Chofetz Chaim’s Prophecy & Yaakov’s Tefilla Saving the Yishuv in Eretz Yisroel During the Holocaust

Okay, good evening everyone. Continuing the shim on safe this year are dedicated by the Israeli family for her whole family are generously sponsor tonight is dedicated byarian Michelle Jacobson's aunt Miss Merrill Sek's seventh yard site is this coming Monday [snorts] tonight is dedicated Spalter whose yard site is Friday and as a for new granddaughter. Today's shar is dedicated by Torah Sweets newsletter. If you're looking for weekly inspiration, stories, practical or short quotes on the para that you could share on the Shabas table, Torah is a weekly magazine that is a perfect companion for anyone looking to grow. I happen to know the author personally. He's a friend of mine, Ramen Berlin. >> If you want to sign up, you could go to [email protected]. To o r ah ss w e tsgmail.com. Okay. Tonight, tonight is a good thing you came. Seriously, the these are they're like an asteroid, you know. It's not every week. It's a comet. It's like a comet, you know. I'm telling you. In uh after World War I, everyone thought that Germany was uh finished with and now peace will reign the world. They thought Germany was in check and the it was clear from the way his demeanor from his disposition that he foresaw that there was going to be another calamity. He said that all the so-called peace deals in the aftermath of World War I were just a hakdama to a much greater war which will exceed in cruelty whatever we saw in World War I. Would say that what he foresaw would make World War I look like child's play. This is recorded in the official biography of in Nissan in 1930. The gave a to his he was talking about the mashiach and the sighed deeply said a storm is coming an awesome destruction. The lion of the was world war will be like a joke relative to what's yet to come. says, "You don't know. How would you know? There's no way to tell." It's not like you could see it. You could see it. No, you can't see it. But says, "I see it. I see it. When will it be in about 10 years?" That's what the said in the aftermath of World War I. And then the says, "This will be in order to fulfill what the Nvi says. You could take a look on your sheet. The Nvi in number nine it's the ninth maramak it's per test okay how do you like that test test where the uh says I am going to command I will shake up among all the nations cloud Israel as it's shaken up in a seieve. And when said the word, he shook. When he said the word in a he shook because said that when something is shaken in a seie, not only the pebbles or the grain that falls out is shaken up, but even what remains behind is also tossed and shaken. The clearly felt, saw, envisioned a calamity, a terrible destruction in in a short while. This is 1930. It's now 1931 and it was the first day of Sukus 1931 and Raban said this is tough sad days. So still 1931 tread it was after all of a sudden after the gives a clap on the beimma nobody knew well is giving a clap on the beimma you know we know it's everybody knows say y you don't clap on the beimma and the you don't clap after you know >> and said in a very worried voice he said I'm not exaggerating here I don't say gmo noise. The time is coming. We're all going to be in sana. When I say sakana, I don't mean financial danger. What I mean is our lives are in peril. Our wives and our children. That's what said in the first day of sukus tough sad. Now was the rasha in baranovich. But even as Rashiva he would go to Raden to be with the for and the nar. And usually when Raban would come back from being in Raden, he would come back with great joy with great sim having the experience to be yum with the and one particular year Raban came back to Baranovich after a number of weeks in the vicinity of the and in contra distinction to the way he usually came back in his joyous move the the the Rabbas was shaken to the core. He came back and he told us I want you to know that the could see from one end of the world to the other end of the world. The what I heard from my is is blood curling is is shocking is astonishing. If I be allowed to tell you you would see that the from his little home in Raden could literally see from one end of the world to the other end of the world. Now it's 1932. >> It's before the elections. >> Does he mean for the Jews or for the world? >> And who are the two candidates? The two candidates were Paul von Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler. That was the election. You know what could a what could a local election mean already? You know what what could what difference does it make a local election? And it was between Paul van Hindenburg and Hitler. And the was sitting there and this is written by the son Ariel Pupka. And Arie tells his son his friend Nasan Nassar do me a favor go into the Abba go to my father and ask him to dain for the Jews of Germany that nothing bad should happen through the elections. So he this nas and he tells you you know there's elections between Paul van Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler and the says that listen