The Balanced Torah Diet Part 2 - The Colossal Yoke of Talmud Torah

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay welcome everyone uh to the colorado agar dipirka of kew garden hills and nationally welcome everyone we're continuing in our series on the subject of the mitzvah of tamatara the guidelines of the midst of tamatara what a person should learn when a person should learn some public service announcements you could still be mishtate in our new binyan uh you could go to charity.com forward slash mmh we could go to our site rabbidg.com and participate in our new international torah center if anybody would like to join us in the month of tamil's we are visiting the for the very first time the cover of rashi on his yard side huff test tamas really an amazing trip to tsarfast and to visit the location of many of the ballet hotels if that's something that you're interested in please contact us right away there's a early bird special right now and the trip is raksham filling up okay we're continuing on this important subject perhaps the most important subject because we know that the mitzvah of talmud torah is the most important of all the mitzvahs last week we examined the german conduction that taught us from the pasik vishinantam that a person should trisect their time into three parts mishna gamara mahlikas rashi and isis rashi says you divide the weak tissue says you divide the day you spend the third of your day learning and talmud and furthermore twice has brought an opinion the opinion of that we who do not do this we rely on that which the gemaran sanhedrin says that bavel is boil all components so tamid bavali actually encompasses mikra mishna and gemara we saw the shad brought this down that if a person let's say only has nine hours a day to learn you should spend a third of the time learning mikra a third mishna a third gemara and the rama brought down the opinion of rabbenutam that babali encompasses everything and the rama also said that this is in the beginning of one's learning actually the mahabharata said this is in the beginning of one's learning but once a person develops further then they don't have to spend as much time learning tasha bhaksava and mishna but they could actually delve most of the time into the gemara this is even without the sheet of rabbi no tam this is even if you are perfectly trisecting your time that's only in the beginning we mentioned from the sheetah from ravisha feinstein that even if somebody is very developed in learning bare minimum one still has to be marver sedra we also saw that rabistro salantar said that in our times the definition of mikra mishna has somewhat changed namely mikra in our times is gemara mishnah are resharing and talmud is the analysis of the reshanam now let's we're going to focus on what is gemara and how should a person divvy up their time in terms of gemara the um pasuk says in yeshaya vahaya munasi and it should be a faithfulness of your times a storehouse of salvation vadas so and nevertheless if shamayim is the oytsar good otherwise uh it's not so good so the gemara is uh finding a remis to the sixth sudarim of shas in the passage in yeshaya vahoja and muna sitaka hoysen yeshua is and then the gemara brings rava's interpretation of this passage number seven when god brings a person into their ultimate judgment omrim they ask you a couple of questions number one they ask you now did you deal in business honestly kavat did you set aside time to study torah asakta bipury of arivia did you engage in procreation see peace yeshua did you anticipate rashi says did you await the coming of the prophecies of the navy pilpal did you discourse and discuss analytically wisdom he wanted to try to extrapolate one matter from the next so rav was saying like there are six very important questions that a person should have a good answer to number one did they did you deal honestly in business number two did you set times to learn torah number three did you involved in number four did you await the salvation number five did you engage in torah discourse number six did you extrapolate it's interesting that out of the six questions that a person has asked from shanna now certainly there'll be many many questions but these are the six primary ones half of them three of them are about learning and that's very interesting twice this and conducion the first one is were you ethical in business that's the first question i asked yeah so the first question is so clearly if person's not ethical in business the learning is uh not that valuable asks that the gemaran conduction says the first question that a person is going to be asked after 120 is about torah so that contradicts our gemara and shabbos that the first question asked is nasa asata be amuna that's tausus's question in kadusan and the maritzkios quotes the vilna goin who sort of revolutionizes this gemara comes the vulnerage and the villain says that these six questions that they ask did you deal in business honestly did you set times to learn did you engage in procreation did you await the coming of mashiach actually these six questions are one question did you learn shas the question did you deal in business honestly is did you learn say there's ram question number two did you set times fixed time slow and torah did you learn my aid did you engage in procreation did you learn seidernashem did you await yeshua yeshua is naziken is kochim is tarais