(Way# 24) TRUSTING WISE MEN: 48 Ways with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] hey good day everybody welcome back to another episode of beyond the seven live from jerusalem with rabbi aaron david poston uh this is such a beautiful course he's been sharing of late he's been sharing with us the 48 ways to wisdom and wisdom is just one of those things that i think we all can integrate and this course is designed it gives you an essential element that you can add and integrate you don't want to miss any one of these episodes uh you can go back catch them all uh here in the noahide world center or you can always find them on his site on yebene.com um i'll have it up on the banner here shortly um point being uh that uh we all can use uh the the what the torah has to say on wisdom and uh there's always room to grow and each segment has is always had a unique angle uh for us to integrate and i'm looking forward to hearing what the rabbi has to share today so let's just jump right in and see rabbi poston you're live on the air it's your show sir you've got it so let's uh let's let's do it i'm looking forward to so good to be with you how's everything in jerusalem this week hashem thank you dan thank you thank you to everybody whoever is already out of shabbat or experiencing shabbat now and watching us live uh yeah this has been a i'll call it a quiet week you know relatively quiet week um today thank you for handing it over to me but really it's it's our show it's it's not even a show it's a it's a torah lesson and everybody will participate on one level another whether they're looking at the text as we go along or they're putting in comments or questions um now tonight's topic today's topic is the 24th way the 24th of the 48 waves and it's called a moon trusting wise men now i have to tell you i mean just thinking about people who've come out of christianity or other you know doctrines of men shall i say how do you trans form or you know go from you know a a doctrine of men you know what i mean like a man-made religion that's really what these other religions are into the you know vast opening of wisdom of the torah and of course and i have to tell you you know just to look at someone else's translation is is a problem in itself so you're you know if you felt duped you felt robbed you felt um cheated lied to in the doctor of man a man made religion and now you're gonna come back you're gonna come back to the truth come back to the torah you will still require and this is really what it comes down to somebody like a jew you know the jewish people who were witnesses who were there at the great revelation and we'll discuss this is there's a tradition there's a chain there's a messora there's a transmission from rebbe uh teacher to student to talmud chain yeah parents to fight to sons you know so on a certain level there has to be a i don't know how great or small there has to be some trust and uh of course you have to be able to ask questions and of course you can challenge your your mentor your teacher uh there's no reason this is one of the greatest things about judaism is that you're encouraged to ask questions uh to get clarity right so how is trusting the wise trusting a wise man or trusting the wise men plural have to do with the the way to acquire wisdom so as i already began to mention we have a transmission you want to get it right you want to get it right i'm sure you know look i'm going to say you only even live once the truth is we don't know you may have other opportunities in the reincarnation but we don't rely on that we're not trusting on that this could be your last stop so we're trusting part of that messora trusting that transmission so we're going to go into a lot of shall i say mar mccombos source material okay but just let's get the concepts down so there are a few uh sources i want to bring first but i want to actually expound on them much later because i want to get through the material and then go deeper that's how we do things so there's a famous gemara mentions the name rabbi the torah scholars they increase peace in the world and you may ask how is that possible right on a we deal with metaphysics here so of course they're not the ones you know sitting at the diplomatic tables maybe they should be um working out peace treaties amongst the nations but it could be as we will discuss through their dissemination of the truth the torah and private lives how they conduct themselves bring peace into the world so it says there's a verse actually let's just stick with the the text i have here and all your sons will be this disciples of hashem now this is just the english version and abundant will the an abundant will be the peace of your sons now the fact is sons is written twice in this it's actually a verse we'll deal with it um do i have it in front of me no i'll tell you where it is and one second uh it's an isaiah chapter 54 verse 13. you're going to read it you're looking isaiah chapter 54 which verse 13 13 and all your children shall be disciples of the lord and your children's peace shall increase now i want to say this really for the end to go in depth but this is how we're beginning so superficially the uh the verse uses the word children twice and it's spelled with the validation your sons your children your your sons however hazal the rabbis explain that it's not just the fact that it's written twice but there is a way to pronounce it for a drusha and when we use a drush we're talking about to expound on the verse that we're supposed to read it as bonaire meaning your builders so even though we're talking about your children shall be disciples of the lord and your children's peace shall increase the bonaire meaning you're again we're going to get into this whole thing your children whether it's your disciples whether it's you as the torah scholar there's this building this process of building or increasing peace or both right we'll have to discuss that i just wanted to bring this down because that's how this chapter as i mentioned we're using this book and that's how it begins discussing this idea but i want to go into it in depth at the end so you have to have a lot of patience and bear with us basically the torah the the talmud in bracha 64 a explains do not read it as your sons but rather read it as bonaire as your builders so basically the talmud is telling us that torah scholars are builders in regard to the depth of their torah wisdom they build the world they actually build the world and bring peace to it now i think this is very important for benenoch to listen to because i mean i'm gonna i'm gonna be all over the place i'm gonna get back to these sources because but just start off with this idea that it's so important the rambam in the laws of kings and their wars where he discusses in depth a lot of the a lot of the laws relating to banik you know the seven laws but not only that he mentions whether a non-jew i don't want to get into the depth of it if he should oh torah now that doesn't mean learning of course he should learn the question is isik is much more than just learning whether they should keep shabbat the same way a jew does it's all discussed over there but i don't want to get into that the main point i want to mention is that in in chapter 10 law number 9 it says regarding that regarding whether they should learn torah