4th Yahrzeit of HaGaon HaRav Ahron Walkin ZT"L | CHAZAQ

[Music] to the fourth so so feels literally feels like it was yesterday during Corona during covid and we heard the tragic news the sudden of the and we're going to hear tonight many many words of from various different Rim from the community and all I could say is that one of the many qualities that the r had was that there's a line and this line applies to the rash and I I try to live by this line it's very hard but we try our very best the line is as follows no one cares how much you know until they know how much you care a person could know the Torah inside and out backwards and forwards but if there isn't that CER that relationship it's not the same but the had the Tor and he had that care that warmth that I'm sure we're going to hear about from the various different ran speakers so without further Ado I like to call Upon Our dear friend Robie AOL operations B willc tonight's program and we should only only here isak organization very close to Shiva and I want to thank everyone for joining us this evening we have so many tremendous TM of of the rash um who are going to address us one after another for a few minutes and then we're goingon to have goas following as the keynote speaker um it's our great honor to call upon one of the one of the great Rob in the communityone it's always good to be the first speaker and you know for sure that you're not going to repeat anything other people are going to say in fact when RAB was giving the introductory remarks I felt like he he read my mind I'm going to read you a piece of um which I think I can connect to to my ready says the following the name he says this person should be remembered for good his name was Yu he was one of the second it wasn't for him might have been forgotten from what did he do in the beginning the way it used to be before whoever had a father father would teach his son Torah people that didn't have fathers they lost their fathers at a young age for whatever reason they may got divorced the son wouldn't learn no father in the house to teach my why did they think that's the appropriate way because it says it says you should teach them and the way they you should teach yourself which means to say either you the father's teach or the person is going to teach himself but there's no obligation that some other person should come came and he said then they made it's not enough to rely only on the father they're going to make literally teachers for little kids I'm not sure if this is like a Ora teachers for little kids in and for that as well and then they said no that's also not enough and they decided that every city should have teachers and eventually got to a point where the Tak this decree extended where every single neighborhood every single building to such an extent that if the neighbors said no we don't want noise too much you could protest other businesses from opening but you can't protest AA or from and this was all he's the one that realized this need that the father himself sometimes there's no father to teach so that's why he remembered for good recently came from they said I don't understand this usually when thear tells us this was the history of how this decree came about the way it usually looks is like this the people were good they were very religious they were very careful about law so there was no need for a decree and then unfortunately Generations they deterior and they had to make special decrees to keep people religious to be keep them from this seems like an obvious thing M should have made this already what did they do before yes was around how did people learn seemingly this is where a generation wasn't good before now they became better how could that be so this said the following he said what we're being taught over here is the following a kid goes to Yeshiva right today we have secular studies but without imagine an entire day spent in yes seven eight hours learning by whatever it is that they're learning let's say this kid didn't go to ISU instead his father had to teach him how many hours can a father spend every day teaching his son father has to go to work he comes home 6 7 o' whatever the sun sets the kid has to go to sleep soon so they spend half hour maybe eating I don't know maybe they talking to each other and and then probably another half hour maybe an hour learning with his children and that's he only has one son if he has three sons five sons and each one's a different age so he spends 15 minutes with this one 15 minutes with that one so we're talking about a father devoting maybe daily 15 20 minutes per child in an average family he says before the Tak ofu the 152 minutes that a child spent with his father was just as good as spending six hours in yes why he says because here you're learning from your father and here you're learning from a stranger learning from a stranger is not the same thing as learning from your father when you learn from your father you're not just being taught you know see look at this this is Al repeat after me what about this this is and then when you get to M like said you have to know that the person cares about you and if the person cares about you you open up and you're able to receive things much faster and be able to understand things on your own because you're being taught by somebody who loves you whereas when you're learning by a teacher and the Very dedicated people but at the end of the day it's not his child and next year is going to be another class another 20 30 kids to get used to so therefore the keser is not that strong like with the father and therefore yes it take several hours a day for the same information to be inculcated into the student Walkin Tau with a lot of love so much so that mean my first introduction to him was he used to have a Sunday Shear that happens to be was a quite long she 3 4 hours but that's not because he spoke for 3 4 hours it's because you let everybody speak he would ask a question five people would offer their answers he would comment on each one depending on how much the person is close to him sometimes he would