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All Daf Siyum Seder Nashim in Bet Shemesh
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Rabbi Moshe Schwed Rabbi Shalom Rosner Rabbi Yakkov Glasser Introduction to Rabbi Silber Rabbi Shmuel Silber
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shim thank you everybody for coming I'm
overwhelmed I got off a plane this
morning so maybe a little
fuzzy last Tuesday morning as is common
for many of us for me at least my mind
was
wandering and was actually early in the
morning and my did not show up so my
mind was really wandering and I've been
thinking about what's going on here in
AR
and there are many people who doing many
things sending packages supplies going
down visiting all kinds of
things and I thought to
myself
that besides we have a group of ouram
that are visiting R Glasser and R Silber
who came to join us for the see him also
going visiting I'm sure they'll talk a
little bit about what they've seen over
the last couple
days
wouldn't it be nice if us thei Learners
we're doing what we're doing to
be and help the situation Hab we got
together and we join together and
celebrate ourselves and we come together
ourselves that gives us the opportunity
to take on a little bit more and to
strengthen our commitments to learning
so I think daving was over at 7:50 I
just checked I whatsapps this morning I
whatsapped Simi and I said what do you
think is this doable he let me asked the
rabbi by that evening we already had a
committee put together thank you simy
thank you slowmo Schwarz Shalom Schwarz
not shalom shalom was atou Shalom
Schwarz and mty I don't know who his
last name he's on the chat mty thank you
for putting this all together I'm an
America these guys took care of all of
it I do have to thank I had a couple
people on my team that dealt with some
of the backend work the reservations and
the forms but it was really taken care
of and put together by these few guys
over here so thank you very
much on behalf of the
OU RAB mosha how R Josh Joseph Executive
Vice President Mitch AER
president I want to thank all the people
that have come out tonight and it's
really this is just a I don't even know
the right words to use the people we see
sitting in the room over here who are of
Rosner are literally a handful of the
thousands and thousands of talid Rosner
has around the
world I live in Lakewood New
Jersey and you know CLA
today as we have different sexs so I
used to be surprised when people come
over to me and say I listen to by Rosner
who's a but no no longer I'm not
surprised anymore I'm in Tek I'm in the
five towns and people come over and say
listen to ell defans really Bo ofi it's
no longer a surprise I think the Torah
that's being delivered through these
digital and Technical Tech platforms has
brought the world together in a way when
people are sharing their Torah in at the
highest level people are connected and
glued together so this should be
something that we should be proud of and
take this and it should be a for what
CLA is going through now and it should
end very quickly I I just want to thank
some of our
sponsors Josh Goldberg The Goldberg
family have been sponsoring this memory
of Elliot Goldberg is Ben elazer we have
barl Xin who's here and he is a sponsor
in honor of the West Hemstead kabura Dr
Arthur and Linda cook from Anglewood New
Jersey in memory of Milton cook mosha
Ben Yosef who y site was on yesterday
Tuesday mosha Melissa Raymond in memory
of Phyllis Raymond F bitak whose first
yard side is being observed on 21
kesan David pelnik in the for a full
recovery of Yosef Yehuda Ben
hinda and Mr Steve Grill in honor of R
Rosner and for the safety of all our
soldiers including his son Sam Grill
who's on the front
lines and
anger Natan Adelman and Danny rubel
contributed to the sponsorship as
well we have three rabbis who are going
to speak in this program so I'm not here
to share D Torah they'll do a great job
I just wanted to share one powerful
medish that we find in this week's paraa
I don't even have my phone on me because
I have it there but it's okay the
measure says and I'm not quoting it I
don't have it in front of me
but y I think the measure starts where
was where was y right after that and the
med says that was sent to learn in the
of sh and the med gives a musle it's
very interesting muscle the measur says
that we find a woman who's doing
knitting and she became wealthy so she
keeps at it she keeps on knitting and
adding to her wealth the same thing y
who was Torah before
Thea said you know what even after Thea
we got to send you back to Yesa to the
Yesa of sh and there's a which has a
tremendous on this
in but I want to bring out one
point we see that the AA which is
arguably one of the most impactful
events in Jewish history we just
D and we mentioned that as that should
use
to constantly give us and we should have
continued on clel that is the source for
the r of the
generations and where does say that came
from that came from
the of him and together before thata
that was the impetus of thata and once
thata was over where do we go we go back
back to the Yeshiva immediately back to
the Yeshiva so using thata as a metaphor
for rman as we say
in we want to bring
that and take the
hour and it should be
a should
be and we should all we should all all
be safe safe and
sound as soon as
possible the Torah tells us that
as soon as and with they came back who
they come back to tozar and I
saw it's very interesting AR and Yak as
we just mentioned went
through arguably one of the most
impactful events in Jewish history and
obviously they had a tremendous Aliyah
from the AA and who do they go back to
tzar and yal who obviously were nowhere
near the same madga as and
what does the Torah teach us tell us
that they went back as if nothing
happened they they continued doing what
