Journey to the Czech Republic: FULL JOURNEY - Holishev, Boskowitz, Nikolsburg

okay sh everyone after that that short trip from the ra to the sh you know it's very noteworthy that we're going from the Rama to the Shak first of all the Shak is the primary commentary on the and furthermore the sh married the son the Shak married the daughter of the great grandson of the Rama so the Shak was married to a descendant of the Rama and the Shak was born in 1622 the most extensive commentary on youra is the Shak does anybody know what your Shak was written in it was written in the year bakesh bakesh is the year 1646 the greatest work ever written on Yura was written when the Shak was 24 4 years old brings the it's a dla the Shak wrote his commentary at 24 years old the further points out that if you read the sh you'll see that he had also written a commentary on the tourah in the which we don't have and that's something he wrote even before he was 24 years old I'm going to give you a little sampling because we know that the Taz was published the very same year and the Taz was much the Taz was much older than the Shak and in that very same year both of these far were published I'm going to give you a little sampling of between the Taz and the sh so that if sh more than one animal all you need to do is to make one braa however if the talks and he's M between Shing one animal and the next so if he speaks about something that's connected to the he does not have to make another but if he speaks about something not related to the he would have to make another that's the day that speaking is not a he it's not a separation and he should not make another bra the shak's like the first de that you always make another bra this is the sh Z the sh is like the second comes the Taz and the Taz says that since the brings down both de and he doesn't give any conclusive ruling it has a din of a saf and we utilize the rule sa this is what the Taz says the sh on the other hand Pas like the first opinion now the Shak in his humility wrote a commentary on the Taz called and in the reason why he called it he wanted to show humility to the Taz as if the Taz is zahav the Taz is gold and he is merely KF so he says no he says emphatically and unequivocally it's not a suff because many Pim follow the first and therefore you need to make a now this is something which is not so well known who do we pass like the Shak or the Taz whenever there's the sh and the Taz the in po andita follow the Shak in Ash follow the Taz but in general we usually follow the rulings of the sh we headed to the C of the Shak which was published in the yeares bakes the Shak was published in the yeares 1646 so the little what city we in halev halev in Moravia okay we're just we have to re review this one more time because we're having technical difficulties so again it's a great to be here at the cover of the Shak on we mentioned that the Shak wrote his commentary at 24 years old he's called s h The Jug of the man because he provided for the Jewish people like the rash like and the sh learned by the rebes of kraal he's also student of the M schlomo of krao the Shak wrote on yadea the other great commentary on yadea was the Taz the Taz Rao David the Tazo David was much older than the Shak and theim were published in the very same year in the year 1660 six when the Shak was 24 years old and against the Taz the Shak wrote another commentary called the Taz responded the Taz responded with his own P against the to answer the questions of the Shak and this is called the last page in response to the the wrot now many people thought that the sh being much younger than the Taz maybe he doesn't have the right to argue with the Taz maybe there's a personal animosity a personal quarrel between them so I want to read to you what the sh says he says Anyone who reads my should not think that I wrote these comments against the Taz because of any personal animosity everybody knows how fond I am am of the Taz the Shak hosted the Taz for 3 days so can imagine here we are in HEV and the Shak host the Taz for three days and not only that I honored him greatly and the Taz gave a kiss to the Shak the almighty knows and God is a witness that I wrote these comments only only for the sake of the truth for fore the amount of effort the Shak put in to write his saers the Shak says nobody should question me that I said something and you don't understand it because the amount of am that I put into writing this commentary is I didn't review it once I didn't review it twice I didn't review it many times before I wrote anything I reviewed my learning 101 times and only then did I compose it how could the sh do this brings down that he has a tradition that the Shak knew special shame Hashem that when he would invoke this name of God he would be able to have the to access it quickly to be able to compose his now the sh wrote many he also wrote a tu are the laws of possession do you know how long it took the Shak to write 30 days this saer which is studied in all the 30 days in fact and iish wrote a of the amazing commentary of the Shak the Shak also was a poet he wrote the keyote for what happened in 1648 1649 he wrote a saer called M which is a record of all the terrible pams of the kitki pams I want to tell you a story about the daughter of the Shak the Shak had a daughter Esther you know you learned it I the they told on the bus what's what's your last name again yobu told you the whole story so you got it the bottom line is that when the Shak later in life came to the city of his future son-in-law RAB RAB mayor and his daughter revealed herself his daughter revealed herself so then the new husband was so happy to have this father-in-law he helped the Shak publish his p on