למה לשנן תורה בעל פה?

00:00 Oh, welcome back everybody. This is Igris, and today we are looking at many, many letters from all over the place in Igris about one big topic. And, uh, I'm almost certain it's going to be a multi-part series because we have so much to talk about, uh, on this particular subject. We are going to speak about learning things baal peh. That is knowing things well enough, knowing Torah well enough, whether it's Torah, whether it's Mishnayos, whether it's, uh, Tanya, whether it's Tillim. We're going to see some references to Tillim Baal Peh. Learning parts of the Torah so well that they're engraved in your mind, and also the importance of repeating them while you're walking around. So we're gonna do a whole thing on what they call, uh, what they call, I guess, uh, Shinun Baal Peh, learning things by heart, and the importance of, uh, of chazaring things by heart, reviewing things by heart while walking around. And the reason why we're doing that this week is because this is sort of the inaugural week of that. Uh, this is Parshas, uh, Parshas, uh, Ki Teitzei. And in Parshas Ki Teitzei, the Likutei Torah of Parshas Ki Teitzei has, I believe, only two maimarim. I believe it's two. There's one longish one at the beginning, and then there's a tiny one near the end. And the tiny one near the end is incredibly popular. It is called the Maimar VehaDarta Pnei Zaken. This Maimar VehaDarta Pnei Zaken explains the importance of learning things by heart. And

01:03 we're going to see in letters from the Rebbe whenever he advises, or almost every time he advises somebody to learn any part of the Torah by heart, he will reference this Maimar or specifically tell people to learn this Maimar by heart. And as a matter of fact, there is a long-standing custom to know this very short Maimar by heart. I'm not going to read the Maimar because this is not a Maimar share, it's an Igris share. But I do wanna tell you some of the main points of the Maimar. I have it on your screen. You can probably read it in the amount of time-- It's so short, you can probably read the Maimar in the amount of time it takes me to tell you the highlights of the Maimar. But the Maimar starts off VehaDarta Pnei Zaken, uh, that you have to stand up, you have to show honor for an old person. And the Gemara says that an old person in this context means a Zaken Ze SheKannah Chochma. This means a wise person. This means someone who has acquired chochma. And the central question of the Maimar is, "Why do I have to stand for somebody who learned Torah? I should be standing for somebody who is learning Torah right now." I understand that if somebody is communing with God right now, or engaging in a mitzvah, or engaging in Torah study at this moment, that you stand up to honor them. Why should I stand up to honor somebody who ten

01:57 minutes ago was learning Torah? Right now he's, uh, right now he's at the ATM. Right now he's having lunch. Why am I standing up for somebody who's not learning at this moment? And the Rebbe's answer is, the Alter Rebbe's answer is that Hashem is Hakadosh, Baruch Hu, shechen ad bekirbei. That when somebody knows Torah well enough, it actually becomes embedded in their mind, and therefore God is constantly in their minds. It's chatzuk in the meichazikaran. I'm using that phrase because it's in the Maimar, because the Rebbe is going to use it in most of his letters. It is carved in the meichazikaran. It's carved in the memory, in the brain of this person, and that, that Torah is now part of him. And because Hashem and the Torah are completely one, Eretz Hakadosh, Baruch Hu, kuluchad, that means not just that the Torah is embedded in this person's mind, but also that God Himself is embedded in this person's mind. So the reason why we stand for people who know a lot of Torah and know it very well is because they are walking, they are walking Sifrei Torah, but more than that, they're walking shtick eibishter. They're piec- they're pieces of God walking around because God is one with Torah, and Torah is one with their minds. Therefore, anyone who thirsts for God, that's what it says in the final part of the Maimar. Anybody who truly thirsts for God, they will learn Torah Baal Peh. They're going to learn things well enough that

