Belief in G-d - Part 3: The Ten Statements - Rabbi Yaakov Lynn

[Music] [Applause] [Music] fine now turn the page we have approach number two right the ramban is going to quote another source who is going to be what we're going to call first number two and then the ramban himself is going to disagree and he's going to be approach number three okay so the rest of this is all going to be a ramban okay the ramban is going to start out by quoting an older source in the ramban right the bahad the baal halakhos godolos it was called the bahad right and the bahag disagrees with the rambam and say foreign and he's going to say approach number two and then vermont will tell us what he really thinks at the end okay somebody want to read with the baha'i what the rambunctious quote in the book jenny um it seems the hawk is that the count of the 613 are his decrees may he be exalted and that he defeated upon us to do or to refrain from doing belief in his exalted existence that he made known to us with signs and wonders and the revelation of his presence before our very eyes this is the central point the route from which all the commandments are born this was not good okay according to the hog what are the criteria for something to be considered one of the 613. good and the 613s are dues or don't do's right that's what he started out saying right that the 613 commandments are things that he told us do or don't do right emunah is not do or don't do right is that i believe that this whole system is true right but it's not one in 613 according to this opinion right and that's why he says he doesn't list it as one of the 613 because it's not one of them right now what what exactly is it then right everybody agrees there is a concept called the muna right so the ramban quotes a midrash right to defend the baha'i to explain the bank's position right jen you want to continue um and his servants tell him he responds if only they would accept my reign i would make some freeze upon them because they do not accept my ring how can they how can they fulfill their decrees so said god israel i am the lord of god you shall have no other gods just like you accepted my reign so to accept my commandments you shall have no other gods good okay so according to the bahag according to this midrash which is the first mission of the first mitzvah good don't have other gods right don't do idol worship right the first commandment was not a commandment what was it yeah good it was the it was the prerequisite for hashem to keep going hashem said i am hashem your god how do you feel about that statement if you accept it i'll give you number one of the 630 commandments if you don't accept it we could stop here right first you have to decide do you accept my reign then we can talk about what you have to do to accept if you accept my reign right so according to the bag the emunah is not one of the 613 commandments it's the underlying thing that we need to get clear so that we can keep the 613 commandments but it's not in itself a commandment right by the way right i keep calling the ten commandments that's what we call them in english what are they called in hebrew because they're serious right the ten statements now according to the rambam and the sephirah the first researchers we saw is it appropriate to call them the ten commandments yes right because even the first one is a commandment but according to this is it appropriate to call the commandments no according to this it's the statement the nine commandments right it's much more appropriate to call them the asceris debros the ten statements right the ten sayings nine of which happen to be commandments is this like just like a general like statement to say like if you believe that god exists or like you know it is the reason i'm asking is that i don't think that we could ever like fully like know god we're always going to work on our own because god [Music] good right so first of all as we discussed last time we'll discuss more next week that you're right that this is a you know whether it's a mitzvah or it's the underlying statement it's not a one-time thing like okay i accept i believe it's proven to me that there's a god i know there's god now we can move on right it's something we always have to work on right interestingly the language that we've seen so far we've not seen anybody who says you have to know there's a god we've seen the language we have to believe there's a god look back at the first page right the first we saw khabar cook said you have to live by your munna right then said the mitzvah is which means what [Music] to believe right then the rambam said again to believe then the baha'i said it's not even a mitzvah to believe it's amitsu to accept right that is the root and the foundation and then in the parable the ramban just quoted right he says let them accept ques let them accept my kingship right so according to the baha'i the muna is accepting hashem right it's not you know working it out with lots of proofs you might need to do that in order to accept but it means i've accepted that there is a god and therefore i want to know what his his degrees are just like if the king says i'm in charge now right and the people say yes we accept you as the king he said good if you accept me as a king start paying taxes right here here are all the laws right so the according to the bag the only word we see is that we that we accept him so again the baha holds that it's not one of the 613 it's the prerequisite to the whole thing and where did the other two come or the other one which one does he say is uh is it mister the others don't that's a good question i don't know but it's an interesting thing that was shown him one of the things they did everybody knew there were 613 mitzvos but there are there's a they're they're between the original but what are the 613 the wrong bomb we're at the safer amid suppose right where he listed 613 and then ramban wrote a commentary on that right disagreeing with him saying no this one doesn't count as one in 613 but this one should right for example the famous one is the rambam doesn't list chuva as one of the 613 mitzvos and the ramban comes and says what do you mean chubb is one of those thirteen minutes there's a verse in the torah that says du chuva right so then they have to explain well why didn't the rambam all that one was one of the student under 13. and that means by necessity the rambam said something was a mitzvah that the ramban didn't right and they all this is what a lot of the returning we're involved in trying to figure out what are the 613. we all agree they're 613 but what are they right [Music] well one of them is because of that gamora we just saw right that said that the torah the gomatra of torah now the problem is that that gemara seems to very clearly say that emunah is one of them so i'm not sure how the baha'i would answer that question right what about the what about the gemara that says that two of them were given by hashem according to the bag only one of them was given by hashem right so i'm not sure how the hog answers that question right okay but that's so that's that's what he says right and so the ramban finishes off explaining the bag on the bottom of the page accepting the kingship of hashem is one matter and the commandments and degrees are another matter right meaning there's a muna and then there's the 613 midsoles okay turn the page we'll see the ramban himself he just quoted the bug now he is going to tell us what he believes is the is the answer to this question [Music]