Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: Everything Hashem Commands us We can do

[Music] so I just want to mention tonight's cheers sponsored by no no just a minute life and it's in the memory of his wife who had passed away Tamar box Odette and sarikaya and he'll say a few words and then the rabbi will give this year just hold it okay rabbi thank you so just a couple words about tomorrow Shalom thank you all for coming those who I don't know and those who I know she was a incredible person a Jewish educator in your style actually a lot of Ahava Israel she taught for most of the years to the first year she thought first grade that she taught kindergarten in a Oakland Hebrew day school and she taught me with a kodesh to the kids very profound experience and those who come to the gathering tomorrow she's buried in spot those who come to its far tomorrow so I'm gonna talk a little bit about that and how she had a capacity to focus on the two aspects of the mahute of the essence of the child as part of Thomas Tyrell and as the individual that each of them was and that was a profound experience for myself for her students for the parents of the students yeah that that stood with them for basically their whole lives has to with them and they remember her fondly and as we all do so this shear is in her honor her memory yeah thank you and again I hope that all of our territory tonight should be Eloy mich mata it's a wonderful thing that a person who devoted her years to Albert Israel and Phoenix and giving children inspiration you know her goodness continues to operate in the world and you should have much comforts it's interesting that the sister just reminds of a famous clip that they attribute to the Vilna Gaon I'm not entirely sure if it's true I really maybe it's not true they say that the Vil McGann said that the only Rebbe he really respected was the teacher who taught him the olive base because that's the only thing he knew was absolutely true there's anything else anything about you're not 100% sure beyond that put so so the influence of the early year teachers is so phenomenally great you know I mean I remember myself you know those early teachers I had and what an impact they they made okay so tonight we want to discuss a further aspect of not donto ha we read last week about the ten commandments and this week we have many Mishpatim many civil laws many interpersonal buzz Bane Adam Locke Aveiro and in many many ways this mirrors the structure of the Ten Commandments themselves all of us know that the first five of the dubrow's are generally described as bein Adama McComb between man and gods and the second five are generally described as bein a dumb look aveiro and you kind of have that mirroring here in which Mishpatim moves away from the brain Adam Lama calm and primarily although not exclusively deals with Bernard um look of a row in amplification now just a few who are out on that famous distinction that is a lot of people ask the question about the positioning of honoring your parents keep it of the aim that is commandment number five now the first for I am the Lord your God which is a mitzvah that moona and you shall not have other gods do not take a chimps name in vain observe the Shabbos those are of course duties that we owe to occur the sparkle but keep it at the end the way we honor our parents that seems to be the realm of interpersonal behavior so if the first five are bein dum la Macomb why is keeping up the aim in the fifth place now you could answer well that would throw off the symmetry instead of five five you'd have four six okay whatever it would be but the truth is the second five have such fewer words that even if you would add key bit of aim in terms of words the first group would still have more words so there are two thoughts that are given Y key bit of the aim is included as a being Adam Lama come and not just urban adamah not only another Mahavira and that is number one the assaut dove key bit of the aim is the idea for Caressa Toph gratitude I have to be grateful to my parents for most of us there are so many reasons we're grateful but even if you know parents abandoned us they abused us even if they gave us up for adoption at birth the one thing they gave us that cannot be taken away from their credit is they gave us life and because they gave us life everything that we can possibly accomplish that is worthy that is good is because of our parents so yeah many of us might have tightness and arguments and complaints but overall they gave us life and the assaut dove keep it of the aim is our Coretta Toph to those who enabled you to accomplish whatever it is that you can accomplish in life and that is the stepping stone to ultimate gratitude to the Creator if one is grateful to their parents number one that means they appreciate the gift of life they have gratitude for those who gave life that can be extrapolated to a college bar club if one does not have that basic fundamental meter of gratitude then one cannot have a relationship with God either so in seen in that way keep it of the aim is a stepping stone to being able to have gratitude towards a college board gratitude is so fundamental I think I made this point even more than once but I'll say it again because it comes up at it's important point gratitude is so fundamental to the Jewish personality that it is actually what the word Jew means let's look at for a moment that's the etymology of the word Yehudi now in some you know American dictionaries of slang if you look up the word Jew they will tell you that the slang usage in the South is that it is a verb that means to either cheat somebody in business or at least drive a very hard bargain so if you're doing business in Alabama somebody might say to you