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okay we have a very important subject
tonight
we know we're now uh within not only the
three weeks but the nine days if anybody
wants to get there safer on the three
weeks the darkness and the dawn it is
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we're going to speak tonight about a
subject
relevant to the Holocaust
to the three weeks in general and to a
very
misunderstood misquoted
abused concept and that is the the
subject of Das Torah we hear there's
something called Das Tara we know that
aside from the halacha there is a
concept that if great Torah sages have a
certain opinion even if we can't
necessarily pinpoint what the source is
that has a certain legal standing and
it's binding to a certain extent the
question is what's the basis for such a
view we're now coming upon the 10th yard
side we just passed the 10th yard side
of revolution
who is one of the greatest pie skim on
post World War II reviews
to meet him one time in my lifetime
I remember when I was a bakra learning
in Yeshiva so we went uh just to see
Rebel yashiv and I remember there were a
few people crowding around him one guy
was showing him Corn Flakes
one guy was showing him purchase of
mezuzah another guy was showing
himacha so he's bombarded from you know
all types from Kala torukula
and uh
I I feel very fortunate to have seen him
so I want to explore a little bit and
this is based on an article that I saw
many years ago from rabios of Gabriel
beckhoffer and then and some letters
that roboshov wrote that were printed
later in the uh kovitzy Tyra and I think
it will give us a little bit of a
picture of to some extent on our meager
level to understand the thought process
of when it comes to piske halacha and to
try to glean a little bit what is this
elusive concept of Das Torah let's begin
with the chuva this tube is dated
1985 the 13th day of Sivan and the
question was addressed to Rebel yashiv
from none other then
foursome
kavir Hamas
okay so the caliper rubber is asking a
Shayla to Rebel yashiv we recently had
this supposed to have the son of the
Calavera in our of the cow rabbit and
our shul this was a question addressed
to brother Yasha from the admir of kalav
and the suggestion of the caliber Rebel
was cavareva was a holocaust Survivor
and
the suffering of the those who person of
in the Holocaust always
reverberated in his soul he could never
forget these uh The Six Million
their cry always rang in his ears he can
never divert his attention from thinking
about their plight he cannot be made
from them from their cry that their
blood is screaming from the ground and
therefore his suggestion was
that he proposed that all Jewish people
at the end of the Phila should accept
upon themselves
by saying the Posse after
and they should be having to be miyached
with the The Six Million did you have
into like
show solidarity to the 6 million who are
burnt on the fires in the during the
showa and this was The Proposal of the
Calabar Reba at the end of Elena in the
sither anyway a many sermon has the
possible Israel all Jews should recite
shama Israel they should have in mind
that they're unifying with the
Kardashian and this was the proposal to
Rebel yahshua as a way of call Israel
memorializing the The Six Million
and the karaba pleaded uh with Rebel yes
you know please share your opinion on
this proposal
and rebel Yasha said well you know
you're asking my opinion
I wasn't going to say anything but now
that you're asking me
he said you should know that after the
showa
the mem of the time gathered together
contemplating establishing a public fast
day to mourn the loss of the Kardashian
and it is well known
greatly opposed it he opposed it with
great vehemence said it was wrong to do
so why and he he enunciated the
following idea
our generation is not worthy to
establish anything
we are not qualified to make an
enactment for Our Generation the
operating principle ishtica
silence is best silence means don't talk
don't do don't enact don't legislate
we're not qualified
so that's the first point the first
point is said we are not qualified to
make calendar dates we are not qualified
to make prayers we are not qualified to
do anything
and number two says
with all due respect rabba I don't know
what you're talking about to be United
with the kadosha
what source is there in hazal that you
should Unite with people who perished
there's no basis for that and if there's
no basis for that you're not allowed to
do it
now you might ask well where does it say
you're not allowed to do it tonight it
seems like a good idea does it say
somewhere you're not allowed to do it
so we see it from Rebel yashiv that
sentiment
is not an adequate basis for policy
the fact that you feel something is not
a legitimate reason to make a
legislation
even if it the policy doesn't clash with
