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okay uh
welcome everyone uh thank you so much
for uh giving me the opportunity to join
you um i see
i see on the line some of the kaverim
who uh
i had the privilege of meeting when i
was in recently in
london and manchester
and uh it's really great honor to join
you again and
even though we're living in very
difficult times
um
we all
we are we are all still still reeling
from
unfortunately so many casualties
especially here in new york
um great people godaily israel rabbanim
and
barak hashema looks like it's on the
decline but still our shoals are not
open i'm in our show now but i'm the
only one the the walls of the shul are
lonely
but amazingly
even in such difficult times
it seems that as uh
as difficult as the times are the torah
has exploded even more and more who
could have imagined that in such a
circumstance
almost every day you see shiurim magi
deshirama giving shir in one country
delivering it to another continent the
amount of shiro and the amount of terror
that is proliferating is like is
unheralded so uh
that's sort of the silver lining despite
the fact that we can't go to the schools
and we can't meet with our magi shurim
live but there are opportunities for
learning and in a sense in an unheralded
way so i'd like to ask you just for a
moment to sit back
and to
i'm just going to adjust this and just
to imagine for yourself for a moment
you're sitting in a very comfortable
situation
you were in an office perhaps an
air-conditioned office
and you were kicking back you were in a
plush chair you were in a comfortable
chair the air conditioner was on and
you're in the lap of luxury
and you're sitting there and you're
sipping water in a glass and there's ice
in your glass and there's a lemon in the
cup
and you're quite comfortable you had
just in fact you just ate dinner and you
had a nice steak dinner
you could not be more comfortable and
you see passing by the door of your
office you see a guy walking by with a
pitcher and he has iced tea in his
picture and you say
my friend
my merciful friend
who has mercy have mercy on me i would
like some
iced tea in america we call it snapple
and the guy's looking at you like you
like you you know fell off the moon
merciful friend who has mercy have mercy
on me
pal you're in a very comfortable
situation over here you're sitting back
in a comfortable chair the air
conditioner is on it's not like you're
dehydrated you're drinking a cup of
water there's ice in your cup there's a
lemon in your cup so you don't have iced
tea but this is not the time and the
place to invoke mercy god have mercy on
me excuse me uh have mercy on me why you
why are you invoking the concept of
mercy what does mercy have to do with
anything
and imagine
if
your friend who was reluctant to give
you some of the ice to you said really i
can't believe it don't you remember
my great grandfather when your
great-grandfather was in a desperate
situation my great-grandfather built him
out so i have i have ancestral merits so
do me a favor give me some peach snapple
give me some iced tea
that would be quite bizarre for somebody
to invoke
to get a cup of iced tea when he has
every comfort in the world
however
imagine the following scenario someone's
walking in the sahara desert someone's
walking in a very
difficult situation someone who is
completely sapped of all his energy
someone is completely dehydrated and
he's about to
to
faint perhaps about to die of
dehydration and off in the distance he
sees somebody with a cup of water
he goes running over to the person would
the per would you ask well
you know
i was just wondering
would you think perhaps you could
consider and you know no problem maybe
you'll get back to me on this one would
you perhaps consider
sharing with me a bit of your water no
pressure
not nobody's going to ask that way
because when your life is on the line
when your health is on the line
you don't say would you consider i was
just wondering you say my merciful
friend who has mercy of mercy on me and
if needed you're going to invoke every
merit you have in your repertoire to try
to get a hold of that water because that
water is literally life
you know you could analyze the sheman
ashrae there are 19 things we pray for
every day
in none of them do we make a big deal
that what we're about to ask for is so
desperate that we ask we banish on we
ask god to have mercy we don't say
merciful god who has mercy have mercy on
us we don't you we don't invoke that not
for parnassa not even for refuge not in
shema que eleno
there seems to be nothing that important
in the estrada that it warrants us
invoking the mercy of god three times
there's only one request in the entire
sitter
that we feel that this request is so
vital so important we're so desperate
for it
that we need to pull every trick out of
our bag and say merciful god who has
mercy have mercy on us what are we
asking to be banished some for
not us from our children no
a good job
good food a shidduch maybe
no
we're asking