they were doing just like just like they
had started before they went that shows
the anas Thea of AR as if you're
learning all the Paras way r at the
beginning of this week's par went out to
to the malim to the Arab
malim to greet them on his own didn't
send out any of his shamash any of his
Messengers The tremendous anas of real
of
I'd like to introduce RAB Rosner who
knowing him and seeing him the way he
interacts with me and with everyone else
here is a a sem a dma an example of
anava and I want to give a
braa on behalf of all his thousand of
that I I believe the anus is something
that gives him a tremendous to be able
to continue not only teaching bav
teaching youi now there hundreds of
people who are learning y now for the
first time because of re rasner teaching
para teaching Navi literally teaching K
he should have
the to be able to continue teaching and
Lead this
to thank you very much for your words I
will definitely take
the
that'll uh we'll start off the evening
just with a peric of Tah hilum
and then we will say the uh
two you could sit down you don't have to
stand
up
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so before the see on we'll just share a
couple of uh two
thoughts how are we doing what we are
doing at a time when our children and
our relatives are literally on the front
lines being most surfish with every
fiber of their
being how can we be sitting having a
celebration sitting down and eating
isn't it inappropriate
insensitive two
ideas what is this mamed done for CLA
Israel we have all felt it we have all
experienced it we have become one
somebody just told me today a story
there was aabad man living lives in New
York he's not a but
he's he lost his son onim t on Monday
morning he was
flying now I'll flight and he's like
what could I do for my son he was just
so distro he didn't know what to do but
you know he's he's like I'll get
somebody to put on filling so he says to
the man sitting next to him and the you
could you put on Fillin do you put on
you want to put on Fillin he's like no I
don't do that I
don't see read up the next person did
you put on Fillin today you want to put
on
filling finally the third man he goes he
says you have to do me a favor my son
was killed I'm on my way to Israel for
the Leva I would love to give him some
Merit someo could you please put Fillin
on for him he says
yes and then the second person he had
asked her and said yes and then the
first person heard and for the next hour
hour and a half he said every man on
that plane who had him put on fill and
lined
up and then he said the pilate came out
for a few moments and he put the
co-pilot in charge because he heard what
was going on and he came out to put on
the
filling we have all come together
recognizing that we are
one that's what we are celebrating as
well tonight with the daff Torah binds
Torah
unites I have said before just like
schn unites by way of the Torah and
kazal had that amazing insight to create
that Torah
connection R Shapiro did that with DFI
in Tores
shabal he wrote 100 years
ago he might have said it in Yiddish but
says let's think about the no this is
not the where's the one I wanted to
read
think about when this dream could become
crystallized a Jew is on a boat going
from Europe to New York with a g under
his
shoulder America takes him two weeks to
get from Israel to
America
and every night he opens up the D and he
learns the
page New York he goes into the first Bas
he sees in New
York he walks in they're doing the same
page wow what a coincidence it's not a
coincidence he joins
them you get into a disc
he goes somewhere else and he's
connected and says Shapiro again 100
years ago exactly and then a Jew from
America goes to
Brazil goes to
the is there a great unifying of Hearts
foros other reasons it connects us toas
that we don't learn deomi is a binder
again just like we're used to it you go
to the Sho on the other side of the
world they're Ling the same paraa but
it's the same
idea did it in t did in we are
celebrating AK tonight and yes we smile
we feel good we feel blessed to be part
of such a nation and all of us have 20
stories about what's over happened the
past couple of weeks a nation that
brings special gifts to my daughter and
all
theim on AR of chabas a nation that
sends letters to the other side of the
world to bring Smiles a nation that
cries and laughs with and for one
another that's what DFI is all about a
connection that we could all have to the
Torah and through that to each
other but there's a second idea
I
feel this afternoon as I was lying in
the dentist chair trying to think of
what I was going to say
tonight I felt like I was living a
gamarra the gamar tells us the beginning
of M which is in the first half of DYI
which we're celebrating
tonight the
says Yoshua Yeshua was outside of Yuro
again about to go into battle V
there was a in front of
him and he looked at him and the was
looking at him like I'm expecting
something from
you Torah Yeshua there are two things
wrong there wasn't a carbon T itra today
and there's nobody learning Torah right
now yesu says okay which is more
important right now which one do you
want me to do right now
right now issue meaning
Torah yesu went to the depth what does
that
mean yesu gave a Shear on the
battlefield at that
moment in the middle of the battle they
were fighting and doing what they needed
to do but the told
Yu you need this of you need to give
you need to be mashia in learning you
need to celebrate T Torah and that's
what yahushua did yushua Bon the first
conqueror of erit Israel what he did he
fought and he taught and he
learned we are in the middle of a battle
literally we don't know including
myself where some of our family members
are right now they're being osak in the
greatest of mitzvos Defending and
fighting for am Isel in is in the name
of el Isel at this moment they don't
