Shnayim Yomi - Va'era - Rabbi Elchanan Shoff - DVAR TORAH

Hello everybody. I am Rabbi Schoff here in Los Angeles and visiting with me is none other than Elad Danino, the founder of Schneim [snorts] Yomi. And I'm so excited to be able to share with you a Dvar Torah together with my new friend Elad who is totally changing the world. Let me just have him show you this amazing safer that you all may know about or may not. Um, but this is it. I mean, this is what's going to change the Jewish people's relationship with the para living with these stories and these ideas as a central part of our life with thank you for bringing everyone together and doing this. >> Thank you. Thank you for being part of it's incredible to finally meet you after listening to so many daras that you've beautifully uh spread out to the world. >> Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be able to share a couple words of Torah with you and okay Mosher says to Hashem that I am I am I'm uncircumcised in my lips and how will parro listen to me? Moshe felt that he had this problem that he wasn't great at expressing himself and our own hakin ultimately becomes his mouthpiece and he doesn't have the opportunity to express himself as directly to parro or even to the Jewish people and the question is what why is it so why should it be that far should ask that the person who was going to be the one man who spoke with Hashem directly 40 days and 40 nights and brought the Torah to the human race is going to somebody who is a less than efficient communicator. It's you would think that uh you know it would be a person who's unbelievably charismatic and well spoken. So one possibility that mafia bring and others who say that if Moshe was an unbelievably charismatic man then people might be able to develop this idea that the Torah is actually not true. But there was someone who was historically so charming and brilliant and he was able to create just hoodwinkedked people. Having Mosha be a person who nobody would be charmed by his speech is actually a very effective thing because it means the content is good. And there's a big lesson for this because sometimes in life messages can come to us in a less than elegant way. Your spouse might tell you something in a frustrated tone of voice or something angry, but it's a gem because you can actually become a more patient person and you can actually be a better parent to your children if you would just listen to what they're saying. Don't get too caught up with the don't get too caught up with the jar. You know, pay attention to the actual value there. An additional angle when talking about that idea is that sometimes what someone is saying to you isn't what they're saying to you. A man comes home from work and he says to his wife when he sits down on the couch, she says, "Oh, we're having noodles again." That's what he says. No, she has has a vomit from several children all over her body. And she's running around the whole day. And finally, her husband comes on the first day. But it may very well be that what this man is saying in an inelegant and ineffective way is I had a really hard day at work and I wasn't always treated with so much respect by my boss and like I could really just use a few minutes of warmth and love from a caring wife and he didn't say it right. Right. When a woman says, "What are you doing?" And she just means I'm having a really hard time today and I could use a little bit of help getting ready for Shabbat and I get over, you know, I get overwhelmed sometimes when I have a lot to do. But she doesn't say it that way. She says it in a way like I asked you to take the garbage out 10 minutes ago and it's still sitting here. And the answer is yeah, you might be dealing with other human beings who just like you and me sometimes don't express what we really mean as effectively. Don't be so carried away with other Mosheru is an elegant presenter. He's telling you that he's telling you he's telling you the words of Hashem that come from uh you know from what he heard in Har. So that's one perspective. Second perspective is this that a person who is spiritual. So we all have a spiritual side and we have a physical side and it says in the in the very beginning of that the blessing of that hashem heals all flesh and does wonders. This is the wonder of the human experience is that a person has a soul and a body that somehow come together and the fact that you can take a soul and have it live in a body and experience things and I'm doing my mitzvah of right I'm holding the and the not because I think about some lofty idea but by lifting up something with this machine that's my body it's miraculous that's what the says is adds that's why the word for speech is always there is safer in the Rambam called the book of which includes because the Tor say the word the wonder of speech is the expression of a physical body talking about lofty spiritual ideas we after all think about everything in words we express it in language and so for that reason a person who's says the bah a person whose spiritual experience is so big can't really express it in words. People that went through major traumas. Um, someone goes through the Holocaust, god forbid, there were people who just wouldn't talk about it because the best thing in therapy is just tell me what happened. Great. Now it's written here on this pad of paper. I put it in the file. But sometimes something is too big for them. And that's according to the approach. That's why sometimes a without any words can be so powerful because there can be things that you can express. The call of the chauffeur it's brought is this primal call that there's no word I can give to this. You love your children. I love you. Did that sum it up? I love you. What words can you give for that emotion? Mosher Rabenu who was so spiritually great says the Marel had a disruption in how he could express those things because nothing that you can express could truly touch the spiritual level that Mosher Rabu was thinking and operating on. Um and it was only at Hari when the Jewish body got elevated to such a level that Moshe could then express himself more effectively because the body became so spiritual. And so that's another thing to realize that spiritual ideas are so great and so enormous. Let's not dumb them down. The Torah is the Torah. But what's the lesson? What's the practical meaning? It's all good to take something out of it, but don't dumb it down. The Torah is so much bigger than anything we can imagine. It's so much more spiritual than anything we can say. And perhaps that is another thing we can take away from Moshe Rabenu saying a parro Aparro can never truly understand what Moshe is saying.