avinu
our father merciful father
who has mercy
molenu and what what are we asking the
ribosome for the same
bilibenubina please help us understand
lahavan
to comprehend
that we should have a deep understanding
to under to hear the torah to understand
the torah little might to learn
ullah lamed to teach the torah lismar to
observe the last i sent to fulfill
there's only one thing in this world
that is so vital that is so important
that is so basic that is so fundamental
that we pull out every trick in our ours
we say
and not only that if that's not enough
we say
no
not in my marriage in the merit of my
holy grandfather my holy great
grandfather my holy ancestors you know
when we ask for refuge somebody is loyal
we don't ask hashem heal the person in
the merit of our forefathers it's almost
as if we don't have the gumption
to to act as if we're so desperate that
we're going to pull that out of our
repertoire
but when it comes to a deeper more
profound more meaningful understanding
of the torah
nothing is overkill
why
why is this the most important request
in our in life
why is this the most important request
in the siddha the sitter is pretty big
a lot of people say there are a lot of
pages in the sitter it takes me a long
time why is this the most important
request of one the answer is very simple
we explain it
in the corresponding bracha in the
evening in marav
the reason is
because learning torah
is not
a cup of iced tea
we think of it like a cup of iced tea
you know how we sometimes think of tyra
yeah when i get around to it if it fits
into my schedule you know today it's not
going to work
this week it's not going to work maybe
[Applause]
we always have reasons why
it is not so critical for us to really
begin learning now
because we view torah as look i'm in a
comfortable situation my life is good as
soon as i just you know organize my uh
affairs a little bit i'll definitely get
around to that iced tea of learning
but we annunciate daily that torah is
not iced tea
torah is not a luxury it's not a
convenience
it's not even something essential
to make our life more meaningful
but rather we say
learning torah is the very definition of
life
you know a speaker in europe once got up
in the olden days and one of these magi
dim and he got up he was taught he was
extolling the the fundamental aspect the
fundamental nature of torah and he says
torah is so important it's like air to
breathe
and
ravel it's the great rashiva of kamenetz
he protested he was he said no that's an
understatement you're belittling the
torah the torah is not like air to
breathe
the torah is life itself
which means that we have a basic
understanding
that our soul comes down to this world
for a very short amount of time
70 80 90 we hope 120 years
and what's it doing over here
what's its function what's its purpose
what's its objective
one of the primary the primary
objective of being on this world why
hashem created us is to be misdabek to
the torah to learn torah the torah is
our life a jew without torah it's almost
as if
they're not even alive they're not
breathing they have no heels they have
no
you know
we know throughout history
the remarkable self-sacrifice that yidan
have made to learn torah over the mo in
the most difficult and the most trying
circumstances
you know we could we could give many
stories we could offer many anecdotes
i'll just share with you a few
in the
shivas in the shiva world
perhaps the most
venerated safer the most londish safer
the safer of the greatest talmudic
analysis the safer kid so
written by rab aryaka and he also wrote
abnemi and we also wrote the
sha'ashmitsa but the soy sachin is the
highest echelon of talmudic analysis
so we would think for somebody to have
the wherewithal
and somebody to be able to probe the
depths of the talmud of the gemara of
the shas they must have been sitting
back
in a library in a comfortable library
with a perfect lighting surrounded by
books surrounded by the perfect setting
to
encourage and to inspire in-depth study
do you know what kind of conditions the
science was written in
he was so poor
he had such deprivation
it was so cold in his flat in his
apartment that literally he had to keep
his ink well under his arm under his
cover so that the ink well would not
freeze because it was so freezing cold
the conditions were so impossible these
were the conditions that the kutsoy
sakhoishan had to write his safer in
makin avram magnum rum the classic noise
on
so we think the mughan avram
he had to have a situation where he was
able to really clarify the shahana
he had you know the gemara says um
learning torah needs clarity so he must
have been sitting in
this
great academy with windows that were
high up in the sky and he was able to
focus on his learning
in great comfort the mughal avram was so
poor that he could not afford a pen he
had to use the coals of his oven to
write mugen avraham furthermore the
magnafrom was so poor he cannot afford
paper many of his hiddushim he wrote on
the walls of his home
