Alei Shur: Why is a Human Being So Important? - Rabbi Guy Matalon

[Music] we are starting a new section we began learning alley shoe - this book we did the first part we did most of it last it's mine and now we're gonna start the second part which is essentially a focus on learning Muslim digging into who we are why we are and how can we make ourselves better it is not supposed to be fun it's not supposed to be joyful it's supposed to be a bit painful but as we say no pain no gain right no pain no gain so we are starting with a very very important question Lama in Yong Adam - of krakatoa why is it Harry according to the Torah a human being is very very important why are we so important in the Torah the Torah revolves on human beings what they're doing what they're not doing what is the main purpose of our serving God what is it what are we supposed to be doing is our lives the answer is very simple to fulfill the commandments and to learn Torah because that is what God wants that's it it's very simple and if the only or the most important thing in the world is to fulfill God's will to do what God wants then why are we at the center of the Torah it's not about me it's not about us it's about God and if it's about God then it's very simple what should you do in life keep missing learn Torah but I'm not really enjoying it I'm not really connected your problem this is what you have to do toughen up buttercup so the question who's at the center is the Torah at the center or a human being at the center who is at the center of existence hazael there's a ton of the belly out the Turner says Bama hard eighty over me Malcolm lemarchal I was traveling from place to place well my tiny atom is hot and I found the man sheis Bumi kya and Bumi sneh he knew Torah the written Torah but he didn't know the oral torah I'm early he said to me rabbi two things in this world there are two things in this world that I love with all my heart Torah and the Jewish people Israel but I don't know which one is more important Torah where Israel was like you said there's three things fine but from God's Word there's two things cuz he doesn't look at himself and so God or the Jewish people he said to him he said to him beneath my son that conscious been Adam only metallic admah human being say that the Torah is at the center it came it comes first because as Khadija stylish am the sheet sorry at Arak Adam ash and amaya Shem cannot either she does go that God has acquired me that's what the Torah says God has acquired me I am the first so it sounds like the Torres at the center of creation I'm gonna kneel man but I say the rabbi says he said she named alko did she say Allah Shambala she Tata holy are the Jewish people to God the first of his harvest first and he gives a mussel a parable there was a king that had a woman and she had sons and he wrote a letter to the place where his wife and children were and he said like this if it wasn't for my wife and my sons who do what I want I would destroy this house many times over therefore without the Jewish people the world would not have been created the world would have been destroyed that's what it says Cordish israel a shamble ashita for them we're not going to get into details here of what every single part of this mean but what we see is two things that one that the Kurdish Baro who looks at the Torah as a wife and that the Jewish people are the ones that keep the world going because it wasn't for them so it looks like that we are talking about that who was at the center a human being you are at the center of creation here we see that hazael is interested to figure out who's at the center the Torah or humanity and aliawan avi says his side and he makes a parable that the wife of the king is the Torah and it's al the Jewish people are his sons okay so what is the ultimate purpose of creation why was this all created for one reason for homicide one Jew you me Jeremy you're sure the question is what is our role in the Torah fine so the whole world it's we are at the center fine so what is there our relationship to the Torah where is our sort of spot in the Torah so listen to what it says in the gomorian something Tanya here says : SEC bitola - a leaf Nehemiah 8 kilo Belarus a toe whoever toils in Torah before someone who is an ignoramus an ignorant of the Torah it is as if he had sexual relations with his fiancee are you allowed to have relations with your fiancee no you gotta wait till you marry her for it says towards evil Onimusha more salable awesome just cuz it says Toro motion commanded us to Torah and don't say inheritance call it Melissa Melissa call Kokila taco that it is the betrothed the fiance is it lack of a better term of the Jewish people so we see that we are engaged to the Torah an Arab atomic Rock'em say Taurus age when he learns Tourette's as if that he's coming connecting to his wife now why do we consider the Torah we use it in a parable as a woman because it says that the Torah is the Ezard connector they help mate for the human being it is only through the Torah that you will reach your perfection and that the Torah is going to make you be the best that you can be and that is the roll over your wife think about Adam Murray Sean who's Adam Rishon it is the human being that was created by God I heard a very some cypher says why did I Mar Adam Murray Sean listened to his wife when she gave him the fruit to eat why did he listen their time Sarah says because she was on a higher spiritual level idiot why because she was born in the Garden of Eden he wasn't he was born on the outside world she was born in the Garden of Eden she was the ultimate creation and she says look what I brought for you a demolition was created by God and we know that once he sinned even even his physical stature was affected and if he wouldn't have sinned he would have lived in this body forever kadosh baruch who says i am not going to go back to that possibility so if you like your body when you look in the mirror you're not gonna live in this box forever that doors closed you're gonna get it maximum 120 years in this body in this box after that you have to shed the box and you get a new box so from Avraham Avinu until leaving Egypt right we start seeing that there is the foundation for the people of Israel on our scene I and our scene I we were going to return to the other Murray shown before the sin but once the Golden Calf incident occurred we lost that but then we received as we talked about in the past the second tablet but the second tablet is really to return us back to the Mauritian so now we know that the way that we're going to achieve immortality is through the Torah you want to live forever then it's only through the Torah why because the Torah is eternal the mistake that we are going to work on at this class is the thought that if you just keep the Torah and do the mitzvahs you will reach your perfection it is not the simply a mechanical process that I put on tefillin that I pray that I keep Shabbat that ain't cash Ruth that will make me perfect that's not gonna work David you're going to have to do something about it in order to become perfect to reach the highest potential it is not simply swimming in the pool of Torah that you were gonna