The 13 Principles of Jewish Faith - Principle #8: Torah - Calling to G-d - Rabbi Akiva Fox

[Music] in the ninth of the 13 principles of faith discussing the Torah and the Divine Will that the throw was given over to the pleasure of being on to the Jewish people I'd like to start off with another yeshivish joke sorry Who I am let me see via got payers I got a beard I going to do them I mean she wish somebody goes to the Kotel to the coso and he sees there's a man standing there by the way I'm going to say this joke over but I can't explain it because once you have to explain a joke it loses all its potency loses its if you get it you get it if not you could call me up writer you know make a comment on the videos on he W could comment on and say I didn't understand the joke and I would gladly i will email you the entire explanation but let's just take it for granted that take it on the standard so a guy goes to the coast only see somebody standing there every two seconds he says kazakh scholar viscal a right every two seconds he says another cottage she walks over to me says you know some I'm sorry I don't know who you are big you can't just do the can't just say cottage whatever you want the guy says are you telling me a hollow ha things like I'm telling everyone knows you can't just say cottage whenever you want you and it's their specific time you can think can't just say whenever you want like Isis are you telling me I hahaha he says I'm telling you that that's the practical I mean everybody knows that's what are you telling me I love hug so yeah I'm telling you I long good scholar bees gosh miraba that was the joke again if you didn't get it call me up there's a Madras the major says something fascinating at the end of days God will reveal secrets depth to the Torah that was never given over to mankind he will teach things in the Torah that mankind has never had the ability to contain retain and this will bring great joy to the world the ultimate pleasure when people will listen to the divine teachings that were never but never before revealed to mankind and after he does this after God reveals this I believe its governor MELAS will get up and he will say kaddish is God LVS god Ashley raba now we know that at the end of prayer at the end of tree love people say Kaddish and then everyone leaves the shul so that's not what's happening over here is he's not going to get up to say Kaddish now okay everybody class is over go home do what you want that's not the point of the cottage obviously something great is going on that specifically after these great revelations in the depths of the Torah all of a sudden cottage is said so let's look at the words of Kaddish gaga vs Kadosh may it be great and sanctified chimay raba the great name of Hashem the great name of a Shem will become great should be great and sanctified why are we mentioning this after revelations in the depth of the toes and the answer is perhaps that the rambam nah Mon amis tells us that the entire Torah is the names of a sham shame my passion the names Russian what the word that we see formulated in front of us voracious bara Elohim that is one understanding or one way to formulate the letters to give us an inkling as to what the Torah is referring to but there's a completely different way to perceive the Torah and that is that they're not sectioned off into words it's all letters Bay's rays election and instead of seeing the word voracious there's Bay's rays olives there's genuine soft meaning there's a completion of letters that are actually names of Hashem and those names of a shame are something that we cannot say we cannot utter we cannot pronounce because they are too holy and we are not worthy of mentioning them but they are there that is what the Torah actually is every letter and every word in the Torah we see in a sense and again god forbid I don't mean this but we see one shallow superficial word called voracious bara Elohim but really hidden inside there are actual names of a Shem and those names of a sham we are not worthy yet of understanding or even realizing what name or how they are the names or what the names even represent but God will reveal to us at the end of days those names and what they are and what they can do and what he is etc so the first thing that men after hearing these these unbelievable these never before revealed secrets of the Torah and the names of a Shem the first thing that man will do after hearing this after experiencing these new revelations is he will get up and say yes Gaga be escada chimay rava may it be great and sanctified the name chimay raba the names of a Shem because that is what is revealed in the depths of its own so what does that tell us that tell us tells us that every word and every letter in the Torah is so much more than it looks like you're that it appears there is so much depth and there's so much power in the words of the Torah the rambam maimonides tells us something fascinating you have one plastic that says vaio mirage a mimosa 7 Simpson said to motion must appear hundreds of times in the total and there's another puzzle Shema Israel ashimmel ok neurochemical hear o Israel a shame is greater shame is one now that shema those words are probably the most vocal most most fundamental words in the entire Torah and yet the words by Omar mo mo shall a Moorish m says the Moshe thing those are more you know okay random the rambam says there is no difference whatsoever in the holiness of shema yisroel and then the holiness of a llamar Shem each one contains within it the secrets of the world each one is God's names so just because in essence one we understand in a much deeper way or in a much more important way does not reflect on what it is because what it is is the names of a Shem and what biomass shem emotional a more is and what Shamar assemble ok know is they are both names of a Shem one we have discovered a more practical way of relating to it but that does not reflect on what it is in actuality there is so much holiness there's so much depth so much secrets to the names of a Shem that exists inside the total when we say that the Torah in essence is names of a Shem there's a very practical implication of that and that is that in essence when we learn Torah we are calling out the names of a Shem we are calling to a chemin we are saying a sham guidance teach us show us the way direct us in life even if we don't know or we don't realize that we're saying that when I open up the book I am asking God show me the way in life show me your plan for me in life show me the direction that you wish for me to take I'm calling a Shems name I'm saying I said please help me so when we learn Torah we have to understand that this is not just going into a library pulling out a book and studying information this is not just a way for us to you know implant in our brains certain concepts this is a call a cry out to Hashem saying Hashem direct me show me your way guide me with your life and even if the words don't seem to be saying that that has nothing to do with it because those words are so eternal and so sanctified and so holy they are names of a Shem that when I turn to our man I say a sham I'm turning to you for your direction not only in the halacha practical ideas of what I should accomplish but in everything that book that you're reading is actually a cry to Hashem so it's interesting that the Torah as we know it is God called to man kind of what he would like them to accomplish in the world but when we study the Torah it is our call to God to show us mankind how and why and where what we should do his direction his life guide us a Shem we're calling out to you a Shem we call your name and we ask you a sham to please guide us in the light of the Torah that you wish you [Music]