Rambam Mishneh Torah: Hilchos Talmud Torah Chapter 1

the yeshiva.net [Music] we begin today a new section in rambam hilda's talmud the laws of learning torah after the rambam concluded his first section of his mishnah torah and safer hamada the book of knowledge the fundamentals of and then went on to help his deus the laws of ethics values character personality development and refinement the rambam now goes to the third section of mishnah hilhes talmuda which just like hilcas deus also includes and consists of seven chapters let's begin as always the rambam will begin enumerating the mitzvos in the toyota that these halochas are coming to expound upon and explain in detail today to the laws of learning these will include two positive commandments rishena the first mitzvah is little my toyota there's a mitzvah to learn toyota the second one is to respect and honor those who teach her and those who know her and master her oberst mitzvos elaborate camel of the explanation of these two mitzvahs will be in the subsequent seven chapters and slaves when jewish people would purchase servants non-jewish servants who would assume a semi-jewish status which we're going to discuss much later in rambam the details and children minorities pluto and automotive they are exempt from the obligation of learning torah an obligation that spans throughout the human beings the jews entire life day and night as we will see they are exempt aval cotton however a child of iv there is an obligation on the father whose father is obligated to teach him to shinema what's the source for this we all know this pasik it comes from the second section of them you should teach them the words have turned it to your sons to speak in them and here it says your sons it doesn't say your daughters in other words the obligation on the father is to teach his son and the mother the woman is not obligated to teach torah the text of toyota to her son shakalaka of lil madhav because the one who is obligated to learn is obligated to teach it says you should learn the traitor with your sons not with your daughters you don't learn with your daughters because she's also not obligated to learn and therefore she's also not obligated to teach her children toyota of lil mitch of the llama she's not obligated to learn so she's not obligated to teach base shame just as the toyota gives one an obligation to teach his son torah he's also obligated to teach his grandson today the posix says in parties you should let them know you should share them with them the words of terror that were given on sinai to your children to your sons live never unto the sons of your sons so the mitzvah is to teach also your grandchildren for lloyd but now you benefit but it's not only a family of fear this mitzvah is not only relating to your son or your grandson ella listen to these words mitzvah is a mitzvah on every jewish terrorist scholar every jewish sage every he has a mitzvah to teach all students toyota even though biologically they're not his children what's the source for this the pasek says we also know this pasik it's in the first section of kriyashma you should teach them what are them the words of torah that vary my love live to your children you might think here again it means only biological children means we have an oral tradition that was transmitted all the way back from moisturabeno through the chain of generations master to student master to student this is the tereshab and whenever we say me ashmura in rambam it means what that it's also intimated it's the way to explain you could see it in the passage but it's intimate and it's alluded to where it's hinted to what did we learn doesn't mean only your biological children it means your students because students are defined in tanaka's children we have a pasik also in malachim base chapter 2 about the students of the prophets vaitsu binay hanavim the sons the children of the navium went out this is the day that elio anovi would ascend in the flames to heaven and elisha would be his student and successor so the binay hanabi and the children of the naveem are referring to the students of the navy the author of one said or wrote them it teaches you that you will only be successful with a student if you see your student as a child in kane if so lama it's to teach every potential jewish student so why was the person commanded to teach his son and his grandson is not even not only your child there's two answers answer number one is answer number one is there are priorities there is preference in other words your child comes before your grandchild and your grandchild comes before a child of your colleague another child so yes there's a mitzvah in every to teach every single possible student but a person has to prioritize and say i can teach my child my child comes first then my grandchild and then somebody else's child another answer to the rambam says a father is obligated to rent a teacher so that he should teach his child in other words if the father can't teach himself or even if he can teach himself but the teacher would be beneficial would be superior then he has to actually pay money to rent a teacher to pay tuition when it comes to the child of his colleague meaning another child there there's no third obligation that he has to pay tuition for a teacher to teach him he is obligated to teach him for free but he doesn't have to spend money for it so these are the two differences between the mitzvah relating to your own family and the mitzvah relating to all jewish children and all jewish students first of all there's an order of priority you have to prioritize in case you can't do everything and number two here you have to spend money in here you don't misha linda what happens somebody who his father never taught him his father did not fulfill this mitzva for whatever reason when he recognizes when he recognizes interesting words when you wreck it what does he recognize he recognizes the value of learning today and then he is obligated to learn himself he's obligated to find a way to discover the ability to be able to