or involve themselves in turn to what extent or uh keep shabbat or observe shabbat on whatever level the main point is that they are not allowed in we should not encourage them or allow them even to invent to invent a new religion or to make mitzvahs up on their own very very important but rather they should either be a gareth ceddick which means a total 100 percent convert to judaism and therefore they would accept all the misses oh yeah the torato meaning they should remain in the within the laws of a ben not to add or subtract okay and then the next mitzvah mentions specifically the word baninak as if it's a different category than the previous one and it says that if they want to do then mitzvah if they want to do a mitzvah meeshar mitsusatara amongst all of the other mitzvahs of the torah kidayla kabbal in order to receive reward now that's very important because it says we don't prevent them at all in fact we may even help them because it says we don't prevent them from doing it according to the how can you do that you have to learn from somebody i mean we have the oral tradition we were there we were the witnesses um something i know in the islamic tradition he mentions in the hadith in the in the oral tradition of the muslims that if it says if you have any doubt about a certain law in islam you want to go to the jews go to the jews they know the law meaning from a islamic point of view that they recognize the jews as the the people of the book unfortunately they also recognize i shouldn't say unfortunately but whatever it is that they give a lot of credibility as well to christianity um unfortunately i think christians um they think that the torah is i guess i shouldn't say this but there are certain christians that believe that the what we call what they call the old testament is no longer really relevant of course anybody watching this and knows the and is already a uh i don't know a card-carrying member of the banane movement they understand that the torah is the um the basis for everything in their life okay okay because we're asking the question right why should we trust these people we're talking about the wise men of the jewish nation so let's just talk about wisdom itself wisdom is mankind's most precious commodity right wisdom i think rabbi kaufman mentioned like if he didn't have a name right his rebbe was a little bit uh let's say perturbed uh get it right i mean you know how much money you have in your pocket that's obviously something that is meaningful to you well this should be i should say either just as or more meaningful than money so wisdom enables you to construct a life based on values and meaning it gives you access to torah's indispensable gps for navigating your way through life's vicitudes and trickiest journeys with it you understand how to attain true happiness and self-esteem how to create a and nurture a vibrant loving marriage which i encourage how to raise resilient confident children with torah values here in the safer it says jewish values i'm not sure if there's any difference but i i'd rather just stress torah values in a tumultuous confusing world which we are all living in right this is very important so sure is of course the the pursuit for wisdom should not be casual and i'm saying this even for a year for a ben ben right the whole question of ice egg matara learning torah learning tara for sure is should not be a problem at all whether you're um totally devoted your whole day in and out uh to learning torah that that's already a question we could we've talked about before that even the rambam does mention that there are select few amongst the amongst the nations that will um that will dedicate themselves and they will have a stature like the current gutter it's a little bit controversial some say it means only the seven or high laws but we already saw the rama says you keep any law above the seven as long as you do it correctly which again means that you search for wisdom you have to know uh to whom the wisdom let's say belongs or the disseminators and find out how to do correctly so there's in proverbs chapter 2 verse 4 and 5. so this kind of relates back to rabbi kaufman's discussion about wisdom should be more important than money listen to what it says if you want to read proverbs chapter two verse four and five yeah if you seek it like silver and hunt for it like treasures then you will understand the fear of the lord and you will find the knowledge of god so in in hebrew it says it's not just if you should search out wisdom like it's a very valuable commodity like silver but it's hidden as the next right and hunt it like treasures so the hero is [Music] like search it out hunt it out like something that's hidden um is to cover it over like something that was sealed away and hidden but it's not inaccessible right it's there so there's work involved you know some people think i'm just whether it's jew or non-jew that wisdom just comes so easily um i can just tell you look i mean there is you know being street smart and there's being academic smart and i don't think either one comes so easily if anything will come easily it's probably the academic part for some people right some people but uh we need to be overall smart right we have to learn sometimes from other people's mistakes i mean it's a wise thing right who's a wise man in judaism someone who learns from all men also the idea of humility is a key part i know you discussed that in your last your last class as well okay so let's go back into the text now if you're seriously seeking wisdom you have to look for a talmud now i'll try to translate it it means a student of the wise just to already imagine that that the people we look up to the people we go to for the answers with our questions the people that we go to to learn how to even learn are called them are they themselves are called students of the wise i mean it means that they're constantly learning as well that they're that they're not sitting there thinking they're the the top tier right once they're the top tier and they reach this level let's just say that they are actually called students of the wise so you you if you think you don't have nothing else to learn you're far from being a teacher right as we the tour itself describes that this torah is wider than the you know the borders of this universe i mean this is yeah so um i guess you have to be pretty full of yourself to think you have everything done so if we're going to look for somebody they're called a tom the thomas and obviously these people are going to teach you about the complexities of life listen uh but the main thing is you develop a relationship with this person now one of the most important things i think it's overlooked in most areas you know whether it's jews or birnach and that is when you really want to learn from somebody you do what we call shimoosh means it's more than just developing a relationship it's actually called serving with them because the word shamish means a servant that doesn't mean you're you know you put on the butler clothes and you you know what i mean you you answer the door for them and you carry their bags wherever they go although that wouldn't hurt what's called no any excuse to be in their presence right any excuse to carry their books any excuse to help them out in any way give them a ride just to be in their