Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: What Torah was Given to Moshe at Sinai and Were We Set up for Failure?

[Music] okay hi everybody thank you for coming and uh today's share tonight share is sponsored uh benyamin israel and halevi as well as sevilla bastavid and they were forced leima for baruch bengalda and barak yaakov ben kevana as well as the em yehoshua benjendo and the teenik i was not yet named ben itra hina and stephen bendhava and braya batrava the shriver of yeah and uh this week's here is sponsored by a friend of mine from uh from new york alan fine who happens to be an eric israel he was uh he wanted to come tonight but i guess he couldn't in honor of the sheer for all the inspiration and torah that uh the rav was infused in me and by irek davinsky dedicated to ilana and simcha davinsky their birthdays which are on the 25th and the 30th of shevats respectively wish them all happy both of them happy birthday okay thank you i don't know if you want to tell me about the judge uh which which was nefter it was on good news i i didn't i didn't see it yet so i know that they that there was a lot of traffic this afternoon because because they're paralyzed this is an israeli church yeah former supreme court uh what was his name ah okay well uh well again she should also have uh an aliet uh nishaman we hope that hashem should have and all of the all of the jews okay we are uh okay until i know the person i can't say anything more than that but everything should be good uh so uh we are now in parashat mishpatim and for those of you that have legal training which put him of course is very very very fascinating because it is really the civil law structure of the torah it is the mitzvot all of the rules of damages all of the rules of shamrim of uh bailments are in parshas mishpatim and indeed participation for tim is the foundation for two homosexuals masaka's bhava kama and masaka spoka mitsiya bhava basra is also a civil law tractate but that is derived from other surcham but are solidly rooted in parashat mishpatim in fact i recall a hearing from rav yehuda kuperman zakrena livraka who was the founder of mikhwalla which is a very very well known women's seminary and he himself was a great great talmud in many many meforship of hummus he's very excellent the books he once said a jew that knows parashat mishvatim with rashi very well cannot be called an amaretts he is by definition an educated a jew because he knows the basic halachic structures of khoshan of khoshin mishpat now the one thing i do want to clarify something before i get into the main thing i want to talk about i want to clarify something that sometimes gets people a little mixed up and that is on one hand judaism seems to make the claim as perky ovo says moshe kibal torah mesenai moshe got the torah at mount sinai now it's one thing to say the torah comes from god that's fundamental but this statement makes an additional claim not only did god give moshe the torah but god gave moshe the torah in a specific place at mount sinai so i think i may have touched upon this but i just want to clarify it because it comes up here a lot what does it mean that moshe that god gave moshe the torah at mount sinai now here's their there's a very simple problem here what does torah mean i mean after all the story of matan torah is in the middle of the homicide there's a lot of things that happen after the events of matantora in fact most of the history of the jewish people as recorded in the torah is after sinai the sinai revel a revelation occurred in the first year and the torah ends in the 40th year so in what sense could it be said that moshe got the torah at mount sinai what did he get so point number one is that the word torah does not mean the safer torah and it does not mean the five books of moses the story of korach the story of the marauding the story of moshe hitting the rock that was not given to moshe the sinai if that would be the case you'd kind of have an absurdity that everybody in the torah that does something after this event is simply reading from a script like moshe is a director moshe gives the pages to korach and say you stand where that line is and uh in around five minutes the ground's going to open up and you know the show must go on i mean obviously when korach did what he did when the jewish people built diego for that matter there was no pre-existing revelation that said that they would do it in fact the gemara itself says this the gemara itself says there's a maclocus either these narratives were written after they happened meaning after the ego moshe was told write these words about the ego after korach i write these words about korach right after marag lim write about the miracle based on that the torah was actually written over a 40-year period and therefore there was no methios of a safer torah till the last day of moshe rabbanu's life and there's even a much locus in the gemara who wrote the last eight verses of the torah they'll talk about moshe dying some say moshe wrote them some say yahushua wrote them interestingly enough but that's very important moshe did not come down from mount sinai with a safer torah there's a maclocus in the gemara was the torah written as it happens you know right after it happened or was nothing written until the end of moshe rabbanu's life that's a mahlokism so in that context hari means safer torah which is different than moshe ki beltore messina this is a very important key to understanding khazal khazal do not always use the same term in the same way the machlokus and giten if torah was given at one time or was given over time means safer torah how was the safer torah written was the safer torah written at the very end from gracious to the end or was the safer terror written incrementally as events happened that's tara khasuma nitna it was given partially so there the word torah means the safer torah the noosa of the safer torah now when we go back to pierce and we say moshe kibail tyra mesenai moshe received the torah at sinai it doesn't mean the safer torah because that's the mach