learn torah to discover turner interesting words kesha yakir there is an old print of the rambo where it says kisha yagdil which would make a lot of sense when he becomes mature when he becomes an adult when he becomes bar mitzvah he's obligated a mitzvos but according to most manuscripts when he recognizes that writes in pisces the grandson of the balatanyo passed away tough 1866 he has pisces denim on the tamaksa and he brings a possibility that what their album actually means is actually an unprecedented idea here that a cotton moment he recognizes the value of toyota he's obligated to start learning himself regardless of his father and then this would mean that there would be a heave on a child which is absolutely unique shinema what's the source for this martin luther tells the jewish people you should learn them you should learn the words of tara and you should observe them and guard them in order to perform them so here you have a mitzvah say of learning today i my father didn't teach me there was no vision or villain that's true but i have a mitzvah all the mother termites says learn them and keep them in and similarly you find every place throughout the tower and the tamar talmud that learning precedes action because study brings to action action doesn't bring to learning in other words when i learn famous expression of gemara massachusetts talmud when i learn i have the knowledge and the know-how and the appreciation and it brings me to perform the actions based on the learning but the actions don't necessarily bring to study i have to study mice it doesn't mean the talmud what is the rambam saying here the positive says oh the mother them is you'll learn them so you'll be able to keep them because talmud is maybe the demiser but my says not maybe they talmud and it seems that the reason the rambam adds this because maybe you could say that the mitzvah of learning terror is only on the person who his father taught him if his father didn't teach him maybe i'm exempt from it but the ramen is saying no you're still obligated to learn taina so the rambam proves that the mitzvah or the mother term is not only for somebody who learnt with his father or with a teacher who his father hired so now he's obligated to continue learning by himself says that's not he has to learn himself regardless of his father what's what's his proof his proof is because it says learn them so you should be able to do them can a person do mitzvahs without learning how can i do i ca and i'm obligated to do materials even if my father didn't teach me tiredness so the rambam is proving that what that we see from here and everywhere else in toyota that town would quite immerse they cannot be myself without talmud if they can be myself without talmud and i'm obligated in mitzvahs nobody said music because my father didn't fulfill his obligation so therefore obviously allah means that i'm obligated to learn myself titus i should be able to fulfill the mitzvos why does the rambam add the last words of a namasa maybe they talmud why is that relevant it could be that the rambam is adding another aspect here and that is that we see in the whole torah that talmud has something so grand and so great about it that it's greater than all of the mitzvahs and that's where the rambam says you see everywhere that talmud comes before myself because once you have talmud you have talmud and you have mice but myself doesn't come before talmud because myself doesn't break the talmud talmud brings to my sin so that was saying you see you saw it in the rakula the talmud is so this means the talmud is so much grander and so much greater than myself so if a jew is obligated in myself certainly this jew is obligated also in talmud and therefore even if his father didn't teach him he's obligated to learn himself continues what happens if the father himself had to learn torah but he also has a son little mater to learn taita so here is the issue it's either a question of money if he's going to go and work in order to be able to provide money that his child should be able to learn by a teacher he won't be able to learn or even if he wants to teach himself perhaps the question is should he learn himself or should he teach his style to the rambam says who kaiden the learning of the father precedes the learning of the child even though he has a mitzvah to teach his child but first and foremost he has a mitzvah himself to learn taira however if his child is uniquely perceptive and innovative and he will be able to study and master the material and learn better than the father then the child comes first and therefore let the father go work and support the son to learn the bishop but even though his son comes first it doesn't mean he shouldn't learn at all mitzvah just like there's a mitzvah on him to teach his son because he's also commanded to teach himself taira so even though he doesn't have time to learn himself because he has to support his son because his son is going to be more successful that's true but it doesn't mean he shouldn't learn toyota at all there's a mitzvah also on him to learn time himself not only to teach his child so therefore the rambam says he always has to make sure that he creates times for himself to learn tata even though he cannot spend his entire day and every time he has a learning torah which is an ideal situation but he cannot do that because he has to support his son learning so therefore the rambam says but he should make sure to still make time to learn a person should always learn today and only then get married because if a person first gets married his mind will not be open to be able to learn as well because now he has the burden of supporting a spouse and supporting a family supporting children and therefore he won't be able to dedicate his mind in the same way to learn like before marriage when he's just responsible for himself what happens if this person has natural inclination and desire for a relationship with a woman is very powerful so his heart cannot really be truly dedicated to learning of territory because he's