(Way#13) BE DELIBERATE: 48 Ways with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] hey good day everybody welcome back to beyond the seven live from jerusalem with rabbi aaron david poston he's been teaching us the 48 ways to wisdom this is a dynamite dynamite series folks and i encourage everybody to go back check each and every lesson and just see how it keeps growing and growing and growing and growing and today we're on part 13. it's only getting better folks and it's going to keep getting better and who better to share it with us than an honorable rabbi in jerusalem let's just jump right in say hello to rabbi aaron david poston rabbi it's such a joy to be with you and to learn torah out of israel class is yours sir thank you dan it's so good to be back with you guys you know i actually do look forward to it every week you know this is my moti shabbat this is my uh what he called the uh the leaving of shabbat you know uh saturday night special saturday night live with you dan with the uh the um no hype world center and uh all the people that just love torah thank god you know there's like a special place where people who just love torah come they're not there to argue they're there to learn and i'm also this is the best way for me to learn is to prepare for i mean we talked about this in the past the source material how do you know you have to learn torah why is learning torah so important it says over and over and over and over again in the torah to teach teach that's how you learn and i hope that everyone everyone watching decides that they want to learn seriously they should teach so i'm just conduit just you're inspiring me rabbi okay so we are in the 13th way of the 48 ways just to i want to just i say this the beginning of every class because it's so important why is this rabbi teaching the 48 ways well obviously it's important for jews why should it be important for let's say non-jews or more importantly righteous gentiles because i know you guys are interested in wisdom right you believe right a righteous gentile believes that the bible when i say the bible i'm talking about the five books of moses was revealed to the jewish people at mount sinai right at the end of 40 years moses has fray torah already right they're all written for all the tribes and himself as a king he probably had two himself so you have a revelation and to believe in this revelation is what you makes you righteous right it's not just the rituals of keeping the seven laws okay it's true a gentile is obligated to keep the seven laws but what makes one righteous is to to actually believe that this is the word of god that this was handed out at mount sinai that this was read the seven laws even though six were given to adam and the seventh one was given to noah right but they were repeated once again we just had last week's parachute israel we had the ten commandments on the tablets on the first set of tablets there were 620 letters 613 each one of the letters represents one of the mitzvahs and you had 613 for the jews and seven were given over once again to the to the world the whole world heard and knew experienced mount sinai on whatever level was as a soul subconsciously in the dna the whole world shook and quaked and was terrified as it expresses in the torah everybody knew the question is are you going to be a believer so check it out right i'm not you know don't just believe me check it out learn a little torah and find out if it's something we'll call supernal supernatural uh transcendental i'm just cause i'm telling you find out for yourself find out for yourself and as i also mentioned i'm not sure it was last week's partial or um at some point i know i did say it because it's parashat mishpati that mishpatim that's the one we just read the shabbos the parsha we just read the shabbos deals with so many of the civil laws one of the seven overreaching principles for no heights is to set up a system of justice this follows okay there's different opinions uh did it come before matantara did it come after matantara but at least for the the fact you're reading it right after isro right after parshas of jethro that it's dealing with jethro's a most likely a righteous gentile could be that he was a full convert but most likely he was a righteous gentile and he was he had his own put input when it came to how a justice system should be um you know conducted he had his advice from moshe but this these laws follow yisro and hopefully you'll learn them and you say wow these this is unbelievable this is the way society all right okay so what we're going to do tonight is 13 13 of the 48 ways the 48 ways are when the jewish people were in egypt we were in the 49th level of impurity if we would have reached the 50th level impurity we would never have been redeemed so on the way out and the way to the uh the revelation each one of these ways in order to acquire wisdom because these are the 48 ways to acquiring wisdom we each one of these days or each one of these ways is a way for a jew and not just a jew for a human being to acquire wisdom and therefore you will not lose you will only gain everything i think we spoke about so far is like so much common sense one of the other things i wanted to mention is not only are the seven laws obligated on every gentile but any law any one of the laws in the torah that number there's two two facts one is anything that is logical common sense you're obligated okay you're not just obligated in the seven but any additional law that makes sense if you were sitting down and saying what could we do to make society a better uh society if that's logical common sense then you're obligated in it the other thing is ethics so of course team is full of ethics now with that introduction so one of the ideas because number 13 is called yeshu means settling but in in the context here it means to be deliberate and why does the word usher which is settling to sit have to do with being deliberate so i have so much information i'm going