presence to watch how they are behaving all right watch how they answer questions watch how they interact with other people watch how they interact with their wives and their children you can learn so much more from you know five minutes of watching uh a truth in his i'll call daily behavior i mean it's not a daily behavior for you it's his daily behavior um that could just teach you so much we discussed this in way number 10 by the way so refer back to way number 10 why that's so important being serious about wisdom also entails implementing the wisdom you learn and appreciating its value so here's an example right imagine you received like a tip somebody i don't know if inside training what they call it but you assume this person is like a an expert in the stock market and they tell you that you know buy this stock it's going to go up and yes it went up exactly what he said he said it's going to go up 20 went up 20 and then the next day no it didn't go it went up 45 whoa you're like all over this guy you're ready for the next the next hot tip you know and it happens again it happens again it happens again and then one day this is going to go up 200 percent some stock and guess what it only went up 50 are you gonna be disappointed this guy has been giving you tips always for your benefit and maybe it didn't benefit you exactly the way he described but you know we're only human beings right again if it's valuable information it's coming from the torah in this case so it's going to benefit maybe you didn't apply it in the exact right way maybe he didn't know all your intricacies of your personality in your life or the relationships you have and he gave you advice it would be it would be probably the best advice he could give you based on the torah based on his knowledge based on his own you know experience and understanding and it should benefit you and you may not see it but bizrat hashem you'll be able to choose a wise person and follow their advice remember it's only advice right if it's advice you're asking for if it's a logic determination you you follow that if they have a tradition going all the way back and i'm gonna discuss the tradition that the rambam brings i mean it was the most amazing thing to me because i was very i was a stickler let's say i was very particular about this idea of a an oral torah if it's really true that we said you know we witness it says in the turn you saw what god did and you heard what god said and it's been passed down from generation to generation even my own parents and grandparents told me that we were at mount sinai right they just didn't have all the information because they were already secular but they had enough information that they did convey to me that we were from this um interesting people called the jews and um so when the rambam brought down and i'll tell you where he does okay you want to do it now this is very important to know if you go to um [Music] the introduction the rambam's introduction to his mishnah i just want to read it quickly to you just very very few paragraphs for the two short paragraphs basically he mentions that moses our teacher personally transcribed the entire torah before he died he gave a torah scroll to each tribe and placed another scroll in the ark of testimony it says in deuteronomy 31 26 take this torah scroll place it beside the ark and it'll be a testimony it mentions the mitzvah i want to talk about this verse as well actually it's deuteronomy chapter 13 verse 1. um okay there's a whole bunch of verses i want to talk about so the mitzvah that god that moses himself told us you know what let's do it now it's um go to chapter exodus chapter 24 verse 12. exodus 24 yeah first 12. verse 12 reads and the lord said to moses come up to me to the mountain and remain there and i will give you the stone tablets the law and the commandments which i have written to instruct them now i just want to break this verse down the omar hashem el moshe god says to moses come up to me to the mountain the yesham you know what's going to happen there etna i'm going to give to you so that means he's going to give us these stone tablets the torah it says and the torah what's the torah to find out in a second the mitzvah and the command okay let's say the law right the torah is the law and the command i share catapti which i have written lahore tom for you to teach them so there's a gomorrah in brachos 5a that explains this verse that the tablets yeah that's ten commandments the torah is the five books of moses the word mishnah means sorry the word mitzvah means mishnah so when it says i'm gonna give you the the torah that's the five books the mitzvah the mitzvah is we're organizing already going to call the orator god is going to give moses the altar which i have written that is the prophets and the writings and when he says in order for you to teach them the last word is the talmud meaning the principles in which to derive you know new laws from which developed like let's say for example can you use an elevator on shabbat so the laws of how to figure out which elevators are useful can be used on shabbat which cannot be used on shabbat are derived from the 13 principles that were given at mount sinai so going back to the word mitzvah so this mitzvah we said is the mishnah this is the rambam the explanation of the torah he did not transcribe it was not written down instead he commanded commanded it verbally to the elders and the elders and then to joshua and then to to the totality of israel as it says in deuteronomy 13 1 he says be careful to observe everything that i prescribed to you this is why it's called the issue careful to do it yeah not even or subtract from it yeah even though the oral torah was not transcribed moses our teacher taught it in its entirety to his court of the seventy elders this include eliezer pinchus and joshua received the tradition from moses in particular moses transmitted the euro law to joshua who was his primary disciple and instructed him regarding him similarly throughout his life joshua taught the oral torah many elders received the tradition from him now this is going further and further ellie received the tradition from the elders and from pinchas samuel the prophet received the tradition from ellie and his court david received the tradition from samuel and his court of shiloh was one of those who experienced the exits from egypt now he lived a long time we're talking about 400 years later after after the exodus our tradition is he lived that long he was a levite and he actually heard the teaching from moses himself so you always had checks and balances anybody made up anything anybody was off it would have been known we had an oral tradition we even had people who were alive okay um however he he was however a lower stature in moses age meaning when 400 years earlier he was not a great scholar but later on he was he actually received the tradition from david and his court elijah received the tradition from machia of shiloh and his court allah elisha received the tradition from elijah it goes on and on and on i just want to tell you all the way down to the prophets jeremiah zechariah all them and basically the rambam rights all the way to the talmud teacher student teacher student 40 generations from ravashi who was the red i guess redacting the one who sealed what we call the talmud