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Gods Presence in Exile by Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler
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um we're just going to round out the
last two weeks discussion of
Y where the thrust of the explanation of
the last two weeks has been who was the
Yona who was the dove it was CLA Isel so
obviously it was a takeoff
on
in and that the dove did not find a
place of resting and I cited a in the
beginning
it was referenced to CL Isel
so had material to work with with
Y however the cabalists as we'll see in
a moment took the Y to
meaning and to this end we'll deal with
the topic at least the first part of the
sh before we get to the next poem which
hopefully will
be hope you all brought your tuning
folks so we can sing it properly on
key yeah um
and in the First Source you have two
pages stapled but I'm on the page that
titled where says I am with you in times
of trouble and distress I am with you I
capital I double time
it's a that we're keenly familiar with
because anything that makes the S we
become familiar and if you're in early
enough
for we say it every shabas so we have
this
per we also say
it we say it at levas because of
the and that's a that's not only
relevant for but for any time a person
is on his way to a dangerous
Journey believe me we've been saying
this often enough in the last year and a
month for all of
our so I have a good news update on my
sonan he's doing well in Shum and rehab
and he'll be out of there sooner than
later and he's doing okay my sonan yeah
yeah he was clipped he was clipped okay
we we didn't we didn't run it in the New
York Times as a headline but uh people
did know about it on Sim in the morning
I'm not going to review the whole story
but thank God he's doing well and he'll
be out of there but he did tell me this
week um when I spoke to him about
berkata gome in a different setting I'm
teaching about berkata G and I asked him
I said what about goyl so he said well I
already did it because there was a whole
question when do you mench goyl for
person is sick or injured so there are
many posim say when you're totally
recovered as totally recovered as a
person may be sometimes you never become
totally recovered but when a person is
able to function so he said he already
benched for leaving leanon and he'll
bench gel again when he feels he's just
he's already off crutches so he he's on
his way to full recovery thank God pilot
he's the pilot yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah but he was busy doing something
else um in Lebanon doing you know some
of the heavy duty work so they
um so I I I I asked him I said why would
you Ben twice so he tells me because
it's two different
uh two different things one one is is
anybody getting out of Lebanon or Aza
coming home for a Shabbat has to bench K
because you just left the war zone even
if you're going back on Sunday or Monday
and the second is he was hit so you know
he's recovering so he he felt that there
so I said fine that's going to be a a
subject for AA for a she you know whe
you say but I my last comment to him was
that the felt that can never be if you
really feel that a was holding your hand
during the whole business and the said
this in the context of what the gar
says four people the four categories of
people who are obligated who have to say
go but thear doesn't say obligated it
says ought to say so said you see it's
and that's a subjective call so
therefore if a person says gol then
later wants to say gol again because the
person thinks there's a need for another
thank you you can't do that you can't do
that it's not a so it's very much um
very much personal and I'll just say
that when my sister lives inash so there
there are many people who work in the
states and Hightech and they get back on
the chabas you know they go every Monday
to the to the and get back on Friday so
there was 30 people lined up on chabas
bench which my sister said this was
Theon so the rabbi put an end to it and
he said one should Ben and they can all
answer and that's also proper so they
can be them with the goo because that
was like just ridiculous what was
happening okay but now let's function on
emo
says I will be with you in moments of
distress and
trouble Source Talk number two is the
Zohar and in the Zohar it says and this
is Aramaic but I'll read it and
translate the time that the which is the
nickname of aadh resting in this world
is in Exile
it is said about
it in other words when the Tor talks in
par Noah that Noah sends out the Y and
to see if the water has this dried if
the Earth is now dry and it comes back
because it couldn't find a resting place
so The Zo The cabalistic Source explains
this as being the did not find a resting
place which means that
when is in
G is there with us in galut and it also
means that while in galut we're not
supposed to feel comfortable and at home
and I remember the saying we were
studying
theit was saying beginning of
rather so it says
it says they are coming to Egypt and
then it says they came so one second
anybody in a grammar class would write
such a sentence would fail how can you
have the present tense and then end with
