Rosh HaYeshiva Message Does the Ends Justify the Means The Project Inspire Convention 2021

i'm a believing jew [Music] i know i've got a soul and i know you've got us and i know that every jewish soul has needs our bodies of needs a need for health you've got to maintain a diet you've got to have enough enough liquid you need enough oxygen i understand [Music] that torah teaches us just what we need to give our souls to keep our souls alive and to maintain quality of life for all of eternity because our souls are eternal [Music] and i know as a believing jew that observing champions a day where i'm out of the rat race a day that is dedicated to enjoying this beautiful world the creator created in those six days of creation and then refrain from creating more and stating that this world was perfect and has us week after week take this day off and enjoy his world without worry and refrain refrain from the human creation sitting back and enjoying the world as it is all the beautiful things that hashem put into the world food yes he gave his taste buds and he created ah beautiful beautiful fruits and vegetables ingrained and he gave the human brain the ability to experiment and learn how to process food create food that is nutritious tastes great smells great he created society friendship love he created spirituality the ability to reason abstractly awareness these are all things we we celebrate on childhoods our bodies need this it needs a break our psyche needs this and above all our souls need this i know that and i understand that there's so many of a reverend about me so i want them to experience my shadow's table see how profound the 10 year old can be when talking about the partial rules see what it's like when a family harmoniously sits around the table and friends yes the good food and sing the praises of the creator for having created such a beautiful world i want to share but my business associate matt he won't come for the horse he's willing to join us for friday night but he wants to drive home so i want him to experience shadows by inviting him and knowing that i am the cause for him to deprive his soul of refraining from driving but come again man if he doesn't come he'll never know if he does there's a good chance to start picking up on it develop a taste for it want more so what do i say i know my goal but is my goal justified actively asking him to come when i know that that entails driving back how to review so there's actually a source for this in the short run and the question is how one can compare this it discusses a case which was an unfortunate situation that was not uncommon throughout different periods in jewish history it speaks of a jewish girl that was kidnapped she was kidnapped not for the sake of abuse she's going to be pampered she'll be brought up in a monastery they'll give her everything she wants and more but of course you'll be indoctrinated with a different religion there's no danger to life here there's danger to who eternity [Music] so the children are tells us if in order to save food you've got to desecrate the sabbath you've got to be shabbos you're supposed to do that you're supposed to go travel enlist the support of anyone you can the savior the source to this is actually a very technical discussion in the demand it takes us back to the olden days and the way people would bake you'll find a bakery here and there that still works this way but they used to have these huge ovens and the walls of the oven would be plastered with dough and there was some kind of waffle i guess a rap an enormous one that you would scrape off the wall and i guess have we your shawarma the problem was that scraping it off the wall was something that was highly skilled to scrape it off without breaking this you wanted to scrape it off it called for a lot of skin and because this was skilled work the rabbis prohibited on shots so the gemara has a whole discussion the jew wakes up in the morning forgot that it was shabbos put his dough into the oven and then went off i guess to work meanwhile i guess someone else in the family woke up and realized what happened now since baking on the shop this is one of the 39 forbidden malachis forms of human creation if you allow that to bake then he will have committed the melassa will have broken the prohibition of doing work on japan so what you'd like to do is scrape the bread off the dough to scrape it off the oven so it doesn't bake [Music] so we find that the gemara expresses itself in a way that seems to negate our whole premise and the gemara says can one jew sin for the sake of saving another one and having broken this prohibition it sounds like that what's the gemara is that that's what the guard is telling us that it is wrong for his family members to scrape it off which is a rabbinical prohibition to save the one who put the door from the torah prohibition getting baked on shabbos [Music] so there's a discussion in the richonin as to the parameters of this statement one would have to fulfill all sorts of conditions for example in the case of that daughter that was kidnapped she was killed this was by force she's totally innocent there was no free will involvement here at all we have to decide what what do we compare to what waking up show this morning and forgetting that it's shabbos that's considered negligence being kidnapped is considered something that is beyond your ability to be able to go against where do you draw the line where does where does the innocent ignorance of those that don't know where does it fit in so that's really discussion i want to circumvent all that discussion because you know every everyone's different what were they exposed to how much did society brainwash them into thinking that what orthodoxy practices is totally irrelevant everyone's another case so i'd like to get around this ptosis raises it [Music] there's a whole other good one and this really gets technical this is referring to the laws of tithing you know anything that grows in the land of israel is in order for one to partake of it they've got to separate the true miss the mice with the tithes give them to the appropriate people the colony and the levine the poor those that are in need of support only then has the holiness been transferred and what's left can be eaten by everyone else the rule is that when you separate the type when you take your mice it's supposed to be what we call minha which means that what you're separating from is right next to what you're separating on so for example a farmer went and picked whatever