whatever Hitler wants to do should fall back on his head and then shortly after the began to cry and it was heard he was saying so to speak under his breath do whatever you want do whatever you want just Don't deseesecrate your name. Now there was a story theim would travel to outlying uh areas. Now I like to tell over the story even though people today find it controversial. That's why I like to tell it over. So the it was once on and the said it's come to his attention that in one of the in the outlying areas the the the mikvah is a little bit questionable. So maybe one of the bakim wants to spend yum kipper in the you'll dy yum kipper with them. You'll ingratiate yourself to the and then you'll be able to explain to them you know you need to fix the mikvah you need to bring the mikvah up to par fine that was the message after soak comes over and he starts handling you know that's the new word when you want to talk to someone and learning you handle with them and learning I don't know you know what is like like some you're like dealing with like stolen goods but that's the expression you're handling with them and learning and he's talking to And after 10 minutes said, "But did you hear what I said about the I know you want to talk and learning, but do you want to help this community?" And the boy said, "Well, you know, Rebi, I'm going to dive in Yum Kipper with them. You know, they don't dive in like they d in yeshiva. It's not the atmosphere I want to be in." And the turned around and he went to your tus. And in other words, the was not happy that the person was interested in their own learning not to give up of their to help. Anyway, I think that's something that needs to be emphasized. In any event, the would often travel to outlying communities to be in Tyra and he was staying by the house of Ravianski and people came to the gad to get a bra. People hadim, people had sorus. So someone came to the an old lady, a woman, she was married for many years, she didn't have children. She she came crying to the for a child would not give her a braha. He wouldn't give her braha. And the woman was crying and the woman but he didn't explain himself. And a few minutes later the said to the you know people come they want to have children. Why do they want to have children in a couple of years? Do you know what's going to happen here on this continent? If you don't have children, you've been better off not having children than the worry you're going to have what to do with your children when this thing breaks out. That's what the said. So had clear awareness, not that something was brewing, that some terrible disaster and catastrophe was going to happen. Now, so my father called me this week. He said, "Did you hear? Did you see what says on?" Now, I'll tell you the truth. I had seen this many times. But when I heard it again, as I was hearing it, I got tonight. Okay. The continue. There's some there's an entry for what happened in 1933. So now Adolf Hitler is in power. He's the chancellor of Germany. He now now before he became the chancellor of Germany, he made it clear what his intentions were. He didn't hide it. It's not like it wasn't a surprise. Nobody thought he would actually do it, but we knew he wanted to do it. He made it clear. He said it. So, one of the Russa in Poland asked, "What's going to happen to German and Polish jewelry? If if Hitler is able to accomplish what he wants to accomplish, he's going to wipe out the Jewish people. And said, no one was ever successful in wiping out the Jewish people. >> As we know, >> as we know, okay, enjoy your supper, but we don't need to know what it is. Okay. Um said that nobody has ever been successful in wiping out the Jewish people. Didn't say in this week's para if comes and he wipes out one the second will escape says maybe in history the the nations of the world have been successful in eradicating communities or segments of Israel but to eradicate all of it's a So then the was asked okay what do you mean the what's the there millions of Jews in Germany in Hungary and Poland what's the to which said the you look in the novah and mount Zion and you shim there'll be a remnant and will remain holy. The Jews of Israel will will survive. Okay, the said this 10 years before the holocaust. Now just to point out the impossibility of that happening because there were 6 million Jews in in Europe in Poland, in Hungary, in Germany. the chances of po the Poland falling and Hungary falling and the Hitler killing all the Jews of Germany and also Russia that was an impossibility and he blitzc craig through the whole continent and yet somehow you know that Hitler was on the brink of the the banks of Palestine. He was about to come into Artisal. Raml was there. The Egyptians welcomed him in open arms. It is a they already bombed Tel a Viv. There were bombs. The Germans bombed Tel Aviv. Not only that, the Arabs were playing on the radio. Jews, the Nazis are coming. We're going to bathe in your blood. We're going to violate your wives. We're going to murder your children. They were selling mine comp in the street. The Arabs were