The Beginning Of Wisdom by King Solomon (6 Minutes)
Full Shiur: MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (10) Connecting To The Top To Stay At The Top https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWFtGrDZPGc If you'd like to invite R' Yaron Reuven to give a lecture at your synagogue, home or office please call 917.468.2324 or email Yaron@BeEzratHaShem.org . Yaron Reuven is based out of Boca Raton, Florida, but travels around the world to give lectures to different groups. Visit us at www.BeEzratHaShem.org Click here https://soundcloud.com/yaronreuven/sets/daily-chidush To Listen to our very popular "Daily Chidush" short audio series. Join one of our interactive "Interesting Torah" Whatsapp groups to get daily messages of short Torah clips that can uplift your day by texting the number above. Please join our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BeEzratHaShem/ and join our group https://www.facebook.com/groups/TorahLessons/ This Group is solely about publicizing HaShem's holy Torah from my lectures as well as great Rabbi's such as Rabbi Efraim Kachlon, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, Rabbi Zamir Cohen, Rabbi Pinto, and anyone else that is teaching interesting and relevant Torah. Also Watch the Shiurs at Torahanytime : https://www.torahanytime.com/#/speaker?l=827 The Torah is the only thing in the world that you can learn and have an outcome that makes you SMARTER, WISER, And a BETTER Human Being. If the Torah you're learning is no longer impacting your life in a positive way, than its time for a change. If you haven't learned Torah in a long time or ever, then its time to start friend. I guarantee you will enjoy the journey and life will never be the same, if you just give it a real chance. 00:00:00 Intoduction 00:00:50 Kosher Doesn't Mean Obvious 00:02:06 Shlomo's Wisdom and Technology 00:04:01 Seeking Wisdom and Power 00:04:29 Embrace Hashem's Discipline 00:04:58 Don't Be Offended by Mussar 00:05:30 Anger and Avodah Zarah
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0:50It's not always black and white. It's not always treif or kosher. Sometimes it looks very, very similar but just a different version of non-kosher. Sometimes you think that the rabbis are being overly cautious, and you wonder, wait, this orange juice is not kosher? What do you mean? It's orange juice. What could be so bad about orange juice? How could orange juice not be kosher? Well, if you find out, you look at the ingredients list, there's a company by the name of Sunny Delight that just about five years ago, for the first time, they got their kosher stamp. For all those years, they were never kosher. Why? Because one of the ingredients that made the Sunny Delight orange juice more orange was crushed beetles. And crushed beetles are not kosher, and they're also disgusting. But they didn't call it crushed beetles on the ingredients list. They call it something pleasant, like E-320 or Red 14, or some code name that resembles a scud missile more than an ingredient for food. So we don't know all the details; we'd get in trouble.
2:06So Shlomo HaMelech says, I need this wisdom, I need to know. So Hashem says, because you asked for the wisdom, I'll give you everything. I'll give you the wisdom beyond any man that ever lived. Only the Mashiach will be wiser than you. The Mashiach will be the only one wiser than you. You'll have chochmah, you'll have wisdom. That's beyond our comprehension. What is it like? We said to someone a couple of weeks ago, people don't understand Chochmat Chazal, the wisdom of the Sages. Needless to say, they don't understand the wisdom of Shlomo HaMelech. But if you look at the Midrashim, the technology that the throne of Shlomo HaMelech had, the technology the throne possessed, you'd swear that he had better technology than we have today. Voice command was the least of the technology. As soon as he stepped on the first step, he had to say a pasuk from the Torah. And all of a sudden, he has the hand or the paw of a lion made of gold and a wing of an eagle made of gold. They're not made out of...
3:29Semiconductors made of gold. All of a sudden, they pick him up and lift him all the way to his throne. And then you have a nice, beautiful dove made out of gold flying in the air somehow, lifting his crown and putting it right on his head. Do you have technology like that today? That's the wisdom of Shlomo HaMelech. A small token of it. So Shlomo HaMelech is asking, I need this wisdom. Hashem says, I'm going to give you the wisdom, I'm going to give you the power, you're not going to have any war, everyone's going to be scared of you, you're going to have money, you're going to have power, you're going to have everything. And this man who had everything, he says this, in chapter 3, verse 12 of Mishlei, Sefer Mishlei, verse 11:
4:29My child, do not despise Hashem's discipline, and do not despise His reproof, His rebuke. For Hashem admonishes the one He loves, and like a father, He mollifies the child. It is crucial to embrace the lessons and guidance Hashem provides, even when they challenge us. Recognizing that these teachings come from a place of divine love can help us grow in our spiritual journey. Praiseworthy is a person who has found wisdom, a person who can derive understanding from it. And it continues, speaking about how you shouldn't get so offended by hearing Mussar that makes you question yourself. Don't get so offended and all bent out of shape if all of a sudden some young guy tells you, hey, by the way, you're the equivalent of an idol worshiper if you drive to the Knesset on Shabbat. Because I didn't write it.
5:30Don't get so offended if Chazal tells you that anytime somebody is angry, they consider it the equivalent of Avodah Zarah. Have you ever met an Israeli who doesn't get angry? To be an Israeli, one of the qualities is to be angry. You can't be an Israeli without being angry. Chazal says you're not allowed. So, Chazal says it's not allowed. Chazal says it's not allowed. What, you think they made it up? They didn't make it up. It's all from Hashem.