one last story you'll tell me if you heard this story in Mexico if it made it to Mexico in 1648 1649 the G on were terrible and there were two great MIM and the sh and made a how he could be the Gaz and he was told that if he and the Shak would give up their life theot would stop agreed to give up his life he came to the sh he says if you will also agree to give up your life Theo will stop the sh says I need to think about it he comes back to he said I will give up my life for cl but I can't do it yet I didn't finish writing the Shak wow he says not until I finish riding the Shak can I give up my life isman Meltzer would say over this story and he would say even though this would have meant saving the lives of Jews the fact that we have the Shak was more important for the future of the Jewish people even than being so this was the of the not to give up his life to be able to produce for clel the works of is a double ands today's what's the sphere of is the who is the greatest example of in his should we should all that should be shalom shalom [Music] amen for shom and I'm going to translate into English yeah please okay also because we didn't get in the First Recording again we said that the sh was today like said the man came down for the Jewish people was called The Jug of the man and in the Merit of standing here Hashem should send us all the man spiritual benefits complet theing together we say want to Li together please in the Shak wrote some of the alltime great classic commentaries of Lamas that are studied in the Yesa aside from the Shak the Shak wrote this is one of the classic L works that were ever written about the laws of possession in and by the way the Shak was n before he reached 42 years old among other things you know the refers to a p the Shak has an so we have what the Shak wrote Ona we have what he wrote on we don't have an AR but he wrote an AR as well there's a fundamental difference between what the Shak wrote Ona and what he wrote on Ona he wrote it as a commentary on the words of the and the so aside from his own he's being the words of the the m and the however later on in life when he wrote on he did not explain the words of the M for a very simple reason he felt that the the commentary the already accomplished a commentary on the m and now all that was needed was for his own but he wrote this and in it he brings various laws of about various for example if Ru quotes he doesn't necessarily refer to our he's referring to like that there's another important rule that the Rama says this is very important rule remember the sh married a descendant of the Rama what's the if argue on who do you follow if argue on you follow the they were later they were the but there is an exception to that that's only if theim saw the but if you could find the that the AK didn't know about we're not going to say we follow the AK because he's later because we could say if he would have seen this reine he never would have pass in the way he did so the question now is we'll always pass in like the Shak but we need to know what books the Shak had access to because if he didn't have access to certain books we're not going to pan like him so there's a long discussion which did the sh see which did the Shak not see so for for example brings that the Shak did not see the and therefore we wouldn't necessarily follow the rulings of the Shak under these circumstances so there's a very lengthy introduction here about the that the Shak says what's the difference between what we call and there's something in the gar the has a question and the gar doesn't come out with the definitive answer and sometimes the gamar will say take so these are issues that the wrote about the wrote in one month this great work one of the great Classics of all time that it could take a lifetime to write the sh wrot in 30 days okay it's a great to be at the of the somebody his son writes about him in his that the entire day from morning until night even while he was lying down even as he was falling asleep but he likewise excelled in mid and before he died he left word that he doesn't want anyone to describe him in a HED as a go as a r as Aid as an unov he just wants a simple stone nothing written on it no they didn't listen to him so they took a very Exquisite marble and they carved out a very ornate that very night the mat broke it cracked in half and they saw the the wish of the sadic was being fulfilled what's amazing is that in 1930 when they redid this space they found in the corner of the sh the broken slab with his name on it and it was like a my face that they found the remnant of the original Mata that they had made for the now the writes and this is also brought in the beginning of the that the was so story goes like this one day they found the corpse and they found a knife next to it and the knife was clearly from the home of the but of course he didn't do it so they advised him listen you're going to be taken to court they're going to cross examine you just say it's not your knife if you say it's your knife then it's going to be impossible to wiggle out of the the situation and say yeah it's my knife I didn't do it when it came down to it and they asked him Rabbi whose knife is this he said as follows Ms dark it's my knife but I didn't do this brings out from here how careful one has to be in the of Ms nees so we're going to go to his Mata we'll hear more about the life ofu we're here on the top of the mountain in masich basovich looking over the city we're at the K of the mar I want to read to you the he says he was an elderly venerated Sage with thousands of the almighty spoke out of his throat like who as we mentioned in his youth from his youth from the early morning until late at night one of