Parsha Review Podcast · Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe

00:01 - Intro (Announcement)
You are listening to Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe of TORCH in Houston, Texas. This is the Parsha Review Podcast.

00:09 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Host)
Welcome back everybody to the Parsha Review Podcast. It is so wonderful to be here this morning with all y'all. This week's Parsha is Parsha's Bechukosai, Bechukosai, my decrees, if you follow my decrees. So the Parsha begins, chapter 26, verse number 3. If, by my decrees, you go and you follow and my commandments you observe and you perform them, what happens if you do that? The Torah says Then I will provide your rains in their time and the land will give its produce and the tree of the land will give its fruit. And the tree of the land will give its fruit. And the portion continues to tell us all of the incredible blessings that will be bestowed upon the people who follow the decrees and the commandments and perform them. Of Hashem, of the Torah.

01:20
So what does our commentary say? Well, listen to what Rashi says. You'd think that what is this? Referring to? The observance of the mitzvahs, because it says my mitzvahs shall be observed. So we know that it's referring to the observance of the mitzvah. So why does the verse also say if you go by my decrees it already said a very similar term and if you follow my commandments? So what is if you go by my decrees? What is if you go by my decrees that you shall be immersed in the study of Torah. That means it's not enough to perform the mitzvahs, you have to be immersed in the study of Torah. My dear friends, this is a world that we need to be introduced to, the world of Torah study.

02:32
We know how important it is to observe the mitzvahs. We know how important it is to follow the commands of the Torah, but how important is it for me to learn that Torah, to study that Torah, to invest in that Torah? You know, every morning we say a phenomenal blessing Hashem chose us from all the nations and gave us the Torah. He gave us His Torah. Baruch atah, hashem, nose all the nations, and gave us the Torah. He gave us His Torah. Blessed are you, hashem, the giver of the Torah. But before we say that blessing, we have another magnificent blessing, and that is blessed. Are you Hashem, our God, king of the Universe, who sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us To engross ourselves, to immerse ourselves in the words of Torah? I don't understand. If I was to write this blessing, you know what I would write. To learn it. What is it to be immersed in Torah? Learn it.

03:56
There's something different to being immersed and engrossed in Torah. You see, torah is not the study of science, torah is not the study of math. It's not a subject, it's not a. So the way we see Torah, and the way the Torah is commanded to us by the Almighty in his Torah, is that we don't study it like another subject. Oh, we have a loose leaf and we have little tabs for each subject, and one of them happens to be Torah. So we study a little Torah, we study a little science, we study a little math, a little language, a little English, a little you know literature and a little bit of Torah. No, that's not the way we work. That's not the way God wants us to study Torah. We need to be immersed in the study of Torah, la'asok. You know what la'asok means. La'asok means, like your occupation. Someone asks you so what do you do? Well, I'm a lawyer. My question you're having a barbecue with your friends on Memorial Day. Are you a lawyer then? No, you're just a guy. You're not immersed in it. It's not your life, torah. Torah is a different level. Torah is our life. It is our life, ki hem chayenu. It is our life, ve'orech yameinu. It is everything in our life. Torah is the essence of who we are.

05:35
The Chavetz Chaim would bring a parable to this. He would say that someone who has a store, a business. So what happens if on the front door it says closed? You know, they flip the banner, it says open, opens at 9 am, and then when they go out for lunch they say closed, they flip it closed. So what happens when it's closed? You come to the door, you go to your shoe store, to your shoe hospital to get your boots repaired, and you try the door and it's locked. So what happens then? What goes on then when that door is locked? You think the owner of the store, you think the owner of that business is closed. No, he might be out for lunch, but he's thinking about his business. He might be with his friends, but he's thinking about his business. He might be with his friends, but he's thinking about his business, because when someone is occupied by their business, it completely occupies them. Which is why the Chavetz Chaim says the verse that is embedded into the words, that are embedded into our blessing, is that the study of Torah should be la'asok b'divrei sora. We should be completely consumed and immersed in the study of Torah.

06:54
Torah is not a subject. Torah is life. It is our life's blood. Our existence is by the study of Torah. What our grandparents and our great-grandparents and our great-great-great-grandparents would do to sit and study Torah. Even for a moment, you have a moment to study Torah. How precious, how meaningful. Because what is Torah? Torah? Many people think Torah is laws, it's rules, it's instructions. That's Torah. No, torah is the language of God. Torah is the language of God. Torah is the language of God, which is why, when we study Torah, we are you know, we're getting this laser injection of God language into our lives. We're being infused with God language. This is Torah. Torah is not a separate subject.

