Alei Shur: Learning Torah is the True Life - Rabbi Guy Matalon

[Music] we talked about how taurah can make this world clearer this world is very confusing it's as if we are in the dark and we mistaken things to be what they're not and things that we should see we don't really see so that is what we learned yesterday I think the image that the idea was that some people without the Torah think what is good is bad and just what does the court Torah say is good they believe it's bad and what we believe is bad they say it's good and it's only through learning Torah that we can improve ourselves so the Torah is brings the light to bring clarity in terms of values in terms of how we should live our life what we should do how we should do it so Rashi says in the parsha when it talks about in devar him there's a taurus fire turns fire Rashi says that the Torah was written before Hashem black fire on white fire okay that's how the tour existed before it was given physical form so in shimane it's black fire over white fire do you understand what that means I don't we're not supposed to Rashi knows so the morale rights this is what the alley sure brings here says there's a wonderful secret here I don't know I don't mean that we're all gonna understand what he says damar all right but we're gonna try to make some headway to see what we can get out of it the Torah is called is we term the Torah and we use two names for it it's called I said because we have a puzzle that says so I said Alesana right you guys know that song right from the sky right so people think that should hide the song is for the woman of the house but if you look in the before team I should find us about the Torah don't tell your wife that keep singing for her but you look up them afford him on that the last chapter of Proverbs and then you'll see what I'm talking about so the tour is considered and it's also called does he know I'm and it's called Emmett's to let the mist I'd uh be for you so we have two aspects of the total there's an aspect of the Torah that it is truth and aspect of the Torah that isn't what I say what kindness love right - seems to be at least let at this point of the discussion contradictory terms because we usually don't think of truth as being kind right if your wife will come and say how do I look you ask the questions do you want the truth or do I'm kindness go together does this make me look fat do you the truth which one do you want door number one and then you quickly figure out where do you want to sleep no honey it doesn't make you know nothing makes you fat you can wear a tent as far as I'm concerned whoa oh you think I need to hurt no is that what I'm you know how it is right just a piece of advice but I got a long time ago so it's not as bad as the married men that tell you it's not as great as the guys who just got married [Music] there's an aspect of the Torah that is the base of the Torah is soda is ash livin on fire white fire and when you learn the mitzvahs when you think about it you realize that it's not only a good suggestion but it is the most appropriate and necessary act to do the Mitzvah it's a necessary act to do the mitzvah so what does that mean so the Aker Mitzvah the main part of the Mitzvah is obviously method right the meats what are hazard but the hazard if you focus on you learn some it's by itself what the Torah is commanding you to do you come to discover the MS the truth the white is the acid black is the MS so what is he talking about clearly we don't really understand what he's talking about white power fire fire black fire something something's very very deep but what we can't understand says they are they sure is that in every Mitzvah we can taste a bit a little bit of the pleasure that is built into that Mitzvah but it's written as Emma's black because that means according to the morale that the Torah the words of the Torah are necessary that they have to be this way but if you really understand what the Torah says you realize there is no other option but the way the Torah describes things like the Mitzvah of honoring your parents there is no other option in order for the what's the goal for you to have gratitude for the people that put up with you and you weren't easy to put up with this idea is very very difficult for me to explain even though in my mind it seems very clear the question is how to articulate this to you but the Morales saying is that the Mitzvah the Torah is there's an aspect of the discussin and there's the same part of it it's method is also the MS the truth and what does that mean it means that when you are learning to do them it's vote that you're doing them it's what you're doing as I said but as you're doing it and you're learning it you realize that this is the right thing to do it is according to the laws of truth this is true that one has to do it this way but there's a connection if you remember how I set it up following them around but it's not it's about learning and doing that you wreck the truth of the turret you have to apply it you have to do it you have to live it I think what he's talking about although he's chilling is an aspect to because it's filling is an oat it's a sign right what is it a sign of what are you actually doing when you're strapping leather on your arm and your forehead what are you actually saying touch him you ever thought about it what okay that's the idea you are my god I am everything that I do is I am tying to you and you are one God I acknowledge you that's not a feeling that's more than that it is knowing that it's the truth that the act that I'm doing is telling how sham that that's what I believe and I'm doing it because I believe it and that it is a hazard for me that the cottage bar who gave me an opportunity to express my my belief in it right it's not that you're supposed to soon as you put this on it's like the Power Rangers you know no that's not what it is if it is if that's what's happening call your psychiatrist something is going on here right yeah why is it that I don't he gave me everything he's doing all these things for me why don't I so then you say cuz I believe I deserve more more what more hair more money more I don't know what more or I'm missing I don't have I want to get married send me the girl I want to be happy and I'm not happy all those things if you feel that your love of a sham is contingent about getting it's not real love and you have to work on any love that is based on something that if I get a then I will love you well if the a is gone there's no luck so there's no love even if there is that love is based on unconditional if Hashem gives me I love and affection doesn't give me there's a story I read twenty years ago was a story of a man who got washed ashore of a ship that they were leaving Spain because Spain said to all the Jews either get out or convert to Catholicism and he got on this boat and the ship shipwrecked and his son and daughter died and he made it to this island he's by himself and he's walking to our chef he's crying and he said to him there is nothing you can do to make me stop believing in nothing I remember that when I read that that made me cry quite and you saw that person's love in connection Tasha was there's nothing a Shem could do now obviously that's not what's going on here but that's what we have to work on first we have to love ourselves and to see that Salomon who keeps the image of God in us if you don't see that you have the potentiality of holiness the potential to be great to become you know musher the next moisture a baby the RAB