so actually the gra says that ray schlakesh and rava are saying a very similar teaching and namely rava is saying you need to learn the six books excuse me reshlakkish is saying you need to learn the six books and rava is saying that the six questions that they ask you after a hundred and twenty are did you learn the six books and that is consistent with what the gemara says in conduction on mum and beys that the first question they ask is about torah in other words accordingly the primary questions that a person has asked is if they learn torah so from this gemara we see something that that a person has a very significant onus and responsibility namely a person is charged with a very great mission in this world and that mission is to learn shi she said mishna or what we call shas and that's a very significant responsibility it's a responsibility that everybody has and it's something that a person has to have a good answer to after 120. in fact we'll skip for a moment to the ram khal and the dark hashem the ramakhala in the dark hashem says um that regarding measuring and regarding divvying out and allocating one's time for learning the first consideration needs to be that you need to learn all the material um did i lose you here the first consideration is you need to learn all the material the next consideration is okay if let's say i have 50 years left i'll divide the shisha sure mission accordingly if i have 20 years left i'll learn i'll divide accordingly in other words ramkhala is saying the objective is you got to go through everything and depending how much time you have that's how much time you could spend on every subject the writes in the dark hashem we also find levels and differentiation in accordance with rectifying all of creation meaning there is no aspect of creation that will not be rectified by learning torah the islam an aspect of creation which means as follows that god created the world with the torah which means every part of the world corresponds to a different part of the torah and each part of the torah so to speak is maslim and gives kayak to a different part of the bria the nimsa comes out shaharitsa it comes out somebody who wants to serve their creator a complete service needs to engage in all of its aspects in accordance with one's ability in other words if you want to serve god fully you need to learn the whole torah in order to rectify the whole world in other words each part of the torah corresponds to a different part of the world in order to fully rectify the world you need to learn the whole torah and in this vein our sages have taught us the reason why you need to trisect your life is because you need to equally perfect all of creation included in this is all aspects of torshei you need to divide your time in order to grab a hold of all khalakom not to forsake any aspect of torah so in other words should i learn humish yeah should i learn naveem yeah should i learn suvim yeah should i learn mishna yeah should i learn gemara yeah you gotta learn everything because you have to fix the birds and the fish and the cows and the land and the mountains and the air and the sky and each part of the world corresponds to a different part of the torah so you want to make sure that you divvy up your time and sort of cover all elements of torah now in terms it's coming out that this is quite a whopper of a onus and responsibility to be able to learn everything that they're going to ask okay did you learn did you learn my aid did you learn nashem did you learn nazikim and actually the onus is even further and we're coming uh very soon to sort of the real whopper of this series of shurim namely a very important question but first let's let's learn the extent of this obligation the makhabar tells us in simuncuf non-heist of aleph that one is obligated to set aside time to learn in the morning and evening the quotes in your day assume above there is that a person has to be que veya time for tamatara on the day and the night and therefore it is correct so besides setting time to learn after chakras you should also set time to learn between minha marev because by doing this you'll be saying of lima torah during the day and the night now regarding learning between minha marv the gemara bracha says you come back from the field in the evening you go to the shul if you know how to read humish you know how to read mishnah you do and says in aside a little bit of time to learn and the main reason is people don't realize how how great the obligation is now look at this ghazal tell us destined to judge the world someone who knows hamish but doesn't know mishnah hashem is panami menu hashem is going to turn his face away from him um and the pains of gehenna mo overcome the person and they take the guy and they throw him into gangnam if someone knows two sadaram of mishnah or three hashem says why didn't you learn all the halal so who knows hashem says did you learn taras kayanim someone who knows tara's kind of someone's going to say you know hashem is going to say why didn't you learn agatha someone who learned how goddamn is going to say why don't you learn shas so someone who does not use their time to set aside time to learn every day he's not going to know any of these things and he's not going to have a very good response on the oi madin so now the onus just became much greater because aside from the way the vilnigan learns the gemara that one has to