The Russian Without Circumcision - Understanding the 4th Blessing Shemoneh Esrei Prayer #5

There was this Russian math professor Jewish made aliyah to Arisim never had the chance to have a nilah he was married unfortunately to a non-Jewish woman there was a kal guy living in that join a shir not knowing that he didn't have married to gorita so that person was sitting in a shar given by a colo person that call asked The guy is nois married to go am I supposed to have him in he asked the question to meaning the story is not from that long ago was nicked I think eight years ago so this is a rather current story and told him yes this guy should be in Shir and teach in Shia you should be teaching the sugia of the the per kazov inves with a say mathematically minded per it's about money changing exchanging it's not about even a person very remote from Judaism yeah especially if it's a mass professor or the other people there can relate to that very analytical kind of mindsets of Ericovv so it went somehow okay then they got to a very difficult sugia called the sugia of Tagare Lord Tagare Lord is known to be a difficult sugia whenever he tag lord I'm like oh Lo yeah that's lo it mathematical is hard but fraction and um the started teaching magur started teaching that uh in class that suga and the guy the math professor the was sure that the math professor will be very into it it's all mathematical and logical that professor could not understand one word time and again and again and again he just did not as we say He nice part Hebrew he didn't right he didn't and uh which was surprising because even as even a gentle person would understand that it's not a tomb of the ord it's all there mathematical and it wouldn't and he went to that professor heard that the very good not the one yeah would learn all night long and and he got teacher taught him nothing couldn't yet nothing came in as as you guys know today we're going to learn about so then the professor decided somehow to uh have a brism she said I'm going to do brisma he had brism done he was very spiritually ready the following week he had brisan recircumcised and obviously wasn't feeling well because of the he did not tell his magir his he did not tell him about him doing the brill I'm not feeling well I'm home would you mind coming to my house to teach me the gave it one more chance and again he came to his house and taught in he everything so well after having brisa that Russian math professor not only he understood it he started learning it together he asked good valid questions with the caller guy so from zero level of understanding he got to a high level of understanding was obviously a very uh high level uh uh person very intelligent person and he really understood the suga to the level of actually mkhadesh and saying novel ideas in the suga they went to in benra and deaf Russian professor said his tickle his kind of essay and how the prior of Finland and Gador and they were talking about it and then told him you had brism done right and Russian person said how did you know that he said a person with no brisma would not understand tag lo so welcome to our tilir yeah it's going to get even more interesting we have more stories we have more stories the next story is about Trump But you know from Russia to America yeah we're moving all over the globe but right now we're going to concentrate on the fourth of the so this is the fourth but the first that has to do with basically the petition asking yeah demanding or asking pleading from Hashem. Yeah, we are now at the cost of the second segment of this set of are all about asking from we want wisdom. We want tshoua. We want to accept that. We want Hashem to give us wealth and health. Yeah. And the first one is asking for or wisdom, intelligence. And the questions are many. Before we even read and translate and explain the braha, we have to understand why is this braha the one which is juxtaposed to kadusha. The gumar in migila. By the way, this is something we all has to know since we're dealing with of there's a whole in easy to remember right that's the trick that that's the trick to make soar explained why each follows the other what the consecutive order and the says you know why kadusha is follows by d bring down from the said this is a good prophecy at the end of the are good or prophecy are very and at the end of said they will admire Hashem and they will be makdish hashem people will have ceiling of kusha remember what we said last week kusha mean connecting to hashem in a very unique spiritual way and you know it's going to happen the next the next tells us they were rendering in their mind their minds were in the wrong way people of wrong hashkus this is 99% of the world basically people are not in the right mindset they will learn to properly is the one who complain is The neg is the one that whining and whining with an ace. Yeah. The one who's not happy and in in terms is the one who does not want to accept the truth. The one who refuses to learn. The one who doesn't want really he has this blockage from learning k has this either anti or not feeling connected to tora. Sadly so many people that's the connecting you want to be connected to tora. Kadus Shaka first. Hence the story that we started off with Brisma Mila. What's brisma? It's not just about Jewish identity because obviously a very big thing. Bris Miller presents kadusha. Yeah. There's a reason why brisma is done in britila not in your nose or your ears but talked about it because really it's about kadusa when a person has kadusha and by the way he divorced this go soon after that. Yeah that that guy that's the real happy end. Yeah they got divorced very quickly. Once it was brisma was in his path