(Way#2) EFFECTIVE LISTENING: 48 Ways with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] a [Music] hey good day folks welcome back to beyond the seven live from jerusalem with rabbi aaron david poston it's been such a joy to get to know him this last year uh this new class the 48 ways uh we just started last week if you missed it you can catch it on on youtube and uh facebook our facebook page but uh more than that even this lesson he's still got some review to do from the from the first part so don't think you missed out we're welcome to uh glad to have you with us today um but let's not uh delay let's jump right in here where rabbi poston's got to say it's always a joy to be with a rabbi poston you're looking good sir always good to hear from you and i'm loving this new class shabu tov dan and to all the listeners subscribers watchers uh shavuot this is uh best it's going to be a great week we have elections coming up we're not going to talk about that at all tonight and although i do want to mention that we will review or let's say supplement the rest of last week's class towards the end of the class i mentioned wow we ran out of time there's no way i can cover all this material do it any justice so i feel that today as an introduction uh introduction or whatever you want to call it let's say the first part will be dealing with some of the sources that i skipped last week so what i do encourage everyone to do if you missed last week's class go back right and and check it out so that you know why i'm bringing this um these sources and what they're relating to now i also want to mention that the 48 ways is a very interesting idea because i mentioned in the beginning that this is when the israelites left egypt and they're on their way to mount zion in the revelation right they're going to mount sinai to receive the torah this sounds and it on a certain level it is true that it should only be for the jews because we're the only ones that received the torah however the torah as we know is for all mankind on different levels as we've discussed in beyond the seven uh i just want to go back to the idea why we call it beyond the seven there's two ways to look at beyond seven either vertically there's another six hundred and six misses which is not the way i i presented it but it's beyond the seven in other words take the seven and go deeper right and how i'll tie it into elections i'm not going to talk about it in in great length but as a ben noah right as a human as a person a citizen of the world so if you're in america so you have an option to participate in choosing the not just the leader of america at least right now i know it's going to be in a few weeks but the leader of the free world one of if not the most powerful man on earth and his entourage we'll call it the cabinet and the the government and and he gets to choose right we if you didn't know this before you know this now he gets to choose the candidates for the supreme court so as a ben north knowing that one of the seven north guidelines is to establish a system of justice you could participate in choosing and i'm going to just say it briefly yeah the least corrupt right in other words the better of two evils okay always maybe you don't have someone who is your prince in shining armor you don't have your candidate who is uh ideal in every aspect perhaps i don't know maybe you do but at least minimally choose the candidate who is least corruptable or corrupted and you'll have a chance of hopefully you know from the grass roots you know you still get to vote a city council or whatever village you live in or a city uh all the way up to a higher government whether it's the count you know the city the county uh the state and of course on the federal level and so this is i think it's my personal feeling ben noah someone who's chosen this path of torah and and i mean the acceptance of the revelation of mount sinai even though you weren't there right we were there but you've ex we've discussed what the different levels of beneno aha i'm not going to go into it today um but hopefully the type of beneno ben nok that you are is the type who has accepted the revelation of mount sinai they know the torah is true they know there's a special mission for the jews in terms of responsibility and teaching this torah and here you are listening so if you're listening i'm going to assume that you're interested in this material um now i'm also going to assume and i think rightfully so that there are a lot of jews israelites who listen to these broadcasts there are ben noach who are already considered absolutely righteous and committed to keeping the seven laws there are probably those who are i'm going to assume there are probably some of these who have just out of pure wisdom and consciousness realize this is probably the best way to run society and there are probably some that are thinking about converting to judaism or just wondering how true judaism is so what we do or what i do on this program is i share jewish wisdom okay you decide what level you want to be on we're not proselytizing we're not trying to say you should become a girth a complete 100 percent convert to judaism okay trust me we're not trying to say that but if you do decide there are plenty of resources available to help you and if you choose any of the other levels again that's what this particular station the no high world center is all about to help people who decide they want to be benigno and live a righteous lifestyle where they're at and yeah okay so as that idea i just wanted to mention last week we discussed the idea of talmud right it's the first of the 48 ways in in our in our journey out of egypt out of bondage out of slavery out of blood i'm going to blind we were blind we were in sunk uh almost drowning in pollution you know you go into a nice clean body of water you can open your eyes you can see where things are but if you're in god forbid i don't know the hudson river right so try to imagine one of the most polluted boxes of water in the world you're going to hold your eyes tightly uh sealed so um this is listen we're all treading water in in this world and it's polluted so this rat hashem through not just my teachings through everything the noahide world center is doing it will help us let's stay deep cleanse the water help us open our eyes and see the truth whatever part of the journey you're on so i want to begin before we go into number two i just want to tell you number two is effective listening so bizrat hashem right we will get to that before the end of tonight's broadcast today's broadcast because we're gonna label it number two okay but as a uh a pre a pre uh like an introduction i wanna go back to what we spoke about before so it happens to be in this week's parsha abraham is leklika is told to go to go to eric's israel eretz israel the land of israel is a place that when you breathe the air you one becomes wise that's what our time teaches us and there's a clarity right he went from illusion and darkness and falsehood and idol worship to a land that even the flood did not affect because the flood by north had to be like a mikvah it it um purified the land that had become so corrupt but eretz israel never became meaning the land itself never became impure and therefore the flood the floodwaters never reached the land of israel that's just a tidbit of information and behind every tidbit of information there's a spiritual truth so avraham is told to leave this world of illusion and come to a world of clarity the word evri hebrew right the word in hebrew for eve for hebrew is ivory which the root means to pass over so he crossed over from a not just physically from a land right of darkness and illusion and idols but he crossed over um you know metaphysically in a spiritual way he was a searcher he this is what number one right number one is called learning learning is all about and he's like the i'm not sure he is the but he's like the paradigm example that we can all follow in terms of wanting um the truth and willing to sacrifice so much for it and yet he wasn't a jew he was an ivory right he would he was a hebrew and that's what hebrew means cross over to to to the truth so he was a benoit right he was still a in the category of benach before only by the revelation is there new now a born a newborn firstborn uh chosen son of of karosh baraku and that would be israel before we get to that he is told in chapter 12 verse 9 he is told to move to journey towards the south now it's very nice it's