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Ten Commandments - Sample or More Significant?
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What is the meaning and significance of the Ten Commandments (עשרת הדברות)? Are they essence of Judaism or just a sample of a broader whole? For more content, visit http://www.rabbiefremgoldberg.org.
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this Shabbos we are not going to read a
partial because it's sure Lewis and
Coates Lars I think we deviate from
Eretz Israel where they will observe
show us on Friday and Chavez will be
Shabbos for our services both Friday and
Shabbos so rather than read a parsha we
are going to read the Torah reading for
Shiva so I thought we would use our time
today rather than partial perspectives
since we're not in fact going to read a
parsha to study a Shavua subject and to
analyze it together to prepare to stand
on the mountain to get ready in this
final countdown towards Kabbalah sitar
it's not math until it's not just the
giving of the Torah but it's the
receiving of the Torah and as I say
often this time of year we're not
recreating and we're not simply
nostalgically recalling a historical
event of the past we're not just
remembering the thousands of years ago
we stood at har Sinai but rather we're
going back to stand at the mountain
together we are collectively going to
receive the Torah anew we're standing at
the mountain together so why don't
examine is what was spoken at the
mountain on that fateful day
what will we hear again ringing in our
ears this Friday and Shabbos and is it
different than the rest of Torah we all
know the esterases liberals the Ten
Commandments known as the Decalogue the
tennis eros had varam the tardis in
quotes
serozha dubrow's torah calls at the SS
had varam the Torah means the ten
settings these ten settings have such a
great significance the tughluq hosts the
two tablets that have a Liveris adorned
many many Puranas they adorn many
coverings of arks they set on top of the
arc
they are beautiful artwork but do they
have a greater or different significance
than the rest of Torah so we put a
primacy R does it have any superiority
over all the rest of the mitzvahs that
we have been giving that's our topic
that's what we're gonna look at today a
little bit of a deeper understanding
rose and a closer examination of the
first two
of Inoki ana-lucia so services liberals
begins the following but the barrel a
chemist quarter-mile away more a Nokia
Chemeketa shot CC compared with trying
me based about him God spoke had varam
not had Ibrahim God spoke these things
and he began a Nokia Chemeketa he said
nice to meet you and introduce myself
I'm the Lord your God I took you out of
Egypt from my house of slavery
Loyola how I live my freedom upon I and
don't cheat on me don't see any other
gods there are no other gods I am all
that exist lacell aha pestle don't make
a graven image and so on and so forth
Rashi already immediately jumps and
Rashi already gives us some insight on
the significance or the role these are
services Liberals in a greater in a
broader context volume ratio mimosa most
God said to Moshe lacrima tanto this is
talking about after the historical event
I lay a lie haha revaluation climb on
top of the mountain and be there which
was for 40 days we know the Ten
Commandments were given at her scene I
in that fateful moment of a service at
the Bruce of Matata acaba cetera and
then Moshe climbed the top of the
mountain and for 40 more days the rest
of Torah was given hold on one second
and the rest of Torah was given over the
course of those other 40 days so Rashi
says God spoke to motion he said come on
top of the mountain day yeah um one of
my favorite divert or I've shared it off
and I'm sure you've heard it from me
before what does it mean I lay I lie how
hard are they on climb on top of the
mountain and be there if motions on top
of the mountain where else would he be
so Rashi says are by no means be there
not for a short period of time but be
there are bom yom be there for 40 days
pack your suitcase set aside provisions
get ready you're not coming for a short
stint it's not a quick visit la ilaha
hora climb on top of the mountain and be
there be there for 40 days but others
like I said this rebels give a very
beautiful beautiful insights someone so
critically important for our generation
and they say Allah Allah God is saying
to Moshe climb on top of the mountain
the ashram and when you're on top of
that mountain be there I know at the
base of the mountain there's two to
three million people and they're all
pulling you in separate directions I
know how many emails and
messages and what's happened and he
calls you have to return but when you're
on top of the mountain I lay a lot I
climb that mountain
hey yeah um when you're on top of that
mountain be there be with me and what is
he doing it's leukocidin my tournaments
are shaky saffiano some says rashi
kosher schmear socialism it sews the
koalas are sad Dubrow same Rashi quotes
a tradition that all 613 mitzvot facts
subsumed they're all included under the
Big Ten the Ten Commandments represent
ten archetypes ten categories ten
headers but underneath it you can
categorize all 613 Mitsos for a business
sadly perished by cyrus sheriff I'll
call Deborah the bar mitzvah said Sileo
spell and her sadly grown in fact
enumerated elaborated and said take all
613 mitzvot all the mixes of the Torah
from beginning to end all 613 and you
can subsume them under these ten
principles these ten super categories
these are ten headers everything fits
under them so it's not that these ten
out of the 613 have a greater
significance of superiority we are
equally obligated in all 613 mitzvahs in
fact none of us are you can't be
accordingly the Easter all a man and a
woman in Israel outside of Israel
simultaneously nobody in fact is
obligated in all 613 simultaneously what
it means is we all have 613 mitzvot
these ten are no greater no more
superior no different than the other 603
but the other six 303 can fit under
these ten that is what Rashi tells us
first of all where we get the number 613
so the Gemara towards the end the Mako's
derives it from a PASOK and begins with
that assumption that when you read the
Torah from beginning to end you have to
fit everything you're reading into 613
it's not that we counted the mitzvot and
we arrived at 613 so we started with the
number 613 the secret code to every
Jewish briefcase or piece of luggage and
after we began with the number 613 then
we have to figure out how do you fit
everything in in fact our medieval
commentators that we've shown and will
come after the Gemara
all spend time on this there are bombing
and I'm Barnabas a foreigner and the
bhai and the smog and the smack and the
list goes on and on of our great
medieval commentaries who say
okay I'll start with the number 613 now
how do I look at what seemed to be many
more than 613 and come up with
principles that will enable me to
include only in the in the 630 so now
she tells us that I Saracen Debra's the
significance of the 10 commandments the
Decalogue is not that they're any
different or better than the other 633
but there are super categories under
which everything under which everything
fits the Amara source number three the
great my outer be the lawyers product
tells us mashallah Martius Turkish
Bartolo Colon almost the reason is
boredom Acoma what does it mean that God
offered the whole Torah to everybody
Kotori he meets on a sham is Bora the
khaki Shia has like oh the Torah is
God's Word it's God's diary we come to
know God and love God in two ways we are
exposed to his creation I just spoke
about this last week I gave a share for
DRS the grade of high school and the
remedy straw kamenetsky school and I
spoke about five reasons we learned
Torah and this was one of them because
we come to know God to know God is to
love God how do you know God through the
Grand Canyon the Swiss Alps how do you
know God through the Golan in the gully
on how do you know God through seeing
the beauty in the magnificence of his
world chemistry biology physics but we
best know God through his word through
his diary through Torah since Torah is
God's diary God's Word shocked us
l'école everyone has access katara here
hokhmah Hamas Torah is the ultimate in
the highest wisdom Torah is the direct
word God dictated every word of the
Torah and therefore it is the closest
