What Is The Value Of A Chidush?
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0:36Debates in Judaism do not have anything to do with whether someone is smarter or more foolish. They also have nothing to do with whether somebody is older or younger. It doesn't have to do with anything else. What is important is whether it is emet or sheker, true or false. That's the only thing that you should be concerned with, not whether it's your chidush or his chidush, not whether it's your opinion or his opinion. More. He had enough meat, where he got two legs of a cow, two huge legs. I mean, in today's world, probably worth $10,000. And he had two legs. How come in those kodesh kadashim, he announces, "Whoever can give me a chidush, I'll give him one of these. Give me any chidush, anything I don't know." One of the rabbis says, gives him a chidush.
2:00And this I learned from Rava. I learned this from Rava. He says, "You learned this from Rava? That's another chidush." Why? That's my rabbi. He gave him both of them. He gave him both of the things. Why? A chidush, what you said, is good. But it's even better that it came from my rabbi, and I didn't know it. It's from my rabbi? That's worth a million dollars to me. That's the value of a chidush. Sometimes the Chidush is crooked. Sometimes the Chidush is upside down. Sometimes the Chidush is biased. You have to have a chavruta. You have to have a rabbi. You have to have a talmid chacham. You have to have somebody tell you, hey, by the way, I understand your chidush sounds amazing. Amazing. It's fantastic. It's like one of those beautiful cakes that you just can't wait to eat. It's on the display. In the stores, they have a display, and each cake you just want to run through the window and eat it. The problem is it's plastic. Your chidush is plastic.
3:03It's not a flavor. Once you look inside, your chidush is worthless. Why? Because it has your bias in it. It's not a chidush; it's an error. You have to remove the bias to reach a true chidush. If you have an ego, you'll argue that it's a real cake. It's a real cake. You just don't know how to eat it. Actually, it's plastic, my friend. No, no, it's just plastic for you. You simply don’t know what you're talking about. It's from France. It's from Belgium. Belgian chocolate. to start creating different things, different excuses as to why your chiddush really works.
