Days of Mashiach: React and Respond

Shalom today is before I begin I would like to excuse myself I have a cold this week and if I croak like a frog I apologize you have to bear with me in my voice as well in my humble appear uh experience that I've had in life I've discovered that you can tell what type of person they are by the response that they give especially if it's spontaneous how a person reacts to a certain situation A Certain scenario that goes in their lives I remember as a child I think I was about 9 or 10 and the school was making a collection for children unfortunately with special needs and I was given a pushka at at Seda box and we were all told to go and collect money from our home environment where we were and behind our home there were some very large houses and I was adventurous and I took the stalker box and went around the corner and knocked on some doors I remember there's one door there was no a very large house and I knocked on the door and the man came and opened the door and I said to him you know in our school making a collection for children with special needs and he stared at me almost with anger and he said to me as follows he wasn't Jewish he said as follows children with special needs are very expensive kill them off and slam the door I I was shocked I was I came home to my mother I was crying my eyes out how can you kill off a child because they're expensive child with special needs I was I I I made up a my decision the man must have been a rer to to answer in such a way you realize from the way a person responds what type of person they are I remember remember when I first came to Lear in the Mira after we were married and I was learning there for a year and then after a year my father-in-law and became very sick and we went to live in America for a year and I came back after the year and at that time was not the but he was organizing kusas for people and I went over to him I just come back from America after being away for a year and I turned around and said to him as follows I don't know if the world remembers me but and that's as far as I got I said said those words I don't know the love remembers me and he cut me off in the building and he turned around and said yonan I will never ever forget you and I was blown over from such a response such a beautiful response I will never ever forget you and I saw what type of person he was I remember when my oldest daughter became a calla and I invited him to come to the AIS and to the engagement celebration and I turned around and said to him we have a m off and his reaction was such a beautiful reaction he said they should build a with great happiness and great Holiness such a beautiful way action you see the way a person responds spontaneously what type of person they are I remember one different time as well it was several months after the wife of the one of the his wife had died I think she died in tamuz and it came toas and I decided to go around and wish him good y I went to his house and his granddaughter opened the door and told me that the Zeta was sitting in the sil at the back of the house on the porch and I walked over there and I stood at the entrance of the Suka and I saw we ar sitting there and he looked quite forlorn he was lonesome certainly his wife had just died and I could see on his face that there was a certain a foror look on his face he turned around and he saw me and I can't tell you how fast it was it was quicker than a blink of an eye his face immediately changed he was beaming with a smile and so happy to see me I saw an incredible change from the second from sitting for on but he realized someone was there and someone had come to wish him ma for talmid and his reaction was phenomenal I was so taken by it instantly he changed over I never saw anybody change their mood so quickly like a face change instantly to greet somebody with a great smile and a beaming smile if you knew her by your fer such a beautiful episode in my life I remember for several years when I lived in I used to go in DAV in the p and there was aad there who was a tal to the whose name was and I D there with him for quite a few years in the Nate's min I remember once I was going away and going on a trip to America to give shim in America and I went over to ask him for a before I left there and I went over to him and I said I'm going to America to give shim and once he heard the word that I was giving shim he jumped up in the air something you know like in so when he jumped up the and lifted his hands up and he said in be and jumped up with an enormous scream and shouted be mat such like the SOA I don't think he never saw a soccer match in his life I'm sure but his reaction was so spontaneous so happy so happy and so so involved with me straight away he literally jumped up and threw his arms up in the air and said it's such a beautiful reaction from the spontaneity you realize what type of person they are I suppose also everybody has what's called shid stories and I have my own collection as well I remember I was in America and I was in the and was suggested for me for a girl who came from the south from somewhere I think in Texas somewhere and I went out on the shid with her and I remember I asked her like would you like to go for a walk she answered me with a Southern drw it's a possibility it's a possibility so I didn't know what that meant I said would you like to maybe go for a meal or somewhere it's a possibility and everything which I asked her I said to her would you like to go and live in Israel it's a possibility and everything she answered me I was wish she was and I was so fed up at the end I was so frustrated I almost turned around I didn't but I almost turned around to her and said to his son would you be interested in taking a long walk off a short pier I I didn't say it I didn't say it but I felt like saying it everything was just a possibility no proper answer no solid answer and I remember I felt to myself that's not a response which you give when you're going out on a sh maybe if I can sh when he actually came to my L and I turned around and I proposed to my wife and I I turned around to and I said uh so will you marry me I remember and she didn't answer yes she does to her man and said to me as follows let me be the first to wish you mleo I think such a beautiful answer such a beautiful response I suppose Americans would call that a cute response but from an initial response from the way a person responds you can see what type of person they are especially if it's spontaneous you pick up the message and you pick up the mood and you pick up the Vibes of what type of person they are I remember certainly from bos and how they reacted in such a way and from that RHA I remember when I was a child you realize what type of person they arei I'd like to make a suggestion at this particular time in our lives in the history of Kal Isel we are all being called upon to react and respond in a certain way there are what's called as we mentioned previously multiple casualties which are going on in this war from Gaza since October the 7th and their situations are horrific almost those hostages who were still being kept there and every day we think about them and concerned about them we are we are bystanders in this situation but certainly we are being called upon to respond here to the sick people to the people who have been maimed who've been injured certainly we must respond to this situation all the people who are the the Almas in