the past tense make up your mind what is
it so I'll just say parenthetically
theat
is is a quote
from ramban says this not my own idea
ramban says this that the Tora simply
took a in that talks about yov coming
down to MIT with the all his children 70
people in all and there the present
tense is
appropriate and here are the names of B
who who are coming into
Egypt and the Tora in beginning of
Simply backtracks and and picks up from
there so let's pick up from there and
and then it it goes into the pre the the
the past ends yeah yeah they came they
came is and so on but the r said a
dynamite thought the med says why does
it say in the present tense it says
Ru Allah shim Shimon Allah
Le Allah which means Ru shim Le they all
went down to M ruim and Le left M did
the medish really mean
that when we left
MIT Ru the son of yov Shimon the son of
yov Le the son of yov Yuda the son of
yob they were still alive and they went
out no no no no no no he said so you
might say the shave it fair but the he
he he really re uh fine- tuned it here
and he said that three four generations
later they were still you not just using
the names of ruen shimy but they were
play playing the role of ruven shim Ley
they were still ruven shim and Lees and
they felt like they just got to Egypt
300 years later 200 years later they
they felt they were they were migrants
they were new arrivals they never got
used to being Egyptians culturally and
that's why kazal say they didn't change
their language they didn't change their
names they didn't change they Garb they
look Jewish know as the people in answer
them they figured out right away who's
Jewish right right measured the noses
right the uh the the U the idea of being
culturally you know part of B Israel
even in the context of galut the said
that's the only way there's a chance
that there's going to be a Redemption
the only way because if they somehow
culturally integrate and assimilate
they'll never go out and that's why the
felt he didn't like the word diaspora
said diaspora was too polite and find of
a word it gave legitimacy for being
there he said you say golus and golus
means Exile well we say today galut but
he said it as Gus and and and and if you
feel that you're you're you're detached
gut means Detachment and that and that's
exactly
what was uncomfortable he was with Amel
he was uncomfortable there just as am is
is not to be comfortable in the
situation of galut but says the
zor on shabat and
Y felt
comfortable even in
galut why because the cabalists believed
that the moment of Shabbat and yam the
spirit of G has kicked in even though
you may still be in very Dire Straits in
but there's something about the spirit
of G that kicks in weekly every Shabbat
and seasonally every y now we sing this
in it's part of the Poetry we sing about
this and what
isn't if not that
borrows phrases
from
after and we have the seven of
consolation all from and all of a sudden
you start getting phrases that are
familiar oh I don't remember ever
studying yes in school no you went to sh
Friday night or your home you did Kabal
chabat and you remember you know these
phrases very clearly from
so what
is that you go out to welcome the is
coming home for dinner Friday night and
and and that's what we're doing Shalom
we're welcoming the into our homes why
are we doing this because on Shabbat we
put everything on the side all our
troubles and it's a new world I remember
the r explaining once a a a sensation
that he had when he was still a
teenager when the family had left fled
kovich from White Russia and they made
it to Vara the midst of World War I and
he would do occasionally in the in a
g you
imagine and he always was amazed how
people who were living in poverty the
whole weak and difficult making a living
and difficulty struggling in life would
put on their SP and their beha and it
was just a completely different
existence it was a transformation it
really was a transformation and now
perhaps we can understand why by the the
sud or as they call it shis would extend
and extend they wouldn't want to bring
it to an end like why go back to weekday
to reality and and they used to say aort
that you know there's a cabalistic idea
AA that even in the punishments the
Heavenly punishments of Gan whatever
that's supposed to mean it doesn't
function on Shabbat and kicks up again
after Shabbat and they say that the sh
of geham looks down and wants to know if
they
said in Bells because they said in Bells
they were shabas at 11 o' at night so he
wouldn't you know turn on the heat until
Bells was already after shabas but but
this is a joke but it reflected a
reality a reality of stretching and
stretching and stretching the Shabbat
and one of the reasons that we
say is because we know that the are
going back to a type of spiritual
reality that's let's just say
uncomfortable so we're asking that
should pay attention to the for the next
six days and that's why if there's a yum
in the middle of the week we dispense
with
saying on this
Barat because the is going to get a
break on Tuesday or on Wednesday or on
Thursday it's not going to be a full
week any longer but if yum happens to be
on Shabbat like this year rash not this
