"Na'aseh V'nishma" - The Earthshattering Interpretation of Rabbeinu Yona That You Never Knew

Added: 2026-05-20

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[00:00:03]>> Okay. Good morning friends. Welcome.

[00:00:06]Last Monday we spoke about many different meanings of NASA.

[00:00:12]In fact, the shar was 12 incredible explanations for NASA. 10 from the and another two from the Malbam. One of the explanations we gave came from on the Mishna Shamas which interpreted to mean because the question is how is it possible to have more than how is it possible to have more action than wisdom and Rab explained that if a person is upon themselves that whatever they're going to learn whatever the teach they will fulfill they're immediately accredited with the performance they're immediately accredited with the for those mitzvah and it's considered like they did it so you could have more even than says the source of this is we learned it out from that said we're going to do we accept to do they were immediately accredited with the performance of the mitzv and then vanishma and then we'll learn about it later that was one per of Nasishma from Rabenuina.

[00:01:24]But amazingly it emerges from Raenuina.

[00:01:28]Another explanation for NASA and this is found in his explains if somebody doesn't know he will not be complete in good character and in courtesy. It is impossible to be what we call a good person if you're not learned in Tory.

[00:02:00]Even though a person might say, look, I might not be such a scholar, but but I'm a good person. I have good manners. I have good etiquette. I have good I know how to interact properly with people.

[00:02:11]No, says Ra, it is impossible to be complete in mid and in without Torah.

[00:02:18]Most mid are found in the Torah. And gives examples lending money, giving a gift to a a servant who completes his service, honesty. Without Tory, you will not be whole in mid. But then says, and the flip side is says without you will not have Tyra. You first need to correct yourself in midra.

[00:02:55]And if you perfect your mid, the Torah will rest on you.

[00:03:03]The Tory will not rest on someone who's notice.

[00:03:10]Don't say first I'll learn and I'll perfect my character later.

[00:03:18]Don't learn. Don't say, "Yeah, I'm going to first learn first. I'm going to go through the whole and then I'll get my character together." No, you won't learn anything.

[00:03:28]It's impossible. Yeah, it's possible you said the words. It's possible you heard the sh. It's possible you gave the sh.

[00:03:36]It's possible you wrote a commentary on it, but you still are not without says, "What does it mean? Venishma, you mean you need to make yourself into an Adam and then you could learn Tyra be in your mid and then you could learn Tyra." You hear this?

[00:04:16]This is this is not a this is not a per. This is the meaning.

[00:04:22]This is many and bring the shabas before shu is called shabas because according to then the avoid in preparation for shabus on that chabas is the msak in one's mid That means the preparation for is but then says like I wrote earlier. Now here's where it gets fun. Okay. So if the if this would end right now even though I thought I had you know I I thought I had um got I have a monopoly on nasmas. I thought I got them all. I thought I thought I got all the perman I didn't even get the most important one. the most important of but then says like I wrote earlier like I wrote earlier but earlier he wrote the parish of is first beabon yourself to that you'll fulfill whatever you learn and then you'll learn about it fine if If you look carefully earlier in Mishna perimlishna and I'm going to speak this out again when we do in interprets how is it possible you have more than if you're upon yourself to do whatever the teach you but then the Mishna says So if I were how would I interpret those words? It's the converse of the first statement means if someone is upon themselves to do whatever they're going to learn because you're already awarded and rewarded with the for all the mitzvah that you accepted upon yourself. But if you don't do that, if you don't have that attitude of if you say, you know what, first I'll learn and then I'll fulfill, then doesn't learn that way. He doesn't learn that the reverse means and if you're not upon yourself, he learns it means something differently. How does he learn it? He says, "Don't say I'm going to learn and I'm going to fulfill. I'll learn the whole and I'll fulfill." If you say that, your wisdom won't last. You know why?

[00:07:24]Don't say I'll learn and then I'll fulfill. First you have to be in your mid. So the first thing we have to observe is Rabenua did not learn that the reverse statement of the Mishna is coming to tell me the converse of the first statement.

[00:07:39]He the Rabona learns that the the operating factor is not being to fulfill what you learn. The operating factor is now why did Rabo not learn that it just means the converse? Because if a tana says if A then B, I don't need the Tana to then say and if not A not B.

[00:08:03]We we figure that out on our own. The Tana if he says the converse much must be coming to teach me a different point.

[00:08:10]We already know if you're not upon yourself to be what you learn then and you won't be rewarded. It must coming to teach me something else. There must be another aspect of mass. Masov must then be and this is what Ra do David Goldberg points out in his commentary to Rabenua that Rabenua is learning ma encompasses all the preparatory attitudes needed to learn Tyra. And there are two. Number one, the attitude that whatever I'm going to learn, I will fulfill and I will observe.

[00:08:51]That's the first statement of the Mishna. But there's another preparatory step to learn. And that's that's part of when we say means the way you make yourself in preparation for how do you make yourself you prime yourself that whatever you're going to learn you observe and secondly you you fix your character.

[00:09:24]Secondly you fix your character. So the converse of is saying if you don't fix your character, if you're missing that second ingredient, then you have no you're not a cleave for the Tory.

[00:09:39]So the Rabeno learns encompasses oil and thereby ra then offers two new perish in gimlen says based on means that if you're upon yourself to be mimit you'll be awarded and rewarded with it even before you learn about it I will do it even before vishma even before I learn about it. And in paragnu offers a second parish, I will fix my midish and then I will learn to. So in the days in the hours before the of when we know our calendar is a living calendar and everybody is trying to have a personal these are two essential ingredients in our satra. Every Jew should stand before and exclaim.

[00:10:53]NASA means I am I am preparing myself to fulfill what I learn and I'm actively trying and that is the proper preparation for the and on that note I wish you recording