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There's
a great story that I I saw once from
from Shimshon Pincus.
And he asked a very basic question. He
says that
he says, "Why is it that, you know, you
read about these stories, you buy these
biographies about the day of them,
and every single God doll, like when
they were 13, they finished shots. When
they were 15, they finished uh your
shalom in when they were 16, they they
finished their they made their 300 CM on
your on on show on our roof, and
you know, came out every God doll of
Yakub Kaminetsky and motion find senior
for everybody they were able to like no
shots at such a young age.
And then all of a sudden like the war
happened, and we all came to America, or
some came to Israel, other places in the
world, but you know, let's talk about
us. We came to America, and and you
don't find, you know, people, at least I
don't know of many people that finished
shots by 13 years old for 13 years old
finished show from our roof. And what
happened? The war happened, and all of a
sudden like we dropped like that
precipitously. We're still quiet as
well. We're grandchildren or
great-grandchildren of some of these
people that were, you know, that were
able to do this, and we're not able to
do this. What happened? Like what
exactly took place between, you know, 19
39 and 1945 that from then on but there
was pre-World War II when people were
good daily island, and they were able to
be mad. And now we have for a sham we
have a you know, so many people learning
to air around the world and so many men
and so many yeshivas and yeshiva ketanas
and day schools, and but I sham I mean
the you know, the it's exploding the
population, but you don't find people,
at least not that I know of, that are
able to make CM at such an young age and
master it. What happened?
This is what our Pincus asks.
And his answer is brilliant. He says,
"You know what?
The truth is
that we are making Siyum.
There are youth in America that are
making Siyum. They're able to have it.
They're able to have Shas.
But it's not the same Shas that we're
talking about. It's a Shas of baseball.
It's a Shas of football. It's a Shas of
basketball. It's a Shas of movies. There
are people that are using their brains
to and they're making Siyum. They're
masayim. But it's not Shas that we know
of. It's the Shas that they know of.
There are people that literally can
memorize stats. I remember when I was a
kid, I don't know if people still do
this today, but there are people that
memorize stats of every single
RBI in Major League Baseball history.
They You could just throw any single guy
that ever played Major League Baseball
and they will tell you their stats,
their their the amount of you know,
their hitting averages and their RBIs
and their home runs and their how many
World Series they won. Mamish a total
recall.
So these are bekiim in Shas. It's just a
different Shas.
It's a Shas of baseball. There are
people that could do this for hockey.
They could do this for for movies. You
can quote any movie and they'll know any
line. They'll know the year the movie
was made, who were the director was, who
the producer was, who the actors were.
They know this. There are people We know
that there are people that do that,
right?
So they use their brain. They have We
have the brains.
We just don't have the thirst,
the desire to use it for Torah.
But don't sell yourself short. Don't
think for a second that you don't have
the ability to make a Siyum on Shas or
you don't have the the ability to to
know Shulchan Aruch or to know Mishnah
Berurah or to or or to know Chumash
Rashi or Rambams. You have the ability.
We just don't have the interest or the
time
>> [clears throat]
>> or or the we never had a person that
told us this that I'm telling you today
that you have the ability so we always
thought okay listen there are people
that know things there are people like
me that I want to know things but I'm
not it's it's not going to happen.
But the reality is that we all have a
look at Tyra and I'm not talking to you
know I'm talking to every single one of
us myself included we all have a look at
Tyra think about that a second we have a
look at Tyra it's very possible
that we go up to Shamayim maybe after
all
and they're going to show us
a whole
shelf of Tyra
and you're going to say wow
what is that that you're showing me it's
very interesting what what is it looks
like a nice set of what is that? Oh
that's your set of Tyra that's your
entire
Wait a minute this is on Shas Ram
Shulchan Aruch like what what's what are
you
you this was your entire you have the
ability to nuts this ice to be able to
squeeze this out of yourself
if you try