and greatest representation and
reflection we have of Hashem show us the
whole almost belongs in the dresser
drawer of every hotel across the United
States of America it belongs in every in
every context because everyone from
every nation all humanity deserve access
Rock Matata Makabe chakra sleaze South
Africa so from the perspective of the
giver since it is God spoken word it's
his to give he gave it he offered it he
made it accessible to all from the
perspective of the receiver the
recipient the Jewish people we have a
special relationship in other words if
my great-grandfather wrote a diary and
it's published online or published
somewhere everyone has equal access to
the diary from the
the one who wrote it authored and made
it available but in the end of the day
it's my great-grandfather
I'm his descendant and progeny my
relationship as the one who receives and
has access to that diary is going to be
different than those who are not related
or related more distantly vomits
anatolia adds my ink will Allah be hewn
FSF Nicole Roxana Mocambo a macabre
rocky throw him in solitary I'll call
Nicole Anushka Mocambo we were Mocambo
this was the experience of her see night
God gave the Torah to all but by
articulating these Ten Commandments and
our receiving them and our getting
greater access to him hearing from him
the first to directly articulated by the
Almighty directly we became the Mocambo
we became the recipient of the Torah and
that established an even different than
closer relationship with the author with
Hashem the Gemara and Shabbos Tov pay
fast source number four tells us I'm
gonna be oaken on my deck selfish a
meeting oh man Basra some arrived called
diamond evasion P Agora neck luck with
Shivan leshawna's every statement that I
Shem spoke Hashem speaking is different
in the way we speak when we speak you
can only hear one syllable one word at a
time because one who was able to say one
thing and yet it entered our ears we
absorbed from it multiple things sham or
bizarre Madiba record he said the first
commandments we have Zucker's second
commandments we have some more and
nevertheless the deboard effort he spoke
two things he said it as one we heard it
as two but moreover the Chimera he tells
us something extraordinary that God
spoke and it was simultaneously
simulcast in 70 different languages
nobody had to wear headphones not like
the United Nations where one speaker
spoke their language their native
language and everyone else wears
headphones to your simultaneous
translation God spoke one thing called
demora dbsnp agora each thing a Shem
said it absorbed it translate it
transmitted to us in 70 different
languages extraordinary the mattress
tells us in Bamidbar Chitauri mitzvahs
blue lows bahattin that is comme des
mots atari ago ce o--'s each Mononoke an
axillary aha connect Italian Mithras how
do we know that the Ten Commandments are
not trying to replace or be superior
greater than the rest of mitzvahs says
the Madras because there are six hundred
and
13 letters from the beginning of enoki
until the end of the Rioja from the
beginning of the ten commandments until
the end count the letters I didn't I
hope it works out but the manager says
if you count you will find 613 design
USERRA scanning ensign you may brushes
their section seven extra letters the
count is off by seven that seven we also
have a a symbol the seven days of
creation in America to teach us shkolu
all ammonia l abisco cetera
that the whole world was created only in
the merit of Torah
so here the measures itself alludes to
what we saw in Rashi earlier that these
ten are no greater than the other
Commandments they are in fact headlines
their headers their categories
everything fits in and the way to know
that is if you count the letters from
mine Oakley to the end of the Rioja and
you subtract the seven that represent
creation you'll have six hundred and
thirteen letters to say that the 613
mitzvot are all subsumed they're all
included they're all alluded to they all
formed the categories of these ten of
these are Sarah's ha dubrow's if you're
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Broncos the Gemara Broncos tells us a
practice that we don't have but many
don't even know that our rabbis
entertained before rejecting it and what
is it : a service at the Brush man
behind shamova yeoman
Yahtzee volvo little bit of a scowl on
him the rabbi's earlier ordain the
Mishnah tells us that every day as part
of our liturgy and our domine we want to
say the parts familiar - ma volumes
shamova yeoman and miss reactive and
Bill Cosco and him that we all stay but
the Rama is in fact introduced the
recitation of the I Sarah's had libros
every day review the tailor get 10
commandments on my review - whoa but the
camera says a big rule in victory
lacrosse game originally they instituted
to do it in the base MA - but they sages
wanted to do it everywhere not only at
the base I make - from the temple
wherever Jews lived Ellis check for bit
loom however the Rama has abolished that
practice
why because Jews complained Erica did
see Buddha took too long now maybe later
uma same meaning because of the
arguments of the heretics the rabbi's
understood there was a great
danger of the influence the impact of
the heretics and therefore they rejected
therefore they a no the practice of
saying they are service like Deborah's
daily Tanya Nami haka the come on
continues when a tsunami big picture
lacrosse game outside of the base to
meet - they wanted to read the icer said
there was daily electric for a bit loom
and they tell them as I mean him but
they cancel that they never fight it for
this reason
Rashi tells us seven what was the
thoroughness I mean him what was the
danger what was the problem so what if
we read the SRS and dippers every day we
have a beautiful domine in a beautiful
sitter and join us for our daily sitter
snippet so that we delve into the deeper
meaning and purpose behind each and
every sentence and letter of domine we
began with modeh ani and we're all the
way up to today I was Yoshi ur we're
making our way through all of Domini so
what there was no room to squeeze in a
little I set aside dubrow's so Rashi
says you know what the problem was
surely Allah I may have all rights in
charge Torah MS technician Colonel Marsh
our ecology balaclava shall be seen I
what was the danger the heretics would
say you know why we read the SSID bras
because the rest of Torah is not that
important the rest of Torah secondary
the rest of the Torah is is is not
nearly as authoritative only a serious a
did rose only the ten commandments that
were given by God at her see night
that's genuine that's real that's
authentic the rest of Torah ah its
secondary the rest of Torah comes second
so in order to avoid somebody saying
that the rabbi said you know what it's a
bad idea to put the I sarah said dippers
up on a pedestal
it's bad idea to highlight or extract
the assess of nippers from the rest of
Torah because if you do what is the
great danger that a Jew is gonna say you
know what
I don't kill I don't steal I don't have
an adulterous affair I don't worship a
pagan right I know I'm covered on the
Big Ten the rest
Act they're not as important God that
God sent through a email that God sent
through motion the only ones that he
gave that he gave directly on a Saracen
libros and if we would recite them
celebrate them sing them daily in our
Domenic that might reinforce a mistaken
notion that the Assyria said liberals
are greater or different or better than
than the rest of Torah so therefore we
annulled and I know many of you are
smiling because
you're happy anything we could do to
shorten down this morning we resume
domine a book kirtan synagogue it was
mama yontiff I can't tell you how much I
feel like today is is different
242 straight Shmona x-rays 242 straight
davines that we all did alone and this
morning we were tremendous gratitude to
hashem spaced 8 feet apart everyone only
with masks pre-registered every
precaution we could take outdoors but we
resumed at manana and the mama felt
like nila the opening Kaddish so we
should we begin with you stuff because
we're trying to minimize the dominic
minimize the overlap and the time we're
together so we began with you Starbuck
so we didn't get rid of the SS at Dib
Rose because it's one of the negotiable
areas of dava ting and we're trying to
shorten or minimize the dominating Rashi
says no there was a very good reason we
