimes but the rabbi doesn't even know who they are or they just don't listen to the rabbi they say he's my Rabbi but when the rabbi said something to them they don't listen to him say oh yeah he's my Rabbi I just don't listen to everything he says that means he's not your rabbi if you're not listening to everything he says especially the stuff that you don't agree with he's not your Rabbi he's just a guy that you know that's it because Torah tells us part of our old Tor you have to have you also have to have how much you have to have as much fear of the rabbi as you do of fear of God to that extent why he's your connection to the truth not connection to God you don't need anybody to connection to God but he's your connection of how to serve this God what to do when to do it and so on and so forth what's expected of you [Music]