Reb Shmuel Reichman: Shavuos: Eilu V'Eilu & The Truths of Matan Torah

together this year and today i want to delve into some incredibly deep ideas relating to torah and chavuz but i want to start with a well-known story a well-known story of three blind men who holding on to an animal and they want to determine what this animal is so they're all holding on to it and they're holding on to different parts of it one man says this feels like a snake another man says this feels like it feels like a trunk of a tree and another person says this feels like a rope now what what animal were they holding on to they're holding onto an elephant and the man who thought that it was a snake was holding onto the trunk the man who thought that it was the trunk of a tree he was holding on to one of the legs of the elephant and the man who thought was a rope was holding onto the tail they're all holding on to different parts of this elephant they're all holding on to different perspectives of a single elephant what i want to do is i want to delve into this idea of of truth the truth of torah because i would say one of the most common questions i get especially when i give a let's say i like to give share my medical ethics and moral dilemmas so let's say we give a share it could be abortion could be organ donation could be triage it could be end of life issues brain death whatever the sugar is whenever we start with this hooking we looked up sukkam the torah then we go through hazaa we go through how all the different and shots relate to this topic go through these showing them in the acronym and we build a spectrum of perspectives and let's say we have you know the ramban on one side then we have the ram bomb then we have the ritual and rashford and we have tosos and rashi and you have different formulations and you get a whole spectrum of the sugyanchas and then you take it through the nara and you see how the post can approach it and you have a whole bunch of different approaches to any topic any topic in and what's the most common question i get so what do we hold what's the answer it's the most common question that i get when it comes to anything in life what's the answer what's the truth what's the how do we ask them what's our approach what's the jewish approach and what's the answer to that depends there's so many different approaches so many different answers depends who you hold like do you have to ask your of it it's complicated but where does this stem from this this multiplicity of truths where there's no single approach to anything i mean so many people the reason why they're so confused by halacha is because how can it be that there's so many options to everything how come they that there's locus on everything where is the stem from so it's actually very interesting where it stems from it seems to be it stems from mantour itself and there's a famous written feather which actually talks on aravind and you give on base he says that when moshe went to accept the torah when he went to accept the torah he's actually passing it for his darshaning on the consulate which we're going to ask in a couple minutes what this means but he says that moshe received 49 approaches to why everything is mutual and 49 purchased why everything is user and this concept of this multiplicity this range of approaches you know 49 and 49 that's a lot it's 98 but what's this concept of so many perspectives to everything and to take a step further there are so many uh there's there's a lot of different sources in ghazal and a lot more in the the restaurant that delve into the multiplicity of perspectives and experiences the clagistrol had by mahantora so a lot of approaches talk about how every single member of clients drill had their own unique experience their personal experience of montour so it was the objective monitor experience which everyone had and that everyone also had this unique lens through which they experienced mountain torah and the yamcha in his akdamma tsubakama says how everyone approached and experienced mantra through their own unique prism and the question what does that mean in the quran every one of us were at mount or every initiative of claire's role was that mata which means that you also experience your unique lens your unique perspective of torah but how can that be isn't there one torah isn't there one truth how can there be so many different perspectives on everything and how can they all be true so that's the question which one delve into and this this whole topic really i guess the question is how can there philosophically be multiple truths because if you think about the nature of truth most people think that the truth is something something is true everything else is false but once you have multiple truths how do you determine what's true and what's not true what's true and what's false like how do we even approach the concept of ms and this concept actually appears to be in ghazal itself if you look at the the gemara and sanhedrin where it says that just like a hammer splinters into many sparks a single possible is so to be splintered into many different meanings many different approaches many different layers and the question is how are we supposed to relate to the concept of ms when it seems to be such an abstract fractured multiplicity of truths meaning if when if there's no such thing as a single truth but it's it's shattered it's scattered there are pieces there are parts number one what does that mean but number two is how are we supposed to relate to the concept of truth it makes it very hard to approach truth and then what i want to do is i want to approach it from the concept of there's this famous concept that appears many times in chaos that ilo of elu all these different approaches that the different nami are discussing in the gemara but all of these are let's make it more simple let's say if two approaches both of these are so to speak if you want to literally translate it these are the words of the