his uh signs of greatness is people from all over would come to him give him a name of a and in all of his he would D for others and his his eyes would be dripping with tears for all the that he daved for we mentioned his an now it's a very interesting name of a think about it you know if you're writing a book you don't want to would you call it half like what 50 you know so in the of the in the of his son-in-law he says that said that even though he was not Ming to the MS all the time he at least got it 50% at least 50% of the things were correct and then he said and he had another hidden reason are we even allowed to conjecture but maybe there's an idea that the word there's a system of is B 26 that's the name of hasem to indicate name was not is not M maybe it was a it was a that was a for the fruition of the fullness of hm's name as we know the M writes that the reason why named even though we don't give a we give is we're awaiting the day that we're going to give a maybe he called to indicate like a that we should be in any event it's very interesting it's brought in the biography in the name of that the once said to you know why I called because what's by the way do you know what is the it's a not a it's aish on the the was the most cryptic of all the maim one of the reasons is because he was very poor he actually wrote portions of on the walls of his home he could not afford paper so told Adler I don't understand thear of the but Ben I understand it halfway where said I understand Nar I could only understand onethird of what the M says benar in his great humility he did not publish his farm in his lifetime they came out the on the these were all published ply this is someone who was and so this is particularly to have our answered okay good afternoon everyone we're headed to Nichols BG to the Cav of nikolsburg and Benet I would like to share with you perhaps the most stirring story that you'll hear on the whole trip and this will give you an understanding of where AET is buried and it's an amazing controversy a very stirring controversy and something very mysterious Mor Benet lived from 1753 to 1829 he was the acclaimed godar however when he died he could not be buried in nickelsburg he had to be buried in Li and here's how it all happened when ra morai Benet was 60 years old ra morai suffered from severe ailments they grew steadily worse and then finally in the year 1829 Benet passed away at 75 years old RA morai in his final year was secluded in a chamber a within a learning the cabala learning the secrets of the to and his illness begins to overcome him and the doctor say you need to go to carsbad you know what carsbad is kbad is the the mineral baths so they warn him if you don't go to kbad You're forfeiting your life so goes to kbad It's the middle of to drink the May of kbad however the accursed Waters of the mineral baths enter his body they cause him to suffer terrible cramps in the abdomen abdomen they weaken his arteries his ligaments and he suffers for 17 days the doctors try to cure him but on Wednesday the 13th of a he was nft on the yard side ofala he he dies in carlbad what are they going to do with him so the city of nickelsburg sends word he's arov he needs to be buried the nickelsburg but the law of the land was if you're going to move him to a far distance he has to be in bombed they don't know what to do they bury him in carlbad it's not even a Jewish City so they they decide they're going to bury him in liad which was only a 2hour away journey and that's what they do they bury him in lienin meanwhile the city of B is up in arms that's not his City says there's a wherever you bury a mace he the Earth is kind of him the city is kind of him he is now ours belongs to us nikolsburg said what do you mean he was AR he even left in his that at the very least that he would like to be buried in nickelsburg and if not nickelsburg at least the city of Prague and this Shila of what to do with the Holy go was brought to none other than and you can look in the by the way now we know it was also brought to two other G it was brought toar it was also brought to the son of the and very unusually the writes that he's inclined to say that you can move him but he stopped short of definitively saying that he could be moved so when the city of nickelsburg hears that the sort of was not definitive so they back off and they let it be 7 months and according to some six months pass and all of a sudden the revisits the case and now finally he writes definitively to nikolsburg that he has decided that they should move his body and he this is his decision definitively and they bring him TOA on the 12th of Adar in the year T 1830 in the city of nickelsburg and it was always a mystery the never h never the always gave a definitive in fact theer would say that he didn't need to bring Ras to his Pak whatever his Pak was that is what they agreed to in the sh he doesn't need R whatever he says in fact says only two times he ever retracted aak and both times that he retracted his Pak he was wrong he got it right the first time so why was unsure so to speak of theak over here so there's AER and he brings the testimony of shimer the son ofer that theer was in the middle of riding the cha to allow to pasan that they should move from M Benet to nickelsburg however as he's completing writing the Chua suddenly the is overtaken with sleep and he has a dream and none other than ra Benet reveals himself in a dream to the and Benet says let me explain to you why I'm buried here in in you see many years ago I issued a to allow an engagement to be broken and because I was to this lady to allow her engagement to be broken I am punished to be buried next to this girl who I allowed her engagement to be