Shavuot: What's So Special About the Torah? - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

[Music] what's so special about the Torah why is it so important that I shall gave us the tour and we have an opportunity to learn the Torah and do it Smith spoke so in the deeper sense the Torah is really divine wisdom it's it's harsh and easy wisdom now Hashem as the Creator understands the essence and nature of creation understands the true essence of nature of mankind and of course the true purpose that we were created for now by learning the Torah we connect with this high clear level of understanding it's like a lesson from Hashem Hashem is talking to us teaching us as we learn his Torah that's why the environment says that he treasures the Torah that comes from Hashem mouth more than all the treasures of the world because when we sit in the Torah it's as if Hashem is speaking to us you know so this is a very unbelievable experience that we have to communicate and receive communication from Hashem now beyond the being the wisdom of measurements also the Divine Will is expressed through the commandments of the Torah so in addition to just having a lesson from Hashem we actually become partners with Hashem when we fulfill the mitzvot you know each Mitzvah corresponds to a limb or sinew of the body the 248 positive it's what corresponds to the 2048 limbs of the body of course this corresponds to the 248 spiritual limbs of the soul so by fulfilling the Torah we actually are building ourselves up repairing ourself and building ourself up to the way we were originally and the way we're meant to be in the future that to reach that new stage of perfection that is really the the powering essence of Torah it is the vehicle through which mankind will perfect himself and the world bringing us back to the way things were meant to be now unfortunately because the nature of this world is created in a way that God's presence and this whole planet is concealed from our perception and our awareness and it's only through to learning Torah even realise these truths so there's a tremendous challenge most of the people around the world are very busy busy with all kinds of things and we can't decide whether what they're busy with is worthless or something and each person points it at the other person saying you know you you're wasting your time but I'm using my time wisely well the wisest man that ever lived King Solomon tells us in the beginning of the book of qohelet that we're all wrong because if you think you're a doctor and you're using your time wisely and you point to the lawyer and say you your study well that's a waste of time it is hardly about a bunch of nonsense and you're gonna keep changing your mind anyway so he's wrong because really everything in the world is nonsense so to speak if it's not connected to purpose to be turn ality it's not connected to Hashem and creation and why we're here and where we're going ultimately so King Solomon says I call that everything is vanity and a waste of time if you haven't connected it back to Hashem so the doctor the lawyer the moviemaker they can all have purpose if they themselves have purpose and are on the right track and that's what the Torah gives us it gives us the eyes to see and the direction to follow to be on the right track the Oracle also explains that if the truth of Torah would be revealed to us then we would all trap all of our pursuits and run and only want to learn Torah all day and night we'd actually have to be forced to stop and eat and drink because that's how precious and that's how amazing this fusion with Hashem Storen shams wisdom are shams right so my shams will is and unfortunately life goes by there today we just we just slip it away because we don't realize it so this shadow walk that's approaching we should wake up and realize a sham is coming again to give us that next chance another chance to wake up and take us to our receive his Torah and when we take his job we actually take him the rabbi's explained that the work on oh hey which is the first word of the tech command with what you means I should say I me I'm bringing you and I'm giving you myself I am here in the Torah when you take the time you're taking me and if we can have a sham then we can have everything [Music] [Applause]