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It's from many going to report this.
What's striking about Yiddishkeit? A
lot's striking about Yiddishkeit, but
what hits a guy watching this a Yid
how connected to day to to day-to-day
life Torah is.
The Torah in Shas Akiva balls of gave a
share to Shabbos that had to buy ice
cream and he's describing
his biking trip and he wants ice cream
and there's laws of kashrus, what he's
looking for.
And the Torah, the way service of Hashem
and the Torah guides and directs
day-to-day life. The Hainu we connect to
Hashem through our life in living in
this world.
There are a lot of Eastern religions
that the whole religion is move away
from this world.
>> Ouch.
A Yid, the highest Yid is married, has a
wife, has a family, has a has children,
is very integrated into this world in
very worldly places. And it's the
striking part of Torah and mitzvahs
that the world, even one who learns
Torah and reads Torah, the Torah
describes our greats, the Avos, the
starters of our people quite active in
this world to the point that Moshe
Rabbeinu separating from his wife is a
whole story of lashon hara. Miriam
Aaron and Kayin, they say lashon hara on
Moshe Rabbeinu.
What's what's the lashon hara? That's
not how it works, the connection to
Hashem.
>> rub. That was beautiful. And that's like
a chiddush, Moshe like to connect
Hashem, you separate from your wife?
Service of Hashem is precisely very
integrated into this world.
Rachamim, I'm in the middle of my shiur,
can I call back?
I don't think it's going to be fast. It
will cost me a lot of money. Thanks a
million.
I just that was a demonstration
integrated into life tires.
>> [applause]
>> What's happening?
Like planned, I told my wife that like
2:38 like call up like hit
The kids say at Vayamos Tire.
>> [applause]
>> I guess They never stop, right? They
love it. The kids at Vayamos is
the service of Hashem and anybody
studies safe abrasions the greats are
busy Avraham Avinu is very involved in
the world. He's fighting a war.
He's traveling with his wife. It's
incredibly integrated into this world.
The greats Avraham, Yitzchak, and
Yaakov, the story of their lives is
people living here.
Parnassa Yaakov Avinu working, it's the
story of the Torah. Yaakov was busy.
Yaakov Avinu you got right. Yaakov Avinu
Yaakov Avinu was busy working for He's
working for his father-in-law.
The Torah is so the greats Yaakov Avinu
be here or always who's the who's like
who's face is on the kiss the covered,
he's working now I'm not pretending.
Yaakov Avinu's mind is completely dove
with Hashem.
But it's through this world interacting
with this world highly engaged in this
world. This is the striking part of
Torah and mitzvahs that the service of
Hashem is specifically very very
involved in this world. It's not
detached from this world.
I've said over this story before here
that there's a there's a lady a harsh of
a lady who was who was a searcher for
Hashem. For 15 years she lived nearby
here and and she lived in a forest in
Massachusetts for 15 years searching for
God. She eventually finds the She was a
Yid. She became from. She was in her
upper 30s and she started
She had Torah mitzvahs and she and she
got married to a from Yid. Now, this is
a lady who was waking up early in the
morning, extremely early and and praying
a lot of the day. She was serving Hashem
very hard and it was very hard for her
to have children.
Children, I'm going to serve meals,
clean up. I'm like detached from this
world. She meant very ends. Hers, she
was intense on serving God but very
detached. All of a sudden to have
children, I'm going to be playing around
and running with them and cleaning
diapers. She couldn't picture it. She
went to speak to the Amshinov Rebbe
to like talk to him that maybe I
shouldn't have kids. Maybe with somebody
like me, I shouldn't have kids. The
Amshinov Rebbe whose day is
what? The Amshinov Rebbe who's quite
detached from this world. I mean, the
Amshinov Rebbe I don't think he sleeps
more than a half hour to shot ever. I
think he sleeps 2 hours a day. He's a
Yid. His
sleep is very limited. He's He's He's a
parish from this world. So, she went to
the Amshinov. He would understand her
want to detach from this world. She got
an appointment with him at like 2 or 3
in the morning. She happens to be close
to the Amshinov Rebetzin
and she gets into the Amshinov like 2 3
in the morning. Now, people have
interactions with tzadikim that are
profound. He's a Yid who sees a lot. He
sees things
that that most people don't see. Like
the Chazon Lublin is called the seer.
