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okay today's class is dedicated by Adam
Farkas
in loving memory of Lucy and Maya and
Rina D from Efrat the mother and two
daughters
who were killed on pesach
Lucy D and her two daughters Maya and
Rina made their tragic loss to Terror
serve to truly unite the Jewish people
in the land of Israel
amen and thank you very very much
so today
everybody knows that after pesach
between pesachar and the custom and
Jewish communities is that we learned
the ethics of the fathers every Shabbos
or week another chapter
so last Shabbos was pericard of the
first one of the Shabbos we're going to
learn chapter two perki Elvis pereg base
and I want to focus
on
picky of his Pedic base
um
missioner test actually Mission a test
there's a few versions some put it at a
later mishna
but many of them is Mission attests
that's the middle of the second chapter
and it's a fascinating fascinating
mishnah
will also see it's also connected to the
portions of the week tasria mitzvah
which this year reckons is coincides
with this chapter
and the discussion
in this chapter is in the previous
mishnah just to give the context the
mishna mentions one of the greatest
sages whose name was
the son of zakai and he was a student of
Hillel
and shamai
and in the previous mishna
review who was a student of illumin says
he used to say the mishna says
if you learned a lot of Torah don't
become arrogant from it
sarta this is the purpose of your
creation
the next mission seemingly goes off on a
tangent and starts discussing history
and here's the history
had five students
the elohane these are their names
are the son of Hercules
so the mission now says
five students
he's also known as Rabbi Eliezer
haggadel the great Rabbi Eliezer review
is
you see in the bottom below the Hebrew
there's an English translation I put in
used to count Or List their their praise
their outstanding virtues
and this is what he said
the son of hurricane us he is a
plastered cistern which does not lose
even a drop of water
is a cistern like a pit sud is it's
plastered it's plastered so well that
even a drop of water doesn't leak out
doesn't get lost that's how he described
the first student of Elizabeth Hercules
which means he retains everything
he forgets not even a drop of water that
I put into him he is like a cistern but
a solid one that contains and retains
everything without losing even one drop
which obviously describes what type of
memory he had what type of mind he had
his ability to listen his ability to
absorb his ability to retain and not
just retain but retain literally
everything
it's important to emphasize that this is
the time
says this the oral tradition has not yet
been
put on paper the terrorist was still
called was was really cold Parish about
that because it was Tori that was given
over baalpa mouth to mouth face to face
teacher to student it was not yet
written
only
a few Generations afterwards generation
of by Judah the prince he would be the
editor of the machinayas and he's the
one who would put down all the
traditions and from the generations onto
paper and that would become the mishnah
the first official text of terrorism so
the factor of Elizabeth hurkin retains
everything is an incredible incredible
feat and very very important especially
in that era next
happy is the woman who gave birth to him
that's what he said about him
fortunate ashrae fortunate or lucky or
how great or happy is yoladatai the one
who was mild him the one who gave birth
to him
obviously he's such a special
special fine person that the mother who
gave birth to him must be truly
fortunate and happy
the third student who was a priest he
was a client he just said one word he's
a hasid custard obviously from the word
Crescent a truly kind pious
generous
outstanding human being
the son of Nissan of the fourth student
is somebody who
fears sin
Rebels the fifth one the blood
he's like a spring
that is
continuously vibrating with ever
increasing Force
Mayan is a Wellspring Hamas Gaber it's
always
vibrating it's always flowing with
strength with might it never ceases okay
if all the sages of Israel were on one
scale
they were on one scale of the balance of
Elizabeth hurkin was on the other scale
he would outweigh them all
in other words this qualities his
virtues would outweigh all the other
sages even though it's four to one he
actually says all the sages may even be
more than four
foreign
literally means a borrowed father an
interesting name said in his name is
if the sages of Israel were on one scale
of the balance
was with them
on the scale he would outweigh them all
so we have her two versions of whatever
I sent either he said the first student
of Allah
the cistern that's plastered that
doesn't lose a drop that would outweigh
them all or that but quoted him
who is the Wellspring that is always
vibrating and flowing he would outweigh
everybody
okay on my left
the picture of us continues
said to these five students
so ooh go out
and observe AZ director Adam which is
the right way
to which a person should cleave what's
the path a person should cultivate this
is a challenge he gives these five great
students
foreign
a good eye
to be able to have a good eye
that's rebellious the first student
nothing like a good friend a good
companion a good pal
Ace he says
a good neighbor
says the fourth student Heroes
foresight somebody who has Vision
somebody who sees that which will be
born even though it's not present
and the last one says
a good heart
foreign
I somehow prefer or have a proclivity or
a special
sensitivity to the words of Allah
for his words
include also your words in other words
from all the choices a good eye
and a good friend and a good neighbor
and foresight he says I choose the fifth
one a good heart because in the good
heart you already have included the
other four as well
that's basically
the story brought here in
his five students it continues with the
opposite in which he says to them go out
and see which is the most negative
attribute that a person can cultivate
and they come back and ibiley as it says
an evil eye and Abby Yeshua says not a
good friend says not a good neighbor and
if shiman says somebody who borrows
and doesn't pay back which means no
foresight and rebelazu says again a
heart that is negative not a good heart
again prefers his insight
now let's delve a little bit into this
mishnah and think about it
the first thing is
is
a very interesting track day to mishnais
but the common denominator of all the
five and six chapters is that it's
basically teaching a person ethics
truths medus proper behavior
the Gamora says
somebody who wants to be uh meaning
somebody who wants to live a Pious and
good and decent and Noble life should
learn and should implement it because
already from the beginning is basically
a teacher but it's not a teacher of
technical laws it's a teacher of of
Personality issues dispositions
characteristics we to work on things to
be cautious about things to cultivate
and so forth
you don't have anywhere else in
particularis a mishnah that is just
dedicated to a teacher giving
compliments to a student it's a
wonderful thing
starts telling five students he's he's
enumerating their praises it's wonderful
but how does it fit into the genre of
precarious
the genre kelvis is not history
nor is it a diary about the relationship
between a particular teacher and a
students and yet we have her a whole
mishna that tells us the story that a
Birkin Zaki had five students if you
really want to talk about everybody's
students there were hundreds of teachers
who had hundreds and thousands of
students so you can go through all of
the Messiah the rambam in his
introduction to Mishra goes through 40
Generations
who was the teacher who was the student
but the bishop Kelvin doesn't do that it
starts off right away Maisha kibble
Toyota Messina and goes fast all the way
Township
and over there it's to tell you how the
tradition worked here just about five
students and then he just tells you he
counted the praise of these five
students how does it come into pre-kay
office that's number question number one
doesn't seem to fit the genre of the
ethics of the fathers number two
there were many great rappers many great
teachers and leaders and sages
himself was a student of the great
Hillel and the great shama Hillel
himself had 80 students Nigeria says in
sukkah
if you had joined us in bonusio his
oldest student his youngest student
everybody that's how the trader was
transmitted from teacher to student from
teacher to student
is like
and the the possible says it's like a