halacha so the question is not well
what's wrong why can't I do it what's
wrong
the question is where is it source that
you should do it and if it's not sourced
then you're not allowed to
you know there are many
there are many times where there are
contemporary issues well where does it
say that women can't or where does it
say that this should not be done that's
not the correct perspective in the
perspective is not weird does it say
that you can't the perspective is that
if you don't have bases in Ghazal that
this should be done then you're not
allowed to do it that's the way Jewish
practice works it's not enough where
does it say I can't do it it's what is
the source in hazal
in my opinion
let's strengthen what Jews are already
doing after it's Villa namely to learn
that have no Remnant and may the master
of Mercy conceal them in the shade of
his wings for eternity so from this
chuva so we see a very important
principle that in Jewish practice in
order to establish something it's not
enough that there's no prohibition that
it if it's not found in hazal you may
not do it you cannot legislate policy
based on feeling
even if there's nothing wrong even if
there's no that says you know how to do
it if there is no Source in hazal you
cannot do it
sure so how do we implement
s
I can't speak on behalf of any
particular institution and I am not
employed by this institution
but the same thing would go for
for uh something like that which is
the primary reason let's say that the
khazainish also opposed
bad prayer as well
what was the caliber ever thinking
the caliber ever was a great admir
but Rebel yashiv was the preeminent
now
I would humbly suggest that I think I
can find some basis for
the notion in other words let's try to
analyze this kalvareba says he's
proposing that that we should all say
Shema and
like what in the world does that mean
does it mean solidarity is there some
mystical concept here and I believe he
is he is referring to a mystical concept
and I want to share with you what it is
and it's actually a very powerful
concept and then we're gonna have to go
back to explain Revelation there's an
amazing
I just thought of it tonight preparing
the share Israel
Jews are holy yeshu writes have a life
some people they want to give a million
bucks they don't have money
right you have people they have a good
heart they don't have the resources
some people have venoiroza and they
don't want
so you're two kinds of people but all
Jews are holy there's some people who
want but they don't have now that I
understand why they're holy they want to
give they just don't have and some Jews
have and they don't want
so how are they holy they have money and
they don't want to give so presumably
they're not giving so how are the how
are Jews who have and don't want how are
they holy so tysus asks why are they
Holy says
they're still called holy shamas they do
invite their friend
by them
because they're embarrassed not to so
they have
they give but they really don't want to
so
the slum of
in a safer on the Holocaust called
conscious
he's he quotes the question of the rabba
RAB zusha you ever hear the rubber of
zusha he was one of the early Hasidic
Masters
the rubber of zusha astantis
says I understand the one who wants to
give and he can't give he's called
kadash because he wants to but the one
who has and he doesn't want to so I
understand that says that he gives out
of embarrassment
but as the revolution who cares if he
gives if his whole giving is out of
embarrassment goyam also give out of
embarrassment why would this person be
called holy
so the river of Zeus shall offered the
following major uh
revelation
the Jewish people are one entity
and if we're one entity
as an entity we offer to God
perfect Mitzvahs now there are two parts
of the Mitzvah there's the body of the
Mitzvah and there's the soul of the
Mitzvah the body of the Mitzvah is
giving the soul of them it says wanting
to give
some Jews provide the body and some Jews
provide the soul so the Jew that gives
even though he doesn't want to give out
of embarrassment is he holy oh wait wait
a second he's providing the Jewish
people with the body of the mitzvah and
the Jews that wish they could give but
can't they're providing the soul of the
missile and together as one entity
Israel
okay so in other words the Jew that
gives even though he doesn't want to
he's doing something he's providing the
body and those who really want it
they're providing the soul
extended this further he extended this
to the principle of sanctifying hashem's
name
he says in the Holocaust there are many
Jews
they were killed
yes they were killed because they were
Jewish
but they didn't necessarily even know
they were Jewish they necessarily even
want to be Jewish and if Hitler would
have given them a choice to renounce sir
Judaism they would have happily
