All Daf Siyum Seder Nashim in Bet Shemesh

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 [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] am 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 [Music] for [Music] 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