living elokim living at expression and it actually comes up when it comes to the mahlokas between beishan and base hello and the gemara says if you look at iranian gimli basis so it gets you more complicated that both of these are true so to speak but the halacha is like baseball so the question is number one what does it mean that both are true how can they both be true and if you're going to tell me both are true then how can we're basking one way over the other way and to add another layer to the question why specifically they sell so we'll try to come back to why basically afterwards but the question should really strike you like what is going on with the jewish approach the truth the truth to first the jewish approach to learning torah how can so many different approaches all be true so that's the question so what i'm going to do first is i want to delve into the concept of illusion how do we approach this concept itself so there there are a range of approaches to this concept so if you look at the says that what it really means is that there's one truth there's there's one actual truth and all the other views all the other dissenting views they help us arrive at that truth so it's hegelian in a sense as in like you have a thesis then you have an antithesis and you have a synthesis so to speak where you had one approach then that other approach questioned that approach so you clarified the first approach and said oh this really means this and you ultimately get to the right answer but it's not that every perspective is true it's that illusion this is all part of the process of talmud torah the gemara says that you can only really attain understanding by first making mistakes kumar says and appreciates that getting so the the meaning of this is that illumi like in order to get to the truth you need to get through a lot of false approaches and therefore they all become part of the process of truth because they lead you towards that single true answer so that's a practical understanding of the illusion of that it's not that they're all true there's one truth but we need to get to that truth and then we also have uh the deceiva says this in his dhamma he actually really harps on this concept of aenon toro dalston kane which he's according to action he's cornelius kumar again and his son gimel i'm an elephant getting where he says that you really need to get through the wrong answers to get the right answer and therefore illus so that's that's our first approach is that there's one truth but you need to get through a bunch of wrong answers and you need to make mistakes until you can get to that real one true answer now the ritual which is what we just quoted earlier he seems to say no that there are many different approaches he is once again darcening on he's talking about this concept with him 49 different approaches to everything being mantra foreign to everything being us and are continuing that concept of engaging in mahlokas where there's multiple truths so the actually says this as well he says that there are multiple different approaches to every subject so so far we have two answers one is that there's one answer to every sub every question every halacha and all the other approaches just help you get to that one answer the second answer is that there are many answers to every question every allah every so in chas and it's not about one being one being wrong they're all so to speak right and the question is is one more right than the other um how do you know something isn't right how do you know if something isn't in the spectrum of that multiplicity of truth the plurality of truth but but those are the two more simple answers but then we have a third answer which is actually based on that reject if you look at the end of that read for he says he says there's there's a deeper more secretive spiritual concept at the root of the multiplicity of truths and a lot of the the bali talk about what this is referring to is that there's not a multiplicity of truths there's a oneness of truth and in the realm of our world that oneness of truth is so to speak shattered into a multiplicity of truths so remember we talked about the rock shattering i think murray darshan's that the single shatters so to speak into multiple meanings because we're going to delve into this concept in a moment the truth the ms is is a once it's not one it's oneness it contains all different pieces of truth in a harmonious oneness but in our world of multiplicity our physical world the world of seychelles of limited sacral that holistic oneness truth is broken down into pieces and you have all these different perspectives but they're not ones right ones wrong or ones you know they're all right so to speak is that they're all pieces of a higher more holistic truth and ms itself is the synthesized integrated oneness of those different pieces of truths and i'm before we move further i'm just going to give you a little bit of a paradoxical riddle which is one of my favorite videos of all time which is that within this we have multiple perspectives right so we have all the other answers help bring out the one answer or we have no there's really a multiplicity of truths or it's you know that you can even say that there's another approach we can which you can say which is that well there's really only one answer we don't know which one's the right answer so you have to act as if they're all the right answer and then we have this kind of multiplicity of truths then we have the fact that different aspects of all these multiple places of truth add up and synthesize and harmonize into the oneness of truth which you know we're going to argue is the deeper approach to eluvately developing so now the question is which one's right which one of these approaches to eliminate legibility is the correct answer is the correct approach so if we're going to say that so if that's true then what's the what's the right one what's the answer how do we how do we approach