have time to learn to celebrate learning
to connect to learning that's what we
come in together Us and Them We are
following Yeshua benun what is to bear
that mantle that's what gives us the AAS
and the privilege to celebrate such a
huge accomplishment a finishing half of
Shaz bavy and just to add one final
thought and then we'll make the see and
this week's
says I'm like dirt and
Ashes why
dirt why dirt thear
says we say it
every and maybe we could think about
this
in right was
the my soul should be like dust what are
we doing for Hashem my soul should be
like dust so maybe it means humility
toastess toastess there I never notice
the toas tosas there also in the dentist
chair I was like flipping through I I
need to listen to things I can't focus
so I was living through a v has like
from 10 years ago short thoughts on Via
so this is one of them but he quoted so
the gar says what does to say there it's
on the PTI of we should be like dirt
says
to
just like dirt is never destroyed when
there's destruction what's left dirt but
dirt is you can't destroy
dirt after 911 there was dirt just like
dirt is
forever so too my seed shall never be
extinguished I should be and my children
should be like dirt they should always
be this is the everything could be
destroyed but not am Israel we are
Eternal no Nation no terrorists no evil
could break us and then there's one more
the Mar in on that toast adds in one
line I
heard our whole lives our whole lives we
walk on dirt we trample on dirt but
there's going to come a time to 120 that
dirt goes above us and dirt
wins so too throughout our lives there
have been many that have trampled the
Jewish
people but there's going to come a time
and we doav in that we will be on
top we trample and ultimately the dirt
is above us but so to am Israel we have
been trampled on and spat on and
tortured and terrorized for 2,000 years
but guess what we're still here and
guess what there will come a time very
soon that we will openly be on top we
will be like theer
dador he WR own that it happens very
soon okay so let's just read the last
few lines of
kadan says the and again after the
um to have a compromise celebration we
will sing two or three songs but we
won't dance that's going to be the show
that we want to dance and we but we also
temper it here we go the last
lines
Torah says I'm gonna teach my son Torah
that's the best uh occupation We're not
gonna have a about that right
now doesn't have to mean here da
occupation you make living from it can
mean area of even what we do in our free
time right
every much of the time whatever we do in
life for our panasa there comes a
certain age and stage where we can't do
it
anymore is when we're young and Torah is
when we're
old
by the kades will be said by m who gives
the this cycle in our so he'll be saying
it also his
mother
for
I I might add even those who doomi keep
it up those who don't DOI yet feel free
babak is awesome babak is Awesome every
m is awesome but join and even if one is
not a do something Yi something
Yi
for
the special
one here it's
here no just say the first part with
it
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I still have scars on my fingers from
the paper cuts of photocopying Rabbi
Shalom rosner's notes standing there
with the spiral notebook one he got me
through many masas he got many of us
through many
masas it is really uh so we have been
here this week with 40 sh leaders 20 Rim
20 baltim we've been visiting all sorts
of different areas of the country we all
showed up with a massive amount of
duffel bags as you know it used to be
that sorry not a lot of sleep on this
trip but today in America the sheer
for is a duffel bag one duffel bag no
beuda two duffel bags three duffel bags
four duffel bags the rabim show up at
the L terminal with 10 15 20 duffel bags
and we are having the most comical
conversation with L security who wants
to know if we pack these
things then wants to know if they've
been with us the whole time and whether
or not there are any weapons in these
bags so I'm looking at the woman and I'm
like I don't know is a tactical helmet a
weapon I don't know maybe it's a weapon
maybe it's not a weapon and we're making
stuff up and they're opening the bags
and they're looking through things and
we're like looking at these
bags and all I could tell you is
that is will win this war and when the
Jewish people in North America pack for
camp in June there isn't going to be a
single duffel bag in the entire United
States of America we sent them all to
ER but we uh arrived at the airport we
all flew Al even though none of us have
status because we usually fly
United and uh it was amazing it was
tremendous they should just line up the
groups for the airline boarding by
Community you know they should just Five
Towns Los Angeles group one you know tet
group two AIC where I live 37 anyway so
I was sitting in my economy minus seat
with many other Aban many other sh
leaders and we came here because we
wanted to give kuk because this is what
we're doing in America in our
communities we're trying to give
everyone K people are afraid people are
are
struggling but it has been an incredibly
humbling experience and if you think
it's easy to Humble American Pulpit
rabbis let me tell you it's Quite a feat
and the fact that we have gone to
communities we were in the South
yesterday we have gone to Bases we have
gone to do nikim we have gone to
do we've been involved with we've been
involved with families that are dealing
with and we are doing what rabbis do
this is what Rabon do the life cycle
events the Pastoral Care the
expression an infusing world of the
opportunity to inspire and uplift and
there isn't a single one of us that has
walked
away feeling like the balance of kuk is
not much more on the side of us
receiving than us giving anything the am
the the sense
of the larger connection to the story of