theim especially after the tragedy which happened this week NE unfortunately those soldiers who were killed in the house and certainly the who standing on guard and the people who' have been sent away from their homes we as bystanders must react and we must respond in a certain way we can't really do more than this maybe some people go down and help these soldiers or or speak and and arrange for different situations that they're in but certainly we are being asked to react and respond certainly in prayer to DB for these people if we are going to come out and be Merit worthy then we can't give a response which call in in which is called adish you can't possibly be indifferent you must be Iron you must be alert and aware to respond to the needs of people especially the the the standing there and the situation of the aim and the MERS in is in this situation if we don't pray for them then what will they call us certainly our response must be spontaneous we must react I think in a certain way to the difficulties and the stress which people are going through in these times I think that's the challenge which we have how do we react and how do we respond I think maybe in the following way we can make a certain case study it's always strange when you come to the profile of no if you remember the end of the says that was quite a remarkable profile which no was given he was found favor in the eyes of the almighty and then you start and you say he was a righteous man you find wonderful tributes given to n as a as a remarkable person but then surprisingly if you look a little in the ha tah in the ha T the noi yesah the no in Isaiah the Novi mentions that the Mable the flood was called May meaning it was the responsibility of no that the flood occurred and that's an incredible situation how can you say a person who found favor in the eyes of the almighty was a sadic to him and yet we're blaming him if we can say such a thing for the M why was it called may as if he was responsible and kazal learn out that despite being a very great man and he was a t in his time he didn't pray for his generation he didn't pray for all the people in his time and that was labeled against him if we can say such a thing I must add that I personally find it extremely difficult making this sort of so-call criticism if we can say such a thing who am I to make such a point I also find it very difficult when it comes to talking about sh the difficulties of sha he made a mistake or the students OFA we say they never acted with who are we to make any comment about these people in these times and certainly it's a very uncomfortable situation but nevertheless the to records it that way and therefore if it's called may we must try and understand exactly what it's meant even though it's a very difficult situation to make this sort of criticism just recently I remember seeing in the fifth volume of igus mosa of the answers the Chas of The Following episode is recorded there it's in the preface in the introduction to the answer to the Chas in the fifth volume of the are the Chas of IG mosha but when he was a in Luan in Russia he was asked by a certain person who was one of the members of his community who were sick and he went to pay a c of to the man and he found the man lying in bed and he was suffering from an awful awful illness his tongue was being swollen and he was choking from his tongue and when he realized that the W had come to visit him he asked everybody in the wom to leave and he spoke to her Moos in the following way he said I'd like to explain to you what happened to me this shabas Pas Bay I was discussing with my family about the destruction and the the fall of of St and how lot and his two daughters were saved and the man explained to him that when he came to the two daughters he spoke mockingly about the two daughters of L how can it possibly be that they as you know they lived with their father and the two children were named after the father Moab and Ammon meaning Moab from the father and Ammon from his Nation meaning that he the man had said that I I spoke disparagingly about the two daughters of L and I mocked them and then I added also a final Point how can it possibly be that the Messiah will come from Moab from this one of these Daughters of blo how can it possibly be and I was certainly disparaging at the table I then had a dream that night and two old women came to me who were their heads and their faces were covered and they turned around to me and said we are the daughters of lot and we have come to tell you that what you said about us was Wong we want to explain when we realized and we thought that the whole word had been destroyed and there was only ourselves and our father we realized that we have to carry on the generations and therefore we lived with our father for that reason and as far as naming the children after our father naming even though we mentioned that the children would came from the Father the reason why we did that is we didn't want to start we came from the family of abraam we didn't want to start a new religion and saying that these are the children of God we didn't want to do that we wanted to say quite clearly that when a child is born there must be a father we didn't want to create this sort of situation of saying a new religion which has come about that they are the children of God and for that reason we were promised that the Messiah would come from Moab from our family they told me that because you spoke in a disparaging way in a mocking way that he told mosha for that I'm being paid off and I must die for that and that's the reason why my tongue is being swollen similarly as a punishment from the araglin when their tongues swelled up and they choked after they spoke evil about well they spoke bad about well and that is the reason the man then turned over into the corner and breathed his last breath and the Moa said it's quite likely that the story is very true this is what happened to him and he said when mosha had said it said in the truth there mosha this is probably what happened and therefore you see how careful one has to be talking about sem like Noah or scha or the daughters of L one has to be very careful and not say disparaging things you never know what happened behind the scenes and who knows what can occur afterwards as well but nevertheless let's turn back to the point that we're making Noah was criticized because he didn't dapen for his generation in the following way maybe he could have davened for them and maybe they would have done Chua maybe they would have repented maybe Noah what was the point of keeping them alive maybe Noah thought if they'll just be R AB also had the same problem when it came to the people of St and he bargained with the almighty and said as follows that maybe there 50 maybe they're 45 he bargain he didn't let it go like that also you might say the same thing by by m by the golden Cal Al you might say as well but M prayed for them even though they were even though they shouldn't have made an idol they shouldn't have made the golden C but nevertheless mha for and we know from that we have the beautiful promise of the 13 Midas and eventually the almighty turned man and said I forgive my people I forgive everything that they've done you see they did bargain if you look listen carefully to a previous share I think which we gave on Pas it was called may I brought down as a reference the writings of the and he mentioned as follows the complaint which is made against