broken and the proof is says go take a look inad I am buried next to the girl whose engagement iasin could be broken however there's another version of the story that Benet revealed himself says I was engaged to this lady the Ritson ofat we were engaged for seven months and then I broke the engagement and as a punishment for breaking the engagement I needed to be buried next to her for seven months go and check and verify who I'm buried next to but now the seven months SH now the seven months are over now you can move me and theer in fact pasin that he could be moved by the way when they went when the residents of nickelsburg went to move theet the residents ofat did not let these emissaries come in they hired Hooligans they hired a mob it became a very great controversy finally they had to get military protection to move the holy body of Mor Benet who was finally moved on the 12th day and buried on the 12th day of Adar 7 months later in the year 1830 so this is the story of how raet was fin finally moved from the city of lonat to nickelsburg soet he passes in carlbad he's first buried in lad and finally he's buried in this city that we're headed to in nikolsburg okay we're headed to the of nikolsburg here is a sign that tells us after this long trk to go up here so we're here we're in the Czech Republic we're mikov we nikolsburg the rebka the renowned rebina now this is very important to understand the Reber of scha was one of the earliest promats of the IDE ideology ofid he was a t of the maged however he didn't start off as of the maged started off in VNA by the vag and through the influence of early he moved he became a t of the maged and he he is responsible for spreading kidos not only here but throughout Poland however he didn't fully endorse some of the views of the B and the maged he took AOS and combined it to a certain extent with in-depth learning and polish kidos was deeply influenced by we'll call it this revolutionized type ofid that was brought by the rebber OFA so that's why you find like about the his great K his prous his gura his to and he was a great sadic he Afflicted himself in fasting and he was very close with his brother the their father was and The Story Goes that one year sh was coming and the father says you know sh is coming what do you think we should learn so the re said we should learn should learn so said you know is bad Oaths so I know but you taught us that we're made that we took an oath to keep the Torah we have to know the binding nature of an oath the next year again CH was coming and he asked his other son the which we should learn and the said we should learn two masas and Kad because when gave us the tah he married us so to speak okay the re we have AER from him there he writes that the medish tells us it's not good to start with the word AF anyone who with an AF had a very bad downfall like who the or said whoever starts with the word anger he's done so the Reber of the fifth per begins how could you begin a peric with a says the re ofka an amazing thing how many Pim are in 13 Pim the3 is the therefore it encompasses all 13 the fifth of the anger so is if you have a problem with KAS you should learn the fifth par ofus therefore the fifth par ofus begins with the word AF he was born in 1726 he was nifter in 1778 how many years did he live 52 years he would always tell people he had the Nish of Shu he had the Nish of sh in fact on his deathbed he told people he told this my is the ofu here's the Simmon we have the same name Shmo was a Ley I'm a Ley shm live 52 years I live 52 years the only difference is he was and I'm just sha that's the words of the Reb in the he brings from the Reb that anyone who doesn't have kavana cannot be anything in it's not possible to have unless by these two said the rebba rebka when he was accepted here in nickelsburg in the year 1773 5 years before his P so he was preparing to greet the people and they caught him in his room saying sh rash you know a little bit strange that he'd be saying these things to so they asked Rebo you know what exactly you doing he says in it says what does that mean means like this you know how you should treat coved imagine if you were yourself imagine if the coved you were receiving didn't come from anyone you were telling that to yourself would you get coved from that no you would have You' need therapy if you actually thought that was covered if you're the one being M yourself everybody understands it's empty that you're saying when somebody else gives you coved you should think of it as if you yourself are giving yourself coved so I'm practicing that when people say this to me it's I'm saying it to myself just like if I would say it to myself I would understand that it's meaningless that's how I view when other people this is uh the ideology of the Reb and we have the it's a great to be here in nickelsburg in mov at the of three alltime great sadik and we're going to begin nit Rina this is the so you say theed that sounds somewhat familiar this is what we call the seed Harish he was a student of the not to be confused with the bat he's actually so early he's quoted by the brings that there's an indion to eat fish by three sud and chabas Friday night chabas day and there's an inan there many reasons for that however the gives a that if the fisherman hack jack up the prices then you don't have to keep this you don't have to be abused financially to be m this indan in other words it's better to keep the economics of the city feasible for people and to abandon this custom this is a famous pack of theed quoted by the M now he's buried right next to him is re of Legend has it that samed said that for a 100 years he doesn't want nobody could be buried next to him and sure enough 100 