make sure to have learned zraim the matter says that there's not going to be one subject in torah that a person is not going to be asked okay you know you know mishna why you know gemara if you look up the ghazal they're going to say do you know what the ki sayaka looks like do you know what the merkava looks like and it seems like quite a daunting task and the question is is it even a possible task can an average person really be held accountable and responsible to go through so much material not everybody has the background in learning not i mean uh many people learn daffy oi me you know do they really know it so if they ask okay did you learn sram yeah yeah but if they ask any questions on it the president said uh um uh i i i stepped out for that one they ask another question yeah i must have missed that day so then they're gonna ask okay so what do you know and if you learn a little bit slower than the daffy me okay so you know we do the dafashivua so it takes 50 years to go through the shas from the meadows it seems that kalatarakula is quite expansive it includes all the midrashim taras kayanim what is the definition of kalatarakula let's start with ramoshas chuva and then we're going to work this series backward rav moisha feinstein learns that there is a obligation on every jew to learn kala tarakula what is kala tarakula do you need to learn ushami do you need to learn you know there are a lot of books you look at the bookshelves there are a lot of books do you need to learn all this farm of the kida do you need to learn all this form of sofa do you need to learn a lot a lot of things to learn but moshe says from the rambam it's nashma there is an obligatory miss on every single jew lumoid has called her torah to learn because as long as you're not involved in learning you're going to forget so that's the reason why we always have to learn because you're not always learning then you're forgetting which mean now when is that mitzvah the is at the time that you set to learn during that time you have to make sure or try to go through kalatara kula so you learn a paraka day says because if you're just learning a short amount of time a day the ion you won't accomplish anything there's a separate mitzvah to learn the ion there's a mitzvah to go through kalatarakula and there's a mitzvah to learn in depth cesar of maisha that means they're two separate mitzvahs there's a mitzvah of learning in depth of learning analytically of really digging in and delving in and then there's a mitzvah to go through the whole corpus of material says ramosa this second mitzvah of going through kalatarakula is the source of daffy me that in most jewish cities in europe a hundred years ago people would learn a blood a day and it says it could be in every jewish city there was a rashas they would learn and the rav would learn with them or they would divide up the shas those who could learn on their own learnt on their own and most schools did this and when this custom of yiddin learning shots became weak they created they were neuhaeg through the great gang ramirez shapiro the abbasid of lublin to be misakin in the whole world why what's the purpose of daffy me by learning that that was written by ravashian ravina and if you learn shas that's considered learning toy rakula in other words what's the def a jew has obligated to learn khala tarakula how do you fulfill that by learning shas what about i'm not learning talmud you shall me you're not mekhuyov part of the midst of learning tarakula does not include you xiaomi why it's very difficult to learn your xiaomi sir maisha there's no clear commentary on the xiaomi like we have rashi and the reason why we don't have a clear commentary is we don't really possibly like to use me and says in the early generations many great gadolin didn't learn you xiaomi many good oil never saw the yusami so the definition of learning kalatoya rakula is talmud babli and that was fulfilled throughout the generations with chevroshas and nowadays is fulfilled by learning daphiami and you don't fulfill the myths of learning in depth by learning it but that is how you could basically fulfill the obligation of learning khalatarakola now even that is a very big obligation i want to jump to another aspect of this and that is even though we're saying the definition of learning kala tarakula is talmud bavli there are a number of things that you need to learn even more fundamental than anything we mentioned and that is what revolver writes about revolving he brings that rabbi and zaka i told this talmidim you know what's the right path he said go out and see what is the good path that a person should cling to and who did he tell this to he told his tamidim histamine but they had to investigate what is the right path to cling to and revolve says in our generation there's an even greater obligation what is the correct path you can't you can't just say well you know the good path in this world is to be a good jew to be good to god and good to other people is that all you need to do is it enough just to say i'll follow intuition in such darkness and confusion of our times of course we need to really delve into what is the obligatory learning that every jew must be engaged in and no and revolver says well i'm gonna tell you a young person who wants to approach the world of spirituality there are four main subjects that every jew must learn and know and by the way none