renounced Judaism to save their skin
you had Jews who renounced their Judaism
and didn't want to be Jews but Hitler
tracked them down and tracked down their
lineage and killed them anyway so did
those Jews die out
says the son of a river they died
that was the act that was the body
there were Jews who said God I wish you
would take my soul and they survived
and they provided the soul of the
Mitzvah and the combination of the act
of certain Jews that died maybe they
didn't even want to and they didn't they
they did it kicking and screaming and
they they didn't even appreciate that
they were Jewish that's the body of the
Mitzvah and the Jews that wanted to
that's the soul of the Mitzvah and the
son of develops this idea that when you
say kriya Shima
where the kavana is supposed to be that
if ever put to the ultimate test you
would give up your life Hashem
you should have in mind that your
thoughts should join up with those Jews
who were actually killed so you're
providing the soul of the Mitzvah to
those Jews who actually sacrificed their
life
so I I believe that what the calabaraba
means that you should say Shema and then
be miyache with the kadoshim is they
physically gave up their life you should
provide the Rod signed to give up your
life and together it sort of fuses a
beautiful Mitzvah before Hashem
that's what I think the calabaraba means
saying is it's a nice idea it's a nice
thought it's a nice makshava
actually the son wherever brings down
that the rubber of zusha had a dream
and ticeless himself came to the river
of zusha and explained to the river of
zusha what I mean that a Jew
that gives even though he doesn't want
to out of embarrassment what I mean that
he's holy is he's holy together with the
Jew who wants it and the baltosis
actually appeared to the revolution a
dream and explained what his Cabana was
and I'm sure Rebel yashiv knew that
but that's still not what is considered
uh idea found in hazal that we're going
to legislate practice based on that
it's a nice thought it's a nice idea it
may even be true we will not legislate
practice based on that in order to
legislate practice it must be sourced in
the words of
that's the first idea I want to share
with you another chuva take a look in
number two this is crack aleph of the
chuvasive
this is regarding the following Shaya
you had
people who perished in the Holocaust
they were never brought to kuras Israel
we don't even know where they're buried
so let's now the proposal was to erect a
monument in the cemetery
this commemorates the fall of the city
of
in memory of the five
fifty thousand Jews that perish in the
city to have a memorial for for Jews who
Parish in the Holocaust are you allowed
to do that
why not
what could be wrong with making a
memorial
looks at the question as follows
we know there's a principle we cannot
walk in the ways of and we cannot
be similar to them
you know that's very vague
so now what
go and breathe
right
Gentiles drink water
they
wear clothing actually they don't but
you know what exactly you're now to do
so the Rama says
it's only prohibited to do things that
Gentiles do
if they do it out of lewid immodest
Behavior
or
they do it as a rule without a logic to
it for example you're about to go to the
store
and um
a black cat passes your path
you come back you can go
yeah Uncle what are you doing back I
told you to go get me a thing of milk I
can't go a black cat across my path
now why do guyim think that if a black
cat grows apparently can't go to the
store
no reason it's superstitious
it is forbidden not to do something
because the black hat if that is cold
following the ways of them you're over
alive in the tire
what it's pouring outside why don't you
open the umbrella in the house and this
way you won't get it no you can't open
an umbrella in the house what's gonna
happen if you open the brown in the
house
now it's awesome to open around the
house no going don't open because it's
superstitious now if the reason you're
not doing it is because you're going to
break the chandelier that we understand
but if you have a if you have a
chandelier up on the ceiling and a big
doorway and this way you're going to
keep dry it is alive the Eraser not to
not to open up or there's a ladder
by the goyam the biggest aveira in the
world after you know woke and other PC
is you can walk under a ladder
now if it's a rickety ladder I
understand you shouldn't walk on it it
was a regular ladder what's why can't
you walk under the ladder
so the Rama says what things are you not
allowed to do that go ahead and do
either if it's or if it's what we call
Mil sabalitam something that has no
logic to it
so says to make a monument it's not
princess
and it's not illogical there's a certain
reason you want to have a monument to
remember
something that happened so at first
glance it would not be prohibited