like yes but rather torah would mean at most the 613 mitzvoth with the supplementary explanations that we call torah shabbalpi okay so we have to redefine torah tori doesn't mean safer torah it means mitzvos but even then even with that redefinition you got a problem because i mean let's say for example uh in practice israel we read about the asari sadibros and after the assailant said dibros hashem gives moshe commandments about him how to build him his back that it should be out of stone and it shouldn't be cut with metal and then we are given all the civil laws all of the mishpatim and then moshe goes up to harshinai for 40 days and then we are given commandments of of mishkan i mean the problem basically is this it's clear from the nusa of the hamish itself that mitzvos were given over a prolonged period of time not just narratives happening but yada bir hashem el moshe laymar right there are mitzvos and safer vayikra there are mitzvos and safer by midbar there are mitzvos in safer devorim that were not repeated before not mentioned before so how do you reconcile that with the idea of moshe got all the mitzvahs so the khasinish gives us a very very useful hagdora again it may not fit every statement of my merchandise but baderaklao this is a very very not that the condition needs my askgamer but a very sensible shot that you can hold on to and he says we have to differentiate between the private revelations to moshe and when moshe communicated that to binet israel in the 40 days that moshe was at mount sinai around in the mountain covered by the cloud hakuras barclay gave moshe all of the mitzvos that the tayag mitzvos including their interpretations including whatever is consi included in the oral law that itself is an interesting topic that doesn't mean he gave moshe word for words mishna and gamora sometimes i know in arsenal we try to i mean i don't do that part of the curriculum so to speak but we want to convince the talmidam that taurus about comes from sinai so a lot of guys walk around with the idea every word in the gemara was given to moshe and transmitted for again i mean that's a pious notion that's a religious notion i don't want to be misalso someone that has that view but it's kind of a ridiculous of you i mean obviously when abaye asks you know baye and rob are debating they are not reading from a script either so when we say the oral law the taurus about pain we mean the principles of teresa belpe the working out of the applications are done by human beings who are gazillions of times greater than us but it's the same process what you do in the bassamedrish is no different than what a bayan rubber did in the basement other than the fact that they're you know billions of times greater than us but it's the same process i mean you know when you're thinking about a surah you're not like waiting to hear what what did hashem tell moshe again and you know you're not doing that you're using your mind they use their mind okay i mean that's that's a general uh issue of churchill but whatever it was moshe got that stuff but he was not yet authorized to reveal it to binet israel until there were various occasions so you have to be macholic between when did moshe get the mitzvos and when was he given permission and authorization to reveal the mitzvoth to ami israel now if you ask me why certain mitzvahs are not revealed until there's a mishkan and indeed in the book of devarim like yibum certain mitzvahs are not revealed until the 40th year in the desert i don't know you have to look at every single mitzvah but the point that i'm making is that the giving of the torah to ami israel was a 40-year process okay even if moshe got all of those mitzvahs besina now with this the khasanesh's masber in a very interesting way again it doesn't fit all the midrashim but it fits many things the concept of the four areas where maishira bainu did not know the halacha and he had to ask hashem and that was after matantora that was after matantora after the 40 days after the second luchos even right so let's go in order uh the first was the issue of the makoshesh the one i'm sorry the first was the magadeif the one who blasphemed the one who cursed hashem so moshe avenue did not know what the punishment is for blasphemy he had to ask hashem and akrishbaraku said the punishment is skila now if moshe got the torah basinai what didn't he know similarly by the makochesh mikosha is the one that gathered wood on shabbos machlek is what the melaka was but let's assume it was just carrying he was picking up sticks and carrying four ammos in irish harabin so maisha bainu knew hashem had already said that somebody used me knew that but moshe didn't know which misa you get from shabbos yet ask hashem and hashem said skila well wait a second if moshe got the whole torah messina then he was told that the irish would be skila wasn't he told that right the third example is pasakeni when they brought their first corbin passat this was eleven right this was uh this was ten months after matantora a year after you know a year minus two weeks after you'd see us mithraim oh yeah a year after you see us with ryan corbin passage so there were people who were tame and they thought they could not bring the corbin pessah and they said to moshe why should we to be deprived of bringing the korban pesach and moshe says gee you got a point i don't know he asks hashem and hashem tells him ah if somebody is tame they are given the opportunity to bring the corbin pesach a month later and that is called pesach and the fourth is the daughters of salafra right that's died in the midbar salaflama did not have any sons uh the halaqor of yerusha said that sons inherits and if there are no sons so the brothers of salafrad claim that they should inherit rather than the girls and the girls say hey not fair not right and maisha asks hashem and hashem says that daughters have the right to inherit when there are no sons and they have priority over the brothers of the deceased right four cases the megadeth the blasphemer the makaise the gatherer of wood pesach and binay