all the way back to moses he lists the rom bomb lists 40 generations of teachers and students so should you trust them i mean who else is there to trust right when you hear that the torah says literally right black and white an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth but you have to ask yourself where in history did the jews ever poke out people's eyes or cut off people's hands or do any of these you know barbaric seemingly barbaric acts never happen you know we have to rely on the oral torah because it matches up with our own traditions in every way that it actually means uh financial compensation okay financial compensation um in fact when the hebrew it says i in and i now i would not translate it but we do an eye for an eye what it says in hebrew is iron that's an i means underneath yes literally it needs an eye for an eye because takas could mean instead of but it also means underneath right this thing down below right okay i gotcha that's underwear right means underneath so when you take the alphabet the aleph bet and you take the letters that are underneath an ion i and yud nun you see the letters kessif money in other words it's embedded even though it's an oral tradition there are so many hints to the old tradition within the the written the written script okay let's continue here we go so that back to the i get idea that you had this insider training whoever it was i'm let's not call it inside the train because that's criminal act but this hot tip from somebody who was wise when it came to the stock market will you ever forget that fellow who gave you all these um stock tips not a chance right because you appreciate the value of money you value the person then who gave you the beneficial advice in fact you're thinking about getting a job in new york city just you can spend more time with him right this is the idea so now treat a wise man with at least the same level of respect and fidelity if they gave you a valuable piece of wisdom there's a chance there's more to come there's more wisdom out there and you have struck gold right really you have struck gold go and get it okay now using well we started off with the idea of many people have left what we call the doctrine of man it's so interesting because we all know in judaism that you have the sanhedrin the court and they're not infallible right you still have to follow them in other words the torah itself proscribes you follow the majority of the saint hendren sanhedrin can make a mistake but the torah tells you if you go against the sanhedrin you're going to be put to death you say but i'm right and they're all wrong doesn't matter you have to follow them let me give you a verse to explain this let's find it sorry i'm a little bit uh misconculated and here it is yeah i believe here in deuteronomy chapter 17 verses 10 and 11. okay so how would somebody who believes okay i only do what the torah tells me well guess what if you're in doubt right this is the whole case if you're in doubt you go up to the highest court and the court will determine what you do and then you have to follow that now you follow i mean like oh i just do what i my heart tells me or i just do what i read myself but if there's any doubt this is what took place for thousands of years when we had first temple second time before um with the mishkan you had to go up you went to a let's say a friendly uh neighborly court a local court and if they told you what to do you had to do it but if they were in doubt then it would go to a higher court like i guess the same way if there's appeals or doubts then it's able to go sometimes the higher court says no we're not going to hear it they already determined and there's nothing to talk about don't waste our time right so obviously if the higher court hears it there's some doubt there's some i can appeal there's something appealing about your uh claim right that could be overturned here you have it now it's interesting because do not divert from the word they tell you either right or left i know people have a hard time because they oh i just do what god says but you already said there's a doubt so here it says even if the rashi says even which means this is going back to the oral torah itself even if this judge tells you that right is left and that left is right how much more so if he tells you that right is right and left is left in other words they may tell you something that just doesn't fit there's just some sounds so wrong you have to follow it i know this is a very hard thing for people to swallow look you have to follow it it's not your fault right and you could continue to have a dialogue you can continue to bring proofs if you can really feel that you're right get other people you're all alone i mean i feel sorry for you but at least if you have some people like a minority report other people you can continue to have a dialogue but in the end you still have to follow what they say and uh remember if you just keep reading i mean this person who then goes out and teaches opposite of what the sanhedrin says the torah itself says this person should be put to death he's considered a um zak in monre he's momish a rebellious elder okay now this could be many reasons you could say well it's good for society so they made it you know if the sanhedrin really made a mistake the torah itself prescribes a corbin a certain offering and confession that they have to make so again there is an opening if you really feel you're right you continue to have a dialogue in order to prove but in the end in public use in public you still have to do what they prescribe the torah itself says it now is this considered a doctrine of man or is this god's doctrine i conclude this means this is god's word you're following god's word and you're not thought just as a proof of this if you go back to numbers 15 31 if someone scorns the word of god go ahead read it if you want i mean just a mess on the in hebrew actually scorning whether it's the talmud what do you mean scoring god's word who are you squirting you're scoring the teachers you're screwing the the word that they have decided what what is the correct way so again it's very important to have what is we're talking about some level of trust in okay let's go back into our own um this idea is okay you trust them it doesn't mean you blindly accept whatever they say listen carefully to them and consider what they say with humility and honesty because they know far more than you do but do not accept their word unconditionally the torah wants us to think believe in the rabbis give them the benefit of the doubt but don't put your mind in deep freeze be critical if you see contradictions if you have questions ask but be sure to give them a full hearing a fair hearing give way to even if yeah even if it goes against your views resolve what you don't understand about what they said and then live by the wisdom they taught you now judaism does not believe that religious leaders are infallible every human being can make a mistake even moses made mistakes i mean right only god is perfect and he doesn't make any mistakes although the sages are not infallible they're still the best source of truth we have therefore they have a far greater understanding of torah than we do than we do so listen to what they say the same way you would listen to a renowned doc a renowned doctor who