kadur kadur bonus it's like a ball that
a girl throws to another girl to pass it
on in other words every teacher took the
ball like the Baton and passed it on
through the ball to the next and they
catch it they make sure you have it and
then you throw it on to the next
generation
why is he the only one who's
complimenting his students
so you say others also did but some
others so one story we have that he's
the one who was praising his students
there were hundreds of generations
before him and certainly after him and
zakai lived even before the mission was
written but this story is said about
another interesting thing is
Hua is praised how does he praise him
he speaks about his mother now it's nice
to speak about a mother we can speak
about everybody's mother
with him he doesn't talk about his
qualities it's almost like he's speaking
about his mother's qualities
in a way you can even say he's not
talking about him he's talking about his
mother now they all had wonderful
mothers who raised them but over here he
speaks about Ashley he doesn't just say
though fortunate as his mother or
fortunate as his father or fortunate as
his parents
he said uses the word that I fortunate
is the one who gave birth to him but why
don't you talk about the qualities the
virtues he doesn't say that
sin
now that's an interesting thing because
all of the sages one of the
prerequisites
for being in the Sanhedrin for being one
of the Sages
if you don't have that Integrity that
ethical sensitivity so then the
scholarship is pretty much worthless
he emphasizes
he feared sin obviously there was
something special about different
than the other ones
and then there is the argument if he
held it if Elizabeth
he's not a sister that doesn't lose a
drop but he's a well that doesn't stop
flowing with ever increasing strength
so how are we supposed to understand all
of this
the truth is
that this
it's not just a story about a sage who
had five students
and he decided he's going to compliment
them and in particulars we have to hear
about their complex with the compliments
which is a wonderful thing but doesn't
seem to fit into a book that's
instructing us about ethics and about
behavior and about this position
but what if this mission is actually
teaching
a very very profound lesson
that does guide a person
especially in the world of pedagogy and
mentorship and leadership in education
what the mission imprison is telling us
is
how does one raise students disciples
children grandchildren
talmudium
raised
and why him
why him
so before we get to why him let's
understand what the mission is telling
us
and we have here clear very powerful
guidance
foreign
means count
he would count their praises now it's an
interesting expression you count money
maybe you count how many eggs you have
you have to make muffins and you need a
certain amount of eggs you count how
many eggs you have you count how many
tomatoes or cucumbers you have for the
salad
people count things that are countable
doesn't mean he counted their praises he
had a sheet and he counted one two three
four five six seven
but this is essential to the entire
message here
didn't just say
I have amazing students he didn't even
just tell them you guys are outstanding
I love you I cherish you you are creme
de La Creme you're the best of the best
that's also wonderful but he did
something much more than that
like when you count there's one two
three four five he specified
and he counted and he elaborated in a
very detailed and specific way each one
of their praises he didn't compare one
to the other he didn't say you're all
just wonderful kinderlock wonderful
students I'm lucky to have you which is
also a wonderful thing to say but are
you minor like an account we have to be
specific and particular counting doesn't
refer to the collective you say there's
a big crowd here how many oh it's a huge
crowd it's one and two and three and
four
what he showed to is each of the
students as he showed to them their
strengths
he mirrored to them
who they were he allowed them to hear
from him and to see in him what he saw
in them
understanding
that that's the way they're going to be
able to see it in themselves by having a
teacher who truly believed in them and
not just believed in them in a general
all-encompassing way and gave nice
feedback and comments but somebody who
can really
pin it down somebody who can really
really get down to the to the details
huh it wasn't just general positive
reinforcement
yeah oh so you're saying
is very general the other ones are more
specific very good that was our question
actually a lot of it seems very general
why don't you speak about
his midday is his qualities his virtues
his good good question we're going to
get to that in a moment
right hate also seems okay he fears sin
perhaps in a unique way
and that's what we learned from here
when when when we try to lift up
somebody we try to compliment somebody
in a very positive way I could do it in
a very general way you know you're cute
you're adorable
you're Angelic you're such a good which
is all good
teaches us something much more
uh
yes
that's another interesting thing
it's not that he did it once how are you
like it says he would always do it this
was not something you know once in 20
years when the shotgun called he said
something nice oh yeah this was a
constant thing he was always looking out
for it he always sought he identified it
he emphasized it he made a stood him he
made a Ruckus about it this was his
thing and he would bring it out he would
bring it out not just in words and
actions in in most importantly perhaps
in body language in gestures in the way
you communicate to each of them
and because he did this on a constant
basis and in a very genuine and
authentic way they began to see that in
themselves he mirrored to them what he
wanted they should be able to mirror to
themselves he showed them what they
should be able to see in themselves
so of course this belongs in precarious
because it's teaching you how to inspire
people how to empower people the first
thing is you have to be able to see the
goodness
the second thing is you have to be able
to celebrate it I could see something
and then go to sleep be able to
celebrate it talk about it get excited
about it dance with it and and then help
them dance with it
so first of all it's seeing it it's
noticing it and then it's communicating
it and it's not just communicating it
once but it's a lifestyle
that is engaged and dedicated to that
type of of of of communique of
communication
every teacher
was in a unique moment of History
why
is I mentioned was a student of Hillel
and shamai
where the zoo guys they were the Great
sages that lived close to the end
of the era of the second base
the second base amiklus was destroyed in
the year 70 after the Common Era now
we're in the year 2023
in the year 2070 right 2070
it's going to be exactly 2 000 years
because it happened in 70. so 2070
is C after the common area not BC BCE is
before zero in the secular calendar zero
officially is Begins the year that ish
was born
whether that's Mama's the year or it's
not Mama's the year is a separate issue
but the year zero Begins the year
officially that he was born
no
if he was killed by the Romans he was
crucified by the Romans in his 30s so
that would be approximately the year 30
or 36 Common Era which means exactly 30
40 years before the Corbin by Ashanti
which coincides generally with history
now there's a lot of you know not
everything is so clear and a lot of
debates in terms of the exact history
but that's when the year zero begins in
their tradition
in fact BCE and CE usually stands for
something else but we call it the Common
Era they have another there's other
acronyms for it
it's not for this class huh
A.D A.D is completely different
that I usually don't say CE
so the year zero starts starts that
calendar our calendar Jewish calendar of
course the Besame was destroyed in the
year
um
very good
very good huh
but but just a drop 38
28 or 38 29 or 38 30. right
a few hundred years over you're talking
about the construction of it
now somebody was destroyed in the year
70 or the year 69 or the year 68 there's
a few versions but it's one of those few
years in the English in this Jewish
calendar that would be the year three
thousand eight hundred and thirty
so it's very different than 70. the
secular calendar that's 70. by us it's
already 3 830 years since creation
because our calendar doesn't begin with
the birth of a Jewish kid but one Jewish
kid
yeah so some say it was 28 29 or 30
which in the English would be 68 69 or
70.