become perfected you're gonna have to work at it you have to use your mind you have to use your thoughts your emotions your words your actions in order to build to develop the perfection that godot Bovada hashem clogged a doll before that Hashem anybody can translate this will Wayne will win a free lollipop stick climb Ghidorah before that Hashem it's a great principle in the service of God and me Meili and me Meili nothing happens by the way by the way me mainly means that it's I'm doing this and then it already takes care of itself no sound of randomness you're missing the point it means that the fact that I'm already present in the pickle jar I will become a pickle as long as I stay in yeshiva I will be you Shiva SHhhh I will be a tummy tuck home I will be a perfected human being I will be what God really wants me to be me mainly by I don't have to do anything just by going through the regular process of the tiny egg mitzvahs 613 commandments and learning Torah as long as I do that I will come out under star no it takes for thought it takes work it takes thinking about it it's taking self-reflection it's thinking about being self-critical it requires you to participate in your own perfection your perfection is not going to happen simply by coming to classes you have to do your homework that is you have to sit on your bed and ask yourself am I the best that I could be if the answer is yes none of us know it if the answer is no you know what you need to do if you don't come see us we will help you no matter a god that you don't pay attention to is going to come to you whatever level you want to reach is not gonna come to you simply because you are in existence you have to work on it you want to be able to learn adapt for Gemara bloody tomorrow you have to work on it you want to have good me dog you have to work on it you want to be each guy said you have to work on it you want to have where you got your mind you have to work on it you know somebody's not gonna pop on to you like this tomorrow I didn't have it today now I have it know everything that you want you will have to work for it I'm just not feeling it I just think of course not cuz you're not working on it if you're serious that you want certain Madre cos you want to reach certain levels certain goals in terms of your service to a chef you have to work on they're not gonna just come you want to be punctual then you have to be punctual wake up early and shop in class on time don't walk in late regard limited Amgen Osaka Dalia low TLO if you're not going to work and strive for your perfection you are not going to have it perfection is not a gift that you're just gonna get and become perfect it's something that you're going to have to work on the question is hey do you believe that this is what you need to be doing and to do you really believe that you can do it and three do you know what the path is to get it done and if you don't do what you're supposed to do that is every Mitzvah that you do you're supposed to get a scar in the next world right you're gonna get rewarded but if you don't strive to perfect yourself to make yourself a better person and you will not become a complete and perfected human being you're gonna have a problem in this world and you're gonna have a problem in the next one you're gonna get a piece of you know this white beautiful you know coat with all these holes in it are you gonna walk around I'm gonna see what's the holes for he didn't work honest be dog he didn't work out himself so the whole point is that if we are going to be at the center which is what God is telling us a we're at the center it means that there's tremendous amount of responsibility on us because we are at the center this big deal it's out of your shoulders on my shoulder we can't sleep on this job I'm supposed to motivate you to make yourself a better person have I succeeded let's start looking at the human being what is a human being what's a human being so we tend to think of the human being as a combination of a bunch of forces and abilities that we have an ability to digest food reproduce locomotion you know what locomotion means movement from one place to another we have mental faculties we can think abstract thoughts like the whole cannot be greater than the sum of the parts is that true that the whole cannot be greater than the sum of the parts does anybody here disagree with that statement the whole cannot be greater than the sum of the parts so if you see if somebody tells you act like a human being what does that mean to you but the question if somebody's it's originally owed Benedum what does that mean what does that mean to be a human being what this is getting at is that from all of the trees we can't see the forest we are trying now if we say the human being is at the center of the universe we have to figure out what is a human being what are we looking at and we usually focus much deeper on emotions on desires on all sorts of what you're talking about moral qualities whether they're good qualities or bad qualities but all those things are the trees I'm asking you zoom out a little bit what is a human being you can zoom in and say well it's a sack full of bacteria and selves and okay that's you focus su mouth oh it's just worm food oh it's a little too far just zoom somewhere in between there's a puzzle in the Torah that says they say felt or not Adam this is the book of the generations of Adam ben azzai says the cloud kadal Petula Clark adalat oh this is a very very important teaching in the Torah and what does it say we tell us the Torah tells us what is the true human being a Demolition Noah Avram it's Kakaako the 12 tribes Moshe Rabbeinu I want a coin but then you have no Sun in the Torah that's in the nothing time at aura but he also had the other side kind each male asa love on pyro bilham right we also have your head skin hair scale says he is the only one of the God called him Ben Adam son of lemony Caiaphas Kelvin Adam why was it Haskell carbon atom Rashi says to reason but a damn cool Eliot healthcare let me talk should i milkovo because he saw the chariot of God and he saw the angels there and Rashi says villainy ha I think that the reason he was called when Adam is so that he will not get transit is Rashi that will think that he is develop arrogance that he saw the chariot of God I don't know if you've ever read Ezekiel chapter one if you have nothing to do and a candle I had to read it in candlelight and so Rashi says that when maschera Boehner went up to the heavens to get the Torah and he argued with the Angels and after he'd he defeated them right he says that they were they called it they called him Adam they called the Angels called him Adam why to remain to remind them the atom of the earth that you are an earthling Adamas really means earthling Adama producers are dumb and the wife is not called any variation of his wife Eve is not called any derivation of Adama the kuzuri describes the Jewish people and he says like this who amongst your going to go before me that God says that he's gonna stand before him go up to the heavens and go walk around the angels there cause been Adam why are they called been Adam to differentiate human beings from angels [Music] [Applause]