whether you're Jewish or not don't Jew around with me right now that's a slang that's not an accepted usage and I remember when the American Heritage Dictionary had Jew in that definition there was the ADL the anti-defamation league had a whole protest and the other hand if you're a slang dictionary you ought to have the slang usage I don't see any problem with that put in put it in all those all those terms and you want to know what the language with the language is if somebody calls me a I want to be able to look it up etc but if Jill if Jill has a meaning as a verb at all it means to be a grateful person and the proof of the matter is because yahoodi is really from you who da you who da was Leia's fourth child and she called him who died because she said how Pam o dare such am now I am grateful to God and it's very interesting if you examine the names if I can go backwards a little bit you examine the names that Leia gave her children the first three were almost in the nature of either complaints or hope that things will get better rougane God has seen my suffering and he has given me a son so my husband will finally like me shamone God has heard my pain in my cry and now my husband will like me lady now my son what now my husband will accompany me because I've given him three sons the first three sons it was always the hope the poignancy of the hope that she'll get a better relationship with Yaakov as a result why that didn't happen difficult question I'll leave it for now but only with yahuda do you have undiminished gratitude now I am grateful to God and that's part of being a mature person is to not focus on those things that you wish you had and you don't have but to focus on the goodness of what a Shem has given you this is my life Leigh is saying maybe I'm not going to be the number one wife although the might say remember it is layer that is buried next to Jakov in my resume Fela but at least in life I'm not going to be the number one wife so to speak in terms of affection but I will be the mother I will be all of these things that are shem has given me so you who expresses kind of the mature level of focusing on what Hashem has given you as opposed to kind of wishing and looking at it as a stepping stone for something else you live in the moment you cherish what a Shem has given you that's one aspect of the gratitude of Yehuda there's a second aspect that Rashi brings Rashi brings the Midrash that Leia knew there would be 12 tribes and there were four women from whom the twelve tribes will come so 12 divided by 4 is 3 each wife is entitled so to speak to 3 when you get what is Madea luck what you think you're entitled to you don't feel grateful grateful that's my dearly but when she got yo Sara Sookie when she got more than she was entitled that generates gratitude the mices you end up with 6 but when she hit number 4 she was already getting more so this fuss Emma says the reason why every Jew is called yahoodi even though we're not all from Shay but Yehuda now historically the reason is because the Kingdom of Israel was destroyed more than 100 years before the Corbin base-emitter so by the time Andrew had Netzer destroyed the first NIC - and exiled the Jewish people they were so to speak residents of the mouths of you who died that's the simple reason but at least our P casitas the idea of you who die is every single Jew has to go through life with the attitude that Hashem has given me more than I'm entitled and therefore the very definition of UD is not all T yes they're out sake and to go back to key bit of the aim that is why keep it of the aim is such a foundation in Benidorm mama come not only been Adam Mahavira because if keyboard of the aim inculcates within my personality the idea of appreciation of gratitude that then enables me to have that feeling towards our Kaddish barca as well so keep it up the aim the first answer that we're giving is that keep it of the aim belongs to the first group of departs because it is the stay being stone and the mechanism that enables a relationship to God by inculcating gratitude for the gift of life that your parents have given you and by extension that the Almighty has given you but there's a second aspect which is somewhat related but it is it is a distinct point and that is the image that we form of God to a large degree is based on the image and the relationship we had with our parents you might remember both as a child and as a parent that there's a certain stage in the relationship where your parents are like God you know you know daddy is the strongest person in the world and name is this nicest person the smartest person but when it whatever it would be now that passes after a while our children don't idolize us in perpetuity but there's a time it's very very heavy that you're really the greatest person that exists and the thing is that if your parents are like your initial God and you see your parents as loving stable consistent dependable trustworthy then the person grows up to understand well Hashem is the same way I can depend on a Shem because Hashem is like I'm gonna be just simplistic here Hashem is like a trillion times more than a bear Nima so whatever Abba Nima is Hashem is low a billion times more well that also works in the negative way unfortunately if as a parent I'm arbitrary I'm unpredictable I'm distance I'm rejecting and God is the super parent that's a billion times more than whatever I burn email is it's going to be very very difficult for a person to form a loving relationship with God no I think difficult I don't mean impossible because we are not perpetually children we certainly have the capacity to break out of limitations that were imposed by our environment it can be done and it must be done and we have a responsibility