The Essence of Our Tefilos (PART 1) FOR TEENAGERS | Rabbi Avrohom Walkin | CHAZAQ

[Music] and it's a pleasure to be here and I'm amazed how many boys are here learning on a m chabas so that's very very special I obviously want to thank kazak I want to thank what's your name again M Mel I wasn't sure it's Michael but that's why Michael for arranging all of this this is really beautiful Mel and um I just think it's very beautiful that people come together especially with what's going on in the world and the the True Light that takes away darkness is obviously Tyra that's the MS Tyra is R Tyra is Tyra really really casts a beautiful beautiful light in a dark world or in a seemingly Dark World so we're going to get to two parts today we're going to have five seven minutes of F and then we'll shut the camera and we'll have if you want any questions regarding kff so I've been actually doing kff for close to 33 years but that's key that I've done for outside there's always KY that a person does for himself also so there's many many different types of Ky there's a ky that a person does you know for others and there's internal Kyu and you do need to build in certain ways a internal Foundation of kirv to have the ability to to give it over to others but we'll get to the key part secondly so I want to discuss today the the power of and we know in this week's paraa now many many par always talk about but we know in this week's paraa is probably used exclusively by many many people for the to teach the power of why because we know in this week's para par told us uh the story of of Y and Rifka and that they didn't have kids for 20 years and they had no children and the PK you know Begins the par begins with with told us and then it goes a little bit into the lineage of um of RKA one p of that then it discusses how RKA D to have children and it says that y stayed in one corner and RKA stayed in another corner and they DAV so I want to tell you what the k is the now there will not be any questions and please do not make any noise because I want to concentrate on on the shear and I want everybody to be able to enjoy so Rashi says that one stayed in one corner and another one stated in another corner and I made a little bit of a KES that we see from here that that men and women are not should not be ding together in a way because even though Y and Rifka were married but y went to one corner and Rifka went to another so you see a little bit how Cher should not be together men and women should unless they're obviously at a Chas table and the San hel together but in general we see a concept that there should be a separation between um a husband and a wife so it says that one stand in one corner one stand in another corner so the question is really on regarding our AOS that why why did Abraham sah not have children why did and S and Rifka not have children why did yob and ra not have children why did Hashem cause that the holiest of our people the holiest of us that the holy of us that we have we're not Z to have children right so normally I would think normally I would think that obviously Hashem Rashi says loves the Theos of ouros he loves Theos of sikim and he likes to hear Theos in reality Hashem doesn't need to particularly hear Theos in reality Hashem says he loves Theos ofik because when sikim D to every time they D for something they get closer and closer and closer to so in reality the answer of is not the answer that you want the real answer of is that you get you get close to hasem so therefore every is answered because if every brings you closer then every is answered every is answered so hasem wanted to hear the ofik not for his sake because doesn't need really in reality fos he wants what's best for us and because he wants what's best for us the more we D the closer we get the closer we get now I want to say the more reward we get and that's not the reason why we should be doing something but it's it brings us to what we need to be doing in this world so in reality like I said every is answered and every brings a person closer and the other developed a closeness to hasem more and more because they kept doing and not giving up so the fact that they also didn't give up is a great lesson also because a person should learn from Theos that when you cry out to you should not ever give up and you continue and continue and whether you get what you think you need you're getting answered you're getting answered very important to know that so I want to discuss two concepts two stories OFA that um that I saw I know both of these stories for close to I don't know 25 years but I think it's appr propo to bring down these two stories Story number one goes back to the Holocaust days when when the Holocaust was uh when the concentration camps were liberated by the American Army and there was a very big sadic and a big G by the name of a Blazer silver Blazer silver was from Europe and then he was from Cincinnati and a very very big toic and when the war ended he was one of the many rabbis that went to concentration camps to visit the inmates the survivors to give them he was one of those people that went in con camps to give and he actually put on American army uniforms he put on he put on the American Army uniform Mike Tres went with him many many delegates went to give kiz to I mean to survivors I mean what they've been through is no way to explain it so he's walking in burka now and he's walking with a maybe was B world I don't remember one of the two and he's walking into one of these concentration camps after the war and a lot of inmates came you know with him they went over to him they were following him around they were talking to him they were pouring out their hearts to him and one inmate that saw this group passing decided One inmate decided to go to Rabbi Silva and he tells them Rabbi I want you to know that what I saw in the Holocaust I will because of what I saw I will never be a religious Jew again I don't have anything to do with Judaism I'm cutting myself off from it that's that's what I decided so everyone including with blaz of Sila thought that obviously what he saw the trauma that he saw the trauma that he's been through is the reason why because you know it's not easy it's not POS I'm not here to judge people there were many Jews that went off after the Holocaust many Jews stayed unbelievably close to Hashem which in itself is a remarkable thing but neb many Jews were were too traumatized they couldn't handle what they saw and what they've been through so he said I will never be a religious Jew again I want I don't want to have anything to do with Judaism so rabbi silver said I know what you went through and I know you suffered and I I'm never going to be able to understand you but I want you to know we're here for you so the inmate said Rabbi it's not what you think it's not because of what the Nazis did but it's because of what he saw from one Jew that because of that I don't want to ever have anything to do with Judaism so the rabbis and the inmates that with them obviously wanted to hear more she said says what happened so this inmate began to say a story he said you should know when I came to this concentration camp six months ago that's when he came he said I came with a certain Jew and this Jew was able to sneak into his side of his clothing he was able to sneak a little piece of a sitter one page of a sitter and he said and