year but when rash comes out on Shabbat
so before we will say it because it's a
full week but if rash comes out on
Thursday like this year so the shabas M
shabas before we didn't say it and the
only exception to this rule is if PES
comes out on Shabbat well what's the
difference if PES comes out on Shabbat
or sukot comes out on Shabbat or rash
comes out on Shabbat the difference is
that the Y P on one level begins with
noon time on a of P the moment of
bringing the Corban p and how do I know
that that's the moment of yam because
shalom
we should know from the person sitting
shiv as I did to my father a few days
before rash so when does the shiv end
with the onset of yam now of course says
take two hours to get ready but that's
practical but when does the Aus of the
Shiva really break when does the a of
Shiva come to anend abrupt end with with
Sundown Mish with Sundown and that would
be the case for any other y except for p
person gets up from shiv at noon time on
PES person who sending Shiva a day or
two or three or four before pesak the
Shiva ends on a pesak at noon time
that's a proof so you have six hours of
Friday afternoon that's y so you don't
have a full six days of divine
punishment so we dispense with the peric
of Yos on the M Shas before so all this
you know is factors in so what does the
zor say that on chabas and yam there
there is a sensation of g no matter
where we are there's one other practical
ramification not just this mro that we
sing that have or for that matter which
is really big time but the
of the second after
at
Shalom we ask for protection night time
is dangerous so that
is a for protection how do we end
it well depends if you're in the weekday
we
say protects forever how do we end it on
Shabbat we
say
that's shom
it's completely a different
ending why do we do that so it's been
already pointed out by great people who
studied the law the the the evolution of
bhim so one was his name was Professor
toshma from the HEB University a
brilliant brilliant scholar and he shows
that they were actually two different
versions of Ashu one for ER Israel and
one for bavel for the diaspora
so in Isel Shabbat weekday no matter
what they always ended
with
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shom should spread the canopy of Peace
on whether it was Shabbat or weekday or
yam they always ended
with is God should watch over us in the
days of the gim they made a they made a
compromise
and this is something that Professor
Daniela has a whole chapter in his first
volume of men Israel Customs that evolve
because of compromise like putting a
muuza slanted which is a somehow
reflects the dispute whether it should
be vertical or horizontal so we do
neither we put it horizontal it's a
compromise or like the yui Min of
waiting three hours after meat and
before having milk it's the compromise
between the six hours of the rambam
theim and the one hour of ashas up until
the 16th century and then became a
little bit of a merger of three hours so
you have this concept of Min hogm that
developed as nothing but but a
compromise between the extreme the PO
polarized views and here
too um with regard to hashu what
happened was we all decided to say all
all both B and Isel to
conclude in the weekday and we all
decided and to conclude
with on Shabbat why because during the
in in during the week day there's always
trouble and there could be trouble for
is on a Friday night also and there
could be trouble for on p on on on on
the time that um I'm sorry there could
be trouble for am
Isel whether it's in b or in Isel at
night time symbolize Darkness it
symbolize troubles and so on so even in
they opted
for during the weekday but on Shabbat y
the spirit of G kicks in both in ER Isel
and in so we adopted
the for Shabbat
what's the big fight here in how do you
conclude
on that becomes a barometer of your
Zionism oh you're a real it's y you're
not a it's not
y drop that it has nothing to do with it
I refuse to be a participant in that
particular M but that's an that's an AC
of M but I can show you furthermore in
the itself how how we have uh uh we
consider a a a even a momentary Spirit
of of being at the bet mikdash in the
spirit that everything is should be and
that's really
every
is where we delineate the particular of
the special
day whatever it may be we actually not
only declaring Readiness but
in in in the
of something extremely interesting
happens where we're
saying everything will be restored in
everything when the go up for you know
in it's only by m on
the say here come to we sport you know
every morning there if the show up there
there every morning here and Shabbat
twice but it's just so there was an
ending of
the in when stood we
already because that was organized at
the beginning
of so they wouldn't say in
God should return to if the mdash is up
and functioning you would assume that is
there so there was a different ending
the ending
was that only to you should we be
serving and the end was
not the person daved in the Galil or
daved in yav wherever it may have been
far from BET mdash in those days for
sure somebody in Rome or in Egypt or in
bavel there were plenty of Jews already
in Babylon at the time so the person
