After Hours with Rabbi Yaron Reuven (32)

[Music] any questions yes it is from the the is from is a mishna that preceded the and each one of the sentences that's in a that's from the mishna is in different parts of the they just took that one sentence all of those single sentences and they put it into a single tractate they compiled them from all over the and made it into a single tractate no mishna came first but your includes the mishna and the explanation is not by itself thear has both the has both the Mish no the mishna is mishna mishna came before the but the that you have right now this copies ofar that you have today include both thear and the mishna even though it's called gar it has both so you'll see throughout the sh that you'll learn you'll see some of the things we have in a you'll see them in the it's a mishna you'll see it there and they took all of those sentences from across the entire sh and they compiled it and to make it into one tractate of excuse me there are other that don't have garas for them yes didn't haveen there's certain things that we did there certain things that we don't did we didn't don't have there are certain parts of the Tora that we have there certain parts of the Tor that we don't have technically the entire Tor that we have is only the essence of the tah and it's not even the bigger part of the essence that we got at Mount sa what we got at Mount sa is much greater than what we have today uh that continue to deteriorate from generation to Generation all what we have is part of the Torah that the five students of R AKA had that he restarted everything with not what the 24,000 had the 24,000 students that he had theim had much greater tah we only have the Torah of five so imagine how great the Torah is and even that is not as great as the Torah of Mount sa and even the Torah of Mount sa is not even an ounce of as great as what the Torah really is that's just the essence of the Torah faces aren you limiting theor no by default you're not limiting it you're just saying a great number you're saying a great number that it's a in essence you're saying there's a endless ways to look at different things but even with that a person needs to know that they can't just say oh this is just another face There are rules to the to how to arrive at conclusions it's not just because you decided that's what it is that's what it is there are rules of how to get to it there's rules there's different sources that a person needs to uh use there's different strategies they need to use it's very very uh dangerous to just come out with your own K without double checking if it agrees or disagrees with the it's very dangerous because it could literally turn something into so in general saying 70 face of the Torah is just giving people an impression uh that the Torah is unlimited it's big it's huge not limited it's not implying that it's 70 70 is little 70 meaning it's a lot more than just the one thing that you're seeing it's greater in number but even that is not a uh not the real meaning because for example had 42 different just on the first verse 42 different just on the fourth first verse so you would say okay see this is within the 70 no no this is different now the V one time one of his saw him pray and he was crying during prayer was crying hysterical during prayer amid was crying crying crying and then at the end he smiled so asked him after he finished the prayer first why were you crying and second why' you laugh he says listen for years these malim these angels have been coming to my house knocking on my door every night we want to teach you we want to teach you and I tell him no no no I don't want I want to teach me any Tor I'm I'm good I want to toil for my Torah I want to work hard for my Torah you just gifting me the Tor that's not Tora I want to toil for it for years and telling them no him he has angel coming to his house begging him to study we just talk about angels sometimes so now they're begging him to learn with him he said no no no no I don't want I don't want I don't want he goes last night finally I broke I said you know what what do you have to teach me anyway teach me something and in a matter of a night they taught me a few minutes they taught me 2500 on a single verse in the Torah a single verse in the Torah 2500 now the held that before you're even allowed to to think you have to do that's not is you're not allowed to learn without saying but to think you're allowed to think but since he held that's what he himself that you have to do before you even think T when he woke up in the morning he immediately started thinking about the 2500 they gave the night before so he doesn't forget them but he didn't do because says from sh they took away because it's my own I couldn't hold by my own my own law my own they took away the 2500 so I was crying the whole that I lost his 2500 okay so that's why you cried so why did you laugh because I laugh because at the end Hashem accepted my prayer and gave me a back so here we see already there's much more than just 70 faces 70 is just a number it's figuratively speaking it's not really a number it's not 70 it's unlimited just 70 is much greater than theot which is one yeah yes boundaries of the field Rob says that this also means the end K hopefully it's the end of all of these weeks too that's but that's also it says there's three things there's things that you cannot measure there's three things measure just like we said before you cannot measure the damage that short changing a poor person in uh in in giving him the P also you cannot imagine the damage that the p is causing when they see a woman walking around with it you cannot measure how much damage you're causing with immodesty cannot measure it and we read it every day but we just read it passingly because we can't wait to leave you cannot imagine what measure for measure really is cannot me imagine so says what is a sin like what is a sin like say a sin is like a star sin is like a star because why is sin like a star he says if you ask a little boy little two three four five six year old boy how big is the star how big is a star over there see a star how big is a star you tell you they big why do you think it's this big cuz cuz I see it I see it with my eyes it's this big it's this big now you know the star that particular star he's looking at if you're one of these people that knows what happens and he sees the telescopes and so on you know that star is bigger than Earth by factor of a thousand but your son is this big why is it this big for him and you know it's so big why he thinks it's this big because he's so far from it you know it's really big because you know the truth sin says same thing it always looks this big