Rav Moshe Weinberger Shlita

this is a this is a world that's filled with people who I love those who I know and those who I don't know of Judah of will Andel and the whole this [Music] whole planet has H said of caring of giving of doing so many of my nieces nephews students my son-in-law have had this to to be in this m KES a place it's a place of of healing it's a place of of Happiness it's a place of caring it's a place where where you're giving to others and in very deep and mysterious ways they're giving more to you than you're giving to them and you all know that so this is not an effort for me to come here this is the this is and I look forward to this every year and it's been it's been a very very difficult year it's been a hard year mentioned the time that we're in [Music] Ben last week was L the breaking of the L there's so many hearts that have been broken this year homes Shattered by fathers who didn't return children who didn't return brothers sisters who are now in the other world who or in the underworld in in Gaza someplace from shatas which a day hasn't gone by that I haven't thought about when when one of the came from the security guys in sh to talk to me to tell me what was what they had heard a day so those of you you learn the Swarm over here you know that sh service in certain ways is the highest day of the year after the whole L really beginning it's all to bring to that that of shim and the of sh it's the highest time of love it's the highest highest time of the [Music] year and the the walls were violated it wasn't y it was south of usai but the borders the walls were breached and the luos were broken now there are many many many who have spent countless hours was watching every clip waiting for every bit of news we heard some good news there was a big Russia that was that was removed from the world yesterday the day before and spend the whole year sitting around telephones and there's no question question that's a very big inion to empathize to feel the pain of other Jews and to follow and to see and to try to some way [Music] to to be there with them but long ago there was a time that David H there were many times but there's one pic in particular that's heartbreaking said the words k k l Kay k my God my God L felt lost he felt that he was [Music] abandoned and in the Parish of so there says that we have to read those words differently and we believe that also meant them this way said read the words k k not lama lama means why we never we never really have satis answer to the question of why we really don't know I grew up in a home my parents survived the Holocaust and they taught me not to ask why and they didn't ask why l tell me why why did this happen how could this have happened they didn't ask that there were survivors that never stopped asking that and that those who did weren't really able to survive so says that means I'm not asking you why did it happen why why how why did that happen why did it happen all I'm asking is RA says it happened whatever for whatever reason we we trust you we believe in you but what do you want of me now now that I've been left in this situation what am I to do what do you ask of me the B is asking something from us it's hard to understand him what what is it that he's [Music] asking son in tells us he speaks of the 28 28 times there's a time to love there's a time to hate and there's a time that's called as it's a time of War and the time that we're living in right now is an A and that means that is saying to each and every one of us every single Jewish man and woman if you want to understand what are you asking of me what do you want me to do it's not enough to listen to the news it's not enough to empathize I've watched throughout this year besides the actual soldiers on the front the great giar the heroes inel I've watched so many heroic people in Woodmere in the five towns in Muny in different places of the world well over heroic people who who heard Hashem calling to them and saying stop sitting around and watching the news get up and do something because if it's if it's a time of War makes no difference what your background is makes no difference if you're you call yourself modern you call yourself this or that it makes no difference all those titles I heard from one of my who who heard from there was somebody that came to was talking to about different different said to him in sh they don't care about they care about this there are three types of Jews hot warm and cold that's what time said they're hot warm and cold so this past year this a it's still still going on it's a right now in a during this a has is is asking each and every one of his Jews regardless of what the background is is asking each one of us to be to to fight in the war to fight in the war This Is am's War This Is amel's War every Jew in the world now the same way I said to you before that we don't know why we don't understand why if you're a soldier if you're a soldier your job is not to try to understand the bigger picture of how this war is being fought of why this war had to take place that's not what a soldier does one kind of soldier one type of soldier is assigned with a couple other that they have to clean out this neighborhood have to get out all of the all of the r all the is all of the murderers have to be cleaned out from this block and those go to that block and they risk their lives every step it's crazy booby trapped and and shooting from the windows and from under and from on top and the job of those soldiers those have a t kid because a is a person who feels that he has a job his inan is not how the war is going to be for how to win his job right now is to take care of this block of this building that's his job that's his objective there's another guy who's a medican his job is to is to be out there and to bandage people have people that need help there's another guy that's in the place he's waiting with some food that he's preparing so when the guys come back they'll have something to