said
sh there you know we we should have an
opportunity of getting to mdash and
serving you
properly now those of you who remember
from our
from so we have this little add-on when
the says before right before
and then in it
reads ends with this now the V go put an
end to this he said sorry you can't you
can't be into denial there is
noash is inappropriate so even we have
to
say and that became you open up every re
even if you live in that's what we do
the the of the students of the V who
come here about 250 years ago and spread
this idea it catches it catches and
there's no community in ER Israel that
here
says unless the
who's is
using and he's ignorant he doesn't
realize that that's not you're supposed
to do so somebody has to point it out to
him that's all but the meaning is to
say even on but the r explained even
though the r was you know G first class
but the r explained why did this minute
develop because there's a certain um
fantasy going on during mus as if we're
now somewhere else we're not in our
local sh in California or in Toronto or
Melbourne we are in y and bet mikdash is
standing and and and and the kohanim are
going up to and we
say I mean he saw it in a very positive
way that what that that it is to imitate
the that which went on in the days of
bet mikdash and one of the more
classical class iCal manifestations of
imitating the spirit of is taking off
your
before why do we take off tan so ladies
don't tell me you don't go to SCH you
can go to SCH and see this
firsthand
what well that's your
problem yeah if you are a daughter of
Rashi you know maybe you would have
warned fil right
or says she wants filling and right
right so what say it say it correct so
when is it yam how much ofes is yam so
is a weekday right all it is is the gab
says you know like the in mikash in bet
mdash so where do we replicate that
atmosphere
Ines so there when you have Muses based
on the
that's where it's so it's you have to
take off and then comes the big you take
it off before kades or after
kades I mean imagine if we wouldn't have
a it would be
boring life would be boring and the
question is is the Kadesh a summation of
what we just said theim of bringing the
back toades or is it a promo to mus
so
andazi and the says it's actually a
promo for and the r the asazi says it's
on theim that we just said and that's
why because of that the um uh you the
the the Min is that the says Kadesh and
then everybody takes a pause and then
take off thein and because means
starting together with everybody with
the kin usually the gives a little bit
of a clap so he's signaling I'm starting
now so don't wind your filling now just
do that after kadha and just put it down
and start together in if let's say if
women are they should wait till the clap
on M
on that's called starting to together
with the but the identified with Theo on
this and he said that the Kadesh goes on
the mus and therefore we should take off
the and for Kadesh and be ready for MF
before the Kadesh and you know what one
of his proofs were not that I like rosf
Caro this morning that wasn't it at all
this was something highly unusual we
knew and it's not latara because he
readily admitted it and we saw it was
true he was gifted with a lot of things
but not music he he even though he's a
Ley even though he a Ley he always said
he invi he'll never be on the choir it's
he knew that he wouldn't be on the choir
but um he he he said that when
the when the says kades before a special
mus so he ends
with he goes into the nigan of the mus
when he does the Kadesh he does the
nigan for the of tal when he does the
kades before he does the nigan of the of
n no there's a there's a certain
Connection in the world of n meaning the
music the music that goes along with the
daving that connects the Kadesh with the
mus and not what was going on beforehand
and therefore um he believed that the U
that the kadish actually belonged to the
MF and if that's the case then the till
had to be removed before the kades
what's interesting is that on shabat
morning when ronam get up and say adha
so they say it before the Kadesh and
that
say kades and then the rabbi speaks but
the rabbi speaks and
U so somebody once said I have a cousin
in America who said what are the four
most cherished words in the Sid he
said that mean the rabbi's not speaking
today can't get better than that
right wonderful sweet words but why does
the rabbi speak before the
Kadesh so where did that ever come from
the rabbis is DHA it's actually a um
reframing of the Tak
ofra that said that we should read
minimum
10im at any given laning of course
Shabbat a lot more than 10im because you
have to have seven people getting a but
um you you have to have M you have to
have a translation and the mataman
doesn't mean reading uncus that we would
need translators for the translation
because we don't know the Aramaic but
the translation is supposed to be
commentary when somebody supposed to
explain theim now in Europe asazi Jews
knew cold and they were
doing they were reading on Friday with
the tarum you didn't need anybody in SCH
to do that for you so the r of the town
would get up and explain something about
