Does Torah Dictate The Reality of Our Existence?

As we know that Rashi brings down that Yehuda was predecessed the fact that the Jews were going down to Egypt in parash in the Yehuda in order to build a yeshiva a base of Talmud who sent him there because he wanted to build a yeshiva. Now I understand why Yehuda was sent because of course he's the one who took responsibility. He was the king. He's the one who's going to be able to build up the place. But why did it have to be before they got there? Wait till everybody gets there, start taking collections, start making calls, you go ahead and do the dedications and you'll be able to put up the yeshiva. What was all the hastiness to put up the yeshiva even before they got to the place? Now the way I always understood is being the fact that I am from California is because I know that my place where I came from California was started by the gold rush. We know that everybody was in the 13 colonies. It was they were more [snorts] on the eastern hemisphere of America. And how did they get to the west? Because they discovered gold. They were discovering all over the place. And they everybody ran to California and it quickly became populated in order to be able to strike a rich as soon as possible. Well, guess what? When your roots start with a gold rush, you remain that way. And therefore everybody in California or the way people think in California is basically about gold money and chasing all that. And therefore he wanted the beginnings of the place to be yeshiva which is true and that's definitely a statement but I heard a much deeper understanding from bashmuded sadka the great rashiva and parach. And he said beautiful. He said we know that on purim a walled city is only a walled city if it was around from the time of Yeshua. It had to be an age-old wall in order to be called a walled old city. I can't just build up a wall and it'll be called a walled city. That doesn't count. We know when you make something he when you make a certain area kadosh uh you you make it you you you you dedicate it to the beta mdash to the area of the beta mikdash. There are special rules and regulations about an aroma. A place that is a city which has a wall is different from a city without a wall. What makes a place a city with a wall if it was there from the beginning? Meaning before the city was created, the wall was first and then afterwards with a city, not the other way around. And he said the reason why this is necessary is because if you make a city first and only afterwards make a wall. So that shows that the city lives without a wall. You have a city and as an extra benefit, as an extra luxury, I'll go ahead and add a wall to give it some special uh annunciation to go ahead and take care of it also. That's what it is with purim. That's with and that's exactly the also and it's oh so true. If you go into a city and you have it and then afterwards you add a yeshiva and of course the yeshiva is important. So you're saying it's a luxus. It's a luxury. It's an addition. It's a cherry on top. It's something special and we're happy to have it but it's not fundamental. We can also live without it. when you go ahead and you start the whole place on building a yeshiva when the foundations and the backgrounds are all built on a yeshiva. So you're in essence saying that's the DNA of the place. We can't live without it. This is where we built on and from there the city gets built. That is called the city because you're not saying it's also Torah. You're saying it's only Torah and from the Torah the whole entire city develops and expands. That is the way that we understand and that's why Yehuda had to be sent ahead of time in order to make sure that we don't see it as something that is an addition but it's the essence. It lies in the fiber of the being of the city. This place cannot survive without it. And that is the beauty of the idea that Yakov was sending to us by Yehuda. We have this phenomenon. If I could tell you in our day and age I believe Lakewood is a perfect description of this idea. Lakewood was completely a goshutt. Anyone living in Lakewood knows what I'm talking about. And here we have an incredible man Revarn Culler who goes ahead and basically didn't build the city. He built a yeshiva. He went ahead and built BMG over there. He built a beautiful yeshiva which wasn't as big obviously as it was right now. And it was basically yeshiva. Oh, when you're in yeshiva and you're there, well, you got to live there. So he had a few dormitories in the beginning that had a few places to live. And from there it got bigger and bigger and bigger BMG bigger BMG Bris Gavo became really Gavo and turned into a city and that's why it became a completely city of Torah more than any other city if I could say obviously except for Israel in the world besides Israel because the place was built from bottomup turdic just like the Pvicharov did in Povich in Benabra in Bench it developed from the yeshiva of Povich. And from there it expanded to become an Abra. You realize the biggest makabas in the world are bu are built and foundation were built because Yehuda went ahead of time and he went ahead and built the beta Talmud from that place and that is an incredible yod which you see over and over again. Rashi says in the P of that this P says and it says the beginning the Torah. He says the beginning of the world is Torah. As we know that the sixth day which is the sixth day of where we receive the Torah and over there with the darian that if you don't accept the Torah the world is finished I don't want a world why all the melodramatic material why does it have to be so melo drag just say there's a world and there's a tyra keep the tyra very nice you go to school we have rules keep to the school rules and that's it no we have to get really dramatic about this. You should realize first of all the whole entire world was built on the Torah. That's a and b anyone who if you don't keep the Torah the whole world explodes. It will be a massive atomic explosion that will destroy the whole entire work. It's a little bit you know you know this apocalypse that's going on here. What's the necessity? Because it's coming to tell us the same exact. It's not that there is a world and there's also Torah. There are subjects such as math and English and Torah and Talmud such as that some of us learn that we grew up in our modern day schools and it was just another subject amongst many subjects. That's not the nuda. There is only from there everything else is built. I'll explain to you what I mean by this and to understand that if it's the foundation of the Torah then that is everything. And if you don't have it, then the world automatically is meaningless. It's not that gonna blow up the world. Oh, I'm so mad at you. No, no. It's not a punishment. It's an automatic consequence. If there's no meaning to the world, then what's the reason that the world is here? When I was I remember in high school, I had a friend who owned a 67 Mustang in mint condition. It was extremely expensive. I can't imagine how much it costs now. And it was in perfect shape. And guess what? Whenever we used to go out to do something, he always was hitching a ride with other people. You know why? Cuz he didn't have a