years later exactly the next great personality of nickelsburg was buried right here sham to okay so we're here we're in the Czech Republic we're mikov we're nikolsburg the Reb the renowned Reb this is very important to understand the re OFA was one of the earliest promats of the ideology ofas he was a talid of the mag however he didn't start off as a of the mag started off in VNA by the V and through the influence of early he moved he became a t of the maged and he he is responsible for spreading not only here but throughout Poland however he didn't fully endorse some of the views of the B and theed he took and combined it to a certain extent with indepth learning and polish kidos was deeply influenced but we'll call it this revolutionized type ofos that was brought by the Reb so that's why you find G like about the his great Kad his his G his and he was a great sadic he Afflicted himself in fasting and he was very close with his brother their father was and The Story Goes that one year sh was coming and the father says you know sh is coming what do you think we should learn so the re said we should learn is should learn said you know is bad Oaths so I know but you taught us that we're that we took took an oath to keep the Torah we have to know the binding nature of an oath the next year again was coming and he asked his other son the which we should learn and said we should learn two and K because when gave us the T he married us so to speak okay the re we have AER from him there he writes that the med tells us it's not good to start with the word AF anyone who start with an AF had a very bad downfall like who the or H said whoever starts with the word anger he's done so the Reber of the fifth per begins how could you begin a peric with a says re ofka an amazing thing how many Pim are in 13 Pim why are there 13 Pim because is the therefore it encompasses all 13 the fifth of the anger so is if you have a problem with you should learn the fifth par ofus therefore the fifth par ofus begins with the word a he was born in 17726 he was nter in 1778 how many years did he live 52 years he would always tell people he had the Nish of sh he had the Nish of sh in fact on his deathbed he told people he told his Tam my is the of sh here's the Simon we have the same name Shmo was a Ley I'm a Ley Shmo live 52 years I live 52 years the only difference is he was and I'm Justa that's the words of the re in the he brings from the Reka that anyone who doesn't have cannot be anything in it's not possible to have unless by these two said the Reb when he was accepted here in nickelsburg in the year 1773 5 years before his ptia so he was preparing to greet the people and they caught him in his room saying shash you know a little bit strange that he'd be saying these things to so they asked rebba you know what exactly are you doing he says I'm says what does that mean means like this you know how you should treat coved imagine if you were M yourself imagine if the coved you were receiving didn't come from anyone you were telling that to yourself would you get coved from that no you would have you would need therapy if you actually thought that was coved if you're the one being M yourself everybody understands it's empty that you're saying when somebody else gives you covered you should think of it as if you yourself are giving yourself coved so I'm practicing that when people say this to me it's I'm saying it to myself just like if I would say it to myself I would understand that it's meaningless that's how I view when other people this is the ideology of the re said and we have all know it's great to be at the K of Ben M Benet 17 1753 to 1829 this is what he looked like this is a picture of Benet Benet Marcus Benedict this is the picture says about him H H says he's like's only son I want to tell you an amazing from we know there's a we bring trees to the Bas there's a big question about that what's where does this come from is it even permitted says very simple make a make a simple was born on what day what did his mother do with him at 3 months what did she then do with him put him in the sea of reeds what day was that let's make a three months later says why was protected on that day because that was the day he wased to give the and what protected him the SF the reads the tree so we plant the tree we bring the tree into the to show that we were to the that he was hidden on that day 3 months after his birth it's the second day of rashash here in nikolsburg and the Y what's the Y the Crown Prince is coming to visit and they need to be prepared and he's coming he's coming he's coming meanwhile they're you know they're waiting to DAV they're waiting to DAV and the hour is getting late the hour is getting late and if they don't DAV now they're going to miss the says we have to so they start the and just then the Crown Prince comes in and he's davening he's daving he's weeping he's crying and the Crown Prince is sitting there he's standing there he's waiting he's waiting he's waiting he's Furious and after finishes the he greets the Crown Prince he speaks to him he calms him down he makes and the Crown Prince said never in his life did he ever see anyone pray this way shortly after there was a su there was an assassination attempt against the Crown Prince and his life was saved and the Crown Prince attributed it to the braa of Benet now Benet wrote AER the with DAV from the in the there was an inscription with his personal handwriting he would write I make will not take pleasure from this world unless it's really needed needed for my own personal health we mentioned the story of when was n in where car's what day he's bought brought two hours later to and ultimately he's buried here in nikolsburg on all of