who was the leader of the Sanhedrin
which means who was the spiritual leader
of the Jewish people during this time
felt that it's impossible for the Jews
to fight the Romans it's simply not
going to work and he felt that they have
to engage and talk to the Romans
do with the zealots the kanayam the
secret who said absolutely not and they
staged the Revolt they burned the Grain
in Jerusalem so it forced the Jews to go
to war
and Robert had a very different opinion
he sneaked out of Jerusalem and the only
way he can do it is he feigned his death
and they took him out in a coffin to
make believe they have to bury him and
he was really alive and he went and he
met Vespasian aspicionus now that's a
fascinating thing because aspaciones at
the time was the Commanding General of
the Roman Legions coming to conquer
Jerusalem but later he would become the
emperor of Rome he would go back to Rome
succeeding Nero neroy
and he would send his son Titus To Go
destroy the actual vespedian was the
father of titusia
and vespasium was so impressed by him
that he asked him what he would like
famously asked for three things he
wanted a doctor for absadiq who fasted
40 years he wanted that he should spare
the dynasty of REM gamlil which is the
dynasty of David and he wanted the
lasting Tenley Avenue
he should spear the city of yavana and
its sages which means he should not
destroy yavana and its sages
agreed there were people very critical
of the gemaria says
coined the phrase they used to
paraphrase the possible
sometimes Hashem takes the mind of the
wise and he sets it backwards and they
applied this positive that he wasn't
thinking Vespasian says I'll do whatever
you want give me your wish he should
have said leave Jerusalem alone don't
touch the base of make this go back to
Rome I thought he will never agree to
that he didn't ask for something small
but they were very absolutely the truth
is the truth is and you have to
understand this the gemara says in
braces
was very sick he was at his deathbed he
lived very long
Moses for the first 40 Years of his life
he was engaged in business Commerce
second 40 years he learned the last 40
years he taught
so he had a very productive life when he
was on his deathbed his students came to
visit him
and they saw that he was sobbing so they
asked him Rabbi why are you sobbing and
he says when a person leaves this world
there's two Pathways One path leads to
grenade in the paradise and one path
leads to get him to purgatory
I don't know which path I am going to be
led through
so I'm sobbing
and then the last moment before he
breathed his last breath he said prepare
a chair near the bed for his
apparently came to escort him passed
away
now the question is did he really feel
that he's going to go to gehenna
I mean if he's not going to grenadin who
is it made for
you know it's like the old joke the old
joke they say that uh
in Paradise God takes out a can of tuna
and feeds it to Moses and the next day
sardines and the next day another can of
tuna and then jard gefilte fish
finally after a few months says can the
menu and be a little more Diversified he
says listen for one person doesn't pay
to cook
you know you want the kitchen you've got
to get hand and there's a lot of action
over there
humility doesn't mean that if I'm tall I
say I'm short and if I'm smart I say I'm
dumb that's not humility it's stupidity
you'll forgive me humility doesn't mean
I lie about my qualities and my virtues
humility means putting them in
perspective contextualizing them I
really thought that he deserves
Purgatory after the life he lived well
you know who he was
it's a very difficult thing to
understand and he saw me that he may end
up in purgatory
the answer is that sometimes when a
person comes to the end of their life
generally when we get older and more
introspective you may have lived a
wonderful and amazing life but sometimes
there's one story
that eats up on me and I can't forgive
myself for it and even if a person looks
back and they know they try their best
and they did many good things sometimes
there is that one choice I made or that
one decision that happened or that one
occurrence that I may have not dealt
with correctly and precisely at the end
of one's life that really comes up
I knew his virtues and he knew his
greatness but there was one story
that sat on his chest for many many
years and that was the moment he met for
spasia because Vespasian said what do
you want I will do it for you
SEF and later generations felt that he
made a terrible terrible error he was
given the opportunity to save Jerusalem
to save the base of mikdish
obviously he was trying his best but he
asked himself am I indirectly
responsible for the decimation
of yerushalayam
because of me
obviously the Romans who destroyed it
but I was given the opportunity to
prevent it and maybe my fear or my
insecurity or my lack of courage or I
was afraid he's going to throw me out of
the room or I wanted him to be good to
us whatever their calculations were I
failed not just me I failed my people I
failed my history
I failed my past my future I failed
claudiusro
because what he asked for was a doctor
for episodic spear one family and spirit
Yeshiva don't destroy the Yeshiva
he says maybe I do have to go to gehenna
and at such a moment when you're
standing in front of a special it's not
like you could start looking into books
and calling your your teacher and
calling other people to consult you're
right in front of the most powerful
person of the world soon he would become
the emperor of Rome the Roman Empire was
the most powerful Empire in the world
and at that moment he made a decision
that's what he asked for and at this
point before the end of his life he said
maybe maybe I failed my people and
failed them in such a catastrophic and
dramatic way
and yet the last moment before he
breathed his breath he said prepare a
chair for his care
ER
what's the uniqueness
was the King of Judea
says it was one of the most righteous
Kings which is not a small thing in the
Tanakh because not many kings made it
into the list of righteousness
Tanakh is very honest about how
leadership corrupts people especially
the kings of yore was one of the special
ones the pure ones
and sangher of the Assyrian King came
and he exiled the ten tribes in the
North of Israel and they have been lost
until today nobody knows what happened
to millions of Jews who were assimilated
I don't know if you know but there's
close to 50 or 100 million people around
the whole world who claim that they're
connected to the ten tribes of Israel
it's fascinating
go figure
the ten tribes are going to come back
Ruby Akiva disagreed and the Gomorrah
says in San
when he said that he abandoned his piety
his piety for saying they're not going
to come back usually Rebecca was the
defender of the Jewish people
the king of Yehuda should also surrender
but he refused he refused to surrender
and he did not give in to sanghairev and
yerushalayim remained in the Jewish
hands
so now when hiskia Came to Say Goodbye
to abujah he was telling him you did not
destroy Jerusalem
I'm here to escort you I'm the one who
protected you saved Jerusalem why
because
he didn't realize this Beijing thought
this old Jew is asking for yavana big
deal I'll give him the Avenue Yavin is a
city it's like 15 miles from Jerusalem
20 miles maybe 12 around 12 miles I
think 20 kilometers not far from
yerushalayim and that's where the center
of learning was of scholarship of the
yeshivas of the son Haddon big deal I'll
give it to them one there's no power
here what vespasia didn't realize was
that by fulfilling this request he was
actually
signing his own obituary he was actually
um
stamping his own death certificate
Rome's death certificate and
guaranteeing The Eternity of the Jewish
people because
that with the base I make this without a
base
maybe will the Jews be able to survive
it's a very very powerful question
without your shalayim etc etc but he
knew one thing
that if they have yavana if they will
continue to have the Torah
and the Mitzvahs and yiddishkite will be
alive ultimately they'll be able to
return ultimately there will be a nation
said yeah I'll give you
he didn't realize that in for a few
hundred years Rome would be gone where's
the Roman Empire today it's in Wikipedia
that's where it is you could check it
out you could there's an entry with
vespedian and a statue of a special and
a monument of a special and uh what is
it called a bust
a bust of vespasia we don't have a
buster
we don't have a bust of my should have
been we don't have a sculpture of David
if you want to see David you have to go
to Michelangelo's Florence if you want
to see the rambam you got to go to
Cordoba in Spain the miralem Prague in
in the Jewish place you have no
monuments and no bust of anybody but you
know what we have we huh they wanted
because that's what that's what there
are they have monuments you have a
monument of Titus a monument of espasia
and the Pharaohs mummified themselves in
Egypt what the Jewish people though have
is the teachings we don't need a buster
you have the soul of America we learn
this Torah every day
like him and there'll be a Kevin of
ramadano so by asking
foreign