car. He wouldn't put mileage on that thing. Are you crazy? It was in mint condition. In perfect shami would get an accident. That was that's it's meant for display. It's not meant for driving. Well, guess what? That Mustang is not called an automobile. That's not called a car. You can call it a trophy if you want. But that's not called a vehicle because if if the vehicle is not meant for driving, then it is now no longer an automobile. You've taken away the shem car from it. You understand? If the if the world lives without Tara, if there is no TA here, then the world there's no reason for its existence anymore. The whole thing is deceased. It doesn't there's no reason for it to be acknowledged. And these are the words of which brings out this idea incredibly lushly. And that is we say created the the Torah. Hashem looked into the Torah and from there he created the world. Now what does it mean he created the world and then he created the world only after the Torah? It couldn't have been just like simultaneously or like I said you just create bishlo and the also like what does it mean that the to had to predecess the whole entire world had to be before it and only afterwards suddenly we have a world the answer is because the same idea because everything is built on the Torah and he used very strong words he says if you think and like most people might think that you know I have a heart to steal have a yates for adultery. A person has a yates to lie. So on that comes along the Torah and says don't lie. Be careful for be careful don't do this and don't do that. A person has parents and the Torah comes along and and commands us respect them. If you think that way says the words of strong words heresy he calls it heresy. You know what he means it's heresy. I'll tell you why. Cuz then you're saying that there's a world there's a me. There's a yates and there's a Torah. There are many facets here. There's all these different things. There's all these. There's a there's a Torah. There's parents. There's this. There's that. No, no, no, no, no, no. You're making a mistake. You're bringing many. You're you're you're being marsh in the world. Why? You're saying there's more than one God. No, no, no. Is one and there's one Torah that he created. From [snorts] that Torah, everything else was created. The Torah says don't lie. So, he gave me this. I got to lie. I so want it. The Torah said be careful of other people's possessions in the Torah. That's what it says. So suddenly the world exists that I have possessions, you have possessions. I sahara to steal from you. That's where it comes from because there's a mitzvah of suddenly everybody's got parents. We all are born to parents because in order for the Torah to come to fruition, it comes through the world that was created. The whole world stands on the Torah. Do you understand that? You realize we are the the whole Torah is the amu. It's the pillars. It is what subsides and everything only exists as a result of the Torah. When you think of it that way, you think, "Wow, you start appreciating." No, no, I'm not just saying another nice Torah about learning Torah and be strong and be stark. No, no, this is much more than that. Your whole existence stands on this thing. And when you realize that, you start saying, "Wow, when people are coming and trying to throw people out of the B midrash to a certain extent and trying to focus a lot more on getting them out and getting them to the army here in Israel or when you're coming to make that second decision of is it time for me to leave the bait mid and go ahead and do something or maybe I should stay one more year." This has to be on your head. This decision to make us realize, wow, look how much is standing on top of me. The world is focused and built on top of the Torah. And let's let's be honest, when you build a nice cute little house, so you need to have a muddim. You need to have pillars, but not so many. When you build a skyscraper, you have to have more pillars. When you want to build a freedom tower, there's, trust me, a lot a lot of to a lot of pillars over there and a lot of foundations that are built to make sure it stays strong and make sure any planes that try to shoot down, it's not going to go ahead and go through it. The bigger the skyscraper, the bigger the building, the larger the pillars are that need to hold it up. So what about the whole world? How big are those pillars? How strong do those amu have to be? Wow, that's got to be a lot of them. We need to have a lot of people in the basement. We have to have a lot of big dolead. We have to have all the people that are able to go ahead and put themselves out and want to do it and are able to do it and love doing it to able to do the ruts of Hashem and to go ahead and learn Torah. We better keep them in there. We better keep them on top because they are saving the world. They're the ones who are keeping us on top of everything. You know what the said about and again the didn't st say statements. You should know that. But he said about if our rabbar be was alive during the time of 1939 to 1945 there would have been no holocaust. These are the words of the and I I say to you quickly he said his mirus nephesh for would have been able to save all the deaths and the casualties that occurred during that amount of time because it was a special type of ms that he had at that time and it's an incredible kak. I'll end with a quick story that you should know that Raviakab is Fisher who was the rabb of Yushalim was an incredible masid and one of the leador his father got extremely sick and it got worse and worse. The doctor said, "It's basically over. It's time to say goodbye to all his children." He told him they were informed. Immediately, Ravakar Fisher said, "Reboy looked to the sky and he said, I learned 17 daff today." 17. The man finished every year. I learned 17 daff. I dedicate all those daffodar only to my father. They're the they're for the sake of her foolish labor and for my father and I give him all theot that were instilled in learning those 17 daff from Gumar. Guess what? His family is made firsthand evidence. They say within the day, within 24 hours, their father got out of bed and he was fully okay. 100% reformer. And you won't believe this, but the family themselves say this, the actual relatives who were there at the time that saw the whole event say, guess how long his father lived after that? 17 years. He had 17 years to the day. The same day that that Rakel Fischer made that dedication that is when his father passed away 17 years later. The power of Torah is enormous. of course for different people and different levels but it's all about and how much you're most and how much you give for when we realize that Torah is not just it's not also Torah it's not something that we in addition do but we realize it's the foundations of Torah so now we suddenly understand why Jacobu sent Yehuda before to go ahead and build Gan you want to go ahead and start with a gold rush that's how you build California you want to go ahead and build Lakewood You ought to build beneath. So that starts with the power of Torah, the power of yeshiva. And from there, the world is absolutely a place of success. From there, we're able to Bring the Mashiach.