Journey To London 2024: Rav Yonasan Eibeshutz Uncovers The Mitzvah that All History Hinges Upon

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com we this morning we are call we are very privileged and honored to invite I'm glad to see those of you know no Rob America is one of the you know there throughout history there's one Mitzvah it's a very underrated Mitzvah you would not necessarily have expected that this Mitzvah will be the main Battleground between asov and Yakov between hamon and CLA it's not a mitzah we always speak about or focus on but one thing we know about Milla sest we know was said withes which means that every single detail in the M was written withes every word needs to be there every letter is to help us appreciate the miracle of hasem so there's one detail in the Milla which is uh it seems like a unnecessary detail you know when the Milla introduces Esther hamala it says that Ester had a very unusual life experience Kaz say that Mor took Esther laas she had no father and she had no mother Esther was an orphan Esther had no a and she had no aim but the Milla says more than that wasn't your average orphan it says and when her father and mother died so the gamar asks obviously if she had no father and mother M must have taken her when her father and mother died and the gamar says something even more than that the gar says not only did Esther's father and mother die but when Esther was conceived her father died and when she was born her mother died in other words she never saw her parents Esther never saw her father and mother okay so the first question is why does Migel have to tell us that what difference does it make that Esther never saw her father and mother is it relevant that Esther never saw her father and mother but the medish says even more the medish says that Hashem swore Hashem took AA that he will only redeem clro through somebody who has no father and has no mother why why does the Redeemer have to come through someone who has no no father and someone who has no mother I want to share with you very interesting Theus tells us about by the name of R was very poor he was so poor he cannot support his family and his wife said enough already I can't take it anymore could you know you're a sadic why don't you pull some of your sadic stuff and Dav maybe hasm will give us some food so DAV and a hand came down from shamayim and handed him a golden leg she said yeah very that's what I'm talking about that's what I that's what I need a golden leg a golden leg of a table had a dream and in his dream he saw that all theim were sitting on a two-legged table a three-legged table and he was sitting on a two-legged table and he interpreted the meaning of the dream as follows he interpreted the meaning of the dream that the fact that Hashem gave him and his family a golden leg meaning means that hasem gave it to them but it's coming out of his spiritual bank account it's coming out of his he would have been eating at a three-legged table in ganen but instead Hashem gave a golden leg and now he lost the of his and then the gar says we have a m that the second Mir that so what he was he daved that hasem should take back the leg and a hand came and took back the leg says the gamar the second miracle was greater than the first miracle because we have a tradition Heaven gives heaven doesn't take back so the fact that Hashem took back the leg was a bigger Miracle than the fact that Hashem gave the leg and it's a very peculiar gamar what's the meaning of this that all the eat on a three-legged table and was only eating on a two-legged table and what does it mean that the second miracle was greater than the first miracle Hashem only gives he doesn't take isn't there AEM gives and hasem takes why would the second Miracle be greater than the first miracle so here's the deal in the times of puim we had a very powerful enemy his name was hamon and if you look in the tar the Milla hamon was coming bolstered and supported by a very big zus so what kind of zus was H being bolstered by he was coming bolstered by Theus of his great Z as we know how came from as as what does as have tell us that even though as was a Russia nevertheless there was one area where asov was great in a way that nobody could compare to we know that asov was the alltime greatest nobody honored their father like asov in fact would say that I don't hold a candle to asov you know what that means in America there's an expression you know in America they speak a different language it's called English you ever hear English I don't hold that was a joke that's another thing we got to we got to work on the humor also you know now I know you don't think American humor is that funny it requires many years of training to appreciate American humor but a does not compare ASV does not compare to the key uh said that he does not compare to the of asov you know why cuz when asov would honor his father he would put on special and rashim gam says I just wear my regular clothing when I honor my father there was no one in the history of the world who honored their father like asov there's nobody who honored the their father like asov so we're we're in big trouble because if hmon is coming to destroy us and he is being bolstered and he's supported by the of then how are we going to overcome him so we got a problem comes ranam andanam orchestrates the following situation the following scenario and this principle that we're about to learn is the great that is taught by it's an amazing thear tells us if somebody thinks to do a Mitzvah V and they can't do it they have extenuating circumstances let's say a person says you know today I'm going to go be I'm going to go visit somebody who's