however the Vilma going rights and he
disagrees with Rama and the girl writes
anything that do we cannot copy
them if they innovated it then we cannot
copy them so when it comes to drinking
water glaim didn't innovate drinking
what is the basic human need clothing is
the basic human need any human practice
you're Lata do but if Gentiles innovate
and we know that it says that we have to
go him are very into monuments you know
you take the the curtain and you're
covering the monument and everyone
gathers there and then somebody comes
and he whips off the and everyone goes
ah
ooh right and there's a certain amount
of ooze you have to make an instrument
of Ozzy have to make so that's this is a
gentile practice
so according to the going this would be
prohibited however it says rebellious if
not so fast because if we could prove
that we innovated it
then even the gun would say it's
permitted and we do find in tanach we
find that
who didn't have children he made a
monument for himself so we see that this
is a concept that is rooted in our
practice not only the practice of the
Gentiles so yoshif says that maybe at
first glance this would be permitted
however there's another issue
those who is who owns the cemetery
The Shield right a cemetery of a city is
like a basaknesses
it's owned by the community and it is
prohibited for anyone to benefit from it
in any way it is dedicated solely for
the burial of the dead and it is
prohibited to make anything there you
can't build an ice cream store there you
can build uh
anything it belongs to the community
dedicated for burial and some safer
holds like this and accordingly it would
be prohibited to make a monument over
there however this opinion of the
government is not unanimous if you look
at the marsham he quotes the mug in
avram that a cemetery is not also to get
benefit from and the only things you're
now to do in the cemetery are those
things that are disparaging to the Mason
so you can't play shuffleboard in the
cemetery but you want to make a monument
and I don't think it says it's not
disparaging to the Mason
no an individual is okay you mean if
he's not buried there he's buried there
no so that's what a cemetery is matseiva
is already
um
is a Jewish a Jewish custom it's
something which is needed by the mace
the mace gets a certain benefit from the
mountain that's for sure okay but they
have a monument for people who perish
and you don't know where they're buried
so so one issue is is this Gentile
practice
it's questionable if it's Gentile
practice it could be it is but it could
be we already find a concept in the
Torah about Seva namely afshalaim but
then another issue is who owns a
cemetery there's a there are some say
the cemetery is dedicated only for the
Mason others say no only a disparaging
thing you're now to do there but now
listen to what Rebel yahshuf says says
even though
Realm
there may be basis to allow a monument
that's din Taira
but does Torah
ain't that
the spirit of the sages don't doesn't
take pleasure from this
in other words you're right maybe you
can Point chapter and verse and say oh
this forbids it
but the spirit of the law is not pleased
with this practice
in the spirit of Allah what is that
supposed to mean if there's no technical
prohibition from any Sith in that you
know how to do this so what does it mean
the spirit of the law doesn't allow it
what exactly what is it what is this
concept of the spirit of the law
apparently what Rebel Yasha means is
that if someone Masters the entire
Corpus of the law all the
so even though you can point and say
this says you can't do it or that says
you can't do it but someone who has a
sensitivity and is in tune with the
Spirit of all halacha they could sort of
have a sixth sense and say you know what
this is not something that in general
would condone or endorse we don't we
don't
this is not something which fits the
general approach of halacha so you can't
point and say well in the 17th chapter
and the sixth it says there you know how
to do this but someone familiar with the
entire someone who has a sensitivity to
all halacha they're gonna recognize you
know this is uh there's something here
that it does not
fit the regular mode of what halacha
dictates
sentence
a lot of
it's proper for people who again
to make a monument just a monument for
people person Holocaust
because saying it's not against the
halacha but it's not something that the
are pleased with
it's therefore better
that if you want to memorialize people
person in the Holocaust
you should advise families
that
instead of making a monument
they should dedicate something
that the living will benefit from
for example
a manure on the shul
Nair Thomas in the shul am in the shul
because it is not within the spirit of
Jewish tradition just to do something
for dead people
yeah but but the concept is so as not to
forget
