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Rambam Mishneh Torah: Hilchos Talmud Torah Chapter 1
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The Obligation to Study and Teach Torah This class in Rambam the laws of Talmud Torah, chapter one, was presented on Thursday Parshas Eikev, 16 Av, 5780, August 6, 2020, streaming live from Rabbi Jacobson's home in Monsey, NY For Source Sheets: https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/7671
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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
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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
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