n is as follows the gamar explains Baba that when your situation is desperate and you see that there seems to be no end it's something like a dead end there's something called to break down the door PR to break down the door and ask for and that maybe is the Tiner in the complaint which is made against n he didn't try to break down the door Rashi says there on the comment to beg for to press with every possible way you can and maybe that's the point which is made against Noah he didn't press he didn't try and break down the door he didn't try in some way to ask for appeasement and and clemency for the people in his generation he didn't try that if we can level any criticism which is made in the tah maybe it's that says R maybe that's the point and that's really I suppose the answer behind the bargaining of ainu for the people of San maybe they're 50 maybe they 40 and he went down he bargained as best he can and we mentioned also in that she B camil said as follows that also maybe that's the answer you remember when turned around and said to that she if she doesn't have any children I feel as if I would die if I didn't have any children and surprisingly yov answered her in the following way am I instead of the almighty and the M the commentators pick up on that answer how could yob have said such a harmful comment to and EXP as follows what he was really saying as follows the fault is not with me if anything it's The Fault With You not as a fault but then you must break down the door you must try everything possible you must beg for ra you must beg for mercy beg for clemency from the almighty that he will give you a child and we learn that is on the nature of Sor of of all the except for Le they beg for a child go as well there was a situation of pushing and trying and shoving as best as you can maybe to beg for mercy in the situation like that said that is maybe the point which was the problem with no meaning the reaction and response should be I see the situation I see maybe they are in the time of but there's something called pushing and trying as best as you can and even though the door seems closed and it seems like a dead end nevertheless to try as much as you can and I'm suggesting maybe that's the situation that we are in we probably we are bystanders we can't really help so much I don't think for the hostages what can we possibly to help the or maybe we can certainly go and visit the aim or look after the sick but surely our reaction and our response must be to this situation to This calamity and this termoil which is happening at least to DAV for them to turn man in prayer and be devoted in our prayers for the situation for the people who are in such difficulty and stress at the the time that's what we're being called upon we are asked to be give a spontaneous response and it must be spontaneous otherwise who knows what they will call us in sham what sight of what sight of title will we have what will we look like in sh if we don't ask for under these circumstances in this particular sh I'd like to take the issue further since we're now over 100 days into the war and we see the situation and the the the stress and the difficulties of the hostages and the soldiers and everything that's happened I'd like to take a little bit further and bring down to you some of the comments which are made byz in the he mentioned the following points at the time of the Y Kiper war and there are several points which R made and it was called if you look at the back of the of the of at the end you see certain chapters which are called in the situation that we are in and mentions certain points which I think are very relevant to our times that we're going through one of the points is he mentions as follows you remember the the convention which power had called let us try and deal wisely with them and this was the original final solution of pharaoh he tried tried to find a scheme in which he could finish off and and uh destroy all of the Jewish nation in every possible way and he called a conference of three great advisers bam yro and I he called these three people these are the great wise men who were called together as you know bam even pushed the idea the medas mentions I saw just week that bam actually promoted the whole idea of killing off all the children and for that he was killed by the sword eio kept yeah didn't say anything at all maybe in the in the difference maybe it comes over a c indifference AIT he didn't really he was quiet and says if it would have Disturbed e he would have screamed out if something hurts you you scream you scream out and why didn't he scream out if it's so painful for you do something about it and E didn't e kept quiet job kept quiet and because of that he was punished mid mid he was punished with difficulties which he had in his life as you know the difficulties and the trials and the tribulations which I went through and that was a punishment which I went through I wonder I was thinking about I himself this indifference isn't this really one of the greatest secular evils which we see from all the nations of the world at the moment the enormous indifference they don't seem to care when there are hundreds of victims of Terror of what goes on from Gaza on October the 7th and yet they keep quiet how can the United Nations keep quiet the indifference is is awful it's an evil a secular evil I wonder RAB say if we don't react if we don't react to the situation that we're going through if we don't react in prayer I wonder if we would be called maybe tum of to be indifferent not to react not to respond not to pray pray for all these people the hostages then maybe we Al maybe this is an epidemic which is coming over in the world the indifference which people have they don't care they don't say anything they don't scream out if the nations of the world especially United Nations will be so concerned surely they would scream out how can this possibly be how can it remain in such a way what has happened to our society what has happened to civilization isn't that really a a problem which we have here the indifference and therefore that's the label which is given against EI as you know y ran away y heard it and he reacted I suppose in such a screaming out he couldn't bear it he ran to midan and stayed in midan and avoided any any consultation any answer any cooperation with Pharaoh whatsoever he kept out completely and for that is was rewarded as you know his daughter married mosha Reno in the beautiful para and they say his grandchildren also became part of the hin in by the time of the B was rewarded enormously I must mention a beautiful uh description which is given I remember hearing from how do we supposed to consider how are we supposed to look at him what is the view what is the profile which we have of Y and he explained in the following way it's a beautiful description CL saw the Jewish Nation began when they came down to Egypt with Yakov with his 70 Souls they came down to live in Egypt that Pas sh Pas sh discusses when yob came down and the the slavery and the persecution began there that's Pas sh and we see also that the beginning also the the the Gula as well mha goes down to the burning bush and we see that's the beginning the beginning of the nation of Jewish Nation began from Pas sh the next Pasha Pas goes into the plagues and discusses seven of the plagues which occurred pasha's boy as we know is the W of the plagues and we also come to the first Mitzvah the first commandment which