salafrad in all of these cases maisha banana did not know the halakhah and he had to ask hashem so the question is what does that mean moshe kibel torah messina the whole torah and rashi makes the point kololoise the clow and the pratt all the details it wasn't just given in a general way so the question is so there are mid-russian that say there are there are talking madrushram that say that at least for some of them moshe avenue was angry moshe bainer was upset and there's taka an indian that cass anger can make you forget to so there are indeed midrashim that talk about this as a but the khazanesh says al peepshat we could say that maishirabano has a genuine dilemma maisha rabenu has inside information that he was not yet given permission to reveal maisha bainu knows that michalo shabas is basquilla but the only thing he told ami israel was that pasak was communicated right the rest wasn't so the khasanesh says it's not that moshe doesn't know the halacha but moshe does not know if he is authorized to implement a halacha that he knows is the but he was not yet given the rashus to be magalla he has to ask hashem and hashem says now is the occasion to be magalla see that's very interesting so basically it was a question of when is moshe authorized and that is the meaning of the ubiquitous phrase by yadabir [Music] which in english is just translated and the lord said to moshe saying so it's always extra saying you know what he's saying but he says no laymar is to tell other people hashem says to moshe lay more to tell this meaning you knew this before you knew this before now i'm giving you riches so now it's a whole messiah you can write a book in this so why are certain mitzvahs revealed at certain times i don't i don't know if you can give a global answer to that you have to look at each each particular mathias but that's an important point of understanding that moshe kibel tori me sinai number one does not refer to safer torah it only refers to mitzvahs and number two when moshe received the mitzvos is not the same as when we received the mitzvos in other words this highlights the unique importance of a partial like mishpatim because it turns out that even though moshe rabbenu may have gotten gittan and ebam and many many hadakas at sinai but there were comparatively few that he was told to reveal to us right now and indeed parshas mishpatim is not only mescala from moshe going up to har sinai it was revealed to moshe to tell us before he went up to rc9 right after the series of differences see again we sometimes get thrown off because we have two partials we finished the parsha of the acera sedibros now we have a new parsha but you know you got to read it straight if you read it straight the asari sadibros are immediately followed by you know building a mizbaya some other albacores and then mishpot him so when did we hear them we heard them from moshe from moshe before moshe even went up to harsina so that's an important muslim in and of itself because parshas mishpatim is largely the mitzvoth bane adam lachavero teen man and man and we know that sometimes people think being a religious jew is primarily about the dominating about katrius about shabbos about talos about sisters about filling honesty and business you know maybe that's a little negotiable so to speak and yet we see that the torah badavka puts a primacy on these anyanim of mishpot him even ahead of many many other in yanu that we might consider on some level more important and that that's an important you say the mabitz the mabitch was a contemporary of revision of cairo the base joseph invasive cairo was the rav of spots in the 1500s and moshe and yasif durant atrani was the ab base natsvat they had a huge muklakis about shemitah by the way which has repercussions in the controversial hetero machira that the basis of shita was that payros that grew on non-jewish property didn't have the holiness of shemitah and therefore you're allowed to buy them and eat them but you have to take off trumas and nitrous the mabet on the other hand possibly they have kaduchashvias so all the shemitah restrictions apply but that would also mean you don't have to think of truman's and maestrous and um the age of cairo was not happy about the mabit pascaning this way and at some point he actually was going to put the muppet in harim for allowing people to buy payroll nachri without taking off trumas and meisters but you can understand that the hallmark like a space yasif and the mobitz if the holiness of shemitah applies to the produce of gayam is very very relevant on the whole indian of whether you could get out of shemitah by selling land to so that's really a big big machokas i don't want to get into that now but the mabit in addition to being one of the gedolang aposkim the mabit was also a jewish philosopher and the mobit wrote a safer that's still still worthwhile to learn it's called bay salikim which talks about yusodos of emuna and the mabit actually says the following interesting point we generally look at the luchais and the lucas by the way uh even our picture was not coming first of all the lucas were not rounded on the top the luchos were even squared and number two they were not connected they were two different luchos in other words moshe is holding two square rectangular blocks right so they weren't even muhubar but be this at uh the general understanding is that the first five uh dibros are bainadam lamokum man and god and the second five are being adam interpersonal even that's interesting question uh the first four clearly are being adam lamoccam belief in hashem not believing in other gods not taking hashem's name in vain keeping shabbos those are four the fifth one is keep it of the aim some would argue keep it of the aim is an interpersonal mitzvah why is it on the first column because you'd have four and six but whatever it would be that wouldn't be the reason so again there's a lot you can say on that part of it is that when i have gratitude towards the human beings who gave me life that leads me to have gratitude to hashem for the source of all life