of those four subjects are even gemara even if you never open up a gemara you could still fulfill the four fundamentals that doesn't mean you're not obligated to learn kala tarakula but shasbabli is not the yasoid it's not the foundation foundation number one we'll come to this further is you need to have a very wide ranging knowledge in so and that's pasha that's obvious if you don't know if you don't know misha nubura then you don't know how to practice judaism so you could be a big lambda and no you're vamas and you're an amaretto gum or because you don't know what shoe to put on first yeah i know the sugar notice is the right you don't know what shoot a tie first yeah the shogunate says the left shoe yeah what about a woman what shoe does a woman tie for if some zombie says the left uh the woman ties her right shoe first because she doesn't wear it filling what shoe do i untie first when i take a shower what side of my body do i wash first what part of my body do i wash first i don't know so you got to know shukha naak with the mishna bara you need to have wide-ranging knowledge in hummus with rashi and ramban number three you need to have wide-ranging knowledge and fundamental knowledge of perce voice with rabbenu yaina by the way on friday we try uh we have a share a progression on it number four you need to know music very well revolver says you should spend 30 minutes a day learning by the way if you want you could join us every morning nine o'clock on zoom we learned mishabura we're learning better to learn with even better if you learn the background in the gemara but don't don't say well yeah i know i already uh i know you learn one page of mr bro you'll see you don't know i don't mean you i mean me so so think about it you have to know color tara kula and these four fundamental learnings are not even called tarakula it's even that's a lot of things to learn and we're going to see we haven't really even began to scratch the surface of all the things we need to learn so i'm going to jump right into maybe what i would consider the main question of this series and that is uh oh um is this really possible and i want to read to you the question in the safer shavette monster the shaytan mustard was one of the great turkish gadolin rebel yohakoin of izmir that somehow my children are descendants of i'm not sure how i know it's through my wife's side and um we were zorkha to be at his kever a few months ago now for all you jews out there i don't recommend going to turkey right now just because i happen to have gone there do not follow in that path not a good place to go right now but i'm very happy people said are you happy you went to turkey i said as soon as i got back okay i was very happy i went but um he was a great preacher he wrote many swarm including the safer shavit mosser and he asked the question we're probably all afraid to ask and uh let's take a look this is in the safer shape at mostly parikh me malef hashem number 33 on your sheets the hanoi the great almighty god who is praised by all the constellations and in the mouth of israel and especially those who learn torah because those who learn torah recognize hashem's greatness and his majesty and they understand to be mekhavain and to explain and to and to comprehend the alzheimer the matter says god is going to ask very detailed questions what does my kisey cover look like what does the merkava look like like the madrid michelle says come and see how powerful the urban is that hashem is destined to judge the world in the valley of yahushua and when tamir come come before him god said hey you ever learn anything if they say yeah hashem said yeah really you think you learned tell me what you learned in humish tell me what you learned to mishnah therefore hazal say whatever you learned it should be in your hand or whatever you learn to admission should be in your hand you don't want to be embarrassed in the omad in review would say oh illabusa and he doesn't have mishna hashem is going to turn his face from that away and the pains of gehenna will prevail and they're going to take the guy and they're going to throw him into the purgatory if you learned two sadaram or three is gonna say why didn't you learn four five and six now this is very important if god says let him be everything's good and if not he'll be judged like the first guy huh why the first guy god's going to say you learned hamish you'll learn mishnah so they're going to take them and throw them into the self-cleaning oven without any excuse and the second guy he learned two or three saddam god's going to say why didn't you learn 4 5 and 6. if god says let him be why would god say lay him let him be god didn't say to the first guy let him be why is there this option with this gentleman that god might say let him you know let him be if god says great and if he doesn't he'll be like the first guy you know what's this re-possible reprieve that's available so that is a major breakthrough in this whole subject in other words yes we're responsible to learn kala tarakula but it seems like everybody is judged differently so what is the judgment based on the matrix continues so god says why don't you learn tara's kaya so tara's question all the rivers go to the gemara sono learns gemara hashem's gonna say you learned gemara do you know maison merkava do you know what i look like there's no greater do you know my secrets isn't that my splendor my