Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - Loving Hashem with All Your Possessions - Re'ah 5778

[Music] tonight Scheer is dedicated in the leymah of hi I'm Rea Ben rifka and the special honor to rabbi and this is small in April and family who made alia despair thank you anybody I also want to ask people if we could also learn for another solo there's a member of my former community who's undergoing a partial liver transplant today so there are actually two very dangerous operations there's the recipient and there actually is the donor unfortunate I don't have the donors name but the hollow that that means the partial liver transplant is so worried of advanced aura so we hope that both the recipient and the donor should be safe and and and healthy I mean what I want to talk about today we are we are of course in the have tourists of comforts and sometimes therefore there's a little bit of a disconnect between the parsha and the haftorah because the tourists were not chosen based on their connection to the parsha but they were chosen on the basis of Oklahoma but there is a point and really it pretends to the part that we read in the past week the past Shabbos and that is you will of course have noticed that the second paragraph of the Shema that we recite twice a day by yamoa is at the end of towards the end of purchase a guess and the first part of Sh'ma for a half-day session LaCava is the the week before in the parsha of vs Cana and so it's interesting to point out the the differences between them and how it bears on the themes of trauma first the haftorah begins this is October Vegas but Tom Merritt see I know Savannah Hashem see I mean which is really the Jewish people personified in average Israel itself I serve on the ocean Hashem has abandoned me Hashem should say funny and Hashem has forgotten me now these are two different nuances abandonments is really kind of an intentional idea that God simply says I don't care about them anymore okay funny is more passive Hashem just forgot about me back that one through there's a strange psychology about forgetting I once heard about a fellow now and that night I heard I actually spoke to a fellow who was raised Orthodox he was raised from but he stopped keeping mitzvahs in his 20s and when there was some discussion about doing children coming back he had the following psychological construct that he made up he basically listen right now God has forgot about me I'm not on his radar if I start doing Cuba all of a sudden I'm gonna be noticed and then I'm gonna get in trouble for all the other words that I did so I would rather not beyond on straight obviously that's that erroneous thinking a little bit but that's the notion of being the difference in abandonment and being forgotten one is more of an idea that God despises me the other is God just doesn't think about me anymore well what is he abandoned God no no I'm not talking about him this is what fiance CEO says somebody a sham sham should say honey and the shrimp's answer was that's impossible Hatice God Ayesha Allah can a woman forget her little baby son her toddler Marah same Ben busines can she stop having compassion and love for that entity that emerged from her womb from her belly and then tom aehlert to scotland and even if that could be forgotten which would never be an Okie lowest okay I will never forget you meaning as conceivable as it would be for a mother to stop loving your child even if that would happen Hashem love for us can never wane now it's interesting that the Martin Broncos has an interesting level of Juche on this puzzle because when it says got a lettuce Kaka which is interpreted even if this will be forgotten Anopheles perfect I will not forget you the mega-rich or the Gemara interprets it this way Eila refers to the words that the Jewish people recited when they made the golden camp the ACO they said Allah el Oaxaca Israel these are your God's history enoki is when we accept it lovingly the first of the TSSAA dubrow's a nobody hmm okay so the way the Khmer interprets the pussing got a Leticia Kozma when it comes to your negative words anyway all I have is Raya I will forget that I will overlook that if you do children the unnoticed but your willingness to accept them and the morale explains that there's a difference again this is borrowing from philosophical terms that are really from platonic philosophy that's where the morale in many ways could be described as in Neoplatonism my relative differentiates between what is called SM when it's called in essential attributes and what is called an accident now the accident in philosophy does not mean there are two cars in each other but an accident means a certain attribute which is not intrinsic to the definition of something so for example we would talk about a table the essential attribute of a table is that it is a surface upon which you can put things whether it is brown or green or red in philosophical parlance is said to be an accident because it is not an essential attribute that goes to the definition of what the thing is no philosophical discussion what types of attributes are and what types of them are accidents the morale uses the Hebrew equivalent at SEM versus Makran and SEM is the essential nature of something and Micra is happenstance accidental incidental attributes that don't go to that very definition so the morale says that the essence of the Jewish people is one of goodness and purity that's who we really are what happens is there are you sir Harvard's there are complications that take us off course but they are only called Micra they are not called SM and therefore Hashem says I remember you the way you really are what you did at Matt Santoro was your true self but no think no it's gotta be a while hatha is right over the fear of the moment out of panic out of losing connection