HaGaon HaRav David Yosef Shlit"a | Night of Inspiration | CHAZAQ

[Music] shom to the entire and Beyond the entire Queen's Community we'd like to first of all first and foremost thank tonight's sponsors number one Brothers for their continued success Jacob abano for the ESS of his family and for the continued success of preing the the holy Tora to be blessed with a healthy Ben for the success of his family and for Noah Ben Daniel for supporting Tora for health and success for the hostages and a special thank you to Sushi Fusion for their generosity uh for today's event as well as we'd like to be very thankful for the hak organization and primarily for har shalita who helped and assisted the organization that such a event should happen and of course for I'd like to say in introduction to harav something that's connected to this week's par it says in the Paras that a person who receives Sarat a person who receives a blemish he has to go to the Kain you say to yourself what is a blemish a blemish is something that is physical if anything he should go to the doctor the doctor will check it out he'll tell him is this uh something that's dangerous it's non-dangerous what's the whole idea of going to the K but the truth the Torah is telling us that satat is not just a physical ailment it is an ailment that arises because a person spoke and a person who spokes spoke creates the disunity in he creates it causes people to not like each other to be fighting with each other and the is a descendant depicted or shalom shalom it was always about peace is a man of Shalom a person who spoke and received says you don't go to the doctor you go to or his children that will teach the person how to make peace between himself and his friend to create Unity to create a society that is functioning sh is a man that with all of his greatness in Tor a person that when it comes to Torah it's something that we can tell we see the we see the depth in the those are things that are self-evident but sometimes what goes beneath the radar what we don't pay careful attention to there's a man of Shalom there's a man of understanding and how to approach peace and how to deal with delicate situations and to create the and truthfully a few times I heard shalita give advice to us in in and the and informed us how to create a Unity of Shalom the advice that he gave is penetrating and had depth that affects the community till this very day as the story goes with P Frank that in his times there was a lot of poverty in the Tora um deals with these situations concept of poverty is a very serious concept and there was a lot of it an egg was something that was very precious people didn't want to give up uh even something as today we would view as insignificant and one situation arose that PES Frank he lived in in G and uh a person came elderly man limping came all the way to his home knocked on the door showed him an egg this man was a little bit of a he knew there was a blood spot he knew if it was on the yellow throw it out if it's on the white you can keep it what if it's in the middle what if it's something that connects the part that connects the White and the yellow the yolk and the white he's know he heard there was a he said I'll go to the I'll ask him what to do the sees him the looks takes one look at him he sees him limping he asks him where are you from he told him I'm froma he says you came froma he says I came froma he says if you came from G sha this egg is mut for you and his nephew Frank's nephew R was standing next to him said I don't understand is there a different for people that live Ina and a different for people that live in how you go ahead and make if you live in he said very simple I was able to see the person in front of me I saw that something was off I heard asked him where are you froma I see him limping a person comes all the way here to froma walking limping elderly I understand that this was a big Financial loss and I know the says if there's a it's I didn't want to ask him if it's if he's a poor man so I saw that he came that distance and I knew for him it would be mut that's what the Torah tells us has a responsibility to see the person to see the person and to judge based on that J is a person of and he knows how to bring the Tor to the am to the nation a person who understands not just the Torah but the psychology of a society the psychology of the person in front of him and without further Ado it's a great honor for and the entire Queen's Community to introduce and to welcome David shalita okay shoot Leo danan shalita Leo gatria gatria not it's only yeah but also is gatria together okay okay Tom night we start we are going to startes Nissan uh the main thinges it's p the name of p in the Torah what is the name of PES the holay [Music] of the Tor repeats many times ask a question usually we all the holiday about the meaning of the holiday the name of the holiday is the meaning of the holiday sukot we sit in Suka it's yip yip sh we count seven weeks sh PES we call it ha mat what is a mat mat why we eat matot because am Isel when they had to leave Egypt they didn't have enough time to bake bread so they did matot so this is a very small story on the side this is not the main story the story was that we were slaves and we got freedom so we had to call the the holiday ha or we saw many miracles hug hanim Miracles or if you want call it independent holiday ha we became a nation so why ha matot it's a small story small story that big deal they didn't have bread they ate