to do it but I think we have to be honest it's hard you know it's hard you know you could be 30 40 50 60 or 70 and some of those formative experiences that we had at five or six or even younger continue to be part of our personality you know there is a child that is still within even the most mature adult sometimes that child is hurting so the thing is it could very well be that the positioning of keepit of the aim in the first five commandments is not so much a message for the child but maybe it's a message for the parents if you want your child to have a relationship with God then you have to be a person who is worthy of being honored a person that is an honorable parent in the sense that through you your cow with a cottage border okay so that's why Kiba Devane is put up put up there now interestingly enough in Parshat Mishpatim we actually have two what you might call negatives of Kiba Davi em there are two prohibitions in purchase Mishpatim that carry with them a death penalty maka of the vemma you hit your parent that means you make a black and blue mark in your parents or you draw blood and makalah Ave Vemma one who curses by using the name of God to their parent mo Jamaat very serious right that's obviously the extremity of not doing keyboard of aim to hit church or to draw blood to church curse what a serious thing and I don't want to get into a whole lot like discussion let me emphasize that this even as interesting ramifications of whether if a son is a physician son or daughter is a physician are they allowed to perform a medical procedure on a parent that involves the drawing of blood the Gemara has a Shia longus is it permitted is it not permitted on one hand it might be permitted because even though you're drawing blood but it's being done for a good purpose a positive purpose it's not being done as an expression of hatred or resentment on the other hand in a literal sense your maka of edema so the show cannot actually pass concern that basically a child should not do any medical procedure any procedure even taking out a thorn that might involve any possibility of bleeding if there is another qualified person that can do it if there's not another qualified person then it's going to be butcher and there's a my focus of chronium what if there is a qualified person but that qualified person is going to cost money and dad says I want you to do it for free so my focus is that considered qualified or not qualified and or what is it okay so I want to get into it but the point basically is that machiavelli emo even extends to that particular area okay but be it as it may the fact that Parshat Mishpatim is so focused on Bernardo Mojave row reminds us how important being Omaha Barrow is and yet I don't want to you know get on a soapbox but but you know one of the problems that we face sometimes as in Chloe's rel is that when we define a person as a religious Jew from whether Dottie with our ad whatever word you want to use we often automatically think oh that means they dive in every day they say Broncos they keep Shabbos they keep kosher but one has to remember that is only half of the Torah the other makar they realm is the Torah as well Russian huh not speaking Russian hara kindness consideration charity a virtuous RAL me doto vote so in the sense sometimes people ask me that how come Orthodox Jews are not honest in business now the truth of the matter is that is an unfair question it is true that there are some Orthodox Jews are not honest and business but there are plenty of non-orthodox Jews and plenty of non-jews who are not honest in business either it's not the case that Orthodox Jews are disproportionately dishonest okay but that's not such a great defense really okay it's true we're no worse we're not worse than anybody else okay is that there is that to go so one answer you could give if you want to be flippant it's a flip answer it's like it's called the no true Scotsman argument and that is there is no such thing as an Orthodox Jew who's dishonest business because the same way there's no such thing as an Orthodox Jew who eats hazard because of ether he's not an Orthodox Jew so if he's not honest in business he's not an Orthodox Jew so you're raising an impossible situation there is no such category but once again the guy will say come on you know what I mean though okay let's not use the word Orthodox Jew let's not use the word dirty let's not even use the word for every day those are definitions but how come a Jew can keep shopping and keep conference and dive in three times a day and put on tefillin and we're sisters and be careful about shaatnez and be dishonest in business you can't get away with definitional you know finagling in that particular situation and the short answer is that unfortunately we often have a mental construct that the meaning of schmear etc is Bernardo mama come and we don't think about being other Mohave and that's really a big big piece of it you know I remember many many years ago I was giving a cheer to a non non observant group of women and after the sheer I don't even remember what I was talking about one of the women went over to me and she prefaced her question with I'm not as religious as you but whatever the question was I don't even remember that but what I said here at the time was that why do you say you're not as religious as me maybe you're more religious than me it may be perhaps I keep the Shabbat I keep cuss words and you don't yet do that but maybe you want or your parents more maybe you're more considerate of other people that's also part of the Jewish religion a very important part of the Jewish religion so when I look at a secular Jew I look at a non religious Jew I'm using the word just the way we normally use them you know I can't