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So one of the masim one of the times
that they had a very interesting story
where is kavuta was Antonino. Antoninos
was Caesar, the Roman
emperor and Rebi was the prince of Am
is but Antonino knew that the Torah was
holy and he wanted to study Torah and he
studied Torah with the best of them with
Rebi. But he knew that if his people the
Romans would actually find out that he's
studying Torah, they'd kill him. So he
built himself a tunnel from his house on
the ground all the way to Rebi. Tunnel
was built and he would go with two
soldiers from his house the tunnel all
the way to Rebi every night to study
Tawa. one soldier he would kill in the
beginning of the
tunnel and a second guard as soon as he
arrived at at Reb's place he'd kill him
also because he knew that if they knew
if they were these guards knew what he's
actually doing he's learning Torah with
the Jews he would tell the people they
would kill him so the dean to allow him
to kill this guard
was meaning that if he comes to kill you
you're allowed to kill him first he
wasn't a murderer he was protecting his
own life he was just obligated as a king
to have these
guards. So, nonetheless, one
time he arrived at the study hall with
Rebadosh and he sees Rebi, one of his
students is there. He says,
"Fod, oh, with all due respect, I told
you this the studying is just between
you and me, not your students. Uh, you
know, I don't I can't have
witnesses." He says, "Don't worry." He
says, "He's like an angel." says if he's
an angel, tell him to go tell my guard.
Bring my guard
inside. The guard's dead. But he doesn't
tell him that. So he sends go bring the
guard. Go bring the guard. He goes bring
the guard. Now the saying in the in the
says only a fool brings bad news. So now
the of sees a dead guard. He says maybe
he didn't know was dead. Maybe he knew.
Maybe he didn't know. I'm going to be
I'm going to give bad news to the king
of the goim. Only a fool does such a
thing. What does he do? He brings him
back to
life. Why? Cuz he was kadosh. He brings
him back to life. They go
inside. Antonus knew he killed him. He
says, "Ah, Rebi, you're right. You're
students. They're not like people.
They're not like people. Why? Because
they're named in the not like people.
They can revive the dead. But please,
next time don't bring them anyway." Now
why do I say this? Rebi was in a
generation after
Rabaka. He was a student of of the
student of
Rabaka. And Rabaka was a student of
Rabbinos and it keeps going up and up
and up and up and up and up all the way
to Mosheren.
The amazing thing is that just when you
talk about Rebi, in order for you to be
a student of his student to be mentioned
by name, you have to revive the dead
meaning that even the the Rambam which
was not even able to be a student of but
when it's compared to us like I said
before we're as far from the Rambam as
we are from the moon for as well we are
from the sun. It's it's it's beyond us.
And the way that we see it is that there
was one guy, one intellectual, a uh
Nobel Prize winner. One time he said,
"What's the big deal about this Rambam?
What's the big deal? He wrote some laws.
You guys are studying how he wrote it.
Just study what he wrote." No, no, no.
We don't study that way. The Rambam has
such wisdom. We study how he wrote it.
What letters he
used as if it's like how God wrote the
Torah. It's not just what he wrote, but
how he wrote it.
What's the big deal? It says, listen, he
wrote not only the law, but he wrote it
in the least amount of words, the most
amount of information with the least
amount of words. But Einstein said, if
you don't know something to explain
something in a simple way, then you
don't know well enough. Meaning, you
have to be able to explain to a child
most amount of information with the
least amount of words. So, he says, pick
any law that the Rambam said that we
have in our Torah. Write it in the least
amount of words. The guy studies this
law, simple law, whatever it was. After
a few months, he comes back. Okay, I
wrote this law in 21
words. Rabbi said, "Lower it a little
bit." Okay, a few more
months. 17 words. Lowered it a little
bit. What do you mean it's less than 17?
He lowers it to 13 words. 13 words. And
then it's gets to a point where he's
convinced that at 13 words he's we're
finished. They look at the Rambam where
it's seven words. And not only that, at
the seven words at the seven words, it's
actually more clear and more educating
than the 13. That's how far we are. So
when we understand that how holy and
smart and
wise and far from us the sages were we
have to think twice before we say I
don't agree with the Ramba I don't agree
with I I don't agree with the because in
reality you're only saying it because
you don't understand who you're dealing
with thank for
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