matot so because of that to call the name of the holiday ha M he asked that question and he answered that really if we learn it deep the main story is the mat why before I will tell you the answer of Maha I want to tell you a story at the year of uh 1939 September 1st and um the second world war started it started when Germany attacked Poland and they conquered most of Poland but eight days before all the world were shocked that Germany made peace with Russia Communists and the Nazis it's a completely different only one thing they have in common they hate Jewish people but about everything they have M they don't agree so when uh Hitler he started to fight he decided to take Russia out of the picture so eight days before he attacked Poland he sent his foreign minister Riven trop he met the foreign minister of Russia Molotov Riven trop Molotov they made an agreement peace two years later Hitler made a big mistake he attacked Russia anyway in the agreement August 23rd when they signed it was onepage uh top secret It Was Written there that September 1st Germany will attack Poland from one side and will conquered most of Poland and uh immediately after Russia will attack Poland from the other side um Poland and Lithuania lva Estonia all of that countries Russia conquered after two years Hitler took it from Russia so the situation of the Jewish people in Poland became very very bad unfortunately all the Jewish that were after under the uh the Nazis all almost all of them died 3 million Jewish people on the other side that Russia conquered at the beginning it was very bad you know Russia you know what is Communists and Stalin was at that time the worst but in any way it was not bad like with the germanies with the Nazis so at the place that Russia conquered Jewish people tried to escape and many escaped anyone who escaped he saved his life people that remain after the Nazis came they they died an example there was yiva in Lithuania Mir Yesa Mir Mir Yesa all the students succeeded to run away they went to shanhai shanhai China and uh 4,000 students of yeshivot went went to China and they didn't have food so the Jewish people from the United States they found way through Argentina to send them the money andem they survived so the rabbis told people anyone who can run away run away don't wait run away in Lithuania there was a city big city brisk brisk and the chief Rabbi of brisk was rabbi people called him the brisker the bris he was the rabbi of brisk he was gown big gown and uh he also run away his H students uh could make a passport and visa to him he ran away to yush and he lived in yush about 20 years and he was a great leader of the Jewish people at that time the religious people in Israel the bris for him it was very difficult to leave brisk he had to leave Sunday Morning by train Shabbat he came to the synagogue the big synagogue of brisk and the many people came to to say goodbye to the rabbi the last time they see him everybody was very said people didn't know we are going to survive or not what will happen and now we are losing our Rabbi what to do they were very sad they came to the synagogue they saw the rabbi sitting his face looked he looked very bad he was very sad people saw pain on his face and he his head was down and he was quiet one of the men stood up and said Rabbi we can understand that we said but because we are stuck here and we are losing you but you you have to be happy you are living now the worst place in the world the worst and you are going to the best place yush when he said that the rabbi started to cry to cry no no no I don't agree with you he said you said said you said the brisk brisk is the worst place I love brisk I love brisk more than any place in the world I was born here I grew up here I love brisk people look at the face of the rabbi they said what what he's saying he is going to yushan he said he loves brisk what is this so the rabbi explained to them he told them like that Abraham ainu was living in har it was a test according to the Torah it was a test said hasem tested Abraham ainu 10 times one of them was this test to live the place he was born why it is a test what he had at his father's house everybody hated him they were worshiping Idols they hated him his father took him he gave him to imod to burn him alive and hasem made Miracle Hashem saved him so it's a test when hasem when Hashem told him you have to leave he had to say thank you Hashem that's what I wanted but no it was a test why he said because if someone was born some place even it is bad place even if it is not good in any category you look at it it's not good when he was born there and he he grew up there he loves the place yes said people like the place they they grew up they feel connected to the place and we can see even in our time an example many people live in New York New York you know what is New York in the winter it's very very cold terrible cold and in the summer it's very hot you cannot compare New York to let's say Miami so every time I come here I ask myself why people live in this such a place wh why why why what you have to do here go to Florida or if you have you want Torah go to Y the best New York every time I come here in the winter I count the hours when when I will leave the place and when I go to the airport I say bar but people that live in New York they love the place yeah why because you were born here you grew up here and you got used to the place so this even if you know different places still you like it I have students