Celebration on the Completion of The 48 Ways (Sium at Aish HaTorah) with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] everybody welcome i'm the guest here but uh i i wasn't always a guest this was my home and uh ravnoch weinberg we dedicated this particular sheer there's not just a sheer a whole series uh 50 classes over 400 hours of preparation time and and class time on the four day ways to wisdom i want to tell you when i was here as a young guy i don't think i took advantage and i i implore you after i get through with this i think you should understand hopefully you guys will understand how important these are just to uh mention i want to talk about myself at the end so i'm going to skip all that we're going to get straight to the seam and what this is all about i i run a cure program it's called yebane and we have a youtube channel we have over 1 million 200 000 views we have 7 500 subscribers worldwide and i was and i was approached by the noahide world center to present ideas that even the whole world would be inspired by and it was not hard at all to choose the subjects that i discussed the series called beyond the seven so i discussed the seven of high laws to start with and for those who are not that knowledgeable non-jews are also obligated in ethics and in any misses that are logical so beyond the seven really introduces the non-jewish world to a lot of jewish wisdom and after i got done the introduction i did the six constant mitzvahs which was only about eight classes so that was not a huge undertaking but when i decided i'll do the 48 ways i was a little bit petrified that i wouldn't finish it but i knew that i was going to dedicate these classes through obnox to the memory of ravnak and it wasn't that hard for me because as you will as we will talk about the 50th way is really about showing gratitude now how does that come about because the the actual way is to say over in the name of the person that said whatever it is you heard and so how does that happen with gratitude so even though the roshiva calls this particular the 50th way i guess you guys are asking yourself how are there 50 ways if it's 48 ways to wisdom well it all depends on the different manuscripts and how you break down some of them um but according to even to the midrash shmuel um i just want to show you the swarm i used right this was it this was like number one right that's the the safer that the students who have not put together um rabbi nexamia coopersmith and shiraga simmons good friends of mine the shmuel which is translated now into english this was written it's 500 years ago and um i'll tell you i have here my little notes so this was um this was put together by roof uzida one of the uh he was a talmud of the arizal and of uh rafael so we told him like 450 years ago close to 500 years ago and another safer is um i used that also and the matifton perkiavot so the last two are just in hebrew and so i hopefully you'll uh take you know dive in and learn some hebrew and just before we start you know we're in the parshiot dealing with the mishkan and the kalim and the uh the goddamn and i i've heard i've heard from people say that it's very monotonous and maybe even boring and there's no depth to it and it couldn't be further from the truth all you have to do is open up some sparring and learn a little bit and i'll just begin i mentioned how important urshila yeah uh how important the 48 ways are right so the villain the donaghoon says that in order to acquire tour i assume everyone here wants to acquire toro you wouldn't be here in order to acquire torah you need all 48 ways i mean i hope that doesn't come as a shock right you look at the safer and you say yeah i can do that i relate to that but according to the donor gun you need all 48 ways according to the morale and it goes into the actual what's the word the uh the measurements of the arun right the iron kodesh has a crown on it and represents that it's the um that everybody can can have the crown of torah as we know that vasu right they made and it's hefca le cole everybody wants torah and it's available to everybody you don't be a cohen you don't have to be from the seat of david right it's available to every single one of us so if you look at the dimensions it's two and a half almost in length and it's one half almost um wide so if you add the whole thing it's actually eight almost and eight amos when you think of how big of zanama is sixth so really it's 48 tephach 48 tefl so the vilna gone i mean where to get it from either got it from shimmering he got it from his rabbis but it should be drilled into you the you're so lucky i i consider myself is so fortunate that i was in asia tower i mentioned i mean i didn't i came in 88 okay and i really wanted to make a quinoa on torah and i was misha mishra of guild with giles i really was there and i wanted to learn by the best and the only way to get into the best class was to apply for smikha to get into smika program so i i would think i was one of the youngest students not in age but in terms of coming around to the yiddish kite and i got in and i was able to learn under berkowitz and i feel very fortunate so let me just uh sum up the 50th way so that we can uh say uh katis durabanen and then we'll have the rabbi speak so you'll find in chapter 6 mishna 6 so the 50th way again some people don't say it's not even a way but as i mentioned already it goes like this at the end i'm only quoting at the end so it says like this repeating a saying in the name of the one who said it okay behold you already learned this where did we learn this from what is today by the way today is yom kippur katan for yerushalayim so this is 30 days before our purim okay i'm not going to go into the whole idea of that the significance of that but i hope you all recognize there is a significance to that so it says like this i'm sure you've all heard this before if you say over what you heard in the name of the person that said it you're going to bring redemption closer what's it based on it's very nice to set it so the quote is from mcgillis esther itself which we'll be reading maybe 29 30 days from now uh the toimer esther lamellar remember she overheard i'm sorry mordechai had overheard that there was a plot against the king they were going to assassinate the king and he didn't tell her to please say to my name in fact he probably said you know maybe you shouldn't but either way she knew she knew the rule you want to bring ulla you say it over and so she told the king that she heard it from mordechai and he wrote in his book and the rest is really history i want to get ahold of this but so what does the roshiva say about this number one the title that he gives this particular um this particular way is credit where credit is due that's true so in other words there's a humility factor involved by not taking credit as the rosh jiva always spoke about the five levels of pleasure and then there's counterfeit pleasure it's such counterfeit pleasure to walk around and say hey it's my idea yeah you know i'm the one who invented the idea that's that's fraud and it's not going to get you anywhere it's only going to leave you feeling more empty than you started with he also called us calls it rewards of gratitude and i think that's really what it comes down to you know if you think it's valuable you say thank you right when you think it's valuable so you're you're saying over and the name of this guy he said it right robert would said it revgill said it no no have no accepted so then you're