02:58 it is carved into their meichazikaran because they want to be one with God at all times. And lest you think that you can fulfill that obligation by learning just like one Mishnah or one pasuk Baal Peh because God will come along with it, that will give you the infinity of God, but it won't give you the infinity of God in all of your organs. You have six hundred and thirteen parts of your body, and if you want to embed God and infinity and Torah into six hundred and thirteen parts of your body, you're going to need to learn the entire Torah kola, Torah kola, which is the six hundred and thirteen mitzvahs. And the Alter Rebbe says, uh, that was aspirational even back then. Nowadays, it's not really possible. People can't do this anymore. Metzteh ke'itim, it's become much more difficult to get things done. Ke'tzar ruchis. So nowadays, he advises that everybody learn the Chamisha Chumshei Torah by heart, the five books of Moses. That is the books of Torah itself, Chumash. They should know Baal Peh by heart, and also they should learn, uh, Seder Kodshim of Mishnayos because as it says in the final line down there, it is called chochma, and also it is mechaper on avonos. It is, uh, it atones for your sins to know Mishnayos and Kodshim Baal Peh. So we have this as sort of our source text for knowing things Baal Peh. Now we're gonna look at some letters from the Rebbe that reference this Maimar

03:59 and, uh, and advise the people take it very seriously. Our first letter we're looking at-- These are really in no particular order. Um, usually I put them in a nice order. Th- these letters, they're, they're kind of all over the place, but they all promote this general idea and quote the Maimar. This letter is alef shin ayin daled. It's from the year taf shin yud beis, and the Rebbe says, "I'm responding to your letter where you write about Machshavos of bubalies." By the way, you're not sharing, by the way. I'm not sharing? I've been-- I had a Maimar on the screen the entire time that nobody was looking at. You gotta tell me these things earlier. Here we go. Well, the Maimar we know by heart. Oh, the Maimar you know by heart. Ah, good point. Good point. Here we go. The letter is alef shin ayin daled taf shin yud beis. See, there's the Maimar over there that you missed. There's the letter, and the letter says, "I'm responding to your letter where you write about Machshavos of bubalies," that there are these thoughts that are confusing you. You have confusing thoughts. I don't know what that is. That could be, uh, could be neoph, it could be sfeikas ananona. Whatever it is, this person is bothered by their thoughts. So the Rebbe says, "Yineh asiach dait mis the gamrei." Ignore it completely. Stop thinking about it. "Pimei min hamuchan etzleh Baal Peh eis is a Torah," and you should know words of Torah

04:59 by heart. "Uvetach yedea gam ken be Baal Peh prakim Tanya maamar haChassidus." And certainly you also know some prakim Tanya Baal Peh. Certainly you know Maamarim Baal Peh. And then the Rebbe goes on to say, uh, that, uh, when people used to complain to the Rabbeim, uh, that the, that the Friediker Rebbe said in the name of, uh, in the name of the prior Rabbeim, "Asher kishmis end of leim on yeneh Machshavos zos." When people complained to the Rabbeim about alien thoughts, the Rebbe would say, the Rabbeim would say that, uh, that empty places complain. I believe that's, uh, an, an okay-ish translation of this, of this phrase. Uh, empty places are where complaints come from. Y- e- empty, empty spaces make noise. "Well, meila," and therefore, when the brain is full of the words of Torah and tefila, and you know them because you know them Baal Peh, then dur-- And, uh, "Gam bezet hazman she ein chezmah lehem b'pal mamash," even during the times you're not actually chazaring them, you know of Baal Peh because it is carved into your mind, as is explained in the Maimar VehaDarta Pnei Zaken. Uh, therefore, there won't be any empty places in your head, so it's going to be or it-- so it's going to make a weaker complaint. You're going to have weaker complaints from your mind because your mind is more full of Torah. "Pin lefa'am gam ken-" Huh? Krif is climb, like basically empty spaces, things climb into it. Things climb into it.