right it's not it's not so much for the
dead people as it is for the people that
are living today to make sure that they
don't believe the world doesn't you know
that they don't forget
so what relationship and he's saying is
not it's not prohibited right
it's not a bad thing
it's not someone familiar with with the
spirit of the law will have a
sensitivity that this is not
uh normative Jewish practice and they
and better to to dedicate something that
the living you want to remember
do so by dedicating something that the
living will benefit from and will be an
Eloy for their nashama
so is there anything wrong if Gentiles
make a holocaust museum no it's a good
thing
is there should there be like a monument
in a shul for Holocaust Survivors
if you would ask me
I would say better that's dedicate a a
narrow that the living benefit from or
slurum or something that the living uh
gained from but just the monument or a
memorial or flowers
foreign
it's something that
those who are sensitive to the spirit of
the law they would have an intuition
this is not what is recommended
so we see there's something there's
there's the strict legal technical
requirements or prohibitions and then
there's a certain Das of the Torah where
a person should be sensitive okay is
what I'm doing also within the
expectations of of those who who are
sensitive to the spirit of the law
I want to share with you one more issue
and this is a fascinating uh subject
this this issue appeared in a Torah
Journal called
and it was a letter that Revelation
wrote on Zion Thomas
a month after he wrote the chuva
regarding
in response to the calavereba whether
you should say Shema Israel after
Dominic so if I were to ask yasuf says
Singh after davening to remember
and bad idea
making a monument in a cemetery for
Holocaust Survivors
uh bad idea
what's wrong with saying Shema in our
generation we're not capable of
legislation
so they asked about yourself I want to
ask you what would you think Rebel yasuf
said
this is a month after Elisha responded
to the calibareba now is there anything
wrong with saying Shema if I wanted to
say Shema after davanni could I why not
it's Torah
what could be wrong with telling people
Everyone let's get together and say a
posse not really I said you can't do
that
so they asked about yashiv
and it was brought it was brought up you
know can we legislate to say certain
prayers let's say
sure models
so again nobody ever legislated
that you should that after every single
Fila every shul should say someone
happens to be sick you'll add a Davin
for someone who's sick you know we don't
say it every single day
on the ninth day of Sivan
um
well we also got the following letter
and he was founded as follows
Tish above is coming up
we mourn many tragedies on Tish above
some great rabbanim composed
kinos to recite on Tish above
as we know you look in the art scroll
Kenneth you have a Kina from Schwab the
Baba varaba others so they asked Rebel
Yosef
is this a good idea
to recite akinah to commemorate those
who perished in the Holocaust what would
you think Revelation said
what would you think
based on what we learned so far
no it can't do it how could you
legislate in our generation any kind of
nutrila who are we to to to to
uh make any kind of ruling
responded this is very correct and
important
let's follow in the Paradigm of the
earlier Generations who in in the year
um 1096 tatnu in the year of the
Crusades they composed uh kinus for the
Crusades for the destruction of the
Rhineland and therefore
says it's an excellent idea that should
say echina to commemorate the Holocaust
however Abu yashiv says it's going to be
very unlikely that one Rabbi will
compose a kinna and every single kahila
will say that kinna so each shul and
each kahila should say the kinna that
works for them that resonates with them
that's meaningful to them and we'll all
say that cannot until the great day that
the same that the fast of Tish above is
transformed into a yamta for Kalisa
that was the view of rebel yashif
Shema bad idea Monument for the
Holocaust bad idea
for the Holocaust good idea
does that seem consistent
was very unhappy with this ruling
and by the levia of the stipler
and Berman said over
um
Berman said to Rebel Yash of son you
know
is fuming
and it's it's very possible at the
lavalia today at the staple of zavaya
that's what he's going to talk about
more than the stapler he's going to talk
about how the destruction of the Jewish
people is these who are instituting
akina to say about the Holocaust
and I don't know I think Rib Shack is
going to hold himself back because
because your father Abu yahshev you know
endorsed it but I don't know how much
longer of shakh is going to hold it in
and sure enough at the levia the stipler
if shock didn't say anything
whatever seven days later they had a yam
hazy Quran for the stipler and panovic
