(Way#3) SAYING IT OUT LOUD: 48 Ways with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] the hey good day folks welcome everybody back to beyond the seven live from jerusalem with rabbi aaron david poston i'm so enjoying this class as he's transitioned to teach us the 48 ways uh this will be our third installment and it's an exciting exciting lesson i really appreciate how deep he's actually unfurling this for us there's so much to learn so much to to draw from and let's just tune right in see how the rabbi is doing rabbi poston you've got the microphone sir i'm going to leave it in your capable hands thank you dan thank you dan here got the microphone the invisible microphone the wireless microphone well shavuotov everyone we are now in number three of the 48 ways to wisdom in other words why we're doing this as part of beyond the seven is because we spoke about the idea of seven no hyde principles laws that have many subcategories and as far as i'm concerned i'm encouraging you all to go deeper into the seven of course we won't prevent you or stop you from going beyond the seven horizontally and accepting other misses but the main focus is going deeper into the seven accepting them on a higher level in a deeper level and of course who wouldn't want wisdom right if you uh if you were asked what do you want riches or wisdom so what would you say we already know what a famous jew would say that would be king solomon right he would take the wisdom over the riches and what is the result you get the riches this is how we ended off uh i believe that's how we ended up uh last week that if you're looking for the wisdom you will be blessed in everything right you'll get all your dreams should come true right if you have wisdom you have everything and the torah is wisdom right wisdom came before everything right the word god looked into the torah into the scripture and he created the world the the we call it lash nakodesh and people know it is hebrew but lush and hakodish i i had one comment on my last one of my last classes someone was upset and wrote a comment they can't believe that the rabbi is translating i couldn't really understand what they're trying to even say translating from the hebrew to the english what do you expect the originals in the hebrew the originals in the lash so this tonight's topic is called ariha which means arrangement on your lips what does that mean what does that mean so of ravnoch weinberg in his famous book remember this series is based on a mishna in percyavote chapter six uh missionary number six that there are 48 ways to wisdom when the jews left egypt we it took 50 days it took 49 days till we're ready to receive the the torah 48 ways were 48 ways in order for us to accept certain changes in our lives in order to receive that wisdom at the revelation now right they there's different types we discussed this the the the one that i like right the type that i appreciate i appreciate all right to keep the laws but there are some to keep them out of um i'm just a a natural logical conviction this is they're called the wise they are called the wise amongst the nations but they don't necessarily receive the world to come the ones that receive the world to come which is the real the real deal here are the ones that understand and accept the revelation at mount sinai so why not right why not go along with the jews so to speak in in um in their journey towards acquiring wisdom on whatever level you you're ready to accept it so i'm is the third of the 48 ways saying it out loud that's how the rabbi translates it i would have you know literally translated as a arranging on your lips arranging your lips what does that mean if this is one of the ways to acquire wisdom we should try to understand what does that mean whether it's saying out loud which i totally accept and like you should know that if you ever go to a baked madras baby josh is a study hall the decibel level is just unbelievable right you would expect to walk into a room full of books right like a library and what do you do when you walk into a library you make sure your phone is on uh silent right if you have anything to say to anybody you're going to make sure you do it in a whisper right but when you and my first time walking in i was astounded i couldn't believe there were groups everyone was with another pair like a haruta pairing off and they were um it was like they were fighting over a book you know it was like what would you call it a courtroom every two people were like in a courtroom screaming at each other trying to clarify trying to um define their terms trying to tell the other you're not hearing me you're not seeing the word you make you know you're not reading it right whatever it was and it's like metal on metal barzell on barzo that's how you stretch that's how you sharpen a knife right that's how you sharpen a sword that's like and the sparks were flying that's what happens right man the sparks were flying and the decibel level is just so high and so we're going to talk about how this tool can be used and i'm going to call it a tool of arranging on your lips so there's so much to say i actually thought i was going to cover two of the 48 ways in one night and after i got through um some of the sources i just went deeper and deeper and i said there's just no way i gave up on trying to accomplish number four so we're going to stick just to to this tonight okay so from potential to actual in other words first of all my rap one of my rabbis told me um yosef yasak learner he was in charge of the speaker program at ishitar when i when i received my ordination he said as a rabbi there's certain things that you think that you don't say you know you don't have to say everything that you think okay and not everything that you say you should write down and not everything you write down should you publish so think twice before you know there's a lot of guards against our um speaking without thinking and the teeth is going to be one of them we're going to talk about tonight the lips the teeth and so therefore whatever is going to come out of your mouth hopefully you have thought about okay so when potential is the thought and then into actuality and believe it or not we're really talking about something real i'm going to talk about some certain certain scientific um research that has been done into speech okay so that's part of what we're going to discuss tonight but just to begin with what is man man is different from all the animals and i think i've discussed this a little bit in the past if you go to genesis chapter 2 verse 7 chapter 2 verse 7 says and the lord god for man of the dust of the ground and he breathed into his nostrils the soul of life and man became a living soul okay so you translate it as the soul of life mine is the breath of life but either way it's called nishmatrain there's no doubt about it it's also the same word for soul so so either way you look at it right it's the soul of light the breath of life however the latter part the last four words in hebrew the adam le nefesh guess what all the other animals at least three other times is described in the in the part in genesis for all the other animals as nephesh kaya nefeshka means a