CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #105 Rabbi David Sutton - Living With Faith

[Music] and welcome to kak Tor talks Tuesday night program with special guests we have with us Rabbi David suon all the way from Brooklyn welcome Rabbi how you doing very good thank you for having me okay it's a pleasure all ours it's great to have the rabbi back we have the mer to have the rabbi in person at kak now we have a the to do a Torah talk with the rabbi and the rabbi there so much for the for the community for the Jewish World all the many if the rabbi give us a little more background about the rabbi and the great work you're involv with uh background um I went to Mira High School uh I was lucky enough to be in Banda for the final year of the Yeshiva goes back a while ago in the early 80s from there I went to Ababa Burman and I was uh prayed for 10 years with that gave me a strong connection with him I ate in his house and we prayed together for years and um I continued with Raa throughout that time I also uh created a connection with when I was in and I was out of a lot of good people uh you know in my life that helped me get to proper has understanding amazing and I know that the rabbi is an author of many many manyar many many books and uh the books that stick out in my opinion are the BET and also there's a daily dose of RAB came out with as well and it seems like the is in the rabbi's mind or at least two to be published on the topic maybe the rabbi give us some some inspiration a little bit about the books why they were published and why the rabbi thought it would be uh good for the community which it is it's amazing and I see the with the pocket size sorry and people are learning with it's amazing and I have my pocket size daily B homeage I have the pocket size bet but it's at home sorry so what was the inspiration behind it and if the rabie can give us a little bit tidbits of the of's it started uh in our Torah Center Yad on of Avenue J and Brooklyn Ocean Park between Jay and K with Rabbi David oeri and um Ros sh we give a class before tiil so tiil starts at 7:30 we have a class at 6:30 we always pick a m topic and one year we took the bet on beton and we you know went through it pretty fast over the two days of Ros sh this goes back close to 10 years ago and the the everyone loved it so from there I started to develop a little bit more and um I uh gave uh short classes on it and sent it out you know audios to people a few thousand people would listen to it we called it uh I don't know Advanced bahon or what daily dose of beton and um they were transcribed and uh during covid time I decided to take all those transcriptions and maybe make a book out of it and we were stuck at home for two three months and myself and my son and some of the other family members we just you know brainstormed and just just worked and worked on beton during the co era so although Co was a challenge for many but it gave us that time we had you know three months dedicated to just working on that and that's where the uh the betal came from and then uh we continued giving the audio clips on and that developed into the daily dose ofon as well and it's just you know used to say he wrote this at the beginning of his Al so the beginning of Al also happened to have on my desk because I don't leave home without it so the beginning of the SE on the front page it says with the help of the heavens in the Merit of the masses ra said many times that he believe that the that he said he was just a conduit he was just aor and he was a p but really it's the rim that needs it so it seems at the end of time is necessary and therefore hasem is is sending it I'm just the conduit interesting the um you have the betal book uh in the beginning it describes a little bit of the manuscript I got more information later uh new book just came out a week or so ago uh actually a month ago called aat is the BET's comment essay on is and there we go in the introduction work length how the manuscript was uh literally in a suitcase for close to a 100 years till uh it came from Europe with his youngest son and eventually trans from his son to his Grand be's grandson and finally the be's grandchildren put it out I'm sorry great- grandchildren put it out and umov in the introduction writes that Hashem you know planned it now when we need P more than ever so it's really uh you know it's just the the the the desire for be is really creating these these uh these books it's really the the the need of the people that that's bringing it about amazing amazing and we see that it's inspiring and transforming lives so thank you to the rabbi and the question that many many people ask and I get this a lot as well is uh what's the difference between and another very popular topic which is is it one and the same is it not so it's a beautiful beautiful masal that brings it out um there was a uh one of these Daredevils that uh would you know take a tight go on a tight rope between two uh two buildings or two mountains and people would cheer him from the crowd and then he would uh you know put a a wheelbarrow on the back and go back and forth with a wheelbarrow and then you know he's ask everyone do you believe I can go back and forth and everyone's yes we believe you could do it we believe you could do it and he says anybody want to sit