Practical Chasidus w R' Dalfin - Amar Reb 1941 #3

the morning boys come where a page 183 in the minor amrap America sundry we are learning about a very important issue which is called the calf huntin of Nemea cetera the previous rubber adapts here they thought they'd an idea brought in the camera the mother in discussing the the fear the amount of wheat barley grains that one has in comparison to what others have the motor expresses so itself by saying a person would rather have captured one one measurement that's called a calf one measurement of his own better than teacher cabin self evade a nine nine cabin nine times as much that his friend gives him because what you create what you create is most valuable even if it's a little bit but you made it happy it's most and that ever applies this idea to the study of previous operator the inner esoteric aspect parts of theta ie Hasidic and he says it's in the context of what we're learning here about learning Titleist MA and just to recap because some of you weren't here this moment was said in 1940-41 at a time when at a time when the establishment of the Jewish community in the Greater New York area was was wasn't so favorable towards Casa de s-- and not just about the cities but even other Hasidic groups for example I think I told you the Commissioner ever came with a friend to the vaad hatzala which was the organization dedicated to in funds to save Jews from in Europe in 39 and 40 and the the one in charge looked at the capricious rep and he said are your students that you want money for Ave been a tailor and they looked and he looked up and he rather than answering him he looked to his friend that he winked with his friend that he said it's time to get out of here to leave and they didn't even push the point and they saw that they're wasting their time because the attitude was that if you're a bento la Binet Torah which means you sit in the learning the entire time and and and and more on and niggler Allah Sobhan Gomorrah and you're not kind of wasting your time but cussedness they they they gave you friends yes sounds like it was oh you like question even worth learning and what word games everybody was like assimilating no there was a simulation going on right both yeah but but both the the the request was made particularly for for the commissioners Arriba was requesting funds for AF of Hassidim and and those that were what we call truthy are simple folk they weren't even in the equation those that were assimilated weren't even the equation the equation was let's say the three achievers that made their way to Shanghai right I'm sure love the fascism of Antonov like the option of a rebel and by the gun that that that dynasty has me lewb lean you guys are celebrating the death I you owe me well your princess I'm glad you're a number eight you've gone from fast a crime that's wonderful so fast when we bleed which was founded by red mayor superior well guess what remains Shapiro was a jerk to the faucet and her son of the great sadiq of Chaka okay he was accosted I mean in the soul soul and they didn't give funds to them either and then of course the LA Parvati Shiva the Habad yeshiva which was a group so there was this quiet schism they will be they were looking down on us Hasidic achievers and their students because they weren't kind of serious about the study of Gomorrah so and this became this only became more and more when certain literature Rafa Shiva and leaders came to America in the 40s 40 41 42 those years and they took a stronghold and they did a lot of good things tremendous amount of good things but this led to a division so their ever the Freda could ever he in his memory of those years you will see ideas that seem to be addressing this issue are you really learning turretless MA you say you're a bantorra what does it mean to be a Ben Torah to be someone who was studious and committed to learning of theater in a way that's buer and their ever challenges us and says are you really learning Torah itapira way and this is what he's addressing in in this opening first paragraph of the Mimer so what we have here is an important overall concept forget about you know a Hasid aim at the Trop just the idea when a person learns what are they learning for are they learning because your wife says get out of the house you're wasting my time you're a midge here get out of the house and go to cradle and you're come that's not total it's not it's it's good it's it's you know we say the takes away the small bullets MA from doing something for what yeah but but that's not the smell right or someone who says I'm learning cuz I want to be a rabbi you know my father-in-law and and my father on walk could have easily received Smith huh he was knowledgeable he was studious he was connected and he and others during that time in 1958 the 15 the 50s the Russian Kosygin they didn't have kind of the audacity to get Smitha who are they to be ordained as a rabbi now the rabbit rabbit changed that in because the Reber saw that you know this will only enhance a person's interest in in in in Torah and also teaching and feel good about themselves and in America he felt the particulars very important