this sitter many of the inmates in my logger in our logger in our bunk wanted to pray from this sitter they wanted to get they wanted to get close to hasem and they wanted from this sitter a little and he goes on to say that 42 out of the 48 inmates that were in this logger wanted to use the sitter they wanted to use this piece of a sitter but this inmate that had it said he's not giving it to anyone unless they give him the ration of bread of that day the little piece of a little crumbs that they got for the day in order to use that sitter he wants their crumbs so now I'm not here to judge but when you're starving to death and you lose all sanity because of your suffering and what you've been through I understand personally why a guy would do that he's starving to death he's not rational yes he wants his ration of bread but for some reason this inmate did this this inmate said didn't understand that and he felt it was very it was a terrible thing that what this other inmate with the S did so Raz of silver asked that inmate how many Jews gave their ration of bread for that piece of sitter so he said 42 out of 48 gave their bread that day whatever days it was to use that one sitter that one little page of a sitter to dve into Hashem so blaz of silver said to this inmate why look at the one individual why look look at the one individual that asked for their rations of bread look at the 42 inmates that were willing to give up their last pieces of bread through starvation to DAV to hasem don't look at the glass half empty but look at the glass half full be part of a nation of Jewish people be part of Jewish people be part of a religion that 42 inmates that were starving were willing to give up their few crumbs of of bread after everything they've been through to you see what it means to be a yid you see what it means to give up for a and you see for and you see what it means what can do even a little few crumbs of bread when you're starving cannot accomplish to fulfill the Nish of a person that's one story story number two is with kki I'm a very big like everybody is of I I used to go till a few years ago I go every year to get a br I'm a rebi I do kov I'm busy I have a family bar and I usually used to try to make it my duty to go once a year for 3 4 days just to get a I would try to arrange it during so it won't affect you know my teaching obviously but that's something that I tried to make um a yearly visit to kki so is this story about a couple in Ben Brock that their 8-year-old son was having terrible migraines and day after day the headaches they didn't get worse but they kept coming back and finally they decided that's it's not regular and they went to to a bunch of doctors and the doctors that they went to said you need to do major testing cuz it's not normal that he should have this amount of migraines in such a short period of time check them out just check them out see what's going on so they did some testing they they had CAT scans and they did whatever they needed to do the last day or the last test that they were going to do a doctor walks in and calls the parents out of the room it was in a hospital and calls them out of the room and says I want to tell you that your son neb your son has a brain tumor and as an 8-year-old boy it's very traumatic it's traumatic for anyone but this 8-year-old boy is going to need to understand what he's going to be going through to prepare him as much as you can prepare an 8-year-old boy and it's a very dangerous procedure he has it's it's located in a very difficult place and it's going to be a serious surgery and he's going to need chemo he's going to need radiation because it's very huge so they got the whole information they walk back into the room and they start talking to their son 8-year-old boy and they start explaining to him about the nausea about the radiation and how he's going to be sick but hasm is going to help and they they were discussing it with him and they told him is here is going to fall out and now as you know neb when you see someone with cancer it's not just that the hair falls out it's noticeable how their yellowish color and how their skin is like very very like like red you know it's just you could tell that they've been through something and his hair's going to fall out too and he's going to have to you he's going to be sick then they get a one of the doctors walks in and says can we talk with you more because we want to discuss with you what you should be doing for the next few days they walk out and they look through the window and they're looking at their son and they see their son went to the window by the hospital in the room and he's talking so they opened up the door a little bit to hear what he was saying they overhear their son saying these words talking to Hashem and he says Hashem I heard what I have my parents explained to me and they told me about the radiation and the chemo and the treatments and the nause and the hair loss but I ask you for one favor Hashem I'm ready to accept all of an 8-year-old boy I'm ready to accept all of this but I ask you for one favor Hashem please let my payers remain had long payers let my payers remain I'm willing to lose my hair I'm willing to be sick I'm willing to go through terrible suffering but I ask you please let my payos remain this person went to this couple went to kvki with their son 6 months later and they told keski the story and then they turned to their son and said rashash God whatever they called him they said this is our son and look a miracle happened for him he lost all his hair his eyebrows everything yet his P still remained long and thick still remain and kki was so inspired and so inspired that he actually called his Ritson in and then he asked the Ritson could she call some of the his sons that were living nearby or nearby and he asked his the family can they stay for an extra few minutes 10 15 minutes which they did and he had all the children that were nearby he he brought them and some an and he says I want you to see this boy because you could see from this story what the can do that a person normal things should not take place but he should lost his payers but the is so powerful that it stopped pay from falling out and gave this child the BR gave this child the BR said you will not only survive but you will live many many years and as the story goes I don't know how many more years later because the story was many years ago but in the saer the two I saw the story brought down that actually was the sandic by a bris of this son's of this boy's marriage from a child of this boy that he was got married and even had one child and R was theic so you see the so I just want to tell you fil is a very very powerful thing and during this difficult time seemingly difficult time Fila can do tremendous things not just for the people in AR not just for the soldiers but even even for even for yourself it gives you energy it gives you kak it gives you strength and ult times it gives you strength in difficult times and most importantly it gives you what you need to continue battling for what we need to battle so I wish you all a wonderful week a week of bra a week of powerful a week of closeness to Hashem but never give up and start to build your start to build what you need for the power of so with this we will end this part of the program regarding Tila and the power ofila they wish you all a good week