with Moshe available you veered off course but that's not who you really are and I've mentioned many times before that's a very meaning of Shabbat or man entering the montebello this week the very meaning of chuva returned returning returning implies you're going back to a place you already work like you can't you return to a place that you never were so who are you returning to so some say you're returning to God you're returning to the Jewish people but the morale says you are returning to your essential self you're actually going back to who you really are inside everything else is kind of a veneer everything else is kind of a false disguise that can sometimes be a be very overpowering and that is why the gomorian borracho says I will forget the a lie luckily Israel because it's not really you know the-- hashem i look at a lo ish process i will not because that is really that's what the morale says great for a Jew is called Micra accidents happens that's it is not called etson it is not called any sensual attribute and that is very important because that reminds us that we do to ver from the good that is within us and not from thee from the negative now we know that the concretization the concrete expression everyday of a Nokia Chemeketa I am the Lord you got it took you out of that's right we don't say the incessant dippers every day although it the sitter does have it in fact there's all interesting discussion if you look at the back of virtually any sitter it'll it'll have the sa receptive ropes there and some people do say it but there's an interesting discussion about this because the kamara and brocco says that originally it was part of the temple service the temp of the service and the base of English every day that they would recite the in service of the pros but the sacrum in were Novato lit they said not to do it because they saw a certain danger in overlooking overemphasizing the Asura satyros and the danger was people would say just as they do say Oh only the ten commandments are given from God everything else much of a No I made up so in order not to over emphasize the SAT prep some time actually were available based on that there's a Trueba of the Rambam it's not it's not in the mission of torah we know that the prevailing minik in quali israel is when the ball call ray reads the Asura said it was at least in you throw and we have stronger on Thursday locusts but in Israel and certainly on Shavuos again some only do it for sugar well some do it when they read parshat you throw as well some do it for partially it's kinda and they're different customs but I'm sure Lois it's almost universally the case that people stand up when the Asura said dear bros are red so the Rambam actually writes that's an incorrect minute because to shame we'll move on to the Korean cesarean zebras in the Mukesh so people shouldn't think only the Asura satirist came from a sham when you stand up for that portion of the Torah and you don't stand up for the other portions of the Torah you might be causing people to make the same mistake so the Rambam says you either stand for all of the lighting like many people do or you sit for all of the lighting you don't selectively stand up for the service of difference now the my service refines the rights that we don't follow this Rambam and indeed he defends the Meno get various ways but by the same token some people have questions reading the service of the approach every day some say well because I were only against doing it as a public reading that is a private reading etc but be it as it may certainly the assertion timbers are not incorporated in the in the dominating with Seaborn but the one thing that is incorporated is the reading of the shema the Sunnah is relish am a volcano a method which is the parallel to an oafish a mellow katha and as all of us know the Mitzvah of reciting Sh'ma is a mitzvah Teresa both in the daytime and in the evening and that's based on the verse but Jacques Piccard when you lie down which is interpreted to mean the time of night when people sleep over kumara when you rise up which is the time when people get up in the morning which is the deck right this is the creation of our beads the chakra to the demon is the very first mitzvah that is discussed in the oral law the Torah about path like the mr. Messiah's Brauhaus begins with Mema cyclo ready sssshhhh mas and everyone else how important the mitzvot creation is but it's interesting that's we do have some discrepancies between the first part of Sh'ma and the second part of the first part of smile after we have the plastic Sh'ma Israel hashem elokenu hashem echad so first let me share with you an elaboration on Russia's comments hashem elokenu hashem eunuch a buff k is the name of Hashem that's the media of rock on me l okay know which is Elohim shall honor is the five letter name of Hashem that is means acid in judgment punishment so here is what at least the clay your core is must be rushing in it fits it's really legal moral ultimately Shema Israel here here doesn't just mean physically here internalize understand Hashem Ilokano in our life in our lives we perceive a duality of us we see benevolence kindness compassion we see rejection retribution punishment suffering we see the Hashem of the world and we see the alchemical but that is only from our perspective the llk knew our perspective but those two aspects of divinity that you see Hashem Akkad is ultimately one a Shem of benevolence and and that's why Rashi says based on the Kimura that in this world we have two different brothels for happy news for good tidings we make a Chicano or at ovum a tip and for Basu Rose rose for tragic events deaths bereavements we make the Bronco Dayani amis the Austin love oh we will only make hope I made it because we will see that even the pursuers rose ultimately produced a good