How Much Torah Is There For Me To Learn? (3 Minutes)
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0:02This is exactly what Hashem is telling you: this is my entire Torah. Whatever you think you really understand, you don't understand. It means that you get a little taste of what the Torah says, but it's not the complete Torah; the Torah is wider than the ocean. Rabbi Eliezer, I'm sorry, Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, who was one of the rabbis of Rabbi Akiva, said in the Gemara, if... If all of the ocean were ink, and all of the trees were pens, and all of the land was paper, it still would not be enough to write the Torah that I know, just for me, Eliezer Ben-Hyrcanus knows. And what I know is still not even a fraction, not even 1% of the real Torah. That's how much Torah there is. But it also says in Pirkei Avot: A lot of people get upset when they learn Torah; they finish another book, but then they see there are tens and tens of thousands of books that they don't even know exist, let alone the ones that they could learn. So sometimes people get upset that they don't know. But Torah specifically tells you it's not your obligation to finish it. First of all, it's impossible to finish it.
1:22It's impossible to finish it. And second of all, that's not what Hashem commanded you. He didn't command you to finish Torah. He commanded you to learn Torah. And learning is very different than trying to complete. Why? When you try to complete, then it's like working for the mail room and trying—the guy in the box says, listen, as soon as there are 5,000 letters in the box, you go home. So what are you going to do? you're not going to look at anything. You're going to become like a little machine. You're going to grab a letter, it doesn't matter what the address is, anything. You're just going to throw everything in. If it goes to the wrong address, that's somebody else's problem. That's what happens when you're trying to finish just to go home. When Hashem says learn, that means that You're going to learn it until you understand it, or as much as you possibly can. This is the reason why many, many Talmidei Chachamim can learn one daf Gemara, one page of Gemara, for a whole year. One page. One page for a whole year, and they still don't understand the whole thing. Why? Because they want to know the inyan, the details, and everything around it. One page of Gemara.
2:38Whereas we, we try to just, let me finish another sefer, finish another sefer so I can feel smarter. But, you know, listen, it's good to have a lot of content, but it's also important to know that you're not, you know, you're supposed to learn it and understand it, not just skim through it.
