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Rav Moshe Weinberger Shlita - Turning Thursday into Erev Shabbos
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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