in the world and that is the meaning of the prusik by Yo Ma who ya hashem echad when that future day comes God will be one of course God is one now but God's two different attributes will be perceived as one who Schmoe and the name of God will only be one whom you came up k the means of recommend as opposed to this dichotomy of Rock'em m and n so that's my Israel but then it goes on now brought shame kavod as you know is not in the Torah at all Brooklyn kavod is obviously not part of the dog rice of reading sh mob simply because it's not even a puss akin the Torah at all but Baruch shame we are told was a praise that Moshe Rabbeinu stole from the melaka mention I am when he was up there and we say it quietly because we don't want to get them along I'm angry that we took their Sheva but on Yom Kippur we are on the level of my luckily assurance and therefore we can say Barack shame throw it out loud and it's really quite amazing how fast the transition occurs because you end the ELA with shouting out rubbish shame kavod mouth who so the ol humble had three times and then the cousin says the kada shell game at the end of the Eva and then the chauffeur is blown and then a few seconds later we start the weekday my roof just less than five minutes after Neela and already for shame we have to say quietly we've already lost a tremendous moderator by entering the world it's a very very stark contrast that the game immediately has to be silent by the way just as a little aside it's interesting that the Aramaic of the cottage the most important part of cabbage is the response yehey sh'mey raba Nevarez the Allah alone male Maya may God's great name be blessed for all eternity hey sh'mey raba and the gomorian fact tells us anyone that answers a haitian miraba book all coho with all of his strength even if there was an evil decreed that I Shem had imposed on the person that seventy years old already this can rip up evil decrees now there's a maha locus does macoco mean call cabinet oh all of his intention or does it literally mean he should scream it as loud as he can screamin if you ever want to tell the siren or whatever there are people who scream yehey sh'mey raba mmm-hmm but be it as it may it's been pointed out very fast points yehey sh'mey raba is actually a very very close a Romaic translation to Burroughs shame kavod mouthful so the Obama budget what does Berger think about meaning may the name of his glorious Majesty be blessed forever you hate sh'mey raba Mubarak will yellow mommy oh my so it's fascinating but rough shame kavod Malu so we have to say silently the HT miraba there's actually an imperative or at least an encouraging to say about ah yes so it's brought down like this it's brought down that my luck see how I race don't understand Aramaic so consequently when we do it never make it we can even do it out loud the whole year they do understand cheaper therefore we have to do it silently okay so that's not part of Chaumont but we put it in because this is a great great praise and a deep praise that mojo Rubino brought down from the Angels there's another metric that says Yaakov Avena introduced boroughs shame when he was blessing his sons it's the different interpretation there's the Moshe origin and there's the Yaakov origin okay but then we begin in earnest and we say the your half days is a sham a looking on you shall love Hashem your God call the bubble car with all of your heart Google halt nap Chaka with all of your soul Bahama Odessa with all of your might so we have three terms in this puzzle book not let's just look at what the one theory terms means Rashi points out Live Love vaca that double-bass LaBeouf as opposed to betroth Abeka implies you have to love Hashem with the two faculties of your hearts you must love Hashem with all of your inclinations love Hashem with the acer toes and love Hashem with the y8 sir around the Schnee it's a river how do you love Hashem with the eighth circle around the 8th server ah is that part of a person that rebels that rejects how do you take that negative force and love Hashem with the answer horribly Sinead Sorella so there are different interpretations one interpretation is you love Hashem by conquering your Yeats or her kind of not really living a show with the eight cell reference others understanding this way this is really a much deeper idea that although quite literally a Sahara means the evil inflammation in some deeper sense it is not intrinsically evil it just has the potential for evil the eight Sahara is the drive within the human being to be assertive to be creative to be to take to take initiative meaning the a certo is essentially the submissive aspect of God that is Movado himself to a cottage border the a Sahara is what we might call the egotistic element of a human being so it's called rah because that ego could be very very dangerous could lead to arrogance and divert but on the other hand it can also be the source of much good in the world it can be the source of creativity innovation initiative because the HR talk was essentially passively a Cheeto looks at the world and says whatever God is fine with me now that could mean for example I'm not gonna try to conquer disease because if God didn't want people to have polio then you know they wouldn't have gotten sick so the truth of the matter is much in the world needs a Yates or Hara to be able to create and to innovate so consequently if you understand the in Sahara not as evil internment but that's something that is dangerous that has to be harnessed and utilized in a positive way then indeed it's quite implausible to say I serve God not only with my submissiveness but I serve God with my creativity in my ego by taking my talents and my abilities and channeling them in productive and good directions it's an interesting idea that a human being needs a certain