meaning one who cannot honor his parents does not have pakaresato for him and if i don't have a karasuto for my life i will not be able to connect to god there is also a deeper psychological reason why kiba davian is treated as bain adam lamarcom and that is a child's understanding of god will be based in large part and how they relate to a parent you know a child comes into the world baby comes into the world in a very very vulnerable state a state of total dependency and a parent is a god-like figure almighty all-powerful right i remember that time time of you know where the child thinks a father can do anything like superman whatever whatever it would be i mean that passes but but still there is this idea so so here's the question how to say how does a child think of hashem a child thinks of hashem the way they think of daddy and mommy abba anima so if abba and emma are loving supportive compassionate stable always there for you so a person looks at hashem ah that's what hashem is but what if this all-powerful parent is unpredictable different moods you never know how the person is going to behave arbitrary even if not abusive but it could also be abusive even and that's going to be the image of the child's forms of hakodo sparca now are we locked into our childish images not necessarily a person can grow up but you'd be surprised maybe you won't be surprised how difficult it is to grow up as a person could be a person of phenomenal accomplishment in life and they're still laboring under impressions and under feelings that they absorbed as a young child those things don't go away no matter how great no matter how eminent you are they can still be in there i remember seeing an interview with richard nixon uh because some of us look back and we look at nixon with some fondness in terms of israel and everything else but you know nixon had a you know controversial life and uh he had resigned the presidency and uh for for a few years he remained incognito but then he began to try to rehabilitate himself and by the end of his life actually he had kind of built up a a somewhat of a good reputation in many many circles and presidents consulted him on foreign policy issues and the like so he was being interviewed by somebody it was not the david frost it was somebody else and and here was a man you know who had resigned the presidency i mean you consider that like the the like the biggest negative thing you could possibly do and he was talking about the pain that he experienced from sixth grade playground taunts he says you know it never gets away from you i mean gee is that what he's thinking about yeah apparently that is what he's thinking about and that's kind of scary because those types of things right so you think when you push somebody in a playground you don't know that you know maybe 30 years 40 years later will be president of the united states and world decisions are going to be made because you pushed him or you abused him so the point i'm just making is that because parents are kind of like god the way a parent relates to a child is how a child forms his image of hashem okay but he doesn't make putting that aside that was really a side point the first five mitzvahs man and god the second five minutes now here's what the mod bit says you'll notice that the number of words on the first five are much more than the number of words on the second five the second five are very staccato load your talk loads enough right so if we assume that the words the letters that were engraved cover the same amount of space then if one side has more words and one side has less words but they cover the same surface area it has to be that the engraving on the second was much larger than the engraving on the first you see that graphically because if i have fewer words that have to cover the same space the letters have to be bigger so now let's imagine measurement was coming down okay the first look was for smash we never saw those first lucas but let's say it's yom kippur moshe rabbanu is coming down with the second luchaz and i put on my glasses to peer what's he bringing down there what commandments this is the my what commandments am i going to see first when moshe albania was bringing down the luche the my bit says i'm going to see the second five i'm going to be able to make out the second five before i make out the first five i'm going to see the bainadam before i see the bain adam lam and this is how important mitzvahs are indeed uh we know we know that mrs pinod and khabero are also the very first question hashem is going to ask you the gemaran chavez tells us hashem gives us a six-question bakina after 120 years and this is great uh because we're given the questions in advance so we could prepare we could study we could you know fix it you're given the test and the six questions ms chavez tells us the first question is did you conduct your business affairs with honesty and integrity the second question is did you set aside regular times for torah i'll mention all six just so you'll have them the third question is uh did you try to fulfill pro or vu to have a family uh the fourth is did you eagerly await not just belief that you await with yearning the mashiach yeshua now five and six are a little more abstract bill paul did you use your mind to try to understand the wisdom of torah means i learned on a regular basis but you could learn superficially pil paul to be more did you try to understand torah and the sixth is were you a seeker of das which really is union with hashem did you seek a relationship with hashem right those are our six questions and obviously one could give a whole share on all of what all of those elements mean but i just want to point out that the very first one is did you conduct your business honestly now it's interesting and munna has two meanings and muna can mean honesty and integrity and muna can also mean faith in hashem and i think raf schwab as it sounds says that both shatim come to the same thing because if i truly have muna that hashem gives me my pranasa then i know that it's not possible that