constantly being overtaken by various thoughts and sensations and desires then you see shabbat then first get married and you learn afterwards okay it may not be with the same dedication because you have to be dedicated to your wife spend time with your wife you have to support her and then children are going to come in but that's their priority then you should get married in the beginning he says you should get you should learn trader first because you want the das panuya you want the head that's open it's much easier when you're not working when you're totally connected and learning all day it's much you you'll achieve much more without a serious person here in the second part of that he says but if yesterday his heart is not open because hither i'm just talking about somebody who's being overwhelmed by so many thoughts and sensations that it's time for him to get married so this is a quality of the heart which represents strong emotional inclinations and proclivities at one point does the father begin teaching his son the moment his child starts talking malam de toyotivolano moshe merusha ke lisyakov the moment the boy starts the moment the child starts talking the father teaches him the passage at the end of the torah parties the terrier was commanded to us by maisha it's an inheritance for the whole community of yaakov this is the first thing we teach a child the moment he could start communicating verbally and it's fascinating we take apostic all the way at the end of the torah it is the last parish of tara but take a look at the nature of the passage what's the passage today was given to us by maisha mary russia it's a yerusha it's an inheritance for the whole community of yaakov what's the definition of a yerusha an inheritance is something that applies to a minor and an adult in identical fashion and even an infant who's only one day old let's say somebody's an infant had a father and the father passed away and he left 10 billion dollars the infant is still one day older one week older one month old legally he becomes the full ear and now he owns the 10 billion dollars yes he's one day old he's not aware and cognizant of it he certainly can't deal with the money we do have to appoint an upper troopers somebody an agent representing the entrance of the infant to guard the money until he or she becomes an adult and they can they can handle the money but that's all in terms of administering it but who is the owner who is the legal owner the infant who's one day old turret siva no maisha marasa it's a urushi to every single jew even if he just started to speak that's the first passage we teach him upon the father also teaches him the first passage of shema which is verse which is earlier in the torah shema yes hashem a god until he becomes six years old or seven years old hakala fiburyu based on his strength and his health situation and then my leasehold and then the father brings him to the teacher of children to continue learning toyota by the teacher because i should say the ramen says ben sheisha being shiva how do you interpret that i would interpret it six years in other words six full years beginning the seventh year or if he needs more time seven full years beginning the eighth year this is actually how the shulhanara kharav interprets the rambam because that's what it seems like ben shesh means you finished six years and you finished seven years but the kessa mishna says that actually means ben shesh means five years old beginning the sixth time ben sheva means six years old beginning the seventh year and that's also what he says in base yosef on the tour in less than this age according to the rambam if he's less than ben sheisha ben shaw which means if he's not fully six years old you would not bring him to the teacher according to the rambam i should just say that the way the custom is today the seder hyun brings this and um this is discussed in many post kim that that today they often bring the child to preschool or to a teacher even at a younger age to learn the icies to learn the olive base to learn the language to learn some sukim to learn brachas davening etc if the custom in this place was that the teacher gets money he gets a wage for teaching so then the father has to give him a wage has to give him money like derambam said earlier in allah that part of the obligation of a father is that he has to pay tuition for a teacher the father is obligated to pay tuition to the teacher until his son knows the whole terrorship itself that's twenty-four precious miserability and all this firearm of the prophets and the writings as we will soon see it's terrorism a place where the custom is that you teach tayashi for money you're allowed to teach for money it's an amazing you're not going to teach for money nothing to do if it's tradition of the place or not if it's a direction of the place it's a wrong tradition it's a wrong custom terrorist ship except the different places some they took money some they did teresa why shouldn't the positive says pasha's verse speaks to the jews the last weeks of his life see i have taught you the statues and the laws just like hashem has taught me just like hashem has instructed me so has i'll say interesting expression is see i have taught you like hashem has taught me just like i learned for free the buddhism didn't charge me money for him to teach me he taught me for free and that's what i did with you i did not charge you money to teach you i have taught you for 40 years title for free when you teach for generations the mitzvah of teaching teresha is behind it's to do it for free just like you learned from me for free god did not charge me i did not charge you you do not charge your students and this is talking about teresha hashem has taught me what happens if you can't find anybody who's going to teach you terrorism for free or your child then you land in this car then hire somebody and pay the money to international the posix says in mishtich of gimmel ms knee truth sometimes you have to buy if the only way to acquire truce is through paying for it buy it