praise it sometimes he would uh you know tease the person make fun of him if you're very close you got a a nice nice stinging remark because he knew that you can handle it that that's how the shear went you were sitting there you were learning not with a teacher not with you know an instructor that's cold and doesn't even know who you are and just be quiet and listen you're sitting over there learning with a friend and probably more than a friend more like a grandf even though that was only once a week it made a big impression on me and there were many other people some of them are sitting in this room many others already are much older moved out to other places but it made a huge impression on very very big impression once a once a week only then the way things turned outm had mercy on me that I was able to spend more time learning in the mid and I was able to seein again much more hours of the day but it's not as if the entire time he was speaking to me dedicating his energy to dealing with people's struggles with their parents their struggles eventually when they got married with their with and all sorts of other things observing this person in action it wasn't just learning Torah it was also trying to absorb his fatherly energy and that's what we're going to miss very very much a lot of his became important figures in the community R may may may a good friend of mine I remember when they just started the organization kazak they were still thinking about what the emblem should be the logo should we called kazak with the que that famous story that walk B mistake what's I remember still he St we in M the seeds that he planted just like a father plants he doesn't go with the son to college and sit with him and teach him every single thing he gives him that initial push and the Father the child knows that's my father's behind me he has my back that gives him enough confidence enough energy that whatever he's going to do in life he's going to think my dad's with me my dad's thinking about me my Dad's dabing for me that's the feeling that people had when everyw and was around and I remember that when we got the news the very difficult news that he passed away the one phrase that everybody said it's a huge voice it's not something that you could just replace with another person not to compare but a teacher passes away no so there's a substitute there's not a substitute for such a person it's very hard to place that personal connection that he had with every single person I'll end off with one phrase that he used to say that I was thinking about it yesterday whenever and he texted me and reminded me about the earth side so preoccupied I forgot Walkin used to say I'm sure other people have heard it as well people would come in distracted from whatever was bothering them and sometimes it couldn't focus in sh so heed to say listen when you walk through that door you hang up your problems on the door knob I promise you they'll still be there at the end nobody's going to take it he says don't worry about it walk in you hang it like you hang up your Cod you're going to come out there'll still be the don't worry about it just when you're here focus on your learning and that's how we tried to you know it was a difficult thing to adjust to obviously but yeah when you walked in you tried to forget okay now we're learning this we're doing it I want to tell you that the one person that took those problems off the door up was him people came to him and they complained and we all went home feeling better that I was able to vent I was able to unload to somebody else but we didn't know that when he went home he was spend night learning mentioning people's names crying ding please give he would call what whether it was doctors or ason him to find out for this person a solution and we were you know we just thought it as a person who was listening to us and that's it you know might as well just talk the statue no this is a person who went with all of our problems home and he tried the best that he can whether was to help try to make the person's burden easier that's a very very difficult thing to replace very much miss him and EM our success our accomplishment I'm sure he's looking down and he's smiling and he's taking pride in the fact that he was able to set all of this in motion to see to see him with us again amen for your tremendous remarks our next speaker is very close of course I actually jined the r um the re a later I was already much older I didn't spend so much time but um I'll share I don't have so many stories like runov but I'll share what I picked up what I learned learned from him there's a there's a famous from ra ra was one of the greatest students of the Von and he wrote a cha about the about the auna Thea there was a there was a aun auna is a woman doesn't know what happened to her husband and she's basically stuck unable to be remarried so ra was the oversaw this case and after he permitted this auna a different R had a had a problem with it he says that how do you permit such a woman with no evidence or not enough evidence and this is his reply this is R's reply to the and he says the following I placed my eyes on every word for the pleasant words of this woman and I that in most of our words we're we're on the same direction refering to you're being strict you're being stringent is because the the the responsibility regarding this woman is not on him mean I'm also like him he says that I did not look me person is saying that I did not look for to in this this type of sh until that responsibility was placed on me so he's basically so he's saying to the that you know why you're strict is because there's nothing on you you don't have to pin over here the responsibility is not on you you're sitting in your chair and you can be but the responsibility of of is on me is saying and therefore he says and because the generation he lived in the 1800 18 17 1800s and he says that because in our Generations that the the door is bed they're missing the responsibility of went on my neck from all around that they would not permit any woman without asking me first