really say I'm more religious than they are it could very well be in certain aspects of being a dumb Wahab a row they might be much much better than me right so labels ultimately are kind of meaning not a not a meaningful way of describing people there are people who focus on one thing and the other and we all have worked that we all have to work to try to improve ourselves and we share that common responsibility so the primacy of Benadryl Mahavira emerges from Parshat Mishpatim and i'll give you a visual that proves this point this is a very fascinating observation from the mob it's who is my my is Moshe ben Yosef Trani he was a God all the time of Rivia safe Cairo in fact he was reverse ofcouse I reckon I was based in spot reversed if Kyra was the alpha-beta and the mob it was the second in command they actually didn't get along on certain matters because they had some major huge holic disagreements on things and at one point your grocer Kyra threatened to put them up is in favor of to actually communicate them a bit unless he retracted from various her logic rulings and the electric rulings pertained to shmita in fact it's kind of the basis of the Hector mysterion today meaning did the laws of shmita apply to the produce grown by non-jews that was my cloaca severe sukar OMB and the my bit the my bits actually took the position that shemitah did apply which would have rendered the hemisphere absolutely impossible and the diversity of cotton as a result the my bit postions that since shmita produce is exempt from trauma and mass air any produce that was grown in the fields of non-jews could be eaten with the laws of shemitah but we didn't have to take off the true man the master reversed if Karl ruled the other way around that the laws of shmita do not apply therefore you must take off the true mas and the Masters and when render my was telling people they could buy pay rose from the non Jew and not take off Truman Mauser University of Cairo threatened to put him in favor unless he retracted but the my bit was a great an enormous Thomas Holcomb a great great PO sake but he also wrote an interesting book on Jewish philosophy called beta elokim and in the beta elokim he points out an interesting point if we assume as we do assume that the first five dib wrote are been Adam Lamar come and the second five are another Mahavira and Moshe Urbania was carrying these two tablets down you'll notice one thing the number of words the number of letters in the first five is much much larger than the number of letters in the second five right the second fiber staccato lotor taka latina/latino etc the first five are longer by and large now if we assume that they took up the same amount of space on the surface of the tablets they were in graves then it must be in terms of font size or in terms of engraving size that the letters of the second five were much larger than the letters of the first five so when Moshe revena was coming down from her c9 now the Jewish people never saw the first lucasz because they were smashed because of the fade away go let's talk about Yom Kippur Yom Kippur and Moshe is bringing down the second lu han's and you see him coming down from that mountain on yom kippur and you see something as engraved on those tablets and you put on your glasses to try to get a look of what am i going to see on those low health which mitzvahs are you going to see first when Moser Boehner comes down to my bit says it's going to be bane Adam Lahav a row because we have graphed the bane atomic Aveiro were larger letters than the bane Adam Lamar come and from here we see the absolute primacy of Bane Adam Mahavira and of course it's been pointed out many many times that every Bane Adama carve a row is by definition also a bane Adam Lama calm because Hashem has commanded you to keep those obligations so by definition it involves both cavero and and and and Malcolm so now though let me just allude to a very very interesting question because I'll say in moussaka Shabbos on the verse vias yotsuba taxied Sahar they stood literally under the mountain now Lafitte Sciuto it simply means the Jewish people are standing at the foot of the mountain that is Sciuto chakra but literally tucked it is under the mountain so cuz I'll say Hashem held the mountain over the heads of ami Israel and said hey guys you have a choice if you accept the Torah that's wonderful if not I'm gonna flatten you carful am har ki Gigot he held the mountain over us as if it was a huge barrel that could crush us and we agreed to the Torah because Hashem basically said accept the Torah or you'll be crushed so Tosa else asks the obvious question this implies that Kabbalah totora came through duress it came through coercion and yet we find that the Jewish people are always praised because Hashem offered the Torah to all the nations of the world and they turned it down and the reason they turned it down is because they wanted to know what's in it first and I Shem picked a mitzvah that was particularly difficult for them whether it was not killing not stealing and they said we don't want it which the Jewish people it never came to that stage because when they offered the Torah we said NASA finish ma now sevenish ma means we give our sham a blank check we accept and then let's hear if you would have said nish mob and I said that would imply let's hear what you're offering and then we'll see if we'll do it not seven ish ma is unconditional so ptosis asks a question is there not a contradiction on one end the Jewish people said not seven issue and they're praised for that the unconditional acceptance but then you're telling me they were forced into it right how do you reconcile Carrefour landmark Aggie gets with NASA vanish ma Soto slows answers the following toast