in other words we know that where he came from in mesopotamia was pretty much just east and he had to go over like the what's called the fertile crescent right right travel not through the deserts but at least through his populist areas where he could survive and uh populated areas uh fertile areas and so he comes from the north and it says continue to continue to go south so let me just quote the whole verse just we have an idea we're talking about genesis chapter and abraham abram traveled continually traveling southward very good why does the attorney need to tell me this so someone who is on a spiritual journey is traveling in the southern direction now there's a gemara the right the talmud is full of jewish wisdom and it tells us that if you're interested in wisdom you should pray in the direction of the south now what does it mean in the direction of the south because we all know that we face the the temple we the very place in which man was created which happens to be we call the temple mount the evan the the foundation stone right by the way so people understand that hashem gathered i don't like the word to use the word dirt he gathered soil from the four corners of the earth and he formed man there and the very place itself we call the umbilical cord the navel of the world which is the temple mount that's where he took soil for the head okay for the head of man and for the rest of the body why are people if we all come from one person why are all kinds of people different colors with different eye shapes with different nose shapes right not just color but there's also different uh kinds of hair you know what i'm saying all different physical attributes no matter where you are in the world they seem to be different and they are different and they're you know um what's the word there's you know groups of these people in these areas so we didn't come from many people we came from one person this is adam of one person one couple adam and eve who then had children now when you go and we're dispersed whenever you're living there is energy from the land itself that will you know resonate on the dna resonate on the characteristics and over time i'm not going to call it evolution i don't know what to call it but let's just say there's natural changes that will occur based on the energy from the land and will produce different skin color different attributes facial attributes and whatnot so we're all brothers something we have to know we're all ultimately related but again avraham traveled to the south and how does the south represent wisdom why why would the gomorrah tell us that if someone is interested in becoming wise they should pray to the south um as i mentioned so we all pray in that direction to the temple mount so one the in the temple complex so you had the holy of holies which was as far west as possible on the mount and then you had just east of that you had we called the ulam or an area that was much bigger and more accessible and then you had the rest of the courtyard but this area called the holies not the holy of holies but the holies you had three vessels okay so you had a candelabra the menorah you had the the altar a incense altar and you had the showbread table okay where the breads were replaced every friday miracle of miracles every friday they would put on hot and the following friday the conan would eat them while they're still hot can you imagine uh fresh hot bread sitting on these tables after the days okay so where were these placements what was the placement of the candelabra versus the table and first of all the table represents a kingship you know it's to show bread there's this idea that the mashiach would come from bethlehem it doesn't mean that he himself is born in bethlehem but he comes from king david who comes from bethlehem and the idea of kingship is he's responsible to provide the people with security and food not that we're not talking about communism okay we're talking about uh capitalism in fact uh the gemara tells us that many of the people almost daily would come to king david wake him up in the morning four or five o'clock in the morning before sunrise and say feed us or help us with our pranasa help us with our welfare and he would say you do business with you you do business with him he do business with them in other words it was all about um but commerce but he was you know with a brain you know like uh you imagine like in an army so you have the the colonel the i guess the general right he's gonna say where each person should go so this is the the king is responsible for the welfare for the security and to make sure that that money is moving around that produce and commerce which is another thing you should have in mind when you try to consider who you're going to elect as a candidate for the president okay not that he's king but that's the he's basically in that role to a certain extent so let's get back to the story what am i saying here one second so they came to king david and that was the responsibility of the king okay fine so that's show why beit lechem because it means the house of bread the bread is that which sustains you right so so the showbread table is representative of physical substance sustenance what does the candelabra represent that represents wisdom the olive oil the light right the torah is called light or torah aura in aramaic it's light we have many verses that describe it that way where was the candelabra it was in the south of the temple complex and therefore when it says to dive into the south to pray to the south doesn't mean turn yourself direction of the south it means you're facing whatever your whatever direction you're facing whether it's to east or west to just move a little bit lean a little bit to the south and to point yourself towards the candelabra when you pray that's absolutely mind-boggling because we're talking about remember talmud really means searching for the truth going deep trying to understand what the principles are behind even the most superficial statements in the torah or in the talmud any anything you hear you want to know the principles so basically talking about jewish law you want to go deep and down and and get the principles so i want to just show you because we talked about the idea that in the future all people on the planet right in sophanya will speak a lishna a um a clear language we understand that to be lashan hakodesh the holy tongue now does it mean that everyone would know every word and speak hebrew like no not necessarily it could be but at least minimally they will understand the nature of god the true god of israel and the same language that we are using of who hashem is we will know the name and everyone will recognize the name of the channel so as just as some of those who have watched my videos know i love crews sources and maybe they seem to be a little bit on the kabbalistic side i don't know but uh this is from the benich high this is from the daniel da and he explains nakamura discusses the idea of praying to the south now before we get there there's an interesting verse about praying to the south in other words king solomon was asked you know what do you want wisdom or riches you know and he chose wisdom and as a result he also got riches in other words i'm sorry did i say wisdom yeah so he chose wisdom and as a result he also got wealth so let me see if i can find a verse here it is so in proverbs 3 verse 16 even though there's a discussion in the gomorrah that describes you should face south the suppose for if you're interested in in wisdom and to the north if you're interested in wealth meaning towards the table so there's a ruby shrub and levy says no you should always face south remember we started this discussion avraham traveled continuously south that means forever anybody who wants to be a student of avraham should search for wisdom right that doesn't mean travel south like you know after you retire go to florida right arizona or california from where i'm at mexico right uh right and then all those areas now they have in arizona and who knows what anyway so there's a verse in the proverbs 3 16 he says rabbi shub and levy says one should always face south as once he becomes wise he will subsequently become wealthy as well similar to what we see happening with king solomon and it says the the length of days which really could mean eternity only through wisdom you're going to do reach it on the right so the length of days is in her right hand bismala to the left is oyster recover is wealth and