Why Did G-d Make an Oral Torah? - Rabbi Yaakov Lynn

[Music] the Oral Torah is a Shems explanation that comes along with the written Torah okay now why would a ship do such a thing right why did I xem set up a system that why didn't just write it all down like why did he write total foods and we at the end then he said I'll tell you in the Oral Torah what dr. Poddar why did he make it so that it doesn't tell us how to get married in a world where I had to tell us that right why did he usually same letters to me in two different words and not tell us which ones which i think is a good as cystic game like what's going on because I many of you three answers of why Hashem did this why did I give a written Torah and an oral torah why don't you just write it all down okay the first most practical answer is that well the first and second answer really go together anybody's you're studying law no okay then I can say anything I want to ok so in law school right how do they teach law in law school first of all they learn the law book and then what else is they have they have classes and glasses on what's called case law what's case law good right k so his actual cases that came up and what the court ruled right so first they'll learn the law says do not kill and then to learn a case for somebody killed somebody by accident and the court ruled that they weren't guilty right now why waste their time like that why not just change the law and make the laws they don't kill on purpose because what okay first of all depends on the circumstance second of all laws it's a very interesting thing cannot be no matter how hard you try to write everything into the law there will always be bored about this case what about this case you want to buy that case right if you read don't kill somebody killed somewhat of accidents because okay fine don't kill on purpose so then somebody killed somebody on purpose but it was because they were trying to kill them so easy okay no no don't kill on purpose except in self-defense so then somebody is trying to shoot a rubber band at someone else than a turn and shoot them in the head so he say no no don't kill on purpose except in self-defense that somebody else to try to kill you and then right somebody kill somebody in a war he said no no wars different right but the law kid is just going to keep on changing and changing dude you keep writing more and more worries okay but what if I didn't kill them I just unplug the machine those keeping them alive and what if I didn't kill them but I tricked them into going to the place where I knew somebody else is gonna kill them and what if they're already underwater and I just kept them there right all kinds of questions I could come up and if you just keep right in the law longer it'll just keep getting longer but you'll never include everything wait so why is that a very interesting thing right laws are not rules laws are principles this is true and ethical system laws are principles but did you ever play the game where you play like I'm going on a picnic and I can bring bats but not gloves and I can bring balls but not chairs and I could bring boys but not girls and I could bring blue things but not green things and I can bring my friend Bob but I can't bring my friend John right everybody catching on what could I bring no I can bring bottles but I can't bring cups and I can make books but I can't bring cars and I can bring brown things but I can't bring also black things but I can't bring green things right and I could bring boots by camping shoes what can I bring good and so then somebody else jumps in and says every please can somebody else knows insist oh I got it so i can bring um give me something else I could bring beer but I can't bring alcohol is it good you've got it and then she says right and I'll give you another example you could bring um my friend Donny and I say yeah no you can't you don't have the rule yet let's keep going right because there's a rule that's under i'm just we're just talking lots of cases but there's a principle underneath and we're trying to get to the principal right so that's a simple principles i could just tell you the principle but some principles are very very complicated and there's no way i could tell it to you all i could do is tell you a lot of cases and you will work backwards to figure out the principle in your own right i taught this once and somebody taught me something there's apparently a profession if and if you're looking for a job right there's barely profession I have to finish the sentence before you get excited about what this is right there is a profession called chicken sexy anybody know what chicken sexors our chicken sectors job is to determine the gender of a baby chick as soon as it sport apparently the whole poultry industry is dependent on these people who the moment the chick is born they separate them and say these are the male's of the females the problem is that apparently there is no identifying mark on a chick it tells you if it's male or female right it's not as simple as those with some other animals such as tough it's male or female you look at a chick and there's nothing about it that you could say look for this if you see that it's male if you don't see that it's female right so how do they do it so if you want to learn to be a chicken sexier there's no textbook that says and here's Anna you know figure a where it is a man you can see we could tell by the size of its beak or there's nothing like that all the raise is you do an apprenticeship and you go watch somebody texture and they say see this one that's a male see this one that's a female see this one that's a male see this one another man see this one another female right and the apprentice says how did you know that he says look at that you could just tell that's a male this is but could you show me like which I can't explain it to you I just know that's a male man