and we think about these stories and we
say you know these people
they sacrificed they sacrificed masira
snephesh they gave up of their life
they
sacrificed their life and comfort to be
able to learn
and of course we know many stories in
the holocaust in those dark years
we're
under the most trying conditions
with the threat of of uh death people
continue to learn the gemara to speak to
the rabbi and i'll read to you a little
account from my grandfather in his
memoirs
my grandfather writes
he wrote this article in
da de chavarte
many years ago
and
let me just locate it here
he writes we were hauled to the forced
labor camp in bed zinn and labor there
under the most brutal conditions
in the early morning darkness in the
freezing temperatures of the bitter
bitter winter we stood for a lineup then
performed back breaking labor under
constant whippings
what provided us the secret mysterious
strength and endurance to continue
breathing
in other words how did we survive why
didn't we throw in the towel what gave
us the
reason to continue on
my grandfather writes lulay soy rasha
if not for the torch of torah that aided
me i would have been lost and succumbed
to my sufferings
we stood together with our dear
unforgettable friends
the great brothers
along with many other tamil
with whom we were able to discourse in
torah during the dismal nights
in sanhedrin says
during the dark golus nights
the gemara the talmud that these
precious jews remembered and recited by
heart served as an air tumid an eternal
light to illuminate their hopeless
downtrodden hearts
so we're familiar with these types of
stories
but the way we sort of
digest the story the way we react to the
story is look these people had masiras
nephesh
they gave up their life to be able to
learn torah
so i would just like to make a little
bit of a tweak and a little bit of a
reality change and perhaps the way we
perceive some of these stories
this past shabbos i read an account
of two russian refuse necks who after 45
years in
communist regime in the gulag
they came to america and they appeared
before the goddess
of maisha feinstein
their names were biancal notic and with
mato kazlana
so emotion sees these two then
and he asked them
how were you able to do this
how is it possible they were able to
keep this way under the oppressive
regime with fear of imprisonment worse
how did you teach your children how did
you keep the shabbos how did you learn
torah
and they gave such a powerful answer
they didn't say yeah it was worth it
they didn't say
we were meister nephesh
they answered
did we have a choice
we had no choice
that's what we had to do
what were they saying what was this
response
they were exclaiming their
deep conviction
that terror is not a luxury
torah is not something
we do it makes us feel better no torah
is our life there's no life without the
torah i'm not being moist or nephesh to
learn i'm not giving up of myself to be
able to learn torah is khaiyan it is
life itself there's no alternative we
have no choice
perhaps we're familiar with the masha
with the parable that's brought in
kahella cited by themselves
you know the princess the princess is
engaged to marry the villager a peasant
and finally they get married and he
brings her back to his hut
and he's trying to make his new bride
his new kala happy
what could he do to make his kala happy
so he's cooking up the best porridge the
best stew
that could give his new wife some
satisfaction
and she's looking at this pot and she's
looking at this food and she's thinking
to herself
this is food this is happiness this is a
delicacy
she looks at it this way because she's
used to it a different currency she's
used to the fine cuisine of the palace
so this porridge and this these beans
are nothing to her they don't do
anything for her does not hit the spot
it's almost meaningless
he's trying to make her happy maybe she
wants music so he takes a metal spoon
and he starts banging it on his can
and she's thinking to herself this is
music she's used to the symphonies of
the palace
says the ram khao says the music
the neshama the the
jewish soul
is literally a piece of the divine as a
zayar teaches us
when god instilled our soul within us he
instilled something from within himself
which means that our neshama our soul is
literally composed of divine material it
comes from the shamayim it comes from
the heavenly palace
and in that heavenly palace the only
true pressure pleasure is divine
pleasure connecting to the rebornish
lila tara and mitzvahs and so the body
comes down into this world
and
it tries to make itself happy maybe eat
a little bit maybe indulge in pleasure a
little bit and the soul is looking at it
it's like it's a joke it's all a joke
this is not life this is meaningless
this is not pleasure there's only one
thing that's life to the neshama there's
only one thing that gives the neshama
some meaning in this world and that is
torah and mitzvahs torah does not
facilitate life tarot does not give us
some meaning torah is the very
definition of life