honor so keep in mind we're going to be dealing with north south we're also dealing with right and left so most of us even like in jerusalem if you know how geographically the temple mount is it's as far east of the city as you can get and therefore the populace of jerusalem itself is basically in the west the west like the western wall right the west so they're praying in that direction and therefore south is to the right and north is to the left keeping that in mind i'll now explain what the ben yoda explains and i'm going to do it not in the hebrew because it would just take way too long he says if someone is searching for spiritual growth you need role models of course you need to look up to people who are greater than you and by doing that as a result you will realize how much you're lacking okay because humility or i'm going to use a hebrew word now lima to minimize yourself to make yourself small is very important when it comes to spiritual matters so you make yourself small when it comes to spiritual matters and you have other people to look up to let's use avraham as example in which to to want to grow towards what about physical sustenance so let's say no matter where you are on the status on the spectrum of wealth doesn't matter whether you're a billionaire or you're living a paycheck to paycheck or you're out of a job for the moment whatever you have you must look at people who are less than you not to make fun of them god forbid or not to degrade them but only in order to make yourself feel better to because the ultimate goal is to be the same to have a certain joy and gratitude for what you do have and in order to i think i mean this is at least my experience and i think psychologists would probably say the same thing not that i'm a psychologist but i think they would say the same thing okay so if you look at someone who's less fortunate to you than you you will come with a certain sense you should have a certain sense of well you know but for the grace go i right but for the grace of god go i mean at least a sense of this i'm satisfied with what i have because if i wasn't i'd have less and i'd be in a worse position so what did we see so far that when it comes to what to spiritual matters you make yourself miat smaller however when it comes to physical you actually should make yourself feel a little bit more okay and okay so having that in mind the idea of a lathe the lathe is lava bet it's the heart and the heart is which has desires and it's also lamibat even though we're dealing with the 48 ways to wisdom okay even though we're dealing with the 40 there's another concept called well that's 48 waves true wisdom right of wisdom sorry yeah two wisdom there's called the 32 paths to wisdom okay maybe when we finish the 48 ways we'll doubt we'll deal with the 32 paths to wisdom okay in the meantime let's not jump ahead of myself so you have the word lathe lamid bet okay now when we talk about what is above and what is below you can use that in a paragraph right what is above means what i've already read and what is below is what i have yet to read i'm about to read also when you take the alphabet so we we read from right to left so if you read certain letters so what is before what is above is what you have already read if you're reading it in order or what is below is what is not yet read that's also true also when we at least in the western hemisphere and most of you shalom they would read the torah it would be facing east okay you're facing the east so uh what is to the right is actually to the south and what is to the left is actually north i've already described that idea okay now so take the word bet which is heart what are the letters that come right before the lamin and right before the bet so an aleph comes before a bet and a man comes before the lamin i'm sorry a cuff comes before the lamin okay so the word is a exclusionary word it's to exclude it's to my eight it's to minimize okay to exclude things is to minimize and so to the right or what is above laminbet is minimization which we already described when you're looking for spiritual ideas you should minimize yourself to the left or to the north is of laminbed is a gimmel gimbal comes after bet and the mem comes after lamid gum god means also in addition to it's a concept of making yourself greater so when it comes to physical wealth which is to the left which is to the north which is right is the opposite is is what we've already described is making yourself uh bigger just another idea there's a verse that which is in heaven above and which is in the earth below so this also it hints to the idea that which is in heaven that's spiritual matters that's above above meaning prior to the right and that which is in heaven below which i'm sorry the earth below that is hinting to the idea of physical matters because the earth is physical and that is below meaning to the left okay so with that i think that's a really cool idea okay beautiful you know i mentioned that last week i didn't cover a lot of the material and i feel i did a lot of work it's not for me i think it's for you guys to hear this so i'm going to talk about a few different gemaras that we it's full of jewish wisdom and jewish wisdom can be right accepted as wisdom by the the by the world it's up to you right i know that it's everlasting i know that it applies in every case that i ever come across the jewish wisdom that i glean from not just the torah but the orator right the the whole the whole thing not only guides my life but i don't see why you cannot guide a non-jew right again we're talking about the seven right beyond the seven is not about accepting necessarily additional mixes although we don't prevent you from doing it we're talking about going deeper and deeper into what you already are obligated in which is the seven principles which could be 70 89 it depends who you ask quite a handful quite a list which we did go through in the beginning of beyond the seven okay so without any further ado let's see gamora in i'm going to start with the sanhedrin gemara so we're going to deal with if you want to put up on safari on it is on in sanhedrin the talmud bavli 99 a that's the first one we'll deal with bishop so one of the rabbis said call torah anyone who learns torah they necessarily and he doesn't review he doesn't i'm not going to use the word regurgitate that that's not a nice word but in a certain sense to recycle right to constantly review and go over what you've learned you're doing the inner coits there it's like a person who sees his field right that's what i guess it's the word sowing the field you you you made the trenches or whatever they called the tr whatever they're called you made a lot of effort it's true but now it's time to harvest and you do not harvest that's what it's like if you have learned and you don't review your learning it's like you seeded the field and you didn't harvest now there's a second opinion yeshua as opposed to a bishop and karcher there's also rabbi yeshua who says and this is a little bit um not pc but it is what it is anyone who learns torah and forgets he's similar to a woman that gives birth and buries her child this is very harsh so that's that's how harsh it is you imagine you did all this learning and then you you forgot it why did you forget it so i want to go into some of the explanations before i go further because ruby kiva is very interesting as well you know what i'll tell you what ruby kevin says rabbi kiva says sing every day sing every day okay we're going to talk about these three great rabbis and we're going to go into a little bit more explanation so the first idea that yeshua and karka said that when you you you plant but you don't harvest so there is no real damage or pain to the physical body and it's also possible for other people to benefit because they'll harvest it right you didn't harvest it so they'll harvest at least doesn't go to waste but it's not in your pocket you as the farmer did not gain from all the profits someone else at least ate what was there however the second opinion where we talked about someone who gave birth and buried the child so when someone gives birth this is much worse this is more severe because the person who gave birth experienced a lot of pain now we don't know for sure you and i dan and many men listening but we've been told right i think there was a carol burnett i don't know if anybody even knows who she is anymore but she gives birth as because she wanted men to understand what what would it feel