did in a Thomas I mean him we wanted to
preclude or avoid heretics from saying
that you see the 10 commandments the Big
Ten are bigger and greater than
everything else this led the Rambam to
make a fascinating comment atchoo of the
Rambam that was only discovered later
not part of our early hour early library
of the roms writings and there are mum
says if the Gemara
originally said we recite a sarah said
there was 10 commandments daily and then
the rabbi is rejected and went back for
fear that people would pay greater
attention and only commit to observe the
10 commandments and neglect the rest
that maybe we should be standing for
them on the red and show because isn't
that going to achieve the exact same
unintended consequence and result says
the Rambam he's asked should we stand
for a service of liberals and i don't
include the question here but the
question was fascinating the question
says our custom is to stand but there's
a new rabbi who says to sit and do we
listen to the old rabbi in the
establishment we listen to the new rabbi
so the Rambam rides a shanira Garrigan
iftar they shave or Roy well your
previous round by your previous custom
was to sit was correct but I I serve and
it rise to phonus for feeding I assure
you and in most of all I am and his
evidence that your previous rabbi gave
for why you should remain seated when
you read the essays as liberals were
very compelling the cafe right last us
and that was the correct thing to do
before Malcolm Sherman aagama Mozart
aluminum big la mamma jammas I mean I
have some una and their admin rights not
only do you have the correct practice to
sit any community that has the practice
to stand during the reading their
service and dubrow's one should protein
object one should insist that the people
sit why because it's going to cause a
lapse of Emunah sure you turn my Drago's
in exhaustion Loulou Mikasa with Zara
add my own it's going to mistakenly lead
people to believe that some parts of
Torah are more significant than others
and people will end up rejecting or
dismissing or minimizing the rest of our
sacred Torah Oh Masha turn off our
marker shed Baghdad a mixer saragossa
skin so what your new rabbi tells you
that the Milligan Baghdad and elsewhere
is to stand for us there's a dubrow's
ain't there a mission poem that is not
evidence your names on Russian told him
learn the fire Bremen shank the shoe
shovin a loose a doughnut at Ko Cola
Chinook oh if you find that some people
are sick you don't spread the contagion
of the illness but rather you cut out
the illness and heal it so the fact that
you can point to communities that do the
wrong thing is not evidence for why you
should join and do the wrong thing
rather cut out the illness at its source
heal that illness and don't make it
contagious to you so there are - lava
there are moms very strong that just
like the rabbi said stop saying the
Assessor Deborah's out loud it it's
going to lead to heresy where people
think that these Ten Commandments are
greater or better are more binding the
rest of Torah
similarly don't stand on the Ten
Commandments I read because people will
draw the same erroneous conclusion that
these Ten Commandments are greater more
important than others and then album
concludes Valastro mr. Brown and lasses
Potomac sawsan ghulam murtaza and god
forbid it's as if a Torah you are you
are it's a bizarre and a Torah you are
distorting Torah
if you would suggest that parts of Torah
are more sacred more significant than
other parts therefore stop saying as I
said liberalism dominate and stop
standing for a Sarah said they were
sensual so I ask you the wonderful
beautiful crowd that has gathered to
learn together this morning tell me
what's your custom our custom is still
to stay in frustrated liberals almost
every show I know stains for us our
aside libros how do we do this can I get
around but how do we do this what is the
response what is the answer the ROM I
was making a pretty compelling argument
based on the mission we saw earlier that
said that they stopped that they stopped
reading as Sarah said there was part of
domine so since eleazar eleazar involved
in burns at sow source number nine
he quotes his alone chuhwa about this is
at the end of the tuba they call her
near a baguette libera halacha shameless
mini beneath her Lumina kaavo's alum
Menachem Akuma's their me Dana keys are
Sara's missionaries Pilate buttock in
ssv she was volatile can be Rocco - in
governance and deacon Kadosh aliens host
Meghan Elena the Coulomb him she who the
rest is laksa classic a mill examines
with shots crystal Sirsa dubrow's
vishakha xie tianhua he for shimmies
there so he says the following says that
it's Eliezer he has a tuber offering
arguments against the Rambam and
defending the practice of whites okay to
stand but then he inserts something that
I find fascinating and he says you know
the most compelling reason to continue
doing this mineral is because it's what
I saw in my childhood says that it's
Eliezer when I grew up here in New
Rochelle I am I saw gone and said Deacon
Kenosha Elyon you think they didn't know
the roms position you think they didn't
know that Gemara that says that we stop
saying I Sarah Sarah dippers and Dominic
you think you're holier you're more
righteous you're more scrupulous and
more vigilant you know how you're
greater than they were no I saw the
biggest tummy little common the biggest
goin I'm the biggest Siddiq and the
biggest Kenosha ally on they did it if
it was good enough for them it's good
enough for us and if you think we're
gonna introduce a new homeless isn't it
silly answer and we're now gonna say
nobody could stand for us Harrison
dubrow's Hummer of the week the new coma
is not to stand we don't want to suggest
these Ten Commandments are superior
greater than the rest of Torah you have
to know that there is an unintended
negative consequence of introducing such
a homra
you're being moat Salons what are you
suggesting about those who came before
what are you saying about your parents
grandparents and great-grandparents what
are you saying about the gown and the
russia achievers that tsadikim the
gaedola you sir who came before it was
good enough for them but not good enough
good enough for us for now so well then
everyone was a cooler you think it's a
stringency you're gonna be strict and
stringent and not stand for our service
our Dib Rose you think you've adopted a
new stringency know that within that
stringency is a lincoln silly namely
you're being mostly lies you're
reflecting negatively you're spreading
russian hara about those who came before
therefore says it's Eliezer based on his
own arguments and mostly based on this
that if it was good enough for them it's
good enough for me and with the RAM
bombs covered
side if the practice was always
sustained we can continue to stand moshe
Feinstein's that sounds that she was
suit to source number ten and he writes
let me just make this a little bit
bigger cuz I'm not as young as many of
you and I can't see anything
okay but merged to write the cave and
just though Indian are fair in abafar
much about North Korea the fees there in
the Damas missile and also because for
us from Bella Martian a sec far below
the mayor of Mississauga furnish the
Kashmir at the English honest man
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Alicia born in Mukwonago chaos and then
Ayesha no other blemish Lucas says
Rimowa who says that Sue Snell who says
the comparison is accurate the Gemara
was worried cos Allah rabbis were
worried stop reciting a Saracen Deborah
so it's going to lead to heresy who says
you're entitled to compare that to
standing for a series of liberals yes I
understand the basis of the comparison
but the rabbi's never said that we don't
introduce new stringencies or practices
beyond what the rabbi's were afraid of
they were afraid of the recitation of
Osiris as liberals they never spoke
about not standing for our serozha
dubrow's says her Moshe therefore we
remain only with the limitation that
they gave and we don't expand or extend
that limitation to other circumstances
namely to not standing for a service at
Davos and therefore emotion says no
problem keep standing what about the
Heyliger Livadia river values at our
meeting the cecum the summary of history
on this issue
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delivers a neshama strimmer how come u