Jewish history that we have seen
traveling around ER Israel this week has
been extraordinary it has been
transformative and it has made us feel
like we are part of something so much
bigger than the communities that we lead
in
Kutz we're here to celebrate daf yomi
and at the Orthodox Union one of the
programs that we inv invest an enormous
amount of resources in is T Torah is the
opportunity to create platforms so that
Jews all over the world of varying
levels of varying hashas of varying
educational
orientations of varying schedules and
competing areas of life for their intent
attention have the opportunity to come
together and learn Torah from ranim and
rabim many of whom would not have been
able to access the these various RAB
Rosner was in pic for shabas this year
we had the greatus of Hosting him in our
home and he spoke in arul pic it's a a
fairly I would say uh more to the right
type of community my is the Young Israel
it's basically where all the KRA send
the in-laws when they come for shabas so
that they don't think it's two from
right so Rabbi rasner comes but Rabbi
rasner has talim of all different tasic
so whole group of Yeshiva show up and
they're looking at Rabbi rasar and
they're like that's Rabbi Ros they're
expecting this long beard they're expect
one of them asked me is that the Gabi I
said no that's not the Gabi that's Rabbi
Ros that's Mish RAB and as soon as his
voice started and as soon as his Torah
began to resonate and Echo throughout
the sh those familiar tones of passion
and
determination and inspiration and Torah
and content and substance and lamus
began to completely capture their hearts
and minds and this is what we're trying
to do for CLA Isel so I want to share
Just one thought because I real a real
speaker for tonight is an outstanding
tal and an incredible maritz Torah which
is Rabbi Silber which I have the great
privilege of being here with tonight but
I just want to share that as rabi rasner
mentioned we are not not just
celebrating a seum of substance we are
not just celebrating the accomplishment
of completing a particular body of
content of Torah we are celebrating a
commitment we are celebrating a rhythm
to religious
life that constantly is
infused with the prioritization of Torah
to ensure day after day after day that
liat Torah is the Central and anchoring
element
of our life and the Torah tells us or
the rambam tells us actually in the
Mitzvah of T Torah that this source of
this obligation to learn each and every
day is
the the obligation to study Torah every
day and every night and it is often
asked that if you think about it if we
wanted to choose
a to charge the Jewish people with the
mandate of
embedding in the fabric of their being
and their life each and every day would
we not choose a
from and yet
the As We Know Finds Its origin in saer
yahushua what is the reason why this
becomes the source of very important
nakomi big plug for Nomi they're having
a see him in February we should come
back right we should come back raay or
no Rays we should come back so why he sa
for
yahushua so I believe the answer is the
the Mish tells
us we have
a and the Mah asks on this mishna why
doesn't the mishna say MOS tor
why does it say tah not from the
individual or the entity that he
received the Torah from like every other
Link in the mtic tradition that is
depicted in the mishna but why doesn't
the mishna relate that mosha got the
Torah from
akes and the marah writes that the
answer is because if the mishna would
have written that the Torah got Moshe
got the Torah fromes you would assume
that the only being in the history of
the Jewish people who Rose to the left
that he could cultivate an individual
relationship withes and receive the
Torah is M and then every stage of the m
is simply almost like a game of
generational telephone that this one
gives it to that one and that one gives
it to that one says the that's not how
the M Works mosha got the Torah fromes
and his job is to help yua get the Torah
from akes and his job is to help the get
the Torah fromes and Rabbi rosner's job
and Rabbi silber's job is to help all of
us receive the Torah not just from them
but from the Rabon himself for each and
every one of us to cultivate an
individual connection to Torah because
even though we're all learning the same
da the contextualization of that da to
our life is different and distinct for
each and every one of us because our
life experience is ultimately what
shapes the context the environment and
the experience of what it is to learn
the
D is the source not just of Al but of
Miss that it's not just a man who could
climb a mountain and not eat on top of
that mountain it's even yahushua who's
going to conquer ER Isel and live in the
reality of life in that framework as
well each and every one of us could find
our relationship to Torah but I'd like
to close with one other recognition of
this reality and that is that Moser Renu
lived in the world of the midbar and in
the world in the idilic world of the
midbar where everyone's life is taken
care of and everything is set and
everything is prepared and everything is
miraculously provided and supported each
and every day of Our Lives that is one
context that one can achieve greatness
and Torah but that's not necessarily our
reality yahushua standing at the
precipice of the conquest of er Israel
yahushua embodies the story of Jewish
history that there will be battles and
there will be challenges and there will
be real life and it is yahushua from
whom we derive this inspiration and this
charge to continue to make Torah part of
our life that even when we are presented
with unparalleled challenge that Torah
remains such an anchoring and such a a
connecting force between us and AES
and between us and each other and
between us and the Next Generation it is
a privilege and it is an honor to be