like so i i think it's been a long time that she said it's like pulling your upper lip over your face and pulling it behind you you know behind your head um okay her own special way she could explain it better than others i'm sure so unfortunately the second example is where there's a lot of physical pain the first case there wasn't a lot of physical pain and the first case at least other people can benefit from the seeds from the the harvesting but in this case there's nobody to adopt the child has passed on is buried so there's no there's nobody else who's going to let's see benefit raising a child so too this is like somebody who learns but doesn't review they have the tsar they have the pain of that first learning so you open up a book look at least hebrew is quite difficult but i can imagine even just to get the ideas in english these ideas are not always comfortable ideas they sometimes go against the society that we're in but nevertheless scripture is full of ideas that you have to wrestle with right even yaakov oh sorry yaakov is called israel because he wrestled with god and won to when you see jews who you know maybe they're not so observant they remember the holocaust they're struggling with god that's not a bad thing this is who israel is you know you put three jews in a room you got five opinions i don't know if you heard this it's not a good joke but it may be true you put a bunch of jews in a room and you're going to have everyone has their own opinion it's okay so the the idea is just struggling over the idea just to get it the first time okay and not only not only that we're talking about the second opinion ruby yeshua where he talks about the giving birth and then having to bury the child so you do experience pain when you're trying to get it the first time and then because you forgot it there's you don't have anybody who's going to benefit from the delicious words of wisdom you could share and that would be well that would be a real shame okay that's the that's one idea so i'm just trying to bring this down to like you know palatable examples or uh understanding another idea of ruby should be so he's dealing with someone who still didn't forget remember the first case is he just didn't review but he didn't yet forget like the the corn is standing in the field he just didn't cut it down so he still didn't forget but if he would re if he would do review then he could remember and this is like someone who still didn't cut down their their the the grains in the field but he is still able to do it so the first case sounds like he didn't forget he's just in review and there's a remedy so new get with the program do you review and rub yeshua who's the second case who gave the case likely the woman who gave birth is someone who already forgot his learning because he didn't do the review and that is like a woman who gave birth and buried her child that there's no more ability to bring this child back to life it's finished so what we're seeing is the importance of review in other words so we saw tom would last week the first thing is the desire for information the desire for the truth the desire you know to open the heart and and see what really it really matters and what's really important okay that's the desire but what do you do with it you know once you hear it you have to review it and you see the the jewish wisdom here ruby kiva was the one who said sing every day sing every day now there's a little bit of a problem because how can you call it a song the torah is is called a song but not necessarily a zemer as emre somehow cheapens the idea and there is an answer to that if you would ask and that is really it's like a mashallah and we're gonna i'm not a singer right and maybe that maybe it'll prove to me even more right like i don't know about these karaoke what is that thing when you go up on stage karaoke so you see the words but it's not just the words there's a whole you have to stay in tune you know what i mean you gotta carry a picture of the rhythm yeah maybe if the song is so loud nobody can hear you mess up or if everyone else in the audience is singing too so then you're not so embarrassed right if everyone like pitches in so like you then you can follow i'm like a follower when it comes to singing i i think i sing okay as a follower if you asked me to lead a song well watch out okay i not very good at that wow me no i tried out for the glee club in in um in elementary school they told me not to come back right he said say save your time don't waste your time okay so the idea is like a mash-up means an analogy like a singer who he's just so happy with the song that he created or produced or knows and can go up on a karaoke stage karaoke and and wing it you know so too with the torah is not that it's a song but that it should be like a song in your mouth that you just love to sing over and over and over again that's what it's that's what it should be now ruby gitzoff says like what this is the amazing thing about the altar they make these broad statements and then all of a sudden so no where'd you come up with this like what's source now the source doesn't have to be in the five books of moses i discussed this before there's nothing new in the nac in the in the prophets and the writings so a lot of the verses the gomorrah brings out as proofs for these principles are found in the in the prophets and writings which means that it's really a torah principle right it's in scripture but it's not because there's a new revelation there was one revelation everything took place in those 40 years in the desert that was the big yeshiva 40 years and the prophets come to rebuke to remind you of what you should have known and always did know and need to get back on the bandwagon and behave properly they never reveal anything new because there is nothing new to reveal everything was given at harshinai and that's what a uh ben should also be a cognizant of and unaware of so there's a verse in michele that's proverbs 16 27. 1627 says like this and maybe it's 26 all right it's fif it's 1626. the soul of the for his mouth presses upon him now in he in english i don't know if you would pick up the nuances but in hebrew it's nefesh amal the soul that toils that toil will toil for him it's like um i don't know in in terms of investments there's truly a certain word uh you invest x amount and then you can let it ride for a while and it's um goes to work for you there you go it's making money for you the money that you invest is making money for you i'm sure there's a more sophisticated word um but the re the rest of the verse is ki which means like this we said um a cough has to do like either a saddle or a pressure the pressure upon him upon his mouth so what does that mean what does that do with the mouth and what is this word of cough so one of the other gamers we're going to learn is that it's important to review how many times we're going to see one opinion minimum 24 times based on the 24 books of the bible we're going to see one opinion is 40 times because of the 40 days that moses was on harsinai but the main prevailing opinion which is a little hard to swallow is 101 times okay imagine that this word akaf is the gematria of a hundred and one the word pihu is also gamachi of 101. so if you if the soul toils in the torah the toiling itself will work for him in the world to come right even non-jews go to the world to come not because they study torah but because they keep the seven misses but this is for anybody that decides remember we discussed this idea in the laws of rambam hilka the laws of the sabbatical years and the jubilee that any non-jew could accept upon himself not as an obligation but as a choice to dedicate dedicate themselves to learning more torah and and why not so okay so let's just keep to the verse as king solomon in his wisdom right about the soul that toils in torah the toiling will work for him in the world to come it's talking about the world to come and the akaf the pressure that's the 101 which is upon him which is upon his mouth to repeat it to go over it 101 times and i think we'll because of time we're going to skip some that because it's not as relevant it's interesting and maybe we'll cover it another time i want to go to the next piece okay so this you'll find in gamora ha giga 9b this person his name is heihei actually bar hey hey he said to hitler why is he called hey hey he happens to be a convert actually he's been hey hey his parents were converts and mentioned his aguero but because