The Amshinov Rebbe, people I know who've
interacted with him, he seems to be
aware Seid Hashem l'reiv.
Say he's a close to Hashem and it says
Hashem shares secrets to those close to
him. Seid Ashamuel, he seems to see a
lot. She comes in to him. You know this
story, Harry? She comes in to him 2:00
3:00 in the morning to meet with him to
talk maybe she shouldn't have kids, that
she shouldn't be part of this world.
Now, I'm not saying you that me and you
would relate to this. People have
interactions with Sadiqim and the Sadiq
understands the person in front of them.
This person comes in to the Sadiq 2:00
or 3:00 in the morning this late this
this Isha Hashiva.
And she walks into Ashamuel maybe I
shouldn't have kids. Like maybe I
shouldn't
And she for big reasons she walks into
the Ashamuel of a Rebbe and he has a
grandchild on his lap and he's playing
with the grandchild when she walks in.
And somehow watching him interact with
the grandchild, he says, "No, you can
ask questions." I have no questions. She
left and had two children.
It was somehow and again you could ask
he didn't say anything. She saw
something.
She was watching the Ashamuel of a Rebbe
literally play. Something hit her about
the magnitude of involvement and the the
person she sees as the God of the earth.
And here he was like engaged in a way of
kindness. Something hit her, I want to
have children. That the path to Asham is
not detachment from this world, it's
precisely in this world.
Anybody who studies Torah, it's to me
it's what sticks out in the Torah. That
service
so much of the mitzvahs involved
loyalty to Asham in business, honesty in
business.
Dealing with dealing with sincerity and
so much of the Torah is specifically
engaged.
There's a
There's a There's a There's There's a
There was a year There's name was Henry
Kissinger. Henry Kissinger was the
second or third most powerful person in
the United States in the 70s. He was the
defense minister of the United States.
Debatably, the vice president today is a
little more powerful. Back in the day,
it was mostly, the way I see it, I could
be wrong, and I'm not saying facts, it
seemed like the vice president was much
more ceremonious
back in the day. Today, it looks like
they have more power, but I can't I'm
not positive. I'm not an expert on this.
Be that Whatever the case is, he was one
of the most powerful people in the
country. This year, Henry Kissinger,
who's a cousin of my grandmother, he
observed about from Yidden.
He said the West have this world and
ignore next world. The East had next
world and ignore this world. And the
from Yidden seemed to have this world
and the next. It's specifically quite
engaged in this world.
If that would be an observation, I'm not
forcing this observation on anybody. It
would seem a student of Torah would
observe this. It would seem to be true.
Now, we've had aesthetics.
We've had people that totally were
perished from this world. We've had even
the people perished. Let's say, I'll
give an example, and this is not
somebody who separated from this world,
Rabbi Miller,
who learned Yaima Valila was not the
biggest, but he enjoyed Hashem's world
immensely. I'm coming from a father who
learned more than almost anybody I've
met in my life. My father his his
default setting was to learn Torah. The
hours he learned today, that's what my
father did. He woke up, he learned, he
went to sleep. He was always learning.