if you have to pay somebody to teach you or your child cares about that buy it now i think okay if you taught me for money so now i'm going to teach somebody else for money thomas don't sell truth buy truth don't sell it if the only way you can get truth is by paying pay now you want to sell it don't sell it give it don't sell it from here we learned so it's forbidden for me to teach toyota for money even though my rebbe taught me the terror for money now the question is why would terror should be saved be different why would we make this distinguish between territory savant distinction says that you're allowed to take money for terishi baksav because it's not for the learning rather before they were printed the teacher would also teach all of the trap all the cancellations of how to read it how to sing it that's what he's taking money for and the second explanation is usually tereshabiksav you learn when you're a child and a child needs protection so you're paying the teacher i don't want to use the word babysitting services not babysitting where you're paying the teacher to nurture the child to take care of the child to protect the child you're dealing with a six-year-old with a seven-year-old with an eight-year-old with a nine-year-old a ten-year-old etc so therefore you're paying the child not for the terror you're paying the child for what for taking care of the child's physical needs and protecting them and making sure they're fine and they're doing well and disciplining them when necessary et cetera however terrorist of alpha is a ready you're paying just for toyota for toyota you don't take money in other words in principle we see here the you do not teach toyota for money that's the principle it's an issue to teach if i have no other choice i'm going to pay for it because i have to buy truth but i'm not going to sell truth now you're all wondering so what's going on in the world today why are the yeshiva's charging tuition so we all understand the answer for this and the shulhanarov discusses this is that today the meaning is that people teach tayosha balpa for a wage as well and the reason is because if not they're going to have to go get another job they do have to support their family so therefore you're paying what's called skar battalla when i'm teaching your child gemara or i'm teaching your child mishnays which is tereshabhalpa i cannot have another job at that time this is the job i'm doing and i also have to support my family and it's taking me away from other work so we're paying the skherbatala compensation for the fact that you're not working in another job or another profession that's the foundation of the reason that today money is charged and tuition is charged sometimes high tuition for alpha but we see here fundamentally the principle it's a fascinating principle hashem says for toyota you don't charge money it's fundamentally wrong because why because it belongs to the person you may have this hus to teach it to them to help them discover it but it belongs to them as the gemara says indeed every child in the womb of his mother of its mother learns the whole torah hashem taught moshe for free moisha taught the jews for free this is not something that somebody owns and therefore i'm i want money for it it does doesn't work that way that's not tight it's the wrong approach to total even today when we pay tuition or we pay a tutor i pay somebody to teach me or whatever it is it's only because i'm taking them away from another field of work but it's not for teaching today and this has a lot of ramifications in halocha and in hashgaffer and in our approach to learning and especially to teaching to pedagogy to communication to mentoring etc yes every jewish man is obligated to learn being whether he's poor being ushered whether he's wealthy being challenged whether he's healthy being valued whether he has illnesses and pain being boker whether he's young being shy whether he's a very old man and his strength has already uh faded even a poor man he's so poor he goes from door to door to collect money now the last stages even somebody who's married and has children which means his life is stressful and sometimes overwhelming he has to make ends meet that's his last that's his last right his last description he's obligated to establish time to learn today both during the day hours and during the night hours passing says in yahushua you should toil in toyota by day and by night from here we see that there's an obligation to establish permanent fixed times to learn turner by day and by night somebody asked the question why does not say this by every mitzvah he should say you know who has to put on film a poor man and a rich man you know has to celebrate shabbos a poor man and a rich man and an old man and a young man why suddenly here does the rambam say this it seems to me because essentially the mitzvah of terror is to use every possible moment that i have to be able to learn tara but if somebody is going from door to door collecting money he needs food to eat if somebody is older and weaker so he doesn't have the same strength and the same ability for concentration if somebody is a balusura right so the rambam says everybody everybody is whatever the situation is you have to be able to create time in the morning or at night by day and by night to learn tara and that's regardless yes the person who's healthier the person who's younger can dedicate much more time for toyota and much more focus and focus in on the learning much more but the rambam here is saying regardless tita is essentially a very interesting mitzvah because for one person they fulfill the mitzvah of toyota by learning 18 hours a day and the other person fulfills the mitzvah of learning toyota by learning a half an hour a day it depends on your circumstances balatanya has a whole famous mimer and toyota an incredible moment on purim how that how that works what's the meaning of that we learned it once but in any case so it's it's something that's very very relative it's very different but it is the fact that i'm poor that i'm