sarah there was a hay added to her name and avraham there was a hay at it anybody who converts becomes at least a spiritual heir of abraham and will even say physical right they are actually we don't refer them any longer to who their gentile parents were but they are adopted into the jewish people they're grafted in if that's when when you call it i don't know if that's a good word but they become full-fledged jews but they are called the sons of abraham and sarah when they're called out publicly uh at least the man to the torah a woman when she gets married right this is who she is she's the she's the daughter of sarah and abraham so hey hey so this person asks hillel and there's a verse in it's malachi chapter 3 verse 18. you want to read it gotta find it here one second malachi what three yeah chapter three the last chapter verse 18. what happened i just had it malachi while you're looking it up before you just read it i did forget i think it's in sanhedrin this is why i wanted to do the sanhedrin first because of a very interesting comment and i think it's important to read for the listeners especially uh is this right yeah i have a treme just because of uh time i'm actually going to skip a lot but there's one important information piece of the um the comments in the back want to know what is the difference between an israelite and an akuma so an akuma is not necessarily a ben noah could be in between a jew and an akuma but what's the difference when we say that about toiling in the torah and reviewing your your learning so i think it's just apropos i think it's you know i'm not afraid to share these uh these sources um so the banish kai happens to be saying uh rebecca oh this you know what this is even again you know that's why i skipped it because i didn't even um ah so that means i have to go back and actually go to that piece i skipped it's kind of important so let's do it so says rabi eliezer kol adam la ama nivra so it says in job chapter 5 verse 7 that every man was created for the sake of what of toil it says in chapter 5 verse 7 right that man was created was born to toil so the question the more opposed is toil in what in your day is okay toil and what toil in physical labor or toil like in torah in things of the mouth well let's just use it as the mouth not not yet torah because there's two kinds of things you can use your mouth for you can use your mouth the first of the humor says it was for your mouth okay let's go with that because of our verse we just read allah because of the pressure or the akaf which is the saddle which is 101 on the mouth which you already said is also 101. so that was already the gomorrah's answer it's definitely for the mouth but the gamora still wants to know so now that we know that it was for the sake of toiling of the mouth i still don't know if it's for the words of torah or for the words of simple talk right like what's what i understand man is different than all the other animals what what differentiates us from all the other animals dibor speech so if man was created to tutorial was it for torah or for idol talk so the good answers it says in joshua joshua 1 chapter 8. it says it should not be removed right what shouldn't be removed the safer torah the words of the torah from your mouth and that answer the reason we were created was for the mouth to speak torah so now i'm going to read the comment here by the benicio discusses this idea when it says by um here it says so queens ruby the man was only created to toil in the torah it was only said concerning the jewish people they were created tutorial in the torah and by this if you want to look up now the malachi verse in uh isaiah 54 13. do you still want me to keep malachi 3 up well yeah we'll get to it eventually yeah sure but isaiah 54 13. if you want me to read it i can do it it's going to take me a second to pull it up on another tab prophets isaiah isaiah 53 54 13 54 14. third says and all your children shall be disciples of the lord and your children's peace shall increase now the word for children is which means your children but we have moral torah we have um remember we were there mount sinai right how to say words and what not even those later on remember isaiah cannot say anything new right so he says understand it don't read it as bonaire as your children but as bonaiike as your builders so what does it mean your builders listen to what he says he says like this that this is referring to the jewish people that they should be toiling in tara because through them their children build spiritual homes spiritual buildings remember the jewish people are the priesthood so we're we're building spiritual buildings as it says and this is the verse you just quoted but the gomorrah tells us don't read it as your children but as your builders that through the breath of the mouth the spiritual breath of the mouth because it's ethereal right you don't have a physical breath it's i mean i feel it but it's it's invisible it's there that through the heavel of their mouth through the breath of their mouth they are building these spiritual buildings but when it comes to the akum which may or may not mean albany north but basically the amal they were created to toil in the physical world and through this they they're building real physical buildings in this world and this is hinted in a verse now the verse is in chat in genesis chapter 27 verse 22 which says a ko yaakov of the daimy de asa right when when yaakov comes before yitzhak for his blessing he turns around even though yaakov had this garment right but he spoke so isaac says one second this is the voice the coal we're talking about the mouth again the the heaven the breath the words of torah this is the kolko yakov this is the voice of yaakov but the hands the adayam the physical building of the structure of this world is in the hands of aesop that the banay is trial our job is to toil in a spiritual building and um how through the hearing of the voice of torah through the mouth whereas asap his job is to toil in building the physical structures of this world okay i have to be fair this is the source okay now we're going to the next gemara in highgiga chapter of page 9b okay i think we did that we spoke about hey hey really okay we didn't really get into it we only started the beginning so this is in malachi chapter 3 verse 18. here we are verse 18 reads and you shall read return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him who serves god and him who has not served him so this is very interesting because the shabtim you will return where he eats him and you will see you when c is perceived you'll be able to distinguish the difference between a tsavik and a russia okay that sadiq is righteous hashem the whole world we should be righteous but it's not and then between the the tsarik and the russia russia being evil and then it goes on it says elohim between those who are true servants of god of um and those who do not serve god so the governor begins by explaining i understand sadiq that must be equivalent to those who serve hashem and what about the the evil people that must be those who do not serve hashem simple that you see the the the beginning of the verse and the end of the verse you just parallel the the sadiq with those who serve hashem and the evil who do not service him so i'm relying so hilo says back to hey i'll do low after the idea of those who serve and those who don't serve according to him they're they're actually both they're both completely righteous well how can that be so in other words he's disagreeing with our supposition that sadiq means those who serve hashem and the russia is one who does not serve hashem he's reading it differently he's saying no yet sadiq and russia that's fine but when it comes to whether those who serve hashem and don't serve hashem they're completely righteous you should say okay i'm turning this off how can rabbi post and say such a thing well i'm just looking at gomorrah so we're going to go on don't worry put on your seatbelts he says the difference is one who it's you cannot compare someone who learns a hundred times to someone who learns a hundred and one times remember how i immediately i said there's gonna be different opinions we're going to see it here whether it's 24 times 40 times 101 times how many times should you review in order to retain uh your your learning so why is that one time going to make a difference right you're saying if you only learn a hundred times you're not serving hashem so the basically it's like