here to celebrate together with you this
beautiful we thank you so much for
being part of our larger old daf all you
family we thank you for sharing your
love and his Torah and everything he has
to contribute to CLA Isel to the tens of
thousands of people we thank you for
sharing him a little bit a lot of bit
with all of us because so many people
have grown and been inspired and finish
together with him as well and they are
also part of your Kila we thank you so
much and
mazov it is my greatest honor to have
rabm subber joining
us last July July
2022 I was in touch with her by silur
about making a in Baltimore and we
ended on making an event in Baltimore
sber was not able to
attend so it's not a coincidence that
the time that olda gets to celebrate
with r Silber is here in ER Silber
is a rabbi in Baltimore and has a
tremendous dfom in person live early in
the morning I think before I wake up and
disseminated online across the world
among many other shiur Rabbi Silber is
here in AR together RAB Glasser
and other OU rabbis who've come here as
last we mentioned before and it is my to
be able to call up Rabbi silur to
address US good evening
everyone it is an incredible and
overwhelming to be here with all of you
tonight and I want to thank this the Rob
the rabbits in the entire community for
hosting such a beautiful
Sim in what is clearly an overwhelming
and difficult time you know when we have
to think about things should we dance
should we not dance Sim not
sim so you know that something has
occurred that hits to the very essence
that hits to the very Nish of the
Jew because the Jew's default natural
disposition is one of sim and not just
any Sim but exuberant
Sim and when we have to think about how
to navigate even
Asim I think it shows us the
enormity of the events that we are
witnessing in the enormity of the times
that
cloud is
weathering it's a
great to be here in during this time in
one of the visits that we had and I want
to thank RAB Glasser and the leadership
of the OU for really organizing this
trip it's been uh transformative I very
uncomfortable whenever people thanked us
for coming as it felt very empty it was
a great not not that the expression was
empty but it felt strange for us to be
the recipient of people's Praises for
getting on an airplane and staying at a
hotel not that much Mes in the hotel
whatever but you know not not that much
mes involved on our
part and one of the most incredible
things and it's a feeling that I only
realized once I got
here is that there was something that I
was feeling
since since that shabas
morning when you know the medish says
that when the Mable came the Mable the
flood of Noah affected every single land
except is and onas it felt like there
was a m
and it only affected
ER and for those of us in the diaspora
going two days not knowing what was
happening getting a little bit of
information here a little bit of
information there no one really had a
full picture but we were even a little
bit more
disconnected and I realized that all
this time I've been experiencing a
profound feeling of
Disconnect and it was only once we
landed in benorian with all of our bule
bags which we had to lie to Customs on
two sides of the
ocean that for the first time since the
overwhelming events of
Shas we finally felt some greater level
of
connection because the only thing worse
than
suffering is suffering
alone and that we were processing and
digesting everything that happened to
our people
but we were processing and digesting it
from 6,000 miles
away exacerbated and Amplified the pain
that we were
experiencing so it is
a to be here with all of you tonight it
would have been a just to have dinner
with all of you wonderful people and the
is compounded by the fact that we get to
celebrate a the fact that we get to
celebrate Torah together we hope that
all of the Torah learned
tonight
for all of our precious soldiers they
should should give them the incredible
the the to recognize that they are not
just fighting the fight of am but this
is Humanity's fight of good versus evil
and it is the of to be the tip of the
spear in Humanity's fight of good versus
evil it's your children who are the tip
of the spear in this
incredible of to versus ra of
versus and just know that even though we
may not know each other and even though
our communities may be separated by
thousands of
miles not a day goes by that we don't
dve in for your children not a day goes
by that we don't learn in the Merit of
our precious soldiers and not a day goes
by that we don't D in for each of you to
have the Incredible strength to have the
wisdom to have the for to have the hope
and to have the
optimism to be able to weather these
difficult times
in make it towards the beautiful Gula
that awaits all of
us it's also a little bit difficult to
get up and speak after two masterful
speakers and I'm the only thing standing
between you and dessert so you put all
of that together this is not exactly the
coveted
spot but I want to tell you just
something a little bit about your about
yra so my balab know in my SCH that I I
am a big arm
twister not about most things really
just about learning Feel Again everyone
has to have a yomi everyone has to do
something and there was one guy in my
kahila who I've been working on for a
very long time to get him to learn D
yomi he has the ability to do so he has
the time he has the flexibility and for
months and months every time I would see
him I would always hack him you know
it's time to begin to learn this
we have a beautiful Shear every single
morning and bar an online community as
well I told him okay you can't make it
at 5:45 in the morning don't worry you
could get it on YouTube you can get it
on a podcast there's plenty of
opportunities to learn but I said
there's really no
excuse going for a couple of weeks
probably about a month into this