this is the rebel urged everyone to get Smith even till today in Habad many you know many kind of mediocre students people who are not very still studied studious and you know and they'd rather go to work and all that they get Smitha and the first question one of the first questions that you ask that that the girl and her parents asked about a boy for a shoe disease does he have sweet huh like what he doesn't have Smith huh is he a mensch right but but it's it's it's kind of if a certain the the buzzword Samira in the baggage in Habad is in other words did he it is easy easy sensitive to the rebus call to take time to study okay so anyway so this opens up the whole door of the idea of telephone so let's go into the text now page 183 we are we are getting towards the end of the first chapter and it's over here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 lines from the end of the first chapter in middle of the line which says fool upon him are you very gone Masseria rebus says that therefore what is necessary to to work towards learning tarnish mom it's to learn panini a cicada upon me but now he's still and and and and in order to appreciate that he needs to tell you the flip side so the flip side is isn't so comfortable and but he needs to explain talk about its recess or upon him over gamma R comma suited sometimes he desecrates some prohibitions actual opponent Rothman Islam that there are times god forbid whom is oak but is that when is lacking the enemies at Oriel he's damaged in ideology in philosophy a Dallas he has warped ideas in the name of Torah his ideas are damaged in other words it's not kosher his thinking is not kosher why Pater shallow moderately made and the tailor that he once learned and that he learns currently in a lays over vowed he lays of Avadh Shana meeting lawyer hockey - oh sorry not only does it not illuminate him that he realized his mistake right you would think he re when you learn Torah the Torah illuminates you and if a lumen it's you you say wow I've been making mistake thirty years of my life I've been walking around with these ideas and I'm if they're so you give us we say great or in the Polish dialect it it means it's it's crooked crooked a pious but this person the Torah that he learns doesn't illuminate him and he continues with his intellectual mistake that's one negative result from learning Torah without premia citator Eliezer is more so Genesis lay some hummus and this is a chimera and SOTA the modern thought that says he will that when you learn tell you to chalet with Schmo but you learn Torah just for your own you know self-advertisement and so you know self-centeredness it causes some harm others it causes it if the Torah is a potion of death a poster of death it's like you're you're drinking you're drinking you're drinking poison I'm learning Torah yeah but this totally that you're learning will only make you a bigger yesh a bigger pompous arrogant self which contributes to self-destruction self-destruction so when they announce simplest Torah small the famous vert when they say we're going to honor now all those that are enough even that are modest with a Torah to dance for the hawk offer and he turn around and this fellow rise in this fellow that person actually thinks is another he's modest so when the God by says all modest people stand up to come and get a Torah to dance he's there what a first right right or another story that I heard from a person who was at the via the 1940s or 50s of a great receiver in New York and he told me that someone got up to be mustard him to eulogize him and he was crying and crying the terrorists and his dad what's going to be and it says and so so is that already your so so is sick and I'm old and tired you know I heard the story growing up in English Eva you don't probably prints us her to to growing up it was like one of the stories that the Labov atures would make fun of the lit facts right but I heard this from a ninety plus year old in Borough Park there's a store called big Eliza's it's like the most famous farm store right so I heard it through a player big Eliza who's at ninety he told me he was there the whole years so it's not a fable it's not a made-up story but a person could say about himself well that's other story that I told you that I heard through someone else it was in a in a store they selling suits and and and he was there with his wife and he was buying the long frock a black frock because I Russia Shiva wears a a platfrom and and and and he sees the way he's measuring it isn't exactly perfect on him and and and his wife says to him like but you know it's good it's good it's fine it looks good on you and she sees the way he's looking into the mirror is it good this way that way look he checking it out so the wife says to the Russell Shiva to her husband but why are you just why are you taking so much ramen and and and and being so particular she says you know a mentally you're mentally means a cover a mental on a safer Torah has to be perfect I understand he's the safer Torah and his black frock is the mentally the cover for the safer Torah so the rabbit and and and you know if you don't if you haven't