was given to the Jewish nation which is the K PES that Pas Bo is the crossing of the bed sea and also the pas of the this is the sequel of events which goes on from Pas is the uh the plagues Bo is the end of the plagues and and then is the crossing of the Red Sea and then explain in a beautiful way he explained as follows we then come to probably the most important para in the whole of the T aosa pasas mat andto when clis stood at C and it's called Pas John pasas Peter pasas Paul why why Pas John because after all yro was an ameritus Pope he was like the chief authority of all religion that is the reason why Pharaoh invited him to come to the final solution convention that's why he was called there the reason was because he was an authority in religion and therefore how can you possibly call the most important and significant par in the toah where CL given the toah at SI how can you call it para's John and Y was really like a Pope para's Benedict how can you do that and my brother explained as follows receiving the tah really has no implication whatsoever where you come from it's nothing to do with who you are or where you came from the most important aspect of kabas receiving is what are you going to do with the information what is your response how do you react and how do you respond to giving of the toah and even though you're the Meritor Pope even though you might be might be the Pope John whoever you are if you react a certain way to the that's called Kabal it's what you do with it where you going what are you doing with the information which you receive and that is the nature of cabal what is your reaction and how do you respond and that's really the greatness of yo I was thinking maybe how do we really understand what happened with Y in this Final Solution in January 1942 Hitler Yak called a Convention of 15 of his most important bureaucrats of his officers to a mansion which was called the one SE Mansion outside Berlin he called them all together and the purpose of the convention was to discuss the problem of the Jewish the Jewish Problem to discuss how we're going to exterminate 11 million souls and that was the purpose of the convention which was brought together and all the generals are brought together and akman in his trial in 1961 said as follows there was no doubt in anybody's mind both Gobles and hyr and all the different OB we realized exactly what Hitler meant and we went ahead with the idea quite clearly and was given the title of being the shipping agent and everybody was sitting there at the comments realized exactly what was going on there what would have happened imagine the following way that one of the generals who was sitting there at the wanty convention decided he he didn't like what Hitler said he left the convention and ran away from Berlin and decided to convert and believe it or not his daughter married the mashiah and that's what happened and eventually his children became one of the great the greatest di that's really the story of Y you know of the original convention the Final Solution that's really what it's all about and most amazing situation y would be compared I suppose to one of the Hitler's generals he went off and he converted and his daughter married the Messiah and that was mosenu when he came down to MIM and his children became you imagine he became the father-in-law of the Messiah can you imagine such a scene that was the greatness of is that was the greatness of the response of Y that's what he did and that's the lesson which we must y reacted and he responded and the certain way and for that he was rewarded with the most beautiful tribute of becoming the father-in-law of the Messiah and also his children sat in the Sanhedrin let's come back to the point of ofz and mentions the following points which I think are very significant says as follows that we must look carefully at when we see the three point the three people y bam and all respond in a different way bam advocated the idea y uh ran away and I and I did kept quiet kept quiet he didn't respond at all and the indifference of it what do we learn from this takes a little bit further if something really pains you and you scream out that is the reaction and that is the response which is necessary and that's what we really learn from mentions as follows there is a in is a very faithful God and there is no false dealings there's nothing false which comes out of the laws and the judgments and the definitions of what will happen upon the judgments of the almighty and mentions as F there's a major difference between a judgment and a decision which is made by a man-made court and from a Heavenly Court in the following way and the point of aim is very very acute if a court of law if a Bas certainly decides on a certain person that they're guilty of a certain crime then the punishment is given even though there are other people maybe who might suffer meaning a family member or a wife or people who are involved with a person who's guilty that is no consideration but the the Court decides a certain point and that is the nature of a court of law a court of law decides it even though other people might be hurt and affected but says we will learn on chapter 19 into healing which we'll see on shab's morning they're all perfect meaning when it comes to a DIN and a a court order from from sham from the [Applause] heaven the ripple effect is perfect there is no fault there is no D danger there is no harm done with a ripple effect everybody who would suffer is an order from sh in the following way says but what would be if someone who is involved with a person who is guilty screams out and C CRI out and pleads for the person who is being convicted and screams out and ask that R might even change the the the law and change the punishment which was given for the convicted person because the of the screaming out if one screams out and and asks for mercy and begs for and he can't take it then that person might even be able to change the law in sh if you scream out on somebody else's behalf and you're worried and it affects you so much you can even affect the law in sh because there's nothing there's no harm comes out the ripple effect is perfect and a person is quite capable of removing the removing the Judgment which is made against somebody because he screams out because he can't take it because a and and the Judgment of sham is perfect because of that that's an incredible thought there and that I think is the nature of what happened BYU isn't that really what happened BYU realized what was going on even though they were in but he couldn't take it he stood there and bargain with the almighty maybe there were 50 maybe 40 and he went down he couldn't take it he screamed out he tried to relieve them from the it didn't work in the end as we know Aon went back to his home and it was and the Judgment was given against but he tried to I mean he was he was capable in his crying out he could have changed the door he could have that's exactly what happened with mosha he did plead for the CL by the golden C because he pleaded the outcome was that they were forgiven even though they were guilty of making the golden C you see the power of screaming out that's the great power which is behind it all R mentions also in that M which is brought down inas The Following episode which he had seen during The Six Day War he said that the Mira at that time was all hiding in a shelter and the Jordanian Army was sending over missiles and batteries and it