majesty why don't you recognize my greatness says these shayva and mostly from here we see tamidek by learning torah they could be mockier and know the greatness of hashem his beauty they could praise him they could know his names they could be mekhavi to the sheriffs of things and they can know all the secrets of the universe great and he brings over here a special tv that somebody who knows different secrets could say that feeler goes we bundeslam you know that we're flesh and blood nobody could understand your full greatness like it says god al-adhayin of rav even if we knew all your various letters and names and all the various kavanaughs and the kaban of torah nevertheless we wouldn't get to the nth degree of what's available and certainly we who are only boss of adam we don't know these cabanas therefore hashem iras that my chakras my most of my minha my ila my mother that i dab in every day and all my torah and all my master mitzvos please consider it as if i know all the secrets of the universe and i'm doing the mitzvah trying to tap into all the great secrets secrets and here we come to one of the most uh frightening and compelling questions you could ever ask says the valshev and moser um we need to analyze the following aspect of the above mentioned matrice if you take hazard literally you learned oh why do you learn okay here going to the barbecue you learned mishna why didn't you learn all six saddam oh you didn't look okay go into the oven you learned that you don't learn merkaba says the ishiba moser you have not let anybody in this world breathe could anybody really learn all this stuff even godola hadar don't know all of this you think the dalai haddar know every single medrish and every detail of every al-aqsa maybe but realistically you think even great talmide from a hundred years ago they knew everything this was writing this a few hundred years ago it says even in our generation the great people don't know all of this and we know there's a principle which literally means god's not looking to bust your chops what you think an average person can know every taistus and shasta how about even every taistus on one masaka and especially we're in golos there's no greater bitter torah so how could hashem really ask of a person on the yay maddin you think anyone today knows my summer cover so what everybody is doomed you know what a matter is like this makes you want to do it makes you want to throw in the towel and not even begin learning you're telling me i got to learn all of shaas all she says all of shaas everything all right it ain't happening so i might as well read the newspaper because maybe look not so hard to get down last yesterday's yankee game so i'll never i'll i'll i'll know uh all the nine hitters and the pitcher and the relief pitcher that's easier but now you tell me after no call tara cool on that that that ain't happening does anybody know called tarakula says the seven muslim anyone who hears these words of ghazal miss yoich menachem that's what's going to be my end because if ultimately god's going to ask me all these questions about learning and i'm not going to know it and i i see what the matter says what the where where people are destined to go if they don't know the answer this forget the whole thing says the shiva muslim yahweh a person can give up hope and he'll do whatever he wants i might as well spend the rest of my time on the golf course what about other words of khazal that seem to contradict this for example literally mean you gotta know babli you shall meet raskoyanim what about the gemara menache that says whether you'd learn a lot whether you'd learn a little bit as long as you have the right intentions which seems to indicate that with a minimal that a person learns look i learned a little bit in the morning i learned a little bit at night i try to learn other times i try to learn on shabbos because i'll seem to say as long as you give it your best shot it's very beloved by god what about other ghazal there's the matters that say some people are temikra some people are zakhita mishna some people are zakat talmud some people are to everybody here hazal seemed to say that different people have different connection to torah that what about some people have a like to learn lambda some people like to learn agatha some people like to which seems like that not everybody has the same share and helac in the midst of talmud torah what about the ghazal that say the from sara agra it's it's all dependent how much effort you put in shannera that seems that the person's reward is dependent on the effort even if the achievement is lacking but that's against what ghazal said that a lost lover god is going to go through every line of shasta and say do you know this do you know this do you know this okay you know this you know the martial's question you know what's required his answer you know we keep his answer how does rebecca bear explain it what's what was rebecca say so there seems to be somewhat of a contradiction do you really need to know everything do you really have to learn everything or is it enough to make reasonable efforts on the one hand khazal say they're going to ask you about everything so basically the shaivin mustard takes a very interesting approach to this and we'll develop it more next week that every single jew who stood on har sinai was given a helicon torah and not everybody's helicantara is the same some