living being that's true they're living beings but what separates man why are we different because we have a nepheshchain now interestingly enough let me just read the rashy on that so when it says a a living a living soul an ephesian rashi says cattle and beasts are also called living souls but this one of man is the most alive of them all because he was given additionally he was given intelligence and speech deya the word daya means seijo like real intelligence and dibor dibor is a word for speech so that's what separates us from the animals now ankalis is a famous convert believe it or not he was a pretty high up general officer in the caesars army i don't know if you know the story it's a beautiful story look it up just type in uncles who was a convert in most magnificent magnificent story i don't really want to divert now so i suggest if you never heard of him you don't know anything about him look him up but through kodesh to the holy spirit he translated the hebrew into the vernacular what the language people spoke and that was aramaic and he had the help of the hashem it was miraculous but when he calls this um what he basically um okay i just want to mention something else about that person asking me why i'm translating first of all there's no such thing as a translation there's an interpretation meaning every translation is an interpretation and if i'm giving a class i'm giving over a certain nuance and they're necessary to show you the original hebrew and then explain why that's a nuance so ankalos does exactly that when he describes what this nismus in aramaic he says it's a ruach malala which means a speaking spirit and that with that is what separates us from the the other animals why am i remember we're talking about arrika time the arrangement of the lips if that's not speech i don't know what is what does it mean arrangements of the speech how i bark at the full moon when i'm a werewolf i mean we're talking about speech here we're not talking about noises right not a dolphin or a whale that make these screechy sounds under the water where we're talking about a higher level of communication so we're talking about bringing the potential which is the thought out into the world and it's through heaven through breath and that breath is the breath of life that where god breathed into us so to speak i mean i know exactly what that means uh so when we when we breathe out we speak it's also through breath that's godly there's something godly about it and it's also bringing it into this world it's actually and i have a lot to say about it and i don't know how i'm going to try to do this with um so much of the other stuff but i'm going to try at this point i believe to go into this idea how and bringing something into the from let's say thought intangible into the physical reality so i think what i'm going let me just keep with the rabbi's words and then i'm going to diverge off into some of the scientific ideas so if you speak it out you give yourself clarity now if you have a haruta you have a study partner so then you have at least somebody else who is hearing as we spoke about in last week's uh class effective listening so you have someone else who can hear what you're saying and can counter you or or let's say sharpen you by saying is this what i heard you say so let's just say you're by yourself you don't have your study partner just speaking it out if you hear what you're saying that's already like again talking about concretizing yeah make sure it's clear if you said this in front of another human being would they understand what you're saying or are there still certain words you need to insert into the sentence to get the idea across or maybe using too many words to get the idea across so it will help you clarify remember we're talking about how to how to reach wisdom so this is one of the ideas in perky avat it says it's in chapter 1 verse chapter 1 mission 6. it says yeshua and not bailey they received the wisdom from benelli um yoshi benuezer and yoshi benjamin now rob yeshua said like this make for yourself a of meaning acquire a teacher appoint someone as someone to be your teacher and then he says acquire for you for yourself a friend what does it mean to acquire yourself a friend so there's many ways to think about it and look it's if you want him to be your friend you have to be a giver right if you're just a taker a lot of people shy away there are people that know okay so he's in great need and i'll be there for him but they may not look at themselves as a friend but if you give and give to that other person they may feel indebted to you and they'll be there for you that's one way you know to always offer them you know as a friend maybe their birthday buy them flowers or or whatnot but if what if you don't have a friend you're stuck on gilligan's island i don't know whatever gillian's you're you just don't have you don't have a possibility so i heard a very interesting idea and it actually worked for me not that i didn't have friends but there were times that i was 11 30 at night all of my all by myself and i wanted to speak things out so yes it may look very weird you may you know today i think that whether it's called bluetooth and all that stuff it's not as weird but if you have a if you have a hard time doing it buy a pen so acquire yourself a friend i've heard if you don't buy a pen right a pen can be an expensive uh it could be expensive i don't know how much does it cost you know two dollars a dollar or whatever it is but buy yourself a friend writing it out is the next best thing okay so we're talking about ranging your lips saying it out loud but people know people write diaries it definitely helps clarify so that's not like that would be like fall back uh there's another word um i'm looking for right alternative lesser alternative yeah basically alternative but i was looking for another another word but it's okay uh maybe i'll i'll think about it as i go on uh not a default but a okay so let's go on so what does it help to speak things out first of all i want to mention that when we are taught in the torah itself it says on the one of the most important days right we have the most important days i should say the one of the most important days in jewish calendar is the passover seder and it's used for transmission of the of the knowledge that we had the revelation that we were slaves in egypt and we ended up at the har sinai 50 days later that this is like it's called it's really truly the best way to instill education into the next generation it's called a haggadah based on a verse there's the verse in exodus 13 8 if you want to say it over jesse chapter 13. verse 8 says and you shall tell your son on that day saying because of this the lord did this for me when i went out of egypt so in hebrew it's the hegarta the the haggadah that means to tell over to tell her well to tell over it's not just to um i don't know to create a movie and let him sit him in the cinema in the corner while you're eating and he's watching the movie the ten commandments right it's to tell it over that's the mitzvah to converse to have a conversation to um not just clarify but as i mentioned you're talking about the idea of um bringing uh