years Rome is gone but the Jewish people
are vibrant not just survived but
thrived
but at that moment he was full of Doubt
so history came to tell him you weren't
wrong you were right
because he lived in that era he
literally watched the transition
from
Independence to Exile from Jewish people
having their own land their own
spiritual epicenter their own
independence spiritual and to some
degree and not political they were under
Rome already for a while and they were
on degrees at some point liberated them
from Greek Syria Greece but then the
Romans took over but they still had a
spiritual and physical Center they can
call their own
I saw that all change
he saw it all go down
first of all he saw untold amounts of
death and suffering Jews being sold as
slaved in the hundreds of thousands of
the point Josephus says that the price
of a Jewish slave was less than one
dollar imagine you can buy a slave for
less than a dollar there were so many
that's how cheap the value of a Jew was
I saw all of this and he was the leader
and he felt the responsibility to
guarantee
The Eternity of the Jewish people and of
Judaism in that era which was one of the
blackest and darkest eras in Jewish
history maybe the blackest and darkest
era till the Holocaust
both in the sheer amounts of death
and the catastrophe that took over the
collective people and the catastrophe
continued because Rome did not just go
home and say okay we destroy the base
some English now live in peace 60 years
later there would be a Barca Revolt in
132 and that Revolt would not end well
it was a disaster already passed away by
then Ruby Akiva was then by the Barca
revolt
at such a moment in history
understood you have to create students
who will become leaders
you see in a way it's easier to create
students than it's to create leaders
to create people who are always
dependent on you who will just always
quote you and always call you up and say
what should I do now what should I do
what should I do that's not so hard
but to create people who can create
people to create people who are
independent who are Visionary who take
responsibility that's much harder for
this you have to empower them
there are leaders who create students
but the greatest of great create leaders
and what does it mean they create
leaders they create people who can take
responsibility like they took
responsibility for this you have to be
able to teach them who they are not just
always come back to the source for
guidance you want to be able to always
come back to the source for guidance But
ultimately you find the power and
inspiration in yourself
understood that in such a moment in
Jewish history we can't afford to lose
any Talent we can't afford to lose any
child we can't afford to lose any
creativity we can't afford to lose any
gift we can't afford to lose any Soul we
can't afford to lose any student
we can't there's too much at stake it's
too precious a time it's too serious a
time to be able to just let people fall
down by the sidelines and just say there
are always casualties
so therefore from all the teachers it
was him
who taught the path
he went to each of these students and he
said let me teach you who you are
and by showing them who they are they
became those people
this wasn't just a man sitting on a
chair throwing compliments this is a
lesson in pedagogy
how you do it
but it must come from a very very
genuine place because if it's just lip
service if I just say nice things about
somebody and I don't really mean it I
don't really connect to it I'm just you
know
just throwing out words but the words
are empty It ultimately doesn't have
that effect
and it's not always easy because people
have virtues people have flaws people
have great qualities but people also
struggle with something and sometimes
those struggles take over and they're
very profound and very deep and
naturally we gravitate to those
struggles
if you see a student or a trial then
you're not ready to be able to see the
praise and bring it out you can't be an
educator
you can't be an educator go get another
job
sell pencils Gesundheit pencils are not
so sensitive
become the CEO of a great Factory but if
you want a factory for Souls oh a
factory for Souls
when I come into my house when I come
into my classroom when I come in contact
with anybody even if there's other
things going on if I cannot identify and
zoom in and tune in to the
to the virtues to the greatness to the
depth to the genuineness to the
sincerity to the authenticity to the
spirituality to the Light present in
this student's soul
then
I will never be able to be that
pedagogue who really really brings out
the best in my child or the best in my
disciple or the best of my students
there was a wonderful teacher he passed
away a number of years ago rabbit shrink
he was the principal of the Yeshiva in
Adelphia in New Jersey
so my friends truly best wrote a
biography about him it's called just
love them
beautiful book
so he shares there a story about transa
and
his wife often Tunes in to us Mrs trench
so if you're here welcome
so
he shares a very it's it's a small story
but it's not small at all there was
Apollo saying Yeshiva in the high school
that you're not supposed to smoke
not such a terrible policy right you're
not supposed to smoke
anyway he walks into somebody's room at
night one of the dormitory walks in and
the boy is sitting on his bed and he's
smoking
and it was like on a very strong policy
if you smoke you can't be here it's not
good for your health it's not good for
other people's Health secondhand smoke
season the boy you know they're face to
face and he's smoking like a middle of a
you know middle of that Puff
you know usually say I got it from
somebody else you know it's alpikabolo
which means I received a cigarette from
somebody else
so uh I'm probably trying to looked at
him and said listen
you know what you're doing is wrong
you're not supposed to smoke
but you know I also did something wrong
I walked into your room without asking
permission you're not supposed to do
that you're not supposed to walk into
somebody's room without knocking so we
both did something wrong so let's try
this again okay I'm leaving the room
and I'm gonna fix what I did
and you try to fix what you did
and he walked out he waited a few
minutes and then he knocked on the door
the boy said come in and he came in and
guess what abracadabrica dude there was
no cigarettes
I'm sure yeah I'm sure if you were there
you would still smell it I don't think
he had a spray it was a boy's dormitory
but uh but that was it
you understand the difference
and that was the end of that
the point was there's a relationship
there's a connection I'm not trying to
catch you
the rules are there for the child the
children are not there for the rules
it's a different approach of course
rules are important and policies are
important
but the rules are there for the children
the children weren't created for the
rules the institution is here to serve
the children the children are not here
to fit into my institution or as Winston
Churchill put it we create institutions
to facilitate our dreams and then we
become prisoners
to those institutions that we created
for our dreams you forget what's the
means to an end and what's the end
institutions policies rules they're all
means the end is people Souls which each
soul is
the connection to the people the
attachment
the empowerment the feeling that they
have that they're seeing that they're
safe they're secure they're sued they're
cherished they're valued they're loved
you want to bring out the best you want
them to fly you want them to dance till
the end of love
and Beyond
so there was a boy over there who
unfortunately stopped keeping Shabbos
and he was quite mischievous and wild
and one Friday night he managed to break
into the principal's office Rabbi
Frank's office and the keys to his car
were on the desk
and he knew everything doesn't need his
car for the next 24 hours at Shabbos and
he took the keys and he went to the
parking lot Friday night so one of the
other boys says where you going so I'm
going to the movie theater
I'm going to the movie theater this and
this movie it says take me along
he says no if I'm sinning already it's
for me I'm not sinning for other people
it's for mine so he says if you don't
take me along I'm gonna snitch I'm gonna
tell Rabbi Frank he said good I anyway
want to be thrown out of this place now
I'm here because my parents are forcing
me once I'm throwing on I'm kind enough
to go back to Yeshiva wonderful please
tell them
and it was Friday night he drove away
imagine
so he steals a car on shoppers and he
drives away
this fellow was true to his word he went
through abdovich ranks home
and he told them that this and this boy
went into your office broke into your
office however he picked a lock
took your keys took your car
an abdovich rank listens it's Friday
night towards the end of the middle of
his meal and he says where did he go he
says he went to the movie theater
so David shrank puts on his coat and he
says do you know where this movie
theater is he says yes this and this
address
he says can you tell me how to get there
he says yeah we all know how to get
there
and he tells him how to get there but he
