CHAZAQ’s Torah Talks #4: Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginzberg - The Value of Time

a very very special edition of the kazakh hour we have with us from arie zev ginsberg shlita the rav of congregation of the kravenzheim tourist center in cedarhurst a very very influential member of claudia's show done so much for quality stuff for the jewish people it's an honor to have rabbi ginsberg with us shalom alaikum rabbi how are you doing hashem thank you it's a pleasure to be here kazakh has become a household word um and being a christian and being mavericks torah in such a short time literally taking over the world and i just it's it's an honor to be here for coming a big honor for us as well as we all are aware most probably and if you're not you have to listen to this the rav unfortunately felt very very ill due to covet and it was literally a miracle i remember hundreds thousands of people all over the world praying and doubting and asking hashem for god to give the rabbi refused complete recovery and today hashem thank you hashem we're here sitting with the rabbi rabbi if you don't mind just tell us a little bit about that life and i guess life and death i guess i'm scared to say that word but that experience that the rabbi went through well the story i think uh has been out there in the months that i've been home since i came back it's it's nothing less than a what we call a nay scully not a not a miracle by itself they're two types of miracles there's hidden miracles and they're opening miracles what we call a nace goalie my sitting here today is a nice gully um like everybody else in the beginning when cove had hit nobody knew what it was nobody expected it no one understood it and uh i became ill and i was taken to the hospital my oxygen level was low breathing was a little bit more difficult and not in a million years that i ever imagined the experience that i would go through but when i got to the hospital in those days when a person's oxygen never reached a certain uh went down to a certain level a certain number they put you on a ventilator on a bedtime machine unfortunately many many many people all over the world died because they went on the vent now they realized that was the wrong thing to do but the time i was put on a vent i was in a induced coma for three months and all the systems my systems of life failed that's blood pressure kidneys lungs and the doctors gave up on me my wife received the call before the holiday of passover saying that i have a few hours left three to five hours left you should come and say goodbye to me and she did wow and then through miracle i came out of it and i was in hospital another few weeks recuperating and then i came home and needed a few months of rehab and therapy and brought them to get back where i am i i'm an open miracle and i think put in perspective it was a doctor that i spoke to after i came home to thank him for his help he was very very uh helpful to my family with information and he's giving them encouragement and i asked him is there any medical explanation for why i got better because doctors always look for what we call a dover tv a natural phenomena to make it to be able to explain why things happen and he told me that there were 13 people in the icu and i was the third worst and i was the only one that came out the other 12 did not come out and that's indicative of beyond comprehension there's no medical explanation indicative of an ace goalie doctor himself said that the the all the doctors that believe in god understood that this is from hashem who's a raw faith god who heals all mankind um those who don't believe in ashram those are the ones who are struggling to try to understand there's no medical explanation how did this rabbi get better hashem i was able to come home and with a perspective and understanding of life and appreciation of life and this this that was my story unbelievable rabbi so so now that you went through this experience uh near death how's your life changed what difference do you see now i think that obviously in many ways when you go through this there's a sense of appreciation of everything but um clearly my entire life i say the prayer every single morning since i'm three years old that every orthodoxy says as soon as we wake up and we say mota we thank the almighty god that you restored me my soul because a person goes to sleep in a sense his soul leaves him and he comes back when he wakes up so we thank god for restoring us to life i've always said those words i understood what they meant but i never really understood it now i understand it i value life the value of life significance of what it is to be in this world to be able to accomplish and to do and to help others it's a whole different understanding a whole different explanation of what life is all about to be able to appreciate and i think that this is something that more than anything else i've understood and i remember the first time it hit me i was home maybe two three days it was early in the morning and i was wasn't able to sleep very much and it was raining outside and i was listening to some noise what is that noise and i heard that there's the raindrops hitting their window pane and i remember feeling so full of life so appreciative gives us rain gives us sustenance i don't think i've ever experienced or really appreciated what it is just to have rain to see rain to be able to see the sun and the moon and the clouds and the grass and the trees growing it's an incredible understanding of life and to make use of every moment of life and what i've done at the