you're serving yourself but if you do that one extra you go that extra mile you do that one more then you're a true servant of hashem you're still you're still righteous in both cases but it makes a difference whether you're actually serving hashem or not serving hashem if you're going to go that extra mile and so there's a few examples that more actually gives and the commentaries give now i don't know how it works in your city if you take a cab but you get in the meter's already starting at 10 you know 10 or 10 shekels or 10 something or other and every mile you go it keeps going on and on and on but that's like an electric meter but what if you decide you're going to go and rent a donkey the donkey i'm talking about the old days of course i don't know if they do this today you rent a donkey and he's basically good good to go for 10 miles a day so it cost you let's just say uh one dollar one dollar to rent a donkey so you can use them five miles up five miles back he really can't handle more than that ten mile stretch but let's say you went and negotiated said look i really need him for 11 miles so the donkey um i guess you call him the salesman or the rental agency he says fine you need them for 11 miles it's two dollars in other words there's a quantum leap in price for one mile does it make sense for 10 miles it's only one dollar it's like 10 cents a mile right by doing my math right and all of a sudden that other quarter of a mile that other mile should have been 10 more cents a dollar but no that's how that's how it works that's how the world works so imagine now when you it is true you're supposed to learn 100 minimum but that 101 is going to make all the difference in the world in terms of you being a true servant of hashem now there is a lot of grammatical going on here and we're going to hope to get to it but the word if you take the iron the aleph and the laminate of those three words it comes out to a hundred and one the word lo of though whereas the person who is not serving hashem is um is only a hundred lamin is one hundred so you see the words themselves the one who serves hashem it's the iron of oid the aleph eloquem and the following lamid of la sher is a hundred and one so the one who serves hashem the gamache of the reishi tables comes out to 101 and the one who does not serve hashem is just the llamad in the iron of lo aldo is just a hundred alone but there's some really good stuff and i oh wow we begin so much stuff here i promised that we would take on number two of of uh effective listening so bazrat hashem but this is just too beautiful to skip the um the comments in the back of the gamora explain the names of the different angels there's an angel over forgetfulness and there's an angel over remembering your torah let's start with job job chapter 28 verse 12. it says if you want to read it job 28 verse 12. verse 12 says but wisdom hence will it be found and where is the place of understanding so you have to understand this is much deeper that if you read it in english you're just missing so much but i'm sure it means a lot to a lot of people in english in hebrew and the wisdom there's this word means from where is it found wisdom where is it found the word i am is 101. you want to know where it's found in uh reviewing it 101 times it's gorgeous so delicious now the balatorium explains from a different verse in chapter in exodus chapter 32 verse 34. you have it exodus 32 34. 34 reads and now go lead the people to the place of which i have spoken to you behold my angel will go before you okay behold my angel will go before you the word for angel is so the word my angel is one times is 101. the word the the word yelech is because a yud is a hey to hey so in other words basically the is to review 101 times this hints to what cause i'll say here uh that we already mentioned now the pasik the verse itself and he basically explains the same thing we said before now i just want to skip down and he says that there's a hint to the word zachar zeker the word zakar zion which means to remember that word means to remember the gematria of remembering is 227. it happens to also be let's just say like this is 227. the word for which is to forget that's 328. so minus try to do this math for me subtract 220 sorry 227 from at 328 what do you come up with 28 minus 227 is 101. 101. so the difference between forgetting and remembering the difference is 101. how's that guys if you want to remember your torah you will review it and you will review it as i said either 24 times 24 times represents the the um the the the number of books in the scripture the 40 represents the 40 days that moses was in the higher senate and so i'm not gonna have time to go through all of it i'm gonna i'm gonna get i have to get to effective listening but there's another gemara i do wanna so i'm just skipping a lot of the uh the the notes the gemara here is in tainus you're more in taint says luckish if you see a talmud if you see like a sage somebody a student that his learning is difficult upon him like barzel so barzel is something like it's raw steel we're talking about where it doesn't absorb and it doesn't spit out but said the claim here is why is it difficult because his learning is not uh fluid it's not organized in his mouth and there's a verse that says the who lo punning you'll find this in ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 10. it says yeah you want to read it uh yeah i'm just pulling up 10 verse 10. if the iron is dull and he did not sharpen the edge it still strengthens the armies but wisdom has a greater advantage so i'm not sure if that's exactly where the hula punim kill cal in the hebrew so that idea is like this i want to try to um because it's actually a longer verse so yeah we've you probably read it and the who low if he is not holding like in the hebrew makes more sense who lo he's not there it's because the puni must kill cow punim can mean surface or can mean face so the surface in this sense means he only superficially learned and it's ruined or his teacher the teacher the teacher himself did not have a pandemious was not um had a didn't have a good countenance and kind of restricted the students from asking questions and whatnot that can also you have to have a good teacher who's open to hearing uh questions good questions and having the patience to answer them but the rest of the world basically goes on and says what's the what's the remedy the remedy is to spend a lot of time learning okay i'm gonna go i'm gonna skip now this whole piece because there's no way i'm going to get to the most important part of the evening which we are now in schmierson part 2 number 2 of the 48 ways but i really thought this was good information to absorb to digest to meditate on how important it is when your quest for your quest for the truth is the only way it's going to become clear to you is to review it you come up with a million and one questions and you have to have someone that you could rely on to ask um you know this is i think one of the major things that separates judaism from any other system in in the world and that is i mean shouldn't say every system cause i don't know every system but at least the other religions we really encourage questions you have to think if something doesn't make sense ask right but with at least you know some some valid point that you're trying no not just your subjective ideas and that's okay too you know you feel this is wrong and i've had that learning in yeshiva and believe it or not that's a good thing i feel this is wrong know that this doesn't sit right and bizrat hashem i mean through continuous learning it's like an epiphany wow the gomorrah the the torah itself answers my very question it bothered me i couldn't understand it i just didn't sit right but there was some opening somewhere that actually brought peace right to myself and i understood the torah is so wise it really covers every aspect of human uh potential and and intelligence okay effective listening this is called sin the word for ears are ozen now effectively listening the word for scales when you're weighing things out we know one of the uh constellation the month it just passed um tishrei is the most naive right it's not that they're ears right they're two like things sitting but they're actually scales and there's balance right you balance things on the scales that's really how you you would i mean today it's different right you can set it stand on a scale it tells you it's 200 but you wanted to you put