rich okay hopefully i'll become rich one day but here it's actually a very relative issue so there are says whatever the issue is there's a mitzvah to learn turn as much as you can and know the whole toyota but regardless i have to make time every single day by day and by night to learn today some mitzvah not everybody is aware of yeah mitzvah minha toyota to make time every day and every night to learn toyota's a little history but it's not just history by the rama it's always wrong the great sages of israel is some of them were wood choppers some of them were water carriers and some of them were blind the rambam rights in piracy sucking was a wood chopper obviously nasa says it about ruby akiva ruby akiva was a wood chopper what about a water carrier rabuna the gemara says ink service rev was a water carrier what about suman blind the gemara says many times that trebiasif was blind for aphro pike they were wood shoppers water carriers some of them could not see nonetheless they were immersed in learning turtle during the day and during the night now the rambam takes us back to his introduction means those who were transmitting the the body of the oral tradition student from master master from a previous master from a previous master in a long uninterrupted chain until michelle these individuals rabbi akiva hinlalazakin they are all listed in the 40 generations from maisha rabbi no tiller of ashley remember the introduction to the rambam that's why the ramen says these people what can a wood chopper accomplish what can a wood carrier accomplish a blind person can't even see the rambam teaches us here how jews looked at toyota how they related to tata and the democratic nature of toyota you have a person who's drawing water it's a hard job it's a hard physical labor this did not deprive them from the ability to be able to indulge in tighter to be able to masturbate and to be able to become those individuals who are responsible for the whole transmission of ishmael this empowers every single individual terror doesn't belong to only a few individuals who have the luxury to be able to sit and learn all day and they could so somebody else supports them and so forth which the rambam himself was very against which is another point of his that is probably making here it's not just empowering every individual and saying that every single person has the potential and a person should never think terror does not belong to me which is going to discuss more in chapter three but there are also making his famous point that he makes in his commentary to mishnais prikyov is perigdalid and a little later about the rambam believing that rabbis and teachers and sages should never ever support themselves from their rabbinic duties as teachers and mentors but they should all have a separate parnosa this was the rambam's famous opinion which i discussed at length we did a lecture this week why uh why the church burnt the books of the rambam you may want to listen to it on the yeshiva.net pretty interesting history about the rambam we spoke about this aspect as well of adam will matara till when till when are you obligated to learn torah ad my site till the day of a person's death shinema the posix says tells the jewish people make sure that the words of toyota do not depart from your heart all the days of your life that means i have to retain and hold on to my toyota all my life till my last breath as long as a person is not involved and engaged in learning automatically he forgets and if i have a mitzvah that i'm not allowed to allow myself to lose any part of my turn until the end of my life that means i have to always be involved in learning turner somebody asked the question why doesn't the ramen say this about every mitzvah you have to put on film until the day of your day you have to eat kosher till the day of your death you have to celebrate shabbos till the day of your death you have to dive until the day of your death why does it come why is it by learning toyota it could be i'm not sure but it could be let's say you have that brilliant brilliant genius who learned toyota their whole life they learned through their whole life and they mastered it they mastered it of course it's infinite so there's always layers that you didn't master but the body of torah to a significant degree they mastered it so this person might think okay now i could retire and take vacations says no cause manchester not involved in learning i forget it in other words he can't be passive with tita if i'm not actively climbing the ladder and learning and learning and learning things just get lost a person has to divide the time of his learning into three shlish petersburg a third dedicated to terrorism what we would call the pentateuch and the other books of the prophets and the writings a third is turo shabbat teresa bappe would be like mishnayas bryces basically all of the oral halachis that were transmitted they're not written in hummish but they were transmitted orally and then recorded in the major texts of tyroshavalpa ushlish and then another third is dedicated for something else yavin vyayaskil akhir is davor meri you're going to understand and delve into to understand the end from the beginning meaning you become a master and understand the system of the theory of how every allah developed and where was the right from the last point you go trace it back to the early point the whole development of allah see dover medava you should also be able to derive one law from another law one idea from another idea via dhammadavaladavar and you also could compare principles and ideas and allah's to each other the other minister turned the directions back you should delve in to become a master on the formula and the methodology the medes the thirteen middays that mushroom gave the jewish people through which you can expound and elaborate and understand the methodology of trade all the principles of these formulas and how you can extract from these principles everything that is permissible everything that's forbidden and all of the other halakhas from the