amount of ego in order to accomplish in the world because a pure Yates or Taub is a very passive type of entity humankind needs the Eternity this is really emerges from the ZOA which talks about the positive role of what we would describe as the answer all right so that's because above but calling Africa is simply a reference to the idea that although most of the time the Torah says I don't have to give up my life and I'm not allowed to give up my life there's my danger I violate the Torah but there are going to be a few cases where a person must be willing to even die before he violates the Torah and the classic example would be the three the big three idolatry Akili arroyos she need to stop him feel ooh ooh no tell a snap Sheva you'll remember whenever be Akiva was being tortured to death his flesh was being flayed with iron hooks and they saw meet him were just looking and they said how could this be how could this be the reward for a person of your greatness and your righteousness and your toe room and rebbi akiva said in his final moments that all of his life he was yearning to fulfill the mitzvot of giving his life for us yet and now he has this opportunity he said he is not dying with sadness he is dying with joy that could give God this final sacrifice like an interesting story they tell you may have heard of the Garrett said that go Velma this was at the time of the Velma gone he was this was the son of the richest nobleman in Poland Valentin pototsky and this person became a guarantee lived in hiding because converting to Judaism from the Catholic Church was a capital crime in Poland 18th century but he was finally apprehended and he was burnt at the stake in the Vilna in the late 1700s and the girl McGann asked him would you like me to free you through miracles through capitalistic incantations and he asked of a Madonna question am i how logically obligated to use to invoke miracles to be released and the Roman consist no you're not electrically amputated because the tour only requires that you use natural needs so he said if I am NOT how logically obligated I would rather die okay Bishop if I'm a luckily obligated to save my life then I'll do so then he has to gonna go on another shilin when him being led to the place where I'm gonna be burns should I walk quickly or run or should I walk slowly what are they she cool in this was this a bucket problem on one hand when you're doing a mitzvah such as giving your life for God Zuri's in Nakajima my mitzvahs when you do a mitzvah you do so with enthusiasm and alacrity on the other hand there's a mitzvah to preserve your life as long as possible so if I could stay alive another minute by walking more slowly perhaps I should do something so here and this probably didn't happen very often the only God says he doesn't know and he has to think about it he says he wasn't sure how you weigh the different possibilities but it was recorded that as Valentin Petoskey was being Robin McGraw when he was being led to his death he passed by the villa he was passed by the Vilna girl's house the villa McGann stuck out his head and says you should run and people didn't know what that was but this was part of that all right so that's the second one you must give your life now the third one is you must give a shambo death on all of your lights lights what does mites refer to them so Rashi brings two interpretations one is all of your money then even if you must give up all of your material possessions in order to serve God you have to be willing to live a life of poverty if necessary she then raises the question this is the harvest superfluous if you even have to give up your life then obviously you would have to give up the lesser aspect of your money why is there a need to say give up your money if you have to give up your life from the Gemara Rashi says for some people their money is more valuable than their life they might be willing to die but they wouldn't be willing to live in what do you want even understand that in the wake of poverty might be many many years and of course if you're an older person you remember the Jack Benny a joke a very very famous classic goes all the way back to the radio no Jack Benny was a Jewish guy Jack Benny was actually quite generous but one of the personas that he adopted it if this character was that he was a great miser so and this was in the radio in the 1930s before there was even television that he's being held up in Central Park by a mugger or the lover used that line your money or your life and there was a 30 second pot switch in radio is huge 30 seconds of nothing and Jack Benny said I'm thinking about it I'm thinking about it so this is exactly what Rashi says Yeats laqad some people Momoa know of it I love me too I listen every year people commit suicide so their families will get life insurance and that's why life insurance policies commonly have a forfeiture for suicides because otherwise more people would do it the way it is now people try to get away with it by disguising the suicide it's a wonderful life great wasn't that the start he wants you to commit suicide too so his family would have some some money okay whatever all right so same way people can disguise murder I mean there are things you can you know a person could take something that might give them a heart attack that might not be so detectable in the blood screams me mind are there ways that one could either kill somebody else or kill oneself in a way that'll be a little harder to your ten-year contestability what it's only 2-year contested first two years of the insurance meaning what if they don't contend they have a right to contest did you take your own life do you otherwise otherwise they have to pay up to two years yeah oh that's it that's interesting I'm sure they're pretty vigilance in trying to figure it out okay all right