ill and for whatever reason there's a road closure and they can't do the Mitzvah and they have an oess it's considered as if you did it I'm sure you heard of that idea that if somebody planned on being M Mitzvah and they to the Mitzvah and they couldn't do it circumstances were beyond their control Hashem considers it like you did the Mitzvah says actually if you wish you could do a Mitzvah and you don't get around to it because you didn't have the opportunity to do it not only does Hashem consider it like you did the Mitzvah it's considered as if you did the Mitzvah in an even greater way than if you would have done the Mitzvah actually why is is that says when you do a Mitzvah it's always limited by human shortcoming let's say I do a perfect Mitzvah let's say I come and I learn for an hour did you learn with Sim did you learn with did you learn completely or were you hoping somebody would your rebi would see you or your friend would see you and think you're a big sadic and maybe you'll get a little covet out of it also so even if you do a Mitzvah in the best possible way it will never be a perfect Mitzvah however if you don't do the Mitzvah but you wish you could have done the Mitzvah and now Hashem gifts you the Mitzvah hasem says well if I'm gifting you the Mitzvah I'm going to gift you my kind of Mitzvah I'm going to gift you a perfect Mitzvah I'm going to gift you a Mitzvah in in a way that I Amah I'm going to give you the most beautiful incredible powerful Mitzvah ever accomplished so says actually if a person would like to do a Mitzvah and doesn't get around to it because they can't and Hashem gives to you the Mitzvah that in a certain sense is greater than actually doing the mitzah say there's a man by the name of ham ham is supported by the highest actual fulfillment of K in the history of the world so how are we going to overcome that how are we going to counteract that how are we going to fight that there's only one way we need to have someone who can't do not only could she not do she was never able to do she was so nobody ever lacked a father and mother more than Esther because when her when she was conceived her father died when she was born her mother she never even saw her parents so she grew up her whole life wishing yearning hoping somehow she wish be bam you know if only I had the opportunity to honor my father and mother I wish I could have so Hashem gifted Esther the greatest madga of K history and with that she was able to overcome H say why did the wife of why couldn't she why couldn't she take it anymore that they didn't have money what do you think the wife of wanted a nicer chandelier in her house you think she wanted a nicer pair of shoes that's why she told him you know we I can't take it anymore I need money Rab's wife had a problem you know what her problem was she saw everyone in the neighborhood when anim would knock on the door would give them $20 bills $50 bills every time somebody uh needed a favor everyone else in the neighborhood had money to do with but she had no money to do with so she felt she's going to go up to her husband is a big to so will'll have the leg of Tyra her husband DAV all day and all night she'll have the leg of a but when they get upstairs they're going to be missing the Third Leg of you know why CU they have no money they have no food to eat not that she has nothing to eat she has nothing to give so she thought she made a mistake she thought that when you can't do a mitzvah then in sh you're gonna be lacking the mitvah says she didn't know that once Hashem gave her the money now she'll be missing the leg because now when she does the it's not going to be in such a perfect she was actually better off not having it and wishing she did it this is a very important Y in general especially in Yeshiva life you know sometimes a person says ah you know I'm not as good as this B if only I had the of this B then I would reach this level I would learn 100 more blot I would do much better in my learning if only I could be like him or only I could be like them but it's a big mistake because in a certain sense if a person doesn't have the ability but wishes they could so if you have two people one does and one doesn't but wishes they could who's on a higher level it's not necessarily the one that does in a certain sense it's the one that doesn't and wishes they could and that's always important to bear in mind whenever someone sees someone doing a Mitzvah if they could do it of course they should do it themselves and if they can't do it it has a lot of value in Shay when a person says you know I can't do it I wish I could do it now you should know if you really wish you could do it and you really want to do it and you're going to try to do it you'll see you will be able to do it because R will give you but even if for whatever reason you're not you never get around to it you're not you're really not able to do it if you think to do a mitvah and circumstances don't allow you the will consider it like you actually did it but more than that like you did it in a way even greater than if you would have actually done it and says this is a in many areas in life you know B we don't have AR says there won't be until M comes but says every morning when you put on you should say I wish I had then you will be rewarded as if you wereas we don't have it we can't get it so but it doesn't mean you shouldn't want to do it when I was a b i now you wonder where am I from I'm from there's you know the continents there's Europe there's Asia there's Africa there's Antarctica South America and New York you know I'm from the continent of New York and there's a country in New York it's called Brooklyn you ever hear of the