Acharei Mos - The Aharon Effect

[Music] I want to share with you a truly fascinating medish in the six para when describing arono and entering the kesim the inner Sanctuary the p t Zion gimmel uses the word bizos bizos yones the word bizos has the gatria the numerical value of 410 the number 410 says the medish alludes to the number of years the first B mikash stood the first B stood from the Hebrew year 2935 and lasted until 3338 or the secular year 832 BC until 422 BC lasting a whopping 410 years alluded to by the word bizos ribov Paro in 18th century Rabbi from the city of saho in his safer mosul lovid explains that the medish means to say that all 410 years that the basa Mikes was in service were credited to Aron aoin year in and year out it was as if Aon was there serving in the B mikos his presence was palpable the question is why what was it about Aon that made him the Supreme seminal f Figure Head whose personality inspired the Jews for the duration of the entire first B mikdash now granted he was the first coing go but there were plenty of other great kohanim gdam not to mention mosha and Yoshua and schm and David and schlomo how did Aon earn this distinction what why was he the one credited for the B mik for as long as it stood ever wonder why so many gdolim righteous sages have lived such tremendously long lives why is it that the rinic leaders of the generation seem to have such incredible longevity for example the global leader of jwy from the previous generation lived until almost 100 years old the leader of the Jews living in Israel R lived until 102 and he was succeeded by R iron leyman who lived to the age of 103 one of the greatest sages of the last 100 years rosv lived till the age of 102 as did shinberg the leading Authority rner lived until 100 years old and kaduri a leading spartic Rabbi lived until the remarkable age of 108 the current leader of the Torah Jews in Israel or gersan Edelstein is 100 years old and the current leader of American torra Jury is RM ketki and he is 98 years old this is not a new phenomenon Hilla lived to the age of 120 as did Reb reaba and reudi there seems to be a massively disproportionate number of holy leaders that lived incredibly long Lives why is that now of course obviously they please Hashem with their Total Learning and acts of kindness and he therefore grants them longevity true but is there perhaps another layer to it something deeper I believe there is the Mish per Al States something that is seemingly obvious it says one should strive to have friends so the Russian Hiser explains that this mishna is saying something novel and fascinating he says then more than merely giving us practical advice promoting the concept of living a vibrant social life and saving one from living hermetically like a Hermit the Torah is actually offering us a powerful method in attaining a longer life how so because a shemin's unparalleled supreme justice will never cause pain to an individual even if that person deserves it if another person who is undeserving of pain will be negatively affected by it Hashem will never allow a man to go to jail or get hurt or die if his sentence his injury or his death will cause unjust pain to that individual spouse his family his friend conversely if Hashem does Place pain on an individual and thus causes pain to his immediate surroundings it is indicative that the spouse the family or the friend deserves to a certain extent that pain for not rebuking or standing up to or inspiring iring the relative of the friend hence the more friends one accumulates says the rush the more people his death would pain and in turn the less likely Hashem is to cause the death to occur it comes out that in a slightly roundabout way acquiring friends is acquiring life for the more people that love and respect and need you the less likely it is that Hashem will take you away from them no one has more people under their umbrella than a GLE a leader a man whose every heartbeat is for clausal a man who lives and breathes for the Jewish people a man who uses every moment of his day every vestage of his strength to think of how he can help teach and love and nurture clausell such a man's death would cause incalculable waves of pain that would reach the four corners of the Jewish Globe such a person Hashem has a hard time taking away so therefore they live remarkably long lives Aron aen was the Supreme Paradigm of love and kindness he was the ultimate Peacemaker he would cry with the Widow he would encourage downtrod and he would do everything he could to ensure that families experience nothing but Harmony the medor says that when Aon died his coffin was accompanied by 880,000 boys all named Aon all were born to parents whose marriages were saved due to Aron all born to marriages that were once on the brink of Destruction until Aon came and saved the day and so they were named in his honor 880,000 boys and that's just the boys he so embodied the idea of loving peace that when the Mish P was beckons us to be nice and kind do doesn't just merely say so it doesn't just say be nice and kind rather it tells us to emulate Aron so effective was Aon at spreading love and peace that he literally became the definition of it aon's love and peace was so widespread that its Ripple effects lasted Generations his warmth and kindness echoed for centuries those who witnessed the love and respect he exuded when he served as Coen GLE were so aw struck that they were inspired to act the same that in turn spilled over to their kids and their grandkids creating generations of peaceful harmonious people his inspiration was so dramatic that the metc says that the entire first bam mikos all 410 years of it was built on the foundation of love that he erected