the paraa that the average guy in sh
would never have thought of
something novel some application to life
what we call it htic dra or htic
application so if a Rob gets up on
shabas morning says it says in this
week's
par and rash says such and such and such
and that's is Rasha I'm sorry the people
know what Rashi says what are you doing
you're not teaching me anything but if
you get up there and say Rashi says such
and such but that what he just said is
highly problematic because in light of
something else this doesn't make sense
this is out of context this is wrong why
does he do it and then you build a case
and then come back to it and say ah and
now we understand what Rashi is doing
that's a gakha that's a that's
worthwhile listening to and when does he
do it he does it before the Kadesh
because he wants to attach it to the CRA
because right before we just put that to
sa which means we're still in our mode
of creat Tora you took out the you L you
put it back you still there cuz Kadesh
means next on the agenda he gets up and
he says there is some Ron by the way who
do that during laning RAB Riskin in
Lincoln Square would get up seven times
during laning after each Aliyah or
before each Aliyah and say something
about the Aliyah and explain something
about the alah that was really in
Conformity with the Tak ofra so I'm just
pointing out why the r gives toha before
the Kadesh and not after the
Kadesh they still do the right the the
yanites still have the un's reading with
the because they never moved on you know
that's all they they understand
it of course if you're a tam going to
Tamer you learn how to read Hebrew
upside down because there was oneish in
the center and all the kids sat around
so those kids who sat the opposite they
had to learn Al upside down and they
know how to read upside down right and
guess what you can do is you can train
your brain to to see it in that way and
that's what they do that's that's really
phenomenal okay so now we
have not in on Shabbat and now you
understand why according to this
explanation of the Z why we
sing on Shabbat because on Shabbat the
has found a resting place even if you're
sing it it Teck no matter where you're
singing
it has found a resting place on Shabbat
is there now where do we know from where
do we know that this whole idea
of not just from
the but from from the G in so here it
says in number
three I will go down I personally will
go down to save
and I will bring them up so here's what
we learn but we see it already in seid
that going leaving AR Isel is a is going
down going to Isel is an alah so even
though there's a med that
says from a topography point of view is
higher elevation than any other country
in the world take that not only with a
grain of salt but with the whole Shaker
the um there are places in this world
that are higher there's one thing that
we have in her Israel that's the lowest
point on the globe that's in the Dead
Sea
yeah who's coming down from shamay
leaving ER
is here here means to go down to MIT
and
means speaking to and and and he's
telling him you're right from whatever
abodh is in he's going down to MIT that
idea of going down to MIT you already
have in you have the brothers going
down right it's there it's all over the
place and coming back to ER Canan in
brait is to go up to go up so it's not
an accident that we call it Aliah been
not an accident I mean obviously the
early Zionist leaders looked for words
that would be biblical and make the
point why do you think El calls its
plain
L because of a PUK that talks about
coming to up not only because the plane
is up because it's going to take people
to so I told my son once that uh when
you take people out of it says well you
got to change the name so he had a good
answer he had a very good answer the
talks
about that there's a concept that you
can go down for purpose purposes of
coming back up know it's temporary okay
whatever it is it's temporary so here
you
have where
to this is the first time we're going to
see
this the these locations these nations
occupying Palestine at the time are
mentioned already in the para we just
read the Brit we already
have gashi right so say gashi is absent
noticeably absent conspicuously absent
because what happened was Yeshua sends
letters before we conquer ER Kanan and
the first letter said you have you have
an option option number one is you
accept
seven and we will regard you and accept
after the fact that we're coming in and
taking over without a fight without a
fight and you will be regarded as g
toave a certain status and we will
guarantee your your your sustenance your
protection and everything you'll be part
of the
country but you have to be loyal to the
am State you don't like that we'll give
you a chance to pack your bags and
leave and garosi packed their bags and
left and if you don't like that we're
GNA fight you and we did and it took
quite a few Generations because K the
Conquering ofel begins in Yeshua and
doesn't really culminate
till mdash is built 480 years
after so it was a long undertaking you
know the the Conquering of Earth Israel
very long it's still going on good still
going on right yeah so what
is that every
leaks what does it mean