of us says an interesting point it's a dove or parrot my ode that they accepted the Torah voluntarily it was now seven ish month but then they got so scared with the Thunder and the lightning and everything else that they wanted to change their mind they said let's get out of here so the column Harker gigas was not that which induced their acceptance but it simply prevented them from changing their minds on that which they already accepted that's ptosis is reconciliation of it in the mega-rich time coma which is fascinating tells us that doesn't bring this measure which is much earlier an actual medical coma there's a different answer that it says it says not seven ish ma is on the toka a bit of the written Torah I mean there is no written Torah yet but on what will be eventually written down and the kalahari gigas that we have to be forced is going on the terrible path and part of that is because the Torah ship itself is open to all sorts of interpretation so for example the Torah Zabur table is going to say do not do work on Shabbat notice a Kamala ha okay great I love that I wrote you means I don't go to work in Shabbat I can go to the movies then go to the mall I can go to the beach I can drive my car or take the bus now until observance you know unfortunately the buses run and trip out now so it's tourists about path that kind of circumscribes all of these activities melaka etc so the not sevenish my Stella scherbakov kuffar layer marking against this talk about that right that's answer number two the answer number three though is from the morale and this is actually a very beautiful beautiful answer cough I am Hakka geek it does not mean God forced us into the Kabbalah cetera first of all if God for stuff that would be meaningless because we never we didn't accept it it's a dove or push it the Jewish people accepted the Torah willingly out of love out of devotion out of gratitude for what they had experienced and you'd see us mitzrayim but after the fact after the fact as Shem is informing them how momentously important their decision was basically telling them wow it is so lucky that you guys accepted God's Torah because if you wouldn't have accepted God's Torah there would be no justification for heaven and earth and the universe now I couldn't have told you that before it ends because if I would have told you that beforehand your acceptance would have been a coerced acceptance I had to let you accept without knowing the consequences of your non acceptance but after you accept it with love and devotion I then inform you how momentously important your decision was so the couple m hockey geek is according to the morale is not communicating that we accepted the Torah by coercion but it's communicating that without a Kabbalah totora the world not just the world the universe has no purpose has no talents that's why in the very sixth day of creation right the last day of creation but he erev Hebo care yom ha she she so why is why does it say yamaha she she she say yo MC shi Yan Xiu Shi yo movie yokomichi why yom hoshi she so Rashi says that this is an illusion not only to that first Friday but it's an illusion to a future sixth day the sixth day of Siva when the Jewish people said no sevenish ma because it is only then that creation was complete creation was justified if the Jewish people would not have accepted the Torah there would be no purpose in the universe the universe would have ceased to exist and Kavala Harkey gigas is expressing that idea your choice was so significant that otherwise there would be no no purpose for the universe whatsoever right so that's you sewed of the of the my realm but there's one other point I want to focus on and that is everyone knows that the famous words that the Jewish people accepted the Torah is of course NASA Venetia but if you have a good memory of last week's parsha when before the Ten Commandments moshus community is going back and forth giving us messages from the Almighty it says try a new color um Yaakov all the people together said Kyle a shared D parish M Nasser Nasser you almost feel like correcting the bow covering British MA but know about Curry's right doesn't say vanish man so where is the perfect NASA finish match was not in last week's pleasure it was not in there before their servitude they broke their it said call the Jada Bharata NASA ah so the truth of the matter is now seven ish man action at the end of purchase Mishpatim after all of those laws are given there is a description of Moshe building and miss Bella springing carbonate sprinkling the people with blood of the korbanot and Moshe Rabbeinu readings very enigmatic reading a document that is given the name say fair hybrids he reads to them the safer a bridge try a new color and the people answer : ibrahim nasa Phoenicia meaning nasa banishment is a response to the carbonate and the reading of the safer have wrists and it is actually written in the Torah beef after the authoritative wrote and the Mishpatim so here here just to clarify the chronology is it's very very important to know that there's a bigmac locus Rashi and the Ramban how do you understand the events at the end of Parshat Mishpatim Rashi who follows the view of result in moussaka Shabbos actually learns that the end of Parshat Mishpatim is an example of a MOOC Tom my bitola that the Torah does not sometimes does not follow chronological order and all of the events that are described at the end of Parshat Mishpatim actually transpired before the Asura Sedaris this is how Rashi understands it and it's based on a Kimura in moussaka Shabbos therefore Moshe built the Misbah Moshe sprinkled the blood Moshe read the safer a break I'll come back to what that means and the people said not sevenish mah on the fifth of seven the day