and he says I spoke to my with my Creator I thought of what my Creator would would would say I saw that there was a tremendous obligation on on me to to so so what I what the point out from this from this rep is that to be a leader it's not enough to know a lot of T and it's not enough to have a lot of which are all necessary you need something more you need to feel responsibility for the for the Y you need to have that love why what is that what what's missing if I know a lot of T and I have a lot of what else could be missing so I don't love people as much as I should you know what would be missing that when you see a case in front of you when you have to pass in when you have to rule when you have to find a solution there's not enough adrin in in your blood to come up with focus and that's what Ra was saying that I because I felt love to the saguna meaning I felt to all people therefore I took I pushed myself to find the and this is something that Feinstein when he talks about very interesting he says Ken when he brought the flax the flax seed right as the Corban came up with the idea so rosha asked the very obvious and famous question he came up with the idea of bringing a Corban why would you bring from the cheap stuff bring from the from the from the best so raos uh answers he says that because in in front of hasem everything belongs to Hashem right what's the difference if I bring a 10 100 cows 2,000 cows what's the difference all belongs to him so the point is the the fact that my thought my energy I I want to give something to Hashem so what's the difference what I give the opposite You by bringing less you're showing that everything belong that I can't give God anything by bringing less is the opposite by giving less is better this was what what what what kind thought so what was the mistake so mosha says the mistake was that he lacked a certain energy that is necessary when he comes to you can't be robotic you need love you need and without that you you'll stumble you'll make mistakes says that if you don't have that AA a robot will make a mistakes because the world is not made of robots made out of people and you need this in order to to get it right and that that's what I that's what I picked up from U from arbi that uh it was not just he was a tremendous he was a he loved people and when you love people you push yourself more you find somehow you find the energy a person who's cruel will very easily decide I can't help I tried it didn't work I really tried it doesn't work but if you love people more you'll find a solution you there's something within you when you want something where does the want come from when you love people you'll find a solution for them and even when you can't you dive into asem you you'll do as much as possible to be most neish because you love people and this I think this is what we uh I learned from him and and what we can learn from him is that to love people as much as possible when you love people you'll be most neish even more his should be a uh a Salvation for us and uh should try to emulate as much as possible his we're not going to have his but something uh to uh to learn from him and to better our ways our next speaker is um a rabbi was very close with um he the head of the thank you very much know we see from about who rebi was from his main with people that see their is something that everyone observes from day to day trying to see more how how can I help more how can I be more how can we bring more more people into into the schools how can we increase the learning more and more so been to to work with both rabie and and and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to participate in this beautiful meeting of to with the goal of being to clarify a little bit for ourselves the that we can take away from what Rabbi was con over his short life you know when the Kaz say my the Pearl in the mouth of a particular T right you know why do they called was a saying that they said a lot during their lives okay you know we we know from the of and before him right the way Merchants right Jewel Jewelers and people who are traveling they needed to store valuables like gems right and and precious pearls you keep it in their mouth they store it in their mouth right this of comes even from even before right we know in the right right we put on for the purpose that that H's Torah should be in our mouth should be stored in our mouth should be part of us be able to take it take it with us wherever we go through all the the beautiful words the rest rest of the tonight be able to to have some takeaways to have some a little bit of the of of of of rebi of REI and I wanted to to I wanted to focus on a couple of those by introducing number one first there's a a beautiful and the the he the said something amazing I heard this from literally 25 years ago in Queen's Valley sh in Queen's Valley I remembers so the to said said the following person would like would want so much to be able to give over to his child to his student to his son to his right to his to his child to to to even if one is learning with his and you want them to receive what the Torah you want to say okay that you intend to give to them you want them to receive the same way that you intend that you wanted that they should hear it there a secret the secret to that success to that effective transmission of Tor from generation to generation from father to son from rebi to talmid from it's a that Torah that thing that you want to share is to come from a selfless Place selfless I went when I heard this wber I went after and I asked him I asked him the following we say we pray for the to have a strong connection relationship the first thing we ask for to understand the of the say is have to give so the proof is in like the proof is in the pudding right when you see when you see the word he right the of you see it also in the word to understand the person understands understands it's an indication indication he he received receiv from his rebi why because his rebi Gave Over the Torah from selfless place place without self-c consideration without