what does that mean we say it all the
time we sing
it what
does mean means a land that will be
blessed with sweet fruit that's what it
means sweet fruit sweet and nutritious
fruit that's it's it's a nickname for ER
Isel
zash I once on a more htic sense
explained that there's a world of a
difference between uh the shelf life
without Refrigeration of milk and honey
honey will last on the Shelf
me and Beyond and milk without
Refrigeration after three four days
you're going to know that it's been
without
Refrigeration is that so what does that
mean means Isel is endowed with a dual
quality it can last with us forever or
it can sour on us and it's going to
depend on whether we're going to make it
into Das
or so that's a sobering thought that
it's not just a given but we can
guarantee that it's Das if we work at it
and if we don't it's going to sour it's
going to spoil
but means it's a it's going to it's
going to have prom it promises us good
sweet fruit furthermore this
that says from where do we know that
we're allowed to eat bees honey bee is a
sherit so how can you eat bees honey
comes from a sherids and something that
come if you have milk from a non-coal
animal you can't drink the
milk so why can you have the the so the
gar gives two answers thear says well if
ER Isel is blessed
with how can it be TR that's a very
interesting even though in the context
of the seven
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species there it means dates it means
dates but here it doesn't mean it means
thear says it means Bees honey and if
it's Bees honey and is blessed with this
there's no way that you can't have it
it's like a
special special dispensation from above
that we're allowed to have honey that's
one reason in the the second reason
reason in the G is that honey is not an
integral part of the physiology of the
bee but the bee houses it and makes the
honey but it never becomes part and
parcel of the bee it's somehow separate
this led great people like rosha tendler
zat my great biology rebi who said that
the same applies to vitamins and he said
he explained it
to explained it
to why vitamins that come from non-
kosher animals are Kosher they're even
glot kosher has nothing to do with the
animal because vitamins are external to
the physiology of the organism he said
and therefore if you have vitamins that
come from liver extract they're
parve they're not only kosher but
they're parve they don't have a bisar
content to them identity to them nor a
non- kosher identity to them if the
animal happen to been not Kosher so
therefore when you get a bottom bottle
of vitamin pills and so on and the drug
drugstore says you know but we have here
you know with as of the badat it's just
that it costs twice as much I'm telling
you that if it's a pill that you just
pop like any aspirin you can take the
cheaper variety and it's just as kosher
because there's nothing non kosher about
vitamins and so too by the way with
capsules and the the whole gelatin issue
which according to the R's grandfather R
from brisk gelatin is actually kosher
because it's Shinu it it evolved into
gelatin and is not lost its Pig identity
if it came from pigs and therefore
there's no problem with that with
gelatin but
R had a big on this and we grew up in
America the gelatin was K right until
until we came to and and we discovered
that the r give sh and confectionary
products with gelatin so the but if you
have a capsule that you just gulp down
so even if it's K TR it's not prohibited
because that's not called eating so they
have all kinds of capsules of all kinds
of different uh food additives and so on
that they sell also in a quote unquote
kosher variety but um omega-3 right so
omega-3 and and there's a box that says
kosher right it costs three times the
price right but you can take the regular
one and just gulp it down there
absolutely no halakic issue with it it's
not going you know
yeah I have no problem if you're paying
for the more expensive product is
because you want to support the company
that has gauged the services of a okay
that's okay it's no different by the way
no different than hor metton matzas for
PES they carry the
OU and um and the broer community Rabbi
yosf
Brer received the first 18 minutes of
every morning's production which is a
little bit of a you know that's good
because even though we clean the
machines every 18 minutes we stop the
machines and a chemical flow goes
through all the pots and breaks down any
type of residue dough that might be
there and it's Kos PESA
but aler as they say first thing in the
morning they're they're perfectly clean
you can't get cleaner because they clean
all the parts at night so R Brer gets
the first batch and they sell it with r
Brer H at a higher price that's okay if
you belong to the Brer community and you
want to support the community that's
perfectly okay perfectly okay and and
there's no reason that uh and a
community and everybody knows it's
public knowledge that that's what's
going on and everybody knows that the
brers matzas are ou matzas it's har as
Margret everybody knows that also so
this is all public knowledge and they up
they up the price because they're you're
giving a donation for every box of matah