has carefully studied your case and is offering his expert opinion okay um interesting when this is from the gemara when testing a buyer robin and abaya argued a lot and rabbah tested abaya rubble would often intentionally impart something incorrect or illogic illogical to ensure that his student did not just accept what he was thought without critically ex a good rebbe sharpens his students wits and checks to see they're not mindlessly accepting whatever he taught them but instead are listening with a critical year now once you find this torah scholar that you want to come close to and you believe he possesses the wisdom and knowledge so what does it mean to believe him so here's another story i'll try to read it quickly he wants to illustrate this example imagine i tell you that you will win 10 000 shekel if you buy a 10 shekel lottery ticket at a certain uh kiosk you say rabbi i'm going to buy just one ticket so i can say to you after i lose uh so much for your wonderful advice so you go to this kiosk you buy the ticket and the day after the lottery you look in the newspaper and sure enough you won the ten thousand shekels so you call me up thank me and just say rabbi maybe you have another tip so he tells you go to another place and this is basically the same idea as we said before with the stocks right you keep winning keep winning and then one time he tells you to win 200 000 shekel and you only want fifty thousand shackle i mean come on you're not going to stop taking advice from this guy of course you are right same idea as long as you have weighed out that the information that whatever is being transmitted to you has been correct has sat well in your soul has benefited for relationships otherwise choose another rebbe so treat wisdom the same way you hear a piece of wisdom from a rabbi and you put the wisdom into practice even if you do not understand every aspect of it you see it works in the end you benefit tremendously from it naturally you go back for more advice so obviously the relationship deepens and his track records continues to build and so does your willingness to commit invest and trust in the wise man's wisdom you would not be willing to go to england you would not be willing to go to england after receiving one valuable piece of wisdom but once you trust in other words if he told you all this stuff and then he tells you to spend thousands of dollars on a plane ticket you might not be willing to do that but once you have so much uh track record uh so perhaps you the investment of your your you're willing you have the confidence to invest more maybe you would be willing to travel around the world if he so said so right the key is to appreciate the value of the wisdom you're receiving remember it's more precious than silver and gold consider just how valuable it is to know the secret to happiness the definition of good the path to genuine self-respect gauge the impact this wisdom will have on your life and respond accordingly by taking the rabbi's advice and wisdom very seriously this is what it means to believe the wise man this is very simple so far now i wanted to i told you i wanted to go into that gamora and i already mentioned we was one of the first verses we we spoke about in exodus chapter 24 verse 12 that the whole oral torah was already given over when i say the whole author i'm talking about the fundamental principles of the oral chart was given over to moshe c9 so you have to do your own investigation to believe that or not um due to running me we did that already okay chapter 17 verse 11. i believe we did that did we i will read here and the comment in the bottom of the midrash regarding this um this idea in his comments to this verse rashi explains that the verse is teaching us even if the sages instruct you that right is left and left is right still do not deviate from their instructions and certainly do not do from their instructions when it is clear that they are correct regarding accepting when they tell you right is left and left is right i once heard the following explanation right left are matters of perspective depending on which a person a person is facing this is how he will perceive which direction is right which is left the idea here is that since the perspective of a torah sage is one coming from a vantage point of having internalized much torah wisdom it behooves the student to accept that his own sense of right and left are an incorrect vantage point here's another example sometimes there's a tremendous amount of siata de shemaya assistance from heaven even when the rabbi may be wrong may be wrong we give them the benefit of doubt there was a story about um a very well-known story about rabbi yochezko landau he's the famous author of the no de be huda and the townspeople he lived they accepted his ruling to extend pesach by one day now if you extend pesach one by one day which the rabbi determined according to the calendar was necessary apparently he made a mistake what was the big deal to eat matzah and not bread for another day it turned out that all the non-jews in that town died of eating poisoned bread the following day meaning the day that it was really not pesach but all the jews were told by this rabbi he had some kind of a mistake apparently and we don't even know it doesn't really matter maybe he didn't make a mistake but the jews all followed their rabbi they kept passover one extra day i'll just read the exact statement when the townspeople accepted his ruling to extend pesach by a day due to the supposed mistake in the calendar that he discovered it saved their lives because they avoided eating poisoned bread a plot that only the rabbi was privy to okay so it means that he actually knew it and then he told them to keep an extra day okay much interesting um okay i want to go into this um idea of the gemara the actual gemara that talks about these verses of how a wise person brings peace to the world because that is what we ultimately want isn't it of course yes all looking for peace so we say this at the end of prayers three times a day shouldn't say oftentimes at least at the end of chakras i don't know about the other customs let me just find it in the end of the game it's the very last page in german now i have to find it we say this and then we say kaddish afterwards i'm just saying hebrew real quick and then we'll talk about it i think i read that verse in the beginning in isaiah 54 13. rebbe alegre torah scholars increase peace in the world as it is said all of your children [Music] shall be taught of the lord and great shall be the peace of your children meaning if all the children of israel are taught of the lord there will be peace for all so the they just say i'll take reign don't read it with the validation of so torah scholars are those who build peace for their generation as it says now i have a whole bunch of verses now it's interesting why the gemara needs to bring all these verses but it's quite enlightening so in psalms 119 verse 165 those who love your torah have great peace there's no stumbling block for them you love torah the torah wants you to listen to the sages don't worry nothing's going for 65 rabbi 165. 