eat because that's the definition the definition of a of a soldier is a person who accepts responsibility doesn't ask why do I have to go there why do I have to do this how does this affect the is this are we winning the that's not the of the when a the job of the of the soldier a guy or a girl whatever it's the job of the to be completely focused on what he has to do and what she has to do and to carry it out with mysterious neish and to know when to believe that every single step that he's taking whether it's in the booby trap building or whether it's a guy that's preparing some some some supper for for the for the soldiers coming back every single step is the every single step is saturated with a every single step is saturated with therefore we have each one of [Music] us we have to be soldiers you know long ago Yu fo with the and you know that because of that little it wasn't so little because thear says in that theak the went up it it was a big and that's the till the end of time and the Torah says that because of that we're called B right the says your name is not going to be it's not going to be akov anymore [Music] you're not going to be called yov anymore you're going to be called is why because you have fought with with angels and you have fought with people whatever and means and you have been Victorious so there was a great you heard grandson son if you're free for the next couple of centuries you should take a look at them the from says he asks a very good question the question is why are we really called B is we should be called B oh it sounds weird we should be called Ben because a says at the end when it says in a that that means you are victorious asks why be called B is is means to fighta Kara means to fight shouldn't we call shouldn't we be called b or maybe make nice or something but shouldn't we be called those who were victorious [Music] so says theion of being Victorious is something which is not in the hands of a human being Victory is something which is the's business the outcome what happens that's the's business just like each one of you that's helping over here it's helping kids over here and doing whatever your job is you don't know in the end what's going to be with each one of these people you don't know where they're going to end up you don't know what's going to be in their lives maybe you'll be able to stay in touch with some of them but you don't know the you don't know whether or not you're going to be whether there was some sort of a victory that took place in the summer of you don't know that the outcome of what you're doing you don't know the outcome is has so BL says we're not called because that's not our inion our in is means means to fight it means to be a it means to be a person that's single-minded dedicated devoted whether it's making meals whether it's tying tits whether it's whatever it is whether it's with a tum with that kid that you were given that you were assigned to take care of aus helas sells a fighter I was thinking that's why daving in we say the capital daving so say right our enemies they fell down they're broken they fell down we got up and were strengthened so wouldn't it be better along the lines of's question wouldn't it be better to say raise your hand I I don't mean that really but in your head raise your hand if you're such a Jew that has never fallen nobody here would raise his his hand or her hand every single one of us has fallen so we don't it doesn't say until him we haven't fallen it doesn't say [Music] that even went through a time in his life when he was thrown off the throne and he wasn't was there and he wasn't he went around saying and they were laughing at him there's no person who hasn't for I remember I once heard years ago some of you there was a I I I don't remember the whole background of the story but there was something with a there was a an American that was in Japan or in China I don't remember which one of those places and and he had a son that was wasn't like a a gab was a weak person and it was many many years ago and the father brought his son to some master of of karate or something of one of the martial arts and he brought his son to this big master that his big Rabbi of of ma of martial arts and he asked the guy and he asked the old Chinese guy he take my son and make him to a make him to somebody teach them like you know so the the old Master said you have to give me you have to give me your son for a year leave your son with me for a year and I'll teach him I'll make him to somebody so the so the father is okay and left the kid there for a year and after a year they get together and there's this match between the old the old man the master and the kid and the kids coming with punches and the kicks and every single time the old man grabs his leg and crack on the floor then he tries to the kid tries to punch him grabs his arm boom on the floor so the father can't take this anymore this kid is getting slammed on the floor one time after the other so the father stops to say start screaming stop stop stop and his father goes over to the old man he said I don't understand I sent my I gave you my son for year and I've just watched him been been thrown down on the floor 50 times [Music] but the old man said really that's what you saw but what I saw I saw your son getting up 50 times that's what I saw I saw your son getting up 50 times so didn't say because it's not true and it's been a hard year and there been a the difference however between them and US between the other side and the side of Kad you understand what I'm saying we just laned in like a lion jumps back up after getting a knack you know there was such an an interesting thing that happened a few weeks ago now this has nothing to do with politics but there was a very very strange thing after shabas a few weeks ago so my one of my kids turned on her phone and she started to say that they tried to kill they they tried to kill Trump and there was already a clip on the phone with the whole mice