from New York learning and PES comes they go back home to the parents so when P they see PES is coming closer and closer now wow they wait every day wow when I will be in New York New York what you you live in yam but no they feel connected to New York I have students from Panama you know what is Panama Panama all year they have 35 degrees celius it means about 90 maybe more than 90 and every day it's raining 2 hours raining and the uh you go 5 minutes you are sweat and the smell in the air is not so good so the richest people live in Panama and my students came from Panama they wish they will be able to go back home they love Panama how come M said like that he said am Israel were born in Egypt they were slaves yes but they didn't know different shape of Life they knew just Egypt you know Egypt it's very hot place it's not the my father lived in Egypt for three years in Cairo and uh he suffered there a lot but am Israel even they were slaves but they didn't know a different country different kind of life nothing so they were connected to Egypt and the last year they were in Egypt they were not slaves anymore not anymore why because theem started to hit the Egyptians so I'm Israel were sitting in er's Gan and watching alive not TV not they saw it in their eyes damim all the plagues hasem gave to the Egyptians and they enjoyed to see revenge and then when PES came mosenu told them we are leaving Egypt now now and anyone who goes uh for a trip let's say for 10 days so he has to pack to take something with him he goes to airplane and he sits even coach you have a nice good seat you can sit normally yeah not to go on a d ke like am Isel he has a seat so he has to pack and if he made a mistake and he decided to take his wife with him she started she start to pack two weeks before and when they are on the way to the airport she remembers what she forgot to take yeah usually it's like that and this is for 10 days am Isel when mosu told them we are leing leaving Egypt now it was not a trip for 10 days it was to leave Egypt forever forever and to go on donkeys to where to the desert so and mosu told them now they had to come come to him and to tell him Moshe first give us time to organize ourself we go with a family everyone had children with all the family so wait give us time and what about food how long it will take the trip through where you want to take us to Earth Israel how you have a a GPS ways or Google something to show us the the way just blind we have to go but when mosu told them we are leaving Egypt now they had no questions nobody said a word nothing they had few minutes to make matot they made the matot and took it on their shoulders and went after m m said the main story of PES it's our Israel believed in hasem after they saw the 10 plagues Hashem gave to the Egyptians when he told them you are living now today now no no even not five minutes after after now no immediately all of them took the matot and went after him so Hashem he loves us so much he called the name of the holiday H ham hasem said always I remember the matot that you were loyal to me you went after me when am Israel after many generations they were worshiping idols and Hashem decided to destroy beta mikdash and to send them to Exile Hashem sent the beginning Hashem told them you are going to Exile but in the end Hashem told him to tell am Israel told them I remember that you went after me when we got married I'm is with the love of the marriage am Israel to Hashem you went after me to the death I remember that for you so even we made a hasem took us to but didn't shom we we survived am Isel survived so we have to learn from that the main thing of PES it's the am Israel were loyal to Hashem theaa and when we seat the night of PES the S the S we have the family around us our children we have to know this is a very very important night it's not just to eat mat and to read a like no we have to pay attention to the to translate it for the children to understand I take many many small chocolate very good chocolate from Switzerland kosher glad kosher so I sit and uh I have my children my grandchildren I ask them questions about about the a everyone answer it gets chocolate chocolate so they are awake all the time for us the a takes two hours we are singing saying it my father he used to to make the aada he said everyone will say the a quiet but he himself read the first part then everyone even children he let them read everyone small part except if someone got a he told him to continue he didn't want this one will be no so one said all the four Sons so everyone was involved with the a all the time why because when we read it and we learn about the miracle of hasem we talk about that and then we eat matah we eat Mar we fulfill the mitv we drink four cups our became in our body our soul and our body so the PES the meaning of p it's AA so we have to make our not strong this is a mission of everyone at his house to take care about Thea of his children and if we have AA all of our life it's different people have auna and uh after that if Shalom anyone has problems at his life everyone when we have when and Shalom we have a crisis we can continue we can give ourself strength because we believe everything came from Hashem that's what Hashem wanted we have to accept I never saw someone that God that hasem gave him big money and he will cry he will say AEM why did you give it to me why no no he he's happy he says AEM you gave it to me of course you had to give it to me who else accept me I'm