and RAB Shack got up to the podium to
the bhima and he says I am compelled to
publicly speak out against what's taking
place Jews are making new takanois and
nutrila is you know what I have to say
oh
added another word
oh
this is the destruction of the Jewish
people today they're going to Institute
akinah tomorrow you know uh prayer group
and the next day it's all over
we're not able to enact anything we can
only follow what our forefathers did
we can't even add one letter
agree they're all wrong
a reason why
okay so let's see
now
I don't know why he he said it was okay
yeah a little while later
son's grandson visited
his grandson to visit
and revelation's Grandson was asked to
show up the letter Rebel yashiv wrote to
the Calavera
Maize he's not a new Vogue innovator
look the admirer of Khalif he just
wanted to establish the recitation of
Shema Israel what could be more harmless
than saying
and that Rebel yahshuf said is not
allowed so obviously is also a Vanguard
of Jewish tradition but does he allowed
so the question is you know like so
what's the difference
um
so says grandson Maize agrees with
Europe that we're not able to innovate
however my zaida's sack was based on a
very excellent precedent
and the president is as follows
what's the first thing we do every
morning when we wake up
even before we watched negovasa we say
we say
by the way you know that women don't say
foreign
Ani
who wrote my Danny do you know that
maida Ani is a very recent Villa it was
written by a student at Ariza named
moisha
he wrote a safer called say there
I had this class we were driving in the
North
and my wife says what's what's that
cover over there
and I said well and I see the cedar
higham so we stopped the bus at a bus I
was speaking on a trip to the north this
wasn't one of the planned crime we
stopped the bus we all got out
and beautiful cover coming out of his
cover is a spring of Miami so I said you
know the author of ani has unlimited
nagelmaster at all times you know but
in any event he writes what should he do
on Tish above
400 years now yeah very recent as in
terms of Thriller until then nobody said
anything no
they said um
it's very cold in here no I don't know
and then uh this this is the tail
maidani now they say the hayam writes
what should you do on
tishovas you look at number eight you
sit on the ground like a mourner you
take off your shoes you accept the fast
you accept the Avail us you go to the
basic knesses you sit in by the mourners
or you you um
you change your seat to a more degrading
spot and you sit silent you read kinos
or things that awaken
sorrow and you cry over the Corn based
on mikdash
and you cry over the the SL the slaying
of many
and children and those who know how to
whale should well
if you know
lament what kind of Kenneth
whether they're written in a book
or what you wrote yourself
so say kinos that are either legislated
or that you wrote
um
there's a mitzvah for every individual
to compose Kenneth
it will be considered a righteousness to
him
you'll be considered from the mourners
of Jerusalem
and if you're not capable of riding
kiddos so say the art scroll and the art
school already has 45 kenneths but
that's for people who don't know how to
write their own kindness you know how to
write your own kiddos go for it it's a
Mitzvah to do it
I'm not innovating by saying that it's
all right to have to sit recite kindness
that were composed by Schwab and the Bob
of areba and rabbusner to say that I am
400 years ago already he wrote that it's
a mitzvah for every individual to write
Guinness
we cannot innovate we cannot add to the
savior of tefila but Kenneth we already
have from many hundreds of years ago
that this is a admirable thing to do
Julia
what no sir Robert is invoking this I
mean yes
no
so this was plus by the way there's an
interesting Rashi in the very high yamim
that one yoshio Hama remember Joshua was
the king who inspired a nationwide chuva
movement he grew up and at a young age
he came to believe in the Torah
and then unfortunately he was slain in
war um shot his body with 300 arrows
and they made a takana Rashi says that
any time there is a difficulty for the
Jewish people that we should any any
tragedy that we lament along with it we
Lament The Tragedy of the death of Yosh
and says that Rashi similar to what we
do on Tish above that we mentioned the
kinos for those who perished during the
Crusades along with the other tragedies
of Tish above so similar to that
whenever we have tragedy we mentioned
the tragedy of yoshio hamillah
so again from here we see that when it
comes to kinos
it's given to us that we could add
tragedies that are personal to us
respond
when he heard the said that everyone
should compose their own Guinness he was
silent
so Robert yasu's grandson is walking
down the steps
all of a sudden in front of the
windows come back come back