something on the scale you wanted how much you weighed on the other side you would have to put you know you you have equal a larger and then you got smaller increments until you get to the exact uh even scale and then you know how much it weighs that's the idea of michigan to figure out the weight to measure the weight so believe it or not ballot right the idea that balance is here right hashem obviously knows everybody created our right but people that have issues with keeping their balance usually i'm not again i'm not a doctor you all know i'm not a doctor right i might be a metaphysicist i have a doctorate in metaphysics but i gave it to myself by the way um so you have this idea of in your ear in your i don't know exactly how it works in your equilibrium i don't know that's right is somewhere between your two ears so there's a very interesting um connection uh how that connects with effective listening i believe also i'm going to plug it in even though it's not in his chapter renault weinberg's chapter but basically what my mother taught me when i i don't know i was never diagnosed with add or adhd but i'm sure that you know half my kids have it so it could be that i passed it down to them didn't know it they nobody was being diagnosed for that but i was a little bit of a a wild kid but whenever my mother wanted to sit down and have a conversation with me she said i want eye contact just look at me while i'm talking to you read my lips right like to be in a conversation with somebody this is something i learned a little bit later in life to be in a conversation you have to learn and always say you have to right if you want to be successful you should learn how to be an effective listener right we all know the famous idea hillel and shami and they argue hillel almost tops down wins all the arguments why many reasons why but the main thing is because they were humble and they allowed the other person to speak first and when they repeated they said okay before we even tell you our opinion we want to make sure we understand your opinion is this what you said i mean that's a really effective tool keep your emotions out of it make sure you really understand because we're going to talk about defining terms right we're going to get to that but in the beginning it's just effective listening it's such an important tool in communication my mother promised me that if you want the person to respect you right that they're talking to you and if your eyes are all over the place or you're just i don't know distracted by a million things you're not respecting they're not going to feel your list that you're listening to them at least make me feel like you're listening to me so thank you mom you taught me a very important lesson uh in life so here we have the chapter about listening with the ear because that's me ozin listening with the ear what's the famous mantra everyone knows hero israel here does not mean just listening with the ear it's deeper it's entering the ear to have an understanding right and this is something you want you want to have you want to have clarity okay so he mentions that effective listening is a difficult skill so i would imagine that i i had an early uh early on uh hands-on um what's the word you know um by my mother training me i had early training but uh you know sometimes you forget the heat of passion try to remember especially in the heat of passion you're in an argument you're not going to win the argument if he's not listening to you and you're not listening to him not that you're trying to win the argument again the idea is to come to the truth so hillel not only allowed shamai to go first but in the end we go after we pass king we determine the according to the majority opinion this it seemed to i guess the dell carnegie method right how to win when friends influence people so apparently that's what they did because i mean this is an effective tool in accomplishing that because they were then able to clearly uh describe the other person's opinion their own opinion and by doing it very calmly and not emotional and i guess they they had a lot of confidence in the people around them that they became the popular school they that it goes by the majority so good character trait you know i always said as i was growing up i shouldn't say as later on when i was growing up i thought when they say good people finished last i that's what they said when i was growing up but i realized that's not true good people finish first you know it's it's the journey like we're talking about avraham it's not the destiny it's the journey and and and where you end up in god's eyes is most important you know so this is very important can i can i answer the question rabbi yeah well i just i mean i know everything goes by the majority but is there is there not a time i know that there's a time and a purpose and a place for all things but is there not a time specifically where we should not be following the majority yeah only when it says in the torah you don't follow the majority for evil which implies you do file the majority for good so but you need to have that scale that balance the that be able to weigh it right yes so we're talking about the sanhedrin the sanhedrin's good so you have uh you have an uneven amount right just like today's supreme court uh you have nine um i don't know if there's such a constant as packing that you could pack to an even number i i don't even get that point but whatever it is so if you have an uneven amount so you always have a majority right you always have a majority and when you're it's a death penalty so then you have to have a majority of two that's one's not enough but anyway so what was sorry what was the question you wanted to know about when you shouldn't be following the majority so we're only talking about um certified card carrying members of you know elite schools people who are the people who are on the sanhedrin are well known you know um with a great amount of tenure whenever being rabbis you don't just get this 20 year old who's got no no background i mean except there are exceptions but um so you basically have to have a lot of credibility and so when we say follow the majority we don't follow the majority of jews we're following the majority of the baked in we're following the majority of the sanhedrin we're following a majority of the certified rabbis you know what i mean the people all the schools admit uh agreed to as being legitimate it's not a democracy in the sense that we just find out what all the jews are thinking we it's like like a democracy in the sense that you go after the majority of the valid opinions right yeah so i don't know if that was really the no you answered my question with the not for evil yeah don't don't don't follow the majority for evil i mean yeah yeah beautiful thing i've been doing you know you know my my work i do a lot of stuff with the hebrew and the gematrias but there isn't in english the word listen and the word silent are the same letters in english so apparently you know he he writes in the book there's no it's not an accident okay i'll buy that i mean i don't really know that much about english uh you know structure to make it like that but uh let's let's uh let's use it as it is obviously a lot of people when they're very emotional while the other person is talking all they're doing is thinking of what to say back and they're not really listening so if you have to write notes of what the person's saying even ask them let me get back to you why why are you not listening you know you're only building up your own argument and that is you know just a waste of everyone's time uh defining your terms ravnak weinberg was big he said most times and this really what the gamora comes down to is people just argue and they don't even define the terms and at the end of the day if you would define your terms they actually agree with you 100 why don't you do that in the very beginning there's a uh syntax yeah there's a a video there's a what do you call it like a channel that i've been watching lately it's not really clean language but it's interesting this guy crowder louder with crowder and he does um change my mind so he'll go into campuses and he'll say i believe this now change my mind and he's pretty good and you can learn a lot of how to talk at least i think uh in in i wouldn't even call a debate just to exchange of information you need to define your terms as soon as you define your terms now again the person the other person doesn't have to agree with