that and if we don't apply the ilium to the availability then are we limiting meaning if it doesn't apply the illumination what else doesn't apply like how do we know when it doesn't doesn't apply and if we see a little village of the time then we end up living in this paradox where it's like so which one though like how we actually approach anything in in trust anything anything in life so what's the answer the answer is so i know that some of you are going to be a little confused and those of you who caught into the logic will be like okay this is really bending my mind but the point is that it should bend your mind that and if i wanted to we can go continue this direction go deeper into the paradoxical elements of how each of these approaches actually could be integrated into any of the even the deeper approach of a very difficult time which is that all of these pieces build up into a oneness you can actually retain all the other approaches within that as well but we're not going to go in that direction right now we're going to go victory move a little forward so here's the question the question is what does this mean this deeper approach of a oneness of truth where all the pieces are part of a oneness so i want you to think about the nature of truth most people think that something that is true when it's not false so there's one truth and there's one false but think of it like this let's say a boy comes in to his father and says my friend just kicked me he kicked me and i'm bleeding can you please get him in trouble and the father looks at his son's friend says you kicked my son he says yes because he punched me in the face so the other father looks like you punched him in the face yeah that's because you throw me down the stairs because he was calling me names for no reason so which one of those kids were lying and which one were telling the truth the answer is they were both lying they're both telling truth because they were both telling parts of the truth but truth is not a single statement or a single truism it's the collection of all the different aspects and pieces of truth into the full story the full picture people who are holding on to the elephant they all had a one angle one perspective of the of the 3d figure of the elephant it's like when you look at a sculpture you can look at it from different perspectives you have to have the full 3d perspective to really appreciate the sculpture it's the same thing with the truth when you're living within the realm of oneness you see all the aspects of the truth in this holistic synthesized manner but when you look at it from a multiplicity perspective all you see is pieces and parts you have to put all the pieces together and we're not just break down no pun intended this concept of oneness so we can really delve into a little deeper when we refer to the concept of oneness we're referring to the root of reality so we live in a world of multiplicity where there's pieces and parts where there's you know moments in time here and now i can see you can see me but you you can't see essence you can't see the root you can't see spiritual holistic one so you can't see my thoughts you can't see my mind you can't see my consciousness you can't see spiritual truths you can't even see ideas you can't see hashem because those things reside within a realm of higher levels of transcendence higher levels of spirituality and hashem himself is the realm of complete root ones beyond any pieces or parts beyond the physical world how do you relate to the kinds of oneness well think about electricity electricity is absolutely the same but there are different expressions of that same root potential in all your different mechanical machines so for example when electricity goes through a refrigerator it's very different than when it goes through a microwave where it goes through a toaster and it goes through an appliance a phone a computer these are all different expressions of the potentiality of electricity and think about your neshama you know is you you are a conscious a a spiritual essence when you say i you're referring to yourself you know shama you don't really have understanding you are in a shama that's a whole different topic but think of it like this how does do you have a different instrument for your sense of smell than your sense of taste and your sense of sight your sense of hearing your sense of touch no you have one nishama but when it gets applied through the different potentialities different senses it gets expressed in those same unique ways just like the refrigerator and the microwave and the toaster and the phone and the computer are different expressions of electricity where it gets manifest and experienced that same thing applies to you the realm of oneness gets applies to multiplicity so your oneness self then gets filtered through the stream of sight and sound and smell and taste and touch and then you can lift your limbs up and you have all these different manifestations of a single oneness it's the same concept for the idea of yud kevafka york is the realm of absolute oneness elohim who manifests into the world of multiple so the kuzuri and the refuge and safer kusuri if you look in my mirror dalit he is where the realm of opposites harmonize into oneness it's the root of reality so it's getting into another concept the world is not the makkah but it isn't in this world the world is within him hashem is the malcolm of reality reality exists within akash which is we've talked about this before it's a whole fascinatingly incredible topic but it's the concept of oneness that then contains and expresses twoness and that twoness is rooted in that original oneness and if you want to say it's beautifully manifest within mountain torah if you look at the circle say that clay so romans are cause they saw sounds so what does that mean they saw sense you can't see sounds but when you see sounds what does that mean sight seeing everything happens at once or ia oh and