Eikev: The Chofetz Chaim Relates The Saga of the Closing of the Volozhin Yeshiva

Okay, here we go. But before you may have forgotten about the new release of you can make it happen viau. Make sure you see it and you immediately sign up not to bring your phone into shul. It will save you. It will save your family. It will save the Jewish people. No pressure. You know, I never pressure anybody. Okay. Um say in better to violate the Torah than have the Tory forgotten. The meaning is as follows. Annulling the Tyra, violating the Tyra will arouse and inspire great hisus elsewhere. Because if in one place they trample on the Tyra, elsewhere they save the Tyra. In places where they decreed to close Yeshiva, they would teach Jewish children in the cellar, in the tunnels, secretly in middle of the night. That's an idea. Um, you see, when the government decrees, we have to stop learning and close. The Jewish people elsewhere prevail. They learn in secrecy. They learn with Ms. Nephesh. But how great is the danger, heaven forbid, if there's a danger of forgetting. Here we have the following thought. If you take a knife and you cut into a dead body, the dead body doesn't feel it. Feeling the forgetting of is not sensed. Jewish children that grow up without Tory grow up without any civility without any any description of being a Jew, without any characteristics of being a Jew. And nobody even realizes and there's no war. It's just abandoned. You see in communist Russia at least you had refusnix and they strengthened themselves and they dedicated theirelves and they taught Tory to their children. Communism is not as much of a threat to Tyra as assimilation or even worse in some communities as long as the boy is baritzv and he reads the ha or he says a kadesh and they think this is genuine Judaism eat manachevit's matzah and gapilta fish and read your haftra that is a much greater danger to Judaism will be forgotten in the upcoming generation. Hashem has to promise us that the Torah will never be forgotten because forgetting Torah is much more dangerous than violating Tory. shall the would explain when set siege and the malik came and the malik and said yesterday you didn't bring the carbon and today you're not learning Yeshua says okay which one is it the malik says says I'm coming because you didn't learn has ice. Most mitzvot are caused by time. Some apply during the day, some at night. Some have set times, some come at random times. Not so is every moment is for at this moment. I'm coming for at I'm coming for what you need to do right now, which is to learn Tyra. When Yeshua heard that the Malik said, he understood the angel is indicting him on his present and current obligation. What does the say? He was he didn't wait even a moment but he immediately engaged in delving into By the way it's kadai to see the next story and I'm going to tell you very quickly because it's Thursday and if otherwise you may never see it in your whole life. It was the winter. Don't go anywhere. Don't don't check your phone, which you don't have on you. In the winter of 1892, uh the Russian government made a gazer that the yeshiva needs to put two hours a day of secular studies and they threatened to close the yeshiva if the rashisha refused this request. The rashiva was the nitiv. He didn't want to accept upon himself the of this decision. So he made anifa of the gdlear. Most of the gdm chose what is better to have two hours of secular studies than not to have any yeshiva at all. This was not the opinion of the basi. The Bvi with tears on her cheek issued that we need to be uh be makic the stronghold of Tory. We need to give over Tory to the next generation but only in the time tested manner. But if once the Russian government injects a secular studies then it's a new Tyra. He says we need to close the yeshiva. The concluded the story with the Muscal look at the greatness of the Torah of the BI. If he would have consented to put in the yeshiva tora would have been forgotten from the Jewish people. That's how the starts with first with two hours until the end there'll be two hours of limudes. But when they made that fateful decision to close the yeshiva, the yeshiva was able to forge new paths in different places and new yeshivas opened in Lithuania, in Poland without limu. Why? The toy is like a Mayan. If you close it, if you close the spring in the north, it will then start flowing to the south and will break forth in the south just as strong as it it was in the north. So that's the idea. Sometimes it's better to violate the Tory, to close it down completely than to have the Torah forgotten. This was the decision of the Bivi endorsed by the to close down the Yeshiva. By the way, as an aside, the Nitsv was so heartbroken he decided to go to Israel, he couldn't he didn't even reach Artisel. He died in Warsaw. The was so broken by this decision having to close the yeshiva he never even made it to Israel. But the says it saved for have a good day everyone. >> Recording stopped. You see?