over there he almost got Bull in his head he got hit in the ear now I'm not talking about that person because he's a strange person he's done a lot of good things and I'm not saying that we should make any sh with him you understand but something there was something there that I was ready to spell from and I I've been running it through my head I was watching this thing that my shie showed me and I see a guy gets grazed by a bullet he got blood oil of his face he's not a young guy now a regular person they take him on a stretcher right take him put him into an ambulance and zo he lives he dies whatever it is now again I I don't know what he is who he is but that he was able to stand up deer and to start shaking his fist and screaming fight fight fight it's not bad that was pretty good that was pretty good the Bal have told us that man by nature is a fighting creature the T of a person is to be very competitive how do you explain the fascination let's say with sporting events it's a strange thing the Olympics are still going on I know they started I don't know if they finished whatever I know it's the Olympic time what is this fascination with with sports that you could take even people who are otherwise intelligent mature individuals people who think people who read and they'll spend hours and hours of their lives watching guys running around like excuse me their gas beating each other up and throwing a ball and running after balls and it's a strange thing though and in the Moment of Truth we would all admit that it's a very strange obsession I know people that are 30 years old they still do that they still watch these things I'm not talking about playing ball that's very healthy I talk about people that sit around and watch ball games they're 40 years old 50 years old and they're still screaming and yelling I remember that every every year once once a year my father would take myself and a friend of mine from the Block he would take us to a Yankee game we're big Yankee fans he would take us to a Yankee G that's in those days where it was where there were Mickey manle and Raj Maris was guys and you take us to a Yankee my father always took us to he would bring us to the game and my father sat down with the ugly manager with the yish newspaper he just read the paper he wasn't interest all all the screaming yelling and I remember one it was exciting I remember one time there was some gaval thing that happened I don't remember it was like a grand slam something very big and the whole there they weren't just screaming yelling everybody standing on their chairs so myself and my friend I also got up on my chair I started to scream and I was yelling and my father took my leg and he pulled me down he looked at me he said what's the matter with you what are you doing I said daddy there was a grand sit on your chair what's the matter with you you could you could beat my father the words that he said he said it's much better much better than youy what he said was you know you could be you could be an idiot on your chair too you don't have to be an idiot jumping up he used the word he said like a goem you want to be a Golem be a Golem sitting down be a Golem jumping [Music] up what is this Obsession you see from children from the time that they're young you see brothers and sisters brothers brothers sisters brothers sisters you see the kind of competition what goes on how come he has I don't have you gave her this you said that he got I didn't get everything's a m from the beginning of time K and heav everything started off like a this is the this say talk a lot about this inion that people have that human beings have to fight to compete to be at War to be in a m it's a very natural quality that's woven into the fabric of mankind to be in a Perpetual state of mil the question is what is it that you're fighting for so in Pas Bak we led the bris of billum and billum wanted to curse us and AEM of course changed the curses into bras and one of the bras was meaning that b was standing on standing over there and looking at at at Isel and he was trying to understand what is it about these people that makes them different if somebody come to see what is it about Kemp Hask what is about this place what makes the different what makes the K here so alive and Bill wanted to know what is it about these people the world even back then couldn't figure this out back then they were trying to destroy us and they couldn't and that all of history and every single time we come out more alive I told you before I was raised in a home by parents who lost their entire Families my parents who lived in places who survived places called aitz and maten that I'm sure you've heard about you've read about alive and giving life and building yeshivas and building Bas hospitals the CL when you heard of them there was there was a there was a a very wealthy person you know the clabby built the L hospital he made during the during the mil he said if he survives he's going to build a Jewish hospital and he built Nat the L hospital he raised the money for it and they brought him a big big rich guy and the rich guy said re I'll tell you what I'll give this huge check but I want you know these kind of conversations there's a question whether that could work I'm not going into it now it's a discussion in the post but he said I I'll give you the check but I want you and you know what to Clos said I don't I can give you my I can give you whatever I can give you for the check but I'll tell you what I wouldn't give you for the check I wouldn't give you the check I wouldn't I wouldn't switch places with you from those years that I was in concentration camp where I fought every single second to say kishma that I didn't need a piece of tarus a piece of TR once during the War I didn't have one nonos thing in my mouth I didn't put you know what that was I didn't put a piece of tra in my mouth the whole time of the M I wouldn't give up those I wouldn't give up that time I wouldn't switch with anybody cuz that's