i want to speak
about an aspect of liminator
that perhaps is overlooked or not as
well known
as some of the other
aspects that are generally focused on
when it comes to learning torah
the gemara says in sacrament there was a
man by the name of rabsheshes one of the
great amirah
and ravsheshas
he knew his torah so well he would
review everything he learned every 30
days
and at the end of 30 days he would climb
up on a tightrope and he would proclaim
the following he would cry out
he says
my soul rejoice my soul rejoice
you know why i learned he would say cry
i learned for you
i learned mishna for you
seems a little selfish
why would he say this what did he mean i
learned for you i learned homage for you
i learned mishna for you
the gemara asks we learn more than just
for ourselves
the gemara says in libraries
the learning of torah literally holds up
the world
if there would be a moment that torah
was not learned in the world the world
would self-destruct would cease to
exist it would disintegrate that's why
rakhine velazhner is reputed to have
said that's why god created time zones
back in the day everyone was in arts
israel and then people were learning
around the clock but what are you going
to do do you read that's hadoya's people
can't learn the way they always did so
ivan scattered the jewish people all
over the world so when the jews in
america are learning the jews in england
maybe are sleeping the jews in israel
are sleeping when the yiddin and israel
are up so the idea in america could go
to sleep somewhere in the world there's
always someone learning that's literally
the life of the world that's the the the
habit writes that when god gave us the
torah on har sinai we say this every day
in davaning we say in sims shalom the
torah is tara
what do we mean that the torah is a
torah
explains that when hashem gave us the
torah he opened up the inner
chambers of the universe you ever you
know open up a watch so they open up the
watch and inside the watch you see all
the gadgets of the watch you see the
inner workings of the watch
so when hashem gave us the tarantina he
opened up the rakia he opened up the
tahoe and we saw what is the life blood
of the world what keeps the world going
what pulsates vitality into the world
the torah the torah was the target
and literally pulsates life into the
world
so why would rab sheisha say i'm
learning for myself i'm not learning
from myself i'm learning to uphold the
whole world it brings bracha to the
whole world you know rabbi khan and
wasserman as a very interesting question
rebecca asks
that we know every morning we say elud
varam sha'a khal pero i
said these are the things that a person
eats from the fruits of in this world
and the rambam explains that any mitzvah
that you do that benefits society you're
rewarded in this world
so when you visit the sick and when you
do acts of kindness and when you help
somebody get married
you get benefit in this world you get
fruits in this world so ask
why are why is one of the mitzvos
mentioned talmud torah talmuta you're
not helping anybody no says
you're helping everybody you're helping
the whole world
so the gemara asks why would rabshesha
say
rejoice me rejoice me i learned for me i
learned mishna for me he's learning for
the whole world
and the gemara says an incredible answer
the gemara says may ikara in principle
on the most basic level
of it inish when a person learns torah
adaita the nafshika of it he does it for
himself
what does this mean
you learn torah for yourself
learning torah should be an act of
altruism to the whole world
friends i want to share with you an
astounding comment of the gura
wonderous words
we're all familiar we know there's 613
mitzvahs and we tend to think they're
two types of midfields they're mitzvahs
being
between me and god and their mitzvahs
they know the march between me and my
friend so when i pray that's between me
and god when i lend money that's between
me and my friend there are two kinds of
mid-slice
the cross says
no there are three kinds of mitzvahs
and the guru says it as follows we know
that as poor as important as it is to
keep the torah
even more important is the life of a jew
life of a jew takes precedence over all
the mitzvots in the torah except for
three
there are three myths in the tar that
are so fundamental one has to give up
their life not to violate
adultery idolatry and murder
says the gra
murder that's between you and your
friend that's been
that's a corruption of your relationship
with your friend
idolatry that's between you and god
you're you're
severing your connection to the lord
you're suffering connection to the bonus
shall islam
but there's a third kind of sin it's not
between you and god
and it's not between you and your friend
it's between you and you
you're ruining yourself you're ruining
your soul and that is adultery
you're destroying yourself adultery
ruins you there's
says the going there's bane adam
there are aveiros that are
self-destructive
and says the gra it's the same thing