06:04 Okay. Yeah. And if so, you'll have an easier time getting things out because these things that are climbing in will become, will become weaker. So, uh, the idea here is that when the mind is full of the words of Torah, even when you're not learning Torah, since it is carved into the , since, since it's carved into the memory of a person, um, it m- it means even when they're not learning, even when they're not learning Torah ba'al peh, they will, uh, they will have an easier time managing their Machshavas Zaris. We have over here, this letter is Tav Tav Nun, a very early letter from the year Tav Shin Yud Alef. This is written in Nisaneh Menachum, um, the famous Mashbia Nisaneh Menachum. We're gonna go to the very bottom of the letter just for this one paragraph 'cause we have too much to do, to do today to read all of the letters in entire-- in their entirety. Uh, the Rebbe says here, "What I suggested here, what I suggested to you," and he doesn't say here exactly what he suggested, but we're gonna see in context. The Rebbe says, "What I suggested to you, Rav Nissan, when you were here, I was basing it on the Maimer that we just looked at. And, uh, what is discussed about it in the Sikha that is, that is published on the-- in the Kuntras of Yud Tes Kislev. So he wants-- the Rebbe says that I want everybody, all the students, to have carved

07:15 into their minds certain Maimarim from the Frieda Kereba. Specifically, some of the Basi Lagani of the Frieda Kereba. He wants people to memorize that. The Rebbe says, "I'm advising everybody to memorize a certain portion of the Basi Lagani from the Frieda Kereba, and I'm doing this because of the Maimer in Likutei Torah . Moving along to the next letter. This letter is from-- is, is labeled Gimel Tav Kuf Ayin Tes. It's from Chaf Gimel Sivan of Tav Shin Tes Vav, and we are going to go all the way down to entry Dalet in that letter. This person has several complaints. I'd actually hoped to read this whole letter inside 'cause it's very interesting. The person asked the Rebbe many questions. He gives them a bunch of answers. Maybe we'll look at it some other time and in its entirety. What we need for today is just Dalet, and that is . You tell me that you're having trouble remembering things. You're having memory problems. And you see it, you feel that in the-- that in recent days, your memory has been fading, has been, has been getting not so good anymore. Therefore, you should be learning things that you like. If you learn things you like, you'll have an easier time remembering them. And when you feel you don't have the strength to delve into a topic anymore , then you should switch what you're learning to a different Sugya or to a different topic. And in addition to that, so first of all, he

08:34 says, "If you're having trouble remembering things, my best advice is learn things you like because it's easier to remember stuff that you like and switch when you're not liking it so much anymore." But the Rebbe also says there are Segulas for having a better memory for people who have memory problems. And one of the Segulas for people who have memory problems is , to learn Mishnayos by heart. And also in a way that doesn't, uh, it, that's not a way of Yighia, meaning to, uh, find Mishnayos baal peh or find a topic baal peh that you enjoy and learn that by heart. That's a posuk. And specifically, the Rebbe says, "I would like you to learn the Maimer at the end of Parshas Kedoshim. You should also know that baal peh." So here the Rebbe is for the first time we're seeing in front of us not just saying that I'm using the Maimer in Likutei Torah to teach you that you should be learning Mishnayos, Chumash, things like that baal peh, but also that you should learn the Maimer baal peh. And as we said earlier, and now you can finally see it 'cause it's on the screen, it is a little Maimer that is entirely possible to learn baal peh in a short amount of time. However, we also have here the Rebbe saying that when you're choosing what to learn by heart, the thing that you choose should be something that you like because it's very difficult to memorize things that you're