I never felt as alive as I felt during that time I never felt this alive so B is trying to understand what is it about Jews how they live what keeps them alive says he was a big and it became revealed to him he saw he say I I look upon R the the beginning of the Jewish people of he says I look at the roots of the Jewish people and I see that the roots are deep and strong solid the Jews come from from become from become come from great Fighters we come from very very strong powerful people I'm not talking about weightlifters says you know means means a person has says n just means if you have a minion a minion starts a minions call for 7:30 in the morning you're there 7:25 with your thrilling that's called an is not 740 not 750 not not sleeping in bed you have S in learning is a soldier go see in the war the soldier says I was sorry he says to his commanding off I'm sorry I was uh I slept late can you imagine in the Army you have a kid to take care of you Mish you're on time you do what you have to that's what it means to be a Soldier and Bam said I see them like like mountains like rocks because why they come from such people means this is my job I'm going to do it nothing's going to get in my way I'm going to work hard at this I'll do the best I can my job is not to be victorious that's not it's going to come out it's not going to come out I succeed I won't 16 that's not my business that's that's hm's business my job is fight fight fight that's my job says the beginning of is a person Deep Roots you know a wind comes a big wind comes and it moves the branches it moves the leaves it could be some apples fall down but the Roots the Roots are unbreakable and that's what B was saying that's what it means because it's not just T and pay that's a time now we feel it's but I'm sure that every single person in this room learned at least the first par of because every single step of life if you take life seriously every single step is a how you going to bench after this meal how you going to smile to a person who could use a smile or whether you going to be wrapped up in yourself every single second says so we we make a terrible mistake and we think that and the science is some Misfortune are terrible and I don't want means help me not to bring upon myself but as far as that brings us in life listen to the words I'm reading to you from the who knows who's the author of The who knows anybody know my saw them you never heard of it's the alar from the V who's a very holy person the alar from the v he's speaking about what does it mean to be alive to taste life you know people do all kinds of crazy things that taste a little bit of life so they'll they'll jump off mountains parach off mountains all kinds of crazy things people do they got people all kinds of strange things so listen to the words of the Madre he's talking about a person who's not afraid of nus who accepts that life is a and that life is filled with n and the means of course challenges and he writes the following a soldier now I spoke to soldiers this year over this whole year I've been talking to soldiers I've been talking to parents I've been talking to soldiers themselves I've I was talking to a guy who lost his arm and lost a leg and he's and he's arguing to go back somehow and still be in the mil you hear this he wants to be somehow even if he can't physically he'll be in the in the office he wants to be on the front he he wants to go back into the N could be such a thing I I spoke to people like that this year not one not two more than that that they were trying to run away from the hospital to go back to the front to go back into Aza to go back up north why so the so the Ala says like this because when you are when you believe in what you fir and you're he doesn't call this he says this is being alive I'm fighting for something I believe in I'm a soldier of I'm fighting for what I believe in he doesn't call this n he doesn't cry about gal gal gal this is being a lie this is what it means to be alive to fight it doesn't have to be on on that front it could be to get to on time it could be to overcome the so it could be when you're sitting someplace late on a Thursday night and you think nobody's watching and you try not to think that God is watching and you have your little telephone and there's something you shouldn't be looking at that's also a big and to stop in that place and to say no there's no feeling of being More Alive than being in that struggle in that battle and because at that moment he's discovering within himself that he didn't know that he had I'm sure many of you are finding out that this summer especially the first year people that you're finding out that you have K to do things you never thought you could do you have you have that do things that you never thought you could do and only through the only through the wars the challenges the nness do you do you excavate deep inside of yourself you're forced to come to that place inside of yourself and you find that you have you never ever ever believed you had and that's why M for the here when it comes to the challenges of life cuz you all going to have mamas when whatever it is in marriage they're going to be mamas raising kids they going to be all kinds of mamas all kinds of mamas in life this is a training camp I'm not saying it's we're here in West Point but the training the place of training is to overcome to be able to overcome when you have the S of something in front of you and is telling you you can't do this and you overcome you fight against that there's no bigger that a person has you don't know how much your being here is changing your future lives and the lives of your children you have an all of them are being changed by by what you're going through here this person doesn't feel like oh I can't believe it I have to go through this again I have to fight again I have to I have to get up again I have to do this again he doesn't feel that he doesn't feel that it's an old he doesn't think it's it awakens