Yet, he was somebody who enjoyed a good
game of tennis a lot, enjoyed a nice
barbecue a lot. I like he enjoyed this
world like significantly. Now, I'm not
saying there aren't Sadiqim that are
perished. There are. It's not common,
and it doesn't look that that's the main
direction of the Torah. If you learn
Mesi'as Yesharim precious, which is
separation from the world, is only a way
to get to Kedusha. Kedusha is the proper
engagement in this world, engaging in a
beautiful way. Rav Ezriel Shlita showed
me a Tanchuma that Medrash Tanchuma that
says that Kovod Shabbos, preparing for
Kovod Shabbos, is worth more than a
thousand Taneisim. Which is exactly
this. So, your Kovod Shabbos is the
engagement in this world. Oneg Shabbos,
eating on Shabbos. And that's more than
a thousand Tanias. To me, what that
expresses is engagement in the right way
in this world is worth more than
disengagement from the world. That's
That's what I see in the words.
So, anybody studies
Anybody studies Torah, studies Mussar,
studies Yiddishkeit. Now, I'm not saying
there are people that could be shakuah,
that could be stuck in this world and
not living in the right way. I look at
It's fun. I'll tell you something
interesting.
When When When people talk about When
people talk about learning by your
Rebbe, Nachi, when people talk about
learning by your Rebbe,
the To me, the biggest thing is is that
the Rebbe's life works and you like his
life. Torah is not a subject. If I
describe They asked me to do a video for
Rav Weisslickie. He's being honored by
the Yeshiva. To me, I watch you all by
Rav Weisslickie. Any intelligent person
buying what draws a guy, Nachi, is by
Rav Weisslickie is I like his life. Now,
if a guy told me he was not an excuse
giver. A guy Weisslickie's actually
coming back on the derech. He's a
lawyer, a very special person. He's
coming back on the derech who's off the
derech. He told me a very sharp thing
and he wasn't blaming. He said my choice
my own choice my own choices. but he te-
What?
I want to use it to to it's true. That's
Well, well.
But I want to express that he said this
guy this guy with my
this guy said that I never had a rebbe
that I liked his life.
Which is an incredible combination. He
said I never
Tyra Tyra is not a
subject it's came Tyra no it's life.
I want to express this. I want to
express this. A bachur in the Yeshiva
his father was about Yeshiva. His father
went to public school and he was in an
out of town Yeshiva miserable Avram. So
he he he was complaining bitterly to his
father I'm miserable in school. So his
father sat him down
and his father said I don't understand
you. We'll call him Yossi. And Yossi he
Yossi I don't get you. He said all of us
mom hated school I hated school and he
said I'm not I'm not saying I love this
he used it a very aggressive expression.
He said a person you deal with it tough
luck and you and you go through it like
what's your he said what's your deal
you're kvetching you're complaining. We
all hated I hated school your mom hated
school your grandma hated school your
granddad everybody hated school. You
like kvetching what's with you kids of
today? What's the big kvetch? We all
hated school and we we survived and
that's it.
So the kid said something so smart pace
his father.
He said dad you went to PS 147 whatever
you went to. He said you hated school
you need to get a diploma and deal with
it that's what you need.
He said school I'm learning Tyra. School
says to me who I'm going to marry.
It says to me what type of lifestyle I'm
going to live. You can't
"So, deal with it." It has to resonate.
And I I'm studying things. You can't
tell a person who's deciding who's
literally studying who to marry, how to
marry, how to have children, how to live
my life, and say grin and his father
like was very necessary was very
awakened that now I we need to find
something.
Very smart kid. You can't say he's
pointed out to his father very nicely,
"Suck it up. That's the expression of us
and deal with it."
That's very nice if you're getting a
diploma. There are a lot of things in
life you don't have to like it, you got
to do it.
I'm looking I'm looking to figure out my
life. You can So, to me the I make when
I spoke about right with Snikky the I
make is guys by my like I like his life.
Awesome. What are you learning? What are
you studying? I could say on my father
tell me to my father there was a there
was a Russia Shiva in Eretz Yisrael I
heard him he didn't know I was in the
crowd. He was talking about his
relationship to my dad. He was
describing this.
That his life moved me. It was a life.
No, no it was a big crowd.
Well, yeah. Yeah. But I'm saying he
wasn't saying it like What do you say?
