Sefiras HaOmer Series - What's So Special about Limud Torah? | Rabbi Nachum Binder

[Music] as we are coming close to the end of the days of s and approaching the great I would like to take a few moments to discuss a very important topic one of the most important topics of yish kite of who we are of what we are supposed to do and really what is the yam of all about we are all familiar that many of the of have to do with the mitvah of we stay up the night of sh learning Tyra the songs that we sing even some of the p that I brought down in the speak primarily about the mitvah of and to thinking person this is sort of a question why is it like that after all mat is when we got all 613 Mitzvah true is the greatest Mitzvah but why don't we make an a dou why don't we put an effort into doing all better on the what is it about that that's how we celebrate and that's what we do to solidify the mat and the that takes place every year on shab and the truth is it's not just a Min that we have it's really the G tells us that told his family members that when it comes to Y of you should prepare a special Feast an because if not for the day of if not for then I would be just another Y and today there's something different about me and Rashi says that I learned T and I became elevated I became bigger so we see clearly in Rashi that the LI the is what we're celebrating on sh and therefore we celebrate it with our own tal more learning singing about learning discussing about learning but what's the reason behind it why is it the tal that that takes over and that becomes what the yam is all about and to understand this we have to a little bit understand what is tal but before we understand what T is we have to understand what is the T the t is not just a mere Handbook of laws a guide of how to live our lives the t is not dos and don'ts different facts that the told us to help us live our life properly tell us that the was something that was created even before the world was created which means to say the t is larger than the world the t is the purpose for what the world was created if the T would just be a handbook on how to live our lives in this world then there can't be a purpose why the world was created there's a world we have to live with it so the T teaches us how to do it but we see from kazal that the t is something a lot greater than that and the explained to us that what the t is is the is in essence the of the the is in essence the's thought process and the gives us that we can have a in him in his thought process in his Essence and the and the wasn't just giving us laws and a guide and a handbook of how to live but the was giving us of himself besides the great Mitzvah involved in Li but Li is the only way that we as individuals we as human beings can attach ourselves to the through his when someone sits down to learn and what he's really doing is he's taking into himself theem he is bringing into himself the that is which in essence is one he is then becoming more one with the the through Li elevates the person as Rashi says true the gave us the in the T there are many mitzvas but how do we connect to the essence of the T that he gave us that is only through Li and therefore the celebration of has to be da through Li but there's something that's a little challenging about this understanding we all experience different High moments throughout the year doing certain mitv every has a every has a in the when a person has an opportunity to do a r there's a there's a there's an Elation but sometimes in Li we don't feel it we feel much closer when we write out a big check tock when we do a big to someone else why don't we feel that in the and how can we feel that in the and I think the answer is this in itself MIT are physical acts a physical act brings physical Gish physical feeling physical Elation to a person the is it doesn't by it self give us that high what it does is it makes us bigger we don't stay who we are and we get a high of doing something great the T slowly elevates us picks us up makes us different makes us better brings us closer and if you've ever watched a person's growth a person who committed himself more to Li in the long run it takes time but one slowly sees he's a different person everything about him is different the way he walks the way he talks the way he acts is changed through the T because since he's connected to the in such a way he is elevated he is picked up but there are two things that can bring that Elation and that hide to a person through his Li us gives to those that speak out the words of learning in the MIT thinking and learning reading from a g without saying the words out loud is also a Mitzvah but the that takes place when one reads A when one reads out loud with a thats and the same is true with the of without being anyone who has experienced a half hour an hour two hours of sitting and learning straight out loud with a doesn't have to be explained that that that takes place he feels that elevation that's taking place in his n he feels that Elation that of being close to the and we can all do it is coming there's a Long Afternoon there's even a second night of sh that we can take some time but then there's what we can take from the sh for the whole year if we can work on our learning tah out loud person according to what he can do let it be 15 minutes a half hour an hour and so on and start on and make some type of of out loud throughout the year we will all experience that it won't only be that process of growth that takes place in the but there will be that and that and that we should all be we should all be to experience and we should all feel [Music]