before Martin Torah that's how Rashi learns now we still have to explain even according to Rashi so why in parshat the Israel did they say does it say they said NASA and the parsha Smith Letterman says they said not seven ish man if both of those were preeminent our events I'll come back to that in a moment but it's very important to understand when you read the parsha that Rashi takes all of those verses of the end of Mishpatim and he puts them before the Asura sadirah now what is the safer hybrid what is this thing that Moshe is reading what is the safer hybrid so Rashi says before the Asura said it rose before there was Moshe LPM wrote down the Torah from Boreas until that point it was actually a partial safer Torah meaning I said I don't know when Moshe at the time but Hashem dictated to Moshe from brigitte bardot Kim until that point no there's that included the Commish graces the stories of the avos you see us Mitzrayim the Makos and that was the basis of the Covenant that God made with us so according to Rashi safer her bris is none other than the seven I'm sorry the the the the the safer Torah Plus Rashi says the extra Commandments they were given in the oasis of Mara they were given para Duma and and and actually we're giving Shabbos in Mara as well even before the Ten Commandments okay now Rambam does have a different cheetah RAM bond generally does not like the rule a McDonald cribs are he cannot dismiss the flag Omri because because I'll use it but Ram bong never uses that rule if there's any possible way to make it chronological and the RAM bond says it happened after Martin Torah and the safer a Brit is none other than partial speech protip he read them the Mishpatim which means according to Ron bond you have the interesting anomaly that not sevenish me the famous immortal words of NASA finish my according to Ron bond were not uttered before mattandsarah they were uttered aftermath Ansari okay we'll leave the Rambam aside because it is not the position of Casale so let's focus on Rashi pheromones according to Rashi and gazelle NASA Venetia was preeminent aura so we're back to the original question why in utero does it say NASA and in Mishpatim which was also the fifth of C but it says NASA Venetia so the magic hakama offers a beautiful beautiful answer and he says like this we know that's cos I'll have a messiah that in the totality of the Torah there are 613 mitzvot like the Rambam himself wrote a country's how the iserror said nippers themselves can be an outline for all 613 he shows how all of the 613 mitzvot can be branches or be under categories connected to the SRS algebras we know further that the 613 is subdivided into 248 positive Commandments thou shalt do and 365 negative Commandments thou shalt not do now this obviously raises different problems because we have my cloak sin is something amiss for another Mitzvah so whenever you make something a mitzvah you're gonna have to take out something from the list because you got to keep the number of constants so Ron bond and Rambam juggle around with this problem a lot because they have different arguments for example Rambam says yishuv Eric Estrada's a mitzvah Rambam does not count it as a mitzvah now if Ron bond adds a mitzvah called Isha rarity Australia has to take something out so there's always this idea of working with the numbers but the gomorian Moustakas Marcos tells us that the 248 and the 365 correlate to the human body there are 248 bones every positive mitzvah gives life and vibrancy to a bone now we don't necessarily know which Mitzvah correlates to which bun although there's a safer I once came across that you know later save that actually tries to make the exact correlation we also don't know what it means exactly to give vibrancy to a bone I mean if I don't do a myth I mean there are plenty of non-religious Jews who are very healthy physically and you know can jog much better than I so one would not automatically assume you're going to get arthritis if you don't do positive Commandments but whatever the spiritual vitamin C is the 248 give vibrancy vibrancy to the bones and the 365 negatives if you violate them they hurt the sinews or ligaments in the body the gaiden remark a volume Shaza neden now if that's the case you immediately have a problem there has never been a person from the beginning of creation till the end of time who will be capable of keeping all 613 commandments it's impossible many Commandments are only for men and not for women many Commandments are only in Eretz Israel obviously many Commandments require Abeyta mikdash korbanot Kohanim have certain myths rot that other people don't have and lepak there may be certain myths about that other people can do like kuru cotta met that i cohen cannot do now that would normally not be a problem you do what you can do and you don't do what you don't what you don't do but if you're telling me that the 613 mitzvot give vibrancy to my bones and to my ligaments then by definition if I am missing any mitzvot I am a hakodesh baku has set up a system where it is impossible to have spiritual health because if the 613 correlates to my overall health of a volume and Edom the house is he talking for the even the greatest sadiq in the world to be to complete he's been young I sure miss creating a system where you just can't win it just becomes impossible that it does not seem to be just or fair so there are two answers that the forum give to this question one is this is the greatness of Torah learning because because I'll say for example about corbino's that if you learn the laws of Kerberos it is as if you brought a carbon so when I learned the how the huts of Mitzvahed and I'm not able to do if I carry ously get the field the life force and the light of that Mitzvah