exchange he comes over to me SRE I just
want to tell you okay I started I
started
DFI I said fantastic this is incredible
so what are you listening on and he
looked down I said what's wrong he said
oh no it's not with
you he with RAB
Roser I said thank you for the lesson in
an no okay wonderful
good but I'm sure all of you know in
this incredible community that you are
blessed with a r who is is a combination
of not just both a sini and an O har
both someone who is a repository of an
immense immense amount of information
someone with profound K of analysis but
also aidos toos who is truly just the
model of what a Jew is supposed to look
like you don't really need me to say
anything truth is you heard from your R
you heard from R Glasser if you learn
from your R listen to your R I guarantee
you anything and everything you need to
know to be successful in life
you will have so I'll just share with
you something short and
then allow allow the evening to progress
there's an incredible
in the
says how do you know that a name is
important the gamar captures is talking
about the idea that a name fascinating
part about a name is that a name
captures the essence of an individual
when you look at a person's name you
could see the entirety of who they are
what they are where they come from where
they're going all in their name and
that's why interestingly enough name
changes are something incredibly
dramatic generally contemporarily we
reserve name changes for when for when
again someone is in a very very
precarious situation and again it's just
a difficult difficult Outlook or
difficult Dr road ahead so we changed
the name the hope is you could change
the muzzle That's The Power of a name
that a name represents a maszle a name
represents a destiny a name represents a
certain almost like bucket of shef of
divine BR of divine blessing of divine
energy so when you want to change the
trajectory of a person's life you change
their name but of course we know that in
saas the toad is filled with Incredible
name changes but they're not name
changes because something bad has
happened just the opposite their name
changes in order to open the door to
something incredible so just last week
ch's name and changes It ultimately
again from which rash explains he was a
man who had an influence over a much
smaller Regional area and the extra the
extra father of a multitude of Nations
representing the idea that would impact
not just a community and not just a
region but Mankind in its entirety and
the
AR
inul says something amazing I want to
quote you AR
writes every single person has two
names there's a name that you have it's
the name that you're given by your
parents for a boy is bris for a girl
again by the depending on the meaning of
the community that's name you get from
your parents that name is inspired byes
you know parents have to give their
child a name which captures the entire
Destiny of a child and for a girl you
might know this baby for a couple of
hours for a boy maybe have eight days
but how are you supposed to give your
child a name that represents the destiny
it's an aspirational desire for what you
want your child to become the Kos of
your child the AR says parents are given
R KES they're GI given a degree of
Prophecy to be able to give their child
just the right name so there's one name
there's one name says the which
represents during the which represents
all of the good all of the beauty and
all of the Holiness you possess listen
to what he
writes there's another name that each of
us have and it's my broken name it's the
name of all of the things that are
broken inside of me
each person says the AR has two names
your given name which is the name that
represents your Holiness the name that
represents your potential the name that
represents again your abilities and your
destiny and then there's a name which
represents all of the things that are
broken inside of you because dear
friends we all have things that are
broken inside of us we all have things
that are in disrepair an urgent need of
repair there's a second name theza then
goes on to explain that the whole
essence of life is to discover what is
your broken name what's my broken name
because the entire avoda in life is to
identify the things that are broken to
identify the things that are in a state
of disrepair and to fix them that's why
I'm here that's why I'm here I'm not
just simply here to do good I'm not just
here just for the a But ultimately
really what I'm here is to fix the
things that are broken two names one for
the positive spiritual Dynamic energy
that each of us possess and one
representing the things that are all
broken but there's a third name also
that doesn't discuss a third name but
there's a Third identity the Third
identity is actually mentioned in this
week's Parish the Torah
opens appears
to is post and appears to him like says
to do the to visit the sick and the
great says something amazing the says
why doesn't the Torah mention
name
whyem and says something amazing he says
sometimes a person could accomplish
something so
great that they
outgrow their original name
sometimes you could do something of such
spiritual Epic
Proportions that the name the identity
you had until it doesn't fit you anymore
and's wording he says the letters of
your name if you imagine each letter as
a vessel as a CLE they're there to go
ahead and receive and retain the shefa
the Divine energy that comes down well
sometimes a person reaches such a level
and they've generated such Divine energy
flowing into their life that there are
not enough c not enough utensils in the
letters of their name
or gave himself a br at an advanced age
after doing everything that he did Abu
transcended hisam ident can you imagine
this he already went from to abam and by
the beginning of
par has a Third identity we call it a
Transcendent identity
