Yanuka in English - Pathways of the Torah 3/26

Okay, here we go. We're in chapter three, the safer of the Inuka, the pathways of the Torah, Hatorah, and guess what? Let's go. Besides the factor what's incumbent upon us, what we're required to do in regards to learning Talmud, Gamara, and the Torah, and the laws of Judaism, in order that we should know all the specifics of all the laws and the the Halachot, the what we're supposed to do, and all the roots of our laws, where it's found in the Torah, we have to know all this. That's like what we do. We know the Torah, the five books, and then the Talmud and the Mishnah explain where the laws are, we learn the laws, and we could trace it back. Besides all that, that is what's called Mitzvah Torah. That's the mitzvah of learning and knowing Torah that we have to do. This is is in order so that we should know the law and how to apply it, the practical law, and we shouldn't violate a commandment of the Torah or the or the commandment of the rabbis. God forbid, we shouldn't violate either one of those, and that's why we learn the laws. Besides all this, the why we have to know it and the reasons and to to not violate the Torah, there's another deeper reason that besides all this, we must be involved in learning Torah and Talmud in order to rectify and fix our mind and our knowledge and our wisdom and our thoughts. That gets fixed through the learning of the Torah. So, that's a whole new reason. One was just to know it so we don't violate it. Now we're going in for a second reason. So, we should fix our mind and our knowledge. I We should fix learn Torah to fix our mind all the way until we're able to be saved from the pathways of thoughts and knowledge of like your consciousness that's called madness and a spirit of insanity that dwells on a person's intellect and its root is in the sin of Adam and Eve from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Since that time, a spirit of madness and insanity has fallen upon humanity. How do you battle that and get rid of it? Some people say therapy, some people say plant medicines, some people say yoga, take a walk. No. The Enuka says, you learn Talmud, you learn Gemara, you learn the laws of what they are today. That process in and of itself rectifies the madness in your mind and you sharpen your brain. And the Enuka says, therefore, I mean, he's quoting where it comes from from the Chida, from the Beerke Yosef that it says forever a person should be stringent and make sure he's learned he or she's learning Torah and Talmud just like you are stringent with mitzvot of like putting on tefillin. You put on tefillin every day. Guys, don't miss a day of tefillin. You have to do it. So too, it's like learning the Torah, learning the Talmud is not like something where like, oh, we have to do it now here. It's like on you. You got to figure it out and you got to do it. But guess what? It's just as important as a mitzvah as tefillin. It seems it's so serious. Why? Cuz it's not just to learn the laws. Why am I breaking my back over an argument 2,000 years ago? Learning that argument actually sharpens your mind and fixes the evil spirit that's resting inside of us for thousands of years. Whoever wants to learn, you reach out to me. I'll send you good great places to learn. You got a havruta, you got a study mate, whatever it is. But guess what? I love you all so much. You stay strong. Have a good day and over and out.