this is a whole topic we're not going to go deep into it but seeing happens all at once you see a picture everything's at once hearing is multiplicity parts pieces you have to hear one word after another after another after another and then you recreate from that multiplicity you recreate the picture seeing represents almhaba represents a static you exist as you are no longer how but you experience the essence the being that you created during your life you get to experience the exercise everything you earned everything you built and developed during your life in this world but um this world is a place of becoming it's a place of hearing where you have to put the pieces together you know build your way to perfection every single moment is another step every single sound is another word you know so to speak when you're hearing you put together one word after another word after another word this world is building is creating that's why by montoya which revealed himself to the world it was a deep experiential knowledge of referred to as a marriage or a christian that was a a momentary transition where we experienced almhabba in the truest way in this world where seeing and hearing became one where um became one we saw sounds which means that the content of process of the constant destination seeing and hearing all maze became one it's just unbelievably powerful we can actually go much deeper into this we can talk about how this connects to sphere so omer has connects to shabbos so many other powerful things here but the concept is the relationship between oneness and tunis physical and spiritual static and becoming and how we're really trying to understand how he lived is this concept within the realm of twoness all the pieces come together to create the oneness of truth how real ms is not one single statement but it's the integrations and synthesization of all the multiple aspects in the polarity plurality of truth which is the concept of and another way of thinking of it is almost like a coin you look at a coin and you say oh it's heads no no there's there's tails tails but no it's not heads or tails it's a coin and it has two different aspects within it that's the concept truth isn't a or b it's not even a and b it's beyond a or b and a and b are aspects of the whole truth and the maharal talks about this as a whole incredible topic how there were two stages of history the first stage of history was ku so speak the stage of torah shibaksav which is when truth was clear and once torsh about began once we transitioned miracles ended prophecy ended we went to a realm of torsh valpara so to speak the second stage of history a stage of relative darkness of hearing in the darkness you can't see remember we talked about versus seeing versus hearing this second stage of history became a realm where we had to recreate that clarity that original clarity and that's where mahlokas begins the moral talks about how if you look at the mission avos it starts off with you know just a single person saying over ideas saying over there the the the mesora of of clay israel's you know we're not going to get into what the mission of us is trying to teach over but let's let's refer to the concept the moral truths and the the the concept of of really the messora of that ethical tradition so originally there was one person saying over those truths and then eventually it becomes mahlokas so maharaja says that was the transition to mahlokas before then there wasn't as much wasn't something if you look there's no mahlokas in the torah there's not really but begins in the age of torshma and within that the age of mahlokas begins this journey of recreating the original clarity the original holistic truth by putting all the pieces together and originally one person can carry that truth but now we have to have multiple people arguing so to speak and bringing their perspective of the truth in order to create that holistic truth and and that's really the idea that we live in in a realm of time a realm of history where we are engaging and actively engaging in the process of recreating clarity recreating that holistic truth and elimination is the concept that no single perspective contains the whole truth anymore we need to put all those perspectives together to recreate that original clarity and i'll show you a beautiful puzzle the the pasta can tell in the park pay um pay hey that ms will sprout will grow from eretz so what does this mean so most people think of eretz and shemaim as the land in the heaven so they think that you know eretz we live in the this world and shamayim is the heavens but but arabs and shema is something much deeper theirs it's destination represents the spiritual endpoint it's the purpose that's where things are going that's why it has the same root as nishama which is the spiritual essence that ruth it's that rule of shame of inner essence shame right reflects your the inner essence of something that's why something's name represents its truth represents what it is shamayim is the destination comes from that root of rats to run because the destination is where we're going to and this world is where we go to we run towards that destination and i'll give you just a beautiful uh you know think of the difference between uh standing walking running sitting down and lying down so we live in the world where rats where we live in the areas we live in the place where we're running towards this nation toward shamayim teaches us how to walk in this world what direction to go into and the ramakal talks about this in the messiah's time that the heroes comes before his reasons first you have to be careful where are you going what direction are you going in and then it's resist then you can run in that direction and go so before you aim the arrow that's the heroes and then you shoot that's recess so is what direction am i going in once you know what direction then repeats you run you spent your whole life becoming the greatest version of