Iggeres HaGra #1 - Why Heaven Did Not Allow the Gra to go to Eretz Yisroel

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay welcome everyone oh today we begin our new lee mode and uh we're learning the igares hagra so this limo is sponsored by our good friends uh the klein family lo iloi nishmaster grandmother sarah bass martikai halevi nisham sham nalia she should be melissa ishara for their homies is really a personal letter it's um a letter that the guru wrote to his family uh when he traveled on his way to arts israel ultimately we're going to learn that trip was not successful and the gra had to basically turn around but this is a heartfelt letter a powerful letter and a letter which is very fierce musser is very different than the tarmadevara it's a very different style of musa the gura was very focused intensely being very careful about every moment of the day and every word that he said and the approach of the gra and the mahalakhayam of the gra is very strongly felt in this letter which became known as the ulim le trufa that's sort of a medication and a personal letter that the girl sent his family to his wife to his mother to his children now the guru as we mentioned uh was born in the year 1720 and he lived until 1797. he lived 77 years toward the end of the gura's life as uh it's recounted in the ali ahu the guru was known as bar mitzvoice there's nobody who is more focused on the amassing mitzvos than the villenega nevertheless he was not satisfied and he decided he's going to move towards his as we're going to see the guru's personal opinion is that living in aratusa bisman is not a mitzvah it's not a certainly not a kiev but it's merely a myla it's merely an a very excellent and great attribute but the guru personally did not hold that that there was a obligation to live in arts israel and the guerra left his family left his wife he left his mother he left his children and ultimately on his way to arthur israel he went through hungary he turned around and if you look in the dhamma of the bir hagra on sons asked him you know tata why did why didn't you go to earth israel and he responded with the following five words in lee roshusmina he was not given license from heaven to be able to go to arts israel and much has been written what did the guru mean that he does not have license to go to earth israel so the radar luria explained ainly rashos means that the the reason he didn't go is the ashita of the gura is to be mahmir on hilhais maas royce as the shita of the mabit however on his way towards israel in ruta arts israel he discovered that the basilice yosef holds that there's a kheram not to be mahmir like the sheet of it but to be mako like the rambam realizing that when if he would go there to arizona he would not be able to imagine a mice royce the guru decided to turn around again this would be consistent with hashita that there is no or even mitzvah perhaps the living arts is now interestingly in the writings of the guru the grow is never machia regarding whether one is or is not in my but this is one interpretation of what the gram meant that he did not have rishos now in the aliyah yahoo it's brought that how did the guru how could the girl afford the trip to arat israel many gaviram so to speak sponsored the gross trip to araz israel however upon return the grower returned all the money to the various kevira there are many reasons many explanations and what the gram meant mainly rishos minhash one reason brought is that the guru realized that on the boat there were a lot of ants a-n-t-s not a-u-n-t-s a lot of nima lim and they were in the food and the grower realized he would not be able to wash and bench on shabbos and the girl therefore said it's not worth going to art israel if he would not be able to have lechamisna on the boat on shabbos others suggest as follows the quran his great hasmada was there anyone more influential on khalis from the last 500 years than the gra the gura was a nitsote spark of moisha rabbinu and therefore just like moshe abbinu was not allowed into arats israel the grub being the spark of moishabinu was not given license to go into arts israel however the ra dal was bothered by this reason because we know that rib shoving bar yeah it was a nitsuta abenu and certainly the rajbi was allowed entry into arat israel so he did not accept that reason another interesting uh possibility of why the guru what the gram meant that he was not allowed in tara to israel was that the guru held that a new shallayim when rosh hashanah comes out on shabbos you have to blow shaipha we had a shirt on that subject recently and the gruff felt that the bezen of yushalayim would not let him blow the shofar and therefore the graw decided to turn around others suggest that degra was uh frightful about the various roshaim who were in arts on the time by the way the tamide hagra between the years 1808 and 1812 the tamideh who are known as the prusim formed three groups of tamidim who made aliyah a total of 500 students of the made aliyah between the years 1808 and 1812 and where did they settle where did the students of the grass settle they settled in why did they settle in svas because the muslims did not allow ashkenazim into ushalayim for 100 years so the guru some say were was very afraid that uh from the rosham and arts israel others suggest the guru realized how difficult parnasso was but be it as it may for some mysterious reason after the grass set sail to go to arat's israel he ultimately returned now why did the gross tamidim go to arts israel so there's a famous conversation between the levushe srud the vusrad was a student of khasidos he wrote the avenachal in hamish and he was conversing with the gross disciple rabbi sram mishkalav and rabi swal said the groin told his tamidim that a big storm is coming and especially in the area of habanem and the only place that we could be saved is inaudible and that sort of promoted and precipitated the mass migration of the students of the going uh totaling as we mentioned more than uh in the years 1808 and 1812. now as we're as we're about to see the gra holds that uh living in our tisrael is not an absolute or even a mitzvoth but it's only a myla and let's begin by reading the first chapter of the igaras hagra i don't know if you have it you know what we'll do maybe i could give me one second i'm going to i'm going to get it for you on the screen i'm going to get for you on the screen the uh of the igara sagara it's in the oh perfect okay thank you um here we go so here we go i would like to request of you shalotted staru claude lu claus binocilla please do not be distressed that i'm going to art israel the gamlo tiga tidagu and also don't worry for me kemoshi me as my mother promised me there are those who have a gear sock or like my confidants have guaranteed me now this is a very important line and this line may uh be the most powerful line and one of the greatest lessons of moser that we're going to learn from the igara sagara and that is the guru is asking his family please do not be distressed and in pain that i'm leaving now why would they be in pain because we know when you separate from a relative it causes a painful anxiety it causes great distress now that means the guerra is the grah held that if his traveling would cause his family pain perhaps he would not have gone in other words the guru very much wanted to go to arts israel but to cause tsar to somebody else that's us sir certainly to cause sorrow to your wife so certainly to go south to your mother so that's the reason why the grub before he left he got guarantees he asked his mother mama please promise me that you won't be batsar he asked his wife please promise me that you won't be bizarre so clearly the girl was very concerned about the distress of his family to the extent where had he not gotten these promises he would not have gone so now even though the god promises he's asking his mother and his wife do not be distressed what do you mean why is he asking them he already got a guarantee ready you got a promise from them that they wouldn't be in distress that he left apparently the girl was concerned that even though they gave him their word that they wouldn't be distressed perhaps once he left it would be too painful for them to bear so he's he's requesting of them bashas naisa even though you already gave me your word but i still want your assurance that you will not continue to be distressed so apparently the gua held that even though it was his personal humra to go to the holy land nevertheless it was very important for him that it should not be at the expense of his family now he said don't be distressed and don't worry because worry is different than pain pain is the separation pain and worry is don't worry about what my massive will be and the girl goes on to say that the reason they shouldn't be worried is because many people go on very long business trips and they leave their family and they leave all their belongings and they're just doing it for the sake of money and here i'm doing it not for money but to bask in the great attributes of eretz israel which again we'll see tomorrow implies the guerra holds that it's not a midsole to living artistrol but there are many great attributes that what that accrues to a person listen narcissism and therefore the gross saying it's worth it for me to go and please don't be concerned for my welfare okay bachchan we made a good start today does hashem will pick it up tomorrow and uh everybody have yourself a great evening tonight 9 15. and wishing everyone brah this year will be available on torah anytime and again the shirum are now available on podcast as well uh wishing everyone a wonderful day koltov you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com