those terms but if you do agree you'll find that there's probably no disagreement because we're all made up the same moral uh framework and you know what i mean um so once you really define your terms it's very important you'll realize that there's probably no not a lot of room for for argument argumentation and what else um it just gives a lot of other examples i encourage everyone to buy the book you know it's worth reading right oh beautiful beautiful material uh something else at the very end of every chapter he puts applied wisdom and like like i guess like a workbook but anyway the last piece of information on this particular thing he mentions listening to what we read see and experience it's very important to really pay attention okay so i mean a lot of people will sit and read and then you'll ask what they read and they're not even going to be able to describe it to you now just give a few headings right listening to the events of your life imagine you go on vacation you don't take notes you don't take mental notes you don't take pictures everyone does also and listening to what other people say so i actually want to read this okay so let's go through it listening to what we read see and experience we tend to be lazy we can spend an hour engrossed in reading and not remember thing we've read a few minutes later get into the habit habit of articulating what you've learned this is a great way you think i have time to review my learn my learning 101 times no but every time i'm at a bus stop i turn around to the guy next and they say hey you want to hear something interesting or right after prayer service i go over to someone say hey you want to hear something interesting and it gives me a chance to review because it gets a little boring when you just keep reading the whole thing over again but at least like first of all i get to practice and i get to hear fresh things that i wouldn't even pass and i get to articulate anything worth your time like learning a book reading a newspaper having a conversation touring should be productive define your goal ahead of time what do you want to accomplish and once it's done define what you gained from the experience have conversations with people don't let it become undefined a vague piece of data is lost in the myriad of details swimming around in your brain if it's worth it's you know if you have a wife or a husband it's the best thing in the world you know you have down time you just start talking how was your day honey what'd you think would you come across right i encourage people to get married okay i really do um it's a good way to keep your brain stimulated like what they say men they just sit in a box there are times trust me i just want to turn off everything and just you know think about nothing um but um most of the day not like that okay listening to the events in your life listening to the events take the time to introspect the and define lessons you've learned from significant events that have occurred in your life i mean what do you have friends for i mean i don't really i've never really sat around in a bar and did this but if if i was just a regular guy sitting around a bar find somebody to talk about life for example someone who is laid off from his job should articulate the insight he gained from the distressing experience without articulating it he has no way to verify that he's extracting the correct lesson this is something you have good friends for right friends will tell you oh you know i don't know i know a lot of people they have they think they're friends so they tell them you know this person did this to me and the person the so-called friend says yeah that was not nice what a real friend should say is well do you think you really uh responded correctly you know wouldn't it be nice a good friend would say you know i'm not getting the full picture could you repeat that again is that what you did you really think that's a nice thing to do i mean there's how are you going to get across your own you know reality check that's why i said a wife a husband is a good thing but then you have good friends too beneath the surface he may be thinking now i know that i can't trust employers and that i'm incapable of the successful career once he recognizes his thought process he can really he can evaluate and question his belief sharpen his thinking and obtain a more precise insight this is what good friends do they encourage you to say ah you didn't deserve that you could do better and then you know you could i don't think this information you want to share with everybody but within with enough of the closest friends you never know that a new job opening will open up that's in your field and as opposed to just being depressed and sitting in your home and not talking to anybody it could like snowball into god forbid the long months of unemployment nothing when it was just a thought and you let it compound if you spoke to somebody you never know and you try to realize what you hear so what's your insight i need to improve my work habits and my input interpersonal skills if that is what you come out with and hopefully with a good friend he'll help you uh hopefully and positively we call that positive criticism that's what i was looking for constructive criticism listen to what other people say listening is an acquired skill it doesn't come easy make sure you're really hearing the other person understanding what he's saying work on getting clear definitions they are an essential tool for cutting through confusion and attaining clarity and they help to ensure you become objective i would just want to end with this idea that in in yeshiva's in the jewish bait midrash in the schools of learning you usually have a haruta a study partner and i remember struggling over a text you struggle over a few words you translate them and then your partner will either agree or disagree he says that that's not what it's saying you're getting it wrong that's not what the word means so okay let's get the dictionary or right and you want to go deeper and deeper and on and on this requires listening how much time is wasted with the ego saying i'm right i'm going to prove him wrong there's no point there's no point what are you wasting your life away consider what the person is saying the only way to do that is to truly listen right so i give a blessing to all the christ all over the world jewish and non-jewish who are doing real serious learning to get to the truth open your ears invest in q-tips right your ears but it's the ego it's not you know just have a q-tip to remind yourself listen you know just leave it on the table clean one up just put in your pocket whatever it is remind yourself listen it's so important anyway so i um i'm glad we finished number two uh effective listening and bazrat hashem next week we'll continue and we'll go to number three you know i really love how you brought out the point that people shouldn't brood over anything they should you know just get past it don't argue don't need no need to be stuck on the wrong right you know i'm wrong right you're wrong you're wrong i'm right you know hammer out thoughts uh digest it get it into you work it it's it's like sometimes our lives are like metal that hashem is really doing some serious work on just think about just i don't want to get too political but the whole council culture and free speech is uh in jeopardy so what we're going to talk about next week is called saying it out loud obviously listening right changed my mind this guy is brilliant but to now saying it out loud obviously if it's not pc you're going to be in trouble but at least say it out loud to yourself at least we'll talk about it next week but uh this is uh these are right first amendment it's called free speech okay we'll find out next week but listening is a tool for life so these 48 ways to wisdom are for the world to accept on whatever level they want to right as tools to be more successful in acquiring wisdom and that's what we're all about here okay awesome thank you so much for uh closing off with that uh rabbi it's a joy to be with you live from jerusalem this has been a rabbi aaron david poston with beyond the seven sharing the 48 ways with uh those that are listening uh around the world we appreciate it uh so till next week uh we'll be at daylight saving time here in the west i know you guys are already ahead of us there in jerusalem we look forward to hearing you share more torah next week so till then folks have a wonderful wonderful week [Music] is