with mitzvahs
there are mitzvos between you and god
prayer
and music you say to him
you pray that's between you and god
then there's gamila the acts of kindness
that's between you and your neighbor you
and your friend
but there's a mitzvah
that's not so much between you and god
it's not so much between you and your
friend it's between you and you
says the talmud
talmud torah is being adam
it's between man and himself
it's between man and his neshama
i'll tell you very briefly this is a
famous idea but i want to say it um just
very concisely you know we just read
last week partially
in the past it says
if you walk in my statutes you're going
to have money you're going to have rain
you're going to have agriculture you're
going to have you're going to have you
live it you're going to have everything
and ghazal are trying to identify what
does it mean
it can mean if you observe the mid-slice
because that's actually the next stanza
in the passage so rashi famously quotes
it means
immerse yourself in the torah
work hard in torah toil in the torah
dedicate yourself to the torah
so the question is
how does rashi know haru khazal know
that it means to toil and tyra maybe it
just means to learn
just regular learning i'll sit back i'll
i'll rest on a hammock i'll sip lemonade
and i'll learn torah all we know is it
doesn't mean the observance of mitzvos
that was already said but how do you
know it's toiling in torah maybe it's
just learning tara
so rav shmuel razovsky rasheeva panovic
famously says the passage says
you will walk walk means to climb from
level to level means to grow and yiddish
we say to steig in english there's a
concept a new vulcan but it is rooted in
the torah
self-actualization
how do you bring out your potential how
do you make yourself greater how do you
bring out your latent and dormant
ability and talent
yes i have ways to connect me and god
that's when i pray i have ways to
improve my relationships between me and
my friend that's when i do acts of
kindness but how do i
bring out how do i activate how do i
self-actualize the greatness and the
power and the ability that leaves
dormant in my soul
talmud
if you're walking and you're growing and
you're elevating from one level to level
there's only one way for
self-actualization
we have many many mitzvoth and they
could bring us close to our friends and
close to god but there's only really one
way
to bring out the greatness that lays
dormant in our soul and that is
learning torah
dedicating ourselves to torah and
toiling in the torah
the marawi
sanhedrin says
that in every soul as we mentioned
there's a piece of the divine
that means within me within you
there's endless greatness
there's endless capacity for compassion
for kindliness for love
for sensitivity for
wisdom for to probe the secrets of the
universe
in every jewish soul there's endless
capacity for greatness greatness but
right now it's a well
and it's buried deep deep down and
there's only one way to draw it out says
amaral there's only one mitzvah that is
like water imagine you had a luscious
garden planted in that garden was every
delectable fruit but
it's not like in england that it rains
every day sorry that no insult over
there okay i loving i'll come i'll just
bring an extra umbrella no problem but
it's not like it's like one of these
countries it never rains so you're not
gonna have any fruit
yes our souls are full of
many
wonderous seeds
but the water
that will water our soul and bring out
our latent greatness
that's a maya mello torah the marau
writes the learning of torah brings out
the inherent greatness that lies within
us
and this is an explanation and the this
these ideas that i'm shrinking together
um
are found in the safer mismar la david
of rabb david colin the rashiva
and he beautifully connects the vilna
gai into the marau that when the vilna
going says that learning torah is not
being
it's not being here it's being adam
because torah has the capacity to
elevate someone to help a person grow to
help a person with self-actualization to
help a person bring out his latent
greatness and therefore of shaysha's
every 30 days he rejoiced in his
learning not because he gave life to the
whole world he did that but that's not
the primary benefit of learning the
primary benefit is not what you do for
mankind it's not what you do for the
universe it's what you do for you
if not for this day
kama ysi ika basuki if not for the day
of the giving of the torah
we like to say he said i would be the
average joe i would just be an average
person
why
look at rashi rashi says
if not for this day that i learned torah
venezuela i elevated myself
fulfilling a mitzvah may not have that
capacity whether it's
will connect you to god will connect you
to your friend but in terms of personal
growth elevating the soul in terms of
bringing out its greatness that is the
central role of talmud torah
and of course
one of the
main ideas that we like to bring out
about learning torah
is
the amphitheus is coming up
and of course one of our favorite