yourself and maximizing your potential becoming the person you were destined to become amita every day we take three times at least three times a day to amida we pause that process we we stand before our direction and we say okay where am i going we recalibrate we you know go back into ourselves and say who am i why am i what do i want in life where am i going in life let me connect you let me want the right things let me achieve the right things in life and yeshiva is we bend our knees you know we sit down it's it's a poison of the process of becoming and it's entering into the state of doing something for the sake of doing it doing it not for the sake of going somewhere but for the sake of learning for the sake of learning that's why we call it yeshiva because yeshiva is a realm where and we're not going against us whether torah is supposed to be separate from actually you know be engaging in life and applying it because miri says the reason why osek admits patriarchy doesn't apply to tamatora because the purpose of teletorah is to live it is to achieve it is to enact in your life so if you use the concept of lee mood of tamil torah to get you out of doing mezzos that defeats the entire purpose so we're not going to reel against that but the concept of shiva is is conceptually pausing an aspect of the process of life in order to re-engage in the inner aspects of life so once you enter into the state of yeshiva you're then able to re-engage and achieve your mission life in the most empowering way for some people that's going to be to remain an issue for some people it's going to be 10 we're not going to get into them at hooks right now because that needs literally a whole series not even a sheer can do it justice but lying down at night is completely giving up the journey itself because what happens when you lie that night you're literally saying i am giving up everything giving up my consciousness i am entering into a state where you know in the morning we say a little kind and someone says have to send us out to be tahoe because we literally died that it's it's giving up everything and it's the ultimate negation of ego it's the ultimate way of saying kash baruch like i'm only here in this world because you constantly give me life and there's a netherim says uh kashmir creates the world constantly didn't create it once and then there's sasha it's constantly creating the world and the mushroom that you can give is when you think of someone inside of your head when you think of someone inside your head you're giving them existence give them a name give them a background give them a story give them a face give them a job now stop thinking about them they disappear they only exist because you're willing them into existence you're thinking about them never shine says that's the same way who constantly wills us into existence constantly thinks of us which means that you only exist right now because of kashmir who's thinking and willing you into existence so what am i saying this for because the posix says that ms may aren't it's not so errands this world is the world of becoming of rats of running towards our destination of becoming of creating of growing but ms comes from the ferrets it comes from that spreading that growing that process why because ms it might exist in the spiritual realm as complete but in this realm it's something that has to go through the process of becoming we have to create it we have to put the pieces together we have to create a holistic oneness of truth from all the different pieces of truth and that's just the ultimate beautiful expression of this concept and we can apply it not only to the kinds of ns but to ourselves because each of our nisham masters talks about this he says foreign uh sondheik it's my reducer champis mahmur zion he says that each one of under shamans has a unique felix as well what does this mean so this is something absolutely extraordinary adam harishon originally had won the shama and when he failed in his mission his instrument became shattered so to speak and every single one of us has unique helicopter a unique of our purpose in life in torah we daven because every single one of us has a unique perspective and we're going to get back to this this is what it means until each of us gained our unique experience of non-tourists because while there's an objective holistic oneness of truths each of us has our unique our unique so to speak passion approach unique perspective while still having to understand and appreciate all the other approaches as well and that's going to get into something really interesting but first i want to delve into the concept of bass hello we said that the halakha is like bass hello so the question is why why i like bass hello why not like bishop so the gemara said that it's because of bishop base hill's humility and they would mention based shambai's opinion before theirs before their own opinion so the simple interesting thing is that humility is a great thing so also like myself that doesn't make any sense i mean humility is great it doesn't mean allah should be like here we want the anus so this is a whole so we're not going to go into all the different approaches but one approach what we're saying is that base hillel number one was able to get closer to the absolute truth because they mentioned bashami's approach first they integrated it into their own approach so number one like we said according to some of the approaches which is that the wrong answers will help you get to the right answer so this helped sharpen base hill's approach meaning this helped they get they got through beijame's approach questioned their own approach and made it even better but in a deeper sense they included beijami's approach within their own so it was more of a holistic truth which contained more aspects of the multiplicity of the different fragments of and that's why it's like basil but there's other aspects as well and the morale goes into this it says