i'm going to come out ahead when i violate the will of hashem maybe in the short term i will but eventually it's all going to collapse in other words if i think i could gain by cheating and breaking hashem's law it's because i don't have emunah that hashem is giving me my parnassus so therefore emunah as honesty and then muna as faith are talia they are connected to each other each one is connected connected to the other one okay so therefore keep in mind that the significance of parshas mishpatim is that not only did moshe get it but we were given we got those mitzvos before moshe went up to the mountain after moshe was up to the mountain i'm sorry after moshe gives us as the mishpatim then the torah at the end of partial satan seems to go backwards and it describes moshe building a mizbayach and assembling the people and reading the something called safer habris and the people responding ishma and then he goes up to sinai for 40 days and then we have the ego and everything else so there's a huge machlakesh reshainam a very very important mach like israel shainam how do you understand the sequence of events at the end of parshas mishpatim in connection to the asera sadibros rashi learns and rashi is based on a gemara masaka shabbas that this is an important example of ain mukhtam um the torah does not always follow chronological order of course you always have to give a reason why it does doesn't deter follow chronological order but it doesn't always do it and therefore when it says moshe avenue built in his bayak and moshirebenu sprinkled the people with blood and the jewish people said the famous statement na seven ishmael that was before the asera said bruce in other words you have to take it back and put it in parshasi israel before the assailant now hako maiden rashi himself says this moshe did not enter the cloud of harshinai until after mishpatim and then he spent 40 days that's afterwards but the mizbayach the blood the reading of sephirah brits which i'll come back to na seven ishmael is before matantara en mukta um ramban does not like the cloud i mean he can't he can't deny it totally but the ramban does not like the cloud available the ramban has a shita throughout that you always try to make the events recorded in the torah in chronological order unless you're absolutely forced to say not an example is the beginning of by midward the beginning of bamidbor begins rosh chodesh and then in balosa we have the carbon pesach so obviously that's not in order so okay in such a case the ramban concedes that there are times where the torah is not in chronological order but if there's no no reason that forces you you don't do it so the ramban learns that the building of the mizbayach the sprinkling of the blood is after the ten commandments after the mishpatim and then the sprinkling of the blood now based on this makwokas this will depend what safer habris is because it says at the end of parsons mishpatim this is hard to understand moshe took a safe air which would mean a scroll of some type he took a safe air that is called the seifer habris he read the safer habris and in response to the safer abrasives the jewish people gave the famous words kaiola shared hashem nasev and nishma right the famous words that we as an interesting life according to the ramban those famous words were after matanzai according to rashi they were before like we normally put it but we want to know what is the thing that moshe is reading to um israel what is the seifer habris so rashi says the safer hybris is the torah itself from voracious so it's not commandments it's the torah the story of avraham yitzhak yakov is learning that the torah was written incrementally over time and moshe is reading to them the first installment of the safer torah the first installment of the safer torah which is boracious and the first part of shemos so they're not hearing mitzvos but they're here hearing so much i mean some misfus but they're hearing essentially the foundations of omni israel and rashi says say for abris is from voracious until matanzaira ramban learns safer habris is the asera sadibros and the mishpatham you understand why because since according to the ramban the safer habris is after matantora and mishpatim that is what moshe wrote down okay so you see rashi couldn't learn that way because if rashi is learning the safer habris is before the acera cedebros then there's no aceros at difference right so the makloches about safer habits depends on this maklokas of what is the chronological sequence by the way the ebenezer says an interesting thing that the safer habris is the at the end of at the end of vayikra we have all of these curses and it says although they're written later in the torah it says these are the covenant that moshe gave us at har sinai the ebenezer says he's reading the which actually means according to the ebenezer the taikaka was the very first part of the torah that was written down other than the yes sarah sanjibros themselves the was the first thing that moshe rabbenu moshe rabena wrote okay so this is not pressure just again this is this is nothing nothing fancy just to translate the sukim and just to know what it's referring to is not such a budget thing but this is a big mach locus rushing in the ramban and you will see this in fact we're going to come across it again about the mishkan um that uh rashi utilizes quite liberally the idea of ain't much of a torah and the ramban tries to stay away from it of course again uh rashi's big support is the gemara and masaka shabbos so the emma says rashi is basing it on the gemara and again this highlights an important idea that sometimes comes up the reshainam did feel free to offer a shottim in sukhim that are kaneget khazal as long as it is not impact on halakhala maisa so in shuto pseudo-shell mikra the reshaynam were not always bound to the dreshus of of ghazal and they were given rishas or they they felt they had rashas to say those explanations and this is even true with the ramban the ebenezer does it like all the time and the ramban criticized the ebenezer for it