the sea you attend the or enter - Shama through the pathway of Talmud Torah that's why the carpet sign pointed out people sometimes think oh it's not important to learn those parts of the Torah that are not relevant to contemporary practice it may be the opposite I but African me to learn those things because that's the only way - Shama connects to it you know because everyone knows coffee time wrote so many swaram on the laws of russian hara the laws against legend era the Mishnah Brewer which are all of the laws that applied to Shabbat and COG and Fela with harvest time was very practically oriented obviously he wrote books on sannyasis and average israel and me dr. Mishka lotta honesty in business he looked at the practical problems that Jews were facing and he tried to address them but what's a little less known is that the carpet shyam popularized the study of the laws of carbon out which had been neglected for hundreds and hundreds of years that's why today learning kuchen is the highest prestigious thing go to brisket me that's like the highest level and when the subjects I am neither lovely he wrote the original works on country M he reprinted old works he actually did the equivalent of a riff on country if summarized all the Talmudic discussions on the masochist an arugula Mesa the carpets cryin made his own riff on the Rocklin Monaco's an amazing thing together with commentaries so someone had the temerity to accuse the capitellum why are you so involved in impractical things why don't you get involved more practical thing which is crazy this I was crying wrote to mr. Breuer and the carpets time gave two answers so why he's so involved and touch him number one he said if you really believe in Messiah why do you assume this is not practical what happens if my chef comes tomorrow somebody has to know the laws of corbino's so when you learn cut ship you are actually affirming your belief in BIA Thomasina that was the answer number one which is not relevant for our discussion answer number two which is relevant is exactly the point that I said and that is if your neshama needs the schliemann's of all of the 613 mitzvot and there are myths about that your neshama that you are not able to perform the only way your neshama gets the light of that mitzvot is by learning about it because you can't do it and therefore the fact that you can't do it makes learning about it even more imperative that's method number one of how I acquire the SH limit of 613 but there is also method number two and that's a Vitesse rail now you may say hmm how does I bet you say L give me shred motive chaotic because here is the thing if you look at yourself as an isolated individual what can I do as me the answer is there'll be a whole bunch of the tyagi that I can out there but if I connect myself to the totality of um Israel which is a transcendental entity with a past present future and I am simply a limb on the organism or even in the atom on this organism well the same way each of us right every cell in our body is not the same cell we were born with by and large right ourselves change like that's and that's actually an interesting philosophical issue of identity am I the same person am I not the same person well famous Greek philosopher Heraclitus a pre-pre platonic philosopher said you cannot step into the same river twice even though it's the same river the water is not the same molecules of water so cloudy Israel is eternal so if I connect myself to the arm then the Mitzvahs of the past become the Mitzvahs of the present the mistress of the men are the mistress of the women the missus of the Cohen is the Mitzvah of the Israel so I can I can do this I can do the 613 mitzvot not as an individual but as a favorite of quality Israel to which I am a hybrid myself so we start off with this question how can I be moshling - Shama with the light of so many mitzvos that's impossible for me to do answer one the pathway of Tama Toa answer to the TAT way of average Israel so says the measure karma that's Maru Maz in the tube tsuki note that in parsha israel it says try a new call harm yok does underline the word Jakov the art of connotes unity togetherness avec Israel when there is unity togetherness of us Israel we can stand before the Almighty and say everything you commanded us we can do I can't do it all you can't do it all we can do it all call us share D bearish of nothing but partial smoosh button even though it says via a new column it does not say active the word Jakov is omitted so the Tyra's mere amazed that there will be times in Jewish history maybe most of the time in Jewish history where we're not be Octus there is polarization there is dissention there is McLucas we are separated from each other we're not connected to each other in those times we cannot declare to God everything you said we can do because we can't do it if I'm separated I can't do it so you got to go to plan B call us a deeper Russian now sir everything I am said we can do through Mishima which is referring to learning and understanding some amela when there's a Yaakov we can say call us your deeper ocean not a set when there's not a yacht of we need Plan B of Talmud Torah knishmas understood as we endeavor to understand by learning tolerance so these are the two pathways of us Israel and Lima October now initially these are being described as two alternative routes to the schlomit of teriyaki but in reality these are two routes that ultimately converge and become one road because cuz I'll teach us the end of my circus Barajas actually many people say this every day in governing at the end Tommy they hung him Mar beam Shalom Boland those who learn Torah increase peace in the world if for whatever reason this is not what you experience that that's a