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Beyond Childhood Tales: A Introduction to Learning Chumash · The Weekly Parsha - With Michoel Brooke

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  Speaker 1: As my toddler was singing, all about how Noah was a big tzaddik and the teva had three floors we all know the people, the animals and the trash on the bottom I realized that since I've been a toddler, I've never really studied the story of Noah with a mature mind.
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  Speaker 1: With a mature mind, but just a meager and measly regurgitating of the details of the story that I learned about gracious Noah and Avram Avinu from the time that I was a toddler.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: The greatest praise and the mark of a real Torah scholar is when you call him the opposite of what we have described here.
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  Speaker 1: You call him a Talmud Chacham.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: He's well-versed in the Jewish law, but Talmud Chacham literally means he is a student of the sages.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: He is thirsty for more, for new knowledge and, just like a person that's reading a mystery or thriller novel that he's already read and he's beginning it from the beginning, to try to get a new cook and understanding on the entire series, you almost have to forget what you previously know and wipe your memory of your youthful thoughts and then again, with a mature mind, with a better and more discerning intellect, go through the story, know the Midrashim, understand that Noah was a real person, understand what it would be like to shovel the manure and get bitten by the lion.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Learn the Chumash with Rashi.
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  Speaker 1: Learn the Chumash with a discerning adult eye, in the words of Uncalus.
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  Speaker 1: Learn it like a Talmud Chacham, like you've never heard the story before.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: And learn it like a Talmud Chacham who's thirsty to know more, and don't just get stuck in the Noah was a big tzaddik and the basic child rhymes that we all know, because to make the Chumash hit and its lessons penetrate, you need to learn the stories with your adult head, like you've never heard the stories before.