165 reads there is abundant of abundant peace to those who love your torah and they have no obstacle i mean it's an amazing idea here don't worry everything's going to be good right in hebrew shalom shalom wrath a great amount of peace will come to those who love you torah name make mixture there won't be any stemming block for him the next verse and it's in psalms 122 verse 7. and then we're going to read 8-9 but just read seven right now psalm 122 verse seven verse seven uh may there be peace in your walls tranquility in your palaces and then read the next two verses the next two verse eight says for the sake of my brethren and my companions i shall now speak of peace in you for the sake of the house of the lord our god i shall beg for goodness for you okay and then verse nine you're ready yeah nine for the sake of the house of the lord our god oh goodness for you yes you could read another personally just readings in hebrew because they're so beautiful besides we actually sing this so nicely and i'm not a great singer so i'll maybe i'll just try and then you'll say yeah i heard that before the monohybrid [Music] it goes over and over again anyway so then the next one is lamont base hashema lokenu of i want to talk about this a little bit because the torah the the temple was destroyed the second temple because of sinatra because of causes hatred to bring peace right in order to bring the temple back we have to have peace the rabbis increase peace how through teaching torah through helping people work on their character through helping people believe it or not just do the right thing that also changes things in heaven but also brings peace among people and peace to the world and it ends with psalms 29 verse 11 29. verse 11 reads the lord shall grant strength to his people the lord shall bless his people with peace all right hashem now i wanted to go to this one piece this is the benjoyada on that piece of gemara and i thought it'd be a little bit enlightening to go through it um i hope it won't take too much time and i'll try my best and when it says that these sages marbin increase peace in the world so and the typical le benio yada this is the benishai he mentions that it seems to me with the help of hashem to explain what the gamora in a different gamora tinus the top seven says torah now he says that i learned so much from my own rabbis i even learned more from my colleagues and i even i learned much more the most i learned was from my own students okay now it's comes out that really it's from it's the students themselves that increase the torah in the world the students as we actually already said the talmud the real sages are actually students anyway now it's known that the torah is called peace that that's true look in uh proverbs i have this here at proverbs 3 verse 17 17 its wanes are ways of pleasantness and all its paths are peace okay so we're talking about the disseminators of the torah which is called peace it makes sense that they are increasing peace in the world by teaching torah and it's like just real simple right it's not that it's not this is not uh you know high level chemistry or or a science this is just simple if you just you know ask hashem to open your mind right water in the desert yeah it's ways what we're talking about wisdom or tomato torah it's ways or ways of pleasantness and all of its paths are shalom the torah itself is called shalom so now that we know the tutor itself is called charlemagne as we just read in that verse so the tom and they they're called tommy day they're specifically called right students and they're the ones that are marbeem torah they increase torah which is called shalom in this world and we already said that i learned more from my students than anybody else and we saw the drasha that explains don't read it as your sons but rather bonaire as your builders so any place that the torah meaning the the oral tradition tells us don't read it this way but read it that way it doesn't mean we do away with one and only go with the other it means that there's two ways to look at it the way it's written and the way it's pronounced the way it's written is the way it's pronounced is bonaire so learn two things simultaneously okay so based on this we drastic we look at both of them so when it says increases peace of your builders that's the coming that means the rabbis the teachers they increase their torah which is called peace the meaning they're increasing peace in the world and then through your children you know your children your students or your children it's not in other words you don't have an obligation only to teach your own children physical biological children everyone you teach you have an obligation to teach as many people as possible they're also called your children right um just to go back into the idea that in terms of keeper of the aim or keep honoring your parents or honoring your rebbe so i know this is a hard pill to swallow for many people because we do have a mitzvah to honor your parents it's written clearly right in the ten commandments and wherever so you have this idea that if you found an object you see it floating down the river you can only save it's your father's lost object and your rebbe's lost object or god forbid your own father or your own rebbe were drowning and you can only save one of them who do you save so you probably not you logic might dictate okay you have to save your own father first no the answer is you have to save your rebbe first because your father gave you life in the physical existence but the rebbe gave you life in the world to come and therefore you owe him a lot more let's say honor i know it might be a hard pill to swallow yeah go ahead uh we got a question online from ben noah in new jersey um he's asking he says does it matter if the rabbi is conservative he says i have no orthodox rabbi in his area and i asked i said i replied i said well is he a talmud and um i didn't get any reply but you know it's a question of you know are you learning from them or not i'm not making any judgment i don't know who he i don't know who he is i don't know what they call why he's called a conservative rabbi um let's just say in general someone is uh i maybe let's just skip that i don't i don't wanna answer okay sorry maybe you want to remember okay rabbi yeah that's okay my email address and i'll uh you can answer i'll try to answer them privately uh you have to know a lot more about the situation than speak uh openly about about things like that uh most likely and people just have that title doesn't mean they really are right but they might not even be a conservative rabbi and he might be an orthodox rabbi and a conservative sure i don't know you hear what i'm saying that that's the truth i mean there are certain sure it's a heavy judgment either way else or they were trying to do outreach and they made a school that was conservative into a much more um orthodox type of shul um and there are some people that are let's just say titled conservative rabbis and they're not even you know i'm saying so you you have to know a lot more about the situation okay so going back to the text and so through your children which they're called the tommy dean um students you're called your children so there's a verse in psalms 34 12 34 12 reads come children hearken to me i will teach you the fear of the lord right so this is not talking about your physical children this is talking about um your students and so too uh isaiah chapter 8 verse 18. chapter 8 isaiah 8 verse 8 verse 13 you said 18 