that besham may be settled together create more of a holistic atmosphere why because bishan base hillel together it's like it represents more of an outflow represents um the concept of of of unlimited expression it's it's infinite possibilities it's infinite potential din represents limitations boundaries borders so you can do anything today but you have to choose something to do that's then you could let your child do anything that's it but you have to have rules restrictions they have to have a structure that's then but the balance is to ferrous and the morale says that this was the idea of beijing basil because hillary was much more in the realm of understanding human limitations of being more make a more understanding [Music] more in that realm of hassan and besham i was much more idealistic the the expecting the greatest of everyone and if you look at almost all of the mahogany throughout joseph beijing hill we really have that dichotomy of beisham is much more mahmir but because they're expecting so much more from us and it's expecting the best of humanity while being ideal is a little unrealistic and base hillel is much more understanding but also more practical together than harel says they create that harmony of de feris that unique balance of oneness which is very very interesting um which you're going to have to you can also argue that maybe hillel the reason why we hold like them is because even though they are more of a rachel the country is that rachma also means comes from that lashon that same mystical concept that same torah concept of estepharis which is balance harmony that maybe base hill actually included aspects of bishamai within their shita and they tried to maintain the idealism but in a way that's achievable and very often throughout channels you can argue that base hill is not being makel is not being uh more practical but is trying to find a way to actually achieve the ideals that beijamai is holding which is why they would always mention beijame first because that is the ideal but now we have to figure out a way of attaining that ideal but that's the whole topic we can do a whole case study and look at many different hosts and throughout us between bishop and basil but this this idea of illus when it comes to myself resides within the realm of lobos why because in shamayim everything is one everything is clear and shamayim everything that's the destination theirs in this nation where we're going but in this world we have to create it we have to put the pieces together load bash remind me the truth is no longer in trying to coarseness but our truth is no longer time our truth is here we have to put the pieces together and recreate the ms in this world and that's the beauty of halacha because you can't have multiplicity of truths for it can't be kosher and trait you have to say what it is because you have to actually do something you can't say i'm here and there within a paradox girl within quantum mechanics within the realm of alumnus of course everything can be true but then allah every posik is going to have their approach to the senior and that's the difference when we say like so what's the answer the answer they're all truth in the realm of talmud torah but every posik is going to pass in a certain way every goggle you know the the gothelhador the the post commander are going to pass in a difficult challenge and they're going to say it's a years later they can say it's b but that's the kind of an illuminati and the kind of is that within the realm of of londus in the realm of of talmud in the realm of the you can live in the multiplicity of the of the spectrum of the suggest in terms of what you're going to actually do a posik has to say i'm going to take away the infinite possibilities of the sugar let's say like the five possibilities and i'm going to say no this is the one we're doing now and that becomes a lot like reality that becomes so to speak that's the concept of das torah that's it becomes the truth right now not objectively in terms of all the others are wrong but subjectively now all the others are wrong if that's your post if you are connected to that suck and that's a powerful concept and people uh you know it's very interesting people who are real i'm done people who really reside with the realm of possibilities of understanding every approach they're not the ones that are usually posting may brisk he's famous for having a post sake because he wouldn't pass his own challenge because he under he he every possible say way of saying hey he'd be able to say what about b and that's why he told his postseason you have to pass it for me but you can't tell me why you're passing that way because if if if i'm heard why the person passing that way he'd say no you op slug him and say what about this what about that what about this but that's what you were about this logical about that problem so many times the the post game are not as much of a a pure london and that's why they're able to have an interesting show and say i hold a is that the ideal i would argue the ideal is for posik to be a real alarm to understand every single possibility every single person and still have the ts no shaman to say i'm still holding a or b but that is rarer because that's not the the nature of a positive positive by nature someone who says i really feel this is the truth and i shall create different types of people some people will really connect to the the possibilities of the psyche some people are really the conceptual framework of this again some people really attach themselves to really trying to understand you know the approach that makes the most sense i'm gonna say that it's important to have both it's important even if you really really feel that this is the truth you understand the truth in the other perspectives because otherwise you're not going to have respect for other time for other posts can further approach us for what about you you really believe in the wrong but what about the