bringing from the potential to the actual right we're actually supposed to um relive it's not just a memorial day like you would say about let's say i i know not everyone here is from america but i'm just using a day like a columbus day or a washington's birthday or something that had to do with something that took place x amount of years ago and you're just remembering we're actually reliving it and yes there's a lot of theatrics and um what's the word uh props that we use whether it's the you know from the uh the matzes and the more but beyond that there are different customs to carry loads on your back and walk around the table like you were slaves there's so many right and we we dip our finger in the wine to remember the the blood and and all the different plagues there's so many things that are brought into actuality through the expressions not just words but i'm going to speak more about this that words actually bring into reality but now there's another verse and that's in deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 7. deuteronomy chapter verse 7 and you shall teach them to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the way and when you lie down and when you rise up now this this verse happens to be in part of the shema israel that we save more than twice a day we say this at least twice a day and it is in a sense talking about you know the exodus from egypt but on a bigger because it's on a bigger sense it's talking about what we do every day right every single day when you teach them to your son speak of them when you sit in your house on a daily basis when you walk in the way as you go when you lie down when you rise up what does that do with speaking i mean teaching so we all know the word mishna right mishna means teaching even in the um the aramaic right in the hebrew tana and um for braisio this is the same word over there it's all about teaching teaching teaching but the root seems to be even though it could mean to review should like to do a review a second time shani shinan but also what are teeth called shame shame so this look at rash irashi says you will teach them the word is an expression of sharpness sharp because your teeth are sharp you bite you chew you um you break it down for the digestion process right your teeth hopefully you're sharp and meaning that these words should be sharply impressed in your mouth so that if a person asks you something you shall not hesitate about it but you will tell him immediately it's a very very interesting idea here okay so that is in terms of learning um for the word or let's say teeth teeth and learning are related so we're asking what does it mean a range on your lips so i'm trying to explain through through through the sources here uh now in terms of reality bringing things into reality so the laboratory had said that think good and it will be good okay now did he mean just thoughts alone i have a feeling he did but that was just the beginning right what you do with your speech actually has reality he says think good no be good and we can see already even in science today that the thought alone can bring things into reality but more than that right if you speak it out that even has a greater effect here's a question that i asked i asked my students i'm going to ask you guys tonight maybe i even asked you before why does the the book the book the holy book the scripture why do we need to know that god i'm gonna use the word blank and the world came into being right you god spoke it says over and over and over again god spoke well god doesn't have lips god doesn't have vocal cords as far as i know cheeks right he doesn't have any of these physical attributes yet we use the word that he spoke so it must be teaching us this is the way the torah works it's it's written in the language of man and god created let's call reality let's call this world is an aspect of reality he created it with speech it teaches us something very powerful that speech actually creates reality i'll give you i think i'm sure i've told you these this before but even the words that magicians have adopted and i'm talking about magicians you know the guys on the show yeah they say abracadabra what in the world does that mean like hocus pocus you can say anything you want talk in tongues right whatever and all of a sudden pow right it's a joke but it doesn't matter that's what they say so what does it mean so in aramaic by the way and same with hebrew it's like the word bara means to create if you put an aleph before that means i create so abba i create as i speak i create as i speak so even to the you know the secular world whatever the the commercial world that they use these uh these uh statements there's there's something about it that i want to bring down to reality here there's a famous statement the jews read it every day the incense offering and part of the process of making the incense offering when the person while the person is grinding the incense there is somebody who's standing over him saying certain words okay now those words are let me just see what i have in here um sorry just one second uh these are famous words of course um and for some reason i can't find them here but i have them so it's brought down in a um i think it's a bracer it says tanya reby nos and i make a shoe showcase while he is pounding the incense the guy says and why what does that mean finely grind grind finally finally grind fin grind finally he says it back and keeps saying it over and over and over again and what does the right to say labzamine because the voice the word call has to do with the word voice because the voice is good for the for the incense this is something that i pondered for a long time i was always under the impression that basically the finer you grind it the better it is but that's not what it says it says that the voice is good for the um for the incense okay so i still thought maybe this guy's like a personal trainer right the finer you grind it the better it is so if you have someone over your shoulder coaching you on maybe even like in a sing-song way or in a um maybe demanding way or whatever it is maybe just suggestive that you'll do a better job and i always thought that until i came across the gemara in shabbos that discussed it's called the inbol interesting word what would you think the in baal is the in baal is the little thing that hangs inside the bell it's the inner part of the bell in bow and um it was discussing whether or not the bell the the the the cover of the bell without the inbound was called mooks on shabbos or not meaning it had any use on shabbat and i came across a piece that i never realized that this a bell was also striking in the background while this person was saying to finally grind grind finally and it was like whoa so not only do you have the voice but you also have the bell but the mishnah tells us the bracelet tells us that it's the voice that makes the difference so i'm still wondering to myself what is all this about and then i had a friend who unfortunately had what they call um kidney stones and um they used ultrasound sound yeah break apart now i didn't know exactly how it was done until he described it to me now imagine that the kidney stone