learned four cities if you have a little Miss a Torah you can actually convince yourself that you are a parent you are a living embodiment of the time because you will you learn tolerate day and night that's what you do and therefore everything has to fit fit into your mold and that's what we're learning here back to the text so that ever says here that type of Torah learning not only the don't you recognize the the path that you're on that is that is thence troublesome but but more so the more you learn the more you're drinking a potion of death somehow mother's Linzer comic coolest annotated what does this lead to the finding coolest most admires what's a cooler of mine how do you distinguish between a Torah cooler a legitimate cooler and a self-destructive cooler the answer is if the equation begins with you if the cooler is because you need the cooler and you want the cooler and it's all about you than what you have expressive excuse my pong you have kool-aid it's a cooler with kool-aid that's what it is you know it's not it's not it's not a genuine total cooler promotion fine steam the Redis article of Rioja the great place ik there much of fine steam so he had he received criticism over the years from certain sets of the Jewish community that he was a maple he was lenient and they had of totally wrong he was such a firm person such a holy person such a legitimate Torah PO sake the the the course of a good road is not to be mosque near everyone could be my memory even a bad rabbit can be my smear the the Coons the trick is to be maple but it should be tensioned with Alex like oh okay and that and that takes a lot of knowledge a lot of understanding and a lot of Pickers you know Dicky's means cleverness right you don't you don't you know a couple that's trying to have a child and they're struggling they're dealing so you know you use a cooler that's how logically acceptable for them to to to accomplish that and that's coming you know from who it's Emma's ethic that nothing in his in his writings he speaks about you know taking you know the semen and and and and using it to to procreate which involves you know what would be horribly forbidding the wasting of semen but he says in order to have a child he permits it that's it that's it that's an outrageous shock yes yes I mean you know they're different aspects of injury TRO fertilization but overall just to leave it in a general way you know and that's coming from the same aesthetic you're talking about a growing a genius of Torah that aesthetic wasn't only a river some have said it was a post sake for Claudius role in in Russia at the time and that the magician did a little bit of iterative illusion the son of refined below dinner the father student pride the prodigy student of the Vilna going you know concedes to him and respects him and and works together with him he didn't do that because it became a hustle he did that because he he he saw his genius of Torah and this very same rabbi is maple lenient in this issue and why because it's for the purpose of procreation to build the Jewish nation so an emotion and I made sure the same thing let's one second one second hello you know reply and brisker just give you a few example so you have you know knowledge about this decision refine brisker they also accused of higham of being a make or being lenient so brian said in regarding Shabet certain issues and shabbos said they said if hi and you're being maickel you're being lenient with with the laws of Shabbos sometimes said no you have it all wrong I'm being mocked met with the laws of P co-op nefesh of saving a life you hear the spin right you could look at the same thing and say you're being lenient and you could look from the other perspective you're being marketer so Ryan said you're looking at my pipes Piske didn't certain rulings of mind regarding Shabbos that I'm being callous and and and and and lenient and really I'm being very much per but not in the laws of fabless and the laws of saving a life because nefesh now this is this is the domain of a good rough of a good rabbi who has the mental maturity to to weigh the situation and to understand who is the couple and who's the person that's coming to speak to you you know I recall when I was in Cairo myself years ago and I approached your absolution McClurkin who was the Russian Jew alert them of Babbage and he was the the rug of Crown Heights at a time and you know I asked him about eating certain products um pays off which some of my friends said outrages it's not the Habad custom and things like that and I approached ribs on the shipment and I said to him is it true that in kebab we don't use oil and because in Russia they used mouse he said of course they use mouse in Russia because they didn't have oil and he said and and and that's what he told me and this is our ship at work and this was a very Froome Hasidic Jew of a massive Tom McLoughlin Pincus knew him you know say and he was speaking to me he was speaking to me who was a yes thank you we have in Borough Park we have a die-in a rabbi silence he's a student actually of rabbi was not all over show them you know a blade rack the great Thomas Holcomb so recently I