to kadusha because when he calls you about the kahona damas it's not like it's not about learning math and learning science and learning biology and physiology and uh nano technology or whatever. I don't know what these things even need to be honest with you. Some of them I do, some I don't. I hope I'm not shocking you. But basically the idea is when you know what we have brains for? We Jewish men. Yeah. Jewish men have brains for one purpose only in order to learn Torah. You also had to learn sometimes other things or no other things like your bank account number or to live in Israel. But this is like saying, you know, why did they buy a fridge in order to put the magnets on the fridge? That's ridiculous. Every good Jewish home has about 500 magnets on the fridge, right? But that's not why you bought the fridge. Hopefully, whatever. Unless it's crazy. But yeah, your grains is for Torah. for Torah, for knowledge of Hashem, to connect with Hashem. That's the reason why Hashem put those grace cells over here for Jewish people. Okay? And the other purposes are very minor, very marginal. Now, when we want to be connected to Hashem, that is not just knowledge. That is connection. Connecting to Hashem through Torah, through tora, which is what we're dabbing about, start with kadusha. You can't do a vert. You can't be immersed in sin with no interest to even change from your sinful ways and you know lie down on the beat with a with a tome of tomorrow and say I want to understand this you'll understand is wrong or superficial or not at all. So there's preceding that's about the order. Now another question similar to the first one but a bit different. Let's discern with our dots. Why is this the fir besides the connection to fusha when we have a whole furious of bakash a whole fears of we have a shopping list over here. Yeah, we need truva. We need spiritual thing. We want to be close to Hashem. We want help to serve Hashem. We need money. We need these are all very good spiritual thing. So why is the first thing that why is the first one of the entire list? Why is the head of the list data knowledge and intelligence? I'm reading inside. I copied and pasted from the T. Yeah. you know, out of the tour himself being a halifer is also apparently a hashkafer and the tour first of all starts with a very interesting uh fun fact about this and he says I'm reading inside that is 17 word which are exactly the same amount of letter of word in the speaking about Hashem granting that to the people who built the Mishkan. And that says, "Yeah, speak to all those who have wisdom in heart. I filled them with the spirit of spirit of wisdom and they will create the garments of which means this puk and the braha have the exact same amount of word. Obviously not by chance as the tour. It's about Hashem granting us the continues the tour. I didn't yet answer the question. Now why is this the first what's the difference between human beings and animals? Animals have very very limited amount of intelligence. Yeah. They have a little bit and human beings who are real human beings. Yeah. Really maximize the potential. We have and which animals don't. That's why the first one because it's most essential thing the most essential aspects of human life is that you can be very rich measure yourself a very wealthy person. We know as as as from people the wealth is not the most important thing. But even if you speak to a very maturistic guy and you tell that person, you know, let's say they give you $10 million tomorrow. Oh, for sure. You're going to win 10 million tomorrow be in the lottery. But you know what? They're going to take away your brain. Of course, they won't agree, right? Obviously not. You won't be able to even enjoy the money. He's not going to have brain. Literally brain dead. Obviously not. No. And then continues the the tour. If there's no knowledge, there's no doubing. Yeah. We're about to ask Hashem for A B CDE E. Yeah. What are you asking for? The motor, the the the the cat the catalyst for davening is knowledge. You have to know what to Daven for. You have to know how to daven. And then he continues more and he says Shabbat. This is also the place fordah. Makes sense. Why? Because this is the first that differentiates between Shabas and Shabbat. You don't have these kind of on you do. Oh, so and that are connected. Yeah. Is a famous line. If you don't know how to if you don't have knowledge, you don't know how to discern. Yeah. The more you know how to differentiate. Yeah. Musicians know to differentiate between very similar sounds. Scientists can differentiate between things which I have no idea about. Right. The microscopic thing. the more you know to differentiate meim can differentiate between very very similar texts of the and the rashbah and many people would think the saying the same and the I learned we learned how to discern between very similar text of the bigger expert you are the more you know how to discern between and differentiate so therefore these reasons of being the main part of the human being the to discern to be that's the most powerful essential thing that a human being needs says I'm quoting say when you say this be excited be enthusiastic wake up the is the basic the most fundamental thing for everything else the basis for everything is that the says in the says that quoting a puk the puk which we're going to read in a few weeks time the puk says in unfortunately the at the end of right in in it says you'll be in a situation of you'll be hungry thirsty naked and missing everything. The obvious question of the is what do you mean? If you're if you have no food, no liquid, no clove, and you'll be missing everything. What else is there to miss? You don't have