ramban we're about to rashbow what about tulsa's red what about the writer with that hug you're gonna like reject everyone else because you don't understand their approach yet or you don't like their approach that's not the right way to approach tara so we need to have that balance but what i want to do just to end off is i want to say that there are also different levels and layers so within this whole discussion of different approaches to torah we need to also understand the concept of different levels and layers of toradeptor thought so there's this concept of pardes right shot remes drash and sod which is that they're different levels of understanding everything in torah there's a shot level there's a remis level there's a direct level there's a soul level so shock is the literal meaning you look at a pus like it literally means what it says and redness and josh that's what the gemara is really darcening and trying to uncode and and reveal layers of depth and intricacies and and connections between the different and trying to learn from the different connections and layers and meanings of the of the passag now it's literal meaning but the levels of meaning and so it is the the foundational depth the the spiritual underlying content the lies beneath the surface and that's the realm of jewish thought of kabbalah of jewish philosophy of trying to understand the inner depth and meaning that which is beyond words so to speak you know so people think it's a secret and that's not going to share it to you the deeper meaning of the monorail says these ideas are beyond words it's beyond it's not that it can't be it's not that i'm choosing not to speak to you i'm choosing not to share these ideas with you they can't really be spoken in words they're transcendent ideas which need to be spoken about but it requires a lifetime of connecting to and devoting yourself your milk your mind to contemplating these ideas until you really understand it and that i will tell you the oneness of truth this is soda so hard to understand you can spend so much time trying to understand it but at the end of the day our job is not too understanded because that's impossible you're never going to arrive at the ultimate truth our job is to continuously grapple with it continually strive thursday more and more the ramban says that the russia says i'll never fully understand everything so if i'm not going to try that sonic says i'll never fully understand everything but i'm going to continuously go and strive to understand more and more every single day it's like you look at a mountain the restaurant says i'll never get to the top i'm not gonna go it's not because i'll never get to the top but i get to take one step every day i get to get a little closer every day that's why i'm here and that's a beautiful way of understanding the depth of torah thought that we'll never arrive at the ultimate truth but our job is to continuously strive to learn a little more and there's a beautiful approach which is that like you don't want it to end you want life you want to just arrive at the end and everything's over you always want to have more to grow people want to arrive at the destination and they get so tired of the journey but you want to learn to enjoy the journey because when you arrive at the destination you just want a new destination to you have a new journey and that's a very deep approach by the way for alumni but many people hold that um isn't the end but it's just the next stage of the journey and it's a journey which never ends because we'll never arrive at the ultimate end we'll get to enjoy higher and higher levels of that journey of getting closer to barco and learning deeper and deeper layers of truth so that's one beautiful idea another idea is that there are different ways of learning tomorrow and we're not going to get into different you know there are halima ideas but one of the most famous uh ideas in the missouri of rasheed tustos is that they had two fundamentally different approaches to learning gemara rashi was much more omnidaf he wanted to really understand how this gamer makes the most sense so his uh you know what rash is giving you in in gemara is opening up the most simple understanding of this specific ahmad in chaos what about all the other moodment shots but all the other times in the shots this opens up this this appears rash is not going to help you with that right now he's really focused on what makes the most sense here let's say there's five different approaches we'll make merciful let's say there's three main approaches to a suggest ratio will give you one that makes the most sense on this daf tosos he's interested in how to connect all of shaas together wants to make sure that all of the intricacies of of all shas are interconnected so he's less interested on the literal meaning of the words on this ahmood he's much more interested in making sure that conceptually all of shaas works together which is why i can show you many examples where rashi will give three different approaches in three different cases in shas each of the approaches are the one that makes the most sense on that amount well so what does rashi hold she doesn't have like his single approach he's just trying to help you understand this torsos is trying to get a single approach to make all of shah's work and make the most sense which is very very different um in terms of how you learn chance do you learn as an interconnected so yeah or do you learn chasses i'm just trying to get real good shot on this i'm learning right now okay what about that um and conducion and this thing and bruh is okay don't bring out right now that's not what i'm focusing on focusing on this versus toasters who's not i wanna make sure all of shas interconnects and i mean there's there's a lot of really you know great ideas when i release that but i would say another really important idea is to understand that there's this concept of a netizen when it comes to learning so you