mum said that anybody could be exciting the moisture available or a rush I like your mum when you feel that you have that potential it's much easier to connect our seventh eleven but if you don't feel it you don't think about yourself as such and it's much harder to say like why did you create me look at what life you gave me look at this terrible you know you have come all these complain I'm from Brooklyn man more right when you give touch him and what can I give him I could give him my ruts on I can give him my will that is that I want to do what he wants me to do that's the only thing he doesn't have he that's it the only thing that I can actually I'm in control and I can give him is my free will just a sham I'm doing your mitzvahs I'm gonna sit and learn Torah I'm gonna put on tefillin I'm doing it for you not for me for you and I think that that's where love grows it and and deepen we talked about that but here we're talking about a different level it reads that the Torah is tested in a mat and it is through torah study and performing of them it's fought that we see both the facet and the amount of the Torah because on a lot of when you when you would look for example you speak to somebody about what the Torah says that's an interesting idea that makes sense that makes sense we are doing the MS the absolutely the necessary thing to do this is the only right thing to do there is no it's not relative like that's good but that's good too that's good there's one ms and it's only through deep torah study and performing of the mitzvot that you see both the white fire and the black fire the facet aspect the unifying aspect the aspect that makes it pleasant and brings people together and makes people holy but it also you see the amis that it can't be any other one and it's like if you see this if this is true and this is true and this is true then this must be true and i know that this is true and this is true and so this has to be true when you are aware of your creator of the cutters barkal then through learning Torah you become aware of God and you know what he wants and then you need to follow his path when you learn Torah and you want to implement the Torah ideas right then there is a vataj M the love of God is awakened when and you'll recognize the Torah tested in Tata Emmet you will see the Tata he said in the Torah of M s so you see the white and black by the black fire and the white fire inside the black fire it's an image don't try to imagine it in your head close your eyes harder and look up now it is it stars okay so I will agree Liam do you know what the Greeley mire this is the parchment that they make the right of Torah on so the green limit cells has a Dean of touch Mishka Ducie a holy object even though nobody wrote anything on it yet because they were created for the purpose of being used as a safer Torah and then writing it requires knowing all the laws of how to write a safe return so that walking in the path of a sham means learning the Talmud so that you know exactly all laws that is how to walk in God's ways hey you are learning now Joe what to do if you find a lost object you know now you're learning if it has a simmer and if it doesn't have a seam in if it's a place where mostly our non-jews or people mostly Jews that is kanaka right it was placed there the Nephi life it just fell there right you learn all the different I told you when I taught this Mishnah to a group of Chinese people that came to Israel and tell you this is what they said to me so they said I said then what have you find a bag in the middle of the street what do you do with it and so we just call the police so why would you call the police so you called your authorities tell come and take the bank and what are they gonna do with it they'll find its rightful owner but the owner doesn't want it no you can't do it no if they have to go to the owner and give it back - but the owner didn't buy health care he doesn't want it he threw it away why kid why would you call the police is a crime they couldn't understand wait a second there's a different way of looking at thing if somebody doesn't want it somebody lost it there are rules the Torah tells you so there's a famous story when rebbi akiva started learning Torah what age he started learning it or anybody forty forty so you have time so the story is that he is brought into the official name in the nose ear so be Akiva just started learning Torah and he was walking somewhere and he found the corpse just in the middle of nowhere it's called the meta mitzvah method somebody who died Mitzvah it's a mitzvah to bury him and so he picked them up and started dragging him until the sin which was a very far distance away to bury him and when he came to his rabbis and he told them this is what I did I found him at Mitzvah and I took it to the base close to the cemetery you know he was hoping what would they tell him good job amazing give us a hug right and what did they tell him just for every step that you walked it's as if you were spilling his blood because the allaha is when you find a mitzvah wherever you find him you bury him right at that spot so you drag the world miles you'll respond for every step that you took all that work was for nothing Serbia Kiba says like this I'm gonna read the Hebrew impassionate Covanta lilies coordinate coyote they shall learn it commanded his hotel had come away comma both - I lost amelia mkali if at the time that I wanted to do a mitzvah to merit the mitzvah I became liable at the time that I do and when I don't mean to do mitzvot merit I'm gonna be liable how much more so he says from that point onwards I did not move away from my rabbit because I wanted to learn what to do without learning Torah without learning Torah there is no way to become pious you cannot become pious so the Mishna says unless you study how do you get from Reza to amend from a metal head that's the question so one of the students our visceral cilantro tells the following episode but one time a relative came to visit or was a big red light came to visit Raphael cilenti in his home and as we're talking and going back and forth how are you you know very friendly nice visit and when he was ready to leave he said you know I would like to with your permission to leave and then when he got up the reserve cylinders stood up and got ready to leave the house so the guest said where's the rough going you're taking a sum of money with you and you where are you going he says the money belongs to somebody and I'm going to return it to him so the rabbi said why do you have to be much react yourself why do you trouble yourself with doing that can't you just give it to a messenger and send a messenger to give the money why do you is the big rabbi have to get up from your house and go all the way over there to give him the money so their ever says it says according to my opinion is that I'm obligated to do this according to shots according to the Gemara so the rabbi says wait a second if this is something in the Gemara and shah's I would know it too and since I don't know it maybe he's not there she says jokingly said maybe in your shots and your gamar it's not in but in mine it is so then the rabbi says you have to explain to me what what am I missing so the Reverend says it says in your vomit the gomorian Obama says the healer I've been made of each solution there was a famine at the time of King David's for three years and David saw the Sham and said why is there a famine we're gonna have to continue the story on Sunday because it's minute I [Music] [Applause]