What I I my point wasn't that
>> [laughter]
>> my point was he wasn't saying it to like
to like make me feel that I'm that this
is what he experienced.
That he um
Great crowd. This This what he
experienced that it
really when when people describe what
they get from right with Snikky I this
is what one of the what maybe the
biggest thing is like wow, that's that's
a life I would sign on to. That's wow. I
would I I and that's tire is not a
subject it's a way of life. What what
I'm getting at Chevreuse I'm setting up
a kasha.
Chevreuse this whole thing we're having
a party.
And all of this is to set up a cash out.
>> [clears throat]
>> All of everything we just said is a
truth. I'm not I think it's a truth. I'm
not like I don't know it. I don't have
an agenda today. I actually want to ask
a question. I don't want the orphan
answer. I want answers from the guys.
What I want to ask the camera is today
is the latest.
Today we arrive in in the mid bar Sinai
to receive the Torah.
And my question to every guy here that
bothers me a lot is why in the world did
God give us the Torah in the desert?
It's the opposite of everything I'm
saying.
It's the opposite Zev and I I don't want
a quick answer.
I don't want a quick answer.
I really am bothered by this.
Everything Yoel, don't say anything yet.
I want you to hear something. Yoel, I
want you to hear this Yoel.
Yoel, everything I see in Torah
everything I see in Torah is what I just
described. If and I'm I'm willing to be
wrong. Someone say careless, you don't
understand Torah, life of Torah. I'm
willing to be wrong. I gave over what I
see in a life. My rebellion had had
spouses. My rebellion were engaged in
this world. They lived in nice houses.
Everything I'm describing is is engaged
in this world.
Hashem says come come. I want to give
you the Torah. Come to the desert. I am
very bothered. It seems if literally if
Yiddish kite was like go to the
Himalayas, go like the nuns. If
literally that was if Yiddish kite
looked like that
I would say come to the desert. The I
want to I want to introduce a new
lifestyle to you.
I've run I am bothered deeply. Not I
don't like all of it. I'm really
bothered. God really gives us the Torah.
And he tells us today we're headed to
Kabbalat Torah. It's come to the desert.
>> Come to the desert? I think that's wild.
>> You want to come to the desert?
>> That's wild. That's wild. It's shocking
to me. Give it to us where we And
remember, we don't live in the desert.
We're going to Eretz Yisrael. And it's
very exact. And again, I I really want
answers from the guys, but I want to
hear field the question to me. And you
might not be bothered. You don't have to
be bothered by something. I want to
express that it's shocking to me.
Literally, if it if it was the if it was
like they were saying that Torah that
they lived, that lifestyle,
people, monks, and the like, who are
detached, who who their their thoughts
are religions not to get married, I
would hear, "Come to the desert. There's
something I want to show you."
But to people that the very Torah calls
to a person to engage in the world,
to me, it seems bizarre. I'm willing to
hear answers.
But to tell a guy, "Come, come, come.
Come to the Himalayas. Come to where
nobody is. And come, I want to hand you
something in the desert."
To me, that's bizarre. I would suspect,
if I was to guess, it brings out the
question. It's factual we received the
Torah in the desert. To me, it seems
very bizarre to receive in the desert.
It seems to be very distant from what
Torah really says. Good question. And
that's what I'm showing I Before an
answer, I want to field the question. I
want the question to live in this room.
That for everything the Torah calls to a
person, the last place, if I was a
guessing man, it would make the most
sense to hand people Torah in the middle
of civilization, to wear the Tyra talks
to the life that Tyra is asking and
demanding and and bringing out, it would
seem so odd to tell a person come to the
Himalayas. Come come to the desert where
nobody lives, where nothing grows, which
is devoid of civilization.
That seems to me very odd for what the
Tyra is, for what the Tyra is asking of
a person, for what the Tyra is offering
a person, I think this like something
that's incongruent, that seems off.
That's my question.
