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CHAZAQ’s Torah Talks #18: Rabbi Aahron Pessin - Lessons from the leaders
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welcome welcome welcome to yet another
timely tuesday torah talk tonight we
have with us the big honor of having
aaron paston schlita our peasant is a
world-renowned rav
speaker author of over following 20
books
in hebrew and english it is a big honor
for hazak to have the rub with us here
welcome the honor and this
is mine it's a tremendous honor to be
here
i was able to see what you do and it's
quite amazing
it's inspiring hashem should give you a
call to continue for many many years
to inspire others to get them closer to
ribonucleon to continue to empower
others
to raise the awareness that there is we
bonus
there is a creator and he is in charge
and we must do what he wants us to do
and then we will be rewarded and
showered with an abundance both in this
world
and in the next amen thank you rabbi for
those words of inspiration
uh tonight's topic is uh this uh we're
going to be discussing
learning from our dullim from our great
leaders from our great rabbis
and hashem we know that the rabbi is a
very close student
of arab khame kanyeski however
and maybe the rabbit could explain your
relationship with these great gedolin
with these great rabbis
i think to summarize the relationship
with these
soil i would do so in in two words
i call it seattle ishmael unbelievable
heavenly assistance and
i don't take it for granted not even one
day
i thank hashem for this to be involved
and to know these
great luminaries of our nation because i
keep reminding myself of
what says in massachusetts
we know when we dive in every single day
when we mention the words
there's nothing greater than learning
but it's not true there is one thing
which is greater than learning toyah
and that is what says in bahrain
is greater than learning and the reason
is because it's two for the price of one
you're with him and you learn how to
apply the torah that you learn and he
learns
into actual life you see how he answers
people you see how he conducts himself
and therefore one must try to get close
together in fact
compared his own honor to the talmud
says hashem hashem
and our sages ask it that seems like a
superfluous world
because the word et always comes to
include and to add something else
whom should you fear other than hashem
and shivanam sunni taurus
in other three places in shaas it
always comes to include but he got stuck
with this at rabbi akiva came and said
this
it comes to include turmeric we should
fear it
but hashem himself in his torah says we
should cling to hashem and
ask how is it possible hashem is
compared to fire hashem
hashem is fire how can one cling to fire
cling to tell me and it is counted as if
you
cling to hashem so it's a positive
missile to conduct
ourselves in this manner to try and get
close so
it's the greatest thing one can do you
see how one
really should live you see one should be
close to hashem and it inspires one to
walk in their ways
wow rabbi you just inspire me that is
really really inspiring everyone has to
get close to all the tamider
i mean all the great rabbis of our
generation and rabbi everyone wants to
get a bracha a blessing
from these great gigan these great
rabbis can you please explain the
importance of not only receiving abraham
receiving a blessing from them
but the importance of listening to their
messages as well
i think it goes hand in hand why do we
go to talmud
why do we ask for their blessing
why do we seek their advice
we all have what is called negios
we have our personal involvement and
personal agenda and we cannot
think 100 percent clear so we go to
someone who is
objective but it's much more than that
i'll explain the prime
grandson once came to him and he said i
get a mazel tov
he said why mazato we just got a new
apartment five bedroom apartment
and the prime's first reaction was why
because going to take you so long
what do we think about when we think
about a new five-bedroom apartment
maybe a very expensive mortgage
maybe a great uh view to the ocean but
the last thing
on our mind is oh how long is it going
to take because in
his eyes that's all there is
was told that there's two gigantic
skyscrapers in new york called the trade
the world trade center twin towers no
longer here
and first reaction
was oh that's very interesting so there
could be a case that two babies are born
one is going to have to have the base
the bit mila
eight days later and one nine days later
and they asked him what do you mean
and he explained if the first baby is
born
they're both at the same time but one of
them is born on the bottom floor
and one is born on the top floor it's
two minutes before sunset it's two
minutes before shikiya
so up there it's still not shikiya it's
still not sunset there's plenty of time
now 10
to 15 minutes to go down at the bottom
it's already a long time ago
so it depends on the day when we're
going to circumcise the candidate
who would think like that a person who
has instead of blood
running in his veins he has torah
running in his veins
don't have blood in their veins they
think
torah they breathe torah
they go to sleep with her they wake up
after their whole essence
is story so when we ask a goddamn
his advice we ask him what to do in a
certain situation you're not getting an
answer from him you're getting an answer
from the torah itself
and if he is the representative of
hashem in this world you're getting an
answer
from your banana shalom himself so how
can you not listen to the advice yes we
want the blessing the blessing is great
but when you ask the advice you're
asking
the torah itself there is another say
if you want to get advice take it from
the torah here is a way to do it
you ask an adam goddard who all he is
is a walking door he is
if you take advice from the elders
referring to
you will not stumble
rabbi i must say very very inspiring
uh rabbi is there a common message or
theme that the kid
which you're close to have relayed over
to you is there one
central message possibly i'll tell you a
funny story my
my abi washer wise once shared with me
when he became a love of a shul
in ramat in yerushalayim he went to
rebellion
and he said to him you know i have so
many different things different tasks
and i don't know how to organize my day
here's yeshiva and he's a sought-after
speaker and goes all over the world is
the poison of
now shot at medical hospital and he's
just all over the place
he's also a lot of a shoe and as a lot
of the shoes his congregants
need him for certain chalice how do i
divide my day
what do i do he asked the billionaires