food, clove, and and and drinks, you're missing what? An Italian jacuzzi or your Lamborghini? Is that what you What is that? What's that X in the formula that we're missing? The GMA brings all kinds of explanations. Quite a few maybe furniture. The gumaras include that. The person may be poor, the person may be hungry. If he has doubt, intelligence, connection to Hashem, yeah, knowing how to manage, how to have resilience, that's everything. Even in the worst situation in the Holocaust, people had belief, people had da people learned. My own father, I want to say this little my father was it is a child. I'm happy that it came to my mind right now. I wasn't in the fling to say this. The father was a child, his small child at the age of 9, 10, 11 in Bergen Belin and he learned Mishnay. He learned Mishn was crazy hungry beside other things that were going on in this uh horrible place in Burgund and he was in touch with the Bj one of the big doll in the Holocaust and he taught him my father the father was very very very amnestic person. My father was a kindness person who never exaggerated. It was very yakis and very like uh he wouldn't tell us anything that was that was that wasn't true. So I know the father was was right. So that's it. So you you don't have anything but if you have that the same puk in the yeah the d kab if you have that you have everything. If you don't have that you have nothing. Yeah. And here let's so first of all spiritually speaking of course that is everything. But even if you're very materialistic and I'm sad to say that sometimes you speak to for people and they're asking I'm asking them what what what do you care about money? You want to be a millionaire. Okay, even if you want to be a millionaire, you should still realize that Dutch is everything. I just saw a video from Vay about uh the glorious Donald Trump and uh he was years ago he was in very very deep debt. Yeah, he was in he was in debt. It was actually in uh in the red like uh for him that's a lot. I'm saying he owed I don't know millions of dollars and it was on his way to a meeting uh him and his wife one of his wife. Yeah. Him and the current wife of them. So they passed by a beggar and he told her you know this guy is richer than me. He's the million dollar or 10 million or whatever richer than me cuz he's probably in a zero. Yeah. And I'm in a debt. But obviously people would still prefer being Trump and not being that person. Why? That beggar and I'm talking very secular term. That beggar doesn't know how to make money. Was a guy living in the street eating up the garbage cans of of New York. Yeah. So he doesn't have the that dot the resilience the the whatever the put the guardness. He didn't have or the the business sense to make money. Trump with all this Trump knew how to make money and as we all know he got out of the debt. Sadat is the way to manage even in physical terms, even in business terms. Sadat is everything for sure when it comes to Torah, but even in the world of materialism. And that's why this is the first bakasha that we have. Okay, now it's time to start with the text. Oh, let's start with the first line. And here we're already going to meet a surprise or whichever one you prefer. I believe by the way people don't people ask me after watching my videos still very much with all my party friends over here we're in this party you grant you give you give as a gift you gift people with knowledge yeah you graciously bestow I love the translation you bestow graciously You give people knowledge. We're going to discuss it later. What's we're starting off by praising Hashem for being the one who give people knowledge of different types question asked by the rushing. Wait a second. I thought we are done with praising Hashem. Praising Hashem to no end. But the first three are to do with praising Hashem. Now is money time. Now is shopping list. Now we should say give us and by the way now by the way this is the only from the middle section of that begins with a praise meaning. Yeah. I challenge you look at any other it doesn't begin with Yeah. or those come at the end. It's the first and only that begins with us stating instead of asking. You are the one who grant people the knowledge. Yeah. Why? That's the question asked by many says the Bach says because it connected to the previous of says the he says I'd like to quote he says um one follows the other because that's why is I don't know what he means but I think he talks about the Russian professor Or he talks about the bouva that become pure and then get so much more knowledge because hashem is kadosh that's why we continue and say you're so holy from your holiness from your comed I'd like to offer not arguing with there are many other explanations this tour by the way is much more well researched than the one before yeah I looked in old mccroin tide I'd like to say my own report with your permission but it's kind of on the same wavelength of many contemporary uh I want to ask you a question quiz time I want to make it interesting stories Trump what about quidd so which international important dignified prizes you know people get don't mention the Oscar we're in sh right now yeah and I really don't know much about it what >> Nobel Prize Hi. Yay. You are we're all in the same dot, same mindset. And so tell me, everybody wants to be every noble human being wants to be healthy, wealthy, right? And smart. Okay. Everyone in are healthy, wealthy, and smart. Of course, even if they're not in their resume, they are. So, is there a Nobel Prize for people who are healthy? Yeah. This guy made it beautiful diet. He gets a Nobel Prize. No. People who are rich. Oh, that's a tricky one. Yeah. Do they get Nobel Prize? They become rich