July 9, 2024

Exploring Wisdom Beyond Reach: Lessons from the Satmar Rebbe and the Enigma of the Red Heifer

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Season 7

Can tackling complex subjects beyond your current understanding make you smarter? Tune in to this enlightening episode as we unravel Satmar Rebbe's profound wisdom on this idea, rooted in the Gemara Mesechte Yuma and a mysterious verse from Koheles. Discover how even Shlomo HaMalach, the wisest of men, grappled with the depths of the red heifer, ultimately teaching us a powerful lesson about the pursuit of knowledge.

Join us as we explore the Satmar Rebbe's unique interpretation and learn how challenging oneself with topics "rechoyka mimeni" or far above one's level can lead to cognitive enhancement and disciplined thinking. Like adding weight to a bench press builds physical strength, immersing oneself in complex studies molds a sharper, more educated mind. Elevate your intellectual journey by pushing the boundaries of your knowledge, and watch how unprecedented growth and wisdom unfold.

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There is a way to get more wise, become smarter, sharper, more of a disciplined thinker.

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And the Satmar Rebbe, he tells it to us.

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This idea, this sharp idea, very much in his style, based on an incredible insight from the Gemara Mesechte Yuma.

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In discussing our red heifer that is the topic of our Parsha parashas chukas, the Gemara Mesech de Yuma, yedal HaMalalaf, says that this red heifer, the wisest of all men, sought to understand its depths, but he could not and therefore he penned the verse.

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It is in Koheles Zion Chafkimal Kolze Nosisi Bechachma.

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All this I tested with my wisdom, omarti Echkama.

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I said to myself I want to become wise.

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I thought I could fathom it.

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Become wise.

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I thought I could fathom it, but I have discovered that wisdom eludes me.

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It says it's referring to this parasha that Shlomo HaMalach wanted to become wise about how it is that the parah aduma works.

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But it was above him.

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It eluded him, he said.

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But the Satmar Rebbe says you can also read the possek, following the realms of the pardes, going deeper into the verse, jumping down into a little bit of drush.

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The Satmar Rebbe says that this possek also shows us the trick as to how it is that one does become wise.

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And how is it?

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You read the posik a marti echkama.

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A person wants to get smart.

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He says I want to become wise.

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So what do you study?

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You study something that is rechoyke mimeni.

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You study something that's way above you.

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That means that even when you're a pre-algebra student, in order to become more wise and understand the depth of arithmetic, you need to jump in.

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That is way above you, because your brain naturally learns to delve into these things and put them into their right spots and understand them and fathom them, and your brain begins to mold into a higher, more disciplined, more educated brain.

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You can't study something that's on your level.

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You have to study something above your level Rechoikahi, like adding weight to the bench press, and then you become stronger and then you become wiser.

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That's how we shtayg, that's how growth is done.

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That's how doing something different will give us something that we've never got, Because we're now studying something we've never studied before.

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So now we will become smarter and get a result we have never seen before.