within in the whole R of who he is he's alive and any time any of you ever had to overcome something that was very very hard for you and you went ahead and you did it whether it was whether it was you never felt more alive even though you would think your intuition would tell you that no the best thing in the world is man so I want to share with you something in this little book that I picked up when we were in we were in p [Music] I just want to share this with you with this I'll end there's this beautiful little that's called rap asive I was in the Swarm store when I was giving when I went to pay for this Farm you know they have a couple of booklets and little things over there and I saw this and it's based upon has on the teachings of Rabbi saaks was a very special person and and there are interviews here you know there's a lady San mayor you know you know who that is she's a very a lady that is a journalist a f journalist and she does a lot of good things and there are there are stories here it said that she was speaking to people that during the time of the m and I wanted to see this we were there it was still a few this is going back to a few months ago and there are many things here that I'm dispelled from but I just want to to to share this story with you it's not about it's not about it's about a lady by the name of yel benenfeld so I'm going to read to you I'm going to read to you what happened I'll read it to you in the in the the way that they inel and this is a a little bit of a shabas gift for you listen carefully this y alfeld comes from the city of L and she received a she received there was news information that was coming in and that there were that there was something going on and she there was a siren that went off I'm sure you will understand but I'll translate anyway there was a siren that went off and her kids she had little she has little kids they were in they were in school and and gone and gone one of my kids she a little kid and the kid they let him into to make a phone call and he was crying I mean they took the kids into the to the safe room and the kid was crying he was afraid scary and he asked me mommy he asked me IMA come and come and get me I'm afraid I tried everything I could do any argument to help him from over the phone empatha empathy and so on the take deep take deep breaths and but nothing helped the kids just crying I want to go home come get me all of a sudden I had this thought I told him the following thing I said to my kid this little kid I sent him the following say like some six or seveny old you are you are of with the children of the filled with courage with strength that means since you are it means that you also are filled with courage and with strength that which has kept the Jewish people going and Alive all of the generations you also have that and she tells the kid she I told my kid then a from that I mentioned from that the nation of the Jewish people is like a a line that jump up gets back up to fight so she tells the kid and then all of a sudden for whatever reason okay I'm okay I'll go back to CL because I guess the S was I'll go back to C when Tak and he hung up so she writes the this the May writes like this this story is not just about a little kid it's about all of us our people our nation is thirsty for greatness who and we draw unbelievable emotional and physical strength we draw like we just learned from like from the from the roots not like like the wind comes and blows it away no those character traits that were there this greatness that was there by our fathers and our mothers long ago of have passed generation after generation to us this strength in all of our DNA even though there are things that are in the way and there are delays and there are there sad news that we hear and there's all kinds of there's all kinds of of obstacles and and we still don't see a clear way out of all of this even if it's a long path this is what consoles us and this is what gives us strength so I to give each and every one of you a br that this that this wonderful mother y gave to her little boy that is should give to each of us tell funny thing that happened now this late tell funny thing happened the the other night we're in the mountains here in a bungalow in South Fallsburg and the other night it was like 3: in the morning and there was this fly that was buzzing around you ever have one of these super flies that like doesn't go away wouldn't go away just kept on attacking took chair but first to my wife then to me then my wife he was going back crazy and you know you try all kinds of stuff and this fly is not going anywhere and finally at some point my wife said to me m you have to get him you have to you have to get him so it's like 3 in the morning I was I was hoping to go the whole night just like that you know but my wife said no no no no you might this is This Is War you know this is a big M this is the war of South Fallsburg 2024 so we have a 69 Cent fly swatter from 40 50 years ago and I go to get the fly SW water so what do you think have I got up on the bed finally stopped over there high up on the window shade with one F swoop I got him yeah [Applause] so so I said to my wife no no no guys you can go to sleep and I and I got to and I lie down I start laughing my wife says what's with you I said this is the m of my schweinberger 2024 I got my brothers and sisters are in Gaza and I'm standing on a bed swatting flies This Is Our Big M let's remember there's a big m going on and it's not swatting flies we have to keep on fighting each one of you in your own War only hasm is about your War your m whatever your m is be a Soldier be strong be strong fight fight fight the day is going to come Hashem is going to say to us it's over you have won come home to it's time for father goes to you sh he said I should introduce who's your father Aaron Rosen he said he didn't have the time to introduce himself but he loves your show thank thank you thank you so much I appreciate it sorry took long