self-interest one of the things that reab always used to used to hear him say aftera like those Sunday those amazing Sunday where you in in a matter of an hour or two you heard so many different it was astonishing how many how many sources of Tor he was a the rabi was able to to cover in such a short span of time afterwards when he when people were appraising the immense Godless of this the sh the they just heard what would re say remember say the Tor is beautiful he did not allow the cavod to Eclipse his cavod to eclipse the cavod of t the has a beautiful account ofu from bringing he was having a little party with maled the Coen right the first Coen and maled began to praise after he won the war with the theim and what was A's response he said is it possible that you're praising this servant before the master it's at that point that receive the Kun for Generation to come Generation generation we have only because of that defining moment did not take the credit for himself he did not allow the Cav that someone is giving him to eclipse the I I was I'm so grateful to spend much time with with reab got my first job through at a Colo through R and afterwards he hired me to be to be to teach and to spend some car rides with him pouring out my my my heart my my troubles which he was like Pearl in the mouth of of rebi was the word it's not about me over and over used to hear him say this it's not about me you know when we're bringing up a child when bringing up someone who's going to take Tora bring t to the Next Generation we say the right and we bless the new the child his the parents his k also the of right you know after we working ourselves for 49 days and receive we don't want to just become why amazing generation ago he told me that the meaning of the of G is that a person is completely selfless he's selfless in his Torah learning in his teaching he's selfless in his relationships in his relationship with his spouse he's selfless in all of his M the the pearls from from other from the other that came before me to receive always that should be just like we took away from these Pearls of Wisdom should be able to keep it in our mouths thank you marks next speaker is [Music] I want to say to the organizers of tonight's event organization I got a phone call a few days ago reminding me that tonight's going to be the Y site of our dear rebi shom of blessed memory who I had the privilege of learning under I had the privilege of meeting about eight years ago and he and now rebi he put many things into perspective for me and he he enhanced my in many many many ways so our rebi for many of us was not only a rebi he was a mentor a father he was a therapist to many people he would M countless hours sit with people talk to them give them attention give them love he was is and and he was to levels that we will never know there's that discusses a case of what to do when a b a skin Affliction grows in the we know that the baby who's 8 days old needs to have but there's a Prohibition that prohibits cutting off a the skin Affliction ofat and the like so what do you do if the tarat grows on the Mak do you do the mil perform the Mitzvah or do you say no I'm not allowed to cut the and therefore I don't perform the Mitzvah says you perform the Mitzvah and from here this is one of the sources to the principle the very famous principle in a positive command is pushes off a negative command what's the deeper meaning of so the they explain that a positive command stems from from the love of God Almighty it STS from what from telling us that is greater than the love of God is on a higher playing field on a higher level than of course there are higher levels of but simply put when you have is step two it's a higher level and this is whoom and he was to levels that we will never understand I remember is just paint you an example there was once a middle-aged gentleman who is what we call a yenter again came inside one day the complaining about this complaining about that he walks over to me I tell him listen I'm not in charge I have a good day I don't have time for you so he he's looking for who's in charge he finds in the back he goes to him and he starts to give him a whole ear load and I I turned around I turned from Myer I wanted to see how the Ra was going to handle the situation it's okay he said I'm sorry even though he wasn't he didn't do anything wrong and still I'm sorry that's so dick and he calmed him down in the end the gentleman sat down with him and he said no I'm sorry and he basically me mellowed him out and he became also a lover of he had a away with people he had an for people was was mentioned prior to when I got up that he would he was behind closed doors for people's problems and it takes an to really understand that people need the of the rabbi and he was and I'm sure that in his you know the pandemic was minimized and many many people they had in their own lives in the of the I just want to touch on one point that Zak mentioned he said Mar and it's a very very famous statement that certain Rim would say and the ralin had many many gems that would come out of his mouth one of the gems that's very appr propo to today's generation is be normal he used to say be normal don't go crazy be normal be healthy can don't be I'm scared to use certain B but don't be a f don't go gotta be normal you got to have that with you all the time you cannot be OCD about MIT we perform MIT with fervor with love like the r himself was but one thing he always stressed is be Norm and be happy that if if you're not happy then you're not holding in that and you got to make sure that you're holding and all the that you take upon yourself and your M you're excited and your M serving from then you could keep all of the but if you're not holding that the rabbi would say first be happy first be normal and that's a gem that we we take with us for the rest of our lives that what it needs that f it needs that our next speaker [Music] is person who's very instrumental in the continuation the legacy of the of the base meas which is keeps on going stronger and stronger call MOS good evening everybody