says it's very far it's not a few blocks
so you have to walk a mile or two miles
it was a Friday night a winter night in
New Jersey
he says I'm going I'm walking he puts on
his coat and he walks to the movie
theater
imagine he comes to the movie theater he
goes in there's a booth you got to pay
whatever you got to pay no seven dollars
twelve dollars eleven dollars the woman
says how can I help you he says I don't
want to watch a film but I have somebody
a close person he's there and I have to
speak to him for a moment could you
please let me come in without paying she
says I can't you can't go into the movie
theater without paying he says now look
at me
do I look like
a guy who came in to watch a movie look
at me look at my hat look at my bed look
at my face look at my code it's Sabbath
it's Saturday we don't do this on
Saturday
look do I look honest do I don't look
she says okay but how long he says just
a few minutes she says fine go in
so he goes in now you know you have many
auditoriums with different Cinemas and
now he has to find and it's dark they're
all watching movies I don't know there's
gonna be five movies ten movies
simultaneously so now he says to start
looking for his beloved student
so he goes into one and he's looking and
it's pitch dark and you have to see
where everybody is sitting it's not so
easy big rooms it was a big theater
and he goes from one to another one
another he goes into one of them he
scans the room and he sees one of the he
sees him he sees him sitting watching
the movie
so you know you're not allowed to make
noise because you're going to disturb
people in their moment of height and
tranquility
so he you know he he slowly walks over
very clandestinely very silently near
the boy there's an empty chair and he
sits down close to him without making
even a uttering a peep or a sound now
you know when you know you're sometimes
sitting and even if you don't see you
just feel something is happening around
you it's like an energy right because
people have energy like you just feel
somebody is near you even though they
didn't touch you so this boy just felt
suddenly that there's somebody near him
so he turns around
now you can imagine what that moment
looked like like you know the worst
nightmare for Yeshiva boy coming true
you know like his principle is sitting
in the movie theater right near him I'm
sorry watching the movie
Friday night when you have a better time
right
and he said he he's like what are you
doing here
can disturb anybody they're watching a
movie is very important what are you
doing there
he says I came to talk to you he says
what do you want to tell me so I want to
tell you as follows the popcorn in this
particular movie theater is not kosher
so you'll probably want to buy some food
and Pepsi and soda to enjoy the movie do
me a favor don't buy the popcorn I love
you have a good night enjoy yourself he
gets up and he leaves
he leaves
he goes out of the theater
and he starts walking back he tells the
woman thank you I'm out he starts
walking back home it's Friday night
a few minutes later he feels somebody
near him
he turns around it's the boy
he says I'm not going to let you walk
back alone I'm walking with you he says
wonderful let's walk together
and they walk back a hallway almost two
miles cold
I'll betrayed didn't mention a word not
about the movie not about shop it's not
about the car all he did the whole way
back was tell him jokes and stories
he was a very funny and charismatic
person if you knew him he was extremely
charismatic and vivacious and loud and
passionate and firing
trank family
so uh that's what he did they came back
to the office they came back to Yeshiva
they had to part ways he gives him a
kiss he said have a beautiful Shabbos
and hope to see you tomorrow and he went
home didn't say a word
the boy told the story and said at that
moment I knew I was staying in Yeshiva
and I would never ever violate Shabbos
again
I was I was uh
I said this once at a sheer
and I was in a store a few days later
one of the stores here in Muncie one of
the supermarkets I know was Wesley
kosher Evergreen Rockland kosher
somebody came over to me and said every
word was true because I was a Yeshiva at
the time he says I was a Yeshiva time I
could tell you the name every word was
true
he once said that Gomorrah says
which means in how do I gain ownership
over something how do I gain ownership
over something if something is yours
how do I get an over in a ship if it's
mobile if it's real estate there's
different ways question
so one of the main ways is
means by uplifting it you give me your
watch you give me your phone you give me
your jacket I lift it up it becomes mine
of course if you if you give consent I
don't mean if I steal it
used to say you want to be kind of
somebody
you want to acquire a student hug ball
lift them up hug boy you lift them up
you're kind of them forever you put them
down you lose them forever you pick them
up kinda you think Robert Trang didn't
know what he did with the car you think
he didn't know about Shabbos you think
it didn't eat him up but he had to make
a choice he could have looked at this
boy and said never step foot into this
place and I'm calling the police and
I'll put you in prison he could have
done that
where would that boy be today
we know where he would be
what he understood was the boy is
disinterested the boy is having whatever
the boy was going through
but he understood that if there's
connection if there's attachment if he
feels really cherished and loved and
believed in he'll find himself in a
different way there was a boy over there
just reminding myself there was a boy
there who unfortunately he liked to
steal you know sometimes he didn't have
money and he would go from dormitory
room to dormitory and he would empty out
people's pockets and people's draws
too
listen there's another million positive
stories but that I'm just bringing out
these stories because it brings out who
he was as a mechanic
but you do remind me of a story
you do remind me of a good story
there was a there was about shuva who
came to learn in a Chabad balchuva
Yeshiva
his mother was completely secular she
calls him one day and she says Jack how
you doing
so he was a real balchuvi was very into
it so he said mom Mom today is Utah Utes
of the day that the altar ever came out
of prison beautiful day she says
wonderful
okay a few months later she calls how
you doing he says today is youth based
Thomas the day that the rebirayats came
out of prison
a few months later youth Crystal David
came out of prison it's a great day so
she says you know I'm so happy you're
having a good time but I'm not so happy
about the people you're hanging out with
why are they all in prison and why are
they coming out of prison and why are
they your friends okay
I don't know if it's true or not but
it's an old joke they said or an old
story they said so this guy was
pickpocketing people and you know what
they busted him somebody caught him and
Rabbi Frank one evening in the Yeshiva
he sees like a little commotion and he
hears Through the Grapevine that they
decided a group of boys they're going to
go into his room at night and they're
going to beat him up he's stealing
everybody's money for months and months
they're gonna they're gonna they're
gonna give him a lesson that he's gonna
remember they'll give him a beating
he heard about this
so he right away asked one of the boys
tell everybody he gave him a list that
we're having an emergency meeting in my
house right after my roof for all these
boys he brings them to the house
and he tells them a fictional story that
he says guys the fellow who stole the
money came to me today to apologize
and he said that he feels so horrible
and he doesn't know what he took from
what so he gave me all his money
and he said here give it back to them
and let everybody take what they own
and Rabbi Frank takes out from his draw
he empties out all his dollars and he
says everybody take whatever is yours
and they all took their money and he
promised he'll never do it again they
all left now he called him this boy
and he said listen I went out on a limb
for you I apologize in your name it
never happened I gave them back the
money that you never gave back to me I
did it this time
next time you got to take care of
yourself
he changed the person's life
before Rosh Hashanah before Rosh
Hashanah one year
but with Slickers before Slickers I told
the story here somebody sent me the
story in email such a moving story
it's a little story that maybe captures
three books of psychology
person emailed me
he was a person went to a wedding and he
sees his third grade Rebellion School
his third grade represes
and he goes over to him and he says do
you remember me he says no
he said I learned in your class third
grade he said yeah I was like probably
30 years ago 35 40 years ago he says wow
it's so nice Mazel Tov great to see you
what's your name he says his name oh I
remember such a name in my class he says
what do you do and he tells his old
teacher I am a third grade teacher just
like you he says wow that's amazing what
inspired you to do that he says you
you inspired me when I saw the impact