time i said to myself that uh i'm a busy rabbi with a lot of things that i'm involved in and many people call me and often i have to say no i can't and i said it a different have a different perspective hashem didn't give me back my life so i should say no so when i get called to come and to be able to share my story to give strength to other people knows is not in my vocabulary anymore it's of course what can i do to show up appreciation to come to try to help other jews and the jews and life is so important the grave every moment you can i want to share a story that i heard from the son of rahmosha feinstein's akon italia here it was from his son my brother should live and be well he was shiva of the yeshiva in staten island he told me that in the last years of hermosia's life he lived in the lower east side he was very weak and he would walk all the years for decades and upon decades he walked from his home a few blocks of yeshiva into davin and he would shabbos he'd walk back and forth mini migrant chakras but when it got more difficult for him they made a minion for in his home every shabbos and then when that got a little bit too much in the last years what they did was that shabbos morning that moshe would have to get up early we'd have to eat as soon as he woke up he would make kiddush dab in himself chakras and make be able to make kiddish so that he could eat and then later aruba would come over with a minion and they would shout they would they would lay in the torah the mushakiri kriya satora and they would dive in musa so he can dab a muslim together with a minion it was a shabbos of pasha zakhar in 1986 and moshe was very very weak and there was a very big celebration an offer of that shabbos in yeshiva and the whole community was coming out to join the symbol and reuven understood that his father was weak and did not want to tax him it would be late time people left to go to to make the minion so decided that it was only going to come and fellaini electro motion diamond by himself music and he came to the house and ramosa says he told emotions you can only come the boys are only coming for kriya torah and moshe what about music he says no music he says the father will die by himself it's too taxing it's too difficult it's late in the day and moshe got very agitated i never daven music by myself without a minion without a cyborg and we've been running around the streets of the lower east side to try to find 10 stragglers and bring them to the house so they can lane and they could dive in muslim together a few hours later we went to visit his father during the time of shalom the third sula and he was talking to his mother moshe's father turned him and said you should know that we have to grab every opportunity we have from its votes life is so short life is so precious life is full to do mitzvot we have to grab every mitzvah that we can grab in other words a music you if i can grab another music i wanted to grab another mussel 24 hours later sunday evening our moshe passed away wow so that mustaf that sheila's mustafa was the last musa trilla that russia divided in his life grabbed an opportunity at the last moments that is our obligation we don't know when hashem is going to call us to the next world the people unfortunately young people getting into sick getting this terrible illness this terrible pandemic and no one knows we have to thank alcohol for whatever we have and to make use of every moment that is an important message rabbi i gotta tell you that was so inspiring and uh like the rabbi is saying every single moment we have to do we have to produce we have to make things happen change the world bring the ghoul eventually mr shim so a follow-up question for the rabbis as follows many people are struggling many people have unfortunately passed away family members have been lost not feeling well uh parnassa their livelihoods are at stake many people lost their jobs uh you know america there's been a lot of uncertainty and and people feel unsafe what uh do you suggest or what is it what inspiration can we give to these individuals that are going through these difficult times through these hardships i want to share something that i heard many years ago about 40 years ago um who shared something from the chavez crying that is not very well known the great kapiskayams and this i think is something that everyone should think about we are living in probably the most difficult times in classroom 75 years since the shoah we have what the torah says in the parasha and vais there was no home there is no home that there is not race does not necessarily mean death it means pain it means pain of not having children of not being able to make a shadow of not having panasonic i'm not having shown by it of illness of so many things that are going on in our families in our homes which is what because i'll tell us the days before mashiach comes the machine is right around the corner there's going to be a tremendous amount of pain in clay soil what we call heavy heavily machia cavallae later a woman before a baby is born woman has tremendous pain and the closer that the baby the baby being born the pain is more intense and as mashiach is being born causal explain it's the same idea we are going through heavenly mashiach the birth pangs of mashiach which hurt most right before meshes coming and i want to share with you first something said two years ago there was a terrible tragedy there was a woman a mother of six children 40 years old was a teacher and she was left to go to work in the morning she was a principal teacher principal of a