minhagemanshvus
is uh dairy many people have dairy on
schwa this is a legislated minogue it's
brought in the rama
but what's amazing is the earliest
source of having dairy on shivers comes
from the kalbai one of the rishonim that
was written somewhat anonymously we
don't know who wrote it
the cowboy writes the reason we have
dairy on schwas
is because torah in shara hashiram is
compared to divas the khalaf honey and
milk i once heard from rav viktor miller
honey and milk that are two distinct
types of tastes too delectable taste
that one combined produces the
unparalleled combination but the reason
we have dairy on shus is to indicate
torah is so sweet it's so delicious it's
so delectable it gives such happiness
says
of the reason why
dim the reason why everybody agrees that
on shluis we have to celebrate
physically
is because we have to give over the
lesson
we have to
we have to convey to our children that
torah is not just something we do
because we have to it's not just
something we do because it is life it's
so delicious it's so enjoyable in fact
there's an amazing reminisce from the
foreign says take the first letter of
the torah base take the last letter of
the torah lamid take the middle letters
of the torah we know the gemara says
dharoish darash so you take the last
shin of the first daraash the first
dalit of the second daraash and then the
word gohain the khas of gachin and the
vow of gohan so you take those six
letters bay islamic shindal
spells out you know what the torah is
through and through and through divas
the khalaf honey and milk it's so
delicious it's so delectable there's
nothing in this world that compares to
it there's nothing in this world that
has meaning compared to it as the
writes his immortal words
if people would appreciate the sweetness
the delectability of the goodness of
torah if somebody would just begin you
know
oh it's too hard to learn just start
just
learn one ahmad learn a blat review it a
few times you're going to see once a
person begins to set to sense to feel
the delectability of torah how you
mistake
one would insanely pursue the torah
uma and nothing in this world no gold no
silver no money no pleasure would have
any value
once you start to have that sensation
you know it's like once somebody begins
to eat fine foods
they can't eat fast food anymore it just
it's it's
it doesn't go it doesn't fly
once a person starts to feel that
happiness and that sweetness
then everything else pales
torah is not only our life
not only do we not have a choice
it is so delicious it is so fulfilling
it is so delectable
and therefore the gemara tells us
something
that is so powerful and something that
is so overlooked
you know the gemara tells us
and um can i have a few more minutes
that's okay
thank you i guess that nobody responded
you can't even respond so what are you
going to say all right
but the gemara tells us that why was the
temple destroyed the name of the
two thumbs up
okay two thumbs up
why was the land destroyed in the times
of the first place hamikdar sigmar says
they did not make
blessings over the torah
which is a very difficult thing to say
because the gemara tells us
clearly
uma that the first temple was destroyed
because of abu dhabi zara gilearis and
srikhastamim they violated the three
biggies the three cardinal sins
but even more difficult is the gemara
says that this
um lack of observance of not making
berkshire torah was so
imperceivable
was not recognized not by the sages of
the generation not by the prophets of
the generation and not even by the
angels
so i never understood that i don't
understand i'm a rabbi in a shoal i come
into shoal and i see people are skipping
berka satora so it's not rocket science
i know that the problem is that they're
not saying bratara no none of the rabbis
knew none of the prophets knew none of
the angels knew i don't understand why
is this so complicated just look
nobody's saying berka satora
the lavesh writes incredible words
the lavish says of course they made
berkshire yes they said the words
like the dive sarah god i bless you that
you commanded me to involve myself
entirely yes they said those words
but they made a fundamental error you
know what the error that they made was
they thought the reason why they made a
blessing on the torah
was because you always make a blessing
before you do any mitzvah you put on
filling you make a blessing you put on
sitzis you make a blessing you uh you
shake a lulu of an asteroid you make a
blessing of course they're gonna make uh
they're good they made a blessing over
the torah as well
that's not the reason you make a
blessing before you learn tara
berkhas
says it's not a birha mitzvah it's not a
blessing over the performance of a
mitzvah
it's a birkhas
you know why we make a blessing over the
torah we make a blessing of the time
because you make a blessing before you
drink iced tea and before you eat steak
and before you eat pizza so you can't
get pleasure in this world without
blessing god without saying abraca says