brought him a Shila and one of the Habad and he's asked very faucets Claire although he was raised as a kind of a more of a purpose a precaution but he turned his allegiance to this claret movement anyway and he's a very knowledgeable Tom Coughlin he's probably about 75 years old already so I brought him a Schuyler and well I I didn't think was a trial on myself but others did and he was livid he was livid at me said who who gave the ruling so and so so I said Alabama to Rose and Crown Heights he said he doesn't know he looks no and you know the Bible was 45 years old and rubbish climate's is 75 and he had trained me but I was there my point is my point is that you know it's not an easy job to be a rough in general and that specialty not a rough in a from you know Torah community but what we're learning here in the moment to go back to the minor is that when when when you use Torah without learning the premise of Torah you can come to be maple and give that a them that are not appropriate all the examples that Pincus and I gave well first in this rubbish diamond it's an up high and brisk air you know legitimate coolest that are taken to consideration of the situation as we discussed but if someone is not in that situation and they just tend to be Maiko that comes and they use that our knowledge for it so cut it but what happens what's happening is that the the more Toria learn the more you're going to abuse the the same Torah so the total of knowledge that you're learning is poison it's poison for you to learn and you know in Europe there were many such people even in America in the 40s and 50s if you know the history of the jts the Jewish Theological Seminary began with you know Orthodox people and slowly but surely they cut away and removed many many ha logic issues from their teaching and literature and all that so the total knowledge that they had led to a a diminishing of Torah let's go back to the text if I see below them the course for all this he will fish ain't a layman hot either okay these are the words listen to these words it's because the person is not learning from the Tator TM rather who'll I made a citator he is teaching the tailor what the tailor's should be when you tell you he is supposed to be listening what is the title teach me and tell me and instead TM rather who like me the secatur hey Torah I'm gonna tell you how to be Torah what a pompous response and give this look look at these words and you - hello they're so sweet knit a dilettante no not that healers from the tailor not a talent detainer but rather he teaches the Torah to be Torah and of course this is insane this is but it's but it's reality that's what people do many times they're coming to the Torah with an attitude and they're going to insert their attitude into Torah so they will find in Torah ways to justify their attitude totally contrary to what's supposed to be when you learn Torah that you're you put aside your attitude and you say Torah educate me teach me and I and I don't have an effect I'm a raw material for me I read give me the right form okay continuing my same came totally smoked all of this boas is what is the rib is variations of learning Torah shillelagh Sh'ma not for its own sake conversely my shame can totally small learning cater for the sake of Tatum who are said early from the Moody this means that the style and manner of his learning Taylor should have played early Medus I saw you so we have here the Tyra teaches him behalf here a non say a new but definitely consciously a new approach to totally smug when you ask go out go out of beth shemesh go to any based measures and that's the person what does it mean to learn terry lachemann teratomas are you learning for a reason or are you learning for the pure sake of torah that every here adds of nuance that's that's that's special that no one says that the idea of learning title of Sh'ma is that you you're you're learning not that you're learning you're allowing yourself to be taught title of small means that the cleaner is your teacher and not that you are the taurus teacher that's an unconventional definitely of totally small and that's what he says here let's read let's read the words again my Saint can tailor the schmuck conversely literally Titleist ma who I should - Li moodily this consists of that the stylin manner of his learning - means the stylin manner Ramudu of his learning it is a title a Methodist I say that the Torah teaches him and not that he teaches the Torah so now we have a spin but not just that not just an intellectual and creative spin that when you spin things you know but rather they're real they're ever saying that this is the beginning of Torah the SMAW so in other words let's let's just let's talk this out you could learn Torah for the purpose of Torah not for the purpose of becoming a rabbi enough for the purpose of getting out of the house because your wife wants you out of the house and that's for the purpose of getting there getting it to be a better job or being prestigious in the community or in the shoes they'll give you solution instead of three you're learning for the sake of learning but if your learning is such is in such a manner that