waving the Nazi flag out of the windows. Hitler already devised a plot where he was going to take vans, take the exhaust exhaust pipe and stick it back into the van and gas the Yeshu in you know how much time? 11 days. That's all it would take. It took him a 5 years to destroy the Jews of Europe. The plan was at the most in 11 days Palestine would fall. Every last Jew would be gassed. You know people don't know about this. This is this is open history. And there was a miracle that happened at alamagne. I have the book over here. Miracle at almagne. You got to get the book. Rabbi Paretszki. It's such a good book. He also is the biographer of the ka. That's how important. He there was a miracle at Elamine. Many different things happened. One of the things that happened were that the ammunition of the the Germans overheated. One of the miracles were they were in the desert. They needed to drink. They tapped into the British water pipeline. Just then the Brits were pumping through salt water and they became sick from the salt water and they had to go. Raml had a retreat. Many miracles happened at Alamne. But the envisioned this, prophecied this, said it 10 years before. So in other words, when the was asked, will Hitler be successful in eradicating all the Jews of the world? He replied with the P in this week's para. And when he was asked, okay, where will that be that that survives responded with the remnant will be in you? Now number one is like this just the you only have half the information. You know there'll be a remnant. You just don't know where it will be. So you need the second to understand that the remnant will be in it happens to be this week's for is the which gives you an amazing insight into how appropriate the ha of a is to this week's para it's the para the thera it gives you the little missing information that para doesn't give you you see the hashg that the the ha gives you the little bit of a missing information okay That's one amazing uh idea. This RV who heard the say this walked out shaken to the core about the prediction of destruction of European jewelry and confident that the would survive. Okay. But let's let's investigate further the level of awareness of the impending uh holocaust and you'll see what I'm getting at because I didn't even begin to put this back into the para. Okay? Because all of this you probably know already. You probably know the basic idea from the but we're just painting the picture so that we we have an understanding of paras I think in a very amazing way. There's a five volume set actually a six volume set on the called mayor is he brings over there this is number 10 on the sheets of shelad would say over a story there was a bak moa Idelberg who was a Lithuanian student who was learning he would go to learn invron he left Poland to he left or poland and you know the borders were somewhat blurred then he went to learn invron he comes back to visit his parents based. It's time to go back to Israel. Dad says, "You can't go. You're going to go back to it's dangerous there." They heard about the massacre. You need to stay here in in Europe. So the boy didn't know what to do. He wanted to go back to the yeshiva. He didn't want to disappoint his father. So they agreed to go to the They presented the question to and the says, "What's the question? Of course, you have to go to Israel. Whoever could save themselves needs to save themselves. So the father and the son neither have any idea what he's talking about. What do you mean save ourselves from what? You know this this was in the early 30s. What are we saving ourselves from? There was just a massacre in what do you mean save yourselves? So they didn't understand what the was was getting at. There was a rabbitic conference at that time. So the father and son decided to attend the rabbitic conference. The was the main speaker at the rabbitic conference. Theim revealed so to speak this inside information that he knows he sees he feels the impending destruction of European jewelry. And among the attendees at this conference was and broke out in terrible crying. They understood what the meant so asked and what's going to be with Israel and the said pla they'll survive in Islam raiser visited the before the passed away says there's a great fire that's going to break out in the world it's going to make world war I look like child's play so Isra was afraid. So what's going to be with Cl and the responded's grandson told the punovich that in the last weeks or days of's life when he was in his 90s and he was on his deathbed was sleeping most of the time and one time he woke up and the rashiva of Radin was sitting next to him Rav Mosha Landinski and says to know what's what's the latest and says well you know everyone's frightened about Hitler and what his plans are and the like in his last words were pla and that's why the panovich if you go to yeshiva's panovich today on the wall in the yeshiva panovich is aim It says and one of the greatest miracles in world history is the German fallout l Alamne and it happens to be in this book it gives you a very uh detailed account