I don't think it's a very forced
question. I I think it's like for
anybody who studies Tyra, it seems it
needs like a real chat. It brings I
could And by the way, someone who
doesn't agree with this, I It's time to
ask a fair question. Why is the Tyra
given in the desert? I only think it
like magnifies the question. It's not
what the Tyra is saying to a person.
>> It seems paradoxical, right? Yeah,
that's to me. Now again, before any
answers, before any answers, is it
rather striking to what I'm saying? And
you see people who are like going out. I
love that our Rebbeim are precisely and
we learn by Rebbeim that are engaged in
this world, that are very much We don't
go to people that aren't that aren't
involved in this world, that aren't that
our Rebbeim are literally engaged.
That's that's what I'm asking the
chevre. Someone who's not engaged in
this world is Are they like Are they
like a more detached type of guy? Are
they somewhat wrong with you?
I don't want to say wrong. I want to say
that it doesn't look like that's the
chevre Anybody studying Tyra, the Avos
were engaged in this world. Yesh
Avraham. The Avos worked. The Avos were
rich. Now I'm not saying they were in
money for reasons for for spiritual They
were completely attached to Hashem, but
through the anybody studies Tyra, is the
attachment to Hashem through this one.
By the way, in the base of this was full
of gold. Gold? It was like a very
beautiful aesthetically pleasing place.
>> Beautiful? And all of a sudden when we
received the Tyra
contrary to all the other things of
holy.
I wouldn't suspect come to the desert.
Come, I want to give you this gift.
>> It's like weird, yeah. Come to your
house. I want to hand you a gift. I want
to come to you where you live as you
live.
That's not even fair. Something like
very weird to do this.
Y'all well, does the question strike?
Yeah, the question strike me as a I I
promise you I want answers. Literally. I
want to hear from the guys. And I you
could ask the question. Stop. It's
interesting at turn the mid bar. To me,
it's not just you know this cash is in
child is not him. Somebody could have
asked this as a child.
Yeah. I don't know what what he's asking
is like oh, why didn't you give us a
house in the way had some desert not. If
and then I'm sure you could find me an
answer why they come to the desert but
why once you come to the desert to have
seen I have all the flowers and all the
grass and everything like that. If
you're coming to a place that's not
meant to be comfortable. That's
interesting. That's interesting.
>> Why is he making me eat at all? That's
interesting. That's true. That's true.
But it's so funny. And by the way, this
is this Hashem's talking to me and you
and today he says come to the desert. I
want to It's a strange place but
everything that I understand Tyra says
and is. So now, Ruben Yana couldn't just
been a child. It's actually what child
why you give me a desert? What's
happens? Like you have a child. I'm
asking for more than that.
Sure. For sure, that's what
everything about Tyra that then you
study Tyra it speaks about planting,
harvesting. It's like a song you
complete. This is one safer but that's
for civilization. Speaks about the first
myths was to get married. poo poo, poo.
Engage in this world, yeshiva alum.
And for the sake of yeshiva, come come
out of this world. I want to give you
some
The midbar is the least
Explain the more special.
It's interesting, reflecting that
without Torah there's like nothingness.
Interesting. Interesting.
The reflection of without this like you
have garnish.
Like you. Feel that.
I literally Chaim, I want the guys to
say their own shottem. I don't want to
say the pshat is. I don't want to. Cuz I
think this is like To me there's not a
minor thing of kabbalah satour. This is
the introduction. Literally, this is
what happened. This is what happens. We
go to midbar Sinai. This is like This is
today b'shchaim sevan. Chaim Yisrael
goes to the desert. We go to the desert.
Yair, I'm asking very very fiercely the
question that Chazal ask.
I'm asking that everything about Torah
seems to be a person engaged in this
world.
My father is from the
In my existence, the one I experienced
to learn Torah the most is my dad.
