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King Solomon was the wisest of all men.
He was
the wisest, very, very, very wise. He
knew
Torah inside and out. He knew the
languages of the birds. He even knew the
languages and understood the language of
the animals. But there's one thing and
only one thing that he didn't know, and
that is Parah Adumah, which is the red
heifer, the red cow that it becomes a
person that's tame, which is impure. He
becomes pure and the person that helped
him become pure becomes impure. The
question the rabbis ask is a very simple
yet powerful question. That is, God,
you're holy, you're holy, you can do
anything and anything. Why don't you let
Melech, King Solomon, understand
this rule, this this chok, this law?
And Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, who is a
famed founder of the Musar movement, he
answers so beautifully. I love it so
much. And he says,
in essence, that you do not have to be a
machmadana. You know what that means? A
know-it-all. What this comes to teach us
is that you do not go ahead and do Torah
means
because you have to understand all the
intrinsic details of it. Of course, we
promote and we encourage questions and
learning and understanding, but you have
to remember when we received the Torah,
we said, "Na'aseh, we will do, then
nishma, then we will listen." We have to
understand that if God commanded us to
do something, it's in our ability to do
it. If there's a will, there's a way,
but
the way that a person wants, they're
going to help him to be able to do it.
The thing is, a person has to want. And
like
God Almighty, when he gave us
commandments, it's something that we're
able to do. When someone says, "I can't
keep Shabbat" or "I can't keep kosher,"
it's fake news, it's not true. Cuz God
wouldn't command us to do something that
we can't do.
For example, God didn't command us to
pick up a million-pound mountain,
because that's impossible. But then for
a person to keep Shabbat, for a person
to keep kosher, for a person to keep the
laws of taharat hamishpacha, family
purity, and all these different laws
that we have,
it's within [music] our capability to do
it, and it's for our good to be able to
do it. When a person does these mitzvot,
these good actions and deeds, it's for
our good. And next time, when someone
tells you, "I don't understand how this
works, or why we do this, or why we do
that," ask him, "Do you understand how a
phone works? How is it that you have a
device that's not connected to anything,
and you're able to speak to someone with
thousands of miles away from the other
side of the world? Or you're not only
able to speak these days, you're able to
actually see as well. How does that
work?" Many people don't understand, but
they still use it. So, too, because we
don't understand something doesn't mean
it doesn't make sense. God is the
creator of the universe. He knows what's
right and what's wrong, what's good and
what's not. We have to just follow the
ways of the Torah, mitzvot and ma'asim
to be able to follow God's ways, and
we'll be
with God's help only hear besorot tovot,
only good news.