is painful enough so they put you in this tub of water i mean i'm describing the way he described it and then there's this machine that's going to make this sound go through the water and then the sound absorbed into the body and it breaks apart the kidney stone and i don't know why i put my i had a sheet on it but um i don't know i'll probably come across it later it was effective put it that way whatever it was it was effective and i thought to myself well so one second so sound can create or break things right and then it's just sound that's all it is i mean look we even have airplanes flying overhead and they break the sound barrier and then you can have broken windows i mean it's possible right it happens you ever see those um i remember was a cassette um commercial i don't know if anybody knows what a cassette is but it's a it's a magnetic i think that they would be back and so somebody would um what's the word a woman i think it's always a woman i guess uh fitzgerald something like that yeah she would sing it i guess a very high pitch that's what it's called and it could shatter glass and so and they would record back and show you that even the recording was so good it was like live right it was such a good recording i guess that was the selling point on that so even like just since we've all we've all seen it we know that sound could affect reality it's just sound that's all it is and yet it's invisible um it's very hard to pick up the waves uh physically but if you have machines today you could pick it up i have another friend who's a scientist and he explained to me that when they do they use extremely sensitive metal instruments they use a here electro it's called ultrasonic cleaning i don't know if you can see it such a thing exists it's basically ultrasound and it works in a very i mean it's very complicated i can review a little bit basically what it does it um ultrasonic cleaners are used to clean many different types of objects including jewelry scientific samples lenses and other optical parts watches dental and surgical instruments tools coins and all kinds of stuff um and it works it works it's a real thing it's the real deal okay so that's very very interesting um they even did experiments on let's say you have a very thin sheet of metal and they put sand on the metal or it could be scrapings yeah and they would either play violins or or drums in the room and it would affect it's very very easy to imagine this the sound waves affect this thin piece of metal it's vibrating whether you can see it or not but all of a sudden what you looked at before with just a thinned out layer of sand now there's a pattern that has emerged they did this also with um okay so if you have different types of instruments or different types of let's say from pop or hard rock to classical music it can develop a different type of pattern which is seems obvious um they can freeze water obviously water can be frozen but they did it in a in a lab um and they were either playing different types of instruments whether it was uh hard rock or classical and the way the formation of the ice would freeze would depend on the the ways of sound that were traveling through um the airspace and it created different types of designs okay these are all obvious right so what i'm trying to say is that if god if god whatever that means how god spoke when he spoke that he created reality and however well that it can it can affect reality right he created something he created the moon called something from nothing meaning he created a physical world out of pure energy and we discussed these ideas before um so when we pray when we learn if we let's talk about prayer prayer is also easier to understand than learning if okay so what we're doing when we're moving our lips and we're praying right we're creating these waves and they're going somewhere right we say does god hear us he doesn't have ear he doesn't have the inner ear that we have yet we assume and we rightfully claim that of course he hears us whether he says yes or no that's an irrelevant whether he answers us with a yes or no that's irrelevant that the fact that he hears us right even in this week's parsha and in um in saddam right there was a cry there was an outcry from sadon that hashem obviously heard and he responded so this was the oppressed the the rules there were they had rules they were full of rules but they were immortal they were immortal and so anyway he heard the oppression he heard the screams of those who were pressed and of course we know that he heard our pr our our screams and our oppression while we were in um in egypt so we know he hears questions he doesn't have an earlobe right he doesn't have the inner workings of the ear so let's say this is what i've been told i i don't know but i know they have radio telescopes in space and whether or not and how whatever they can pick up from how many millions of light years away is irrelevant for this point the point is that they turn it around towards earth they can actually pick up certain sound waves and radio waves that had emitted from earth however many years ago i don't know let's say for example when babe ruth hit his you know famous home run so there was a everyone how many people were listening on the radio at that time so it it's still alive in other words what we say does not it may dissipate but it's still there in other words as it goes out to space it could be the signal may get weaker and weaker i have no idea but it's still there on some level so if we think about that so that's for prayer now what about just using our lips to speak words of torah i'll tell you there's a famous ghazal to tell us that if you repeat a piece of torah in the name of a certain rabbi who's already passed on his lips are moving in the grave now what does that mean does that mean literally physically his lips are moving in the grave i don't know i have to look into it but the words that he spoke then let's say you know if he's dead now whatever it was when he lived those those words are re-emanating so to speak into the world i don't know if it's from his lips so to speak but it was originally on his lips and therefore you're giving life to that phrase that he uttered this is how maybe a simplistic way i'm sure it's deeper than that but it works for me you know what i'm saying okay there's so much to talk about here on the night of pesach i mentioned that we're going to tell over the haggadah so we call the we call the mats it's called oni what does it mean it means the poor man's bread because by the time you finish buying it now you're poor now that's a joke it is expensive i have to admit it's probably like 100 times the price of bread and uh but the point is this there is no added there's no sugar there's no salt there's nothing added and that's one of the reasons called poor man spread but the gemara also explains because of the word onu the way it's spelled that's the same word as answer because it's something that is a a prop that you answer many things about so again it's it's um it's alluding to the idea of moving your lips because answering or speaking of it's mean basically you're speaking about it you know hopefully questions will be asked and we all