because we're so far from the emit but when we arrive at shamim hasem says look what you have here look what you have here planets worth of sins but I didn't know exactly it was so far from theit you were listening to D why why Jacobson and all types of other little characters in the world that just made you feel good about yourself these self-help these self-help uh teachers there's one particular guy he's a self-help or Guru with a keepon he dresses like this like M the clothes I feel bad for his clothes I feel bad for them I feel like they're suffocating but they this is a religious person you have to understand this is not marketing this is you're not learning to because it's entertaining even though we try to make it entertaining so you stay awake you're not coming for entertainment value if you are you shouldn't come if you're coming for entertainment value you shouldn't come you should come to learn to why because that's the instructions to live your life next question want to donate to somebody who's already big or to a big building be the exact opposite though I mean you know if the exact opposite but shouldn't people have it in their minds that they should be giving to the poor rather than to building is not a common sense thing it's common sense to do a lot of things but there's a yet that interferes it's common sense to never ever even think about sinning against theem it's common sense that a person should never even think about sinning against theem if he understands that hm is AEM and he's AEM all the time therefore why would I ever even think about sinning on AEM but as soon as the person going to go home he's going to waste seed he's going to sit against AEM why is something that's very real and very much a part of our life and the only way to beat the is with the Torah so yes the entire Torah is is common sense all of the rules are common sense but we still sin why because it has nothing to do with common sense has to do with yet has to do with t has to do with good versus evil next not being able to allow or able to do if you pick and choose you make a decision about what you're going to the commands no the person that's loses their right to do CH there's a few different types of people one person is a person that actively gets other people to sin the ra says that a person that is a mean a heretic that gets other people to sin is loses his right to do Chua meaning AEM not that they can't do chuva but that hem does not help them do chuva another type of person is a person that gets sees other people uh sinning and doesn't see anything another type of person is a uh person that pretty much says no no it's all happen stance it's just coincidence you know things happen in the world and he always gives the credit to Nature and the science and I'll just no no it's the earthquake is the reason why the house fell it's not because hasem decreed for the house to fall he always says he always gives it as excuse for everything and actually by the way the admo says that GOM the space in Gom that was specifically created for those who say that they could have done things different had things been different meaning ah if I would have done this this and this ah that would have happened says there's a special place in G for those people why you're saying that it was up to you it was up to you if you would have bought this then you would have made the money if you would have so this then you wouldn't have lost the money if you would have called him then you would have been married if you would have called her then you would no nothing hasem decrees everything there's not a single person on a planet that ever loses or wins without hem signing off on it you thinking that it was up to you that oh come come VIP section for you get come come come come come come why you're so far from the so far from the IM you still think that you're in control of anything you're in control of anything he says there's nothing and that's coming from where's the source the source is in Psalm 100 created us now we created ourselves says I created myself if you think that it's up to you to make money if you think it's up to you to get married you think it's up to you to do anything the out come of anything depends on you you're a little p that's the very basic level of how far are we from that basic level basic now the the also connects this to the sh as well page 34A the rabar is he's the one that says says is one of the M we did in says give him from his own because you and him are his so him he used there a very special story about him him anytime he used to see anybody that's looking for he'd give them everything not like everything like everything he had in his pocket everything he had to such an extent that the gabim the people that will collect were embarrassed to come to him they felt bad every time we see the guy gives us everything he has so they would hide from him so one time he was uh the says he uh was going to buy a uh stuff for his daughter to get married and he saw the he saw the people looking forar and they ran away from him he started chasing them started chasing them chasing them chasing them and he said I command you to tell me what you're collecting for I we're collecting for a uh orphan that's looking to get married ah good everything I bought is yours now his daughter and his wife they're waiting that you know he's going to buy us something he's gonna get married finally they don't have anything he comes home with empty sack why he gave everything to them now he's embarrassed to tell his daughter his wife so he just puts the sack inside a room closes the room and leaves goes the call it learn to now the wife and and the daughter are asking what did he buy what did he buy what did he buy what did he buy what did he buy okay let's go check they go they try to open the door they can't open the door it's not because it's locked there's something blocking the door eventually they push they push they push they push eventually they break the door down and see it's full of full of wheat huge amount of wheat enormous amount like hundreds of thousands of dollars worth now his wife knows there's no way that a sack fit all this so she goes and she sends a message to her husband says go look to what your lover gave you meaning look what he gave you cuz she know this is a miracle he come sees I I swear on everything right now all of it is going to the poor people and he tells his daughter oh listen you're poor you collect like everybody else I'll give you some also why you're no different than anybody else you're all name you're all daughters and sons of you understand he he didn't say give him from his because you and yours are his because it's a nice saying he lived