you your attitude controls the Torah then you're not learning Torah Lucia you're learning total for yourself it's all about you it's about your understanding and you're going to now find good Gintama see - you're learning in what you're learning that's not what's MA that's self aggrandizement you can understand that's all about yourself thoroughly small needs that you come to the tour and you say Torah I don't know teach me show me the way and from there you explore and you would look to understand and you look to the Mojave we spoke earlier small endure in this chapter about Judaism of course you should look to find the riddles but not because the sidess makes you more pompous and arrogant and I with a creative idea but rather because there's boggle God Almighty wants us to learn Torah that we create the finish because reduce is there to be created and that's why we say Cole Cole Mishima favish wherever a person comes up with enough novel idea and Torah have cognate animation me Sonny listen I everything was given from OSHA at Sinai so what we understand from that Cazale is that it is legitimate and important to be Mojave SHhhh it's it's it's you know sometimes you'll hear from someone will say all right why are you looking to be Mojave SHhhh and you know the famous part of the Sam safer for this a sermon a Torah new right you know new wheat from the new season is a sermon Oteri's forbidden biblically so the for some so for the great Saavik and teacher of Torah used that as an expression other especially at the time when he lived when the reformers were coming up came about to create new ideas of of Turin and which was contrary to Torah so the Sam so for said others also Minetta your new path is forbidden so we understand from the hidoshi from from the fact that the the hug the tassel say whatever hidden if you make it was already incorporated in the blueprints that were given from Oceanside night that itself tells us that was supposed to come up with a fiddle instead if that is it was supposed to be just parakeets you know uh apparent and just repeat things no use your mind study well think well create well but remember that the Torah is there to teach you and using the Torah as your guide not you as the guide for Torah is the foundation of approach and discontinued an insight to conclude and he said the whole ending of the English related Betina every idea that healers and Taylor had this Braves had governed by breathing apoyo beautiful he said what it what is the what is the manifestation of this kosher approach to Torah Moshe it is if the heedless leaves to avoid of a pale bottom-line activity you can philosophize and you could learn and if it remains ethereal and non-productive in the real world that is proof that you are trying to control Torah which is arrogance and none of the Torah controls you and guides you because if you allow Torah to guide you you will act upon it you know why because the Torah tells me I should do this and that so when I learn a minor like this and in the first chapter already he's touched upon this very core issue which is is my learning for myself or is my learning for Hashem we could wait we can cool and we close the safe and we go outside and we go to work and now we think about how do i implement this in my life in my family life of my community life so for example when a rough gives us here and you come into shul I saw this with rabbi right you call of a Sullivan who was a very special year I came to Berkeley California and Rabbi Ferris a much younger person was giving a shear between mints at my roof to some college students you know and it was no great shakes you know it was a just some you know some words of Torah and rabbi right with his long white beard a Holocaust survivor a student of the previous eleven that had them sits down and listens to the sheer why believe me he knew so much Torah and he could learn other things but it's their offense that when that rug whoever the rapper is this it's teaching Torah you try and you should participate you show respect even if you're a much bigger pal McCullum or a much you know a person who's so much more hustle for your outwardly important everyone's important so what I'm saying is there are dictates of Torah learning that me to leave that's what he says in the last nine look at this line hello the whole thing of initial aim is Bettina every issue that he learns container that the other words Torah teaches him the happiest boy is it over by the way to the player it creates a finish it creates a novelty in a void of apoyo in actual action otherwise it's all philosophical fleeting kinky ideas without practical application and which means it's all about yourself you enjoy an intellectual exercise you enjoy a good philosophical argument you enjoy information but it's all about you you you and that ever says that title is small if you're really learning the data better set if the if you're really allowing the tailor to teach you which is the new insight we learned today in the meaning of title is small it will lead to something special in real life any comments questions thank you thank you 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