that you buy that's okay I have a
problem with with has on bottled water
for PES you know maybe rash goes on the
bottle I don't know what mahadin right
I'll tell you when the 2006 2010 10 when
I was flying back and forth monthly to
Switzerland so I discovered that there
was for bottled water for pesak there
were two Supermarket chains Coop and
migros was called so one of them gave
dash for PES in in Zurich but in basil
it was the other chain that gave dash
for bottled water and people said that
if you travel on between new they have
to look out for the different company
you know and I looked at them and I said
you know you're really out of your mind
it's the same water
it's the same order but the community
signed up with one of the chains for for
the as if you needed for the water you
know for PES but all right you know but
but the think that if you had water from
the other companies not not
Kos anyway so this is but I want to see
the medish on number four what the
medish says
on and I heard the explanation on this
medish
both from the he wrote it in a spe he
said it in a speech and I I wasn't at
the speech at a mrai convention you'll
hear why it came up there
and said it as well this coming M shabas
will be his 30th yard side and he said
it also on the same medish he may have
heard it from above I don't know but um
he said the same thing
Great Is the Love
of by that has exiled himself to the
place
of means
filth spiritual
filth why did he do
it so that he would redeem them mean was
willing to put himself out
in places that he with a capital age
didn't belong in order to save his
children Mas here's the an
analogy now gets truma now he has to eat
it when he's toor and the truma has to
be toor and all of a sudden he sees
somebody snatched a bag of truma fruits
from his and threw it over the fence in
the cemetery now Cen can't get it so
what he going to do let the truma fruit
rot you're not supposed to do that
either that's called I kashim to to
destroy something that's holy in all to
do that those fruits to be eaten by the
coin of course but how can he go into
the B don't tell me call somebody else
that's not the scenario the scenario is
he's alone the truma is on the other
side of the fence in the bedar and now
he has to make a judgment what to do to
leave it alone om May what shall I do
how can I become you know to do
that that's not that's you can't do that
either so he's in a quandry but then he
says like this m I prefer I
prefer so one shot deal I'll become
Tom and I will purify myself there's
paruma there is a way to purify yourself
from this T so becoming T is an
investment it's a correct investment in
order to save the
truma and the truma won't go down the I
be able to save the
truma so too with says about our
forefathers sees his children as his
truma as it says
Ines well that doesn't help us
it
says you have to know the end of the it
says they are the first of my crop oh
that means it's truma Trum is theit the
first which is taking off before you
take off anything else
that's and my children says are sitting
in a
cemetery as it says
in by every house had somebody died
which means the whole MIT is one big
Cemetery you know what this reminds me
I'm just opening this window for a
second please remind me to close it
where I'm up to um with regard to
kohanim taking the trip to
Poland
Shapiro was Chief Rabbi in the 80s said
the Kanan can't go to Poland at all
because the whole Poland is one big
Cemetery that's right it's one big
Cemetery okay ra said he can't go he
just have to know where to go but um but
the idea that it's all one big Cemetery
the med says it here with regard
to and it also says
in they were burying every all over
Egypt how can I
redeem leave them there in Egypt in the
filth
of can't do
that I better is prefer that I go down
there to save them as it
says I'll go down
be and when get them
out I'll
call and it will Purify Me as it
sayses and it
says means AR will also atone and purify
and cleanse the the holy the holy I mean
a reference here obviously in context
those mean a little bit something else
but at least in this midic usage of the
P that the will do what he has to do to
get me clean again and that's okay and
what do you learn from
this you learn from this that sometimes
a Jew has to
be has to soil himself in order to save
Jews so I'll give two applications to
this one is I remember this from Rabbi
Joseph remember RAB many of you do
remember him the the great Rabbi from
the Jewish Center the KJ katun not the
Jewish Center KJ KJ KJ kilat yurun in
the upper e side other side of the of
the park right I'm sorry I'm sorry K Jo
centa was R lamb R lamb was in Jo Cent
right KJ K so he was very over 50 years
Rabbi and um and he said that any new
and we're talking now in the 30s and the
40s so the
Yesa which becomes University so some of
the M would take positions in the
rabanas where the sh was problematic
either separate seating mixed seating
separate seating without a m but not a
terribly High m or proper all different
types of quote unquote problematic shs
and Thea was quietly encouraging this Dr
Belin second president Isa very much
encouraged this and um some people used
