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Mina Shalom. One time he heard that one
of his students, his main student
came into town and he uh told sent a
message get him to come to my house
immediately. It was a Friday afternoon.
He went got
comes into the house and he writes he
writes this in the book. I see the
dough, the gina. He's in a robe. He has
uh something on his head because he has
a huge headache. Some lemon and this and
that. And he's looks like a mess. His
eyes are bloodshot red. The wife is
crying. The grandma's crying.
Everybody's in a mess. And he's pacing
back and forth, back and forth, back and
forth.
Everything okay?
Do you have to do this? What is the
onam? Huh? What? What is what is the
Rambam saying here?
I'm your student. You're going to ask
you're telling me, you're asking me to
give you the commentary, the
understanding, the explanation on the
Rambam. You I command you right now to
give me the meaning, the basic meaning
of what is the Rambam saying. Takes the
uh book, looks at it for a few minutes
and says this is the he tells him what
it says. That moment sits down. He says
to his wife, "Please, I need to eat."
After everything settles down, he finds
out from the wife that has not slept for
three days. Three days he's pacing back
and forth in his house. No eating, no
drinking, no sleeping, no nothing. Why?
Because he's trying to get to the bottom
of what is the Rambam saying here. Now,
you may think the Gina is is eccentric.
He's crazy. He's something. But that
means we're crazy. Why? Because the
difference between us and the goina is
that he understood the significance of
knowing what is the Torah saying here.
What is the Rambam saying here? What is
Hashem saying here? He understood the
significance of it of how it changes the
world, his world, our world, every world
by actually knowing the basic
understanding of what does it mean? What
does this mean? such an extent that as
soon as he ran into something where he
couldn't understand what he meant, he
couldn't sleep. He couldn't allow
himself to sleep. He couldn't allow
himself to eat. He couldn't allow
himself to to drink to nothing because
he understood the significance. We
hashem go to sleep every night with 500
questions unanswered with no problem. We
sleep like babies. Why? Because we
really don't understand the significance
of knowing the answer. Now, why did the
Gina get to such a point? because he
dedicated his time throughout his entire
life to such an extent that at the end
of his days when he was on his deathbed,
his students testified to seeing him
laughing and crying at the same time.
Why are you laughing? Why are you
crying? He says, I'm crying because I'm
leaving a world where for $20 in those
days money obviously for $20 you can
make a mitzvah every second called tit.
For five dollars, you can make a mitzvah
and aid.
Every second as a woman by covering your
hair with every second.
Every second you have it for $5 you can
make a mitzvah. For $10, $20 you can buy
a tit. I'm living a world where for
every second I can make a mitzvah for
nothing. Whereas once I go to this real
world, the eternal world, even if I give
them all the money in the world, I still
can't make one mitzvah. I'm leaving such
a world. such a wonderful place. That's
why you're crying because well no I'm
crying because not only am I leaving it
but I'm leaving it after doing
calculation that in 83 years there's a
few moments
there's a few moments I don't know what
I did since I can make a mitzvah in
every single second that mean and this
mitzvah is is so valuable in the next
world I want to make sure that I use
utilize every second I'm now 83 years
old and I know I'm doing the calculation
83 3 years. There's a few moments in
those 83 years. A few moments. I don't
know what I did. I don't know what I
did. The not to have a few moments in
every minute that we don't know what we
did. We burn hours and hours every
single day not doing anything. People
tell me, "Oh, no. I've just been uh
doing nothing all day." What do you mean
doing nothing all day? No, I just burned
some time. Had some coffee, went to
Starbucks, went to this place, went to
that, watched a movie, just burned a few
hours, but now I'm here. Just burned a
few hours like nothing. Why? Because we
don't understand the value of time. So
what does it mean? What what's the value
of actually not burning time? His
students ask him, okay, so now we know
why you're crying for the love. Why are
you laughing?
He says, because I remember reading that
they say that theim when uh when they
die, they get sadikim to welcome them.
And I never knew where I stood, but now
I know why. I see my father and Yakovu
right here behind you. And my father is
telling Yakovu, look, look, look, look
what kind of son I'm bringing you.
That's a person that didn't waste any
time. First understanding, first reason
is because he understood the value of
knowing the truth first and foremost.
Second thing is he understood that not
necessarily everything in a Torah is
going to be easy to understand but you
have to fight for it because that's in
essence the point that's the purpose
for
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