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well the whole a puff was yama but seals
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microprocessors that like additionally a
cure should be on them come as Elisha
says the dubrow's Rav Ovadia Pascal's
like the Rambam and river valley says
the ramen was right it can't stand for a
Saracen dubrow's just like we don't read
it because we don't want to give the
misimpression it's greater than the rest
of torah so too we also don't stand for
it so everybody says but what do you do
if you walk into a shul we're almost
universally at least Ashkenazi Jews
almost universally the practice is to
stand for a service or Deborah's what do
you do to sit you can't do that Pelosi
go to do is a biblical prohibition to
not conform to the crowd to stand how
could you do that the round mom said
don't stand for a service at dubrow's
don't suggest or imply it's greater than
the rest of total what do you do it says
remove odd yeah I'll tell you exactly
what to do a Saracen timorous is read
from the middle of the Ilia
don't get up in the middle of the Ilia
stand up from the beginning of the
Aliyah and if you stand up either from
the beginning of the reading of the
Torah or you stand up for the beginning
of the alia then you're not only
standing for the SS at Deborah's and
you're able to fulfill both your joining
the rest of that symbol who stand but
you're also not singling out their
Saracen liberals you're standing for the
rest of their Lea or the rest of that
Korea cetera and in fact that is the
halacha conclusion that rubbish rubish
lita are met as well
remember says that first equals to
practice and then he says vaneeta ma la
mulana la flaca Rambam why are we still
standing for a Saracen dubrow's what
happened to the Rambam so he answers in
the left-hand column divya rama mean to
form the aimless losers me men who the
rambam concern is significant raucous
Manas a locational taramis a minim but
today we're not worried heretics go off
the derrick for a lot of reasons
thinking I said nippers is greater than
the Torah ain't one of them I've never
had a conversation with someone who says
going off to secular college and I'm
thinking about walking away from Judaism
I'm dating this nice non-jewish girl I'm
thinking about getting married to her
toner and mitzvahs are no longer binding
on me I'm ready to walk away why are you
doing all that well because everyone
stands for a service and in rows so
clearly those are the only 10 that
matter so as long as I don't murder I
don't kill I don't know have an affair
and I don't bow down to an idol and I
had on my parents I'm good to go
nobody's ever said that to me no one
ever said that to her Moshe sternbuch so
he said that fear after almost I mean
and that's gonna lead to heresy is no
longer a compelling fear today however
he does say h87 is dicey let me give you
let me give you a suggestion
Lotte says luckily AMA says remember we
can make everybody happy we can make the
round mom happy and we can still honor
the asaurus of dubrow's how just like
with krishma
if you're sitting you're not a lot of
stand in the middle so we stand from the
beginning of creation about where you
sit at the beginning of Karishma
whatever posture in has to start from
the beginning
similarly with outside with acquiesce
our torah says return back
from the beginning of that Aliyah stand
from the beginning of the reading of the
Torah that morning and therefore you're
fulfilling both on the one and you're
standing for our service at dubrow's and
honoring their service that they rose on
the other hand you're not suggesting
that it is of greater significance or
holiness than the rest of the Torah
because you're standing for the whole
alia and I can tell you that as our
practice at Boca ratone synagogue
our Mina is that we stand from the
beginning of the Aliyah the guy doesn't
give a clock in the middle and tell
everybody to stand in the middle but
rather we announce right before the
beginning of that Aliyah that this
Aliyah contains the serozha dubrow's
everyone please rise from the beginning
of the Ilia until it's over and that way
we fulfill both not suggesting that I
Saracen timber should stand out or be
considered greater than the rest of the
Torah reading every cell of a check is
that Sal had another answer a very
beautiful answer you ever noticed in the
homage you're following along i'm
shaboots to the reading of the Asaro
said dubrow's and you get lost because
you say the baccarat is not following
the trump that appears in my home --is--
he's not pausing and he's not any
lipstick him the way they appear in
micromesh what's going on over here why
am i lost so arts girl was a little note
in the beautiful article stonefish and
they'll send you to back of the hamish
where they have an alternative reading
and punctuation and the truck that's
given for the iserror center blows it is
a reflection of our miss ona what we
call the Tom tacked-on and the Tom Elyon
we have two versions are two ways of
reading the iserror said Deborah's
either the lower version with one
cantillation one set of punctuation or
the upper version with a different set
of punctuation with a different set of
cantillation why do we have these two
sets
cerebus allometric says for the
following reason the following reason
the left-hand column will to read for
the sake of time I want to get through
these source sheets with you in this
amazing topic I want to get back to the
deeper significance of the first two
that God spoke himself any creator
Satoshi Box Thomas Khayyam Bottari
screams sook in the hope suka telepathy
and emotional Lepofsky no well we read
the Torah we're doing so were fulfilling
reading verses so much so that the
halacha mandates on lockup tells us
you're not allowed to divide the cooking
in a different way than moshe did you're
not allowed to cut off part of the PASOK
and you can't add on to a PASOK
were only allowed to read the sukham in
the way in the order that Moshe read
them
Lehane McCrea cetera the Alma da became
shalt Alma tow rubber album
Kolak remiss Holika still keep suckin
ordinarily when we read the Torah we are
fulfilling a mission in a mandate an
obligation of Korea cetera we ordained
just like we can't go three days without
water
we can't go three days without Torah
we've got a lot more than three days
without Korea so Torah and we're all
dehydrated were spiritually parched
we're desperate to hear the Torah read
again but it was established that we
read the Torah Monday Thursday and
Shabbos in order to ensure that there
wouldn't be three days without Torah
reading so we would not spiritually
dehydrate can't live three days without
water so there's the Korea cetera Korea
say Torah says domicile of a chick is a
team of Talmud Torah I'm learning we are
learning together through Korea cetera
and therefore it has to be divided
according to the sukham the female hago
shall occur on our service endeavours
batalla le on Luke obtains a qiyam rug
Gilbert Alma Toro Korea storage box
olive odd and Hakeem de creus Z column
I'm at her scene I a chicane miss Hakka
Cruella de bras will old sukham set her
by salivate check Tom tack tone the
lower set of punctuation and
cantillation shows a Saracen timorous in
the context of a regular torah reading
regular torah reading is a fulfillment
of torah learning and has to be divided
according to the circle in the way
motion did but on shavoo is we don't
read with the time tacked on we don't
follow the ordinary punctuation and
cancellation the way it appears in the
Amish we read with the time le on the
alternate set of punctuation in
cancellation why because our reading and
Shavuos is not fit into the regular
fulfillment of learning Torah
collectively why are we reading on
Shavuos
because we are reliving her c9 we are
standing at the mountain together
abyssal venture collaborated so
beautifully that the Torah is read from
a bhima an elevated platform just like
her c9 that we have to go by him on
either side just like when moshe started
to ascend the mountain he had no sure he
was surrounded that all the parts of
torah reading particularly unsure lewis
are a recreation or a revisiting the
experience of her c9 so we're eating
with the time le on
and therefore he says that's why we
stand you're right if we were an
ordinary reading of the Torah to read
these Ten Commandments and stand only
for these and not others would suggest
that these ten are superior they're