as many of you know I'm generally a person of many words um I always have what to say but for four years I haven't really found any words to say and I don't think I'm going to find much words tonight to say except for the obvious it's it's a tremendous it was a tremendous loss um you know the year that the passed away he went to and he went to on his last visit and the that he asked to give him is that when he D for people that was the that he asked for and um you know everybody here I'm sure had very close relationship to the Rob and understood but the the magnitude of of of what was lost is is unfathomable unbelievable once told me that who took a SE seeds forgot which which was this something in the zor and he threw them into all the generations and one ended up here one ended up here and you see that every single gener generation has certain and certain people that are you know Y in a CL something and so first of all I just want to thank for for the ability to to that I was put in his presence for for those for those many years and um you know the the the fight that's still inside of me is because of him is because of of what he instilled in me he uh he was a person who who who taught you how to look at every single person with a certain way with a certain love with a certain admiration and uh like I said I can't there's not enough words I don't even know how to formulate the words to be able to explain what he was and who he was but I will say one thing there is a na and it says I heard from Hart and he said something beautiful he said right Rashi says over there like stars people who areash says those right who who he talking about talk about people who are people who teach students who teach and um why why does what does one have to do with another so he's saying the closest star that we have today to our planet when we look up to the sky the closest star that we see is four light years away which means that four years ago there was a there was a the light it took four years for that light to travel so the light we see now it's only from four year it's from four years ago it's not from now it's not like you turn on this letter and you see it right away it's something from four years ago and there are stars that are as far as 1500 years that we look up and we see and what does that have to do with a person who's people who are teaching is what you see the furthering of the generations and how people their families keep going their kids are from messages get passed along and the continue even though he's not here the continue and uh you know I've personally had many many miracles and different things that I've seen um and I know that a lot of it from from his Co and from hisas for us used to sit in the basement and cry and people say used to cry in private I used to see him cry in public the guy used to come in collecting tadaka the GU telling him his problem he to start crying I've never seen that ever a guy because you know you get used to it this guy comes uh I lost this I have this I I have this sickness La everybody comes with a new thing and he's sitting there crying over other people's problems it's it's a level that I've never seen and I guess that was one of the main things that connected me to him is his high level of sensitivity towards other people his love for other people and uh you know that's something that uh you know their words can't explain so uh with that said I first of all like I said thank you for putting him in my life and I D that re should be MOS for us for all of us like he is and the same way he was sitting here and crying and and uh ding for all of us he should continue doing it from from there and uh I have a request that should be able to maybe can't fill the void but help us uh you know get our heads above water uh because for me that has that that that that void is still very very real and I'm sure I'm speaking for other people here as well and uh really I hope uh that uh we really get to unite very very soon like they say m and hopefully comes sooner than later so we'd be able you know I used to make a famous joke he tell me mosha after I you know after I you know after 120 my I said they're going to forget the jokes and they're going to remember the Torah told him but I still remember the jokes as well I used to joke with him I used to say Reby I used to say you know uh in G I'm going to be in your class as well I used to make him I used to make him G I'm be in your class well he tells me is only for months and uh you know that that that that love that you know he he really kept us going and we should see sping in our days and reunite and be able to see that that fire that love that light to very soon again thank you everybody thank you mosha for your meaningful remarks um the keynote speaker tonight which is our great honor coas appreciate the who who himself is a tremendous renowned speaker and author and and Robin KRA and of course he himself was very close to the Riva so thank you very much Robie AB the last picture I have of Thea was together with ran and myself when I came in this evening and I saw R sitting in the front already brought back to me of just to see him I tell you uh it is very difficult to define the r r was you could not Define him you could not describe him you could not measure him you could not try to quantify to qualify yovo was asked by as a very interesting question usually we would not think that ASA would ask such a question he asked him tell me your name yob tell me your name why are you asking me my name it is interesting that some people do not want to reveal their nature because they are constantly changing the Riva had a different did you could not tell his nature was heid was he was he ASAS was he SP was he M was he was he Riva was he rabba was he father of was he brother nobody knows because he was all of those into every person he meant something a little bit different to have the rash the years that he was here I can't even tell you is a that hasem gave to us the fact that years after kak makes a tribute and and come and say it shows that the memory of the rashash