said a very simple answer
learn learn and learn everything else
will fall into place
i think that's the common theme whether
they say it
or whether you just see how they live
learn learn and learn deliver into torah
every free moment that you have when you
do that everything else falls into place
you don't have to worry about it
all the good oil is israel do is
try to understand the shiboku's words
that's only done in one way
toiling in toyah but enjoying the
process it's all about enjoying
the learning because every day in the
morning when we say
we say make it sweet in our mouths
if it's sweet we want to continue and
it's so sweet
and when you feel the sweetness you want
to do it more and more and you want to
give it to others
so i think the secret is learn learn
and learn and everybody has their share
in the torah that they enjoy
we learn that everybody has his part his
share in the torah and one can only
learn from
what his heart desires we still have to
cover a lot of material
and we have to know but then when we
have extra time that we want to
dedicate to a specific part in torah
that is has to go where your heart is
and when you do that you
enjoy the process and all you want to do
is do more
wow rabbi i must tell you that the one
that is so many different things
that's a very inspiring message
unbelievable uh rabbi as as as
we all know the the the the times are
turbulent
it's very very uncertain are there any
special messages from
these there from these great rabbis
which are crucial
for our turbulent times which might not
be as well known
i think we all heard the messages coming
from ghidorah israel but the common
theme
is what we say in davening
there are terrible decrees that we all
saw
terrible tragedies befell claudius we
all felt we felt the pain
and we cried but how do we change it and
how do we get out of this
shiva when we repent when we do some
introspection and decide we really
want to become better we want to improve
we want to get closer to the bonus
and many times when we go to daven at
the end of the evening we don't even
remember what we said
did i daven today checkmark been there
done that
that's not davening hazal used the
language tv
if you dive in without true intent and
concentration it's as if
you didn't dive in today so we must try
to concentrate
a little more is it possible to
concentrate on the entire governing
i don't know i find it difficult myself
and in fact i'm talking to myself you're
happening to
to be listening to a private
conversation not very nice
but i think that we should try to get a
little more kavanagh
the way this is done and easier said
than done is by learning
what the word of governing really mean
and therefore one should spend some time
before davening take make a daily
routine to invest five ten fifteen
minutes whatever it is to learn
what is it that we're about to say when
you understand what you say it's a
little easier to connect with the words
of dhabani
and when we do davon with kavanagh who
loves to hear a sweet sweet voice in
prayer that's what it's all about his
children
calling them and say hashem we need you
we understand that we can't do
without you in fact there's an amazing
behind yourself is a remarkable thing
what is the essence of man
a man adam in hebrew is spelled
and we know that in hebrew every letter
has a revealed part a
and a concealed part alif has the aleph
as we see that's the reveal part but it
also has a lament in fay
aleph so the concealed part is the
letters
in face let's put them aside the next
letter is dalid and dollar is spelled
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so we have la medintaf is the concealed
part let's put them aside
adam our next letter is
spelled so the concealed part of mem is
another mem like it we put it aside
so what's inside the kishkes what's
inside the toch the premiums the inside
the eternal the
essence of man is the letters that form
the word
that is the essence of to connect to
hashem on the highest level
through the words of prayer and the last
part is
tsudaka sadaka is so great
because sadaka can change the decree can
chinese
can add life and sadaka in essence says
i am like hashem just like he gives to
us on a regular basis we don't even not
even aware of it
we should do the same and in fact the
highest level of is to give
when the recipient is not aware of where
the money came from
and the giver doesn't know who it went
to and then we
really act like hashem and we walk in
his ways
and when he walk we walk in his ways he
just wants to share
us with more so i think the secret is
chuva
twila and sadaka and they immerse hashem
ma'avirin
they will remove all bad decrees from us
wow inspiring amazing rabbi pessin
as we all know this program is called
tuesday's timely torah talks
rabbi can you please leave us with some
closing inspiring marks for our
listeners
which are especially timely
if we spoke about davening there's a
very inspiring balatori
which i think is an unknown balaturi
the beginning of him comments on the
word
what is mean
i'd like to go into israel but asks
why now why didn't moshe rabino decide
i'm going to dive in and ask for hashem
specifically now
why not in the middle of
finishing the previous parasha parashat
varim
in the last pursuit of says to the
nation
you're going out to fight you're going
to see the enemies don't fear them
said moshe i gave his
i gave this all i told him don't fear
this is an opportune time to devin i
think this is what we the message that
we have to carry
if we are ourselves if we are
others then there's a chance hashem will
listen to our prayers that's a very
propitious time
use that time when you give hezek to
others
to dive into hashem then hashem as if is
i don't want to say forced
to fulfill your words but then it's a
very very special time
upstairs i think clinging and supporting
an organization like what you have here
kazakh is
is the best way to do that exactly this
is what you do for a living
you give to so many and claudius or what
you do is unbelievable
so apparently you have tremendous goal
upstairs
and if we will support your organization
anyone who gets involved i think
clings to you has a part in the great
great service that you do for our nation
to continue for many many years to come
let's take the messages to our hearts
let's take it upon ourselves
to because of him not only inspire
ourselves inspire others let's dive into
mark of ana
let's take the lessons of the delays of
these big rabbis
to heart and visit him we should be we
should merit to see the coming of the
mother complete redemption he should be
speeding our days amen
in hazak work once again rabbi passing
amazing very good amen
you