0020 - Yoreh Dei'a

00:01 We know that the Rebbe wanted that every bocher before he gets married should learn Yirei Deyah and get semichah. And the Seder in seven seventy was that when a bocher became twenty, that's when he considered learning Yirei Deyah. But it wasn't that just he decided to learn Yirei Deyah, but the Seder was that you would tell the Hanhalah that you're twenty, and you're considering learning Yirei Deyah. And they would ask the Rebbe, because Hanhalah used to go into Yechidus once a month, and they would give a report and discuss with the Rebbe in yoni, in the ge'ah, the yeshiva, in the ge'ah de bochrim. So they would go in Mizman Lezman with a list where bochrim who became twenty were thinking of starting Yirei Deyah. And the Rebbe would look through the list, and the Rebbe would, derech klal, agree. Sometimes he would say no on certain bocher. But one thing was clear, that no one started without getting a shuz from the Rebbe. And mostly the Rebbe would give the shuz, sometimes not. Sometimes I believe it was because some bochrim maybe were not shayech to it, and sometimes it was because it seemed that when you start learning Yirei Deyah, it's already a beginning of going out of the yeshiva, and the Rebbe didn't want. Sometimes he wanted you should continue learning Gemara and be more involved in the yeshiva. But whatever the reason is, sometimes-- mostly he would agree, sometimes he would not agree. When I became twenty, I spoke to Rabbi

01:13 Mentlick, and I told him that I'm thinking of starting Yirei Deyah. He said, "Very good." And he said, "I'll put you down on the list." So the next time they went into Yechidus, they gave the Rebbe the list. The Rebbe looked down the list, and to most of them, he agreed. When it came to my name, the Rebbe stopped, and he looked at it, and he said to the Hanhalah, basically, I think Rabbi Mentlick, "Er vil eich lerne Yirei Deyah." He also wants to learn Yirei Deyah. And then the Rebbe said, "Kviyochol," like a joke. He quoted a pasuk. It says in a pasuk in Tanakh, It says the word Yirei Deyah. The name Yirei Deyah, the word Yirei Deyah means to teach. Yirei is to teach. Deyah is to teach knowledge. And it's connected to this pasuk. That's where the word Yirei Deyah comes from. But the meaning of the pasuk is that the navi is complaining that nobody is listening to the words that he gives over from Hashem. So he says, "Who should I teach? Maybe I should teach knowledge." Who should I teach knowledge? Maybe I should teach knowledge. And who should I give to understand what I hear from Hashem? the little babies that just weaned off drinking the milk. those that just got away from drinking for their mother's breast the milk. That's what the pasuk says. So the Rebbe used this pasuk, and he said, "The pasuk says ." So it comes out, the Rebbe said that it's

02:40 shayeches to little children. Aber wie kumt es az a eltere bocher zo veln lerne Yirei Deyah? How is it possible that an older bocher should want to learn Yirei Deyah when the pasuk says that it should be ? Obviously, this is not connected to the pasuk, but the Rebbe used it to play on words, and the Rebbe used those words to say that I shouldn't learn Yirei Deyah because it's for little children, basically, according to this, uh, derech halotzer, which he said in the form of a joke. So basically, he said I should not start learning Yirei Deyah. Then Rabbi Mentlick asked the Rebbe should he start the next month. So the Rebbe said, "Let him write in to me, and then I'll answer him then." So obviously, this month I didn't learn Yirei Deyah. The next month when I asked the Rebbe, the Rebbe agreed, and that's when I started learning Yirei Deyah.