to suggest because from such shes you
had a better shot at fundraising for Wu
than at pure Orthodox shoes who are
cheap and U he was was probably right on
that one uh the U but but Dr but Rabbi
lukin said that the going into these
shes with the idea of kiru let's try to
see what we can do and bring them back
was a worthy worthy undertaking so Rabbi
izy Miller who was at the time when I
was the Yesa vice president of the Yesa
and a seasoned sh Rabbi as well in the
Bronx the Kingsbridge Jewish Center
where he himself started in the sh that
was not
100% uh but made it into a sh that was
100% no different than Rabbi Riskin at
the Lincoln Square and no different than
Rabbi bersan in the young would became
then the Young isra of Avenue K but had
a different name but it was not like
that and other great rabbis who
succeeded so Rabbi Miller told us that
he did a survey of the Wu guys musim who
did take positions in quote unquote
problematic shs where were they holding
after three years in the ravinet so he
said 10% succeeded after three years of
turning it around 30% were so he said
20% another 20% were was so so
disillusioned that they won't be able to
do anything that by the end of the third
year they already left the sh they saw
it was Abal so that's 30% of the crop
and 70% after three years to them it was
no longer a problematic sh they got used
to the
situation okay now he said it in a way
that we should understand that this is
risky this is risky from many many
points of view but what RAB lukin taught
us was still in place and
and I say it also in today's situation I
want to get into a whole discussion now
about you know the Army and so on but it
is true that sometimes you to save am
Israel physically you have to jeopardize
something about what you consider your
your bubble your spiritual bubble and
you have to go out of the spiritual
bubble and worry about quote unquote
spiritual
contamination but have at least as a
backup in hand how you going to purify
yourself so let's just take yesz as a
good example yeser has those things in
place of purification that is the guys
are going to the Army they're Yeshiva
Boys but they're going back to the
Yeshiva and while they're in the Army
the and the r are going out there to see
them all the time and
printing all the time no they never lose
contact with them so yes it's it's a
it's a it's a scen scenario that's far
from the the atmosphere of B madash and
can potentially be uh be uh catastrophic
even can and there' have been cases like
that but does it have to be so for sure
not and can a p can a person say to I'm
sorry I have to worry about
my I have to worry about my spiritual
health and therefore I have no
obligation to save any other Jew that's
unacceptable and what the r said at the
and why he used this at the M convention
he said even political involvement we
all know it's not the cleanest Endeavor
and he said why did
Institute and here the was really sharp
in his htic usage because gar
says because hands are always busy it
means you can be touching something that
you don't even realize because hands are
busy they're
busy but the r played on the word
which means a today in modern Hebrew
when you say aan means a a political M
and it means these are the guys who were
involved in the dirty work so that's
what the
said you have to know how
to afterwards you have to know how to
clean yourself afterwards but it doesn't
mean don't do it and he was encouraging
people in the M who are part of the
world of Torah to get involved and the
had the highest regard for ra
who was who was the founder of the
movement here in and was and
then who was a r of high school then
became a
in in
the near right past
Asal rather right between K Mal and
ashalon so and he became a member of the
KET and there were other
benra
whatman right and and they became and
and they remain clean they remain clean
they had to involve themselves in the
Dirty Work of the political Arena but
they also were able to remain clean and
so on and if you look at source number
five where the T says in with regard to
going out
of this is the first of the four
expressions
of I will take you out Source number six
plays on this in the peute in the poem
that we said in hosana every single day
in the section kosata after we finish
going around with the lul and then
there's like a poem that we say when
we're standing at attention before we
put back
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the as saved us in the expression I will
take you
out you can read it with different dots
and I have taken myself out yes says I
will take you out referring to God
taking out is at the same moment says I
will take myself out from with you it
will can be read with the dots the the
grammar so this reflects the idea that
was with us in gut and had to bring
himself out as well and that's what
thear says in Source number seven it
says
how beloved
is went
into and it goes and and lists all the
various go and will take us out not only
will take us out he will have to take
himself out of gut as well as the last
line
say doesn't say it
says K is going to have to take himself
out of the Goot as well
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