you had on me in third grade I decided I
want to have such an impact on people he
says what type of impact did I have on
you and this is what he told them he
said I was a very poor kid we came from
a poor family all I craved was a watch
my parents couldn't afford a watch one
day I saw that one of our my classmates
in third grade got this new watch and he
had it in his jacket in his his coat so
by recess I decided to steal his watch
he came back from playing outside by
recess he walks in he sees his watches
gone he starts screaming to you to the
teacher somebody stole my watch it's
gone somebody took it so you turned to
all the Kindle lock and you say that
somebody by mistake or Not by mistake
take a watch it's not yours or below
somebody please give it back and it's
fine at this point I was too embarrassed
I was too embarrassed to give back the
watch
I was afraid of appraisals and revenge
and anger and who knows what would
happen to me and you close the door and
you said somebody needs to give back the
watch it's not fear we stole we
somebody's watch was stolen from me we
can't live like this and you close the
door and nobody was showing up with the
watch because I was too embarrassed and
you said everybody please line up and
close your eyes and empty your pockets
onto the desk scenario and nobody's
going to see anybody else and we'll give
back the watch
and that's what you did and you had
everybody's eyes closed including mine
so when my watch came out at the desk
there was a big desk everybody put it on
the desk nobody could see it
and you saved me from public shame and
humiliation that day and I thought you
would call me in afterwards
and reprimand me for what I did you
didn't even do that you ignored the
story as though it never ever happened
and when I saw how you saved my dignity
that day because I thought I would be
shamed for life I decided I want to go
into this field I want to do for other
children what you did for me and the
older teacher was so moved he says wow
that is so beautiful that is so amazing
he says Rebbie you're making as though
you don't remember the story you must
remember the story he says actually I
don't he says you mean when you hear my
name and you look at me you don't
remember that I stole a watch and you
found it and you did not tell me
anything and nobody else knew about it
he says I don't remember I don't he says
how can it be and he says I also close
my eyes
I also closed my eyes I didn't know I
didn't know it was you
I just saw a watch and I gave it back it
was irrelevant to me who took it I said
this over before Slickers
a few days later I'm getting messages
from friends in Brazil one after another
wow the story really did it well I'm
like what happened
there was the president of Brazil was
then running for re-elections to be to
be nominee to be elected again as the
president of Brazil somebody sent them a
clip of me telling the story before
slickus he had it translated with uh by
with um
captions into Portuguese
and he sent it out to 25 million people
on his list with an introduction
the introduction was we have to learn
from the Jewish people
how to educate children
and then he sent out my clip I'm talking
in English he had Portuguese captions so
25 million Gentiles got the story and he
said this is what the Jews understood
how to educate children
but I want to see what what did what did
this teacher know that other people
don't know what did he know this you
don't I could go to 100 seminars
I can read books right I can know all
the rules this is something else
this is called anashama
emotional not just intelligence but love
empathy it's believing in people
part of me I see a child a gun A gun
type of Mother Does He share with his
mother of course he's a god of and I
knew the barber I knew that and you know
what I remember when my mother used to
talk about the grandmother after the war
I remember you think Google does
research on people ask your grandmother
about after the war you know those
everybody today she's against we
remember what she looked like yeah in
1947 I'll tell you what happened to the
DP camps so of course the the inner
colors are gone if
it's very easy to go there
and you know what some of it may even be
true
but what he understood was I can analyze
he's a thief and why is he a thief
everyone has toxicity we all have
Darkness it's called the yet Sahara
whatever it looks like and whatever the
reason is
he had then a choice and the choice is
what am I gonna connect with which world
am I going to live in
am I going to live in the world of
negativity or am I going to live in the
world of light of brightness
and that changed everything
the most important thing is he showed
the child which world he can live in
a child every day can look in the mirror
and say I'm a filthy Thief
well the child could wake up look in the
mirror and say I'm worthy
of this teacher's infinite dignity and
dedication why am I so worthy maybe I'm
not just a filthy Thief
maybe there's something so valuable
about me that attachment that connection
is at the core of everything and that's
responsible for the complete destruction
of the Jewish epicenter and Exile is
going to begin and Jews are not going to
have anything that they used to have to
hold on to pesach is going to be
different no base there's no carbon
Pastor a circus everything will be
different imagine chanukkah that used to
go to the base on mixtures
it was different
uh
the Rob of the coastal
honored me to light them a notice he
says you know this is the closest
physical proximity the closest place to
where the Hashem
it was the closest place but it was none
of the arabias it was down by the plaza
of the coastal
I said we can't afford to lose leaders
we can't afford to lose Talent we can't
afford to lose balikishra and we can't
afford to lose their shamas we can't
afford to lose a child
how do you do it
brought out that quality
now let's see let's see what you ask uh
foreign
it's almost like his mother gets the
credit not
not a happy he's a not Hustle
but the truth is he was saying something
very deep here
he doesn't even say mother or father he
says when he was given birth to and the
one who gave birth to him
when a child is born and we all know
this feeling especially I'm speaking to
a crowd here in this room who knows this
feeling better than Alabama ever be able
to describe when you look at that baby
a few seconds a few minutes even a few
days a few weeks a few months after
they're born what do you see
you see everything everything is there
right
I remember when my first son Mendel was
born so I was in the hospital was Friday
night he was born
which made it for a very interesting
situation because you can do a bris on
Friday because it's the seventh day you
can't do a briss on Shabbos because it
may have been Friday so you got to do
the bridge almost on day 10 Sunday
but the Midwife said it wasn't
benashmashes it was already Friday night
but the hospital said that it was they
didn't use the word anyway it was
so uh I remember he came into the world
and I made Kiddush for my wife
afterwards and then when I started to
talk I said you know I want to be so
careful with the words I'm saying in
this room because it's the first words
this little baby is gonna hear no one
they should be they should be anything
but pure words we see that child you
just see perfection
you see them pregnant with all potential
but how many of us live up
to that moment
that moment when everything is so pure
and perfect no Distortion yeah
no no negative influence not from a
parent not from a home not from a
community not from a school not
willingly not unwillingly it's just like
a gift it's straight from heaven right
it's still Heavenly you could see the
soul
and you want to retain that but
unfortunately
many of us at the time were five already
our heart has been broken into a
thousand pieces by the time you're eight
your heart may have been broken into
three thousand pieces
by the time you're 22
some of us are just in a different place
was a person that he lived out that
moment of birth
that moment of that moment of birth
when you're pregnant with all that
potentiality pre any Distortion pre any
Brokenness pray any trauma pre
any toxicity that's what he lived out he
saw himself that way and he actualized
it so he was saying something very very
powerful about him
when I look at a child can I see that
moment of your ladita that's the moment
I want to see I want to be able to go
back to that moment of you know people
often talk about their children or
grandchildren or students I get a lot of
emails with very negative terms my
daughter became such a mother writes to
me my daughter had the best Midas in the
house
best Midas and now she's 17 years old
she's obnoxious and rude and disgusting
she became narcissistic and
self-centered stopped keeping Shabbos
and she's being very tough with her so I
wrote back to this mother I said listen
I don't know and I'm very sorry but I
just want to ask a question you say that
till she was 17 she had the most amazing
Midas in your house you think Suddenly
at the age of 17 a soul of the Gestapo
went into your daughter and your
daughter said you know what from today
I'm going to destroy my mother and