after they get the prize because the prize is a lot of money. What's a Nobel Prize? Was a lot of cover. Yeah. They get the whole orchestra there and the king of Sweden and they have a special lush which is Shates to the F Nobel Prize laurels. They have to deal with it. Yeah. Yeah. It's a very very very fancy ceremony loaded with cover and they get the medal and they get a beautiful book leather bound or something. I don't know exactly. I didn't get a Nobel Prize. I'm not sure why but I never did but I've heard about all these descriptions. So basically yeah Nobel prize is given for what you know better physics chemistry peace. At the end of the day, yeah is something that is very very important for people as we said and is a lot of source. It's a very big source for Ga. I'm sure the people who are who receive the the the prizes they have a lot of you know emotions all mixed up there. I don't think no I don't think humility or humbleness is one of them is a noble prize winner. Yeah. meaning people are it's my money to the people money in the western world and in general actually it's written in money is more detached from a person a person can be I'm sorry for my language a complete idiot I'm sorry cluts and be very rich yeah he's lucky you know his rich uncle from America died so he's rich or I don't know what no social skill does not to dress does not to behave and he's rich so people him People network, you know, that's a new word for flattery. They network with him. They don't really appreciate it. But a smart guy, wow, he's a really smart guy. Yeah, he really the guy has three PhDs that work hard on them and he knows this stuff or who do you appreciate more when you sit down in Lauren if you give an amazing from or the night donor whom we appreciate for the money. I'm being very frank, very honest. Yeah, the is something that is a tremendous source for Ga. We kill that right from the beginning. It's not my we tell I don't even begin to ask for a first to acknowledge to make the switch three times a day. Yeah. If an amazing kid, you're an amazing professor. You're smart. You're street smart. You you're very socially. You know how to manage very well in all the social skills that you have. That's very nice. Scream it to yourself and to Hashem. You are the one who It's beautiful. Why we say why not? Huh? I'm excuse all the nice translations in English. Yeah. What's why not? What's the difference between and I'll tell you what is not I deserve and I get means I don't deserve it. Not only it's not mine. If somebody gives you something for free, you don't deserve it. If I paid for it, I deserve the customer is always right. If I'm not a customer and I didn't pay and whoever still gives it to me, that's around there. Don't give them free gifts to those who are enemies. Yeah. You are giving it. It's all from you and and we're so indebted because you're giving it to us for free. every second, every millisecond human mind works. You know that there's no such thing of the human brain being out of thought and the whole thought process and the brain is something extremely complicated medically speaking and yet you're giving us this free gift again and again and before we even ask you we have to acknowledge that it's not for me. I may be the biggest or the Nobel's prize winner doesn't matter. Oh, continued on the wave on the same wavelength. We should continue to the next piece of the let's compare the two sentences. Let's now we need more uh let's I'd like to maybe have it on the on the wise board but I believe you're smart enough to follow without look at the right you grant that is one way of knowledge the first sentence Hashem is in the second one he's teaches The first sentence a person is described as Adam. The second one is enosh. The first one is about and the other one is about bina. Oh, we're getting into very very deep water here and we only have 10 minutes. So let's maximize our time here. That one section of knowledge is we're getting for free. We're getting a freebie. we get what Hashem teaches us doesn't grant us for free. It teaches us that's even before we talk about the Adam and so now I I had to be very very humble over here because there is a certain concept which my entire life I mean since I started learning I always knew about one thing and now it all switched around apparently how we define in that there are two schools of thought in the show already how to define them I always knew and we're going to get back to that later and that's based on many on the means what is basic information. Yeah. basic information being told or basic uh human understanding that everyone knows or anybody that just being fed information this by the way everyone agrees to leave is to take the information you have and build something you're building it with building blocks and then you get that that is the result that is what's that connection the first para in the Torah and connected they yeah they were attached to each other and that's called is to know and to connect is connection you know the connected the good and the bad so that and then I'm looking and today I I researched a bit better the and some other even earlier and they say otherwise they say no they say the dat That is actually the first piece of information. That is the basic one. That is basic information that almost everybody had. And that's why I can already start explaining the the ever played board game as a child or as a nice involved parent shabus afternoon. Yeah. As a grandfather. So how does every game start? remote games, everybody gets the same amount of cards, same amount of pieces, same amount of soldiers, right? Chest pieces, whatever. Yeah. Oh, is what everybody gets for free. Meaning as a given