the best I deserve and when someone Shalom he gets punishment he said he says Hashem why why did you give it to me you want to ask why ask yourself Hashem doesn't give anyone anything he doesn't deserve so we have to be loyal to Hashem loyal it means what he did he knows that he has to do that so we deserve if he did it he deserve about anything you we don't understand many times we don't understand but the bottom line if Hashem did it we deserve it sometimes we have questions why why it happened like that Shalom somebody died young somebody happened something happened to him why and we have to ask ourself to correct ourself to be better and sometimes later we see we understand why I will tell you a story rabai real story that story happened uh a little more than 150 years in Germany 12050 years ago in Germany you know in Germany the reform movement was very strong more all the places in Europe and they were big big they hated the Torah and the mitv so they had connection with the government and they convinced the government to make a special law that to build synagogues only reform to build schools only reform Orthodox no no way at that time in Germany there was a prime minister they call it counselor his name was Carl F bismar he was a very strong man very strong so the Orthodox rabbis decided to send a delegation to him and to try to explain to him that we are the the original Jewish people we deserve schools synagogues so after they worked very hardem he made an appointment for the Orthodox rabbis he said come to my office in Berlin Tuesday 1:00 in the afternoon and they decided they thought which rabbis we have to send they they thought to send rabbis the best speakers they know how to talk the head of the delegation was Rabbi Dr me Layman he wrote many books this guy he was the author very smart he had a religious newspaper and he was the best speaker Rabbi mayor Layman so they checked from the city of Rabbi Layman every day train 9:00 left the city to Berlin 12:00 reached Berlin so from 12 to 1 they have one hour it's perfect so they said 8:30 all of us we will meet in the station and we will go together to the train Tuesday Morning Rabbi Layman woke up early he prayed early and he was crying all the please put in my mouth good things to talk to know how to talk and to convince the counselor Bismark okay 8:00 he came back home he wanted to eat quick breakfast and to go before he started to eat somebody knocked on the door his wife opened the door there was an old man old man he came he said I have a very very urgent question to ask the rabbi so the rabbit the wife of the rabbi she said Raba is busy today come tomorrow and the man started to cry he said I have a very urgent question it's a matter of life or death okay she went she told the rabbi the rabbi said okay if it is a question like that so I will not eat breakfast he came he told the man uh okay tell me your question but please speak brief short I am in hry the man said yes yes Rabbi of course I will talk very short and uh thank you very much that you are agree to listen to me but to understand it's complicated question to understand the question I have to start the story from the beginning he said Rabbi I was born in a city like this and I grew up I was learning at school uh yes Pap I was there and then I grew up I found my wife and we got married he said long long he spoke spoke he described everything the rabbi looked at the watch it was 8:15 and his house was far from the station he told the man look you have to finish I have no time he said yes Rabbi of course I but you have to understand the question he said after he got married he didn't have children for 15 years no children we went to this doctor he said like this this that doctor this Rabbi this makal this and that and then we had a baby girl and then she grew up she was a good girl religious good and then we had to find for her husband we had somebody offered this and that theab said mister it's 830 you have two minutes to finish if you don't finish I will leave you the man say yes you don't don't I'm going to finish then he said uh my daughter until we found a good husband hasem he is the best she got married and bar hasem she didn't suffer like us she after one year she had a baby boy and it was a Brit and we called him in the breit schlomo one week after the breit the baby got sick and he died and the rabbi said look look you said that the your question is a matter of life or death P NE but now you tell me that he died the baby he said no no this is not a question this was the story with the baby was one year ago now my daughter has another new baby healthy baby everything is okay now I'm getting to my question the last baby his name was schlomo we love the name schlomo but because the his brother passed away very young so we want we are afraid to give him name schlomo that question is a matter of life or death it's dangerous for the baby to call him schlomo or not to call him schlomo this is a question when the rabbi heard that he wanted to hit him this so what he did he took his uh jacket the rabbi his hat and he told him don't call the baby schlomo give him another name goodbye and he went out he started to run to the station the old man went out he ran after the rabbi and told him Rabbi if Noto what name we will call the baby the rabbi said you ask me what name there are many names Abraham yob Moshe Aaron any name you want and the rabbi run run run to the station he reached the station half a minute after 9: and he saw