know that if no questions are asked you have to ask the question and not only do you have to ask the question says even in the most wise you know you have a whole table full of learned rabbis they're obligated they're obligated to speak it out why is speaking it out so important it's mind-boggling okay i just want to mention right now before we go further that the other the other the other way is also bad in other words speaking torah is good speaking nonsense and speaking let's say you know negative things can have a detrimental effect so we're going to get to it at the end of uh what the rabbis spoke about but it's so important like i said if right when of um the red the rebbe of la bavish says think good and it will be good so you can just imagine the opposite i don't want to say it but you can imagine what it could be if the opposite was true so one should be very careful not only what they think because that also has an effect but like i said sometimes you think think things but don't say it right try to uh to work it out it doesn't actually come to being come into being okay this another idea is basically and i think i touched on about one i touched on it a bit and that's what happens is the external actions themselves then become internal so what's internal it's like basically each one keeps strengthening itself so what you think about and then you do and then if you do it and if it was a negative thing it's going to have um internal um implications so careful um he uses the idea of uh making resolutions right so i know that in the non-jewish world comes january 1st there's a time that people make resolutions truth is you can make resolutions anytime right so the question is are you going to say something you're going to fulfill you're going to really try to fulfill or or not by the way when it comes to making oaths in judaism it's all about being very careful about what you say we actually try our best to say bleed made there there's a whole reason why it's best not to take oats um but if you did take an oath so you really better make sure that what you're saying you're not fooling yourself because some people you know they say things and they're not really you know serious about it so this could hopefully if you're doing it right and you really want to let's say lose weight or you want to stop smoking you want to uh i don't know whatever it is that you're making a resolution about that um well when as soon as you utter it you'll hopefully come to some type of clarity whether that was real or not here he speaks he speaks about and try to give yourself a daily pep talk now one of the things in other words because what you say affects affects who you are detects what you're going to be so like before i get up in the morning as i wake up and we say all right there's a whole jewish thing to say before your jewish thing jewish wisdom that we're so grateful to hashem god for returning our souls right and giving us giving us another chance to say with joy to just be so grateful have an attitude of gratitude the first thing that you're alive so think i notice this huge difference between whether i only think it or whether i think it and say it you're it's a huge difference it's just i would say lighten night and day to right if you actually say i am so grateful for hashem giving back my soul and he fainted me that's what what better what words to utter how how how's your how your day will be is uh like i said night and day it's unbelievable so he just says try giving yourself a daily pep talk tell yourself today is a great day full of possibilities life is beautiful and i'm fortunate to be alive i'm going to be full of joy and apply all the wisdom i know today i will achieve my goals say it until you mean it he says before you go to sleep say tomorrow i'm gonna jump out of bed with energy and joy i'm not gonna or or i'm not gonna get angry say it out loud you know there's an idea fake it till you make it right like that could be also rabbi um zelig pliskin who was taught today torah for like like 100 years you know he was there from the beginning and he's still there to this day unbelievable so he talked about a concept called reframing reframing means when you notice you're going i don't know let's say outside the box you're no longer in a state of joy so it's it has a lot to do with good what's going on in here and a lot of times you must verbalize it make it real bring it into reality it's going to make a huge difference another idea is besides the idea of saying things out loud but think to say it in a sing-song voice right now learning that's easy especially if you're around all these people are doing the same thing but try to imagine try to imagine right it becomes more real and everyone has their own inner tune and you'll find yours right if you try to maybe through meditation but if you if you realize that i think i spoke about this before in terms of memorizing things it's so interesting the gomorrah right the talmud is not just about law and it's sometimes stories but it's actually this rap i said that it gives a it's like this rabbi was going on the way and he ran into another rabbi or there in a certain city and he he said this how much easier is that to remember because it was this rabbi with that rabbi in a certain place where a certain thing was happening you know i advanced these people under people who could remember 30 people they have guests at their table and it's not just in the jewish world it's i think it's anywhere if we ask these people how do you have such memory that you can recall things you only heard for one second in a in a series and go back and repeat it the person will tell you that they made it a song they they made it a song they made it a story either one or the other and so the same thing with the talmud the talmud is written in such a way that it's also it's like a story or a song and this will help you remember so again a story or a a story or a song as we spoke about before in last week's um class about being a song the torah is like a song um but even the word lisa perlis up here means to tell over it's another word and the word sapphire stone is actually from the same word and so what is a sapphire it's a very bright it's illuminated right if you want to get lit up make make it a story right and we're talking about mantras right like make us make it a mantra make it a saying and that leads me to the next idea and that is um about semanim why didn't bring it with me but there's arya kaplan hamish i was at a friend's house last week and he asked me if i could help him memorize the parsha like the concepts he was so interested because he wasn't he didn't grow up with torah and he feels he's got a lot of catch up to do so the arcade kaplan homicide actually every time there's a new paragraph and i don't mean in english according to the original hebrew paragraphs where there is what is called estima in other words wherever there is either a hitting the enter enter button or you hit the tab button where you have space between words he developed a new paragraph and he himself gives you a theme this was big initiator there were several rabbis that were encouraging and teaching how to learn simon means mnemonic