was extremely dangerous and people were sitting in the in the in the in the shelter and crying out and saying Shar and daing and saying V and they didn't knew what their end was going to beim said he was sitting there in the shelter and he heard from the other side where the women were sitting he heard a woman screaming out and crying out in the following way she was an auna her husband had bifa left her and she was desperate and she needed to make money to look after her family and she became a washer woman took people's dirty clothing and washed it for and it was a tremendous disgrace for her she turned around said it said as follows she turned around and scream out and said Almighty I am prepared to forgive my husband for all that he has done if that is the case I'm asking you sh that you should also forgive and save us I'm prepared to give up she screamed out and said I cannot take this pain which is going through and said that is a reason why we were saved in the shelter you might think it was because of your prayers and your viom and your confessions said no it wasn't because of that because that woman who turned M she couldn't take it she in the words of the toe it's called she couldn't take she screamed out and because she screamed out she couldn't take it for that we were all saved because the woman was prepared to say I am prepared to give up I prepared to be my soul then you Al the mighty should do the same thing as well and that was the Tiner which said which was a beautiful comment because of that we were saved he said that was the great reason for why we we were spayed and we had such Mercy at the time of the shelling on the sixth day war meaning if you scream out if it bothers you so much you do something about it you make a change in it isn't that really the profile which we learn about by mosenu no he was inside the palace as a young man and there was no reason for him to left the palace he was in a very comfortable position he had great Authority and great prominence inside the court of pharaoh and he came out and walked the streets of Cairo and he stood there and crying his eyes out and he helped people old women get taking off their bundle and he helped the young people he did everything he possibly could and he cried his eyes out he couldn't take the pain of all that was going on for the people in he cried his eyes at he couldn't take it and that was the reason say theim why mosha was chosen as the leader of cladis he couldn't take he screamed out he couldn't do it he couldn't manage it was so painful for him and because of that he became the savior of kis he became the Messiah the Mish brings out on that incident that the almighty said because youu were prepared to leave the palace and all the comfort and go out and care for my flock I will leave shamim and talk to you P I will talk to you mouth to mouth because you s because you couldn't care because you couldn't you couldn't stand it you were so bothered by it and you screamed out and you cried because of it if you had such caring then I will talk to you face to fa his reaction is response was perfect and that was the nature of the way M and that was why he was he couldn't take it as if you're so painful you scream out that is exactly the problem with iob he didn't scream out y did a such scream out he went off and ran off to midan he couldn't take the pain of what was going on that is the first point which I think we can take it qualifies a little bit more from what Kamil had said Kamil had said the point of you press you break the door down but his re who was the re of said as follow it's a little bit more than that what happens is if you scream out and you say you can't take it you can even turn around the Judgment in sham you can change around the din if your pain is so great then you can alter the course of the Judgment in sh because because the ripple effect has to be perfect that's the first incident and I think that's a message which we can take out from the situation of the hostages and the moners and the people who are injured and people are out of their homes we can take that message RAB said I think apply to ourselves and that is a certain momentum I hope and inspiration for our own prayers which we have to respond to the second incident which I'd like to bring to your attention which R mentions is if you remember the incident when the sons took yakob aino to his funeral and buried him in the cave of MPA they arrived at the cave of MPA ready to bury yakob there and at the time asov yacob's brother turned up and claimed that that last burial plot it was called Mo kiras AR kiras ARA there were four pairs who were buried there and a and y y and RKA and finally yov and Le it was supposed to be but asov turned up and said no that last baral plot is Leia was buried there already but that last bual plot belongs to me and not to yov and he made a tremendous commotion about it and said I'm not allowing you to bury yakob there and they turned around and said no you already gave up your rights you promised that and yakob and uh asab turn where is the statement how do you know that and they turn around and said there is a document in Egypt which says that you were prepare to sell all your rights and allow yakob to take over the preference rather than yourself asab said but I was designated to marry Le she is really my wife who I was supposed to be and therefore the rights belong to me and the brothers to man and said and they haggled with Asa eventually they sent naftali to run off to Egypt and come back with a document to prove that actually the burial plot belonged to yakob and not to asov when all this commotion was going on kushim ban who was hard of hearing didn't hear everything that was going on and he saw the haggling and the commotion which was going on and he saw Yakov the Grands the Zeda lying there in in waiting to be buried and there was a whole commotion going and they didn't bury yakob straight away he saw what was going on he lifted up a club and he smashed the skull of asov and killed him immediately and IM asov was killed straight away and yakob was buried there the question which Masters follows surely in all this commotion why weren't the sons as concerned as kushim Ben Dan kushim Ben Dan the son of Dan didn't hear what was going on he saw the event and immediately reacted to it he realized what was going on he he didn't hear everything that was going on but he saw the disgrace to yakob wasn't being buried and immediately he killed asov instantly why didn't the sons react in a certain way because they were distracted they were involved in the the bug in the deal and being in the document back from Egypt to show that Yakov had really had rights over asov he reacted immediately and mentions as fell as a beautiful point he says as follows sometimes a person getss so involved with the issues you don't see the wood for the trees kushim benan saw instantly what was needed he reacted and he responded he realized ASA was calling problems and immediately he killed asov and asov died the same day and therefore he was buried the same time as as his head rolled off and he was bu I think his head rolled off into as well he s the brothers didn't realize that the brothers were involved in discussions and commotion and trying to negotiate with with with asov kushim didn't saw the point and reacted instantly said that's very often the situation maybe I thinking to myself that isn't that our situation as well we get caught up with