so those are the three now here's the question so we have these three things these three very beautiful standards all of your heart all of your soul all of your money now racking is a second shot that my own possessions money when it comes from mita that dad shows you different things whether again it goes back to the first thing we talked about there was Rackham em there's din you love a chef matter what Hashem puts in your life so Raffy has to be shot them no chakras either my mantra or Bacall meetha meetha should be Mogae whatever I shall give you whether it's good or bad one accepts it with okay now when we flip over to volumes Shamala we only incorporate two out of those three ready Leo doh you shall worship Hashem but call the fabric em with all of your heart Luva call noxious hem and with all of your soul but it does not include the call my open so it's interesting why does my I'm Samoa only pick up the first two and does not pick up the third that's the second paragraph of like the one that is in purchase hmm now another question is that grammatically the parsha the aha study session look at me you shall wash em is of course written blush on yogurt it is written in the singular via lobster in volumes schemata shmoo if you listen to my Commandments now in English you can't tell the difference because you second person you is the same in singular plural but in Hebrew it's certainly very different so I am mo t sh ma o elements beside Lully of Darwin you shall serve Hashem but all of abou Evan with all of your art who behold enough ship em with all of your soul that's polish shine rabbit that's plural not blushing yatta so there are two discrepancies between the first partial smile and the second part Sushma the first parsha is lush young young kids the second is Russia a bit in the first partial smile we mentioned but called the valve a shock the call enough chiffon it will call my car in the second partial smile we just mentioned but call llevaba Kem overhaul knock em in the plural but we don't mention but called my descent right so why do we have these two differences so there is an explanation from the Vilna Gaon that says that's really quite intriguing and he starts off this way as you continue in bajhang Shamala what does a sham say you can keep my Commandments I will give you rain I will give you blessing and it says be a softer Deaconess ha and you will gather your grain and your oil and your life so she will give you agricultural fertility blessing so there's an interesting my locusts again in my sessions Brussels between robbing rabbi ishmael and Rob on Shimon bar Yohai wrap each mile says hey if the Torah says you can keep our shams Commandments you will get the blessing of gathering your grain that implies you're allowed to gather your grain you're allowed to have a partner so you're allowed to engage in economic activity in other words I don't say it's Beatle Torah that the Torah wants you to engage in productive occupations this is rubbish model again leads to an American this sounds like a sensible proposition I shouldn't say marrying or at least to a non marriages shell person this sounds like a sensible proposition that it's a good thing to try to make a living again after being here eight years okay the idea gets more and more bizarre to me but but nevertheless this is what Remy shmeil says her name ahem men up directorates that Asham wants us to be involved in the world and to engage in productive economic Enterprise that sounds very sensible interestingly enough rebbi shimon bar yohai question is that very premise he says are you kidding me worked in pharma fields how could that be a person is gonna plow when it's time to plow and plant when it's time to plant and harvest when it's time to harvest how is he gonna learn how is gonna come close to us yet so rebbi shimon bar yohai adopts the very extreme position that's a parcel you will gather your grain is referring to Jews who are not truly living in accordance with God's will now ptosis asked right off the bat how could that possible the prusik says if you listen to my Commandments I will bless you when you won't gather grain how can you say that's talking about people who are not obeying God so he doesn't matter they're obeying God but they're not living at the highest level he says if they truly would live at the highest spiritual level they would not have to be involved in this world at all the money for the grain would come to their door they would get mana from heaven other people would take care of them indeed Rev Shimon bar Yochai he knows of what he speaks because for the 12 years he was in a cave hiding from the Romans there were trees bearing fruit that miraculously sprang up around where he was he had a spring of fresh water the birds brought him meat although I'm not sure what that sucker there was let's go play the courageous that's gotta so he basically said hmm I don't know what the big deal is it worked for me I couldn't afford who gave me a miraculous print us it can work for everybody now the kebab goes on and says the following many people followed the path of Rebbe Ishmael combining Torah study with making a living and a sham bless them Hashem gave them the wherewithal to be able to take care of their families and they also grew in their totally many people tried to take the path of rebbi shimon bar yohai and unfortunately it did not work for them they were starved they're starving they could not take care of themselves so the Gemara seems to indicate just the Gemara that rubbish miles pathway is the preferred pathway but the film of God does have a certain deal cure and this actually will feed into contemporary culture the Vilna GaN says the Gemara does not simply say better to follow rabbi ishmael the guar says many followed Rebbe ishmael and they were blessed and many followed rebbi