to try my best to give it over in a thank you organized fashion okay so it could mean to deliberate we're going to discuss that but and to discuss you you're talking about a piece of wisdom you want to know if it's true so you delve deeply into it that's one idea the other idea is oh yeshiva i know that the noah heights would like and perhaps maybe there have been and there will be yeshivas for noah heights okay so the other idea is to sit with other people remember we discussed this idea the rabbis were asked who do you learn the most from your teachers your colleagues or your students we're gonna actually mention that again but let's say at least your colleagues when you're sitting in the yeshiva where you're battling it out whether hopefully you have yeshiva where you have real teachers you have real colleagues and of course even you have students so there's a place in other words the environment of the yeshiva allows you to delve deeply into these into truths okay so you should we're going to discuss in the idea of deliberation and also of course in a proper environment okay i want to start off with the idea of mishpati and why am i doing that because russian rashi in chapter 20 verse 23 of not mishpatim but the week before which was israel the very last few verses in israel it actually says so i'll read it the last verse you shall not ascend with steps my altar so that your nakedness shall not be exposed upon it now we're not going to go deeply into the many ideas which i just want to focus on one idea so what are steps steps i have to see rashi on this but steps imply that you're in a rushed you know when you go up steps you can take two steps at a and rashi actually says there what is malote what does steps mean actually this is his comment on the gamora which i'm going to share with you in a second strength and quickness when you go up steps you go to the strength and you go with witness so i want to go let me just i quoted the verse in exodus chapter 20 verse 23. immediately the very first verse in mishpatim is exodus chapter 21 verse 1 and these are the ordinances you shall set before them so just to quote hebrew the previous verse below don't go up steps onto his altar onto my altar fine and the next verse is dela mishpati these are the mispatients these are the laws which you shall place before them assuming that it's talking about judges however truth is we're all judges okay everyone judges all the time no matter what you're doing in life you're making judgment calls okay so this is gamora sanhedrin that discusses these two verbs this two verses really um barca para taught based on a homolytical interpretation in other words it's called a drusha from where the is this matter that the sages stated where does it derive from and it's in perky a vote the very first one chapter one mishna one let me read it first moses received the torah from sinai and gave it over to joshua joshua gave it over to the elders the elders to the prophets the prophets gave it over to the men of the great assembly now we're talking about like 400 years i'm sorry we're talking already much longer we're talking about 800 900 900 years the profits the time of the profits time of the grain assembly they the men of the great assembly said always said these three things be cautious in judgment now those are the words let me just read the rest establish many pupils pupils like students and make a safety fence around the torah so this word the words of um be cautious in judgment careful deliberate i want to go back to the gamora now so in other words the gamora asks where did the sages understand this principle of being careful slow i have interpretation temperate but it really means to be slow in judgment and the answer is it says you shall not go up steps by my altar which means don't go as don't ascend herodly and it's juxtaposed to what is written now these are the ordinance you shall set before them that's what the gomorrah says i mentioned what rashi says when it says steps it means quick and with strength so what one needs to do believe it or not is when it comes to judging and i'm not just talking about judges sitting in a court that's obvious i'll give you an example how obvious it should be if a capital crime was committed and hearing was taking place now remember a capital crime means a very severe punishment death maybe lashes whatever it is a capital crime of some sort that if you're on this committee you're part of the judges the court and you decided amongst yourself this guy is guilty you do not announce it till the next day if he was innocent you announce it immediately why because there may be esc i have to tell you what i have to pronounce it correctly it's called exculpable evidence might come forth right what's exculpable it means that there is going to be evidence that could show his innocence or even uh defer the blame right something that shows that he's innocent so if you're talking about a capital crime where the death penalty is involved why not it's not a man-made law this is what god wants wait deliberate maybe evidence will come forth sleep on it serious decision that has to be made and serious decisions require deliberation okay matuni madin that's the hebrew expression king david himself said in psalms 73 verse 21 now i don't know which translation you'll use so i'll use this one when my heart was in ferment now what's fermented what to talk about it then my mind was sharpened so fermentation like when we think of judaism uh on pesach pesach you're not allowed to eat fermented like specifically with grains fermented food of course we drink wine and that's fermented but i'm talking about grains what happens when you ferment how do the grains become fermented it's once you add the water to the flour and you do nothing you just let it sit but it's the act of letting it sit if you worked it so it becomes matzah put it right in the oven okay but when you let it sit it ferments so this idea of the king david the holy king david