school in a different marchand and she didn't return home and they called the police and the army did a search for her and they found the car in the bottom of a ditch and unfortunately she passed away and they investigated what was going on was this an accident and they realized that her windshield was broken that some arab through rock broke her windshield and she tried to avoid it and drove off the road and went down a cliff and she lost her life and needless to say her husband and children were broken and they were sitting shiva and this woman was a relative a distant relative of rebels in the kaneyski last stronghold passed away a few years ago and the family sent a message to the to the refrain sent his son with a message to tell the family should know the mashiach is around the corner and the end of tsar and of gizarota will be very soon their children were very taken with this message and when they got up from shiva they told the father they want to hear this from abraham kanyevsky himself so they went into it got into a car and they went to bernie brock and they came into the home of africa and the father said the roughs told us the sun told us the name of the rav that mashiach is around the corner and therefore we should take some comfort that mashiach will be and will didn't say that that was the message that we got what does mean that he didn't say that is known for speaking very few words but every word is measured and every word is important and every word is prophetic and he said is not around the corner is on the block he's here he's about to come into our doors he's about to enter our broken homes our homes that are filled with pain we just have to hang on how do we hang on so i want to share this thing with the people that is life changing that is life-changing i heard this from simcha wasserman was the only surviving child of his famous father a great great goddaughter in europe who was killed by the nazis in the covenant ghetto and he was a star pupil of the sky and entrusted him with not only missions for clay israel but the secrets of clay israel and he shared to his son he told the son of the last thing told him the last time that he saw him said you should know and said a prophetic vision said that there are going to be three wars in the world and the first war is going to be a serious war a war that many many lives are going to be lost but then there's going to be a second war soon after the first one that is going to be so terrible in loss of life so horrific that no one's even going to remember the first war and of course what the referring to when he said this ten years before world war one world of one came and many many millions of people were killed but 20 years later 25 years later came world war ii and 25 million people i think around the world were killed no when we talk about world war i nobody even talks about world war one then concluded a statement and said it's going to be a third world war years after the second one but this one is going to be very different than the first two the first two hashem unleashed the mothers it took everyone in its wake men women and children a million children were killed in the shoah all types of people young and old they did make a difference took them all but the third war is going to come and that's going to usher in mashiach it's going to be like the war that light going out of israel the ghoulish mitzrayim and in the parachute we read we're going to read next week in passage it says there that how many people left how many people left mitsrayam only one for hamush only one fifth the others died in makat hoshide from this week's parish and pasha's bow one-fifth who survived who was the fifth so the taurus says yari diva hashem those who believed who feared the word of hashem who believed in the gula and those who didn't fear the word of hashem or didn't believe in the ghoul are coming they they didn't merit to survive says that's what's going to be in the third final ruler it's not going to be men women children everyone together now the people that are going to survive and are going to be zoho to the gula are those who are yuri divar hashem who fear the words of hashem which means in hashem in the promises of hashem of gerula and heritage shrill and all the promises of the night that is what we have to believe and so i tell people who are suffering who are hurting who have suffered loss is to hazak yourself in belief in the promises of the guru will come because said in his ruach that that is going to be the the very thing that's going to bring clya israel to the gula and protect those who who are to participate in the kulas itself to have that feeling so they're hurting people hurting focus your pain and your energy and what you feel towards program i just quoted in an article lieutenant mayor birnbaum said an incredible statement i used to always say don't tell kadersboroku about all your big problems tell all your problems how big i got this bro who is we have that we build ourselves up in ammunition ourselves there is nothing that we can't accomplish amazing rabbi ginsburg wow what what is it what inspiration mama i i get i'm getting the chills uh rabbi could you leave us with one final message to all of our audience to all of our vast audience the the one final uh inspiring message you know there's a statement a term they used to use in kell in europe and yeshiva musa yeshiva and they referred to a yiddish called a kelvin hispalis what that means is the astonishment of a cow and it's incredible credible mushroom if you know when you're driving in the country