in the back of the wheelbarrow as I go back and forth and nobody raised their hand but one little boy and that little boy got on actually went back and forth with him in the back and the rabbis uh use the mashal to explain like everyone believes that he could do it but only the little boy actually relied on him it didn't seem belief and really Reliance and as The Story Goes they asked the young child why did you you know have the the courage to do that and he says that the D with my father see did that with my father so that's you know that's really what's going onh is our father and we have to rely on him it's not enough it's not just a a trust I trust him in my head but I'm really gonna sort of say put my money where my mouth is and and rely on him wow beautiful beautiful powerful power so how does one you know make this be and have having imun making it realistic how does one attain it how does one achieve it is there like a a a a way or advice or tips the rabbi could give uh give us uh one one tip is uh is really to learn about it you know the more you learn about it you have to learn about it and you have to practice it you have to do small little things you know you could practice it with uh you know just every time you see something small in your life happening or small need you ask Hashem for the parking spot you ask him for you know whatever it may be and you see that as you rely on him and ask him for things things happen and you start you know developing that that trust in Hashem it could be you could use Shabbat as an example because uh you know it says says alive rely on me there's a special Shabbat connection a person relies on hem for Shabbat and though that's a good place to practice and and see it so the rabbi just mentioned and I'm aware that the rabbi also published twoim on the topic of Shabbat and also with saying something along the lines for children as well if you could tell us a little bit about this a little bit on the topic so um we actually have uh one book called living Shabbat another one called Embrace Shabbat both from art scroll you can get at your local bookst us artscroll.com and we also have two children's book called living Shabbat for children with beautiful pictures each one of has 20 stories in them um so again Shabbat is is is the holiest of days it's toes which literally means it's the first of the holy days but sadok says it's the first one to be called holy that means the first time the word holy shows up in the Torah is by Shabbat the first one to be called holy that's not the simple reading but that's the way sadok reads and he says a further rule anytime something shows up the first time that means that that's really the source so Shabbat is a source of all kadus it's a source of all Holiness um the rabbis indicate uh the Holiness based on the amount of alot we get on a regular Monday and Thursday it's three alot it's four alot it's five Al six Al and yet Shabbat Sur surpass them all and get seven Al and the problem is that since Shabbat comes every week and we don't really work on and learn it you know we learn the par shab but how many people dedicate their time to what is Shabbat forget about the par sh shab what is Shabbat about and Shabbat is connected to everything Shabbat is connected to M to Creation that's why Friday night we mention M because this concept called Shabbat Shabbat is connected to mat T Shabbat was given on Tora sh that we just had in symbolizes Matan T which was on Shabbat because Shabbat is the time to learn torat and that's the morning praise is happy with his portion that refers to and finally we have saysat to the 7,000th year which is a full Shabbat which means that's when Mash's GNA come that's the future and that's prayers you're one your name is one who's like the Jewish people so Shabbat has in it the past creation it has in it the future which is mashiach's times and it has in it the current Torah that we learned so Shabbat is all inclusive there's everything there but again because it's so well known and it comes so often it's not appreciated and again the answer is you have to learn about it again these two books really are are full of information on Shabbat that just to appreciate Shabbat for what it's worth um the book is broken into 16 initiatives 16 different topics to work on you know you could you could uh dedicate each Shabbat to one you could read through that chapter you can move to the next one but there's a lot of uh really you know good information and insight into Shabbat very very very inspiring Rabbi what what was the motive to publish these these books on the topic of Shabbat Just One Day the RAB decided understand about having this have to go back U my brother-in-law's name is Rabbi Groner uh he has the Yesa called atet Shimon they send out a lot of the emails there's uh they have host of emails they send out at ter Shimon from faraka away and he had a uh a small uh group of people doing this uh Shabbat kuk initiative and when my mother-in-law Mrs KH Sherman Alam passed away close to 10 years ago um he asked me to develop it and I ended up giving a weekly class and again it was transcribed and eventually became a book so it's one of those things that again Hashem makes these things happen amazing the brother mentioned your mother-in-law uham uh sh so so that means your father-in-law