it's that identity that you actualize
when you surpass expectations it's the
identity that you actualize when not
only do you go ahead and find out your
cohost but you dig down deep to find new
cohost that you never knew you had each
and every one of us has these three
identities my birth name which
represents the cohost and the destiny I
have my broken name which represents the
things that are in a state of disrepair
and my transend ascendant name that's
the person I am capable of
becoming
says most of us don't end up actualizing
our Transcendent
identity most of us hover somewhere
around our birth
identity butb says there's a whole new
identity that's waiting for us this
whole new V A Love identity that is
waiting for each of us so how do we
actualize it how do we actualize that
Transcendent identity because deep down
isn't that what we're looking to do deep
down I want to know that after 120 I
didn't live an ordinary regular life
that after 120 I did something not just
nice and good but I did something
magnificent how do I actualize that
Transcendent
identity so I've been thinking a lot
about this and I think one of the
answers the truth is is right here in
ER I'll will tell you one of the things
that strikes me so much since the War
Began is sometimes feel and this is the
perspective of someone living currently
in gullas in the
diaspora but it struck me that like
everyone in arid Isel has like a
Superman identity what do I mean by that
you remember Superman you know like he
would write he just pull back the shirt
and there was like a new identity here
so it's incredible everybody's going
about their lives and then War comes and
everybody morphs into someone different
I was working on a project with a couple
of people here in Aris
in and on M M for us had an email saying
Sil just gotta tell you the Project's on
hold projects on hold um I'm a m in the
Army I'm sorry I'm going to be out I
don't know how long I'm going to be out
two days ago this guy was like a real
estate Tycoon right he's sealing deals
he's getting investors he's this the
next thing I know he's sending me videos
with him really like yelling at people
right Mish like taking these young
soldiers like you know get getting them
into it was incredible was absolutely
incredible how does one person morph
into someone
else it's been incredible to see just
again I've been watching this from a
distance and now over the last couple
days been able to see it here
how every single person it feels like
here in the beautiful beautiful state of
Israel has transformed themselves into
something different whether you're AET
organizer whether you're a barbecuer
whether you're a food deliverer whether
you're a letter writer right everyone
has like these new skill sets right so
again three weeks ago everyone had a day
job three weeks ago everyone was a
regular
person and
now you have all developed Transcendent
identities you've all become someone
else you've all become someone
else not someone else you thought of
becoming not someone else you planned to
become But ultimately again as someone
else who is accomplishing things that
you probably never thought you could or
would have to
accomplish was incredible for us to see
in our brothers and sisters in
is love identity being actualized on
mass people surpassing birth
identity and really holding on to an
actualizing Transcendent
identity but how does that happen how do
you transform into Superman overnight
which so many of you
did and I think just one man's
opinion it's a result of akos
as Dita mentioned
before you see when everyone around you
is becoming a heightened more refined
version of
themselves everybody's got to do
it the
tremendous that exists within Cloud now
the tremendous
akos earlier today we were on a an army
base in schom in the north and I had an
opportunity to share a few words and I
said to the to the holy soldiers who
were there I said you know my greatest
fear when this war is over after we are
victorious that what happens to
the what happens what happens to
Theus was there he said don't worry
there'll be another
War said
okay I wanted to suggest something a
little bit different but he's
okay what happens to
the doesn't it feel great to be
bad doesn't it feel great that when you
walk down the street suddenly it no
longer matters what your opinions are
about judicial
reform and by the way this is spilling
over into America as well suddenly again
barriers are coming down communities are
uniting
people are coming
together if m
is you know we're discovering my Reb RB
willig always used to say that the Torah
doesn't say Rashi doesn't
say doesn't
say doesn't say one people with one
opinion because such a thing never
happened and never will
happen but the incredible part that
we're seeing is you could have
differences of opinion but there could
still be incredible
a how do we go ahead and actualize a
Transcendent identity dear friends the
first answer
is when we are
together the whole is greater than the
sum of its
parts there's an
energy and there's an energy that is
currently coursing through the
collective heart
of and it's pushing us it's pushing
pushing us to be better and it's pushing
us to be greater and it's pushing us to
do more and it's pushing us to learn
more and it's pushing us to do more and
it's pushing us towards the road of a
and it's pushing and it's pushing and
it's pushing and generally we don't like
to be pushed but something incredible is
happening is no one is pushing
back we're all going with the flow the
beautiful flow of
AK and that's the first way in which we
actualize our Transcendent
identity the second way the second way
is through Torah what I mean is RAB so
beautifully read before the last two
lines of the gimar such an interesting
gimar the gim is talking about again as
said I would leave beside leave behind