verse 8 verse 18 18 18 reads behold i and the children whom the lord gave me for the for signs and for tokens in israel from the lord of hosts who dwells on mount zion okay so basically hazal is talking here also about students so the this gamora that we quoted with all these different verses brings four verses and those four verses are basically speaking about peace that are parallel to what we call torsion pair has four four levels pardes shot uh remedies drush and so right you heard this it means orchard but there are four levels of the ural torah and therefore these fortsukim are teaching you about the four levels of the oral torah and then it brings afterwards another verse uh i think the last of our ship tov la vacher let me just see which one which verse that was um i'm in the wrong place aren't i so it was the it was psalms 122 i believe verse nine right but okay so basically for the sake of the house of lord our god i shall beg for goodness for you so when it says tov that's a code word for torah tov what is good that's the torah itself so that's talking about the written torah the torsh the written torah because it says it doesn't have the verse here but a good purchase i gave to you it's one of the verses so we know that's referring to what god says a good product a good item i gave to you and that's something that i gave to you that's something that's given physically from hand to hand and that would be a safer torah that would be a physical torah so that's the term which is not the case when it comes to shabbat shaba pat that's to live that's the world torah that is not given from hand to hand but rather mouth to mountains so at the end of the um that verse hashem right that verse where is it i have everything here i think i'm missing that verse for some reason yeah so that was believe it or not that was the last verse that we had read in the gemara and i did not bring it down i'll tell you where it is again sorry i think it's an idea it's important to quote it correctly i might have it somewhere on my sheets but um that was psalms 29 11 and the lord gave strength to his people and lord blesses people with peace that was 29 11 in psalms the lord shall grant strength to his people the lord shall bless his people with peace so that in hebrew owes i is strength iron zionist strength so he writes here the iron zion represents both both torus how it hints to both torus through the word oz iron zion so the word iron the letter ion is representative of 70. 70 we know about the 70 sorry um 70 faces of toshiba seventy faces of tertiary but the letter zion is seven and what do we know about seven there are seven books i know we we people are confused now there's five books of moses but the numbers is divided into three books three okay so going back to jordan the oral torrents not somebody in the 21st century telling us this right so you have the inverted upside down nuns in the middle of uh right in the middle of uh numbers and you have a book before that two verses a book in itself and everything after so you have genesis exodus sorry genesis exodus leviticus and let's just say deuteronomy and numbers is another three books here four plus three is seven simple okay so you have seven books fine so that represents the um the torsion the written torah and just as an example to get to not an example a source for this go to proverbs chapter 9 verse 1. of the torah itself bonta basa she's built her house khatzbah is to be hewn shiva seven pillars these are the seven books of the written torah so then oh just describes how it's i'm not going to go into it how i already did i already basically spoke it out how in numbers there are three books fine now he quotes remember this is the benishkai he's quoting a friend of his explaining how it is that atam and that's the sages bring peace into the world now this is the very end of gemara brachos this is how gamora bronchos ends gamora brachos deals a lot with faith in a moon in hashem but it also deals with blessings as the name brachos implies so he says that each person who goes i'm sorry shekolah osmo talmud each person should look at themselves as a student legate at least in respect to his friend if you look at yourself as less than right you have wisdom to learn from someone else lawyer you're not going to come and argue and fight amongst them but rather peace will ensue right if you come in thinking you're strong-arming everyone else you should accept my ideas and i'm more knowledgeable than everyone else so of course there's going to be fights but when you come in with some humility and you're willing to learn from someone else so that's already going to create peace which is not the case if each person looks themselves as the rov right he looks at himself as the master of his friend and there's no question there's going to be all kinds of mock locus and arguments but rather each one comes well well let's say say what's going to happen when you come with an argument everyone's going to come and argue with everyone else and you're not even going to learn torah anymore for the right reasons you're only going to be battling it out with the ego and that's why we mentioned that see themselves constantly as tal me deem as students remember we said these are the builders even though they actually are great sages and they are bringing they're actually increasing increasing peace in the world um and you're not going to find a real mock locus be in front of them you know they're not going to be involved in a real argument in my locus because but mela of course they're learning torah for the right reasons and they're not going to increase sorry and through them there will be an increase of shether shepherd when the jew makes a blessing on food he and everybody can make blessings on food you're recognizing where it's coming from and increasing the shepherd that's coming down from heaven so when through let's just say like this through these sages it's going to increase the chef in the world and they're building the batuva there's this great building and a bracha because basically what happens is if you have any doubts about which bracket to make this is who you speak to right the more broadcast ends with this because this very metaphysical idea that shaffer shepherd means the heavenly influence of goodness has a flow into the world and in order to increase right that we say the talmud increase the shuffle first by their own humility not getting into arguments and anybody wants to clarify what brock has they go to the they go to the sages and find out and follow their instructions so this would increase brock into the world that's how we'll end it now i mean there's a lot of other sources that are very nice metaphysical but i think that's uh an idea right we have to have a beautiful beautiful stuff how do we build that trust look you don't just go test them okay you want to test them you tell them i'm looking for rebbe i'm going to ask you some questions you know and experiences if they don't work out for me i'm gonna go i guess shopping for someone else that could be fine i mean what can i tell you you know what i mean but uh hopefully you'll find a teacher a scholar who's already humble he's not gonna steer you wrong she won't steal you or whoever it is that you're relying on as a mentor they're not going to steer you wrong you'll build um