Women, Talmud & Rabbis' Advice - Rabbi Yaakov Lynn

[Music] now the kind of elephant of the room that nobody's asked that you probably thought about is I'm showing you this patron tomorrow I'm telling you all about what happens in yeshiva and you're asking why doesn't this happen in seminary right new you've been here the song you haven't seen anything looks like this right why don't you learn gamarra right now the answer to that question is that kamara learning Gomorrah a men are obligated to learn guevara women are not obligated so kavars are forbidden but they're not applicative and if you're not obligated then this is not the most efficient way to learn about judaism right that's why what I mean and when I am when I got married so my wife and I can teach over a year right for me to a new Shiva my wife London seminary it's called shadow reshawna it's a great thing to do lots of people do it you get married in just said you know what first year of marriage well let's be away from family stresses let's be away from let's not spend the year that will come up with the other day and i'll talk about my boss and you talk about your boss but let's bend the air that will come home at the end of the day we'll talk about what I learned in yeshiva what you learned in seminary right well haven't I liked it so much we stayed a second year and 14 years later we're still here right but and so when we came home after our first date so I said to my wife said would you learn today so she said well we had a class on prayer only in a class on how free will works and we had a class on you know the cycle of the Jewish year and the rolls the Jewish woman right and I said wow that wasn't that sounds amazing it was inspiring and I would so much information and that's great so what do you learn today I said well we opened up our gamarra and we are studying a very interesting Mishnah about what happens if we have a sheep and the cheap is on our roof right and the Sheep somehow even the way of a railing around the roof falls off the roof and we live on the lake the 10th floor and the roof as its careening to it's horrible Willie death right happens to land in our neighbors tomato patch right which to creates a fully read splattering mess right saving our shapes life by destroying our neighbors tomatoes do we have to pay for the tomatoes all right that's the question in the mission and my rabbi told us we're probably gonna be discussing the cynics you know three or four weeks right so my wife looked at me that's what you're learning in yeshiva live look what I learned today I learned I learned about this topic at that time at this information in that in region you're gonna spend four weeks talking about maybe you should maybe the tomatoes maybe shouldn't be able to Tomatoes maybe you should have to pay for the value of a pillow but not for the devaglia the madness is it a pillow would have been enough to say it's too cheap slight maybe I shouldn't have to pay anything because I did put a fence up there after all right maybe my sheep should help along to my neighbor there are all kinds of possibilities right that's what you're gonna discuss we don't even have a sheep her neighbors don't have to manufacture we don't even have access to a roof right so why are you studying this right what's the ends of that question why would anybody ever study this anybody okay so the answer is that we talked about that what I want to do is not know the information you're right this situation might never come up but I want to understand what is the Torres approach to damage long right how much of it is dependent on this factor and that factor and what about this situation what about that situation it's also i can understand the principle better i remember we talked about chickens xing I've got your right chickens and Zig is a a profession that I learned about one of my students right which works a lot like this apparently right to become a chicken chicken sexer is a very lucrative profession apparently I don't know they are free internships and chicken sexy right what you do to be a chicken Zac sir is that when a baby chick is born you look at the chicken you separate out the males and females right now what is the the visible factor on a chick that tells you whether it's male or female there isn't one right so how can you tell I can't try to text book about on its other visit a male chicken a female chick because they look exactly the same weight but people are chicken sex which has been doing this for a long time they just know right but they can't tell you here are the rules if it's you you know like those books say like you try to figure out what kind of tree something is does that leaves with three things or four things if three turn to page 18 afford to it and to finally get the thing there's no book like that all you can do is watch somebody who knows what they're doing it gets like the concept of what's a male it's a female right they got the concept you can keep watching them say this one's male this one's female just want to mail this one's female so now I get the concept and now I could do it but it still can't tell somebody how to do it right so we're trying to get to that content right now again men are obligated to do that but you can imagine spending four weeks to get to some concepts which I might find out at the end of the day there are actually different opinions about what the concept is whether we're trying to get to this concept to that