the sess and the difficulties and the the the the the necessity and the The Strain and the stress which is going on do we actually react properly and respond mely do we turn around and Dav with great intention with great sincerity and great um devotion is that the way our prayers are motivated or not do we come too much involved with the issues do we react and respond really in the correct way are we really as bystanders acting and and davening in the way that we should be acting I was thinking maybe that's a relationship to our situation but mentioned reacted and responded in a certain way maybe that's we should as well not get too much involved with all these there are tremendous difficulties and are issues which are involve but surely our main reaction response should be that of prayer straight away that's the first second point which I want to the first is the which mentioned the secondly not to be distracted with other things our direct response I'm suggesting a direct response is the action of prayer that we should be focused completely and devoted in our prayers even though after 100 days days it's hard maybe to repeat over and over again the same chapters of toim go but we have to put our heart into it we have to react and respond in a certain way and suggesting really isn't that really the nature of a great person how you react and respond to a certain difficulty in a situation which I'm saying this is the situation which we're in at the moment the second point which I like to mention which I think is a reaction of response is something which personally happened to me I was visiting Chicago and I was staying in the house of someone called a Dr gria there and I was sitting having break in in the kitchen and his wife Mrs G listened to me benching and I was saying the words at the end of benching now I was a young child and I became old and I never saw aad being forsaken of and she turned around to me this Mrs gria and said to me as follows she herself was actually a very distinguished distinguished she herself is a Feinstein she should be well and long strong I haven't heard from her for a long time but she was actually the daughter of if you remember the incident which happened in Boston of a an owner of a textile Factory his Factory burned down and this Mr finstein really he took all the funds which he took from the insurance and there were hundreds of employees and he stood in front of him and said I'm using all the money to pay you off he trem created a tremendous kesem she's the daughter of this Mr Feinstein who gave all his insurance money to pay off his employees so they wouldn't be heartbroken and and penniless from in the time they wouldn't have any work they beautiful action so Mrs Greer answered me as follow she said as follows what does it mean I never saw aad who was forsaken you do see aad for what does he mean I never saw and she answered me as follows it means maybe as follows I never saw a sadic who was Forsaken and I never did anything I did something about it it's not that I was indifferent I reacted I might not have been able to help him but I reacted I did something to try and help it doesn't mean that I I did see but I never saw something and took no notice I never was indifferent when I saw a person who was a great person who was suffering I didn't take no I wasn't indiffer I wasn't adish I did something about it whatever I could and she quoted me the beautiful verse from the Gillis Esther and really this is really what Esther was saying here Esther said as follows after hon was swinging on the tree and M was given the ring and uh everything was handed over to to Esther and Mori and they were in charge but Esther was still very concerned because the original letters which H had sent out was still existing and therefore she had to find some way to eradicate the original decrees of extermination of all the Jews and she was concerned really even though hon is killed and M has control and power in the authority of the palace nevertheless the decrees are still there and she begged for ra and this is what the M says in P it's a beautiful sentence here she said as follows if I have found favor in the eyes of the king she said as follows and we must take away the letters written how can I possibly stand here and see the evil which will happen to my nation how can I possibly stand here and see the destruction of my birthplace of my family and she said to me as follows Esther said how can I possibly see when the I never saw and did nothing about it and that's what how can I possi stand here and see I can't see this happening I can't see this and the the I saw in the writings of the great of asked as follows why did she say the word how can I possibly see twice she says the word how can I possibly look and see the evil which is happening to my nation and the evil which is happening to my family which how can I how can I stand here and what it happenin explains in the following a beautiful explanation Esther had two points my life for my request and my people for my my petition my own life for my request and and my people for bakosi in other words when she said bosha for my nation that refers to meaning the evil is happening to my that was her bakha how can I watch the evil that is happening to my nation and the second is the destruction of my mity is is the evil the destruction of my family the refers to the the evil would happen to my nation and explained as follows Esther was saying as follows she knew quite well there was no possibility that that hman would succeed Ed in destroying all of the nation it won't work somehow or other Jewish people will be able to escape they'll go to some Corner some different Nation some part of the world which is not 127 provinces of the king of they'll find some way to be they won't be destroyed completely but she meant as follows but even if a large section of Cl will be good that's a my is for my nation how can I possibly any destruction any part of my nation any victimization any Terror which occurs to my nation all how can I possibly that's a the is my I can't allow any any distruction any harm happening to my nation instruction of that's that's my request and my own family might even be wiped out completely I don't know I can't stand here and watch it I can't leave it be I can't stand still and do nothing I must react to it I must react and I respond and that said m gria is as follows the meaning I think behind when when we say I did something about it I can't just stand here and be indifferent I can't be adish I must react I must be positive I must be alert and aware and I think that's really our situation as bystanders here of what's going on here in in Israel we must react and we must respond we can't possibly stand here and watch what's going on with the hostages with the aloners with the people who are sent from their homes with theim standing on theard we can't just stand here and see what's going on we must do something about it and the most positive response I think is the response of prayer certainly we must be div oted and cry out in our prayers maybe like had said to to break down the door or further like said to the point of also to scream out I can't let it happen I can't stand here and let it happen I must react in a certain way that is the nature of what we called upon to do we must react and respond in a certain way I learn in the co of the M Yesa I've been living there fortunately for many years I remember one night my Kusa called me