is some kind of basic intelligence and that's the is a basic intelligence which people get for free. I'm basing myself here. Yeah. And and more. Before I saw I forgot the name of the third one is higher and deeper. You take the dot right and building the dot that that requires more. Yeah. Beside take your basic intelligence and do something with it and try and figure out things. Yeah. Your teaching you take the information and think about it on your way home. Pos is saying how does that connect to other things build the tora inside that's a higher level that's very good that's teaching that's not for free that's that's not the basic that's how you play the game some people play monopoly very good some not so good what do you do those pieces of monopoly and the fake money some people play better some you bon build something and that's this is something that Hashem has to teach you not just basics but it's about that that's teaching that's studying being according to that Adam is lower than Enosh. Adam is a basic human being. He gets that and Enosh is the one higher than him and he gets bina and this is so against whatever I learned the other way around in the go and his but this is one shot. Let's continue to the end the oh I'm really really apologies from this Friday. I also say like you guys but really they say oh I never knew what that means. I never really cared cuz I never say it as a feat to ask consider when they run out of the durian. But what? Oh, we ask grant for free from you. Okay. Again, basic knowledge. Let's build it up. Take the basic words of the and create more and the conclusion is different of is Yeah. means knowledge connected to Hashem says what am I asking people from you means to know in a way that connect you to Hashem that's the epitome that's a climax that's very nice we asked Hashem give us the excuse know they say basic info I know the I know the words of okay what's going on with let's build up yesterday we saw a different to let's see what going on let's build it and we dive into Hashem give us is the way that connects to the many other I don't remember but it was fascinating to see every time when it says in the it means in a good way in a way that's spiritual and connects to Hashem And obviously that's every man's dream to learn to run in such a way that the mascana the conclusion will be wow like a like a missile like a spaceship spiritual hitting all the way up to but okay time yeah is the good old way which I always understood grant us which basic wisdom is the the basic one. Let's build up that according to that school of thought like they go on and his and apparently the Spartim that is the the climate. Yeah. I want to build up from up to and come to that to connect connect what connect all the different pieces. I remember listening to listen to shrimpkasha. Yeah. One rash here, one written, different places in the shas and then wow, everything connects together. It's beautiful in music. Yeah. You have one note, another note. Wow. All the orchestra are playing all together. We spoke about it once, right? It's all connected to one beautiful symphony harmony. That's that. It's everything connecting together and us connecting to Hashem through Tory. But now come the cherry on top. Yeah. And here I think we'll finish actually. Here comes the cherry on top. We said originally, if you notice, there may be a bit of a contradiction in what I said. I said it, not me. The sidor said, not me. The dot, let's assume like the the dot is a basic one. Okay, you give that is everyone gets the same amount of monopoly money, monopoly pieces. Those who know to play very well and those who are freshman, you beginners. Yeah, whatever. But everyone gets fair chance. That's for free. But the second state, no, that's right. They're not for free. I'm a smart guy. I know to play Monopoly very well. I'm I I got a Nobel Prize for Monopoly. Yeah. The other one didn't. Yeah. Okay. And so there there's the difference already. There it's already it's about studying. And yet now what are we saying? Now he's saying again give us for free everything even the second parts that are not the basic information basic knowledge we're also asking Hashem to give us for free it's not a contradiction that's exactly the point and this is the beauty of this bar this is the feeling that have to accomp you never say to Hashem listen Hashem I I imagine a lot of people would say, you know, I I admit that Hashem, God, you know, a goisha person or not such a believing person would say, I believe God granted me with wisdom. Well, I was born gifted by God, but I'm the one who figured out how to, I don't know, build that bomb. I'm the one who figured out that crazy new amazing mathematical formula. That's me. I got the basic info. But who really tagged and worked hard days and nights in yeshiva university over that that's me says the says the sid uhohma every step of the way it's Hashem helping you for free it's not you it'sma every step of the way the basic information the research church which is dinner and which is a result. It's all and that's what we have to ask Hashem every day. And this is what the breastlers are telling us again the beautiful lotion. Wake up and be very aware, very enthusiastic, very with it and dive in hard because that's what you were born for and you're asking Hashem give me for free. I don't deserve it and I can't do this without you. Without your, you know, without the idea of it's from the mouth of the all from hem every step of the way. Yeah. Is all from call it whatever you want. Every step of the way is that Hashem is bestowing upon us. And that's what we have to dive in for with a novel and medashem. Next week we'll see how su get close to hashem aueno.