devices and ways to remember and so much of the law books the shogun are for example they're all listed by numbers how do you ever remember all these numbers but guess what it's important it's important to remember the headings the headings because once you let's say you learned the like all of partials uh noah or parson's laplace or whatever it is but you go through the aria capital and you see he actually summarizes what the paragraph's about so if you ever see that heading could be two words there are three words you remember all the different five or six subjects subcategories within that paragraph same two with the shakunaro when you know this is dealing with it has like 36 or even 50 subcategories but at least you know the heading and you know where to look i was told you know as i was becoming a rabbi that today it's very different the rabbis back then i mean even today there's quite a few that have photographic memory but for us want to be rabbis for us young you know hot coals of the rabbis we were trying to learn they told us that to be a rabbi today you don't have to know everything you have to know where to find the answer if you know where so when the question comes to you you have to know to say i don't know but i'll get back to you i'll look it up and you have to know where to look if you know where to look that's that's the beginning of wisdom really also you know the humility of saying i'll get back to you i don't know [Music] okay so basically i covered those ideas but i wanted to go through some some interesting parts of the gemara and now the question is where to begin um it's a lot but i'll start in aravind 53a and then 53b and then 54a and then 54b there's like little pieces that i thought were interesting and i'm going to skip around a little bit just to get the point across and so the more continues with the discussion relating to study and comprehension in other words it's about wisdom it's not just study right to remember it but to actually comprehend and hopefully you know really ingest the the delicious wisdom that's being offered so there's a difference between the people in yehuda and the people in the galil rabuda said to rav i'm sorry review the said that rav said with regard to the people in yehuda who were particular with their speech and are always certain that it was both precise and refined interesting because we talk about the grinding up the incense it's the same almost the same language right that their speech was precise and refined and guess what their torah knowledge endured isn't that beautiful whereas the people in the galilee who were not particular with their speech their torah did not endure um it goes through a lot of examples of language that i want to skip a lot how these people in yehuda judea were more precise and the people in the galilee were less precise okay so many examples it happens to the brewery of ruria was rabbi mayer's wife she came across a certain student who was whispering his studies what do we think about whispering studies that's not a good thing he should raise his voice it says she kicked him and then said isn't it written as follows so in second samuel 23 5 order in all things and be secure okay which indicates that if the torah is ordered meaning arranged in your 248 limbs that's what we have if you exert your entire body in studying it it will be secure and if not it will not be secure the gamora relates that it was taught in a bryce said that rev eliezer had a student who also whispered his studies after three years he forgot his studies so before going the idea here is that you're using your whole body in other words in your mouth alone there are five i shouldn't say five and i don't want to limit it but there are we know that there are five aspects of of speech whether it's the guttural it's the palette it's the teeth it's the cheeks the lips there's different aspects but you're using you're using we say we want to serve hashem with all our limbs so serving hashem talking out your learning remember the original not question but the original idea is how to retain knowledge or how to get knowledge how to acquire knowledge so using your body you know you see um at least jews in prayer they're rocking back and forth but also in learning in learning the same things to stand up and rock back and forth use your thumbs i'm sure you've seen that right using the thumbs i mean today people use their thumbs to text but use your thumb for the for for something positive and okay more cites instructions issued by shmuel that were very similar to what breweria rivie mayor's wife instructed schmol said to review king scholar meaning open your mouth and read from the torah open your mouth and study the talmud in order that your study should endure in you and you should live a long life because it says in proverbs 4 22. this i'm very glad i got to this because i want to spend a little bit time on this read proverbs michele says um for they are life for those who find them and for all his flesh a healing okay now they are for life how does the hebrew i don't have in front of me um one second i do here it is it says it is life like everyone wants life it's life to those who find them now look at the word mozart yeah yeah ham the rabbi say remember you don't have vowels in the torah right even in the tanakh but that word can be read le mode say ahem to those that make them go out of their mouth in other words i'll read it like this don't read to those who find them but rather to those who express them the word is called an expression with their mouth so you want life this is where it's going to come from god breathed into you life what are you using it for what are you using the breath that god gave you for other than to return to him while you're alive with the very words that he spoke these are the words of torah so you understand this is what rav yehuda said shmuel said in respect to i guess either backing up breweria agreeing with breweria but the same lesson this is about what are we talking about here right a rehearsal time arranging them on your lips this is the the a way to acquire wisdom this is more than that wisdom is life itself right so acquiring life to express the torah that you learn and now having expounded the verse for their life to those who find them as referring to the torah the gemura cites another teaching related to a verse that praises the torah yeshua the lady said one who's walking on the way without a companion and he's afraid he should engage in torah study as it says and this is in proverbs 1 9. 