09:37 not enjoying. This is, uh, the beginnings of a Shiita, the beginnings of a Shiita, because we're going to have suggestions here from the Rebbe about good reasons to learn Mishnayos baal peh, good reasons to learn Tanya baal peh. And I think that there's sort of an, uh, I don't know how ancient it is, a long-standing argument between Mashpiyim over whether people should be pushing more Mishnayos baal peh or more Tanya baal peh, what they should spend more of their time on. And I think that this letter is a very strong indication that the answer is , that whichever one you enjoy more is certainly, uh, is certainly one that would make more sense to work on memorizing because part of the Segula for, uh, for, for memory that comes from memorizing Torah also comes from the fact that it's not with, uh, that it's not with too much effort. That it's supposed to be-- memorizing is supposed to be something done pleasantly. It's not a-- it's not, it's not delving into a thesis, learning to memorize something. Memorization should be done in an area that is enjoyed. This one is from the year Tav Shin Yud Gimel, and it is one of several letters where the Rebbe says that, uh, that it's an eitzah for Machshava Zaris. We already saw one of them. Uh, this one is very similar, so I don't know how much we really need to read it again. I'm just gonna point out this one sentence. You should have certain ideas

10:40 in Chassidus carved into your mind in order to avoid Machshava Zaris, alien thoughts. And among them are Drush . And among those Maimarim that you know baal peh, one of them should definitely be the Maimer about knowing things baal peh, . So people who are memorizing Mai- Maimarim, and that's their . The Rebbe's first suggestion, Maimer number one to memorize, maybe Maimer number two. The Rebbe has so far listed two Maimarim that he wants people to know at least part of baal peh, and that is and the Frieda Kereba's Basi Lagani. That's one of the Rebbe's-- one of the pieces of the Rebbe's advice for Machshavas Zaris. We have another Machshavas Zaris letter. This is Alef Tav Nun Zayin. This is from Yud Gimel Adar of Tav Shin Yud Beis. The Rebbe says regarding Machshava Zaris, If you want to get rid of Machshava Zaris, you're going to need to fill your mind with the words of Torah and the words of Tefillah. Remember, he keeps on using this phrase, . That's the phrase from the Maimer carved into the, into the, um, into the memory brain. So here he says he'd like some Tanya. and also some Mishnayos. So in answer to those who want to know, should I learn Mishnayos or Tanya baal peh? Clearly a little bit of both 'cause the Rebbe's advice across the board, we're gonna see in a couple letters, the Rebbe lists Tanya Mishnayos baal peh, uh, in many letters as two things to know by heart. something

11:50 you should know that what you learn by heart, these Mishnayos and these Tanya pieces that you know by heart, they are going to protect you from alien thoughts and from all sorts of other things even when you're not actually learning them per the Maimer, right? The Rebbe says, "You'll find the source for what I'm telling you, that words of Torah that you know by heart protect you even when you're not saying them and even when you're not thinking about them. You'll find the source for that in the Maimer . And also it would be appropriate for you to learn the Maimer, Mai- the Maimer by heart." So in Yad Yemo, we're now seeing twice at least, we're gonna see it a few other times I think, letters where the Rebbe specifically says that among the things to learn by heart are-- includes the Maimer that's in Likutei Torah that is the source for kn- that is one of the main sources in Chassidus for knowing things by heart. This letter is Beis Tav Kuf Chaf Hey. It's from Tav Shin Yud Dalet. And here once again, the Rebbe talks about Machshava Zaras. Once again, he says to carve it into your mind. And once again, he says to learn about Dad B'nei Zakim. So we, uh, we sort of have this, uh, repeated in a lot of places. This letter is Alef Tav Reish Mem Beis. It's from the year Tav Shin Yud Beis. It's possible that-- no, this one. See, they're so similar that