greater and then we'd run the risk of
the thomas i mean him
the heretics would reject the rest of
the 6:03 and only keep these 10 but
senator by salomé Schuch we're not
reading them at the time Taftan and
therefore we don't have that risk
reading them at the time a Lyon we're
reading them in the context of reliving
her Sinai and the context of reliving
her scene I talk of these ten were given
Hashem did not give all 603 and RC night
he gave these ten and therefore when we
go back to our c night when we live and
we created her scene i we also do so
with these ten honor them by standing
and it's not a problem
linman rd done Shanu quorum at an alien
laboratories crisp sukham the kim korea
the torsion box of laboratories dubrow's
is a kilometer scene i we're not
dividing the base time sukham we're
dividing them based on Commandments when
you divide them based on commandments
which is the alternate tom le on the
reading with the punctuation and the and
the truck we're creating the way it was
given in our scene i as nimza shun home
dim enough de la harris years from afar
she was near Helena says that Deborah
Sasha quarter Akula we're not showing a
superiority or a greatness of these ten
over the others at 6:03
we're simply recreating her scene I just
like these ten were given her scene I
and not the other six or three so too we
stand for these ten even if we don't
ordinarily stand for the other six or
three so we saw this subject within our
subject that the Mishna says we used to
say a service and emerson dominic and
the Gemara says the rabbi's canceled
they had known but practice why because
they saw that the heretics were only
keeping the ten not the other six or
three the Rambam says if that's the case
don't stand for the SSN dubrow's we run
that same risk
Cecilia's it says nice idea around bomb
but that's not our practice
I saw righteous people they all stood
for the SS and dimmer us we're not
worried Romo she also said not worried
the fear in the sitter is not the same
fear for the Torah reading in shul and
therefore we can maintain and preserve
our custom of standing for a service at
dubrow's but the value Saif said no the
roms right we don't stand for a service
at dubrow's what do you do if you're in
a shoe that's standing stained from the
beginning of that Aliyah and I remember
I thought that's a good practice for
everybody
indeed that's our customer poker it's on
synagogue we stand from the big
Illya butter by salivate check also
defends the practice of not standing for
the hallelujah only standing for the SRS
at Deborah's why because if the red is
part of the town elio not Tom Tok tone
if the red as dubrow's as Commandments
not read as sukham as verses then you're
able to stand for them
you're not differentiating them because
you're simply recalling history in which
those ten were were undebatable
separated from the other 603 okay let's
get back to our topic
so I find my colorful friend Benatar
says in source 14 page five he says
quotes hazael the rabbi's in the Zohar
shikou litter cooler removes about saris
and in rows the whole Torah was hinted
to his alluded to in the Ten
Commandments the mesh gave us one
allusion 613 letters correspond to the
613 mixes all containing the SSID Bruce
Lamar Lamar Parrish tremolo each Pam
immersive Harris clueless or Musa are
all kinds of illusions and hints for AC
losses Tom Tom Marshall nice Rob base
liberals but there are I'm says while
the Ten Commandments assumed the rest of
Torah the first two are even
categorically different within the ten
see if the 613 among them were ten of
the Ten Commandments and within the Ten
Commandments the first two are even more
significant than the other eight why are
they more significant because these
first two Hashem said directly to us
after the first two Jewish people said
we can't take it we can't withstand it
Hashem said fine Moshe you give the
other eight but the first two are shown
transmitted he communicated he
articulated to us directly not through
an emissary not through a agent he gave
it to us directly so these first two
have a greater significance on oakley
and la illaha that I am the Lord your
God and don't have other gods why these
two so that I find my color says Keane
based Russian labelled also mitzvahs
because contained within these first two
is the totality of mitzvahs so the 613
are on the 10 and the 10 are on the
first two how mitzvahs I say whom it
says Lewis I say our Torah can be
divided into positive Commandments and
negative Commandments I know he he it
curvatures commits as I say
so the first commandment to know that
there Hashem is the Lord our God
it contains if we know positively that
Hashem is our God then we also know that
what he tells us we're bound by so
therefore we have positive Commandments
and lo ye allaha not to have other gods
is the source that subsumes all the
negative commands occur of a shortish
come it's as low as I say Liz then
Natasha on behind me ple on sure she
basically admits us so God spoke those
first two even when I Shem chose to only
communicate the bare minimum the first
two nevertheless he didn't go down to
one he did to 182 to says thy Mikado's
because those first two really contain
all 613 the Torah can be divided between
positive and negative I say unless I say
I know he includes all the mitzvahs I
say and Lucia don't have other gods
includes all the mitzvahs los I say the
negative Commandments about not being
allowed to worship others the Tanya the
hey look about tongue if she knows I'm
of the oddity I'll tell Emma the first
level cherubim is Tanya in chapter 20
expands on this he says we name without
those l'homme commits as our source was
I Section D I'm sorry show us an opening
volley laka in close-quarter Kula these
first two have everything Kida Burano
cocolo coram affirmance as I say well
yeah choco-loco sure some it says lo
hace la Haine Shimano and okay Willy
laqua levar BPI Laura cameras omniscient
close at oraculo just like the hora fry
McCullers the ball Tanya says these
first two contain everything most
Einsatz should live and be well but a
full Emma has a beautiful commentary I'm
Natanya as you can see here doesn't come
across seclusion in associates the
bolded line is the translation of tanya
and the commentary is the unbolted in
between
that's why reliance houses commentary in
the tanya is volumes and volumes and
volumes long because when he elaborates
and explains in elucidates tanya which i
personally struggled to learn without
him is really brilliant and beautiful
and he really elaborates so beautifully
so let me share with you his commentary
on these lines of the tanya commandment
refers to the positive commands and
admonition to the prohibitions which are
contained the first I know he is I say
and la illaha is loose I say right so
much times that's the first two
Commandments deal with one topic the
negation of our dilatory in all forms
the proclamation I am the Lord your God
is the general negation of the existence
of idolatry you shall not have any other
gods is the explicit prohibition of its
worship but beyond this particular
meaning these two Commandments include
within themselves the entire Torah
no he has the 248 positive all the
positive commitments are the way to be
connected to the very selfish em until
he becomes the Lord your God how do you
get to Anokhi Hashanah Makaha I am your
God the way we reflect the way we
express that he is indeed our God is by
keeping the positive Commandments so
he's the UH no fee that doesn't depend
the rely on us Hashem is a Nokia Shem is
the dominant providential God whether we
accept and recognize him obey Him or not
that is up to him near no fee but a Shem
ok ha that he's our God relies and
depends is conditioned on our observing
the mitzvot so say the positive
Commandments or the commandment lawsy
ilaha that you cannot have contains all
365 prohibitions every transgression is
a form of idolatry at times this is
clear-cut and out of the times murky at
times the transgression results from
conscious rebellion and other times for
spirit of folly that persuades a person
for money that what he's doing is not
quite idolatrous that he remains a good
Jew still attached to sanctity if one
were to experience in its full poignancy
and clarity the truth of Enochian allah
- masha'allah ha one would never be able
to sin this truth is expressed in the
statement of the sages when a person
grows angry it's as though he's
worshipping idols an angry person like