it was he picked his apples and he's got lots of crates in it he can take his time from one crate if all the crates are there near each other what if he's got them in different storehouses they're already in cold storage for the winter and for the summer it is not right for him to take the time from one place for the produce that was found in another place if he did it it works but he's not supposed to do it here ptosis brings a story where someone allows allows a stranger and says you know you can go and take things from my feet and our question is if the person who said i will allow you to do it if this person is what is called which is somebody that we know always does things right what's with regard to the title am i to assume that he will take the time for whatever food i took for all of my things for whatever he has which would be going against the rule that you're supposed to have them in the same geographic place the same location so he will be breaking the rule in order that i not be eating something from which the type wasn't separated which is a severe courage do i assume that or not and ptosis brings the opinion the gemara that says yes my assumption is that for a cover who does things right my assumption is that he will separate shalom he will separate far away from where i am in his own style in order to save me from eating untied so toaster says joseph says what do we see from you that i i am allowed and perhaps supposed to break something for the sake of preventing someone else from transgressing cystosis this is not a total stranger he's eating because i told him you can take my stuff this is not doing it for someone else this is doing it for yourself yourself there's no question if you have a choice between doing something small or doing something that is much more severe of course do the smaller one and prevent yourself from doing something to you once it is my responsibility it's like we're one i have to do something that is relatively mild for the sake of saving the person that i gave these things to from doing something much more sooner now you see with this premise i would like us to stop and think well matt isn't asking any questions what if he were that distinguished what if he were to go and ask the creator himself what am i supposed to be doing going to the shabbos field where i know myself the only way i'm going is if you let me drive home i'm sleeping in my bed i'm brushing my teeth in my my washroom i'm not staying over i'm going home the only way i'm going to experience shabbos is by driving that and driving back creator of heaven and earth what should i do he would say you're better off doing this one time driving in china for the sake of bringing you closer and that one day one day you'll be part of the observance the observance you before the observant section of the jewish people filling your life with meaning caring for the needs of your soul it's worth it you see if that's the case then am i am i causing him to stumble am i causing him to do something wrong he's got to do this for himself now the condition of course is that i believe i have an impressive shot the condition is that i'm sensitive to people that don't have my upbringing in my experience that i understand i understand that there are things that would be too far into him and i would not want to put him [Music] if i know what i'm doing and i care to help him i will help you fulfill his obligation to join my sharpness table even if he's driving back how's that sounds a bit shocking revolutionary come on you got to care we got a fear for one another we got a feel for the soul of the jew that is longing for meaning for a relationship with the creator to fulfillment of the commandments that give life to the soul for all of eternity you have to feel for that and understand that if he's got an obligation to come for the sake of his own soul even if that entails doing something wrong at this point we've got to encourage [Music] i'll tell you this is not something that is limited to this particular scenario [Music] when people start becoming interested and they want to start keeping missions [Music] you know there's a tendency to overload them there's also a tendency for people who are enthusiastic to take upon themselves more than they can handle we're not always so in touch with what we can put up with [Music] you know we're told sadiq the pious good saddam the righteous one he understands his animal soul he understands his body he understands his limitations one of the things you learn in judaism is that you have to know where you're at and understand that although every one of us has unlimited potential not all at once not in one genre we've got to get our psyche our bodies got to get them used to got to get them used to it it's a process i remember approaching somebody that had just was just exposed for the first time really observing and decided this is for him began with dominating three times a day ready to say all three prayers i told him not to i told him start with one and see if you can manage every day he looks at me rabbi aren't you orthodox i told him we are taught in the gemara tafasta maruka if you're grabbing too much local foster you're grabbing nothing it's all gonna fall down [Music] you think you're so observant you're observing nothing it's just a matter of time before you're gonna start building resentment because it's too much come on do it gradually grow at the same pace so i'm telling him not not to die the times we've got to kill people slow down not because we're living but we understand people we understand where they are we want them to grow in a healthy way so that it and the interim with the torah demands that they not keep everything and advising them are advising them to slow down is doing in the service and out of this got it yeah we gotta care and we gotta help our veteran and we gotta be sane we gotta let people grow at the same place we have to know what they're ready we have to help them understand themselves too and you know something we also have to understand ourselves everywhere and know where we're at and make sure that we're on a trajectory that will take us to the best hope you got the message hey hashem give us all the wisdom and the drive to share meaning and the beautiful life of being close to the creator of knowing just how much he loves us and how he shared his wisdom with us for having the most meaningful enjoyable pleasurable life may we really learn to appreciate ourselves and share whatever joe we can and chef bless you all you