father and brothers and sisters and the
whole mishbach I'm just going to be
destructive
is it possible that this refined Soldier
suddenly became the most evil human
being in your community I highly doubt
it
you're responding to your pain
which I understand but maybe it's so
important
to respond to what is really going on
even though you may not know and she may
not know
so she says how do you know you're right
maybe you're wrong I said maybe but let
me tell you something
if you want to error in life I know
which side I want to error on remember
if your error on the side of not blaming
the child but understanding what
happened to them
even if you turns out that you made a
mistake what happened you show them a
little extra love when you shouldn't
have okay but if you error on the other
side
when you blame them for things that they
should not be blamed for and then you
put them down and that's the side you're
airing on and then one day you figure
out you will never forgive yourself for
destroying that person maybe I'm wrong
but you want to know which side Terror
it's always good to error on one side
rather than another side the worst came
to worse is I underestimate how horrible
you are my daughter
you know what I smile to you a little
more okay I'll go to get him for smiling
the other way is a little more dangerous
how did I get into this
can I see the child from that moment of
Yolanda time can I see the child
fearing sin very important he doesn't
say Fierce punishment he fears sin
sometimes a person abstaining from
negative things is because of
consequences the punishment
but then it's a much more superficial
fear because basically the punishment is
coming in the future right now this
tremendous enjoyment so who knows what
outweighs what
and I think let me enjoy now I can
always make up later
but if it's your hate if what's
bothering me is the separation itself
taking a marriage a husband who doesn't
do anything wrong why because he's
afraid his wife is gonna find out and
there's gonna be a punishment if he
could make sure she doesn't find out
and even if she does maybe you can
repair and even if she does but now it's
so amazing he may fall she may fall
if what's bothering you is not the
punishment it's the relationship is
going to be ruined it's two of a special
relationship to ruin I'm afraid of
losing such a relationship it's not
about what's going to happen in a year
in two years and three years if
somebody's gonna find it if I could fix
it or not
it's a different type when we say year
is Shaman what does it mean I'm afraid
because of a punishment
no the sin itself is what I'm afraid of
the relationship is too precious
that I don't want to disrupt it
but now let's see the last point and
here we bring it together and we come to
the last point
and that is praises
cistern that retains everything
who was the ever increasing spring
because here you have the two
personality types one personality type
is somebody who could retain and
transmit the other one is creativity
it's like the Sun and the Moon the sun
is consistent and stable the Moon is
always we call it lunatic right lunacy a
lunar personality it's always changing
waxing and waning disappearing coming
back there's two types of personalities
foreign
creativity Innovation newness
curiosity he took the old and he
transformed and he interpreted and he
explained and expounded
and both are crucial in life and both
are crucial in education I want my child
to be able to have solid stable values
that don't change like a cistern that's
plastered that holds on to all its
truths but yet we want people to grow
and be creative and in Judaism too you
have this solid tradition that doesn't
change with time that's
but then there's the Kamaya namaskabe
the ability to be fresh
the ability to be vibrant the ability to
be able to soothe see the newness and
not just become stuck which often
depletes somebody from inspiration
but now look
when the Beloved when America says go
and see which medatova is the best me da
they argue
nebulies says to have a good eye
everybody says a good friend because he
says a good neighbor if Schumann says
you see the future and abilizer says a
good heart what's the argument
so I want to share with you and this I
want to I think will be our last point
a teaching from the binaya sasra was one
of the great Hasidic Masters
in Poland as a famous Hasidic work banay
is
how you pronounce it
and
what's this argument he says go find
what's a Derek taiva and they're all
arguing what it is
says how do we understand the the nature
of the argument
and he gives a fascinating fascinating
interpretation
and I want to shoot I'm just going to
share a few points briefly it's a little
bit of a deep idea but just one one or
two points I want to share with you
Hashem
take a look in the last paragraph of
your Source sheet please
you should all know these
Kim
ayim the s-hearts right you all know
them
in the beginning God created heaven and
Earth and the Earth was chaotic and
there was darkness and Hashem Spirit
hovered above the world
said let there be light and there was
light first creation light
Hashem called light day and darkness he
called Night by evoke says that
if you see in your dream the letter
tests
if you see in your dream the letter
tests it's a good sign simentive why why
because what's the first letter in
Toyota that begins with a test toiv good
so the first letter in title with a test
is other letters with a test but the
first one with a test is toiv so if you
see a test in the dream it's good what
do you see from here says
that every word the first time it's
mentioned in the Torah that ultimately
has the most powerful significance when
it comes to this word
just like tests there's other tests but
of the first time the title uses a test
is tied it means somehow test is good
so this means that the first word that
Tyree uses about anything the first time
you have the ultimate core because
that's like the beginning
you want to know what good is look at
the first time it says to even the
terror
the first time it says good in the Torah
that's the first goodness if that's the
first goodness it's the primary goodness
it's like the mother of all goodness
it's going to say five many other times
but the first time it says that's like
the mother of all goodness that's like
the beginning the Genesis so if we want
to find out what's the director let's
look at the first toive and see what
it's about
so he says this is now all the opinions
revolve around us what's the first time
in the Torah vayara La Kim
God saw that light was good what's the
function of light light allows us to see
light gives us perspective if there's no
light everything could be in the room
but I can't see
eyes need light to be able to see ears
nose I could smell in darkness I can
hear in darkness sometimes even better I
could think in darkness I can move my
hands and my feet but to see I need
light so rebellies says the first light
is seeing uh so he says what's the best
thing
a good eye it's how you see things what
do you see in people what are you seeing
yourself there's people who forgive
there's people who lift up
a good eye
in in impartial there's an expression
the leprosy did not transform its look
literally means it's look in other words
it still maintains the same
disconfiguration
the one who is a leper didn't change his
eye his eye in the way I look at people
the way I look instead of an iron we
spoke about
bringing out the goodness in people
what's the opposite of that
Lush and Horror versus what does lush do
what does do
why why why why is the terrorist so so
opposed to it it's not just a decree
that is just a decree you have to do it
and just put a zipper on your mouth it's
a way of living
this people when they talk about people
they bring out the best in the people
there's people when they talk about
people they just know how to bring out
the worst
it's what the mirror I'm holding up to
they hold up a mirror you look at it and
say wow I'm beautiful or do I make sure
to always hold the permit and say wow
I'm so disgusting and ugly which person
am I going to be in this world and it's
how I use my words constantly how I talk
about myself I talk about people I know
I talk about people I don't know
doesn't mean if I have to correct the
situation or save people from a very
dangerous situation it's not like that
may be the best thing to do
when you have a danger in a community
Etc means when I become that type of
person
where's my juice where's my Theos my
islamas I'm busy bringing out always the
worst in people and then myself and my
loved ones is the exact opposite so
rebelieza says what's the best me the
iron tiger
I do want to make mention of a very
special friend who passed away on Friday
at Mahal schnitzler
was a embodiment of this
when he came into a room his eyes and
his soul sensed immediately who's in
pain
and he knew how to go over to them give
them a hug and lift them up
even whenever he met me always shower me
with compliments why
he just felt such an urge and yearning
to inspire to empower to uplift people
you see somebody bring out the best in
them
that's the type of person he was
he did it with his songs he did it with