said when my heart is infirmit in other words my heart is not reacting it is just sitting on it and i'm delving into it and thinking about it and well needing it if you want to call it but it's basically sitting and waiting my mind is sharpened okay it's a very radical idea but it's a very necessary idea i mean obviously through history at kangaroo courts even in modern history you know they already have a decision no they go through the actions here we're talking about truly sifting through evidence making sure you have uh the truth before god especially major decisions so what about us aren't we looking for wisdom aren't we looking for meaning in life right before you choose a religion check it out right okay so the the safer that we are using of course written by friends of mine dear friends of mine right and that would be coopersmith and shraga simmons by the way shrages these two guys they run the h.com website it's i think it could be wrong but it's at least for sure one of the most heavily trafficked uh websites for jewish content in the world of course i can just mention a few others you know and um the no hyde world center right soon to be hopefully one day anyway the ideas he wants the roshi who wants to get across to us is that decisions have real consequences right yeshua needs to deliberate okay so we have to strike a proper balance between being deliberate which is necessary as well as pushing forward because if otherwise we could um become paralyzed right there are many people in this world i don't know what you know the ratio is but they become paralyzed and they can't move forward because there's a decision that needs to be made i think that in today's rule i just mentioned rabbi um eric torski who just passed away recently um you mentioned with our generation one of the biggest problems is we have too many choices right when it comes to when it comes to choosing a wife so many go on to the i guess websites i mean there are websites that maybe whatever it is when you when you're i think they did studies when you're faced with making a choice and the choice has way too many like thousands people are less likely to make a choice right when you were growing up in a town and you only had two three five girls to choose from okay so people got married right today when you look on the internet and you have much bigger uh a bigger pool right to choose from it's i don't know he mentioned that like overwhelming cloudy water yeah yeah it says this is a generation of instant gratification is that what it's called instant gratification so when you're like everything's disposable right no it's not it's like you know hi what a problem okay anyway he mentions here in the safer that many people desire immediate results they lack the patience to thoroughly consider the various sides of an issue sometimes they impulsively throw themselves into certain course of action just to get the decision out of the way behind them that's impulsive and looking for instant gratification and perhaps being uncomfortable with being indecisive others move over the decisions excessively and they lack some type of some type of confidence to come to the right conclusion and make a final decision but i'll tell you what the roshiva had told us revenue weinberg said through proper deliberation hopefully you know weighing the evidence coming out to what you think is the best choice and doing it diligently okay then you make that decision and stick with it don't start wavering and then have you know oh doubts maybe i didn't uh deliberate enough or no take the time and deliberate decide and then stick with it and hashem will assist you hashem will help you and i find in my own life that he is a hundred percent right right of course if you make a decision in failure after failure after failure it could be at some point you wake up and smell the coffee and say okay i i didn't deliberate enough i didn't have all the evidence or things changed right i mean the reality is reality right failure after failure but just because you fell once doesn't mean you made the wrong decision okay that's what i wanted to get across and he always said you know another thing he said was go to sleep every single night with a question right if you're learning a safer you're learning you know and you can't figure it out right that's a good thing so go to sleep because there's i don't want to get into this mystical idea of how your soul is somehow separates or let's just say the distractions during the day are gone and somehow or another you're able to see claire clearly but the idea of deliberation is to sleep on something because as people there's this famous expression sleep on it right it didn't come from nowhere right there's some idea behind it it's basically don't make the decision now weigh the evidence and but i'm telling you sleep on it because there is something that happens in your sleep where your soul has let's say a certain amount of more clarity which will help you when you wake up the next morning okay beautiful stuff just beautiful and so what's the word issue it means to be deliberate but it can mean to sit on things and think think things through don't be so hasty slow down examine all the aspects reflect make the best decision you can and don't become so anxious that you're afraid to commit to a final position again that final position after you deliberated stick with it hashem will assist you he's there for you he wants to see you succeed okay again this whole idea is about acquiring wisdom so this applies to acquiring wisdom before accepting or rejecting an idea and i think we talked about this also last week there's so much fake news there's so many what do you call these um conspiracy theories every one of them has a little bit of truth right i shouldn't say everyone majority of those that stick probably stick because they have some truth so you want to delve deep into them before you totally reject them entirely right you can cherry pick some things uh that that