of how that miracle took place through the tremendous it's called miracle at lamagne it's a wonderful book It's has maris it's everything is it's in English but everything is uh annotated everything is um all the sources are given basically got together in an unparalleled way like never before even the secular kibutim of members of mai they cried out like never before and they literally tore down the heavens theim the pushim him. All segments of Jews who are living in the Yeshu got together to Davin and their one of the great miracles of history. I as this was going to print I added one more story but you know what I'm going to save it till the end of the share. Maybe maybe uh it's a good closer. Okay. This is the history of the prophetic understanding and foreign knowledge of the events of uh the Holocaust and the salvation of the Jewish people in Arat is the question is what does it have to do with this week's para let's examine some of the of au if you look at number 11 Jakenu as approaching he says save me please from the hands of my brother from the hands of I'm very afraid of him. So the balaturator points out that the words is rash h that Jakov is not just saying hashem save me from as he's saying save me from hmon and in the past we've spoken about that in length we actually if you look in the cafer on purim there's a whole chapter on this balatur but we're going to we're bringing out a new point tonight okay so it's interesting here yakov it's the year you a little bit after the year 2000 the world history and in his mind he's ding in a thousand years from now after goes down to for 410 years and they're in the midbar 40 years and they're 440 years in and the B mikd stands for 410 they're going to go to they're going to go to paras and at the end of the 70 years well Jacob's really looking out in the future you know that's here it is he it's a 2,2100 and he's davening for a thousand years later. Interesting. Now, here's where part of the share came from. So, I'm learning the par with Rashi. I can't believe it. How did I miss that word? I love finding connections between the McGill and Yakovino. How did I miss the word all these years? And the Balatum says one other time it says verb. You know, I'll tell you why I missed it. Cuz really it should say, not that's my excuse. You know, it's not exactly the same. The Bum says now the Burm says it's a remedy that in the future if you want to overcome your enemy you need to give but I couldn't help but think here Jacobu he's trying to be saved from who asov and he's invoking the name Rev the word rev why is he so fixated on Purim so obviously Yakovu even though he's dealing primarily with the Asov in front of him but he is also davening for the the descendant of Asov and the arch villain who comes from as who's that Hammon you know that's clear the says as Hammon shows a comparison between that and the salvation of Puram and here's the clincher look at the medish the medish says At that moment, Jacob lifted up his eyes and he saw sees he sees Asov coming far away from far away. Rabbi Yseph in his safer of on Purim he asks on this medish why does the medish say that Isa was coming from far away it should say he saw him when he got close why does he say Jacob saw him when he was coming from far away the answer is what the medicine is getting at is he is worried about the far off into the future says this answers the obvious you know, Yakovu came to the well, there's like this 50,000 lb uh stone on the well and Yakavino flicks it off cuz I'll say like a bottle cap. So then, right, remember when Yakavino meets Raal, you have like these 30 uh burly shepherds, they're sitting there like, you know, lazy good for nothings. They can't move the they can't move the rock. And Yakob comes and he single-handedly flicks it off like a bottle cap. Okay, so why didn't he just go like that to Asov? What's he afraid of as says he's not afraid of as could destroy as he he already beat Asov's angel he could kill as he's worried about as may as off in the future who's the of the future hmon says you'll look in number 17 that's why the med says Save not my children here. Save my descendants off in the future from the grandchildren of Asov. He's talking about the Jews in Shushan in the times of Purim. That's the me. So I can't help but think, you know, if the hadua and he saw the holocaust as great as the was, I'm going to tell you someone who was greater than the and had more than au. So if theim knew that Hitler was coming, then Jacob knew knew Hitler was coming. I mean he knew Hmon was coming. He saw a thousand years into the future. I would humbly suggest that when the Medish says that Jacob saw as of he wasn't just referring to the as of Shabbik in the times of Purim he was also talk he was also afraid and scared of the as that came many generations later in 1939 in 1933 that he's also as of Harasha he's also from the Germans yakam he's also from amalik I guarantee you if if the knew what was going to happen in 1939, then of course Yakov knew. Here's the gift. You think that when the said that Hitler can't destroy the Jewish