good good question I'm not going to answer it right now I don't know if I have an answer but because I'll tell us that the learning of Torah is a force that increases peace in the world that's a big message for us when we learn Torah it should bring us closer to other Jews not further because Talmud a car car ma'am Marvin Sheldon viola like I'm just saying what it says so if that's not what it's doing then we have to ask are we learning Torah the right way because it's not doing what it's supposed to happen so therefore if the Talmud Torah kicks in because we're not in a mob of Yaakov it should eventually bring us to the massif of yes death you know it's remarkable you know the house in ich and again the consummation is essentially the creator of the car ad community averatec maybe it's a little bit of an exaggeration but it's not too much of an exaggeration I mean there were many many great Gazzola but the cosmic institutionally although he was very so Noah he had no official position in Eretz Israel he was not Arab he was not a Russia Shiva he often didn't even allow his name to be used in various proclamations but he really was he created the whole infrastructure all the Shiva's the coulomb he was behind everything so the cousin ish is really the ultimate representative of the car ad world he created it that's single handedly but you know almost single-handedly because again they were great kadala but they were not as activists as him he has created everything very amazing it's interesting he was not you know he came character strong when he was already he was not a young man he came to Eretz Israel he was already in his late 50s and in Europe he was totally sanur he was just learning he was not involved in any communal affairs and the last 20 years of his life he was like a tornado he was a dynamo involved in everything now you may know that the cousin ish did not have any any children and he would often have teenagers live in there live in their home and some of these teenagers were not even from we're not even religious at all and they didn't become religious they came to us I was not religious and they left this house not religious but it's so amazing that all of the children that stayed there only speak of this example of ultimate or atheism you might say they speak of them with with tremendous love and acceptance and how much he cared about them and how much he was trying to help them become better in every way and how he cared for the gosh me--it not just the road not only the work meal and now we understood that not everybody was ready for a certain level of intensity and to go further we even have proof of this in Europe you know there are many other biographies I'm not were there many biographies of the Kazon dish but most of them are written by his Tommy them so obviously you know they're gonna build him up to be superhuman but the best biography of the cousin ash is actually a fictional book which does not use the cousin Isha's name but everybody knows that the character is modeled after the cousin ish and this is by the famous Yiddish writer who just died a few years ago I am Greta I'm Greta was not not a religious man at all he was not religious at all but he grew up in Dilma and he lost his father at a young age and his mother was looking for a tutor to learn with her son and she came across this young man was a very you know very very fine person who later became known as the fuzz Enosh but he was a young married man in DOMA and he was Khayyam gratis tutor for a few years quite amazing he was memories the private tutor of hi I'm Greta and hi I'm Greta that's a very excellent writer I'm Greta I wrote about the world of Eastern European jewelry and one of his characters everybody knows is modeled after the presentation I don't remember the the name of the character that's modeled after him and you can see that this character is portrayed although Hein Greta is a little it's kind of rough I'm different rubber name and different dhyanam and you know he partly portrays what he thought was hypocrisy and what he thought was duplicity and what he thought was not caring about people but the character of the cousin ish is portrayed in total holiness and goodness and to me that is worth even more than the authorized biographies written by his disciples because here you have a person who is totally Rock Hawk from everything it stood for and still he saw that goodness he saw the Iraqis rail he saw the actors and that's really the sign of true true greatness that the Torah is not mirages check the Torah does not create walls the Torah does not create barriers but in opens doors and even those who are not yet connected to Torah will see it's sweetness and will see its goodness and that's the mission I think we have to try to incorporate in our own lives as well by the way a little bit of unrelated trivia but I do want to say this I am grata dydz his wife I think is still alive maybe she died a little while ago but she was very she did not allow a lot of his work to be published because she didn't like the translators so as a result many many writers and disliked her intensely that she was not Jewish and I'm Greta Mary they got you gonna read that a lot I do want to be Mohammed's of course he did not marry a guy she was she was there is a Jewish woman even though not religious either and part of spreading a rumor that she was a guy was part of the anger and hatred that she did not allow his writings to be published for so many years because she never agreed with the translations I just wanted to correct a misimpression that I myself had for many for many years okay again they're not relevant to anything but just a little bit of bibliographical knowledge anyway be well and have a good a good week [Music]