shimon bar yochai and they were not blessed so the Vilna god says the kamar is indicating that Rebbe a smile is the pathway for the many for the average person for the majority of people but in every generation there are you see days ago there are individual special nationals who are expected to live at a higher level of faith and this higher level of faith means they're willing to give up their connection to the material pleasures of this world and have their prognostic um even in a poverty way now again I want to point out I understand that immediately people will figure out this is the idea of color I mean the truth of matter is when single boys negotiate to get whatever it is to get a hundred thousand dollars a year over ten years this is not living with the means of rubbish in membre that is simply another type of business transaction which you know may be justified or it may be disgusting depending on your philosophy but this is not what the kymaro is talking about the Gemara talked when the bill McGowan says there are you see them who has Shem --ax are so holy and so elevated that they are expected to live at the level of repression Berger hi we're talking about people who are so devoted and so connected and so in love with Hashem Hashem stoah that they are willing they and their families are willing to live even in abject poverty so that's the big question that's the big question and they're in Israel apparently a judgment was made in the trading world that everybody is special I don't know if you remember well well well part of it might be by pronunciation kamidana might be renouncing by renouncing in fact well come too you know I don't know why I'm bringing up secular memories tonight but there was a show radio show on NPR I think Americans would know this in the 70s and 80s but Lake Wobegon it was it was a show about a fictional town in Minnesota so the beginning of the show that's why you never even heard the show but I remember just remember reading this line in our town all the children are above average we're very special so it's like everybody is the meat that is reprimand by yokai even though big Morrison's throw me a small group of people everybody is remember you okay now be it as it may though be it as it may the brisker Rob says with this comment of the Vilna Gaon that there's a distinction between the masses and the unique individual he wants to answer what would otherwise be a very very difficult question the last Mishnah in condition has a statement of Rabbi Meir Rebbe mayor says Leo lung Allah made Adam asthma no who knows Nakia vittala a father or a parent generally has an obligation to train his son or his child in a profession usually it were less as a family business usually that means dad pays for the tuitions for to be trained in some type of job you gotta train your child part of your inner part of your educational responsibilities towards your child is not only in Torah and mitzvot but to give your child the wherewithal to be able to make a living so Rebbe mayor seems to be parallel to Rebbe ish one a little later on in the same mission of just a few lines down there's a coachman from a rabbi ahoy who says all that'll be the question grabbing the Rye says mania honey calm the Shiva Ola I would ignore I would forget all professions I'm not gonna bother to teach my son in profession ami Allah made us Bini or by my Allah Torah I will only teach my son Torah so that seems to be rebbi shimon bar yohai so the pastas if you simply burn finish now I would say Rebbe Mayer follows rubbish miles for you and Robbie new running follows rebbi shimon bar you're crazy but here's the big problem the Gemara in arrogance says Rebbe know why and Rabbi Meir are exactly the same person in fact Meir in Hebrew to illuminate now Hirai in Aramaic is to Allah as illumination so now you got a problem what is revenuers view and wine and he says parents much he must teach his child some type of occupation for economic self-sufficiency and then the same person says I would teach my son money total but the Brits Karev says if you understand that the Vilma God's idea that for most people the practice is rubbish mild but for your feed a school ah it is rubbish remember your high so now compare the two wordings of it in the first part Rebbe mayor is giving a general rule you'll mermaids Adam Espen oh the second part is a specific reference to his own particular children that he saw that they were on a certain McGregor where they could live with the media of rebbi shimon bar yohai a meme obamaís that's been me Alabama I'm just wondering you might speculate you know the governor brockless gives us a story remember of America's married to a very wise and learning woman Rorion and one of the stories about Berea was that revi mayor's two children died they passed away and we're Beier came home and Maria had to find a way to break the news to him she discovered them first and she gave a famous muscle she said you know there was a man that gave me two precious jewels to watch just to watch for a while and then he came back to claim the jewels after the passage of time but I really love the jewels so I have to give them back to him and Rebbie mayor says of course you have to give back the jewels they're not our property we have to give it back to the owner so brewery Asad Hashem gave us two precious jewels to watch now he wanted them back so it's interesting that it could be those very sons that grabbed mayor said he would only teach Torah they were the ones that died okay so this is how the brisker Rev reconciles the two contradictory statements of Rebbe Amira revenue right now based on all of this introduction we can now go back to the discrepancy in schwa the first discrepancy between the two paragraphs is paragraph 1 is bullish on you kid paragraph 2 is bullish own rabbit so here's what the