9 says for they are a wreath of grace for your head and a necklace for your neck okay so the more goes out of its way to explain how this is all going to work protection okay now how was i know that last week i spoke about the idea that one should learn 101 times yeah i get it that's a big that's a big mountain to climb we spoke about one opinion was 40 times we went i suggest you look back because it was very good sources and um and they relate a lot of the 101 times relate to the gamaches the idea 40 times relate to moshe rabenu receiving the torah 40 days and 24 times as related to 24 books in the torah but here there's an idea of minimally minimally four and where do we get this from so this you can find on a 54b of aravind the gemura continues to discuss methods of torah study the sages taught in the following bright side what was the order of teaching the oral law how was the oral law first taught so moses learned directly from hashem from the mouth of the almighty that's how moshe learned privately with the greatest teacher on the world our own entered and sat next to him i'm sorry he sat in front of him moses then taught him so moses basically is reviewing it once but he learned it once and reviewed it once then aaron moved and sat to the left of moses meaning moses was on his right our own sons entered he taught them the lesson then our own sons moved aside eliezer then sat to the right of moses your teacher should be always on your right but once you have lesser students on the right you go to the right of you follow what i'm saying okay so let me go back eliezer then sat to the right of moses and into america on the left of our road so how many times do you have it review to disagree with the first ton regarding the sitting arrangements and that's going to be irrelevant but all together you had four times so what do we have we moses heard it once from god he told it over to aaron he told it over to aaron's sons and then sorry then the elders came in and the elders entered and moses taught them so he ended up teaching one second let me go i'm sorry let's go back it's better to get it right the first time okay aaron entered after he learned it once and he taught aaron then arun moved aside and aram's sons came in that's the third time and then the elders came in fine there you have it four times one second no not because the first time he only heard it from god so the fourth time he told it over was to the entire nation there you have it so that's how it goes so the one time got moses heard it from god himself but he taught it four times it's important to teach it over four times really teaching and learning is based the same idea but do you see the difference between the first time you heard it and the four times you consecutively give it over it's important to give it over a minimum of four times and let me just uh read this last point here moses then departed from his tent aaron taught the others his lesson on and on and on the bottom line is that everyone heard the lessons taught by god four times in the end okay there's just way too much but there's some other things here oh the word the word for covenant is the same word for the word word in other words a a dictionary is called a melon because a word is called a mila the circumcision is called mila you follow so when we talk about huh let's see so we're talking here let me just mention here also this is some crazy stuff okay i think i should go through it i just have a certain amount of paragraphs that i when when someone experiences despair right and he you know he he's like he has no hope so it's like he can't even open his mouth not to prayer not to pray if you don't open your mouth it's like the word dumb d-u-m-b but damn the word for blood is also like being numb being not be dumb not being able to speak in other words in hebrew dom is blood but it also means unable to speak we do know that one on on account of four things israel was redeemed from egypt they didn't change their names but they didn't change their language either it had to be both believe it or not they didn't speak splat spent slander so this also has to do with speech in other words our redemption personal redemption national redemption depends on our ability to to use our speech correctly the reason i mentioned about the word dumb blood and the idea of mila you know when you when someone gets a circumcision it's it's that's minimal or a lot of blood but blood is to be released it's part of the process and the word mila in other words the what comes out what what is the result of the drawing of the blood the removal it's called a removal of the numbness of the dumbness d-u-m-b the removal of that you're left with the word it's so very i'm trying to get across the idea of how important it is to um speak it out speak out the torah touring things that we know awesome um okay the word pessac right we mentioned in the beginning that the the the the holiday called pesach is a nominal point in the calendar for expressing education to the next generation what does pesach means literally to jump over but it's not so simple because god didn't skip here or there but the word can be divided into like two words the pet is the mouth speaks the mouth speaks that is the whole idea of education of not just acquiring wisdom but giving it all but it says in our talmud that if you give over to your own children and your grandchildren it's a mind-boggling thing what i'm about to tell you drum roll please fireworks it's as if you receive the revelation directly from mount sinai so now i understand if i open my mouth this is a way to acquire wisdom the theme we've been speaking about all night is giving it over clarifying it it's not just for yourself but it's for the next generation but as a siata de shmaya as assistant god's giving you heavily assistance in getting it right because as you try and attempt to give it over to your grandchildren that's when the phrase is actually used it's as if you are receiving it in direct so when i first heard that i said okay it's like oh you just tell me how the chain works if you give it over to your grandson and since he's receiving it from mount sinai that's not how to read it you the teacher you're the father you're the grandfather you're receiving it because you're in the process you're in the chain and you're giving it over hashem is helping to make it go straight that the transmission should continue and therefore he's giving you heavenly assistance in in providing you with clarity hashem preserving it um okay there's some really good stuff here i'm going to skip all this [Applause] now i just had this little idea about shockwave this is what we talked about already okay there is a mishna in menakos 87a there are challenges this is disgusting discussing this idea about speech is beneficial to the spices as we mentioned but it also says that speech is detrimental to wine now i looked i tried to look this up you know the internet should have results there was nothing definitive in fact a lot of research seemed to have been done we understand that speech may be beneficial to the spices as we spoke about but the mission the same mission says that it's not good for wine so there are people that make made an investment there's a whole new um idea of trying to create a better wine through playing uh what's the word classical music there's nothing definitive and it doesn't look like it would be a good investment but i wanted to read something from it's an abstract from food science and nutrition magazine several recent studies have demonstrated that music can significantly influence the eating or drinking experience but i'm not talking about the actual making of the wine itself is what i'm interested in it's not clear however whether this influence would be moderated by the expertise of the taster it goes on and on and on and says it's it's not nothing is