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Oh, I'm going for my Torah class 10.30 on Tuesdays. I have my Torah class. No, it's that even on 10.30 on Wednesday and 10.30 on Thursday and 10.30 on Friday and 10.30 Shabbos morning, my life is consumed by a world of Torah. Oh, but I'm by the bank now, so we can think about a verse. My grandfather would say that before you leave the house, you're about to go. You're going to a supermarket. There are different ways you can go around the supermarket. You can go to the supermarket and be busy looking at everybody, looking at what fashion, what clothes they're wearing, what they're buying, seeing how beautiful they are. You can be busy with a lot of different distractions or you can be immersed in your own spiritual world.

09:07
Take a Mishnah, take a verse from the Parsha, a verse from that week's Torah. Read it before you leave the house and think about it. How many times do we think about something? And the more we think about it, the more it opens up, like a flower, layer after layer after layer. Imagine if we did that every day, if we took a little verse from the portion and just started letting it rumerate in our brain and let it slowly develop and open up. We all have the ability to immerse ourselves in Torah. Now, I'm not talking about to the level of our great sages. Our great sages would sit and learn Torah all day and all night.

10:02
You know, shlomo Zalman Orbach passed away in the 90s. What an amazing, amazing, godly human being. The smile, the radiance. I had the privilege of meeting him once. The glow was unbelievable, unimaginable. It was just a radiant glow coming from his face. Like you know, you imagine what happened from Moshe. It says that when Moshe descended the mountain Koran Oroponov, the light coming from his face was like, so bright he needed to cover his face so that people would be blinded from it.

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Rav Shlomo Zalman Arbach was a simple man, he once said. Someone asked him how did you become so great in Torah? He said he came from a very poor family, very, very poor family In Jerusalem. They're an old Jerusalem family. For a thousand years, two thousand years, their family never left and they had just a few little potatoes. That's it they had for dinner. But there wasn't enough for everyone. See, he said to his brother you can have my potatoes. And what are you going to do? He says I'll continue studying my Torah. And he continued to study his Torah and continued to study his Torah and didn't leave the study hall. Food what am I going to run after food? There is no food. Might as well sit and continue learning A few potatoes. So I gave my brother a few potatoes.

11:50
So we all love going to weddings. So here's what Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Orbach did about going to weddings. As a young man who's in the age of you know all your friends are getting married, so everyone thinks they're going to go to the wedding. Now, what's very important as a guest to a wedding, you want to make sure that the Baal Simcha, the person who's making this wedding, sees that you were there. Now, thank God, we were blessed, married off our daughter at the beginning of the month. God willing, in a month and a half we're marrying off our son and Baruch Hashem.

12:19
It's really beautiful, but you have a lot of people there, so it's a few hundred people at a wedding to get to see. Every person, every person wants to make sure that you know that they were there. So what's the likelihood You're dancing with the groom? What's the likelihood that they're going to be so elated and excited that you were there? Eh, maybe if you dance for three hours, four hours, at the wedding, maybe they'll notice that you were there for 10 seconds. So the rabbi said if I stay and I don't go to those weddings, I stay and sit in the study hall and study Torah instead of going to the wedding, so I get an extra four hours of Torah study for every wedding. I'll just sit and learn, he says. You know what will happen later, later, instead of being at a wedding for four hours and maybe for 10 seconds, being noticed by the Baal Simcha, by the person who's making this great celebration. He says, if I sit and study now, later, when I come to the wedding, for only 10 seconds, they'll be so excited. He said it's a worthwhile investment, because who doesn't want a righteous scholar to come to their son's wedding? He says so, all of my friends. I'm investing in their son's wedding. He says so, all of my friends, I'm investing in their children's weddings by hopefully becoming a great Torah scholar. And I'll tell you something else. You say to yourself well, you think you're such a great Torah scholar, you think you're such. So I'll tell you my grandfather many people would come and want to get a blessing.