where the truth is anyway consider it for a time turn it over in your mind let it percolate percolate is a term used where the coffee grinds are constantly moving around and the water is moving through them and drawing the taste the flavor even in judaism when we talk about in in the talmud right in in jewish literature we talk about the word tom i want to know the reason behind it the word time is used tom means taste and we're going to talk about that too hopefully tonight why why tom used so you want to you really want to percolate you want you want to draw as much flavor as you can out of it if you just then decide if and how you plan to incorporate it into your life okay so now we're going to talk about this idea in gamora aravind 54b i want to go through a little bit quickly it's not so clear but um in aravind 54 b it discusses how the oral torah was taught over to the jewish people so moses obviously heard it first so that's could be the first time he learned it then the gomorrah says that the sages taught like this that moses heard directly from the mouth of the almighty then aaron entered and he sat before moses obviously moses then taught aaron okay then moses aaron moved to the other side and aaron's sons entered and then moses taught them well aaron listened so aaron now heard it the second time that he had two sons but okay aaron's sons moved aside allows her to the right it's more to the left of our own rib yehuda disagree now there's a little bit of a disagreement exactly how it worked but he said that what actually happened was aaron would come back and sit at the right hand of moses then the elders would enter moses taught them the lesson then the elders moved to the side and the entire nation entered and moses taught them however you look at it there's different ways to explain it but the more the bottom line the governor says that our own heard it four times he heard the lesson four times his his sons heard it three times the elders heard it twice the entire nation heard it once but then our own would teach it over so each teacher had to have heard it four times before you go ahead and teach it over the important point i'm making here about the four times happens to be in a gamora any gamora that we have now this is a huge point so as you can see at the top i know i showed it to you very quickly i'll show it to you again the gamora is in the middle and you have on the left or the right depends if it's the inside page or the outside page whatever you have to see me of rashi every printer puts four lines of rashin toastles before they in in the wider lines before they get small and this is what we were taught in the in the yeshiva that this is to remind you to review your lessons four times before you can even say that you learned it once okay so i'll show it to you again you'll see how in the middle you have the gemara and then you have russian totals on the outside of the inside of the page and you have four lines uh large lines before it gets smaller it's a little bit of a like a reminder to review your lessons you have to review your lessons minimum minimum four times i might have said that before and so what are these four ideas he wants to bring down that one should plow plant harvest and then eat you want to make bread now there are some verses that um what's the word uh uh some verses that hint to this idea um you can look at it on your own in isaiah 55 1 and isaiah 30 chapter 2 chapter 30 verse 23 i'll just go through quickly but the idea is that the idea of plowing planting harvesting and eating just as the body needs physical food right to enter to nourish it so to the soul i mean everything in this world is the real world is the spiritual world the the the fake world or the illusionary world or the world we live in is the physical world but they teach us lessons right it's very hard to see the spiritual world but just like we eat three times a day we pray three times a day right it's to remind us to pray three times a day just like we have to plow we're gonna discuss each one of these ideas planting harvesting and then eating that's for the physical body the nourishment so too we're looking for wisdom we're searching for wisdom we take the outside world that we see and we learn and inject lessons on the spiritual side so in isaiah 55 1 it says all who thirst go to water whoever has no money go by eat we're talking about go to water who are thursdays we're talking about spiritual thirst right the water is compared to torah towards compared to water right whoever has no money it should be free you shouldn't charge and that says buy and eat and go buy without money and without a price wine and milk so you need this spiritual nourishment isaiah chapter 30 23 he shall give the rain for your seed which with which you shall sow the soil and bread of the green of the soil and it shall be plenteous and fat your livestock shall graze each one becoming on that day a fattened lamb okay the idea is to take these four these four concepts as i mentioned plowing planting harvesting and eating in um in a way of deliberating so he goes like this he explains we all know bread is a physical staff of life so how do you make the bread first you have to plow so the first step in preparing the food is to have the ground ready to receive the seed right you have to either uh dig out um either holes or you have to have that whole strip a whole line right because if you just throw seeds onto the ground they're not going to take so you have to prepare the ground itself for for the scene yeah so he claims this is the rashiva claims this is the the idea of listening attentively right you're you're the ground right the man the word adam is related to the word adama right we come from the ground so you have to prepare yourself by listening you have to sometimes shut your mouth so i'll give you uh in ecclesiastes chapter 5 verse 1 do not be rash with your mouth right that means you know what it means number two then plant now after preparing