bill McGann suggested though it does suggest that a paragraph that is written bullish on your kids perhaps is articulating a standard that only applies to unique individuals a paragraph that is written below shown Robin is a paragraph that applies to everybody based on this therefore here's the concept when the Taira says you must love God with all of your heart with all of your soul and with all of your money let's go with the first side of Raja one interpretation might mean that you love God by renouncing your connection to the economic activities of the world that generate income but that is the meda of rebbi shimon bar yohai and that only applies to the yaqut not the robbing because the robbing is supposed to follow the meter of Rebbe ishmael so only the yahud is called upon to be manitech himself from economic activity but the second paragraph of the Shema which is written below shine robbing the militia rabbim applies to everybody when it applies to everybody you cannot say you must be the not tech yourself from economic activity what happen most people are supposed to follow the pathway of Rebbe ishmael to be involved in making a living in a productive way and that is why it leaves out you still must love Hashem with all of your heart and with all of your soul but the obligation of being might not take yourself from involvement and economic activity does not apply to the robbing because the robbing is supposed to follow the media of rabbi ishmael and so based on that skill look we can see why the first partial which is pollution yaki mentions become out there huh the second partial which is pollution Robin does not mention bacall mode them because the second partial is the media of rubbish mo again it's an interesting issue and what are the repercussions for kollel are a little bit complex because one might say that kollel is not really rebbi shimon bar yohai is when a person simply say I'm not making a plan at all God will take care of me I mean most people will recall though they do have some economic plan one way or the other so as a result one could say that even Rebbe a smile would not have a problem with it but there are other memorials all that create issues but it could very well be you see where Shimon bar Yohai is a very extreme view it's an extreme view that you do not find even among people learning in Como that is I'm not making any status I'm not making any plan I'm not doing any budget I will have B talk on every single month without any planning that Hashem is going to give me my friend I said that's a very extreme view and even among the Colwell of people it is not common so as a result it could very well be that the debate between Rebbe Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai is not directly relevant to the issue of of Cola as they say there are other America's own such as your ventilatory and derech Eretz that learning of tourists should be combined with derech Eretz which one of the interpretations is economic activity that could be a strong argument against the long-term kollel and the Rambam as well has many many statements but as I say it may not be directly connected to the Rebbe a smile rebbi shimon bar yohai type of argument okay and I wanted to just connect something a little unrelated but somewhat connected that is in partial sake of we also have the midst of beer cots Amazon right the Torah says when a ship will bless us the Alta you will eat from the produce of the land's Vasavada and you will be satisfied with a rafter and you will bless Hashem Allah etc for the good land that he has given you and this is the source of the den of Birkat Hamazon burgers Amazon has many different brothels and the different brokers came in at different times but the overall idea that I must bless Hashem after I eat is a tour commitment now it's worthwhile to contemplate this the brother that we make before we eat is rabbinic the Torah does not require a brush up before you eat but the Torah does require a broker after you eat broccoli Shona is Mitra bunun be ricotta matzah at least something is Minato now there's another process well we have exactly the opposite pattern blessings over the learning of Torah according to Ron bond the obligation to bless hussion before we learn Torah is actually a mitzvah in the Torah itself where does the Torah say that so the Rambam says it is actually the 613 mitzvot of the Torah and purchases Ino which is the next of the last part in the Torah there's a verse that is actually recited before shmona at Mensa key Seamus shemekka Moshe says when I call out the name of God Harv oh godö you shall ascribe greatness they'll attainable to our God so the ROM bond says the meaning of that classic is when I teach you the words of God which October you must describe greatness you must bless him before you berto it now the there is no blessing after we learn Torah normally except when the Torah is read and that clearly is a rabbinic law so the measure Kozma conjures the following dichotomy or inconsistency how come when it comes to food the blessing after you eat is more important than the blessing before you eat because the blessing after you eat is a total requirement the blessing before you eat this made Ravana and K much later when it comes to Lima totora the opposite is the case you must bless a chef before you learn and after you learn there's no chief to say brother Adel right so food and Torah work the opposite way where by food we emphasize the after blessing and with Torah we emphasize only the before blessing why is there that difference so the metric achma says the following what is the purpose of a brother generally the purpose of a bracha is to sensitize us to feelings of gratitude and appreciation for the kindness that a Shem has shown us but it inculcates the meat of job of appreciation of gratitude a caress a