but even the ramban doesn't do it that much but the ramban does it too uh even though he was so critical of the ebenezer who does it like like 100 almost 100 of the time okay so now though i want to focus on something whether this was after matantora or before matantora the famous words by which the jews accepted hashem's torah is na seven ishmael not seven ishmael and the gemaran shabbos tells us when the jewish people said na seven ishmael the malacca charis came and tied two crowns of glory on their heads one because of nasa one because of nishma and those crowns of glory remained until the freitage the sin of the golden calf we lost that crown of glory now what is so great and the fact the gemara emphasizes it's not just that they said na seven ishmael the sequence is important they said nasa before nishma meaning if they would have said nishma venasa that wouldn't have been so great nasa van nishma is what makes them great so what is the myla so again there are the simple idea is when a person says nishma vanassa let me hear what you're saying and then i'll agree to do it that implies a certain notion of conditionality nishma if i hear and i like it it makes sense to me then i'll do it na seven ishma means my commitment to action is absolute i am giving hashem a blank check i am basically saying whatever you want is what i will do vanishma now i need to hear it now i need to learn it okay so the myla of na seven ishma is unconditional acceptance of al-qaeda sparkle's will i'm not sure if i mention it here the maforshims say that that is the remis of why in filling we put on the hand villain before the head's filling right phil and shulyad is before its villain shall rush to fill in which is binding your emotions your life your strength your mind to hashem you're tying yourself to hashem service is kind of a individualistic kabbalah satire every single day and kisham that at matantara there was a nasser the nishma i commit myself to action even before i understand it even before i understand that's why the the yad has to be before the raj that's that is corresponds to nasa the nishma the basal lady gives a little bit of a different mahalak he points out that nasa is doing nishma is learning so the question is how does a jew view the mitzvah of learning is learning a means to know what to do that's one way well on one level of course it is if i don't learn he'll call shabbos how will i keep shabbos if i don't learn hikoskatras so learning is a mock share learning is an enabler to myself but it's very very clear that learning is a special unique irreplaceable way of connecting yourself to god even if you don't need it for lamisa that's why even when i learn things that are not nogalem isa like corbanos i connect to akadesborgo that's why when we learn gemara or other things in ian i mean it's not necessarily going to be something i need to know for practical or if i have a rav i can ask every shiloh to or if i have rabbi google who's the biggest marbits torah in the world right so if it's only a matter of uh i need to learn in order to know barak hashem i could find other avenues where i don't have to learn and i can get i can get all the answers i want lmi learning is not just a means to an end it is intrinsically one of the most important the most important way we connect to hashem so here's what the basal labia said if i would have said nishma nasa i will learn and i will do i wouldn't have gotten two crowns because there all i'm basically saying is i'm committed to doing and i will learn what i need in order to do i would have gotten one crown but if i say i will do that already includes the necessary learning to be able to do so what is the vanishma after the nasa that even when i know what to do i will continue to engross myself in the learning of tiger and that's why bishop demou when they said nasa before nishma they were zaisa the basal levy says to two crowns because if they would have said nishma vinasa they only would have gotten one crown they would have gotten the crown for myself they're agreeing to do something mela the learning will be preliminary to the doing in fact the best lady learns that's the meaning of the gemara that says that one of the averages that caused the destruction of the basa mikdash was they didn't recite birha satyara they learned torah but they didn't recite the blessings over the torah i mean what's so bad about that again there's a lot more to talk about but the base lady says because they looked at learning as a means to an end so you don't make abraham means just like you know you don't make a bracha when you buy matzah you don't make a bracha at least like the babali when you build a sukkah because that's not the mitzvah that's a means to a mitzvah if you look at torah as only a means to know what to do so you're not going to make a bracha on it right so that's exactly the problem it was a contradiction to what nasa vanishment represented all right so we have two one is unconditional submission to god even if i don't so according to that's interesting ready for the first shot the eaker godless of nasa is the word nasa the nasa even before i know what it is is the great thing according to the basal levy the iker godless is the vanishma that comes after the vinasa that i'm going to learn even if i know what to do so it's interesting on which word do you place the dagesh it's interesting that this would be a maklocus in these pyotr but i want to leave you with this final question and that is in parshasi israel which unequivocally is before the assailants that this part is for sure the jewish people actually say [Applause] every when moshe gives them messages from hashem the people answered in unison everything hashem said nasa we're going to do now when you're hearing that plastic you almost want to correct about corey nasa banishma you skipped vanishima no he didn't skip the nishma in barcelos yes right the jewish people said kaiola shared hashem nasa the words nasa nishma only appear at the end of parshas mishpatim now whether you learn like rashi that that also occurred before