people were given a helic of shaytara some people were given a helic of mishnayis as well some people were given a helic of gemara some people were giving some people were given a basic portion some people were given a deeper portion some people have already mastered parts of the torah in previous skill gulem and they've come now for one specific helicopter and therefore everybody is obligated to try to master their share and connection to tara and that's accomplished by giving it your all to try to really learn as much as you possibly can will there be people will there be great people who are asked no why don't you know everything yeah some people were given everything but not everybody was given everything and the last thing the last purpose of any statement of ghazal is to make anyone feel guilty or to feel overwhelmed we have to know the torah was given to us for one reason out of hashem's love for us and therefore every statement of ghazal was said in order for us to feel hashem's love for us and if you come across the statement of khaz well they're going to ask you everything otherwise you're going to turn into a shish kebab then clearly that's not what it means because we know the torah is ahava rabbah ahaftanu hashema keno khemla gedoyla visera khamalta eleno and if you hear a statement of khazal and it doesn't seem like aha rabbah i have tanu then we have to ask well how is the statement of ghazal a demonstration of hashem's great love for us and the answer is hashem gave us so much torah because he wanted to give us all kinds of enjoyment in alam so he gave us all kinds of torah and this is what we're going to continue to delve into and ultimately it's going to be a great balance in other words don't say well hashem you see i only learned parque a voice and i only learned the first mishna actually i focus on the first three words because my torah is moisha kibal torah you know don't fool yourself you could do more than that you were given more than that so in other words a person has to live with a balance that akhole expects from us in accordance with our capabilities on the other hand we probably have more capabilities than we like to admit so we always have to live with the balance of learning basimha and recognizing that we could only accomplish our khelak and whatever our hey like is we should rejoice in it and on the other hand we should always shoot for the stars and try to learn everything and if we try to learn everything we'll learn a lot with hashem's help and that we'll develop this idea as a shemour next week we'll also try to put into place okay so there's gemara and there's musser and there's halacha and there's hamish how do you divvy it up and next week we'll start with the following subject when we talk about bob lee learning beverly so should you learn fast or should you learn slow you know uh in some yeshivas they learn very analytically you know i went to um in a certain sense in the shiva that that i i went to it's uh renowned for their in-depth learning you know so in our yeshiva we learned maharam shift in order to learn my aram shift you need to know every line of twice this claw with the chakravataria in a way you need to know the gemara much better than if you just learned outside londos and maybe in some of the khasid yeshivas the tradition was to cover a lot of ground we'll see next week that they're really two separate mitzvahs there's a mitzvah of ion and mitsubikias we're going to read a letter from rabshach who is very critical of the slow pace that many yeshivas are learning um but basically you know what we'll begin this subject with uh the the comments of the lavish mordechai and his parish and kama he says that really there are two mitzvahs there's learning and learning shasbikiyas and he says that even though he spoke at length about the importance of pilpa talmidim because that's how you really understand the torah but it's not enough to learn pilpal some people are very sharp and they have sarah yashara but they don't know anything like that and therefore like uh they said ramer had a talmud and he could be matara shemets and matama a hundred ways but he didn't know anything and uh you have two kinds of learning you have rabbi yosef says sinai which is a wide-ranging knowledge of tyra and you have oikar harim which is very sharp and therefore he says the following eight says very good as soon as you can learn gemara and tysus you should have two limu them one learn gemara with taisus and the other after they learn gemara without isis and to review it and to know it very well and then he says an hour a day you should spend learning um again this is talking about somebody who is uh ben yeshiva and he has many many hours a day to learn so he'll spend half the day learning the kiosks half a day learning eon and that's really what we did in yeshiva we had a morning say there where we learned uh in depth and actually we didn't learn blood we learned suggyos and we could spend many weeks on one sugya but in the kiosk actually we did uh we did the case with tysis and we uh you know once you reach a certain level you you're responsible to learn about 80 blood a year with isis um belgium will continue next week with rabshak's letter and we'll develop the idea of the shavette moser bye rabbi have a great rest of the day everyone be well okay have a good day bye-bye you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com