13:03 I have to make sure I'm not doubling up the letters. No, this one is different. This one is about Sfeikas Anemuna. Excuse me. This one is somebody writes to the Rebbe saying that he has Sfeikas Anemuna. He's not sure he believes in God, and he wants some advice. And the Rebbe's advice to him, he gives him a bunch of ideas, but one of them, we're going down to the middle of the letter. One of the Segulas for getting rid of, uh, Sfeikas Anemuna, doubts about faith, doubts about the existence of God, is that the-- you should know a lot of words of Torah, and they should be carved into your mind, the Lashon from that Mimer. You should know them by heart. You should know certain things from the Torah by heart, and specifically Mishnayos and Tanya. Uh, says check out that Mimer about Dad B'nei Zakim. But here he doesn't say to memorize the Mimer. He says just look at that Mimer to understand the importance of knowing things by heart. And this is also explained . This is also understood based on the Takana that the Frieda Kealba made about ma- about doing Mishnayos Ba'al Peh. The very short version of this is that the Frieda Kealba started a group called Chevdas Mishnayos Ba'al Peh and pushed it very hard. Tomorrow or the day after, uh, with God's help, we're going to look at a very long letter from the Rebbe where he really unpacks the Frieda Kealba's initiative to learn Mishnayos Ba'al

14:09 Peh. Today, we're not focusing so much on Mishnayos Ba'al Peh. We're focusing on the entire topic of Ba'al Peh stuff. I have here four letters. Each of them are labeled in your, in your, uh, in your packet as the trifecta letters. The reason why I call them the trifecta letters is these are all letters where the Rebbe says, "I want you to know Tanya, Mishnayos and Dad B'nei Zakim, all of them by heart." So we're gonna look at this one first. This is Beis Tav Shin Yud Ches from the year Tav Shin Yud Dalet, Ches Sivan of Tav Shin Yud Dalet. And the Rebbe says here, "I'm responding to your letter from Kuf Tes Iyar." You should increase your words of Torah, increase the davening that you're doing, and work very hard that it should be carved into your mind. at the very least, it should be carved into your mind. So the Rebbe says at the very least, the minimum what I want to know from every Chassid that they are-- and, and the Rebbe doesn't say from every Chassid, but I'm telling you that I have four letters here that say this, and I found thirty letters that say this. So I'm willing to say that it's, it's Kishita. It's almost a Shita that the Rebbe wants from every Chassid who's capable of it, at least a couple Mish-- a couple Prakim of Mishnayos, a couple Prakim of Tanya, and the Mimer of Dad B'nei Zakim. The Rebbe puts these three together frequently

15:15 as we're about to see. Uh, Beis Tav Shin Ayin Hey-- Ayin Alef, excuse me. Beis Tav Shin Ayin Alef is the title on this letter. The letter is from Kuf Tes Sivan of Tav Shin Yud Dalet. And once again, the Rebbe says that, uh, that these are the three things that he wants people learning. Let me go to a sentence that makes sense. Uh, in order to help with your Siyata D'shmaya and all the things the Rebbe mentions in the above letter. So here again, the Rebbe says that if you're looking for Siyata D'shmaya, divine assistance in various spiritual endeavors, that step one is to-- maybe not step one. One of the many first steps is to learn a couple chapters of Mishnah by heart, a couple chapters of Tanya by heart, and the Mimer of Dad B'nei Zakim. I have another one. This is Beis Tav Mem. This is from Kuf Ches Shvat of Tav Shin Yud Dalet. I don't know why all of these are in the year Tav Shin Yud Dalet. I guess that was a big year for pushing, uh, things Ba'al Peh. Here, the Rebbe says in the second paragraph, certainly you know of the Takana of the Frieda Kealba about the Shiurim that everybody needs to keep, and that is, um, the Shiurim that everybody needs to keep, which is Chumash, Tehillim, and Tanya. So Amir, Shir, Tehillim, and now realize while reading this letter to you that I actually wanted to read the letter below it, but that