matan torah or you learn like the ramban that it occurred after matantora that's fine that will be a much locus but clearly the jewish people had one declaration where they said nasa and another declaration that they said nasa van isma so why the difference why in parshas israel does it say only nasa and in parshas mishpatim it says nasa the nishma so the meshma gives a beautiful beautiful answer and he says the issue is this ghazal teach us i think i mentioned the gemara last week even that there are 613 misfits in the torah but by the way one should recognize that um the statement that everybody knows there are 613 myths in the torah the ramban actually has a discussion whether that's an article of faith are we much clearer to limit ourselves to that number because when you start counting mitzvoth you actually get many more mitzvos than the 613 in fact that's why the rambam had to develop rules of what you count what you don't count when do you aggregate details uh when don't you because the the rambam said we gotta stick with 613 and even if there are 5 000 commandments in the torah you've got to somehow classify them the ramban actually raises the possibility who says you know 613 was one particular amira darash rav simloi he's in a motor he says 613 i mean are we muhlev to accept that maybe not maybe he can have uh you know 700 800 whatever it will be so the ramban is from football about this again if somebody would say that today they would be called an apicorus but but the ramban was free to debate that issue he comes out to maskana that even though the number 613 is only mentioned by raf simlai but there are many other midrashim that are presupposing that kashmir so he says that's the mainstream view okay mercedes but when rafim lai says 6 13 he says this is maruma's in the words tyra siva lanu moshe moshe gave us torah the word torah in gematria is 6 11 meaning 6 11 we got from moshe or noki the first two commandments of the ten commandments we heard from hashem and which i talked last week that that implies from the gemara that i am hashem your god is a mitzvah what mitzvah is it rambam says the mitzvah of emunah and we discussed last week how could there be a mitzvah vamuna i won't won't repeat that particular point but then the gemara goes on and says we divide the 613 into positive commandments thou shalt do and negative commandments thou shalt not do and we have a number there too 248 positives and that corresponds to the bones of a person a person has 248 bones and each positive mitzvah that you do gives a spiritual life we don't know exactly what that means to a particular bone i've even seen the safer i don't have the safer that because i don't give you a checklist which mithras can negate which bone like you know which covers this one this one there's actually a safer that tries to correlate the mitzvos to the particular bones and we have 365 negatives connected the sinews the ligaments and the like in which if i do a low salsa i impair the vibrancy of that ligament again i don't know if that translates into arthritis or anything else but it impairs it on some on some level okay so now we have a problem so it turns out that the 613 corresponds to the human body the spirit at least the spiritual essence of that human body now there has never been a person in the history of the world who could ever keep the 613 mitzvahs no matter no matter what some mitzvahs are of course only applied when there's a base on mikdash other misfits don't some mitzvahs are only for men and not for women some are for women not for men some are for kaihanim and levium and not for other people others like pigeon or ben or badass not for a coin or a living so if you simply said to me okay obviously the abrasion doesn't expect you to do mithras that you're you know you're not getting you know you're not commanded that's fine but the problem is if you're correlating it to my bones and you're correlating it to my ligaments and you're going with the number 613 that means that if i'm not doing the colleen's mitzvah there's some bone in my body that is not getting what it needs hashem set up a system that by definition every person is a spiritual in some ways how does that work how is it shayach for hashem to create a torah in which every single mitzvah is necessary for my vibrancy every single one and yet it's a system in which it is impossible for me i mean today of course it's impossible we don't have a base of mixer so that i could say okay so we're impaired that's the nature of governors but even when you have a base of mcdosh even when you have everything nobody can do it so what where is the yatras where's the justice hashem made it impossible for me to be muslim to perfect myself in that spiritual way so the mesh says that the swarm he was not makhadesh there this idea give to te ruts him how is it shaykh for me to be muslim to perfect my spiritual essence through the 613 mitzvahs of the torah one method is talmud torah this is another dimension for the importance of learning torah that when i learn tara and i learn about the mitzvos i'm not able to physically keep just like hazal say when you learn the laws of carbanos it is as if you brought corbanos same thing with every mitzvah i learned about saras i learned right i don't want to be a leper i don't want to get surress right mithril gets you know giving you get is actually one of the 613 mitzvahs of the torah i mean when a man wants to divorce his wife he must give a get now that must mean let me think about this there must be a get bone in my body there is a bone that gets its spiritual nourishment from the mitzvah say of garrison so what does that mean come on and say you know honey i love you but you know listen uh i gotta perfect my neshama and i need to go through the guest mitzvah you know what do you want and by the way it'll be good well okay i'm not sure if it's a mystery on the woman in that sense but the man is missing right that would be absurd right that would be kind of kind of crazy so the question is so how do i get the death bone right how do i get the