Parashat Mishpatim - Distance Yourself From A False Word

when person uses their logic they think that oh there's so many wonderful stories during the first two books of the kumash of the five books of Moses and now we got to this part of the story of receiving the Torah perhaps the narration of the story will continue but instead of getting a narration of the story has practically no narration whatsoever no story whatsoever but rather it's an entire Torah segment talking about different rules and in fact when you look at these rules you look at these laws perhaps there are some of the most controversial laws in the Torah according to today's society's ideology uh and uh when you see for example that the Torah says uh you know you shall not have mercy upon a popper in a dispute you know the liberal mentality of today is going to say oh look you know God is telling them their Torah is telling them because obviously they don't necessarily always agree that God gave us the Torah they uh this religion is saying that you should be mean to uh to poor people why should you not have mercy on a uh on a poor person in a dispute you should have if one guy is Rich and the other guy is poor you should and they have a fight between them just give it to the poor guy but the Torah says the exact opposite you're not allowed to do such a thing you're not allowed to have mercy on the proper so of course anyone that does not learn from a of Torah and instead learns from anti-semites and anti-god people that claim to represent God like the uh uh Black Hebrew Israelites or LS farakhan or uh the Christian missionaries that now call themselves Messianic Jews if you learn the Torah from such uh evil people then certainly you're going to arrive at the wrong conclusion and start thinking that you know more than God you are more merciful than God and perhaps this is not a book to listen to so this particular segment that we're going to go into tonight is going to address address some of these claims that are made by the people that hate the Jewish people and hate the Torah and in fact take different parts of the Holy Torah and whether it be the oral Torah especially or the uh written TOA and manipulate the words in whatever fashion that they want in order to make you believe that this is a mistake you shouldn't listen to it and of course the average person out there that sees some of the lectures that we have like the clips that we published recently on Tik Tok and other places saying that the AL the law according to the tah for a man to waste seed is that it's equivalent to murder that's what the rambam paskin as the law this is the same thing as what the Torah itself says but uh a person that is an atheist or is liberal or uh you know or anything else will say oh look at that they even want to manage my private moments with myself this is uh ridiculous too much religion too much control this is obviously bad now of course anyone that knows the law and has watched the lectures that we've discussed this issue uh sees that uh the best thing you could ever do for yourself is to protect your seed and not waste it and needless to say follow the rest of the tah but when it comes from either an ignorant teacher or a biased teacher a teacher that has an agenda such as the one that's uh the agenda that's being taught in multiple volumes of Ls farhan's book the uh secret relationship between the uh Jews and the uh blacks uh which obviously has caused quite a bit of tension between the two communities uh in in recent years especially this last couple of years uh even though it's been published for many years already the reality is that when somebody like that teaches you the tah then of course you're going to arrive at the other side you're going to agree with them you're going to say wait a minute you're telling me that your talmud tells you that uh a three-year-old girl can have sex with a with an adult you're telling me that slavery is a good thing and slavery is something that the Torah supports you're telling me that uh you know the uh uh these laws are things that you guys hold by you're following the talmud now of course we do follow the talmud but not your interpretation of the talmud and in fact one of the most important things that a person can do for themsel is to make sure that they listen to someone that actually knows what they're talking about not necessarily somebody that's just simply a good speaker and has a good vocal cords that uh ensure that the listeners in the back of the uh 50,000 people Stadium can here so of course one of the things that we see in this holy Tor in this week's Paras is one of my favorite verses in the Tora they're all beautiful they're all wonderful they're all music to my ears but of course there are always things that stand up there are always ones that you know you can uh uh really uh see uh yourself in it's the verse that says from a thing of Lies stay away from stay away from anything of Lies unlike all of the other sins in the Torah where hasem says you're not allowed to do this and you're not allowed to do this and you're obligated to do that when it comes to lies Hashem says not only are you not allowed to lie but you have to stay away from lies stay away from liars and unfortunately when the vast majority of society is ignorant about the truth because they're first time uh and only time of hearing any aspects of the Torah is usually coming from the likes of the people that I mentioned then what ends up happening is that that becomes their version of the truth that becomes their truth that becomes their ideology and if you will or better said that becomes their excuse to hate the Jewish people and hate the Torah and hate uh everything that has to do with it even if they say they love God so it's time we address some of these things by simply looking at what the actual says what does it really mean and in fact one of the things that I learned early on the first book that I ever got from my Rabbi many years ago uh that uh for anyone