really clear however national geographic magazine says a few wine companies are playing music to their aging barrels not just playing music while drinking the wine i mean actually playing music for settling liquid as it slowly ferments again there's no um there's no proof that anything is really working there so i'm not sure in what way i mean i'm not sure however because i was so puzzled how can it be that the mishnah says it and yet there's no scientific proof i came across a ben yehoda on this particular item and he says like this i'm going to try to read it slowly just as speak speech is good for the is good for the spices so too speech is not good for wine what is what does that mean so the ben yada explains this is from the bani shai that the reason that speech activates wine somehow it's it affects the wine as we said not in a good way so he's giving a metaphysical reason in order that a person should take ethical teachings le in a diva regarding speech just so we should know regarding speech something ethical and this is what he mentioned is written in the the book of the hida in the name of the ana muhammad anak in precious matters he says i heard like this that it shouldn't really bother a person how speech in this world which is very low but it makes such a great effect in the upper worlds okay we're it's like summarizing everything we spoke about so below yai and shubham martev is it not the wine while it's i guess aging or fermenting it's in the basement which is very low right usually some basements are low i mean cool and it's placed in a hadith it's placed in a corked barrel you know a sealed barrel at the time that you're shredding on other grapes and even though the barrels down in the basement are going to be very far distance from where you're treading the grapes you're causing the barrels to vibrate and this is a wonder this is somehow wonder from this you should take proof that speech has an effect above that's all he says now he tries to sum it up like saying like this therefore what did god do he made the nature of wine effective by speech in order that a person should feel that he should learn the effects of speech from the way that the nature of wine how that works however the activating um the how does he say happy when god forbid when someone is drunk okay when i want to tell you if you've ever been to a really holy porn party right where it's probably the only well i shouldn't say the only i've seen many every seder that i have when we drink four cups of wine everyone is so drunk like from just four cups i shouldn't say drunk everyone's happy there's no fighting there's no cursing everyone is like spiritually elevated it's like the highest moment of the year right as it's like coming off of yom kippur it's such a high so too when you're in a holy rabbi's home hopefully at purim time you see enemies come together and they start kissing each other i don't mean in a negative i mean they're kissing they're they're hugging each other and each one is crying how sorry they are for what anything they might have done to the other person it's like the most beautiful thing so what happens when people get drunk sometimes it doesn't turn out like that but hopefully what i just described to you is what should happen when people drink you know a little bit more than they normally drink i mean again i don't drink it all except once in a blue moon like when it's a mitzvah so here he's talking about when people get drunk um with wine so they it's for the bad and not for the good which hints to this idea that if someone should get drunk with wine it's going to be bad for him what part the speech usually i'm not going to say goes first but it's one of the main parts that we desecrate that i mean i've seen people drunk and they say things that you would not expect oh these are these are like decent human beings and all of a sudden they get drunk and they start using words that you just you you're embarrassed for yourself you cannot imagine that they're using these words meaning they come out of the person's mouth these it's it's not for good okay so that i want to end there because he discusses the idea of oil in a way if you're if you do get drunk and you don't want to you want to have a remedy i wouldn't call it a hangover fixer-upper but he talks about shaman and what you should do with the oil and how that can help you and not speak bad speech but anyway i thought that was a little bit comforting because we didn't find anything in um in science that says that noise during the production of wine is detrimental but the the ben yoda does explain that there's a moosa hot skill there's a muslim lesson that we should walk away with that and you know that it's true nobody can deny it when people drink a little bit too much sometimes they get a bit a little bit uh out of hand loose lips and it does relate to the idea it says when wine goes in the same the gematria for yayan which is 70 is the same letters same gemachia is sowed it says when wine goes in the secrets come out and that's the beauty of people who are really working on their character is if they do drink a little bit too much then all of a sudden they're confessing their sins to their friend and they're apologizing and they're on such a high holy level whereas um god forbid if someone is not working on their cells then the opposite comes out okay so we're going to end there we talked about arranging arrangement of the lips and i think we spoke about it uh pretty good you know uh atlanta yeah yeah beautiful rabbi you know just so much to absorb i think uh we've had a good crowd tonight it's uh yeah profound stuff i'm really enjoying this class uh [Music] yeah i look forward to seeing it mount as we go forward and um i really appreciate you taking the time to share with us it's wonderful great so i just want to mention what the topic for next week will be and i'll have my sheet in front of me i'll tell you okay it is drum roll please be naughty be naughty which means understanding the heart and the following one i think we're going to put together no i will see emma number five is aim which means the power of all so we'll uh we'll see how my uh my preparation goes i would like to try at some point to put together a few of these again if it if i start going deeper and i see there's quite a lot to say i'll get stuck on just one but well i think you you broke it down tonight for us very very easily i see you you jumped a couple of things because i think you realized if you went down that vein you were gonna yeah keep going and um you got me wondering like i feel like a fish with a hook in my mouth i want to hear the rest i want to hear the little bits but maybe today's not the day but uh i want to thank you for today's class so uh hashem willing are we okay for the same time next week rabbi we're looking forward absolutely excellent i love the class i love the angle beyond the seven and i hope that uh no hides out there red just grab on and listen to this class just grab the soundness it'll serve you well you'll get the truth of torah out of it and how to begin to integrate it wonderful thank you so much rabbi we're to sign off for now have a wonderful wonderful week [Music] is [Music]