so they told revelation's grandson
that their Shaq wants you back
so he came running back and raft said
that
everyone should compose their own kinna
what that means is everyone should
compose their own kinna and everyone
should say it to themselves
but not to legislate that this is
everyone we're now going to recite you
know your uncle Barrel's uh nursery
rhyme kinna that he wrote you know in
second grade
so says says
I know they say their hayam says I want
to compose their own kinner but he never
says we should legislate that can I
so how could Rebel Yosef say that
everyone should say a Kenneth for the
Holocaust
never said that every show should say
the same kinna but we also didn't say
everyone has to say
Schwab's kinna everyone has to say
every kahila could do what they want
and with Shaq says I hear
so it seems like they came to some kind
of consensus
that you can have it that okay first
we're going to say that cannot that was
written by bless then we're going to say
the kinna written by the reshinam then
we're going to say from you that Levi
and then Kino number 46 is no
is saying that it's appropriate to mourn
the Holocaust on Tish above and each
killer should pick a Kino that's that
works for them but there's no uniform
that's why in uh in our shul it depends
on the year some years will say the
above sometimes Vice Mandel there have
been times we've said both there have
been times of running late I'll just
speak about the Holocaust and we can't
but you know there's no policy it's not
a said policy that's the only thing
so
it comes out and and what we're learning
is that there's a certain sensitivity
that the post can have
specifically to the weakness of Our
Generation
that like the Khazana says for Our
Generation the operating principle is
silence
and
even to Institute that every show should
say Shema you saw what could be wrong
with saying Shema it's not correct and
even a great personality kavareba you
know perhaps felt that it was okay but
no halachically it is not endorsed and
even to make a monument for the
Holocaust even though we can't say it's
prohibited according to letter of the
law but it's according to das Torah in
ruach
better to do something that the living
benefit from by the way so you say but
many schools
have a Holocaust Memorial
yeah
so I said yeah because that's something
the living benefit from why because the
guy who donated it gave a hundred
thousand dollars for the metal slab that
cost four hundred dollars so that hanzan
went to build the shul so the living
benefited from it right but but
conceptually
it seems like Revelation is of the
opinion monuments are not really a
Jewish thing you know
we're not going to protest it's not
prohibited but it's not a fundamentally
but even to go as so far as to say like
who would have imagined what could
possibly be
lacking and reciting echina for the
Holocaust
RAB Shack did not go for it right
and even Rebel yashiv who allowed it but
it's only allowed in the context of
every kahila should say something that's
that resonates with them but not to
legislate that everyone has to say one
specific henna but
um friends the idea that in our
generation
were not able to legislate this is all
part of the Corbin of how weak and how
small that we've become one of the
reasons was not in favor of any added
Felice is he felt it was insulting
to earlier Generations who the composers
of the Phila were
men of divine inspiration people that
people had prophecy who they recognized
how each word effectuates in the heavens
and what now in our generation we're
just gonna like have a eloquent writer
write something up and and we're going
to stick it we're going to stick in
basically a
amateur prayer in middle of uh these
prayers that literally shake the heavens
it's sort of insulting and it shows a
lack of appreciation for the power of
our regular Felice but be it as a mate
this was the the thinking process of
Rebel yashiv that there's there's
certain things that are not us
but nevertheless
what we learned a few very important
principles it's not enough to say that
something is Usher in other words not
not only something which goes against
prohibited even something that has no
basis and hazal is not allowed to be
instituted
like saying the Shema like making a
monument however when it comes to the
king of santisra of since there's
precedent based on the fact that they
say that I am already writes that each
person should compose their own Fila
there's basis for each to do something
according to what what works for that
particular
we should all be to the return of uh
the return of all the great leaders of
the Jewish people who were capable of
making real legislation and business
Hashem with the coming of mashiach we
won't have to say any of the kinos and
we should only have uh yeah
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