16:34 is . So everybody, don't forget to learn Chitas. Moving on to the letter right below, which is Beis Tav Mem Alef. That makes a lot more sense. This is also from the year Tav Shin Yud Dalet. I'm responding to your letter from Dalet Shvat. He says he wants help with the Cheit Hayedua. Uh, the Cheit Hayedua, uh, the Rebbe didn't want to say it, so who am I to say it? But the Cheit Hayedua is Pagan Bris in Yanem with, uh, in, in Yanem such as that. So somebody wrote to the Rebbe that they needed help with that particular challenge, and the Rebbe writes back. If this is a challenge that you or someone you know is involved in, here's the advice to give them. They should learn some Prakim Mishnayos, Mishnayos, certain chapters of Mishnah. and some chapters of Tanya. So once again, for Pagan Bris issues, the pieces of advice we have from the Rebbe are three. That is Mishnayos Ba'al Peh, Tanya Ba'al Peh, and this particular Mimer Ba'al Peh. Then when you do this, even when you're not actually actively verbally reviewing these ideas, um, they're going to be protected inside your memory. You can also find this there. There's more Mimarim that discuss this topic. He says, and in free time, when you have a free moment, you should actually review these things. So up until now, what we've really seen is that the Rebbe's talked a lot, all of these letters. The Rebbe has really emphasized that knowing something

17:53 Ba'al Peh matters perhaps even more than actually Chazering things Ba'al Peh. That once I know something well enough that it's implanted in my mind, it doesn't matter all that much whether I'm saying it or not, whether I choose to say it or not. If I choose to say it, that's fantastic. But if I choose not to say it, even so, since it's in my mind, it's actively protecting me. Here, the Rebbe does add though, when you do have available time, you should Chazer these things over Ba'al Peh by heart. And here, very specific that is that he wants that this particular person, at least for the problem of Pagan Bris, but I see no reason why this wouldn't apply across the board, that somebody who knows things Ba'al Peh should make sure to at least to verbally say some of those things Ba'al Peh, at least one Perek of Tanya and at least one Perek of Mishnayos Ba'al Peh. I can be sure that I'm not telling you something totally wrong because first of all, there's nothing wrong with saying Mishnayos and Tanya Ba'al Peh. Uh, but second of all, because there is a separate Takana from the Rebbe to say a Perek of Tanya every day anyway, and a Perek of Mishnah, nobody's going to protest. But I, I think that this is something we could probably take, uh, probably take and expand a little more broadly and say that everybody who knows several Prakim of Tanya or several Prakim Mishnayos Ba'al Peh should

18:53 be careful to say at least one of them, uh, in this case, one Tanya, one Mishnah, uh, one Perek Mishnayos Ba'al Peh verbally, not just relying on the fact that they know it in the back of their minds. The last letter that we're looking at today is Beis Tav Tav Tzadik Zayin. It's from Beis Elul, Tav Shin Yud Dalet. Once again, a very good year for, uh For, uh, memorizing stuff. And again, it is, uh, i, i, i, I pulled the wrong one. This is Beis Tuf Tuf Taf Ches is our letter, and it is Beis Eluf Tuf Shin Yud Daled. And the letter says, You write about you're looking for a tikkun. This person had done some avera, um, presumably the same one, uh, just because of the way that the letter is phrased, but not sure. In any event, they've done a certain avera, and they asked the Rebbe for a tikkun, a spiritual fix for an avera. And of course, I believe-- I don't know this-- I don't know the Hasid who wrote this letter. Obviously, they don't, they don't, they don't put the names on these kinds of letters. But, uh, so I don't know this person. But generally speaking, I think people when they write to Tzadikim for a tikkun, they're hoping for something very painful and very quick. And from the Rebbe, they never get that. They end up getting things that aren't so painful, but take a lot of effort. And I think people don't appreciate these tikkunim.

19:53 Everybody would rather get, would rather get smacked around a little bit than have to sit and learn. But the Rebbe's tikkunim tend to be serious hasmadah and limud. So here somebody writes to the Rebbe asking for a tikkun, and they get exactly what they deserve. In order to make a tikkun for these sorts of things, you're going to need more Esius, a Torah, v'tefillah. You're gonna need more words of Torah and tefillah. Then tefillah, prayer. You should daven every day the entire davening and not use any of the haterim that exist in Shulchan Aruch that allow you to skip certain parts of davening. And also the Rebbe says, if you were using haterim in the past that allowed you to skip around when you were davening, I have a solution for you. Come on time to davening, and then those ho-- th-then those haterim don't apply anyway. Anyway, and when it comes to the words of Torah, I mean to learn Torah. That you should have carved into your mind. Baal Peh at the very least is a perk of Mishnayos, is a perk of Tanya. And not only you should have these things embedded in your mind, Mishnayos and Tanya, but also you should review them while you are traveling, while you're walking. Say some of them out loud. shall say Parshas Kedoshim. And once again, he says, "I also want you to know the Ma'amar Baal Peh, that is at the end of Parshas Kedoshim in Likutey Torah." And since light naturally banishes