I saw him I breathed he learned. He was
so engaged in this world. Like the nice
piece of nice piece of schnitzel. He'll
good tennis game. He enjoyed and used
the world for great deveikus b'Hashem.
So when I see that, Yair, I'm so missed
by come get the tire.
There are nuns in the have go people
living in the Himalayas. They're
disengaged from life. We don't look at
that as the life of tire.
We look at Kadusha utilizing things
right and beautiful. We see our
rebellion
Rabbi Russ. You see we see our rebellion
as people I was lucky who are very
engaged in this world.
So, makes it makes me wonder to receive
the tire come to the desert. That's
given where we live cuz that's what it
speaks to a life of living a life
engaged. That's the energy of what I'm
asking. I don't there's not a cute word
like this is real stuff. This is what
happens. This is like and I shall to say
every little child knows receive the
tire the mid mid bar Sinai Harris Sinai
mid bar Sinai. This is like the basic
the address.
This is like the basic of Yiddish guide.
I think that's that's that's that's that
has to bring the thought. That has to be
my
but it's not just a shower. It's a cash.
Yes, Matthew.
>> [snorts]
>> Explain.
What what what about I'm I'm with you. I
want to be
What what do you mean human? Why is the
desert human?
In the city of the issue everybody will
lives in the desert. Where everybody
lives, where everybody is, where
everybody functions. The desert's not
The desert by its nature, people don't
have settlements in the desert typically
cuz hard to There's no water, there's no
It's a It's not a the most functional
place.
>> make serious sense. It's just funny. The
desert represents not min ha'ishuv, not
where people live.
>> the other
place. I don't think so. People live
where there's water, people The desert
In the desert, there's something called
an oasis. Like there, there's water.
There, people live. It's like a
chiddush. Kiryat Sefer, Modi'in, Moshav
Mattisyahu is like a chiddush. Living in
the desert, they put down something
that's Can you go to Israel and go to
Eretz Yisrael without the Torah?
Can you go settle down with
Yeah, give it It seems so odd that you
give it out of the issue.
And for everything I know about Torah,
it seems so strange. He's like prepare
them to like know how to use like the
actual real world with the Torah.
Interesting.
CD and really Mechi is saying the CD is
saying very intelligent. CD said that
this is the way how you engage. So, from
a space of not having, let me give this
to you, and then like engage with this.
Maybe maybe.
It's like seems so like I'm happy that
even your Torah It's acknowledged a
weird place to give it. The Torah It's
Take this before you engage. Like that's
what guys are saying. Before we get
Torah, it's like you're not in the issue
of yet. You'll need this for the issue
of. So,
Yoel said Yoel said Yoel said Shtern.
Yoel said this. I like that Yoel a lot.
I like that a lot, Yoel.
Yoel and CD are saying that before we
engage, because this is going to be a
safer about engagement. So, let me give
it to you before you're not engaged. Go
for almost to teach like a little bit
like to teach that you this is the safer
of engagement.
Precious before before Kadusha there is
something called precious.
When Yona is describing that if it does
say there's a Gamara says whoever learns
Tame Anio say for learn Hashiras.
When Yona is like expressing first do it
without and then like you build your
life but just strange to me because the
Torah speaks about engagement. That's
what it's about and there is such a
thing of precious. The Torah speaks
about engagement in the world.
Are we fair question?
What hits you Ari? I want it's funny. I
want guys last to say a Torah and what
hits you?
I like asking it's funny the art have
read. I gone to many Q&A's and I started
doing instead of thinking of answers. I
don't like doing that. I have a new
stick. I really say what I'm thinking.
I don't want to think of it and it's a
very good idea not to I didn't say
something like what what hits you.
Questions like bring things out. What
what hits about this? That you receive
the Torah in the desert. You receive in
the desert. What hits you? What what is
that? What is this? What is being
suggested here?
Now I do want to say Hazal asked the
question.
And Hazal would bother why is the Torah
given in the desert?