country of Brooklyn so I come from the country of Brooklyn and when I grew up there was a big sadic living in Brooklyn har Miller and Hashem gave me a little a good idea when I was a B I used to walk toder Miller 50 minutes on chabas 5 I personally heard many things from Miller and R Miller has a saer on where he writes as follows you know one of the main reasons why we D in is to activate this to activate this of I'll give you a few examples that he says let's say a big doctor how many people could this big doctor heal in one day how many patients does he see 10 15 20 so at the end of the day even though he's accomplishing a lot he's only healing 10 15 20 people but if when you say you think I wish I would be able to cure all the then you're you're rewarded as if you cured oh what could you do you're not a doctor you don't have medicine you don't know how to heal everyone but you wish you could have and Hashem considers it like you did moreover a person could go up to andem is going to reward you as if you built you sh and brought msia that's what do you mean but I lived in the gas and Y wasn't built and I didn't bring mhia yeah but when I said I really wished I could help build I really wish I could bring mhia soem says you wanted it you yearned for it you thought about doing it you couldn't do it it wasn't up to you you are credited you are rewarded as if you did it with Miller right this is one of the most important parts aspects of daving to at least want to do all the great things and whether a person can or not it's not always up to us but now I want to focus on on why the battle in the times of PM was dependent upon which Mitzvah think about it hon is bolstered is supported by the Mitzvah of kav Esther has to counteract hon not with actually fulfilling kav but with wanting to fulfill kav you know on the other hand like the there's another extreme of this rabar Le Steinman would say that our generation has an opportunity that he never saw before in the history of CLA Isel you know there people let's say my parents my father didn't know his grandparents my father never met his grandparents my my my grandparents my father's parents are Holocaust Survivors my grandfather was in aitz my grandmother was had a masquerade and hide herself in the in the forest their parents were killed in the Holocaust my grandmother's father was the last R of the city of sahav he was killed in the war soeta my grandfather's parents did not survive the the Holocaust so my grand my father didn't know his grandparents I grew up I knew my grandparents and I knew many of my great-grandparents and that's a new phenomenon you know I'm sure for many of you barem many people have the great blessing they have parents some people even have a great Braha they have grandparents and some people even know their great-grandparents it wasn't always like this it's like a more recent phenomenon andon leyman said in the generation before mhia comes Hashem gives us my parents who are Grandparents were taking care of their elderly parents that's a rare phenomenon that's a new phenomenon RAB said in the generation before mashia comes since as in order to counteract Hashem gives the final generation more opportunities for in order to counteract as so the truth is there could be two different types of situations person could have in life sometimes unfortunately person doesn't have the BR of parents then they should think like you know what Hashem gave the opportunity that I wish I had parents to honor and be M and if somebody has grandparents and great-grandparents they should think Hashem is giving extra opportunity to M but Thea the area of the battle between is and asov is the inion of what's so important about why is that you know like the final battle between andov I saw an Al in the name of shim Schwab an amazing Insight when marish ate from theas he ruined the world had it not been for as for eating for theas people wouldn't have to go to work people wouldn't have to wouldn't get sick people wouldn't die marish ruined all the world and you know what he even downgraded the Mitzvah even the were affected by the sish there's only one Mitzvah in the that always remained on the level that it was created with before you know why cuz adish he had everything in the world he just didn't have two things he didn't have a father and he didn't have a mother he was so therefore the Mitzvah of retains its status of the way it was created in the Shay that's why RAB says that when Yu came to honor his father Y what smell did y smell because you know what smells like it's the one smell that smells like ganen before the sin of adish and therefore if there's one mitzvah that could bring the world back to the way it's supposed to be to to the way created it there's one Mitzvah that could Usher in Mia there's one Mitzvah that could Elevate us to the highest possible level The Final Battle Ground between yov and asov revolves around the Mitzvah of and especially purm time according to Hashem had to orchestrate special scenario for Esther that means that the greatest that had in the times of Pim was not what they did it's what they wanted to do so if you could actually do it you know it's very interesting it just occurred to me do you know what SIM and it's cuz you know what is here to say is here to say not they're coming to create a sever in the generations so this month we know what our task is we have to overcome H we have to overcome and in that's we should be able to give the final knockout punch to and we should all be to the and see in this month thank you for listening thank you very much thank you thank you thanks so much you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tor anytime.com