things you already learned in the second category which is tereshabal which was transmitted the indian zealand this in one word is called talmud or gemara some manuscripts have the word gemara this is basically what gemara is when you learn gemara there's baudelaire xiaomi and mountains of the literature that develops the gemara is basically this so basically you have three elements you have tereshabiksav that's the written torah you have tereshabal which is the oral tradition of in terms of and then you have the gemara the talmud which is if i could use this example the back end of the computer program we have the front end which is basically the bottom line for ignoramus is like me i get onto the computer i'm a dummy and i know i press enter and this is what happens i put in this email address and you get the email but there is the back end the back end is the mechanism the engineering how it was built understanding the foundations the fundamentals of it the basics this is called gemara the ram says this is a third of your time kaitzat what does this mean practically you'd based if somebody is a craftsman he has a trade voyage so he was engaged in work three hours a day and engaged in learning nine hours a day so you have nine hours three hours tereshabiksaf three hours tereshabalpe uber sholish and you have another three hours miss bonan you use your mind and you really allow yourself to become intellectually rigorous to understand one idea from another idea in other words the concept of gemara where you have a certain principle stated in today and from there you can derive this and this idea this insight what about divrei kabbalah kabbalah's navy soviet that's all part of tereshabiksaf up teresa what about the midrashim where is madrish madrish explains sukham explains explains it can have stories it can have explanations the ram says that's part of shabbat what if you're learning what if you're learning kabbalah what if you're learning musa what if you learn exitus what if you're learning myself the ram discussed the first chapter is my summer cover the secrets of divinity understanding spirituality spiritual disciplines or myself voracious understanding creation from a territory perspective this is bakal talmud this is the third category this is talmud this is the back end of judaism the theology of judah the depth you have the theology of you have the theology of ashkaf you have the back end of judaism in terms of legalities you have the back end of judaism in terms of understanding what is judaism what is yadishkai that would be paradise that's all talmud so you have here the fascinating obligation of how we divide our study of torah tayosha books of terrorism and gemara which includes paradise territory includes nach turish about includes all of the russian that explained the site that today you have the halachus of that would be part of teresha valpa because you have a locus it's clear even though the rambam was written before sulhana but what would rambam be which part would be rambam which one which one would rambam be rambom would be terror of course the rambam says you learn taisha biksam and then you learn my save which is of course some of the shirt and we try to bring in some of the third category which is talmud this is an extraordinary this is in the beginning when you started to learn when you really grew in your wisdom little material and you don't need to learn anymore teresha big savoir you know it backwards and forwards and you don't have to always engage interest about bad because you mastered all of the missionaries and the prices and the stuff you know you should still make times that you go through territory and you go through all of the traditions of obviously you should not forget anything not from treasures and then the rest of the time you should dedicate exclusively to talmud of course all based on the expanse and expansiveness of your heart and the nature and the fabric of your mind and perceptiveness you'd gimmel i have to give a tiny small introduction to allah so that it should not be misunderstood you do have to understand that the rambam lived in the 12th century appreciate the fact that for thousands of years women outside of judaism were seen not only as second-class citizens but some of the great greek and roman philosophers actually believed that women are completely under the ownership of their husbands like a car like a piece of real estate like a computer they also believe the same as children in fact some of the great greek philosophers who the rambam admired as philosophers but in this obviously differed believe that actually and you'll forgive me i'm just quoting aristotle and other greek philosophers that the feminine is actually a distortion of the ideal human being it's a human being in lesser form all of this is antithetical to the very principles of judaism which was a revolution that people still don't appreciate three and a half thousand years ago that ma that the human being woman and men equally were both carved in the image of god and have equal sanctity you could take a look at partisans virgins adam zachary nikeva [Music] both together are in the image of god that's in terms of creation in terms of revelation the second fundamental aspect of judaism has seen i participated was given to men and women equally not only that kaiser marlaby's israel when hashem tells moshe to give the torah he says first teach the fundamentals of terror to the women yaakov and then the saga lebanese also the two pillars of judaism creation and revelation see men and women as different but equal meaning everyone has their distinct role but equal in the famous expression of the gomorian conducion of islamish was given to men and to women equally the third component which is the shrine coming into the world the mishkan women actually preceded the men by avayu and shaman ashram they came before the men they gave much more than the men when it came to the love of eritrea here again the women preceded the men why am i saying this because when people take things out of context