The
maybe maybe maybe it's a maybe maybe it
was a question. Maybe I don't know.
Maybe.
What's what's what and don't say this
the answer I don't say what's one
element in the desert
Kazal do say that nobody owns it a cold
ocean everybody has there it's like the
ultimate place it's nobody settles the
desert the deserts the wild place that
anybody could just come to anybody could
stake a claim
it's it's a cold
I came out still like passion for the
Torah
not just hey why do we get in the desert
everything about Torah is that I spoke
about what you said Shabbos those are
the name you are your biking and you
want ice cream and you want to figure
out how to do it out via Torah
everything about the Torah speaks about
a person who lives in this world
that's what's unique if our greats are
completely engaged in parnassa and oilam
and having mishpachas everything in the
Torah speaks to that so why does Hashem
say come come to the desert I want to
give it in the issue of
seems so hard to understand so unlikely
well have those nuns were right in their
view of holiness so then a world like
that would make sense come to the desert
that's not the world of
Yados of our greats that are incredibly
engaged in this world
so what's this come to the desert I have
something for you
yeah you hear you like the question
there I like the question one
some similar similar vibe similar vibe
yeah
I like things go down like out in the
open like you would think about like us
as a Yeshiva right
we're not in Lakewood we're not in
Monsey like we're in freaking Durham
Connecticut you know like we're out
there even like the road trips, like,
the sickest trips that we do are going
down in Colorado and Utah, like, we're
not hearing anything. It reaches
everywhere.
It's interesting.
Somebody Daniel said that the reach of
the Torah, like this
it's funny that there are people who
there are people who study Torah in
Eretz Yisrael. Say, under these
conditions I could learn Torah, live
Torah. The story of Torah is wherever
you go to serve Hashem, that it's not
limited to a specific place. Ah. So,
Daniel says something that does
resonate. Like, they're in the they're
in the desert and the Torah is given
there. That Torah doesn't need a certain
place, a certain conditions.
Under all the Torah speaks to all
places. If it was given in Eretz
Yisrael, you should say, under these
conditions we serve Hashem. Under these
conditions I can engage specifically the
least inhabitable place on Earth. There
we got the Torah.
And Daniel sees this that the Torah
reaches everywhere.
Could be.
Could be. I'm not like
I don't have a monopoly on this. I think
it's I think it's an important question
today that we come to Midbar Sinai. That
is what it's the first it's to me the
first story. It's like the first story
of Kabbalat Torah. The start come to the
desert. Come to the Midbar. I have
something I want Now, I do want to say
that I'll say that Misha Meisim Atzmai
K'Midbar Zocheh L'Kiddushin Torah. That
you have to be you have to be available
to people. That has to be people are
invited with.
It's I can't like connect it exact come
to the desert and get it. Is there some
energy? It says Mi Midbar Matan Torah
Mi Shemeisim Atzmai K'Midbar Zocheh
L'Matan Torah.
And the Midbar is the place everybody's
invited. Nobody has a right more than
another one.
Could it be given there is a sense that
it's put in the place where everybody
has entitlement to it. I want to give it
a sham says in that place that's hefker
lakol. It's the midbar is the place
every other place on earth has somebody
who typically owns it. The midbar is
that place human beings don't claim.
It's like everybody's land, anybody's
land. Nobody lives be issue.
And the ultimate of Torah is here, I'm
giving you something in this space where
everybody has access, everybody has
rights.
It's possible. I wanted to present this
question to the chevra. I do have
thoughts on it. I have other thoughts on
it. I want the guys I'm asking the
chevra to think about again, if the
question doesn't bother you, don't
worry. If the question bothers you, to
allow to allow thoughts. I think it
could bring us to good places that we
got to tell you specifically in the
desert.
>> No.
We we I just want to We also learned
Torah there for 40 years in the desert.
Exactly. It that points like we have
Reuven Yona said that before you engaged
as a there's something to observe like
precious before it's possible. I'm not
discounting that. And and
Ari says
What? All the others.