concept right if I don't have to do that that is not the most effective way to use my learning time right you could imagine if you came on this program and every morning you learned Gomorrah and that's all you did right so you'd walk away at the end of it I said Wow tell me about you learned and you say well I learned about what happens if a sheep falls off a roof like but what about shabbat daily much Bottineau and with prayer nope nothing about why how free will work so right anything about living with mindfulness and consciousness right no just talked about sheep right so that's not a practical use of your time plus not to mention what language is the mission of written in music last time mrs. written in Hebrew language is the gamarra written in Aramaic so in order to do this properly if learn Hebrew and Aramaic so any free time we have when we're not learning about sheep we're gonna work on your Hebrew and Aramaic grammar right so he's been 48 hours you day doing that for a year or two years you might get it down but it's just that if you're not obligated to do that then that's not how you're going to spend your time right but but the process of learning Amara is not about the information you're covering it's about learning the way of thinking right and that's why people have to spend lots and lots of time on it it's just to finish off this is why it always ask people why do you got to Rabbi sense like ask for life advice right like people come to rabbis and eyes for all kinds of questions but not just like rabbi is this pot kosher but like rabbi do you think I should marry this guy arab i do you think i should live in this community in that community or rabbi do you think i should send my skids to this school or that's cool or rabbi tell me what's an appropriate way of disciplining a child right well kinds of questions like that why people have some rabbis that question like I might know a lot it's all hood so if you like if you're she pulls off a roof I'm your man right but like why would you governess for life advice right so what's the answer that question good so if you know the principles then you can figure out any new question that comes your way right now again you got to become a scholar to do that you can't just like no a page right but the more person knows Tom Wood the more they become that person who knows the principles and once you know the principles you could say listen you know if anybody you go so rabbi shai marry this guy and he says that's a good question you know I think I'd remember seeing that in the Talmud it says here on page 21 a yes you should marry him right so hopefully that's not what's going to happen credit somebody does say that run very fast the other way right but when he what he is hopefully going to say is listen the topple didn't ask that question but had the dominance that question I could tell you have a problem we would have answered because I got the principles day right so that's what a person who's studying talent is trying to do is try back to what are these principles that have Jim gates of Moshe about how to think about out of the world works about how we answer difficult questions right once I've got that done that I can answer questions are come my way that I ever thought about before right and that's how how do I buys know if electricity is allowed on campus or not it doesn't say in the Hamish and thou shalt not use electricity on Chavez it doesn't even say in the kymaro why not good there was no electricity don't even know what the word electricity meant right there the word hush mall which is modern Hebrew fractures that he does appear in tada it does appear to know right and everybody referring to the angels how they move with with speed and like you know in a way that you would i would call electric right that were it existed before Thomas Edison came along right but what does so how would ever have I deal with it when electricity was created there was this big discussion well jersey was created can you do this on Chavez right so first arrived I have to learn everything there was to know about electricity and they became experts in how electricity works and then they could fought flow it through the principles of what makes something allowed or not allowed in Chavez and decide is it allowed or not allowed and I came out that's not allowed right somebody talks about you know if you ever heard of class on stem cell research or on surrogacy or any of these modern-day science questions that come up what does Judaism have to say about it I promise you you will not find a page in here the talks about whether it's ethical or not ethical to create a fetus to take cells from it and then destroy the fetus where you won't find anything about that in here all right you've got to know what are the principles of what makes something what's called life what's not going by what's allowed for healing what's not allowed for healing right what powers are we allowed to use what are we allowed to use you've got those principles down some of that new question comes your way you can deal with it right that's what the Gomorrah is that is meant for right but without that those you know the rest of us can ask people those questions what we need to know is the more basics which is something that unless you have a whole thing which you're not going to do unless you have seven and a half years of free time it then they're much more kind of focus waste that's under time [Music] you