any other transgressor has established
his ego is the determining factor
reality I want I deserve we face a
choice between ourselves and God either
I've created myself and I do all that my
heart desires or God is the creator and
king of the universe and I connect to
him knowing I cannot disengage myself
from him at any time under any
circumstances these Commandments are
thus meaningful not only in their narrow
purview of idolatry but in the greater
realm of Jewish existence thus they
function as the basis of all the
commandments positive and negative in
all the pathways of one's life such a
beautiful explanation and elucidation of
of steins outs here's what he's saying
every time you violate a Shems word
every time you go against a Shems will
you're essentially choosing to worship
your desire your need rather than submit
to him that's a form of idolatry
we'll see allah jalla came arkarium
don't serve any other god well when
given the choice between doing what God
wants or what you want when you do what
you want you're serving yourself that's
idolatry that is the textbook definition
of idolatry so that means that all 365
additions are subsumed and included
under don't worship any other God don't
worship any other God means don't
worship the god of the the style and the
motif and whatever is the Mauri of the
day don't worship the contemporary
morals and ethics if they're different
than what God tells us don't worship
your own appetite temptation your own
ego all 365 negative Commandments don't
violate them and if you do that in
itself reflects that you worship
something other than what I shouldn't
wanted you to worship such a beautiful
idea that's what it means that they're
all subsumed under the opposite is also
true
how do you show that a Shem is our God
how do you show that I know he is in
fact lo que ha your God when you fulfill
the 248 positive commitments so that's
what the ballot Tania is saying there
are high McCullers both say why did God
speak to us the first two of the ten
because in those first two of the 10 is
all 613 meaning that the overarching
theme of all mitzvahs is to draw us
close to God is to show that we are
submitting our will to his is to follow
his prescription formula for meaning
purpose and happiness in our lives so
that's the choice that we have to submit
or to worship ourselves when we submit
we appoint him the Iloka how we make him
our God but when we in fact compete when
we abandon when we violate the 365 then
we are violating ocl ahah not to have
another God so we've gone from the 613
to the 10 we've gone from the 10 to the
2 and now we're gonna go from the 2 to
the first one let's talk about this
opening Mitzvah I know Clea Chemeketa
weekend a Jew in the middle of the night
and say what is the first of the Ten
Commandments and they will tell you I am
the Lord your God I am the Lord your God
and okay they may not do it in that
voice another thing Hashem LaCava
I am the Lord your God in fact the
Rambam when he counts the mitzvot so
they say for a mitzvahs
the Rambam counts that as talked in the
first of the 10 commandments mitzvah
love at Savoia shows even a brahmana
Salukis Bhushan a mediation of a karma
SEMA who Paul Collins I am Who Am
Ranocchia shaiiaja the first of the Ten
Commandments is a commandment it had
faith trust the belief that there is a
God to know that there is a first cause
who is the source of everything that
exists and that's all included in a
Nokia chemin la caja it's all included
on Nokia Chemeketa
I am the Lord
your God he quotes the garden DeMarcos
the Tuareg mitzvahs number the motion be
seen I 613 were given but they all go
back to a Nokia shamanaka everything is
a result in a consequence everything
flows from the foundation of a No Fee I
am the Lord your God 613 down to 10 down
10 down to two two down to the first one
the RAM man disagrees the Rambam he
writes in his commentary on the Rambam
say forum it's us it's on the right-hand
column and the RAM band says now a Nokia
shamanaka
in fact is not a commandment there are
10 commandments but the first one is not
enoki that's not a commandment what is
it it is a observation of a reality hiya
muna boom it's useless alo sure do
osa Elena Rosas of emotion me Glen
Joaquin Alain any whom the echo showed
you many know Dom its us well I am never
freshmen it's not included in the count
he's quoting others the bog and others
there are man who agree with him
I know here Chemeketa is not a mitzvah
what do you mean it's not a mitzvah how
can it not be a mitzvah it is the
supreme it is the highest form it is
from which all the other myths was flow
how can it not be a mitzvah so the
answer is it's so fundamental and
foundational it's so core to our very
existence it's not a mitzvah it's a
description of a reality you know what
else is not a myth from the Tuareg there
is no Mitzvah to breathe
nomid sort of breathe doesn't appear in
the shikon arc that you have to breathe
there are no debates and I like
literature how many breaths you have to
take a minute an hour how deep your
breath has to be there is no myths for
the breathe
why is there no mid sort of breathe
because if you're not breathing you're
not alive there's no been sort of
breathe because it is the basis of life
without it you don't even get started so
Mitzvahs tell us how to live that life
but there is no life without breathing
and says the begin there I'm ban the
same is true about God the notion that
there is a God is not in itself a
commandment be a pretty ironic
commandment why do you have to believe
I'm here because I command you to
believe I'm here you talk about a
paradox and irony why do I believe in
God because he commanded me well who
says he can command me if I didn't
believe in him to begin with so
mahalik say the notion of belief of God
is not in fact a commandment it's not a
mitzvah it's not the first of the SSI
libris it is a reality it's like the air
that we breathe it's the foundation
you're not spiritually alive
if you don't begin the conversation with
there is an occasional kapha there is a
lord who created the entire world
so there are ban quotes toboggans seems
to agree with him here and say for him
it was known his commentary and unit row
seems to disagree the man seems to be
still a contradiction the Rambam between
us a saga his commentary and say for our
mitzvahs and it's commentary I'm
partially Israel but the Rambam
disagrees with the Ramba
the Rambam says the first of the asserts
that Deborah is the source of all
dubrow's of all mythos is to believe in
submit that there is Hashem who commands
the bottom box and were you talking
about that's not a mitzvah that makes no
sense to be a mitzvah you can't say I
believe in God because he commanded me
to believe because that makes no sense
logically rather it's like breathing
it's a reality it's an observation it's
a statement
I know Kyosho McKenna is a statement not
a command there Saracen dippers begin
with the second and now you got to
recalculate how you gonna get your ten
but it does not include the first here
and pushes this through there inbound
seems to agree with the Rambam he writes
a deeper resentments as I say I'm an
occasional Khafre yo debates about some
to be a mini quiche wash em boo
ello Kim's a plumber Hovick admin at
Iacocca favorite to be homeless then a
Shem is the source the core of
everything that that is the first
commandment of the ten commandments to
believe in Hashem to believe in Hashem
so we've gone from 613 to 10 from 10 to
2 from 2 maybe to 1 debatable whether
you get to one or not that is a mock
locusts do we have the 1 or is the first
one I know they really a statement and
an observation more than it is a more
than it is a command the eben Ezra asks
a great question source number 19 a
revolver me Ben Ezra quotes she Alondra
Buda I leave him in your also cover he
quotes from a noodle AV me thy lady
might have been his brother-in-law's
son-in-law a distant cousin or an
acquaintance
this is debate among historians exactly
the relationship between the Ibanez rah
and abuser lady whose remuda lay V
Vitale V is the author of the kuzuri
which we'll see in a moment the great
pork book the great work the kuzuri
the lady also is the
author of countless poems and liturgy
and Putin and quino's we read on Tisha
both C&R Leticia Ali all the longing of
Fiona's review de la vie story of how he
made it at the straw was trampled
whether that's apocryphal or real and