up I've been Al with him for many years and he said to me yonis I'll be a little late tomorrow I have a Bru which I have to go to in the other part of Y and I should be there usually he's there at 9:30 I should be there about 10 10:15 I might be a little late I said fine okay Kan whenever you come that'll be fine I went to is and I waited and he turned up at 12:30 hours late I turned by and said Kan what happened why you come you so late and he said to me as follows this is what happened I went to the bris and it was in a place called which is an a home an old age um rehabilitation center on there I went along and there were hundreds of people at the bus I never been to a bus where there's so many people there I asked why on Earth there were so many people there and he said to me as follows he said like this I arrived at The Bu I saw so many people I asked why so many people and they told me this is a one of mishak of mine a cousin of mine a distant cousin they told me that this lady who was 52 had waited 32 years to have a child child and she now gave birth to twins a boy and a girl and this was the bris of the boy after 32 years she gave birth and it was a tremendous Sim tremendous celebration and afterwards they made a a suda for there for it was almost like a wedding celebration there and everybody sat down to the meal I felt just out of respect to the enormous Miracle which had happened waiting 32 years for a child and they had twins I felt I had to stay there I sat down at the meal and we sat down enjoyed the meal in the middle of the meal someone came to the Head table and took hold of the microphone and said as follows he said Bai I would like to explain to you who I am and why I'm here he said as follows I live in zor and many years ago this couple who just given birth to twins live also lived in zor and I was very close with the father with the husband here and I saw the tremendous stress which they were going through and I I was upset for my friend I were very close and I decided that I would one night after my when the Shool had emptied out and there was no one in the Bas I decided I would go over to my friend and I said to him as follows listen I realize the predicament that you and your wife are in I'd like to make a suggestion to you I'd like to suggest to you this is what he said in front of everybody in the hall he said I said to my friend as follows maybe you and your wife should drop the idea that you'll ever have a child maybe you should drop the idea maybe Hashem wants you maybe to adopt a child maybe it'll take away the anxiety and the stress on you and he turned man and said to I I don't accept that suggestion thank you for saying it but I don't accept that I I feel that we must keep on trying and pray and hopefully that maybe the almighty will gr us with a child and I don't accept your suggestion I said okay fine I tried I came home and it took a few minutes it took about quarter of an hour when I was talking to him I arrived home and my wife was still up in the kitchen she said to me why you so late and I explained her what happened I told her what I had said and she didn't like it at all she let me have it she screamed at me she turned around and said how can you possibly say such a thing to somebody who are you to turn around she screamed and said to say such a thing to somebody you have no right to say such a to think that you won't have a child how do you know who and I turned around to an answer I said of course I can say that I said it out of tremendous concern cuz I I have great love and affection for him I know what he's going through I know his anxiety my wife says you're wrong you can't and we shouted each other I got so upset with my wife I banged my hand on the table and said as follows what are you talking about I said if they ever have a child I will sell my Factory in Z and go off to be well you see what's happened now now they have twins and I realized once I heard that they had a child I realized that maybe that was a native maybe it was a vow which I have to keep I decided that I would come into the bris and yesterday I arrived and I went down to benra and asked kki I asked him tell me re am I Duty bound am I obligated to keep my vow because I made this vow and says unequivocally you're certainly liable you must now sell your factory and come and be an and he made a whole J about it that this vow was waiting in sham for years until they had a child and then now I have to commit myself I'm just coming here today to tell you Shalom I'll be back soon I have to sell my factory I'll be coming back and everybody was amazed such an incredible story this is what he had said and therefore he was selling up his business and coming back all because of these child these children who were born that's the incident what happened I remember I think it was around this time of the year around Shabbat two weeks later a friend of mine called me up from ban in yam and he told me his followers he said to me listen to what happened yonan on chabas the ISA had dedicated a new dining room and they made a Kish there and also at the time there was also a KES for a family who had a little girl this woman actually had waited 32 years or she was 52 she also waited to have a little girl and they were making a kdes for the girl for the little baby who was born and there was a big celebration in Yeshiva everyone was sitting at the table having the kdes and then a man came to the Head table and said as follows he said I'd like to explain to you a little bit what happened behind this Sim he said as follows this is a beautiful Sim after 32 years to have a girl little girl what a wonderful Sim I don't know if you're aware he said to everybody at the Kish my friend told me I don't if you're aware but in the other part of Y Ina another couple two weeks ago also gave birth after 32 years and she was 52 also and these two women gave birth within two weeks of each other what you might not know he explained is as follows the both of these couples lived in an apartment building in Z across the floor they both in the floor together and they lived there for many years and they both decided that they would come to live in Israel after so many years they were both childless unfortunately and they decided to come and live in Israel one went to aame and went into ban less than a year ago about 6 months ago the two women met at a Sim and one woman went over to the other woman said as follows you know we have suffered many years we didn't have children I didn't want you to hear from somebody else but I wanted to tell you one woman said to the other I'm expecting a child I wanted you to know and I wanted to tell you myself the other lady turn and said yes I'm also expecting a child she was astonished said really you are yes and they hugged each other and kissed and they were so overwhelmed with happiness for each other the one woman then turned around to The Other Woman and said as follows you know I must tell you when you came into the building and it was you just got married and you were living there in the apartment building I saw that you didn't have a child I'm not a Yer but I saw you didn't have a child so I decided to myself that I would dabing for you do you know I've been dabing for you for over nearly 32 years say The Other Woman me too they both did not were not aware of what they were both had been dabing for each other 32 years an incredible incident and they both gave birth within one gave birth to twins