the ground then you plant the seeds learning in learning it means gathering the evidence that supports what's being said and understanding the roots that are going to anchor the idea so planting the idea of planting is allowing the roots giving it time to go deeper and that means sifting through the evidence and seeing what's true and what's not true number three is harvesting so once this the seeds have sprouted and grown you harvest the crops what does it mean in learning it means you have to address your questions and issues now you have questions so you're going to sort through what we call the good stuff through the shaft shaft chaff is the false stuff right the evidence the hardcore evidence now you have to see is it fitness category what category but either way the harvesting involves separating the good from the bad or the truth from the falsehood if it's true so do you accept it and you gather it in just like harvesting if it's false you throw the chat is the i guess it's the the the not good yeah it's useless it's indigestible it's uh yeah i'm glad you just used that because that's the whole point the next thing is eating it so you only want to eat the digestible stuff so the final step is to take what you've harvested now transform it into digestible food that you can eat and derive the nourishment that's the whole point in learning this means deciding how to implement the idea in your life in a practical concrete way okay so i'm gonna just end his quote a few more things from the book i mentioned about sleeping on it right and i mentioned what the roshiva said many times maybe i should just delve in a little bit we have different levels of our soul the highest level of our soul is actually always connected with hashem because we create an image we have so when we sleep there's two ways to describe it okay they're both true either that highest level separated from you basically it's always connected with the sham and it's only with us when we're awake and when we go to sleep so there's a disconnect on our level now if you had a issue a problem a question so remember that part of your soul is always connected with hashem so by disconnecting from you it's disconnecting from the ego it's disconnecting from all the um distractions and it's it's now in a place of pure clarity now in the morning when you wake up it's reattaching itself to you so you are now whether you're conscious of it or not you're going to have some clarity so let's assume you're not conscious of it nevertheless subconsciously you will hopefully make a better choice a better decision this is huge that's that's one level the other idea is that when we sleep we're considered 160th of death we experience 1 60th of death now 1 60th is the terminology we're using cashews we use it in other terminologies but it basically means it's it's negligible it's negligible so we experience a a very negligible aspect of death when we wake up it's we're born again i love that term we're born again because hashem then gives us back life it gives back our soul in this sense that's why we wash our hands just like we wash our hands when we go to a cemetery to get rid of the um let's say the negative forces so too because wherever there's death there are these impure forces so to wake up we now how does that work by the way just a side point so this idea of impurity only comes as a vacuum from life in other words when life is infused so there's no place for this impurity but when life is not there or there's a smidgen of a lack of it this impurity enters so when the soul is put back into our body this impurity leads through our extremities and it leaves a little residue in the fingertips and therefore we get rid of that that's just a side point so now if you don't know why jews are so we wash our hands so many times during the day this is one of them right if we cut our nails if we cut our hair right in the bathroom obviously as many times we so now that the during this corona they said to wash your hands what's the hindus what's the novelty of course we're washing our hands anyway so he mentions about the idea of a nightly recap before going to sleep look back and review the events of your day try to identify what lessons you and you can learn from them don't just cruise aimlessly through your week learn from each day be deliberate it's very important i mean this film so many reasons to do that we call hezbollah in hebrew means an accounting of the soul but literally just like in the 12-step programs you should make an accounting you know correct things speak to people who you think you've harmed you know this is so important to make a heshbon hanefish every single every single day of your life before you go to sleep who knows maybe it's the last day of your life anyway king solomon i already mentioned in cohes i mentioned gohelis ecclesiastes chapter five verse two i did or five verse one sorry i did okay um yep okay i have some other notes here this idea of being deliberate so the other safer we're using is called the midrash mole which this is written this particular one the 48 qualities with with which torah's acquired in other words even though he wrote on perky avoid there's a specific uh chapter just on the 48 ways to wisdom and we're going we're talking an ancient ancient source here as opposed to ravenoff-weinberg which is you know this past generation um okay so he brings down the idea is what does it mean to be deliberate the intention here is that a person should not answer hastily don't ask her hastily to any question posed him okay it is true that we have a saying that you should you should be able to answer quickly right to teach the word also has to do with your teeth being quick bite down deliberate nevertheless that's only if it's a very obvious answer but it's better to say i'll take a look at it i'll turn around open up a book right and see what it has to say you may not have seen it the first time and it could be a serious question and make sure that the person asking you understands serious questions oh you just off the top of your head give him an answer he's he might think oh why don't we have to go to this rabbi it's such an easy answer i'll just figure out myself next time i'm not saying to try to trick the person but let him know that it's a good thing that he came to you that it's a serious thing and let's look it up together and you can show him it's a good idea because what we're gonna see it's very important we're gonna you have to be able to say i don't know okay we'll get to that shortly you should contemplate the matter patiently until your mind is very settled and focused this is because there's there is a verse in the torah and saying well it's not the torah it's cohellis 7 24. 