i don't know what you want to call it's a portfolio of things they told you that worked out for the best and you'll just continue to increase and hopefully their advice will continue to bring chef into the world and that will bring true peace ultimately to the individual first to the neighbor to neighborhood to the city and that's right hashem to the world beautiful i think yeah it's just amazing the way you can you can thread out there the connectivity uh um of how the light of torah can change the world in this lesson i think there's just so much there uh thank you so much for today's lesson rabbi beautiful beautiful material i find myself watching more of your more of your broadcasts on yebene uh you can always catch folks rabbi poston on yebene.com uh he's always got some great material he's shining out there and always doing a lot of factual hard hitting kindness work there in jerusalem and trying to help those in need and this is a gentleman who who not just talks that he he lives it daily and uh tries to uh change his community around him and uh make the world a better place it's just a joy to to connect with you even here on beyond the seven uh we so appreciate you sharing the 48 ways to wisdom and i think there was just a a real golden nugget in today's lesson and uh thanks for pointing out all those all those sources i mean even the first time i've ever really read the the introduction of the rambam's introduction to mishnah torah beautiful material i can see all the verses and where the thought train was coming from from deuteronomy 13 1 and so on and so on and so on and um yeah we want to know whether to turn from the left turn to the left or to the right you can't do it without the rabbis and you got to be connected you got to have your ears open and um i just find don't don't be uh don't be second-guessing them that's not being a good student not at all i mean don't be afraid to to probe and and research what they say um but uh don't be uh approaching it from a skeptical standpoint i find that that just doesn't make a good teacher-student relationship for sure you want to be a good student make sure you click with your rabbi and you know i'm so [Music] joyful that i i was able to connect with rabbi goldberg you know it's been four years almost now for me and i've been at this broadcasting nearly three years straight uh for for the noahide world center um it was july it was july three years ago uh back in 2018 when i first put my first post out on social media for the noahide world center to be doing a series and um yeah i've pretty much gone non-stop for three years it's just a joy and uh yeah so rabbi goldberg asked rabbi uri shirki of the founder of the know-how world center if i could start a class myself and he said sure go for it so i get to start broadcasting i'm going to start a class on the book of job on on monday and uh it's not my material of course like you your class said today make sure you're giving your ear to a talmud i've got some beautiful material that is created by a rabbi yichak schwartz who is a leading rav in his community uh just north of uh jerusalem in uh uh i think it's called gav just just about five kilometers about gideon yeah just just right five kilometers northwest of jerusalem and he's uh he's the russia shiva of his uh uh of orco scheim uh and i look forward to meeting him in person on one of these broadcasts he's kind of excited we're sharing his material i first read his course on the book of job over 20 years ago he copyrighted the material 25 years ago and he was a rabbi in seattle down in in washington state just below me and um you know it's nice to to you know i'm glad he's i tried to get his permission on top of having my rabbis okay to do a class and and my rabbi asking his rabbi i also asked the rabbi whose material i'm going to be sharing and uh you know try to give honor where it's due and i think that like you said today it's it's it's it's all the order that keeps that peace flowing right and i really hope that this class is successful listen i i hope so too just keep in mind that uh this is one of the statements that i heard from one of my rebellion i'm not going to say that it's across the board like this but this is what i believe is true what is the how do you know what tom hawking right this person asked about the conservative rabbi and basically you answered them right he said tom mcconklin what's the tom mcculken somebody who will tell you the truth i don't know yeah one of the things we learned in rabbi school is to learn how to say i don't know i will check into it and get back to you right you could say i have an educated guess but i have to check it out you know it's better to check it out than to put out things that are even and even misleading or possibly misleading first of all certain humility and second of all making sure you really know what you're talking about by getting back saying give me a few minutes or a few days or a few hours whatever it is uh to check out a better response uh follow through with it yeah oh no follow through for sure but i'm saying like there are people that just i don't know what the word is they talk out of their tokens it's not a nice phrase to say but they're they're you know i don't know what it is i don't know if it's ego and they don't want to show they want us you know the fame the stories of famous rabbis and people came and asked them simple questions and they made sure the person felt that it was an important question and the rabbi said let me give me a second we took a book off the shelf went through it very simple everybody knows the answer but he wanted to make sure the person felt respected oh you just said oh yeah that's so simple you know everybody knows that yeah yeah you don't wanna you want the person to feel like they can come to you that you respect them and that their words are valuable and their their questions are valuable and uh there are we're talking about rabbis whose time is extremely valuable and yet they took seconds to stroke their beard hesitate make sure they're you know gonna give the right answer and uh even take the books off the shelf just to show them that this is this is it's not the first time it was asked someone actually had to write about it anyway so that's just my my my words of advice starting it off just be real yeah stay real right yeah okay so we'll see you next week misrat hashem bazrat hashem so uh yeah hashem willing will be uh here same time next week with part 25 of the 48 ways to wisdom is such a beautiful beautiful course i hope you folks are getting uh plenty out of this i know that this course from this stage forward is gonna start to really mount uh the concepts are gonna get you know more and more profound and i think once you reach the 40s you know it's just like oh it's mwah just just delicious material so um hopefully you folks will stick with us i know we got a lot of regulars that come back uh weekly it's always good to see some of the same faces uh i know that they're appreciating the time and the energy how valuable your time is and that you do take the time to share this with us and stay up so late in jerusalem i mean yeah it's coming out to 1 a.m out there isn't it and it's a ted to uh it's yeah [Music] all right so we're going to sign off for this week folks have a wonderful wonderful week [Music] is