CHAZAQ’s Torah Talks #18: Rabbi Aahron Pessin - Lessons from the leaders

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 [Music] 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