nourishment of the gut the answer is i learn masaka's kitten i learn her skitten in other words talmud tara can give me the light of the mitzvoth that i'm unable to do in fact when the wrote foreign people don't realize outside of the shiva world we know the mishna brewer los angeles brought back in fact the learning of kachim and brisk all of these places kachim is now the highest status symbol uh in the yeshiva world kachim but kachin was neglected by most of uh people who were learning for hundreds and hundreds of years and the khovitskayam was one of the main people who brought back the learning of kachim he republished at his own expense old swarm untouched him they've been out of prince for years he wrote himself uncuts him he compiled the equivalent of a riff there's no riff on kachin but he himself you know gave you the synopsis of the suggests plus or the equivalent of arashi and the toasters i mean he did a lot of work on kachin and people criticized him people could have said they said to him why are you spending so much time on kachim it's not no gay olamissa it's not practical as if the khabib didn't occupy himself with practical things he says two answers one answer is if you believe in the coming of mashiach then it is no gala myself the base of mikdash can come back tomorrow you need to know so when you learn kachin you are affirming that you have muna in mashiach that's one answer the second answer he gave was that is precisely those khalakkam of torah that we're not able to do that we must learn badafka because that's the only way our neshama gets the light of those mitzvahs so the mice said there's a special indian to learn things that are not no gale to myself because they give our nisham of that kesher so that's answer number one answer number two is abbas israel now you may say what what does avalanche israel have to do with the 613 mitzvahs i mean about yourself is a great thing but how does that give me the 613 mitzvahs so let's imagine this a man puts philly on his arm he doesn't think my arm has done a mitzvah's villain rather the arm is part of me so what is done to my arm it was done with my arm is what i do because this is me so how does the jew regard themselves if i regard myself as an as a distinct individual a discreet person so me is me so me as me cannot do 613 myths no matter how big a sadiq i am there are going to be mitzvos i'm not able to do but if if i have avast israel and i connect myself to ami israel i become like a limb on a body or i become like a cell in a body an omni israel is a transcendental entity with a past present future just like the human body every cell in your body can change right uh every cell except maybe the brain cells but virtually every cell in your body now was not there 20 years ago because cells die right replay right so are you the same person in other words the whole philosophical question about continuity of identity why am i the same person if every cell in my body is different okay i can think about that those conundrums but the basic idea is that i'm part of this body so this body keeps on going right so cloudy spell does the same thing if you regard yourself as a cell on this organism you're connected to the organism of omni israel so it turns out the mitzvahs that were done a thousand years ago are still the mitzvahs that i've done the mitzvos of the men are the mitzvahs of the women the mitzvahs of the kawaii is the mitzvah of the israel the mistress of the past are the mitzvos of the present because the same way if i put on filling you know yesterday and my cells are different today i still put on filling because i put out villain right so members israel is a change in your self-perception in which you don't perceive yourself as a discreet individual but you mavato yourself to the clown so that's the other way so it turns out we have two answers to how can i perfect my soul with the 613 mitzvahs do i do it through talmud torah or abbas israel so the metro says this is maroomas beautifully in the way the torah phrases the responses of the jewish people in yes so the first passage is talking about when the jewish people live in unity yacht of togetherness they can say to god everything you command us we can do i can't do it you can't do it he can't do it she can't do it but as a yacht-off we could be making the torah in mysore in in action but the pasaken mishpatim says vayanu in other words it omits the word yakhtov the tyres marames what happens when there is a time when the jewish people are not unified when they're sinatra when there's polarization when there's dissension when i'm not connecting myself to the cloud in such a situation i cannot say to god i can do the torah so i come with plan b nasa i do it vanishma through learning nishma means to learn and understand so therefore the passage in israel is the abbas israel route and that's why it says yakutov and nasa and the pasek in mishpatim is the talmuta route that even when there's no yakdaf there is the ability of hashla ma of perfection through nasa vanishma talmud so i'll just add vipastas these are two different paths there's the path of unity there's the path of learning when there's no unity but in reality these are two civilian these are two routes that ultimately converge and become one because the gemara tells us we say this every day in eric israel that the those who learn torah should increase peace in the world that tyra itself is a vehicle that should bring out of us israel if it's our new we sometimes see that that is not the case well that's a real good question you've got to ask why why isn't that the case exactly huh give it terence i don't know meaning uh is there something wrong in the talmud torah that doesn't bring shalom i don't know i'm not going to say one way or the other but we all know because i'll say tamil bring shalom into the world so from the torah we should eventually come to the pathway of abbas israel so beyonce hashem may we be zaika to follow both of these paths the path of tamitera the path of israel and in that way be makarev the the goulam [Music] is