roads down field they have to feel they have to feel you don't see your soul all you see is cows grazing on the side of the highway and you drive in quietly and all of a sudden a 18 wheeler comes flying down the road 100 miles an hour and gives a boom and all of a sudden you see the cow stops grazing picks his head up looks for a minute and puts his head down and continues eating that is a kill witness spots that's the way a cow becomes astonished and right you go right back put your head down and go back we are living in times where we see pain and death all around the whole world is changing we have the yesterday where everyone in history first history of america where the president got up to make his inaugural speech in a mask couldn't see his face and all the people on the dais spread out with mask on their face look like a circus and we look at it and it means nothing to us we move on we do a kelp in his spirals we're the same way we look at things we see things but we just doesn't shake us up it doesn't move us that's our responsibility to be able to see things that's going on in the world and to be able to say we have to do it and we all can do it and the problem is is that we wait for ramuna to come only when we were in pain exercise who went to his rival and says rebel i i have no muna i don't know what to do i have no i don't have any mood in hashem said river system you know what come back in a week i'm going to dive in that you should have a moon in hashem and three or four days later the qasid walks into the room and says rabbit don't worry about it i have a moon i'm fine he says what happened all of a sudden he says oh look i woke up yesterday morning with such cramps of stomach aches i thought it was i thought i had an appendix attack i didn't know what it was i thought i'm going to be rushed to the hospital and then it came and all of a sudden they gave me some medicine and all of a sudden things were better i felt better but in that time when i was in pain i called out to academic who helped me so i know that i have a munna the rabbit system so i see allah you are missing stomach pains a bellyache we all have a moon it will all be named with we all have it in us not to be kelvin is fast not to see things see what we're living in and just move on with life no we have to strengthen ourselves strengthen ourselves and hamuna change our lives focus on things that we need to do and the main thing is also to see the progress of hashem and i'm going to conclude with this a marshall this is a muscle that i think is extremely important it was a story of a poor person in a small town it was the biggest he was the biggest honey in town the poorest person in town and he directs him rags and he had nothing and he he looked like a chamazo and people no one gave him the time of day people looked down upon it and it bothered him very much and he said one day i'm gonna go win the lottery and i'm gonna become a wealthy man and everyone's gonna look up to me and every single week he saved together a few pennies and was able to go buy a lottery ticket he went to buy logic and week after week he again didn't win didn't win didn't win but he kept on doing this for years and one time he went in he bought a ticket then he poured in the numbers and he won the lottery and he became a wealthy person and he goes and dresses himself up and he says now everyone's going to respect me and in the town the middle of the center of town there was a a tower so he took a suitcase filled up with dollar bills and he went on to the top of the tower overlooking the town on thursday when everyone was there shopping for shabbat and he opened the sukkah he started throwing down dollar bills and everyone was running grabbing the dollar bills trying to catch them stuff their pockets and nobody looked up to see him and he was so angry so upset nobody looked up no one sees it it's me so he comes back the next day with a suitcase full of twenty dollar bills and he throws down twenty dollar bills and now everybody is not just grabbing it they're pushing each other kicking each other to grab as many dollars at 20 in their pocket as they can and nobody looked up and he got so frustrated and so angry he bent down picked up some pebbles that were on the roof and he threw it down and all of a sudden everybody looked up who's throwing the rocks who's throwing the pebbles this is a such a true marshall to how we are hashem showers us every day with brahmot in brahmot and brahat health we have family we have nakat we have food on the table we have a home to stay a bed to sleep in when many people don't we have families to connect with and friends and we don't look up we don't say thank you but when things don't go well um is difficult when we're not feeling well we have someone in the hospital when there's someone buy us it there's something going on then we look up hashem why why me why so why are you doing this to me we have to be able to look up when he's showering us with dollars and twenty dollars and brought food and if we do that there is no greater way to hazak ourselves that will be zohar to be of hamushim aluminum comes will be the ones who yuri there are hashem as a tower describes who fear the word of hashem to go together with mashiach wow unbelievable inspiration by rabbi aries of ginsburg thank you very very much for those inspiring words with the rabbish have a complete hundred percent and we shall all be wish all merit to see the gula the final redemption and you're slimy or go just like the rob said speeding in our days i mean thank you very much for joining us wow