14:03
Oh Rabbi, my son's bar mitzvah is tonight. I want you to give him a blessing. Give him a blessing. So my grandfather would. It was usually during lunchtime and I would open the door and they'd say, oh, is the rabbi here? We want a blessing. It's his bar mitzvah today.

14:18
So I'd go back to my grandfather and I'd say to my grandfather, while he's eating lunch, I say Saba, someone came to get a blessing for their son. It's their bar mitzvah tonight. So my grandfather would get up and come to the door and greet them beautifully, with a beautiful smile, with a countenance, and my grandfather would say, yeah, what can I do? He said look at the bar mitzvah boy. And they'd say it's his bar mitzvah tonight. He wants a blessing from my grandfather would say ah, not such a holy man. There are people who are holier than me. You can go to them, get real blessings. Me, I'm a nobody. He was truly humble. We'd say what happened? No, no, no. We want a blessing from you. My grandfather would say what do you want me to bless you?

15:02
So the boy would say to be a righteous Torah scholar. He said you want to be a Torah scholar? You don't need a blessing for that, just sit and learn. Sit and learn, you'll be a Torah scholar. People think that to be a righteous Torah scholar like there's some magic. Oh, if I'm blessed, then I can be a. No, no, no, no. Stop what you're doing. Open a book and start learning. You want to be educated in Torah. All you got to do is immerse yourself in Torah study. Immerse yourself, take a verse, take a prayer, take something and make it yours. Own it. My dear friends, I encourage you all. We're learning here at the Torch Center for years and years.

15:48
Don't rely only on the rabbi's teachings. Take something on yourself. Take a book, learn it, master it, make it yours, it's your Torah. It's not the rabbi's Torah, it's your Torah. In Deuteronomy, god tells us it is an inheritance. This Torah is an inheritance for every Jew, not only for the scholars, not only for the rabbis, not only for the religious. It belongs to every single Jew. It's our Torah. It belongs to each and Jew. It's our Torah. It belongs to each and every one of us. Nobody is the master over it. And you know what? Look at the Talmud. Look at the Talmud. Look how every opinion is cherished in the Talmud. He says this, he says that, he says this, he says that, he says this. Everyone has an opinion and everybody's opinion counts. It doesn't mean that we follow every opinion, but we mention every opinion. Why do we mention every opinion? It's an encouragement for each and every one of us to build our own armory of Torah, build our own knowledge of Torah, our own wellspring of Torah.

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I remember my rabbi may he live and be well. We were learning in yeshiva. We were learning Talmud, and one of the students, one of my friends, asked a question. My one of the students, one of my friends, asked a question. My rabbi stood up. He says guys, tomorrow we need to make a kiddush. We need to come and make a l'chaim tomorrow with hot food Kiddush. Why, he says, because he just asked the same exact question as the Ramban Nachmanides, who lived 800 years ago. He asked the same question as the Ramban. Do you know what that is? That someone in their own thought, in their own mind, was able to think of the same question as Nachmanides or the Rambam or the great Tanayic sages, or like Rashi, we all have the ability to do that.

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But we think like, oh, I'm not a trained scholar, no, you are. Hashem gave you a mind. Hashem gave you the ability to think. Hashem gave you the ability to understand. Hashem gave you the ability to understand. Oh, torah is so far from me.

18:37
The verse is not referring to me. You know, the verse in this week's parasha is not referring to me. You know chapter 26, verse 3 in Leviticus, not referring to me. It's referring to the righteous scholars, those people. They need to learn the Torah.

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Me, I'm just a simple guy. I'm a doctor, I'm a lawyer, I'm a dentist, I'm a real estate guy. It's not for me, no, it is for you. Mo Rosh, hakihil HaSeach. It's an inheritance for every single Jew to make it their own. We should never, ever feel like me.

19:21
You're asking me. I'll tell you something amazing. My grandfather, my brother, was once talking to my grandfather and he asked him a halacha question. So my grandfather said I want to teach you a rule when you have a question of how to observe something, don't ask Look for it yourself, open up the books and research it yourself. And then when you come to your own conclusion, after learning it properly, then you can go ask your own conclusion. After learning it properly, then you can go ask to make sure you learned it properly, why? Why is it so important for that? Why does it have to be that process? Because what happens in the process of learning, trying to find your halacha?

