Accepting The Torah

[Music] because torah is not just something that you can just open a book whenever you feel like it and you're going to become a tamika you're going to become knowledgeable it's not something that you can read on the side maybe read it like a novel whenever you get a chance and then you're going to know what's going on is something that you have to prepare yourself in order to accept it in order to be able to accept it in order to be able to understand it ten people could read the same exact page in a torah and understand ten different things and only one of them is right or all of them are wrong or all ten of them are right depends depends who they are depends how they prepare themselves for it so the word is preparation to receive the torah meaning that we have seven weeks to prepare our nest to receive the torah so why don't we celebrate the actual holiday on the 51st day which is when we got the torah why do we celebrate it on the 50th day if you're gonna say it's shavuot then technically it should be on the 49th day but it's not if you're going to say it's uh maybe hashem liked the 51st day then tell me why the reason is abu tai is because akadosh baruch is trying to teach us our generation 3 300 plus years later that the biggest part of torah is preparing yourself the biggest part of learning torah is making yourself into a vessel that can accept pure torah there are many people that learn torah but few are actually able to accept the purity of it as i was saying to you before this you when i first started out learning it was hard for me to accept supernatural stories it's hard for me didn't make any sense to me i was a very rational human being i was used to numbers i was used to yes and no i was used to legal illegal i was used to facts supernatural is not facts supernatural is something that's uh beyond anything factual it's beyond something that you can explain rationalize break down it's something above and beyond it was very hard for me so when people would tell me oh yeah this rabbi did this he revived the dead or this rabbi you know prayed for somebody and the other guy died or this guy this guy prayed for somebody and he became healthy all this stuff was hard for me to accept but as i learned and learned and at some point decided that i'm gonna have to submit i'm gonna have to put my hands up and say hashem you're bigger you're bigger than me you understand more than me i'm never gonna be anything more than what i am i have to accept whatever you say as if it's fact even if i can't see it i decide to submit whatever it says i believe it says that the rabbi revived the dead i believe it it says that somebody saw yaw navi 15 minutes ago i believe it why i'm not a fool i didn't become a fool overnight because the more you learn torah and the more you submit to the torah the more you realize that every single page in the torah is full of miracles every single page of the torah is full of things that are supernatural things that don't make any sense and as we were saying the reality is is that us being here today doesn't actually make any sense because there are almost eight billion people in the world vast majority of them hate us to such an extent that the vida melech wrote in talim thank you for not making us meet for their teeth to grind on for anyone who doesn't think that we live in such a generation you could just go on youtube and see what they were doing in poland just a few days ago where they put together a sack filled them up with a bunch of straw wrote some words about it the symbol symbolize a jew and then had the entire community hid it in public and then eventually burned it after throwing it off over a bridge because that's what they want to do to jewish people this is now if it was legal to kill jews anywhere in the world people would do it why because that's what akadosh baruch wants you to know you're never going to be liked by them even when they tell you i like you you're not supposed to be liked by them you're supposed to be different from them now those that are righteous among the gentiles you're supposed to help them help them get closer back to those who but those that hate them don't waste your time hating them why they're just the messengers of akados bohu to tell you and remind you you're different now of course some of this stuff is very hard for people to accept because they have non-jewish family members or non-jewish friends or non-jewish bosses or non-jewish something and they like him and they're nice people so like i said not all non-jews are bad hashem i know plenty of them that are fantastic human beings but the vast majority of non-jews are not supposed to like you why there's an al-akha in a torah called hates yaakov why because that's how akadoshva who programmed him that's archaeological who programmed them why because akadosba who needs to use anti-semitism in order to keep you not dead alive because if you look at the world today there's so much assimilation in the western world and as i was saying last week over 80 percent 80 percent of people in in in america are intermarrying you're talking about a generation where we are one generation away if something miraculous doesn't happen well one generation away of no more jews in america one gender we're not like oh i mean 50 years from now no no one generation away why 80 that means eight out of every ten couples already the the bond of judaism is broken if it's the man that said it's the end of judaism for him if it's the woman then it's on one or more generation because our kid is obviously not going to be a tadiq unless something supernatural happens meaning that we have to depend on the supernatural in order for us to exist we have to why because rationally it doesn't make sense it doesn't make any sense [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] you