he's right right so the apprentice after watching this for a long time says ok let me try this one's a male the professionals is no no no you're not there yet keep watching right and eventually the apprentices let me try again this one's a male and they print that the professionals is good and this one's a female this is a man now i was on the apprentice is an expert right and the apprentice becomes one of the professionals and then they can teach somebody else but the only way you could ever teach it to them is by just taking them through it because if you try to explain to them you can't write so reasons that were one and two why there had to be an oral torah number one it's just too and too much information no matter how long the written door was if you just coming and longer and longer and longer and longer and longer there's almost an infinite or yet an infinite amount of information you just can't ever make it long enough right but number two which is really the reason why that's true is because you can't write down a principle and with the Torah is is principles it's not just a bunch of rules out a rule book a bunch of bullet points do this don't do this really store do this do this done to this right so the principles couldn't be written down just like law systems can't write down their rules either they have to say okay here's the rule but let us tell you what we determined about this case in that case in this case in that case by the way in American law right whenever they're not sure about the law what are they always try to when the law could be read in two different ways says don't kill so what about people kill accidentally well I don't know it could be don't kill means don't ever kill or it could mean don't kill me don't kill a barbarous how do I know well how did they know so what they always come back to is they say I have to know what was the intent in America they say the intent of the Father's right which means what are the people who wrote this long mean right well the fight of the founders of the Constitution right what did they what do they mean I wrote this right so that's what we're talking about right that what does this person that are a mean right you have to know not just what it says you have to know what it means right and that's what the Oral Torah tells us now tell you something else interesting but there's a very famous professor of ethics lived in England here is it oxford university and one of the best universities in the world right and he was the chair of the ethics department and this professor was a true story this professor I won't say his name but this professor was fired why was a fire it's a head of the ethics apartment the greatest ethicist in the world you know he was fired because i had an unethical relationship with one of his students and he got caught so they fired him so he appealed it and he said I I can't understand why you're firing me I'm the best ethicists in the world on the chair of the department did a great job my job they said that's true but you're on ethical how can we have a head of the ethics apartment is an unethical person so he famously answered to the professors in the geometry department have to be triangles I don't have to be at the college's have to be able to teach ethics right now was he right or wrong he might have been right for teaching ethics right but if he had been talking with a teaching Terra he was definitely wrong because Torah by definition can't be learned from somebody who's not trying to live it right you've all been to a shabbos meal imagine something trying to teach you a chopper to us without you ever experiencing chaves right and they tell you everything about if I take about the laws and I tell you the traditions and I tell you what it looks like in religious / they tell you all kinds of things but you never actually said it somebody shot this table right you'd never understand Chavez right Torah must be taught by somebody who at least is trying to keep Tara you can't learn Torah as an academic exercise right that's Amina genome is your department could teach you a triangle looks like right but a teacher of Torah must be somebody's trying to leave Terra because they're not just telling the information they're teaching you a way of living all right there are stories in the town hood which again will get to what the Tom but is there are stories in the Talmud of students trying to follow their rabbis into the bathroom and even a student who hid under the bed of one of his rabbis in his bedroom right now in all of those cases the rabbi has told the students that they went too far but what if the students say the students defense was tori e-ville ill mode on eat some reef it's Torah I have to learn right I'm very sorry that you want your privacy but how I suppose that alert I do something you want me to read a book I can't learn Torah by reading a book I've mandir by watching a living breathing person do it right so they they know they were told there is such a thing as privacy you get go that far but everything else in the world has to be done that way you can't just learn it by reading a book you have to learn it from somebody when themselves is living it and they learned it from somebody else was living it right so I should I him guaranteed that it would always be that way by keeping some of the to her oral right that way when they said when moja came down to the people that ok tell what does the term say he would say well here's the Torah but I have to teach it to you I learned it from a sham right and I have to teach it to you because you have to see me not just telling you for the reading over the textbook but living the information right actually living life but then they understand what Judaism is avatar is and now you can live in and then you can teach it to people right so that's another reason why I should have made the tour eat some of its royal [Music] you