Shiva will be here forever when I go in Lakewood and I go to is everything is exact the way it was when he was living the chair is there his safer is there with the hundreds and hundreds of names that he used to be Miss pal for all the time when I came in one time I didn't even know who he was first time I met him he told me please sit here look like a rabbi I said okay I said there then all of a sudden I begin to cop he put me in his chair I jumped up he said no no no no you're going to sit here I I said Ral I know this is your chair no no no no I'd be more comfortable you said I said I would be more comfortable you would sit here back and forth and it never changed the entire time when kazak made a dinner and they brought out to him the dinner I forgot the name of the the place so he insisted that the waiter give me the portion first I said Rosa you're Rosa I'm just a a visitor here I'm from the you know just the guest he said no then is that you've got to have the first portion I figured okay finally they brought him a portion they he put it he's sitting here he put the portion maybe 2 feet away he pulls out a rum the rest of the main course was no no eating no drinking just talking back and forth they came over to him everybody the the great love that they had each one wanted just to shake his hand some wanted to give AAR or receive but generally it was the person himself it's interesting there is a that sometimes just by seeing something you can be K you can acquire you can get a stronghold on it with the Riva that was the way it was you didn't have to learn with him you didn't have to learn with him you didn't have to talk with him and see what he felt in his and all the that he made he was a May he kept giving out more and more the spim that come out now the that comes out it shows he was an O he constantly Gave Over however he always disguised it you would never ever know what he held in his brain what he held in his mind years to come they will still be taking the Torah and still writing it up because that was the man the genius the understanding that he had for every person just by seeing him observing him watching him in D you watch him pray we watch him pray he was crying he was crying the entire time you watch him pray he was jumping he was dancing he Incorporated everything all you needed to do was to study him and watch him and that would be enough let alone if talk with him I just have a few short uh Tor dedicated to the greata first we should know that he was only Torah he was only Torah his Essence was Torah anything else that you could present him with he really wasn't interested he was interested you as a person but only Torah there is a chuva from the great min in is and the is concerning a yes that did not want to go to secular studies Advanced secular studies he wanted to learn Tor his parents were against it so the parents said I tell you what let's go t we'll see what the poek says they went of course the son said his peace the parents said their peace said you parents I have to tell you your son is Right allow him to go to learn support him I promise you promise you particular from him you will never stop smiling and he did few years later it was raining one day rain so some people come in to show regularly some people come in on a rainy day it's convenient a guy comes in sh I happen to repeat this from the and I said it everybody was coming in line to say shabbat shalom that guy the visitor came in because of the rain he's in the back okay he's waiting online he gets into the line and he says re I got a big M with my son I got a big problem with my son he wants to stay and learn B midash and I told him in the beginning of the year he cannot do that he got to go out he got to get a secular education got to work he's not staying and he argued with me and he didn't go you're saying r ra is that what you think is right I said to him my friend I will tell you one thing number one the reason it was raining today is not because of any other reason then you should come here and hear that Dasha because I wasn't going to say that DHA but it fell into my head and Ron told me if something falls into my head when I'm speaking I should say it out and I didn't want to say it because I'm usually a little bit more gentle Melle no little bit more gentle he begins to talk to me back and forth I said to him what you arguing your son came home he wants to become he wants to become great he has a love for Tor he'll learn for you you don't have to learn I told him you don't have to learn he'll learn for you Now isn't that good by the time we were done who he began to cry he said I'm going to go home I'm going to think about it next Shabbat he came to the shore it was a sunny day he walked over to me and he said I went and told my son he is right is the first time we talked in five months ra Tor if you want to know rokin he was only Torah the man's Essence is mAh says everything about him every fiber was only Tor the wisdom of a person shines in the face rulan walking down the street he shined he smiled somebody came over to like I've never seen didn't matter who it was even somebody one time it happened that somebody came and insulted him insulted him to his face you know what he did he just gave him a path smiled at him in a I seen it who can do that I wouldn't do it I don't have the OMS the courage to to be that way I don't have the patience to be that and that was a rabbi he was always in that mode ask M from a person that he did not have to ask M from he would ask forgiveness when he didn't have to why is it that everybody Feels So Close interesting says when a dies everybody is close because everybody tries to say I was so close to rebi I was the one that he really loved I was the one he knew I we were together and Reby you don't know he told me things everybody says that about rulin because everybody was to him everyone was his favorite everyone was his best said that there are two sees in the Holy Land the is theat in the y in the y the caner full of fresh water full of life y salt so no life at all the caner it takes in water it gives