toast so here's what he says under tour love when a person is hungry or thirsty he doesn't have to make a brother because the gratitude is natural and instinctual I'm talking about from the tories perspective that is if I'm coming out of a hot summer day and I have a glass of water or juice whatever it would be I instinctively think of thank God for position so there's no need to concretize a ritualistic brother this is Minotaur on things before you eat because when you're in a state of hunger need and dependency the gratitude is so natural that it doesn't have to be legislated mandated or inculcated what happens after you eat and you're satisfied although you would think you should even be more grateful the Torah itself warns us that when we are filled and sad finally forget assumed by ish man against my yes man you sure it Israel gets big and fat and satiated value but and they reject guy we don't need a show anymore once ad I don't need a show anymore I'm fine so the Tyra says hey now that you're satisfied now that you no longer feel needy now that you no longer feel dependence of subservience remember where this came from thank gosh now what happened was eventually we became so ungrateful than even before we eat we have to make a brother right that's your reason sedullus but originally the concept was when I'm in the state of need gratitude is so natural it doesn't have to be concretize as a mandatory ritual with Torah learning the mayor simply suggests that the opposite is the case before a person learns he doesn't always appreciate that Torah is such a wonderful sweet thing I'd rather do other things I'd rather sleep longer I'd rather read the paper I'd rather linger at breakfast or watch the sports game meaning I don't naturally appreciate them so I have to make a beer class a Torah every morning to fill my heart with gratitude for what Hashem has given me but he says after you learn the gratitude is instinctual because after you learn and you taste the sweetness of Toa you don't have to say thank you meaning the same way that before I eat my need makes me grateful after I learned my learning makes me grateful I don't need to concretize it with a ritual now a person might say well that doesn't work for me I learned to read I don't feel that happy about it afterwards I didn't even enjoy it that much so it can happen certainly even on tissue but wait what do we say not allowed to wear it so roundish above because TOA gives me such joy I can't have joy aunt Isabelle well question is what if you know that's not the way I feel I mean I'm and I've become a good Jew I try to keep the mitzvahs but I don't enjoy it so much so yes I understand sometimes halakhah tries to show us what the ideal person would be in other words it's not necessarily reflecting my imperfect reality it's basically telling you when you learn you should be so overjoyed with the sweetness that the gratitude is instinctual ah you're not there yet we're not there yet okay that's something to work on but in other words the Torah is addressing the ideal of how things should be rather than the reality of how things actually are it's holding up a certain ideal of how a human being should should respond okay but being as it made therefore mr. Kirkham says that the concept of bierko's Ettore before you learn is to give you a gratitude that would not automatically be instinctual before you've connected to the Torah after you learn the gratitude is min MELAS the mela means it's automatic it is there without the need to protector in the form of a of a ritual PSSs Gemma we should be soca to always feel that sweetness of the Turan again let me remind you in burkas Ettore itself it's very very fascinating ii Brucker which is actually the second half or the first brother is we asked a Shem hi Rena we asked a chef to make the Torah sweet it's a very unusual request normally you know we do a mitzvah but here it's not enough to do a mitzvah you ask Hashem make it sweet make it pleasurable make it enjoyable because that is part of how a person is connected to the Torah if I could this Borgo that is wife as I'll say even when choosing what to learn a person should choose to learn those things that they enjoy that's not Sholay bow carpets now eventually we have to try to learn everything we have to learn things you don't enjoy as well but ones emphasis should be on those things that give them pleasure because when you have pleasure to it with something you're more connected to it it stays in your mind it enters your heart and it motivates you that's a lot in fact we have the famous statement of emotion finding that the old Yiddish saying she shared society it it is hard to be a Jew but Moshe finds didn't maybe with some exaggeration so my purply said that that actually resulted in a whole lost generation of American Jews in the post-world War one era because when people came from Europe at the beginning of the 20th century to the United States and many of them were religious but they had a very hard life there was no protection for shomer Shabbos people you didn't go to work on Saturday you'd have to find a new job on Monday conditions were awful there was poverty and and the light and the overall attitude was that Judaism is very hard and very onerous and then when you have a new generation of people who are born in a free society they wonder why do I have to suffer so a Feinstein said the negativity of even very religious people was something that really destroyed a whole generation now again one cannot judge them because indeed they had a lot to complain about a lot to be negative about but romo she said the only scene out that will keep people Jewish is a Phoenix that emphasizes the joy and the privilege of serving a college Bordeaux and when there is that simpler that will keep people in there are photos they are good week [Music]