and M and the other one had a little girl and bite the gun within two weeks of each other they did not they had no idea that they were ding for each other no one knew and they would gave birth within two weeks it's incredible incident one of the who sitting there who was actually the son-in-law of where bodans saw bodansky turn around and said as follows I'm expected to talk at this kidish but I tell you for the first time my life I'm speechless I don't know what to say but I can only tell you the following that my father-in-law said as follows when you D for something you don't stop you keep on going you must react and keep on going you don't stop you must carry on going as long as you can and it was incredible kidish everyone was so Overjoyed after 32 years these two families had eventually have had a child I think it was about 3 or 4 weeks later I was in Los Angeles at the co the Lakewood CO in Los Angeles and was there at the time I decided I go over to him I knew him from Gates that I learned in Gat I went over to and I told him the incident he said yes he'd heard about the incident he knew exactly what had happened the two husbands had originally learned in Gates said and he said he heard what had happened it was incredible in I told him that they were both dabing for each other for 30 and they didn't know neither of them knew and I then told him that had said you that you carry on you don't stop but mat then told man says I would like to add my part of the story I don't know if you know but the RO in at the time was somebody called at the end of his life he was quite weak and as he was ding sh his son was standing next to him D he heard his father daving when he came to the he turned man and said to his father he saw that his father was saying the names of these two women after sh he turn man and said to his father ABA I see you're dabbling for these women but it's over 20 years now and Daniel turned man and said to his yes you don't stop you keep on going so m AUM you see the two women carried on they didn't stop and M just carried on they didn't stop it's an incredible situation here everybody was daving and they didn't stop what is the nature of this remarkable story I think putting it all together I think in the following way the two women reacted spontaneously to each other they didn't wait and They carried on going they reacted I would like to suggest how can you possibly D for somebody for so long and yet keep it up I think it's because you react spontaneously from the spont anity comes the momentum to keep on going and that's the nature of it when you start off you when you start off straight away you don't leave something otherwise the mood of the excitement dissipates it goes it doesn't stay I'd like to bring to you a passage what I'm what I told you this my is in my safer which I wrote several years ago called a bridge called prayer if you have the safer if you turn to page 113 in my safer the whole situation of Y and the onc the conference is there and I also mentioned a certain feature which you should be aware about which I I think is part of this point of be reacting positively and spontaneously I wrote in the chapter there on page 117 I'd like to read it out to you for my saor the heart is versatile volatile and rarely stable and I brought the suling point but the apost king Cora said I said in my heart and then I wrote as follows the midus continues and teaches that the heart can also speak I said in my heart the medish then quotes numerous sources the heart is pained the heart strengthens the heart softens the heart is proud the heart desires the heart is enticed the heart submits the heart trembles the heart loves the heart hates the heart is jealous the heart burns like fire the heart is like Stone the heart acases the heart fears altogether the medus list 58 mood swings in the heart each with a source in the Torah from this we learn a profound insight into human behavior the heart is exceptionally versatile highly volatile and rarely stable within seconds there can be a change of heart and a switch andent from one extreme to another it is crucial to seize a unique mood or opportunity in prayer and to react positively and spontaneously and I think that I say is a lesson which we can learn from the incident of the two women and R Leia as well they reacted immediately because what might happen after a while the mood can disappear and you don't have that excitement in you don't have that inspiration I think that is a lesson for us when it comes to reacting to the situation what we're going through here with the people the hostages in Gaza we must react spontaneously when we hear something we shouldn't leave it we shouldn't wait you should immediately respond what happens is the heart can change the mood can change the heart can be broken the heart can be excited the heart can break the heart has many moods there are 58 mood swings which the medis brings down and it continually moving and very volatile I think that is a lesson for us when it comes to reacting responding it has to be spontaneous you have to grasp the moment and hold on to the moment I think that is the lesson which we turn out from this this year I think to react WEA spontaneously and WEA positively that is what yo did he reacted to the news they say of K yamu he reacted spontaneously immediately he packed his bags and came and joined mosha and reacted positive to react to react positive and react spontaneously immediately is left when he heard about KSU some say it was because the war of amik but he left he packed his bags and came to join his son-in-law in in the midb M he reacted and because of that he became the father-in-law of the Messiah and also his children sat in the sanedrin from there we learn a tremendous lesson I think when it comes to the situation of what's going on here for sure as bystanders we must react we must try and break the door down we must scream out we must react to the situation that we're in and that's what we learn also from banush ban did not follow the way the brothers be they were involved in the commotion they were got they were distracted saw was happening and immediately killed as that is the response which we need immediately reacted to Stone he bargained with about also did reacted immediately and because of that the almighty said I forgive them if we can make such a thing which is a very difficult criticism to make but maybe that's the reason why even though was he found favor in the eyes of the almighty nevertheless it was called May the flood is named after him however the how hard the criticism is for us to make we have to be extremely careful how we make any comment like that but that is the point I think we must react we may ask positively we may spontaneously and we must respond to the situation that we're going through we are planning to be mitem uh in Lakewood New Jersey for PES and we will be there MIT AEM from April the 21st till May the 12th if you're interested in your community maybe to host a sh I would delighted to come in and maybe share and in your community you can be in touch with me by email my email address is y alpren a y a l p r n RBS gmail.com y alpren y a l p r n RBS gmail.com or you can call me 6798 if you're interested in hosting AIA in that time until um PES until May the 12th beight to come in any part of America in the area around New York I will be delighted to come in with your community thank you we should only hear good news on have a good shabas