all the professions of the world and
only focus on Torah so the gim ends off
by saying as follows he says he says if
a person has a profession
sh
so the the understanding is you have a
profession your profession is only yours
as long as you could perform the job so
if you're a doctor right you're a lawyer
you're an accountant as long as you have
your mental faculties you could do it
you're in construction as long as you
have some level of Physical Agility you
can do it even your R your as long as
you have some ability to convey or do
something you you have it you have to be
able to actualize your career skill set
in order to be able to do your desired
job when you get old if your
intellectual Acumen is not there right
if your intellectual tools are not
present you gonna have a hard time
performing the skills or performing the
labor of your
youth Tor is not like
this Torah is there for you when you're
young
listen to the words of the Torah is
profound
why it gives you hope for a
future and
hope when you're old so I guess the POS
shot of the gim is that the beauty of
Torah is that if you you have it and
only do you have it in this world but
you have it in the world to come but
perhaps there's another meaning of
the says on the I'll
such a profound statement and the truth
is anyone who is either older or deals
with the elderly knows that sometimes
the hardest part of getting old is being
forgotten
about is being forgotten about is not
being able to fend for yourself being
reliant on others and if your Z to have
beautiful and loving family around you
is great but not everybody has that so
he said
do not cast me out when I'm says
something amazing he says Z is not a
biological stage he says what's a zakim
this is incredible he says what's a
zakim a zakim is someone who is set in
his
ways a zakin is someone who says this is
it love it or leave it right this is who
I am this is what I am this is my
temperament these are my MOS I am set in
my ways and I am imove there's a lot of
smiles as I'm saying this I'm guessing
there are some people like this right I
am set in my ways and that's
it that's Z that's zik just resigning
yourself that this is who I am this is
what it is this is what life is and it's
unchangeable never let me fall into the
mindset of thinking that I can't evolve
that I can't change that I can't grow
that I can't develop a Transcendent
identity and maybe that's theat in the
gim do you know what the power of Torah
is do you know what the power of Torah
is the
says this is now the third cycle of that
I have I have the privilege to teach in
the last cycle in the last cycle I had a
man in my SHO
who had never learned Torah before this
this is not hyperbolic he never learned
Torah in his life he didn't even
following with Kat Torah because this
Kish Club he so he wasn't right he
wasn't like in other words he wasn't
there was no Torah there was no Torah he
was 71 years old he decid you know what
I'm GNA learn at his 80th birthday he
celebrated a
masas and at 80 and a half be passed
away the power of Torah is that Torah
changes you we all know it you know how
you feel after you learn and by the
wayar might not like this right but by
the there's the concept says even if you
don't understand what you're learning it
doesn't make a difference because maybe
your mind doesn't understand it but your
heart you're the
shama understands
everything and so just when you learn
even if the mind says I have no idea
what's going on and those of you who
learned the da know that there are
absolutely days like that I don't know
what's going on truth is I don't even
know why I'm doing this right I'm not
sure what benefit there is for me for
claa for the world I again but you know
what what do you do you power through
why because even after that D that you
may not have understood you still feel
different
I'm a different person that's the power
of Torah
says Torah
says I could become someone different I
could become someone greater I could
become someone
better suddenly again I don't have to be
the same person but I have the ability
to be like an
Abu and develop a Transcendent
identity and in reality that's what
we're celebrating here tonight A
doubleim the finishing and finishing s
which is an overwhelming and beautiful
and incredible
accomplishment but also we're
celebrating
the excuse me we're celebrating the Sim
of recognizing that yes I have a broken
identity that I need to fix I have a
birth identity that ultimately I again
need to live up to but I have a
Transcendent identity that I have not
yet begun to truly tap into but I can
because it's in the air it's in the air
and if I tap into the of is that'll help
me along the way and if I tap into the
Torah of Cl is that'll help me along the
way that's the Sim that like AB ainu who
developed a Transcendent identity who
became AB who became Abraham became just
a love because he was too great for a
name we we have the ability to reach
that level of personalistic
accomplishment as well the opening
mishna the opening mishna
in
read There are three ways that a person
has the ability to affec
K so money a document and intimacy and
the great
s says that there is an incredible remes
in this the
says
is who's the B who's the husband the
husband is Theon
shal there are three ways or three times
in which has acquired us as his
own the says that's a reference
to we left Egypt and we left with with
great amount of
wealth
right Ezra sent letters to the
Babylonian Community time to come home
so again the first
G the second G
of and says
to is go is the coming of
mashia we have
been to be acquired by first two of the
three
ways
in in the of all the sacrifices that we
and specifically you the holy Jews of AR
is have had to make in
the of acquiring our Transcendent
identity may we
be to the third and final stage of
kushin with Theon
to see the to
see to see the Third
basen