know each time each amore will fight for a certain size of mahogany's why because they really believe in that side of the mahogany's and it's obviously based on an idea that we've discussed many times which is that the gemara needed that laminar base says that when we were each in the womb we learned called harakula your unique mission in life your unique torah and when i'm over in a time when someone in the gemara is giving their approach with cigarettes because that was their approach to cigarettes they really believed and the same thing for a mission in avos the piracy avos very often the mufasam say that they didn't actually say that but they live back that was their native suggestion that was their media that was their koa and the most explicit example of this is a the mission of us says that said that you shouldn't rejoice in the pain of your enemies and i can guarantee you he didn't say that because he didn't make that up that wasn't julio it was this is what he spoke by his life by his actions by what he embodied and the idea is that you know when when you learn torah you want to really start to to to focus in on what's who are you what are you passionate about what what what's your helicopter in torah and you need to appreciate all the perspective of every second chasm it doesn't mean you can also say like i really relate to this one so you want to really balance that subjectivity individuality with the the spectrum of truth and the objective nature of that truth and there's an incredible story an incredible story you won't believe this story of a man who forged a message he fought himself he basically claimed he found it in a genizah you know he found it buried and most godolam accepted it and this guy was a true jewish criminal he literally was a genius clearly and he mostly took from existing brices from other messages and he made the rest up and people thought it was real people are genuine and they brought to the rugged trevor the rugged travel looked at it for a second and said it's a forgery it's fake and the guy admitted like i said you're right uh you know rogue trevor basically you're you're you're a liar your chakran is a forgery and the guy admitted even though a bunch of other good old accepted he admitted it they went to the rugged trucker and said how'd you know how did you know this was a foreign tree it doesn't make any sense you've never seen this before how did you know the portrait all these other don't thought it was real and the ruger trevor said i looked at it andrew of mayor would never say such a thing or maybe would never say something what does means that the rocket shower was so in touch with howard mayer thinks in terms of his lima throughout shas howard mayor holds on suga's throughout shas that when this guy made up a sheepdog of mayor roger trevor said there's no way everybody would say that this whole is a fortress now you know that's an extreme example but the idea is that there is a power and a koa to having a way of thinking and obviously you want to make sure that you're as in touch with all ways of thinking as possible because illegally but there is room for subjectivity there is room for having opinions for saying that i respect all approaches i understand all approaches but i also truly believe they truly believe and this is the deeper meaning of mountain where it says that all of israel received their own torah we're not all the same we don't have the same opinions all the same views we have the same passions and we don't have the same missions in life but we do have to recognize and respect others and the problem is when we have our opinions and we say everything else is wrong or we have our approach and we say everything else is wrong no not everything else is wrong but yours can also be part of the picture and that's the beauty is to recognize that yes when you were in the room you learned your unique tone you're in this world to find your unique purpose your unique feel like in torah but it doesn't make everyone else's look wrong and it doesn't minimize your like we're there like we're all part of a bigger picture and some people skeleton torah is to really really see the truth in all perspectives you know i i'll i'll tell you personally that you know part of my love is to see the truth in every perspective when i'm learning a shot i love every i love to think every possible way to understand it see the truth in every single reason every single acronym every single nuanced perspective and approach and that's not something that everyone agrees with so i respect that but i will say the most important thing is to focus on the balance between really striving for your uniqueness your unique perspective of torah of life of everything but also really learning to both understand the spectrum and respect the spectrum respect other people's views respect other people's perspectives and yes not everything is true so if something is mamish mamish it's not that illusion claim so everything is true though there is a spectrum something can fall outside that spectrum but you know i will say that once we're qualifying it's important to say even check air is still part of the truth because it brings out the truth meaning once you know what's not true it strengthens what is true so there is importance of even having untrue views in life you shouldn't live by those views but within the realm of kashmir evil that bring out truth that bring out good so it's important to really admire and respect every aspect of kharsboro who's creation even those things that you're supposed to deaf cannot respect respect the fact that you're not supposed to respect it because that brings out proper values and proper views so my brother to you is that each of us should really find our helicopter that this shivua sweet should really tap into ma and tori tap into not only receiving the cloudy objective tour for all of clients from also refocusing on our mission of finding our own unique purpose in life