out water Yama only takes in water doesn't give out rulin was a giver he only gave out he gave out his Co he gave out everything that he had he had a beyond beyond human understanding the power the day when he was so ill and he already wasn't feeling well he called up my son-in-law benion and he told her benon I'm not sure I'm going to be able to learn tonight I'm not sure with a weak voice benan got the call rebi saying I'm not sure I could learn tonight that sounded serious it wasn't 4 hours later that the call came in that rash was no longer he had gone to Shay every bit of kak that he had everything that he possibly could do for the cloud he gave the an the humility the modesty was beyond he humbled himself before everyone so like mosenu the greatness was his modesty the humility the greatness of R wulin was his modesty was his humility before everybody he loved everybody there wasn't anyone who he didn't love a child an elderly person a person that came in and was a little bit boisterous he didn't care he was M of everybody he had an Ava for all it didn't matter who I saw him myself oh rash would come in one of the rash in Lakewood or a Reba would come in he was equal to everybody he loved them he himself great R yet he was m to everybody I just would like to uh say that he had no greater love than the than yes there wasn't anything that he loved better when he would come to uh to something in our place in Jackson he would say and they would say could you come to I'm sorry I have to be in Yeshiva and then occasionally they would say so Riva you know you do live here in Jackson in Lakewood maybe you know should think about uh coming over here we have he was shocked he said this is my Yesa this is my Yesa I could think about moving to Queens but I couldn't think about anything else that was a dedication the AA and the extreme love that he had for everybody everyone here I just want to uh just want to say few minutes that when Alisha when Alisha was taking leave of Elan noi Andi was going up to Shay so it happened said tell me what would you like what's your request what do you want of me before I go tell me Elisha said let there be a double portion of your spirit of your Ru let it be on me let it be on me Eli answered Elisha in a very interesting Way El noi said you made a difficult request this is not simple what you're asking however I will tell you the following if you see me taken from you then it's going to happen that you're going to get that R if you see me actually going then you're going to get the spirit but if you don't then it will not happen it's not going to be we know re sus a The Chariot of fire the horses of fire came down SE ated them Andi went up to sh the tells us Elisha saw and what did he sayi my father my father re is the Chariots of is in their writers we don't understand it why Didi say only if you see me taken from you then you will get the double Spirit then you'll get the ru why what was the reason for it the answer is that when a person leaves this world if we see them and we remember them and we make a z to them and we continue to say things and learn theim and go over reim if you do that if you remember you cry out a AI on the art side ai ai father Riva rabbi my life my life if you cry out and you think about it and you go into who he was and what he did then you get the double Ru then you get all the bras then you get every blessing because you have the right hash you got the right Outlook that is the significance that a person will always remember on the artsite the Great gaon reob said we came toes May there be great peace in May all the Finish may all the come home safe and sound May there be what happens when a person begins to think about this when individual says a a he was my father is my father it's difficult to go on without him then the spirit will always be here the spirit will be in kazak the spirit will be in Yeshiva the spirit will be in Jackson in the the spirit will be all over you carry on the spirit re yakob kineski says on the day of the artsite rebi comes we appear in front of him to be seen would Reby be proud of me would he be happy with my progress would he agree with the Mahal into to contemplate to think a few minutes about rashash Shiva how he looked and how he looks today just in finishing the great reab Yeshua lein the father brought in orphans to his own house started disin orphan home you go in AR show see a big big building disin orphan home what is bigger person should always support orphans there was a little orphan girl that was brought up in the house of Rua disin and while he was there in the house one night the little girl got a shower a bath and a shampoo by the rabbitson the raban gave her and then the raban was combing her hair like they do a little girl after the shampoo was combing her hair Rua lay passed by the room in the room where she was in the uh outside room and he saw the girl was crying little girl crying you sure he couldn't see a little girl cry it was too much for him he went over to the girl and he said to the little girl are you okay is the raban the rabbits in is she combing you here too hard the little girl said no she's combing it softer than my mother used to but there's only one thing when my mother was finished drying and combing my hair she used to give me a kiss on my head that kiss nobody gave me since she's not here a lot of reim a lot of sikim a lot of rashash but nobody gives a kiss that the great Rob Wan the great Sonic gave to each and every one of us you should remember on the night of the art side of the greatness of haav Raba and remember him throughout the year in try in our own aod to do the things that he wanted to do and wanted us to do gra tremendous meaningful tremendous remarks um of course we were take we should take all the lessons that we heard from all the the tonight we should we should take it with us share it to other people over the next day and um and of course throughout the entire for many years to come and all the all the learning that we do we should continue to remember and that will inspire us to continue doing more am