it why because he knew that money and material is meaning me less all that's meaningful is the things you do to get something there get something in this is why the stories that were telling about him 2,000 years after he lived but even 20 years after people die in this world no one even talks about them five years no one talks about them it's like a dog you bury him in the backyard oh what's there ah yeah somebody had a dog got remember his name though got don't remember his name he died yeah died good dog though he's a good dog yeah yeah they have a picture of the dog where's the picture I fell no one cares after you die you see so much in this world so much material in this world your brand your reputation for what who cares about your brand your reputation what are you going to do with it with your tight shirts and tight jeans what are you going to do with it with your little quarterer what are you going to do with it who cares about that stuff this is what I realized before it was too late hopefully you guys realized tomorrow night there's going to be another sh I know you guys are tired hopefully this is enough to get us to wake up a little bit do some go home and start doing some self accounting who do I listen to who do I read from who do I give who do I take am I a taker am I a giver am I a winner am I a loser now always know loves you but there's rules there's rules yes last question it's not to you no then how canem punish a man for not ever having kids or not ever getting married the first children the mitvah of getting married is a mitvah someone is obligated to do if he's able to do it everything you're obligated to do if you're able to do it if you're an you're an so all of the mitv the way it works is you're supposed to exert effort the outcome is not in your hand whether you get married or not is not in your hand Hashem decides whether you'll get married or not hasm decides whether you'll be rich or poor hem decides whether even you'll live or die whether you'll be uh tall or short whether you'll be ugly or good-look hasem decides all of those things you decide whether you're going to live your life in accordance with his rules which means that you have to exert a certain amount of effort in order to fulfill the Mitzvah he's not going to lay for you you have to put the on he's not going to eat for you you have to eat so there are certain things you have to exert a certain amount of effort in order to perform them so performing getting married means that you have to go look for a wife in a Kosher Way that doesn't mean you'll find one just like it doesn't mean that if you go uh if you drive home that you'll uh you know you'll actually get there at a certain time you could plan that I'll be home in five minutes and then there's a flat tire and then there's an accident and then there's this and there that you're home 3 days later you could whatever you want it doesn't mean anything the outcome is not in your hands all that's in your hands is the effort the effort that's what's in your hands whether you're going to become or not is not in your hands the effort to become a that's in your hands whether you become sadik or not it's not in your hands whether you try to be or not that's in your hands whether you have kids or not not in your hands you try to have kids that's in your hands trying that's in your hands the problem is that we don't think like that we think that if we try we succeed because we think that not only is the effort in our hands but so is the outcome that is that is heresy that is a person thinking that he's in control of his own destiny that's what theim teach that's what Tony Robbins and his friends with the uh the red something whatever it's called Uh red what is it Red Cross red something what is that called The Secret the secret the red thing the thing is red the secret that's what they teach if you think good it'll be good that you're not only in charge of your thoughts you're in charge of the outcome this is complete foolishness and stupidity you can think you're going to win the lotto but without buying a ticket you're not winning and you don't even have a chance you think you can get married but without leaving your house you're not going to get nothing you can think you can be all you want but if you don't try you do nothing point is that it's it's you not in charge of the effect you're charge of the cause to a certain extent and even that is limited even that is limited point being this is the very very philosophical deep deep part of the Torah we'll talk about more intricate parts of it to another sh but for the most part I think we've covered the basic things you need to know which is that you are in charge of the effort not the outcome as long as you understand that you already have a good foundation as long as you have a problem with that then you have a rotten foundation and you're GNA have a very very hard time doing chuva or doing anything you also ref God put in front of you which is you're saying you have to make an effort yes but you could also God can give you this GI and this and this and then if your effort is to refuse it exactly it's your choice say it's not good enough and this is my choice also doing the same thing 100% Hashem can send you a wife you say no no she's not good good-looking enough and uh is going to give you a different one she's good-looking and the other one wasn't good-looking but the not good-looking one eventually becomes beautiful and a sadika the one that was really good-looking eventually becomes a witch and she's but you chose that one Hashem gave you the best you chose the other one why because you wanted something that looks good for your friends so that's the thing hasm gives you gives you non-stop gifts he wants to give you he does give you worrying about how he runs the world is problem that we have because we simply don't believe in him we believe in ourselves that's why we're not generous because we think that AEM is not going to give us more if we give you know we think that oh I only have X amount of money if I give this guy or this thing money then I'm going to have less and I'm going to replace it so let me make more and then I'll give such a person not only never gives but also is part of thean it's part of the destruction of it's part of sod that's the that's the key so you have to understand is that in is not just a song and it's not just a book it's a life it's a life it's the way you practice it's the way you operate uh and it requires you to overcome difficulties time and time again uh but it all starts with the basics I think we covered most of the basics at least the ones that I know tomorrow we'll cover some more things amen amen [Music] [Applause] [Music]