24. you want me to read rabbi or you got it no go ahead is that what was is far off and it is very deep who can find it now in hebrew a double language of deep we're talking about wisdom we're talking about the torah just knowing that it's very deep that it's not you don't just be flippant and and and and answer people you need to be very settled and focused this is very deep stuff and it's it's so deep right i mean someone comes to you i think i spoke about this before but let's say you have a chicken and you're not sure it's kosher maybe it was a bone broken maybe there was a wound on it you don't know if it's kosher or what called traefer and two separate people come to you it could be on a turtle level it's really kosher but rabbinically there are stringencies and one who's wealthy and one who's poor they come to you and ask you the same question on the same chicken meaning the exact same problem and to one you may say it's permissible to the other one you say it's forbidden so the rich woman you say you know it's real you should really be strict go out and buy yourself another chicken i know you can afford it to the poor person the act the rabbi is actually instilled within the rabbinic laws certain leniencies that when it comes to financial loss you can be lenient so to the poor person they can't afford this financial loss and therefore they don't they don't they don't have to be strict so the rabbi can answer but he only if he knows he's thinking he's a thinking person he's just you know oh yeah yeah that chicken's not good he doesn't even look up at the person asking him that's not right you have to be able to take all the variables into account okay and i think that's um you know don't be so flippant and make such a rash uh answer carte blanche so unless one applies deep contemplation such as judges they're directed to be as we mentioned it says in perkier vote the very first one to be deliberate in judgment now we already said it also means just to sit just to sit right be issue and can mean to sit so he brings down this idea of yeshiva the idea is that one who does not learn by sitting with continued and oh it's on the same page no one second with continued continued focus so when you're sitting in yeshiva the main thing is there's no distractions it's just you and your study partner you know banging it out your phone is off you know you told your wife i'm dead don't call me right no phone calls just total concentration and if you don't have this concentration this focus you won't be able to penetrate the depths of whatever you're trying to get to this is because the law cannot be properly elucidated and clarified without a person devoting himself to sit to really sit in in yiddish because this slice zip flesh to sit on your tuckers right to sit on your flesh to sit on your skin like there are people and you know add adhd all kinds of you know issues today i get it but if you have it's just five minutes of concentration or 20 minutes you know yeshiva guy can be sitting there four hours in the morning another four hours in the afternoon another three three hours in the evening and you're talking about 11 12 hours of just sitting concentrating you know whatever it is if it's only five minutes try to concentrate during those the whatever minimum amount you can there's no way to get to the you know if you're constantly distracted so you have to devote yourself definitely there is a another mission in percyavote it's in chapter 2 mission 7. now it's quite long and i only wanted to quote a few a few a few words in the middle to one who increases study increases wisdom those words are marbe yeshiva the the word yeshiva means study in this context or in other words to be able to sit and really concentrate that is wisdom now let me just give you the three the three phrases i wanted to focus one who increases torah increases life you increase torah which we all know what torah is you increase life yeshiva you're able to sit and concentrate and focus you actually increase wisdom right this is the whole reason number 13 yeshiva yeshua is part of the ways to acquire wisdom one who increases counsel increases understanding those are the three things i wanted to pick out of that mission in perkier both for all those people who love hercule vote you see that it brings this idea down um now i want to focus on a few more ideas i think i might have okay now explaining now we explain regarding the mishna um and which mission is that the first one which we said about be deliberate in judgment so the rambam the rambam their notes regarding the mishnah some new information often becomes available with the passing of time as right we all know i mean it's just crazy when you think about what's happening in america with people making claims and then thank god time goes by and more information comes out and then you find out this is the hatchet job kangaroo court you know those are the worst kinds right everyone is such a rush to make an accusation and just slow prejudice that the evidence comes out by reaching a conclusion too quickly a judge might be depriving himself of information he needs to in order to reach the truth rashi actually comments there that to arrive at the truth a person must investigate the matter