people said already said Hitler can never destroy the Jewish people. After all said if knew what Jacob meant, you know who else knew what Jacob meant? Yakov. So it's not just you know the common way to say over the story is the said you know we see from the Tory that if the nations of the world attack one segment the other segment will survive and the applied that to what was going to happen in 1939. Well the applied that means that's what Jacob meant. That means that's what Jacob was dabbing for. That means when Jacob said yeah the says that's but the says that was Hitler also especially according to those who say that there was a commonality between Hammon and Hitler in Sham whether there's any sole transmigration between those two individuals that's beyond the scope of this year but I'm just pointing out one simple idea for your consideration and that is if the had no of the impending holocaust then who was an act was a a Jacob was a Nvi the did not live in the time of Nva he was certainly aesh didn't have the the era of ended but was one of the and if the words says refers to the Jews surviving in the times of the holocaust. Then when Jacob Ainu is returning to Arat Israel in the year 2100 2200, you know, it's interesting if you think about it. Every time the Jewish people have declared that they're coming back to Israel, Asov rears his head to destroy us. Did you know that the first time the Jewish people returned to Israel? Jacobu in this week's para says, "Okay, family love, it's been nice knowing you. We're going back to Israel." As says, "No way." He comes with 400 men to eradicate the Jewish people. Then we come out of Mitim. We say, "We're going into Israel." Amik says, "You're going to Israel. We're going to destroy you." And then in our century after the Holocaust, Jews said, "We're going in the um not after the Holocaust in the 30s, mass immigration to Israel." Amalik said, "No, no, no. We're going to destroy you." That's the pattern of history. Then when the Jews say, "We're going back to Israel." Amalik says, "Well, that's the end of the day. Then Mashiah will come. Can't we can't have that happen?" And there is there's no question over here. I just I just want to frame I I would call it framing the obvious but I don't think I don't think it was so obvious that when you learn paras this is not just Yakob Ainu returning with 11 sons and one daughter and he's being attacked by Harasha when Jacob's returning by the way the other time we declared we're going back to Israel is at the end of the 70 years the Jews said Ezra said let's go we're going back and say you're not going anywhere. every single time in history mitzim ham 20th century that's the pattern of history and you could be sure that if this is the paradigm of return and when yakov is dinging he's if the balatur says it's talking about hmon that's because the balaturim came after hmon but he he he came before Hitler, but we come after Hitler. So now we see there's another layer of meaning. I forgot to mention this just came out, brand new, hot off the press. The reason why I'm I'm mentioning it now is because says in every generation, you have to see how what is the Torah revealing to you in our time that maybe wasn't accessible in other times. I think this is uh framing the obvious but it gets better. Okay. So the way we're understanding Jacobu is returning to Israel. He sees all he sees as the matter says the may not just he sees Hitler and he dins this applied says I mean it's stirring by the way it's stirring this week's this week's is really infusing the whole crea with tremendous meaning that the salvation will be in Israel Now, everybody knows this got cut off a little bit. So, if you want a better sheet, you could you could get it on the email. The Ramban says in the opening of this week's para that the lesson of is that Hashem saved Yakov, his he redeemed him. And it also shows, listen carefully, that Yakov Au, despite his great righteousness, Yakavinu didn't say, "I'm a sadic, so I'll just wait for Hashem to kick in and save me." No, Jacob Ainu did every possible. You know what means means you have to do every possible and trust in Hashem. But what if you say, "I trust in Hashem, so I'm going to do less." That's just that's just uneduc uneducated. Look at the words of the Ramban. By the way, the Ramban was an Orthodox rabbi. You know that the Raman says exert every effort of and says Ramb it's a that whenever we have to deal with as we need to just follow the ways of Jacob Aino. So the Rabban says the purpose of this para is that whenever you're dealing with as you learn vis and do what Jacobu did. So that's what happened during the holocaust. We followed the paradigm of Jacobu. At least the Jews in Israel survived. The Ramban later in the para says that whenever the Amaram had any dealing with the Romans, they would learn paras to remind them that never request outside assistance from the nations of the world. It always brings disaster. You know that it's like today you know whenever whenever they need to do something in their soul they always have to worry but you know