his humor he did it with his
conversation most importantly he did it
with his heart
people make a mistake they think Russian
horror or Russian taive is just laws it
doesn't begin with laws it begins with
who you are inside the halacha flows
from the inside it's not the other way
around
it's not like I hate your guts but
listen Hara
you're a sick person dropped Russian
horror
it's still good not to speak whatever
but it's about cultivating the
personality that's the that's that's at
least equally important and significant
so the bellezza says what's the meaning
the Delight should be good light is good
when you see light in a person in a
situation that's what iron table means I
forgive you I see the light in you
because I see the light of myself that's
the first opinion
when you have a good friend where did he
get that from
says listen to this fascinating word he
says as follows
take a look at the person before
the Earth was engulfed in darkness
let there be light
so who became the friend for the
darkness the light the Earth was
engulfed in darkened and God said it's
not fair the darkness needs a friend
hello darkness my old friend
hello light my old friend I just thought
of that the darkness needs a friend
he says it that's where they got it from
all those two Jewish boys Shaman and
garfinkel they got it from the mayor oh
my God okay
he says God said Darkness needs a
Darkness needs a friend NASA
Darkness needs a friend what a beautiful
so so the second opinion who's the
second person of Yeshua says you know
what you need you need a good friend you
know why because we have darkness and
what does it mean to have a good friend
somebody with whom I can share my
darkness that's the definition of a
friend
and they can then
embrace me with my darkness if it's a
good friend a woman I can only say the
nice things about myself that's not a
friend
very good
very good the only friend in Hamish
is
Yehuda has a friend
the only friend all other relationships
in Hamish are familial or Master Slave
King subject Brothers of course parents
children Grant the only and what's what
what what do we see there what happens
yahuda does something and he doesn't
want anybody to know and who does he
share it with his friend
because a relationship is always about
sharing my vulnerable Parts saying hey
I'm the best guy look I did this I did
this I don't need a friend I could tell
that anybody
a good friend is somebody
that my darkness finds a friend in this
person so that's that's what he says of
course the light is good you know why
the light is good because it's a friend
it has a friend
the light has a friend and therefore the
darkness has a friend and they befriend
each other then you have the third
opinion the third opinion to be oh you
see he says
a good neighbor what's the idea of a
good neighbor he says take a look it
says
God so that the light was good and what
did he do he created a boundary
who said good fences good neighbors make
Robert Frost
they're all learning good neighbors I
was just a joke good neighbors good
neighbors good fences good neighbors
make what's the power of a good neighbor
boundaries not boundaries that you're in
New Zealand that I'm here then we're not
Neighbors
but it's even in a relationship in a
marriage there's respect for boundaries
I'm not going to choke you with my love
there's boundaries a shock and type of a
good neighbor so he says that's what
Hashem does with the good he sees it's
good and he creates a boundary with the
darkness so they become that's a
shocking type
so you have a bless
UA says
he who has Vision has foresight so you
right away see again he uses the word
yeah sees doesn't understand but sees
everybody could understand the future
but to see it like it's Vivid it's a
whole different experience we all know
that everybody understands when I eat
three pieces of Cheesecake at the priest
we all know what's gonna happen
but I don't see it all I see is
cheesecake
that's the problem right if I could see
the future
I would look even better than I look can
you imagine I'm working on it I'm
working on it I have to Payson
after Payson where I was pesacher was a
dangerous place used to be peso he lost
10 pounds and today where I go pay it's
bad news
hello
because they served during my speeches
when do you think they serve food
okay it's just a little humor let's
let's finish here
so he says it's right here it says
so Rashi says Hashem saw that the
original light was the light you could
see from one end of the world to the
other end of the world but Hashem saw
that light will be abused so he hid it
away for the future
he saw the future and that's why he hid
it away
that's the opinion of rayasan Island and
then the last one
says
a good heart where is that
so he says now you have to do counting
with me let's go to the first word
and let's count how many words are there
from voracious tiltaif let's go
veracious is one one Boris two of the
chemist three one two three four five
six seven
eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 256 27 28 29 30 31.
32 leave and what's the next type
so there's 32 words fumberations
are key that's lame 32.
lave and the next word is
but read our works all the words are
leading up to tithe what's good a good
heart that's the definition of good
I heard that he says he includes
everything else you say because you all
focused on just that word when you asked
what is Taif but he showed you that
everything till that point is all
leading up to that type so it's true you
all learned your toy from Taira and
they're all amazingly powerful good
things that are mothers of other good
things
includes oh so you're tyvis why because
he does he includes all the words from
the beginning of Terror till Taif
so therefore he includes all the tyvis
that you said because he includes all
the words up to Tafe
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which is the 18th day of the year
because he says essentially
I'm sorry the 18th day of
no login is the 18th day of ear which is
the 33rd day of the aimer right so he
says we know that the spirit days are 49
days
the gematry of 49 is
is 17 9 and 6 and 2. that's 17. how much
is 32 and 17. so 42 and 7 is 49. so
really the focus of the 49 days of
sphere is the cultivation of laive Taif
the good heart 32 plus 17 together
that's 49. that's why hazal say ain't it
Terrace called Taif
hid the light in Torah
Toyota also has what's called in Zion
the 32 Pathways of so to really
understand Toyota Hashem says you need a
lave toib you need a good heart says
there will be like
yesterday's man but small says there's
13 ways of interpreting Terror so the
name of says
only when you have your own yudim in
yourself then attire and addresses that
you could really expound Torah when
somebody learns title but they don't
have this lave type they don't have this
sense of attachment of connection so
then it's just information so I could
learn I can discipline I could scream I
could be zealous I can be afraid I can
instill fear in others but the core of
connection is missing the life time is
missing the whole the preparation the
schmooz is 49 which is lave and Tafe if
I don't have the heart or even if I have
a heart but it's not a good heart it's a
harsh stone-like heart you can't have
that mountain title you can't have this
inspiring students like this it's just
not going to happen it's going to be a
different type of relationship yeah you
may be following all the rules and all
the policies but you don't have the kind
of the lifting up of a child the lifting
up of a student that comes from a heart
feeling a heart
that's a preparation and sometimes I
can't teach that through words somebody
doesn't feel it they don't see it in
somebody's eyes in somebody's heart it's
it's very very difficult I guess we
could learn it but it's hard to learn
especially when my comfort zone and my
manuals tell me to go the other way so
the lathe type is the preparation for
shavuas says
so after 32 days of the aimer you're
finished with leave now you start with
toys
is the first day of Taif
after you got till the word key is 32
the first 32 days of svirus aimer is
tell tell the word type that's lamid
base and now Islamic gimmel now starts
the toive the revelation of the anti
volatility the revelation of the light
the toivhaganos the inner good once I
cultivate that heart now where I look I
see light I see it in people I see it in
myself I see it in children I see it in
students even if the light is gone to us
it's concealed by arilakimous concealed
it but I start identifying it and
revealing it he says that starts
the one who revealed Safran the word
Zoya means light zoyar means Radiance
light he revealed the light of kinimius
attire interior itself you have the
niggler of Terror the revealed part of
which are the halachas the laws the
structures which is the structure of
title like the skeleton and then you
have the penis
that's why it's the day that Jews build
fires Maduras they make fires which are
light sources of light
how do you celebrate the beginning of
the day of it's through light through
identifying the light in yourself and in
every person you come in contact with
have a wonderful week
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