that's the reviewed a lady
Stephen Ezra says I was asked by review
de la vie the following question llama
his kira nokia nokia asha jose see from
the air it's mitzrayim the law are
Marcia Assisi Shania Moritz the Aeneas
Asifa why does Hashem introduce himself
to us in the first commandment as I am
the Lord your God who did what who took
you out of Egypt what would have been
more impressive what is the greatest
thing in God's resume assuming that it's
a good strategy to lead with your
greatest accomplishment assuming that's
a good strategy
why does Hashem not lead the SSID Bruce
with his greatest accomplishment what's
his greatest accomplishment taking us
out of Egypt or creating the world s
tribunal a V creating the world is
clearly the greater accomplishment
creating X Neil oh one of the few Latin
terms or Jews know creating something
from nothing when we create we are
really bogus creators I go to Home Depot
and I buy the materials and I claim that
I built something in my kitchen I start
with the ingredients and I claim that I
cooked something a husband and a wife
they start with the ingredients and if
they're blessed they cook up a healthy
beautiful child but in every example of
creation that we go through we are given
and gifted those ingredients we get the
we get the the benefit and the luxury of
starting with the materials and the
ingredients God is the only one in all
of history who started with no
ingredients and created the very
building blocks the very materials and
ingredients from which he created so
that is the most impressive thing he or
anyone has ever done to create what's
called X Neil or something from nothing
yesh may I in to create something from
nothing so why does the machine say to
us that our scene now show uh my life
from cry so I welcome to my Mountain I
know Hashem in Ocala it's nice to meet
you I'm the Lord your God and and if
you're curious Who I am and you're
trying to put me in a context and you
want to know who I am
i nee sec Shania invites I created Oh
having an earth everything you're
enjoying everything you're benefiting
from everything that you love this world
that you live
the cosmos the universe he or me there
was nothing you can't even imagine what
nothingness looks like because you're
something but there was nothing trust me
and I created sure my inverts I created
everything something from nothing nice
to meet you
instead ashamed skips right over that
and he says Sean Michael Caro welcome to
my Mountain nice to see you again to
remind you who I am I'm the one who just
took a t' all the all the fanfare
pomp and circumstance the light and
sound show ten plagues flowing of the
sea that was me
nice to see you again I am the Lord your
God I took you at Egypt asks the kuzuri
- I'm from eben Ezra why didn't God
start with his most impressive and more
impressive feat quiz re quotes this
question - not coincidentally if it was
the result of a conversation he had in
Azra it makes sense to be alluded to
both in the even Ezra as well as the
kuzuri by the way if you want to know
more about the kuzuri you could find
online on why you Torah order by Ephraim
Goldberg org we did a series of great
classes the people of the book and I
taught one of them honor of you doll
lady the great kuzuri his background his
relationship and so on so the kuzuri
also asked this question for sake of
time let's look at it in the English
Cruiser he wasn't written in the Hebrew
anyway so I might as well read it in the
translation of the English and he says
the following because Ari is a
compilation of conversation the kuzuri
King has a dream where he's told that
your intentions are wonderful but your
practices are corrupt meaning it's
beautiful that you want to connect with
God but you're going about it all wrong
he wakes up and he says he has to
explore the truth of the world so I meet
with a representation from a
representative of Islam and he meets
with a representative representative of
Christianity and then he meets with the
rabbi and it wouldn't be part of our
library if the conversation with the
rabbi wasn't the bulk of the book and he
didn't conclude the rabbi was correct he
concludes the rabbi is correct and
ultimately converts and converts the
entire case our people in the beautiful
introduction Rebecca Rapp conversion of
this translation of the kuzuri with his
commentary he tells the history
historians actually have identified it
the Khazar people and it's king who all
converted on mass to Judaism so that is
a brief summary overview of the of the
kuzuri
so in their conversation the rabbi says
this is exactly the way I respond to you
we first made your inquiry
this is a motion first spoke with power
when he told them the god of the Hebrews
had sent him Moshe referred to God is
the God of Abram Isaac and Jacob because
it was well-known among the nations at
the time that I shall have communicated
with these men guided them perform
miracles for them
note that Moshe did not say God of
heaven and earth that sent him nor did
he refer to him as who created us all
similarly when I shown from smoke test
of our scene I he said on occasion look
a fight to get Egypt now I created
heaven on earth this is how I started to
respond when you asked me about my faith
I answered what I in the rest of the
Jewish people are obliged to believe
based on our first hanging encounter
with God we passed down this account
without interruption from generation to
generation and so even today it is as if
we are eyewitness to the event in the
kuzuri he answers the very question that
he posed to the ibanez from the
commentary of the ebin answer how does
the answer why does God introduce
himself with taking you out of Egypt
rather than creation for a very simple
reason raise your hand if you were there
when God created the world I'm not
suggesting any of you looked that old
I'm simply making a point which is none
of us were there by definition
nobody was witness to God creating the
whole universe so that is something
distant from us that's not relatable
it's not accessible it's not a
first-hand knowledge that we have that
was transmitted down to us it's
something we read about something we've
learned about it's something we take the
leap of faith about it's something that
we believe but none of us were there no
one was there so no one can testify and
start a chain of testimony that God
created the heaven and earth even though
we know it to be true all that is in
great contrast and contre distinction to
being taken out of Egypt how do I know
we were taken out of Egypt again all of
you are so young none of you were there
none of us were there so how do I know
how Shem took us out of Egypt because I
heard about it from my parents who heard
it from their parents who heard it from
their parents wrote it from their
parents who were there who were present
so this is part of our family narrative
it's part of our family story I don't
believe I shouldn't take us out of Egypt
because I read about it in a book I
don't believe that because I heard it in
a history class I know it to be true why
as much as I know any other truth
because it's part of my family narrative
it was passed down generation to
generation and so my parents gave that
testimony to me going all the way back
to the people who were first there and
who experienced it so Hashem says you
know what my relationship with you is
based on
do you know how I want you to connect
with me not through an abstract idea you
read in a book but through your family
story I want you to know I'll be there
for you like I was there for your
great-great-grandparents and just as
much as you believe and you know it to
be true that I did that for them because
you heard that story for your family so
- I want you to know and believe that
I'll do it for you and that I am doing
it for you so the whole relationship of
the Anoka shamu la caja is is based not
on an experience no one was present for
the creation of the world but rather is
based on the experience that we were all
and all of our ancestors were present
for namely namely the exodus from the
time so 613 down to 10 down 10 to 2 down
to 1 and the one which is the source and
basis of our whole relationship with the
revonnah - em is all based on
that one is all based on not a leap of
faith I don't believe God exists and I
don't believe he's involved in my life
because I'm taking a leap of faith
because I've been asked to I know it to
be true