of course they made a blessing over the
torah but they made a blessing thinking
it was just a regular mitzvah they
didn't make a blessing over the torah
recognizing that they were about to
engage in in intense
the lavish pleasure we know why the
temple is destroyed the temple is
destroyed because they violated the big
three
the gemara's question is
i don't understand
look around
they're all these big rabbis
they're all these great
they're all these big sages but the next
generation nobody's interested they're
no young talmide
anymore they're not young scholars
anymore they're no young torah students
anymore what happened to the children
what happened to the next generation and
you know what happened to the next
generation
they saw their father and their mother
when they made a blessing on the torah
when they learned torah they just
thought they were doing a mitzvah
so they would see their father come home
and they say you know daddy tati what
are you about to do i'm about to learn
why you about to learn well
god told me to so you know jews have
been uh giving up their lives for
thousands of years to learn torah so
that's what i do and i'm even gonna make
a blessing over it so the kid says well
if it's so uh
painful and it's so difficult and it
requires such self-sacrifice malifa
soros what do i need it for you learn
your torah and i'll uh i'll watch uh
soccer that's the game you play over
there in your country which in america
we don't even know what it is you play
your car i'll play cadre regal
what do i need it for
their mistake was that they didn't teach
their children that we don't make a
blessing over the torah because it's
something we have to do
it's not like every other mitzvah we
make a blessing over the torah because
it's the greatest
joy
happiness most meaningful experience
most pleasurable experience that we have
available to us
in this existence for a short number of
years
we don't make a blessing over the torah
because it's a midsole we make a
blessing of the torah because it's
happiness
and says
if we're able to do that
then we'll merit
when a person gives over to their
children yes the torah is our life yes
we have no choice yes this is the
purpose of existence but
we wouldn't have it any other way it's
such a happiness it's such a sweetness
it's such a milk and honey it's so
geshmaq it's so delectable we're making
a bracha like we make a blessing over
every other physical sensation we have
that's the kind of torah that gets
passed down to our children
when children understand that we feel
it's the vashvikhalav then it will be
venia
this is a torah that is successfully
transmitted to the next generation
so
we asked hashem
we banished
without torah we are desperate
merciful father who has mercy have mercy
on us
we understand torah is our life
we say we understand that through tarot
we actualize the greatness that lay
dormant within us torah is for ourselves
tyra is being adam
tyra helps us grow tara helps bring out
the greatness that lies dormant within
us and the best news of all is there's
no greater happiness that is available
to us
every time we put back a safer torah
a tree of life to those who grab hold of
it
this is analogous to somebody says
who's being pulled asunder in a raging
river
so imagine somebody being carried away
in a raging river and his head is going
under the water and he's fighting to for
survival and he sees there's a tree
growing by the riverbank and he has the
opportunity to hold on to that tree and
to save his life
how is he going to hold on to the tree
oh well you know i'm a righty but let me
see if i could grab onto that tree with
my left pinky
no nobody would do that nobody would
hold it with their left hand they would
embrace the tree with every fiber of
their being and every ounce of strength
they have
says
in this world yes torah is our life
yes tara's happiness
but we have challenges
and the challenges of this world and the
distractions of this world threaten to
pull us asunder the sahara threatens to
take all
eternal and even happiness in this world
away from us
but we have a tree of life
we have the torah
how are we going to hold on to that tree
of life how are we going to embrace the
torah
you know when i get around to when it
fits into my schedule i'll try to make a
couple of minutes
we're going to embrace the torah with
both of our arms and with every ounce of
strength
heart intellect and emotion we have and
in that marine and that's us the
ibanezham will surely bless us with the
blessings of the torah
on the right side is the long life uh
and on its left side by learning tyre by
being involved in the the mitzvahs by
being involved in their daily
constant study and toil in the torah not
only does it give us long eternal life
it gives us a beminus about bismillah
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wealth respect honor thank you so much
for giving me the opportunity to share
with you this evening and wishing
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