You see people's own lives is you see
the the way all of us build lives is we
learn Torah before we get married. Ach
ach yesh
ach. After before a person gets a job,
before So, Reuven Yona Akiva saying this
reflects something, study then you'll
engage. They exactly come to the desert,
prepare, get ready, engage something so
then you could I'm not I'm not against
that energy.
Somebody would give a fact of chazonish.
They they should go to a midbar to learn
Torah. How how good is the midbar like?
How good is our situation?
Yeah.
Yeah, they're learning. They're
disengaged from the world. Then after
you
There's such an energy. There's such an
energy, yes. I'm saying me is like I
feel like I wouldn't feel as invited if
it was somewhere like
in like a city or something like that.
I feel like a midbar type guy, you know?
I like what he's saying a lot. I like
what Ari is saying a ton. It actually
hits me more if Ari said the desert,
nobody has a claim to see. I feel very
comfortable You can't say any place you
would invite to receive the Torah, whose
land is this? Said his land, whoa,
that's more shayach to me. The desert is
that place nobody could say it's more
shayach to me, more shayach to him, so
to everybody.
Because it's in the desert.
Meaning it's like specifically for the
desert type guy. I think everybody I
think there's a sense nobody could say
they are not. I want to say there's a
big
with Torah that it's munach b'cherem zol
v'shaveh everybody's entitled to this.
If Hashem gave the Torah in a specific
issue where he chose to give it, oh,
it's for me, it's the Torah he gave it,
and it's funny, it says about the midbar
mishameish like a
midbar. Says midrash kol d'alshim al av
everybody tramples there. So nobody's
entitlement more than the next person.
That's what the midbar represents.
Nobody's more than the next. Very good.
Torah is given there. There's a big
sugia. It bothers me when people make it
that family gets Torah. The Gemara says
that talmidei chacham's kids are often
not talmidei chacham. Nobody should say
it's that family. It belongs to the
entirety of our people.
>> Wow.
Belongs to the entirety. I like that
p'shat, Ari's p'shat, a lot, a lot.
Not just like it's for everyone cuz I
feel like specifically like a desert
type guy.
I know what you're saying. I know what
you're saying. Even a guy who doesn't
feel like a desert kind guy cannot have
a sense that it's for somebody else.
Because the desert is nobody's more than
the next person.
So and it says "Has all some of the
desert are called and everybody can come
here."
And Hashem says come what?
This is what he's saying. Cuz it was
given to us. But what he was saying to
us and by the way go become a
what he's saying to us is this is not
the right of one more than the other. I
like that a lot. I like that a lot.
The
Reuven Yona said that there's a period
of precious before engagement. Reuven
Yona and Akiva there's precious before
engagement. Chaim said that the contrast
there's nothing in the desert and the
contrast of that from nothingness comes
something. That's what I heard in Chaim.
This shot of Ari is the desert nobody's
more entitled.
If it would be given in anybody's and by
the way the different lands is it this
shavus land that shavus the desert
nobody has entitlement. It's all of
ours.
The sense it to me that I taught that
touches something. Come come and if we
we receive it we are it's like this is
nobody could say it was more given to
him.
That does touch place in me. I like that
a lot. That's what I wanted to say. The
guys think about the question we will
pick it up tomorrow. The the pool is
open I believe right now.
Guys should enjoy the pool. I will meet
you at the
Do we have 10?
What? No.
Do you guys here want to swim? Yes. I
don't know. Yes.
What?
I don't know what that
Is that it?
So, do you know anybody who wants to go
to Walmart? I don't know anyone who
wants to go.
Yo, Rob, six year.
Go swimming then.
No, he meant like make sure you do not
embarrass him in front of him. He didn't
mean nothing. I can't be here. Who's
having fun in the sun?
What?
Yeah.
Thank you, Yanky. Thank you, Ricky.
Yeah.