by n shman from art school that's one of the reason one of my ins to give out to put out books is my father is a publisher so it makes it a little easier wow amazing and uh so has that always been something that the rabbi had in the you know the vision to to publish for to to to be it just no no no I think it fell into my lap not something that I really plan unbelievable wow very inspiring Rabbi shabat so we have a don't forget that's another so can you tell us a little about that the and the BET as we said had some Kad some manuscripts that were not known they weren't published till um till the 18 Till 1985 in one of the uh Kash and there he has three essays more welln as the essay on Von people do not know about people like wow I didn't even know they existed and there's a third one on anavan Gava humility and arrogance so after the bet on was so well accepted I think uh arrol sold close to 20,000 so it's considered a bestseller uh they decided let's let's try to we're going to put out the a so as we said it came out a few weeks ago and um it's again bet is very deep and very uh insightful and there's a lot of interesting insights and footnotes and stories there actually a translation it's it's not just a translation right besides a translation there's insights and putot notes like the BET and there's two additional sections one is how abak Isel shows up by each holiday it means you know what's the connection sh what's connection every holiday has an connection there's also a section with about 50 pages that talks about gim stories wow all over about is it's definitely something worth worth getting so the next project I can guess is the working on that b each one takes about two two two two two years or so so we're starting now so very inspiring rabie Sutton really I I feel the the the the through the screens uh we have a custom we have a m at our Torah talks uh podcast that we have is a final message the rabbi could give us a takeaway so many gems that we've heard so far a final message that's a good question what's the final message what's the takeway if you would have to give one final message to all of entire Jewish people wow wow wow that's a heavy final message so uh for me my final message if you're going to the to everybody um it's something that's been uh I've been thinking about lately and again it's has to do with b and has to do with which is that it's it's a saying from the gon of vilna he had in his final will and Tes of quotes it on his is little essays and courses he says that when you get up in the morning you should have the following three things in mind you should think today is the only day I am the only person and the page of gar that I have to do whatever my mission is is the only page that exists because quite often people get and say you know what what's the difference if I if I'm here or if I'm not here you know if I don't go to SCH I don't go to SCH who who really cares who really knows no you are the only man in the world if you don't go to sh no one's going to sh if you don't give Saka no one's giving Saka it's all it's about you because Hashem did create the world for you and you have your own world and you're gonna say well maybe tomorrow now tomorrow is another day today will never will never repeat itself every day is a day and what you didn't do today you know can't be done tomorrow every day has what it can be done and you can say well the whole Shas what's what what's one page one all you got to worry about is today's page it's today's Mission so a person would would would really appreciate and understand that he has a mission no one since the beginning of time or the end of time was created just like him no one can do what he can do and a lot of reasons why people get down and depressed um is because they don't really feel they have meaning and purpose in life like what am I doing what difference do I make and you have to realize that if you get up in the morning Hashem decided that the world can't survive today without you because you got up and we need you here today and there's something that you can contribute something you can do and we don't always know what it is you know what can I contribute what can I do well just living your life the way the Torah wants you to is going to bring the world to become a better place based on on you're living it the way you're supposed to live and that's that's to me uh you know that's the that's the G of vill's message so it's I think it's an important one we what a powerful message what what inspiration Tora should continue spreading spreading the light in and we encourage everyone all local book Jewish bookstores around the world arts.com Rabbi be art yes of course we have to make but all serious is RAB was very very very big very inspiring I we went through it very very inspiring amazing insights gives a person that boost that he needs so we encourage every to check it out we want to thank Robie St for all that you give for cl but I think all the podcast platforms and all the HS and all the Torah and everyone that's uh having our podcast players and we want to thank daily giving as well uh for sponsoring the tour talks and that dollar they goes very very far away we enourage to look into that the entire here day and night working to make 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