who's giving us money and you know who who we dependent on and well that's a big problem because they can never do what's in their best interest cuz you always you always have to be independent to make the the right decision for yourself. The Ramban says one time they forgot to read they asked for Roman assistance and it was a disaster. Okay, now listen listen to this. The way we're setting it up that Yakovu is facing as he's not really so worried about the as standing in front of him. He's worried more about the as off in the distant future as says and we're saying what the would say is he's worried about Hitler. He's dominating Hashem save the Jews in Israel in the times of the Holocaust. How do we know that that's what Yakob was referring to? Maybe he was just talking about Hammon. You ready for this? Says Nag, you know, when Asov is coming to meet Jacob Ainu. First Jacob put the the you know billah and za and their children and then he put Leia and their children and then says the we know that encounter with is the to a specific era in Jewish history you know what that era is the says is a portend tow means the period of time right before the coming of Mashiach and in the time before the coming of Msiah first the rav will be the representatives of the Jewish people that's bah and za they represent the rav you know who will be the Jewish leaders not necessarily the most loyal or observant Jews the rav followed by leav followed by regular Jews and the they're you know limping in the back you know nobody nobody's paying attention to what they really what their opinion is the learns portends so here it's black and white this week's para primarily is telling you what's going to happen in our in our times before Msiah comes. So then if that's the case, if the is revealing to us that is the then when Jacob says who's he talking about? Yeah. Also, but Hmon wasn't. So who's the as that Jacob's for? Said hanish Jacob is dvening for the salvation of the Jewish people between 1939 1945 that Hitler was not successful in entering the land of Israel. That's parishl. It's not a rez. That's the para. How could it be that we never knew this? I don't know why Hashem in 2025 brought this back. Brought brought this to us. That's all I could say. That's it's for our time. It's amazing. We open up this scroll. It was written 3,300 years ago. And we didn't know what it meant until now. Probably everybody else knew this already. I don't know, maybe I'm the last one to I must be the last one to get the memo. But the memo is clear. The memo is that this scroll that we keep in the that Hashem gave Moshen and Hari 3,300 years ago, now we know exactly what it means. So now I'm going to end off with some food for thought because people always want to know, you know, where should I be? What should I go? You know, where [snorts] is it safer? Where is it safer? Is it safer in Brooklyn? Is it safer in New York? Is it safer in Florida? Is it safer South Florida? Is it safer in Israel? So there's a postcript to the who he would always say, "No, Hitler will not destroy European jewelry. And then the would add from the so there's one more story said over by Rabb that he heard from one of Raden that the added one little detail would say the 12 million people that were killed in world world war I will be child's play compared to world war II in another 10 years it will be much worse they asked so what's the would say is and explained there were two villages they both shared a fire station with the fire truck. The fire station was in one city and but they both cities used the fire station. A fire broke out in the other city. So they said, "Okay, let's take the fire truck and drive to the city where the fire is." And then they said, "No, that doesn't make sense cuz now there's a fire in this city. So which city will have the fire put out first? The city that has a fire station in it. That's the mush. What the nimshall is the said that when the war broke out in Europe and in Israel first Hashem will save his house before he saves anywhere else. In other words, Arat is will always be safest. But obviously, you know, gullis America will end different than any gulus in history. You know, in other gulim, you're lucky if you escape with your shirt on your back. But I'm sure when America ends, they're going to knock on our door. They're going to say, "We love you so much. Here, we're going to pay you double for your houses, and only after we pay you top dollar for your houses and your cars, then you could leave." Right? I'm sure, you know, why should this gullus end any different? I'm sure it will end different than all the other 20 gulus that we've been in. I'm sure they're going to pay us a double for our our houses here in New York. So, you know, there's nothing to worry about. I'm sure, you know, because they just love us so much. But this is uh what the said about the events of 1939, 1945. And if you don't just listen to the stories, but you try to then apply it to how to read the para, it comes out that the para is mamisha reverberates until this very day. Thank you very much. Have a great night.