20:10
So you're going to open up the book and be like okay, so this is a question about prayer. You know how do I say this? Should I stay and should I sit? Okay, so now we're going to be like, okay, where do I find this law? Okay, so we open up and we say, okay, this is going to be in the Shulchan Aruch and this is going to be in this, in this section. It should be in this and this section, and we're going to open it up and we're going to start going page by page, we'll be like, okay, is it here? I'm going to read through. We're going to learn about three or four different laws. No, it's not this. We'll learn over here a few more pages and we're going to read it and it's like, no, it's not these laws. We learned a few more laws and we look over here and in the process of trying to find the source for the halacha or the question that we have, we will probably learn 10, 20, maybe 30 different things.

20:59
Just by not being lazy and saying, okay, google, what's the answer to this? Okay, that's like the equivalent of just asking the rabbis. Now, that doesn't mean that one shouldn't ask the rabbi. You should have a rabbi and speed dial, have a rabbi and speed dial. And when you're in the store and you want to know, is this kosher symbol a bona fide symbol, is this a recognized symbol? You can ask the rabbi. We have a question in your kitchen. I touched this, I put this, I did this with the flesh, with the milk, with the meat, with the dairy, I don't know. Call the rabbi. The rabbi will tell you right away. But look it up yourself as well. When you're in the middle of cooking.

21:43
You may not have the luxury to just stop everything and just open up the books, but look it up, search for it, read Today. You have unbelievable resources online. By the way, don't trust all of them, but it's worthwhile. It's worthwhile taking a few minutes and searching. I was once a member of an app. A friend of mine called me and he said it was called the Pocket Rabbi app and basically on your phone, you can just ask any question and all of us, a bunch of us rabbis around the world, so it was at every time zone and we'd all get the question and we would respond to the question and we can give the source if we wanted to.

22:31
But basic questions what do I do with this? What do I do if that happened? When should I pray this? When should I pray that? If I forgot to say this, if I forgot to say that, what do I do? And just give the quick answer? That's very good. It's good to have a rabbi in your pocket. It's a great thing to have a rabbi in your pocket. But what's about me? Me advancing my knowledge?

22:54
You know, when I went to go learn by my rabbi, rabbi Yitzchak Berkowitz, in Jerusalem, in the Jerusalem Kolo. I had the day I walked in I had a tremendous amount of ideas in my mind of how much I knew in Torah, like I thought I knew a lot. And I walked in, day number one and I was like, oh my goodness, I know nothing. That was after 15, 20 years of learning in yeshiva a lot. And suddenly I realized how much I didn't know. I realized suddenly that I'm completely ignorant when it comes to laws of Shabbos, when it comes to oh, I knew this was permitted, this is forbidden. I had no idea why. I had no idea.

23:47
But what did he do in his incredible wisdom? We didn't just learn the laws, we learned the sources of the laws. We'd go to the verse in the Torah and go to the verses in the prophets and go through the Talmud and go through the discussions and then learn it in the Rambam and then go to the Shulchan Aruch and then have the conclusion. And then you understand why is it important to do conclusion? And then you understand Then, why is it important to do that? Because if you understand the source for the law, then you know how to apply the law in every other area, if you understand not just the practical. This is what you do. This is what you don't do. Look at the source for it. Understand the deeper meaning behind it. Understand what did God want? I'll give you one very, very quick example. Basic foundation for Shabbos. So we know we've all grown with the same concept You're not allowed to work on Shabbos.

24:52
We all know that, right, everybody knows you're not allowed to work on Shabbos. Jews don't work on Shabbos. It's common, everybody knows this. You don't work on Shabbos. Shabbos is a day of rest. It's a. Everybody knows this. You don't work on Shabbos.

25:05
Shabbos is a day of rest. It's a day of rest. So now, if I just leave my knowledge right there. So there are two things I know it's a day that we don't work, okay, so anything that's not work is fine, and it's a day of rest. And anything that I define as rest is perfect, all right. So for me, it's restful to go to the movies. It's a day of rest. So does that qualify? Is that okay to do on Shabbos To me? You know I'm on my way to synagogue. Can I just pick up my cleaners? You know it's very restful for me to drive to the beach, so maybe that's also rest. Heaven forbid. It's a complete misunderstanding of what very shallow understanding of what rest means and what work means. I've given this example before, but my wife and I are very privileged to have many people over for Shabbos. That's a lot of work, oh, one second.