the train to going and all the rabbis look at him they wanted to kill him what how come how dare you come late to the most important appointment of for all the Jewish people why did you come late he started to tell them look an old man came a question stupid question what because of that why didn't you leave him and you had to come why did you do that now it will be worse until we succeeded to have the appointment now we lost the appointment we will not show up he will get angry he's a very tough man the counselor so the rabbi started to cry and all the rabbis told him yes cry cry cry because it's your fault because of you look what happened okay the rabbi went back home crying crying his wife came to the room told him you want to eat breakfast now AB said no I cannot eat and he was crying crying and he said all the time Hashem I wanted to do good for am Israel I wanted to save the religion the Judaism why did you do that to me Hashem why why why did you send this stupid question to me and he was crying crying hours at that time people didn't have radio but they had newspapers and newspapers every newspaper was in the morning if it was very very special news break call it breaking news they made a special edition in the afternoon that day the rabbi was sitting at his room and he heard the young man going in the street and shouting a special edition special edition the RBI opened the window and told them what happened they said why you didn't hear the news what happened the train that left this city 9:00 in the morning crashed with another one it was big big fire and hundreds of people died wow wow wow wow thought Hashem I'm not asking you why not anymore thank you Hashem thank you you saved my life thank you 8:00 in the evening somebody knocked on the door of the rabbi telegram at that time telegram they used to send telegram from the Prime Minister It Was Written the rabbis didn't show up I'm worried what happened when the rabbi got it he ran to the post station and he sent a telegram to the Prime Minister the rabbis are okay please we need another appointment and we will explain next morning he got a telegram you have an appointment next Tuesday 1:00 in the afternoon okay next Tuesday of course the rabbi came on time this time and they went to meet the Prime Minister when they came he said I heard that you had to be in the train what happened Layman decided to tell him the truth it was my fault an old man came like this like that he told him all the story and uh the Prime Minister said wow it means you're God he loves you he loves you so what do you want synagogues okay schools anything you want I will give you so 15 minutes finished they got everything they didn't have even to ask three years later Rabbi Layman was the best speaker he used to go from place to place to speak he came to one place and an old man came to him with a baby 3 years old he told him Rabbi please this is my grandson please give him bar the rabbi smiled to the child three years old and asked him what is your name he said my name is Abraham yob Moshe the rabbi Rabbi said why why so many names the Grandfather said Rabbi don't you remember you told me that you oh you are the old man kissed him and told him your question was P Nees but not yours mine soem knows what he is doing we have to be loyal to Hashem loyal to Hashem oura now this is the best time to make oura stronger and stronger and when I talk about amuna Thea also is to follow the rabbis the rabbis they got the Torah from last generation and they give the Torah to the Next Generation all the generations of is it was like that if you read the r the introduction of the he says all the generations who gave the Torah from generation to generation and we have to listen to the rabis we have to listen to the rabis and now we have cell phone we have uh computers with internet and the rabbis speak against that I don't think uh we have to explain too much about that everyone has to understand if someone wants to destroy his house to destroy his his Tor his he can use that machines but now in is I see it gives a class people sit cell phone the right message to hear they get message what is this listen to the rabbi Shabbat they don't don't have it we can give class normal but every place in the middle of the suddenly song song starts he forgot the phone um he didn't make it h uh quiet silent so what is this and we have to keep our children to stay away from that even koser even kosher some people have k um computer but children even to play games simple games they see it's late they had to have to go to sleep and then no no I will finish one another game another game so they stay then in the morning they cannot wake up they cannot go to school every family it happened somebody told me Rabbi in my house I have a computer I have a password and the password is very long uh and nobody my son doesn't know he never can go to the to the computer without my permission I see what he's doing and only short time I told him no don't don't after one week he came to me crying he said Rabbi my son I don't know how but he he found the password and um he changed it now I begged him to tell me he doesn't want to tell me you see so it's it's like that our children they are smart they are smart so we have to be careful to listen to the rabis if we want AA to continue oura we we have to have a to the rabis and when the rabbis said stay away from that we have to stay away and we will celebrate p with T I want to bless you all [Music] amen amen amen yeah