because it's been passed down in my
family by people who were I witness
testimony by people who first-hand
experience who transmitted it through
the family till my parents told it to me
that's how I know it to be true that's
the basis of my whole relationship with
Hashem the last source I have here we're
not gonna read it inside it's long and
it's very beautiful is from Ravana Vasa
mimic of its mom arum it is my morale on
muna vahana master machine you come demo
murdered by the Nazis 1874 1941 a great
student to the Cubs came the regime of
brown Amish the greater of Ahonen asks
the following very very difficult and
compelling question he says I don't
understand there's a mitzvah
let's go like the Rambam there's a
mitzvah to have faith in God how do I
know what the SSN did was the first of
the 10 commandments I in Lord your God
have faith in God so what happens a Bar
Mitzvah boy this little pishers little
kid turns 13 a bat mitzvah bas Mitzvah
girl she turns 12 and overnight in an
instant they become obligated in all
Torah and mitzvot what's the first myths
for they do I spoke about this recently
at a Bar Mitzvah
on zoom' what's the very first Mitzvah
they're commanded him some say the first
myth says cabal so my flesh of mine
belief in God but
samso fur is commentary and commission
partials are a thesis no you know what
the very first Mitzvah Bar or Bat
Mitzvah girl or boy or obligated in the
moment the clock turns their magic day
the very first myth for they're
obligated in is to be Basim ha to smile
the very first mitzvahs be happy don't
worry be happy then you get to the rest
of mitzvahs make a block on a cup of
water or cabal so my solution is a Schmo
but the very first myths for the day
encounter when they go from being a
child to an adult
the very first Mitzvah is to be miss
simcha such a beautiful inside of Sam
suffer so Mahana is the following
question he writes and these are his
words not mine
he says I don't understand Tina Pena
emotional tenor is bossy Hashanah cabina
an initial aha philosophic hey yo
Segundo l'm come on Aristo the greatest
philosophers in all of history struggled
to take that leap of faith Aristotle
rahama Baz Luhrmann is a loony writes
aristotle Aristo Aristotle a Shia Rambam
hey I love Cher Kabul emotion in évora
cyclical emotion in évora the rambam
says about Aristotle in a greatness in a
greatness a great a great philosophical
mind and Aristotle who labored and
toiled and debated and analyzed and
plumbed the depths to try to discover
whether God exists so the great mind of
Aristotle struggle with God's existence
but we turned to this 12 or 13 year old
kid who had made a logo for the yarmulke
and a theme for their party and the kid
is still a little immature kid and we
say to this kid now all of a sudden
overnight you're obligated to have faith
in Hashem I know mo kako says of a
hard-on I don't understand it how can we
obligate that on a kid
adults are struggling with faith in God
Aristotle struggled with faith in God
and this little kid you're telling
because it was your Barnabas mitzvah all
of a sudden overnight now you have to
believe in God how is that possible
how is it possible asks asks rabbahum
and he gives the magnificent answers the
answer I want to leave you with today
gives a magnificent answer he says every
one of us from the moment were born know
that there's a created as a God just
like a little baby knows that they don't
come from nowhere they have parents and
that their parents have parents and
their parents parents have parents so to
every child as they mature
as they grow from infancy adolescence we
know that we don't come from nowhere
because if we look back far enough we
know that at the end of that long chain
of my parents and grandparents and
great-grandparents who created them and
who got this all started is a being who
created the whole universe the first
cause is the rabona shel olam everybody
in their in their pintle here in their
boy in their instinct everybody in their
kishkas into its and knows that there's
someone and something greater than
themselves there's a God says of a
Hannam it's not that the bar bar mitzvah
child you have to teach them there's a
God when they turned to over 13 it's the
opposite the myths is on the parent
don't mess it up don't make them grow
cynical or sarcastic like too many
adults don't have them become hardened
to the point that they don't even know
if there's a god anymore when they were
2 & 3 & 8 9 and 10 and 12 they knew
there was a God my children bar Hashem
my young children you make breakfast out
loud and you think I sham and you look
fresh I mean you talk about a Shem and
you see I show his hand in your life and
they start doing it to my seven-year-old
son leaves messages in our whatsapp and
Munna hush caja practice group all the
time where he tries to communicate -
kafra practice in his life his stories
are hilarious of - kafra practice in his
life I shouldn't want to living in them
winner recently when he discovered that
he had not closed the fly of his pants
but rather than be embarrassed he said I
was such careful practice because mommy
told him to get undressed for bed time
and he was already well on his way
because he never closed the fly in his
pants hush caja practice many adults
would not do that as - God brought this
story for a seven-year-old boy that was
a great ass careful practice you
understand that he sees now Hashem is
guiding whether he remembered to close
the zipper on his pants 7 years old when
he becomes 17 years old and I would try
to tell him my Shem is involved and
whether you remember to close the zipper
on your pants it's gonna be a lot harder
says vahanam 7 year old kid everyone
knows I have a mommy in Inaba and I have
a sob - after the bubby in his ad and I
have a great Bobby in a grades ad and it
goes all the way back there's someone
who started at all and good parenting
talks that our children and
grandchildren about Hashem make broca's
out loud thank gosh I'm a scam protest
against the Shem but whatever you do
talk all the time about a sham had
Manteca da bear I believe because I talk
about him talk about a sham and that
child will see a Shem everywhere - and
the child will leave hush gosh I'll
practice messages in your family
whatsapp
group about singer Shem what happens
when you become a teenager too many
people grow cynical and sarcastic they
start to question they start to doubt
they start to walk away that's what the
Mitzvah is says Ronon
you don't have to introduce emunah you
have to make sure that you don't
eliminate or squash or extinguish the
Emunah that's burning within the child
it's an entirely different perspective
and approach such a beautiful inside of
Rohan Oh
we went from 613 to 10 from 10 to 2 from
2 to 1 I'll end by telling you that even
the one can go to the first word the
entire Torah can be summarized and
subsumed in the opening word uh no fee
everything is in uh no fee is in the
fact that there are two are no fees in
this world we can live with the our
enoki our sense of eid ego my eye or
god's enoki the fact that there's an
omnipotent providential dominant god in
this world which is it so I put myself
first or do I submit to him am I in
charge or do I realize he's in control
does the world serve me or do I serve
him by trying to repair and improve his
world huh success I know he all made
many of anything I know he I stand
between you and Moshe tells the people
on Oakley I'm standing between you and
God
but their commentaries tell us don't
read it that way read it you know it
stands between us and God when you put
the wrong on no fee when you put your
ego I know Cleo may be new of a nation
when you put your own Oakley when you
put your ego it stands between you and
God
so in that choice between Aaron oh he or
his uh no fee
we should submit to his own Oakley I
want to bless everybody we should have a
beautiful Kabbalah Torah together
collectively individually happy healthy
and holy that we should observe all 613
mitzvot we should understand the
significance of the I Saracen dubrow's
we should see the first two that we
serve Him and if we fail to were
actually worshiping another worshiping
ourselves over him that we should live
and merit the reality of that first a
nokia Chanel or kapha and in fact in the
competition between our Enochian his we
should always defer to his I know he
have a beautiful and wonderful day
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