deeply and to do so takes time as i mentioned already write a guilty verdict you wait overnight an innocent verdict you can say right away rubino yona which i also give a class on shari truva he mentions he explains the mistakes are common and expected okay especially if you really think about the idea that a capital crime or something that is a severe punishment you want to take your time so therefore proper investigation requires a person to patiently and deeply analyze the information at hand after which he must allow the ideas to percolate once again percolating his head and to rethink the issue this will give him new insight which he was able to perceive before just the idea i meant i wanted to put together the concept of percolating with the idea of tom everything through the gomorrah's what's the reason what's the reason we want to know the reason what's tom so the idea of percolating allows you to draw as much flavor right into what you're about to consume we already said about right um plowing planting harvesting and then eating so it's it's it's very apricot applicable that helps avoid uh miscarriages of justice for sure yep okay now what did we also mention the idea of yeshiva increases wisdom right yeshiva so the midrash actually quotes two distinct explanations he who increases yeshiva increases wisdom now he quotes i don't know this is a old um um what when you call it uh iraqi jew i don't i don't know exactly where he's quoting from who calls themselves ibn ibn is like ben in arabic so joseph the son of nagnesh he explains the word yeshiva literally means sitting which again just reiterates the idea of sitting with continued focus on your lessons then he quotes yosef is obviously babylonia right and iraq so whoever this um iraq or iran iran so joseph the son of shushan he explains that yeshiva is definitely an academy as i mentioned before when you go to abate midrash and maybe there is a successful bait midrash for vine and but anyway you go to yeshiva it's a place where the person is exposed to his teacher or students and of course we quoted the gomorrah in times 7a right where are you going to gain your wisdom amongst your teachers your your colleagues and of course your students now we're open to more than one interpretation and the midji shmuel ambiguously ambiguously means that there's more than one interpretation he actually says you can use them both so one who does not learn be a shiva cannot penetrate to the depths of the law this is because the law will not be properly elucidated and clarified without the person learning with this clear focus so he says i cho i choose to go with this explanation of sitting with continued focus that's going to be very important even ruby akiva think about this ruby akiba he really learned for 24 years straight now the gamora explains that after 12 years he decided to go home and to see his wife and he overheard her from a distance talking one of the neighbors one of the neighbors was actually making fun of his wife saying ah your husband you know he really cares about you is really you know becoming a tom mcconkum this is really what you want for your life to your husband never to be around she says it was up to me i'd send him back for another 12 years before he even i mean he was only a few feet away from her apparently i mean he was able to hear her he turned around he didn't even say hi he didn't even say i traveled all this distance i'm going to stay the night and leave back tomorrow his turning around enabled him to actually be there as if he was there 24 years because imagine if he learned for 12 years saw his wife stayed the night and went back for another 12 years it wouldn't be the same 12 years and then 12 years is not the same as 24 years straight i'm just telling you like uh quantitatively different okay and this is what we okay um this is an idea of continued focus and because it is true to the literal translation he wanted to keep it that way that's what yeshiva means however the midrashma himself explains the word yeshiva as an academy with a different twist and this is a real different twist for all those people out there with i don't know extra stimulus money right you could support a torah yeshiva and it's a choir it's like you're acquiring your own wisdom let me explain the person who increases his financial support of yeshiva increases his own torah wisdom and he gets credit as if he actually studied all the torah that he enabled the other students to learn i want to just give you an example of my own experience you see these books like nothing asha torah has walls covered with books walls all four walls at least in the old bait midrash and when we moved to the new bait midrash i was the book binder i used to bind books which means um take it was not professional but it was the way yeshivas do it we would take the book out of the binding it was already dilapidated it was already ruined and we would re strengthen the binding and we would drill holes and we would take a uh before that you take a needle and you sew everything up and in order to move all the books we decided and today it's so beautifully shellacked which he color-coded on the outside so i was um selected to be in charge i mean obviously rob berkowitz was obviously in charge of everything but i was the head book binder and we bounced every book and i felt every page right because i was the only one that was trusted to drill the hole i got all the guys uh sewing but um so every single book went through my hands and i checked inside i mean it was you know it's not like you can just zip through it you have to check the book out measure it it was just like an experience and i imagined myself just having the books pass through my hands that these books would last forever when you buy them because when you're in yeshiva if you don't buy the book when it's new and that's what we try to instill then it's just going to fall apart and trying to bind it after it's totally used uh it'll never be the same