21:05 darkness, since a little bit of light banishes a lot of darkness, when you put the words of Torah into your mind, Torah and Tefillah into your mind, this will very slowly banish any of the words and letters that make up opposite thoughts, whatever those might be, whatever Avedas we're talking about here. The Tikkun for banishing negative things from somebody's personality, from somebody's mind, is to fill it with the words of Torah, specifically in a way of Ma'aseh Hazikaron. So we did get through all of my-- what I call the general, uh, the general Baal Peh letters. We've looked-- we looked at the Ma'amar of our Dr. B'nai Zakin. We saw the importance of knowing things Baal Peh and how this brings godliness into your life and into you, and how this applies even when you're not necessarily learning them. We talked about how the Rebbe constantly really mentions three major things to know Baal Peh. That is to know some chapters of Mishnayos, some chapters of Tanya, and the Ma'amar itself, Dr. B'nai Zakin by heart. We also saw that the Rebbe pushes knowing part of Basi Legani by heart and knowing a couple of Ma'amarim by heart. In general, that was one of the letters, said that in general, it's good to know a few Ma'amarim by heart. But the point here is that if anybody has any sort of problem, uh, with what's going on in their mind, whether that's an Averah, whether that's Machshava Zema Bubelus, whether that's confusing thoughts, whether that's

22:10 Machshava Zaris, uh, or whether they're just looking for a little more Siyata D'shmaya, a piece of go-to advice we see from the Rebbe. I have something like, what, fifteen letters here, and I, I left on the cutting floor something like thirty or forty other letters. This is one of those cases where every volume of Igris has at least one or two letters on this topic. So this is all over the place. The Rebbe very frequently gives the advice that it is worthwhile to invest some time, take some time out of your schedule and sit down with a Mishnayos or a Tanya and try to teach it to yourself Baal Peh. And if you were not lucky enough to-- fortunate enough to, uh, to get to do that when you were a small child, you still can do it now. Uh, an adult can sit down and learn Mishnayos Baal Peh, Tanya Baal Peh, and it'll make their life better. And, uh, not just Mishnayos and Tanya Baal Peh, but also as the Rebbe says in many of these letters, this one Ma'amar from this week's Likutey Torah, people should ideally know Baal Peh. Uh, what we're going to do, the Seder from this point onward, is I have at least two other major things I wanna talk to you about on this topic. So we're going to have at least another two classes, maybe three on this topic. There is a, uh-- We're gonna do a whole thing just on Mishnayos Baal Peh. Mishnayos Baal

23:04 Peh has its own place in Hasidic history. Specifically, we're gonna look in the history of the Friedike Rebbe's Chevres Mishnayos Baal Peh, a long letter from the Rebbe where he breaks down all of the reasons to specifically learn Mishneh Baal Peh. And we're going to do a Mishneh unit, and we're also going to do one on Tanya Baal Peh. Uh, the Rebbe has many letters about the many, many Segulas in addition to the things that we've listed, many other Segulas and reasons to learn Tanya Baal Peh, uh, and many other advantages to learning Tanya Baal Peh. So we're going to do at least two more, one on Mishneh Baal Peh, one on Tanya Baal Peh. And with that, we will have a-- hopefully a, a comprehensive idea of the Sugya of learning things by heart in Hasidism. Okay. Thank you all very much.