giving it value and then you value it yourself uh the mr schmuel says something a little bit different but i'll end with what he says is that um basically one second i usually say at this point drum roll please because then it gives me a few extra seconds to think he says this gives you motivation to make your own hedushing because if you know people are going to say it over in the name of the person that said it when you're likely to be said in your name okay it doesn't mean it's egotistical it just means that it's going to give you the motivation to go deeper and deeper and once you make that real kenyan and it's yours you can actually say it in your name and that's how i want to finish the the idea we'll say uh kaddish the robonin yeah and then the roshi will speak and reveal we'll say a few words and uh yohuda weinberg is sitting here maybe you can say a few words to him if he's still here okay um foreign so i invite uh roshiva to come up say a few words i know you short on time 48 ways were once the the backbone of the curriculum almost the sum total of the curriculum for people coming in off the street it was understood that you didn't skip the 48 ways you came right into and come right into the yeshiva and if you did then you'd have to study the 48 ways anyway what is kenyan hattoromi what does it mean to be konatore an acquisition of it an acquisition of it means not that you memorized a bunch of information not that you can quote quoted an acquisition means it becomes part of you told him the purpose of torah is to transform one when the ram speaks of wisdom is the goal of humanity our whole existence is there to become wise he very clears the clearly defines wisdom as wisdom that transforms we're talking about wisdom that you don't just keep in your head wisdom that's integrated into every aspect of your life kenyan torah means acquisition in order to acquire torah you need these forty-eight ways you need the membres divarum the fifty of them or so you need the memchestvaring because without them it is nothing other than an academic exercise the world is filled with uh institutions of higher education they don't change people tori is not there it is to fill our brains with information it's there to change us and in order for that to happen you need the memphis forum so jump into the basement without the the without the membres dvaram means that you'll get we'll pick up some information perhaps maybe you'll learn some skills but you won't be changed [Music] very much very much on the agenda is uh reviving this process here there's one did a problem job beautiful i mean it's it's an understatement what he did was ingenious he adapted the memchest varum and turned them into the membrane that were relevant to the people coming in the problem is that not unlike the fact that in the mishnah or the bryce or whatever we'll call it what's said there doesn't necessarily relate to people until rebel came and brought it down into that century the world has changed immensely since renault's days and there's a need to go and adapt the 48 ways into today's world um that's a challenge we throw out to everyone anyone that feels he can do it or at least do part of it is welcome the 48 ways have to be back here this has to be the introduction or at least accompany your early years of learning so that you do acquire your learning that your learning is trans transformational i wish you you're from the old generation you're not part of this new liberal world the 48 ways they'll speak to you hashem she continues to learn them teach them really disseminate this and here's our sham we look forward to the day that every every jew will walk around not only learning the 48 ways but having picked up every one of them having really adapted them in his life so that every every pastic of humish that every mimer khazal can then transform one into being more and more like hashem more more godly bigger greater so that we become the mamlekha's konimbakoi kadesh that torah is supposed to turn us into muslim i have to start by saying how dear of arun david poston is to myself and the people that were around years ago when they shattered 1988 he said he came okay we remember those days very very well aaron poston shane dover shane dover something very real a person who dedicated himself to growing in torah and then committed himself to sharing the torah that he learned and told that he was going to learn so that he still does learn with the olam and it's good to hear that yibone his organization the organization that he started is still doing well and reaching out you should have much hats i'll say over a short vort that i heard from a rob in my neighborhood of yonah kopschitz of yonakupshit said this following vote he said you know when we finish a massacre we say at filo we say kishimsha azertani with saying message just as almighty you have helped me complete this so may you help me begin and complete other messages think about that it's a little bit lopsided you say just as you helped me complete the sector so may you help me begin and end other miserables i mean either speak exclusively about ending or both beginning and ending why is this just as you helped me end this massacre so may you help me begin and end other misakas a little bit lopsided you hear what i'm saying just say beginning just like you helped me begin and then so may help me begin an end or just like you helped me and so to me on the end the answer is that we begin a lot of things listen i can talk about myself here i've done a lot of projects how many times did i begin daphyomi how many times did i begin rambam uh difference forum but to end replenish used to speak he used to say there's alcoholics anonymous and then there's quitters anonymous we're all quitters we're all professional quitters we start what do you mean customers you're right but it's true okay you start something wonderful you're gung-ho you're gonna go with it right and then after after you end up on first base that's it that's it it flitters through the fingers you know you lose it so we asked hashem just like we finished so too may we begin that's not so difficult but to begin and finish to begin and finish others foreign and alan ireland of it has done it i will say that in the history of the yeshiva there have been many that tried to write up the 48 ways and i don't think it hasn't written it up but it's all on uh what's it's called youtube youtube i'm on youtube so you don't have to watch those sports things on youtube yeah look at the real torah yeah many people have tried to write up 48 ways i won't mention any names but there are many people that tried and it's not easy not easy but not genius not easy to transcribe it and to make it into something readable nehemiah they did it they did it very good but to hear of somebody else not just somebody but rabbi alan david poston that completed the entire series presenting it making it bite-sized and able to be chewed and appreciated and enjoyed savory taste of real torah that's a great great thing so i want to wish rabbi von david just like you finish this project may you begin and finish many many other future products and reach out to other people and more and more people and bring them back and may we see we're on the wrong side of the uh on the right side of of uh of the yeshiva but on the wrong side of the wall one day may we see the rebuilding of the beta mikdash and we'll be able to go there and pray and offer the sacrifices and really be close with hashem our main violin [Music] is