they completely miss the point now you have to understand as a result of all of the above women did not get any education they were not trained in the analytics they were not trained in methodology of learning they were not trained in what we call today pill questions and answers and refutations and modalities of thought and so forth teresha valpa especially gemara has a special definition the passage says in my shivani god placed me in darkness the governor says this is the babylonian talmud why that's called darkness yes because everything is so complex nothing is straight and nothing is clear everything is questioned and then answered and then the answer is refuted and then there's another question another answer and a proof and then the proof is referred and there's arguments and debates it's back and forth it's a whole style of learning in that terror in that era that time most women that ram uses the word most we're completely completely not in tune with that mode of thought and therefore such types of learning when you're not accustomed to it and when you don't need it and what doesn't do do anything for you it can actually have the opposite effect it can be confusing it could be overwhelming it would be misunderstood in wrong ways a woman who learns torah has reward avalanches but since she's not commanded to learn so it's not like the reward of the man who is commanded because the moment you're commanded to do something you already have much more resistance stolen waters are always sweeter the moment i'm now let it take the water it's much sweeter right of course what you can do is always better so therefore the moment i have a mitzvah i already don't want to do it so the scarf somebody who's commanded is greater and the man is commanded to learn and somebody who does something that he's not commanded to do his reward is never like the reward of somebody who does it because he was commanded to do it it's a lesser reward but it's a reward even though a woman has a reward for learning the sages a man should not teach his daughter because most women and this is critical why doesn't he say all women because he's not talking about the essential nature of women versus men he's talking about most women in the culture or in the society that they're living in this is not a halal about women essentially there are halachas that relate to men a lot because to women that never change says the majority of women women why the majority why not all women because iran himself is telling you there could be women who are different you have to look at the woman when the whole society changes and everything changes things might change so this is very clear when you have intellectual honesty and integrity to learn the rambam correctly i'm responding to the different questions i received obviously because most women ain't dying they don't have the ability to concentrate on the learning the sages said when you teach your daughter it's like you're teaching her parables and stories by medvedev this is only true you do not say this because tereshabiksav by nature is very different than her shabbat teresha balpa by definition lends itself to constant debates and analytics even just mishnays and prices are full full of debates and disputations never mind gemara which is called and it's full of complexities and intricacies and you have to be sensitive to the terror that belongs to a woman and i'll tell you the truth even till today i give a lot of lot of shirum i speak to men i speak to women it's very very different i'm not saying all women most doesn't say all women and this is even in the 1100s but even today these are very different like like uh with women my wife always says with women get straight to the neshama go straight to the soul go straight to the core don't go through all of the journeys of pulpulum that you can do with men and for men it's actually very healthy they need it for their minds they need to refine their minds through that so this is actually a very sensitive idea teresha baksav is not like that tereshabiksav is much more straightforward you can perceive the spirituality there although also tereshabiksav could katricia beksaf needs a teacher but it's not like tereshabal he shouldn't teach her terrorism initially but this is not called tiflus like just teaching parables or idol stories we do not say that about tereshabiksaf i should add what the shulhanara kharaff says in hil and it's brought in many paiskim when the rambam says here not to teach your daughter or he said in the beginning that women are exempt from tara this excludes all of the mitzvahs that they have to do because you cannot do any mitzvahs if you don't learn how to do them like the rambam himself said so if a woman has a lot of mitzvos and there are many mitzvahs that women are obligated in so then the woman has to be taught and learn all of the twitter that relates to the mitzvos it's not an obligation to learn toyota in and of itself but it's an obligation to learn toyota as a pr preparatory as a preparation and a foundation to be able to observe all the mitzvahs now remember that includes 365 negative mitzvahs it includes all positive mitzvahs that are not bound in time it's an enormous amounts of mitzvahs for example all of the halakhas of shabbos for example all of the halakhas of davening which according to the rambam davening is a mitzvah's essay that relates also to women and many halachas every single day that relate to women and men equally it also includes the six constant mitzvahs that are perpetual the mitzvahs that iran discussed earlier in said the mitzvah of knowing hashem the mitzvah of loving hashem the mitzvah of fear of hashem the mitzvah of achtus hashem so basically this includes the entire literature of yiddishkai that deals with hashkafa and premier satire and having an appreciation of the foundations of reality and creation this relates to men and women equally this class is brought to you by the yeshiva.net please help us continue the classes make even a small contribution at triple w dot the yeshiva.net donate