25:58
But the Torah says you're not allowed to work on Shabbos.

26:01
That's a lot of work. That's not what's prohibited. Work is not prohibited. So it's a mistaken definition. The Torah says you're not allowed to do creative labor. Creative labor oh, it's a whole new definition now. What is creative labor? What is creative labor? So, moving around tables, setting the table, cleaning the table, serving food, that's work, that's fine. That's not creative labor, because everything was pre-cooked already before Shabbos. Flicking on a light switch, that's creative labor. That's not work. It's creative labor Because you're creating something that didn't exist before. Understand how the definition, by changing the definition, suddenly Shabbos has a completely different picture. Creative labor is prohibited on Shabbos. Not work, right? If you're a chazen in shul, you're the cantor. That's a lot of work. Right? If you're a chazen in shul, you're the cantor. That's a lot of work On Shabbos. A lot of work. I don't use any microphones. I have to strain my voice, my vocal cords. It's a lot of work by the time I'm done. On Rosh Hashanah, yom Kippur, which is like Shabbos, we don't do any creative labors. I'm very tired. It's a lot of work. It's not creative labor. Okay, understand that.

27:35
There's a very, very big difference here in how you define things. Day of rest, by the way, there is a special takano, a special decree by the sages. For example, we don't ride a horse on Shabbos. Why not? Because you're going to come to breaking the branch. You're going to be so high up on the tree next to the trees in the shade and you're going to play with the twigs, or you're going to play with the branch and you're going to crack the branch. That's why you don't ride a horse on Shabbos. We don't swim on Shabbos. If you notice something very, very beautiful.

28:13
The rabbis made an explicit distinction between vacation, restfulness and Shabbos. Shabbos is a day where we rest from our creative labors. It's not a vacation day. The things you do on Memorial Day, when you're away with your families, go horseback riding, you go swimming. There needs to be a distinction between vacation day. You go on a vacation with your wife or husband to Mexico. What do you do? You go horseback riding, you go swimming. That's not what Shabbos is about.

28:55
The rabbis gave us, by the way, very interesting, very, very interesting. A friend of mine told me that he went horseback riding. He says they were waiting for the rest of the horses to come. They were going on a whole tour and while they were doing that they were under a tree in the shade, like he's really high up on this horse. So he was playing with a branch and he realized he broke a branch. And this was during the weekday this is a regular Tuesday and he suddenly realized I always thought it was crazy the rabbis made a decree because you're going to break a branch, that's why you can't ride a horse. He says this actually happened to me, not on Shabbos, obviously, but the rabbis aren't crazy.

29:41
These decrees that they put is to instill within us that Shabbos is a very, very special day, not a vacation day, not a day of rest. I brought the example of going to the beach because I heard of a woman rabbi here in our community that said that she thought it was very special because that's her definition of rest, of driving to the beach with her family. That's her definition of rest. So she's fulfilling the Shabbos by having her day of rest. That's unfortunate and that's sad that someone would be willing to have such a compromised view of what Shabbos really is. Shabbos is a holy day. Shabbos is a day of unbelievable potential in our connection with Hashem.

30:30
But, going back to where we started, let's invest in our learning, in our knowledge. Let's own something. It doesn't have to be something big. You could take a chapter in Ethics of Our Fathers. You can take a chapter in the laws of Lashon Hara and how to speak properly of the Chavetz Chaim. You can take a chapter of the Torah, own Torah.

31:04
Our sages tell us that what we are asked when we return our soul to the Almighty at the end of days, at the end of our days, what are we asked? Did you study Torah? And we say, of course. Of course I studied Torah. You're kidding. Do you know how many torch classes I went to? Of course I studied Torah. So're kidding. Do you know how many torch classes I went to? Of course I studied Torah. So what are they going to ask? No, so what do you know? What do you have in your hand? What do you have in your hand? What Torah did you acquire? Well, I listened to a lot. I don't remember it all.

31:43
When we study Torah and we open up the books and we learn it and not once and not twice, and not three times and not four times. You know, I love saying the story about Reb Moshe Feinstein. Reb Moshe Feinstein called his nephew and said I get a big mazal tov. He said what's the mazal tov? He says I just finished Talmud, the entire Talmud, for the fourth time. He says uncle, I think you may be confused, but you called me about 15 years ago and you told me that you had concluded the Talmud 101 times. How can it be that this is your fourth time? He says yeah, it's my fourth time finishing the entire Talmud 101 times.

