Parshas Vayigash 5776
This is transcribed from questions that were posed to Harav Miller by the audience at the Thursday night lectures.
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QUESTION:
Da'as Torah, what does that mean?
ANSWER:
Da'as Torah means: It states that the person who walks in the ways of the Torah, thinks in Torah, after a while na'aseh ki'mayan hamisgaber, he becomes like a fountain that produces its own water. Now pay attention!
Some people are like a bor sid, like a cemented pit. When it rains into the pit, the pit becomes full of good fresh rainwater. But the rainwater is only what's in the pit, when you use it up, nothing is left. Some people know only what they learn, but when you learn and you practice, and you become a different personality, then not only are you a pit, you become a spring, a well, and water comes out of the earth of its own, a mayan hamisgaber.
So when a person becomes a mayan hamisgaber, then everything that he says is Torah, even though it's not written in the Torah. Shimon b'no omer, kol yomei godalti bein ha'chachomim v'lo matzasi la'guf tov ela shtika (Avos 1:17). I never found anything better for the body than keeping quiet. It's good advice by the way, best advice to keep quiet, it's good for your health. Now where is it written, he said lo matzasi, I didn't find it. Why didn't he quote a posuk? You don't need a posuk, lomo li kroh, sevoroh hu, you don't need a posuk, it's a sevoroh. Once you gain da'as Torah, your mind is worked out properly then whatever you think is called Torah.
That's why we have to listen to our chachomim. If a chochom toroni, a great man who is full of Torah says something, it's not merely what he learned. Don't tell him, "Where does it say, show me the siman and se'if in Shulchan Aruch?" Never mind, it's not in Shulchan Aruch, it's in this Shulchan Aruch he says. Da'as Torah is something you have to listen to, because a man's mind becomes a fountain and Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants us to listen to that.
Good Shabbos To All
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