you bind it when it first comes in but anyway we saved we actually literally saved i'm going to say tens of thousands of books we worked the whole summer like three months right it was just incredible amount of work and i just felt the privilege that it went through my own hands physically and i felt like i was you know as a spiritual energy coming out of every single book that not only was coming into me but i was also helping whoever however long these books these are going to be my energy going into these people as well it was like um you know in and out you know it's just an incredible experience and i go to the base and i see it and i i guess knowing that those books are still around we're talking now that was over 20 years ago and those books are still there being used by hundreds of people every day anyway so that's how we end off here support torah right by supporting torah you're also gaining so much even if you don't have the you know the the mental capacity or the zits flesh as we say the ability to sit if you support torah you will end up uh gaining so much so we'll able in there we'll end there so that's tonight's lesson called yeshuv of course you you're invited to listen to ravnoch weinberg himself go through the different steps he is so alive he's so full of energy um he brings it down he's talking to college students and you know for an older man i i imagine in the in the videos he's in the 60s and 70s and he's able to bring it down and he's talking directly to these college students and he's touching them you know in their hearts and i invite you to listen to every single one of the 48 ways that the roshiva is personally speaking on and you'll get a whole a much deeper and better perspective than i could ever give wow rabbi that is just amazing you know i know how valuable this series is and yet i had not learned it through uh rabbi weinberg and i i have listened to one or two of the the his audios uh on them uh i'm just overjoyed to hear you share it and you share it and you're throwing in what you've learned from him but just to hear the story of touching the books the passing on the transmission you know just the the prayer and the hope and the interaction and the connectivity over all time is it's just you know being involved in the affairs of godliness is just it's just a joy and i just hope banana out there in the world start to grasp that hey there's a beauty there that we can learn from the hebrew people in reality and you can begin to live it and function it and develop it in your community wherever you are thank you so much for sharing today so i just want to have one more thing because you touched on an idea you know in the 12-step program they talk about service right these people are coming from you know horrendous uh experiences with addiction no matter what kind of addiction it is and being involved in service which ultimately means helping other people this is like a key to their survival well i want you to know everything in the 12-step program came from the bible it came from us that's everyone knows the jewish people are supposed to be a kingdom of priests a but the word cohen it's not like somebody's sitting on a pedestal it means they're serving it's called service that's what they're serving and with you no matter who you are you want to connect to the jewish people you know you're helping the the priest you're like a a servant of the servant you're a a assistant to the priest right you're helping them you're supporting them you're guiding them you're you know you're moving the service along you're carrying even if it's plowing or planting or like is it harvesting and eating today getting things in its proper flow and order and going through every stage and every step it's important it's important but it's all uh definitely purposeful and uh connective rabbi that's beautiful so hashem willing are we on for next week rabbi mizrat hashem but i think the week after we're not because it's purim in jerusalem like it's it's respectful it is it's not poor it's complicated it's a three-day event it's like it starts thursday night and it ends sunday afternoon um dancing around the the festivals trying to do broadcasts and share them for the last few years and uh respectfully so uh it's just a joy to to learn uh especially coming out of jerusalem uh the the light of torah and then to see that you you actually have to step back for a reason and a purpose makes us want to learn all the more so you know respectfully so you keep you keep being jewish you keep being the rabbi you're supposed to be and please do keep shining light to the the rest of the world we needed more than uh ever before i think out here and uh so rabbi thanks once again so till next week any last words sir just looking forward to a great week shavuot everyone holy truth is we always have to be joyful because only on adam we increase our joy it's not like oh now you have to be joyful no now you have to increase your joy which means you're always having an obligation to be joyful and being joyful i don't want to you know get into anything political but i'm not a doctor but i do know that joy is like a great defense against negativity especially i'll just use the word means bacteria right even on a metaphysical level negativity or things you cannot see little germs viruses and whatnot the the um rebecca agar 250 years ago during an early pandemic said no matter what's going on around you at the time of the pandemic you have to be joyful this is the best way to uh keep keep the the negative forces at bay wow a merry heart does good like a medicine but i tell you i've never heard anybody say that the month of adar is the time to grow in joy that is beautiful i'd love to know more about that and why that's so but i'm going to take you at face value rabbi you're the rabbi i'm gonna and you know what i just uh i just sure hope i can seize more joy as it approaches so thank you so much until next week folks have a wonderful wonderful week [Music]