that wants to learn the truth behind the Jewish ideology what you're supposed to have this is a wonderful book that was written about 70 years ago or 60 something years ago by Raba vido Miller ala Shalom called Rejoice O youth now this is a a interestingly written type of book it's a uh conversation between a rabbi and a young man that is having trouble with his faith although he is learned uh to a certain extent and uh really all of the possible questions that you can come up with are listed in this book now I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to everybody unless they have some basic Foundation of of tah but certainly if you have questions this has answers and one of the questions that you'll see on um page 97 is the uh young man is asking about why is it that uh we're not uh allowed to uh teach Torah to the Gentiles specifically or perhaps better said why is it that the oral Torah that was also given to us on Mount saai remained oral tah for many many centuries why didn't God just simply write everything and allow everybody to have easy access to it now of course as a side note anyone that's familiar with the oral tah knows that the oral tah is not just a single book like the five books of Moses that can fit into your pocket if you really uh you know have small enough uh print uh but rather the oral tah is a Monumental uh work that literally is comprised of millions of books millions of books with the basic Foundation starting with the mishna uh then of course you have the interpretation of the mishna which is the gmar then of course after that you have all of the uh uh laws that are in the Gara were also uh uh you know put into the rambam the r then eventually the all of the different the uh early sages that took the laws from the gar from the talmud and talmud are synonymous and uh they're they mean the same thing it's just a uh uh in the old days it meant something different meaning that initially it was a uh um there was less than what we have uh what was the original plan I'll get into that a little later but point being is is that this holy talud or gar is not inventing anything new it's simply telling you what the mishna is actually saying and uh the S showing you what the sages are debating not because they're they don't agree of what was said at Mount saai but rather they're showing you that they have asked every possible question about this particular law that is brought down in the oral tah in order to show you that there every possible thing that you could ask every possible thing uh that you can uh uh conjure up in your mind was considered and therefore a uh uh if it's uh if it wasn't chosen there's a reason of why it was chosen which is elaborated in the gar most importantly they're telling you how the final law the final conclusion was arrived at but of course the uh the anti-semites the haters of Judaism are not going to tell you that they themselves don't know that they simply just take one sentence out of the gar and they manipulate it interpret it in whatever way that they want and they don't even know about the later books the other uh uh teachings that stem from the gar such as the laws they also have no concept of what the other aspects of the oral to such as the Z that was written even before thear was by rimon but Rim unlike what people uh uh think he didn't just invent DOR by himself if you've ever read the Z reviewed at least part of it you will see that Rish Shimon Bai not only mentions statements made by other sages uh and not just his own but is also quoting other books uh somewhere around 60 different books that preceded the Z meaning that cabala wasn't invented by RIM that's also part of the what we received at Mount saai and needless to say all of these books are the basic foundation of the oral Tora but there what why did I say millions of books because as the generations continued to grow and pass and so on there was more and more elaboration that was necessary either in order to clarify something or in order to apply it to something that didn't exist back then such as electricity cars uh you know different types of uh uh time frames that existed for the Jewish people whether they were in a PGM and an inquisition there were even uh unique laws that were pin at the time of the Holocaust anyone that read some of the work of rabim oshri who was inside the Holocaust inside the uh uh the the nightmare uh but yet still writing Torah there and explaining to people how to deal with difficult circumstances such as a woman that's pregnant uh and is about to deliver a baby what should she do uh and in fact uh you know when when the baby was delivered you know there was a law that the uh uh uh IM the Nazis had you're not allowed to obviously practice any aspect of Judaism whatsoever and if she would uh uh give AIT a circumcision to our son certainly this meant death for her and the baby but yet he writes about this and the woman did do a b Mila and the she was killed along with the baby uh and of course there was a person that asked another very difficult question where his son was uh uh in line to go to one of the camps uh and since this man was a very rich man he was able to bribe one of the Nazis uh and uh in essence uh get his son out the only problem is because the Nazis were so precise with their calculations that would mean that they would take his son out but put somebody else's son in and he asked if this is allowed if he's allowed to rescue his son knowing well that somebody else's son is going to replace his son uh so this is obviously a life and death question but at the same token is your blood rather than somebody else's the point being is anyone that sees the that was written at the time of the Holocaust by by some other that were there literally you would just you cannot imagine the level of wisdom that they had the sacrifice they made but also just the impossible situations that they had to deal with much much more extraordinary than the 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