peace is where our nation flourishes the most peace in the home peace in the streets peace in the offices and the kitchens and the coffee rooms and the schs we need it desperately how many families were ripped apart due to strife and fights how many holy marriages were destroyed due to malleus how many how many glorious institutions got smothered by the ashes of internal squabbling peace is essential for our continuity those that promulgate it reside in a very special place in the hearts of men their lives and their inspiration last centuries the largest Yeshiva in the world is the Mir Yeshiva it is also one of the oldest of the hundreds of yeshivas that stood tall in the Glorious Days of European jewry virtually all of them were decimated in the Holocaust not so the mirr it was saved with unimaginable Miracle upon Miracle the entire Yeshiva fled to Japan and hit out the Warriors there its learning never stopped its flame never diminished why why were they saved while the rest were not what was it about the mirror that protected it from the Rabid jaws of European destruction perhaps the F following idea will explain of all the traits that the Mir Yeshiva personifies there seems to be one that rises above the rest that trait is its unwavering dedication to peace at all costs staunch steadfast dedication to peace and ensuring that it exists no matter what the founder of the ISA rebelz or Yehuda finle was never a man to let honor get in the way of spreading Torah despite being the leader of the entire yiva and the central figure in it he happily hired a new leader the younger and more energetic reur L who instantly became the draw of the Yeshiva re Blazer UDA was there to bring honor to Heaven through spreading Torah values if it meant hiring someone who would become more popular and more effective in doing so then so be it all of this is for Hashem the Mir was Yeshiva that stood for peace not once did a petty fight break out amongst the staff a fact that is as rare as it is beautiful when a Jordanian rocket was fired in the direction of the mirror during The Six Day War it merely bounced right off the side of the building a place that stands for peace is blessed with longevity its inspiration knows no bounds it is where Hashem wants to place his presence it carries us on its wings and in turn Hashem carries it on his listen to this unbelievable story a truly unbelievable Story the city of ibitz was a typical one in Poland before the war not too big not too small everyone knew everyone the Jews were happy all of that horrifically changed with an episode that had global consequences which would wreck havoc in the entire Jewish world one Ordinary Day the rabbi took issue with something that the town the ritual slaughterer was doing and publicly declared that his his Slaughter was no longer trustworthy this sparked many conversations in the tavern and in the back bench of the sh first there were murmurings then there were Rumblings and then there was like an allout verbal war that took place with some people's defending the rabbi and others defending the the climax was on rashash when moments before chauffeur blowing the RV got up to call a man from the back of the sh yelled out who do you think you are to ruin a simple person's life like that get out of town immediately things heated up and the verbal Jabs turned into an allout physical brawl in the middle of the show punches were thrown benches were flipped over things escalated into such violence that the police were called in to restore order immediately afterwards the RV ran to his house P packed a suitcase and walked out of town only to collapse dead on the road from a heart attack now you may not have heard of this town but you have certainly heard of what this town became a few months later the town of ibitz was taken over by the Nazis electric fences were erected railroads were built and the name was changed from ibitz to aitz the sleepy little town ravaged by mlus and bickering became the largest death factory in human history and those horrid gas Chambers the place where Millions upon millions of Jews were ripped out of their their souls were ripped out of their holy bodies were built on the exact spot that the sh had stood only a few months prior the exact same spot M tears us apart it causes a thick blanket of Darkness to descend upon the Earth bitter fights destroy everything in its path leaving room for nothing except the angel of death the very place that Hashem chose to erect the basa Mikus was on a field owned by two brothers who loved each other to such a tremendous degree that every night one would secretly sneak across the other one's portion to bring him an extra stalks of grain their love knew no bounds and hence Hashem erected his house upon their field sadly our bickering our squabbling our sin burned the house down the house that was carried on the shoulders of aon's love and kindness for thousands of years every tilila of every minion of every sh and every corner of of the globe ends exactly the same way with the exact same words Shalom hasem the god of ultimate peace who say shalom we plead we cry we pray for peace peace amongst our neighbors peace amongst our R and peace amongst our institutions and peace amongst our schs peace amongst our couples and peace amongst our children we take three steps back and we bow to the left and we bow to the right and we beg Hashem to spare us the pain of makus in all directions of the world we look up and we hope that our lives will be long and plentiful with nothing but peace for us and our entire nation and the entire sh no matter if they are young or old ashkanazi Ori modern or traditionalish or Mish yakish or litvish orish every single one of them says aain [Music]