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You know what that means To learn something over and over and over, because every time you look at the Torah, you see it from a completely different perspective. You learn the same verse. I learned this verse last week and you look at it again, you're like completely new insight, a new dimension, a new understanding. What the Torah is commanding us here is don't just follow, lead, learn. When you learn, you're able to overflow your Torah to others.

32:56
I'm going to tell you something. Maybe it's a little bit embarrassing, but I'm going to tell you something about myself. But I'm going to tell you something about myself. I teach for one reason because that's the only way I learn. It's for me an obligation. And I asked my rabbi. I said to my rabbi I said you know, I don't really do very well just learning on my own. So you're all victims here, right, it's just so that I can learn that I teach. So my rabbi said I do the same thing. He said when I want to learn something, I put up a sign in the yeshiva that next Tuesday at three o'clock I'm giving a class on this and this topic. But I don't know anything about that topic. Well, I have till next Tuesday three o'clock I'm giving a class on this and this topic, but I don't know anything about that topic. Well, I have till next Tuesday, three o'clock.

33:47
They learn a lot about it and that's what I do. We have these prayer classes that we're going to talk about. We have these Parsha classes. We have the Mussar classes. You think I'm telling you Mussar, the Mussar classes about character, that you need to perfect. No, I told you a hundred times it's I need to perfect. I'm selfish. The only reason we're learning together is so that I can learn and together, hopefully, we'll all learn. But it's a selfish pursuit because that's the best way I learn. By the way, it's not only in Torah when I was becoming an EMT. I want you to know something, okay, I hope you don't run away. If there's ever an emergency, you call me. Don't run away if I'm the responder.

34:31
But I failed that test four times Because I was trying to learn it and learn it. And I realized the same way in my Torah. The best way I learn is when I teach. I said you know what I have to do the same here. So I announced to my buddies who were all study partners together in our EMT course. I said to them tonight I'm giving a class about the respiratory system and I had till tonight to figure it out. And I did all my research and studied and put together diagrams and I really really learned it because I had to teach it. And and I did all my research and studied and put together diagrams and I really really learned it because I had to teach it. And the next day I said I'm doing another class on the heart. You want to know everything about the chambers of the heart. You want to know exactly about the function of the heart. Tomorrow night at 7 o'clock I'm giving a class and I had until tomorrow night at 7 o'clock to prepare it and then learned it so that I can teach it and the same thing.

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And then I passed and for me, by the way, I don't give up ever but I felt that it was an extra important responsibility for me to continue taking that test for my children. For me to continue taking that test for my children, because my children saw how hard I worked and I failed once. And it's devastating because you go in with the anticipation like I really know this material, I really know this material. I've studied and studied and studied and I failed. And my children were expecting okay, you failed, okay, now just give up. No, no, no, no, we don't give up. We have to go back to the books, start all over again. And then you take the test again and like, okay, it's finally going to pass. No, I failed again. And the celebration, the joy that I had, the satisfaction and the excitement that I had, the satisfaction and the excitement that they had because they learned something which I think is one of the most important lessons you can teach your children. I hope you don't give up.

36:36
Just because you fail once, you fail twice, you fail three times, four times, doesn't mean that you won't succeed the fifth time. What do they say about the guy from KFC? How many times did he try to sell his recipe? I think it was like 200 times till someone invested in his recipe for KFC. And I can tell you hundreds of other stories like that. So five is not that bad. How many experiments till the light bulb? How many experiments? 10,000. 10,000 experiments till he finally got it. It wasn't that it was 10,000 failures, it was 10,000 ways in which you can't do it.

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We are on a mission here. We're on a ticking time bomb Life. We're going to talk about this more in our prayer podcast in a few minutes. We're on a mission of life that we need to take in as much as possible. The world tells us it's taking money, taking food, taking desires, taking temptations, taking pleasures, taking physical. Torah tells us taken something which is far beyond that. Taken something that elevates you. Taken something that changes you, that transforms who you are, that makes you the best version of yourself. My dear friends, have a magnificent Shabbos and don't stop learning. Don't stop learning. This is our mission. This is our goal. My dear friends, have a magnificent Shabbos.

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