KLM: Power of Intense Tear-filled Prayer with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] I want to welcome the members of I for joining and I also want to uh welcome a dear friend DVID scop who unfortunately took a war for him to come back but thank God he's here trying to help okay a new a new approach a new approach right now the weekly Torah portion the paraa of the shabua who doesn't love the paraa who doesn't get excited about hearing a nice sweet insight to share with your family or your friends it delving into it it's it's absolutely Divine I mean that in all uh forms of that the Torah portion the Torah portion it's everyone loves it we're going to do something extra something that I think can be a game changer with the weekly Torah portion completely new approach I hope you're GNA have something sweet you're going to share a deep beautiful Insight you know I I counted I think I've gone over this these Torah portions for uh 1,500 weeks in the past years of my life and you never fail to discover something something new but what approach are we going to take now I'm calling it for now adopting a Mitzvah okay every par we want every Torah portion we want to an an adopt a Mitzvah now why is it important to adopt a Mitzvah when you're involved with the Torah paraa right the Torah portion why is that that's so important I'm not going to tell you what I think I'm going to tell you what Romo breva zal an incredible incredible Torah scholar and Bob muser Etc listen to what he said it's it's something you know right now there's been by the way it's just something exciting to celebrate because Jews around the world are seeking out the Torah and non-jews are fascinated and interested there's been a there's been a big rise uh uh for obvious reasons in in the interest in the Torah so now people might think that God gave uh the Torah to the Jews you know God chose the Jews to receive the Torah now that's gotten people some upset that perception but the midis teaches us it wasn't that God chose the Jews for the Torah the Jews chose to accept the Torah what happened F those of you know know this mid very famous but listen to how it's going to be applied so what happens Hashem really as we said Judaism was not meant to be Juda was meant to me uh Torah and Mankind Hashem and Mankind that was the design from the beginning okay and Hashem worked with various um groups of mankind the first man Etc and then you know we know that Abraham um you know stepped forward in a powerful way but still the ramal says at har Hashem gave everyone a choice choice do you want the Torah so the famous midis says that Hashem went to several Nations and you know when you hear a contract the lawyers here will tell you you're going to say can you please tell me what's in the contract and they asked the Nations asked and they were told things like adulter is out no white no white collar crime no murder you hear that from us no murder okay they asked what's in the contract of the Torah and they were told and they said said no thank you and then they go to the Jewish people hasem goes to the Jewish people says want this and they didn't ask very shocking we we're very uh uh into law and litigation very chocking we did not inquire what's in it we trusted Hashem and what are the famous words this this could be I used to say the schma is the national anthem maybe this is the national anthem nma we'll do what's ever inside this and we'll also listen to it we'll learn about it Etc so we say we're in we'll do it we're not even asking what we have to do or what we can't do no white collar crime no adultery Etc we're not asking we're in okay so now Cesar brevda that was 3,300 years ago ago something like that that was over 3,000 years ago what if Hashem listen to this thought experiment what if Hashem went around to all the nations of the world and asked them to to accept the Torah the way the Jews do right now now listen carefully Hashem says would you like the following okay I want to actually read this to you this part okay here's here's the thing here's a book that has such deep insight into human nature it can tell you have a Utopia on Earth it's spiritual it's amazing okay okay and you read the book and guess what there's all these stories that are foundational fundamental archetypal in this book and what do you do you read it every week and then you finish it and then you cycle back and you read it again now listen to this on Shabbat on the Sabbath you put on nice clothes you go to the synagogue and you hear someone read it in a powerful voice and everyone you follow along and listen to what's being read and then you you finish that you have a delicious thing called a kidish and then you go back and have a beautiful family meal and maybe you even talk about it at the table I ask you who would say yes to that who W say yes to that what a delightful enriching way to live if Hashem around in Nations I I would be shocked that they'll say No in fact that's one of the Hidden secrets about Torah Orthodox Judaism it's delightful and deep and enriching so why wouldn't they accept that here comes the boom rabta says is that how you will relate to the Torah the Torah portion the Torah portion it has the two um what do you call it amudim the Torah portion is reenacting Sinai right it's being red so you'll say Nas what am I supposed to do you're going to hear it a new and adopt the Mitzvah that's what it's supposed to be it's not just supposed to be delicious inspiring beautiful Torah it's meant to be applied and lived this is what we want to do with KM and the par it's not me of course there was an incredible sodic one of the or original founders of KM kavana L mitzah Foundation his name was R humer and he wrote a commentary on the Torah that shows the mindset towards the Torah it was very stic it sounds like some sort of limb or something sinu it was sintic he called it evid l servant of the king in other words this by way this is the book but this book he says how would a servant of the king how would he relate to what's being told here Nas he'll do it of course he's going to Plum the deaths and and enrich his life but he's gonna do it he's gonna adopt it all right I hope I made it clear that's what we want to do with the paraa we want to adopt the Mitzvah as if we're at sin which it's self as a Mitzvah daisa to see yourself today at Sinai so when you're going through the portion and when you're hearing it blasted in the sh you should be saying Nas what can I do here that's what we're going to do and I'm going to get us started so bleet big ble Netter uh we're gonna in the pares that we cover we're going to do this I'll tell you let me tell you the format now of this year that's the new program are you in the program I hope you are okay here is the format okay first we'll discover an AZ a Mitzvah to adopt all right that's uh that's number one and we're going to do the Deep beautiful stuff too we're going to show you how the oral Torah um just enlivens our understanding and and shows us what the Mitzvah is a as as as they say the the the Kish the Bible without the oral interpretation is like a body without a soul relatively speaking it's lifeless okay so we'll pick a Mitzvah but then we're going to adopt that Mitzvah and we're going to learn about the benefits of that Mitzvah with no further Ado we are in parous vat and let's take a look at um or listen to this okay here's what we're going to talk about this is the para where the family of the Jewish people is being born right Yakov and his uh two primary wives and the maid servants are producing children and you know Yakov is the next in line right he was chosen to carry on the uh this incredible uh light into the Nations so we get introduced to Leia and listen to how the Torah describes Leia and if you want to know where this is um and by the way if anyone wants uh some of the notes and things like this rabit wgbr gmail.com or the WhatsApp group all right here's what it says umanos okay Lavin had two daughters shame haa the name of the older daughter was Leia Katana Rael and the name of the younger daughter was Rael now listen this is our key words right here pay careful attention to this Mora the older the older daughter was named Leia and her eyes were This Is How They explain it drippy she had drippy eyes r on the other hand the younger daughter she had a beautiful form and a beautiful appearance okay so drippy eyes the gamorra in babab Basra is very disturbed with describing this holy woman as having drippy eyes listen to what the gamarra says it says the Torah goes out of its way to not denigrate animals right so there is animals that are not Kosher that are impure the Torah says animals that are not pure not pure instead of saying animals that are impure because God forbid to describe an animal as impure and they're calling this holy woman The Matriarch one of the main matriarchs of the Jewish people she had drippy eyes that's the gamarra the talman's problem with this sentence Leia's eyes were drippy that again the rash bom Explains It All right so there is a debate about this but we are going to hear and this is the I think the central understanding is it was a praise okay her eyes were dripping from tears and let's hear more details about why they were dripping okay so he's saying RV says her eyes were dripping literally and this is not a denigration it's a praise why because she was sitting uh she was outdoors and she would hear pass her by comenting that about this family right uh uh meaning the family of Jacob of [Music] yob Rifka which is Isaac's uh wife Rifka has uh um give me a second Rifka has two daughters and B sorry I'm doing this wrong forgive me there are two sons for Rifka right asav and Yakov and there are two daughters for lvon so it makes sense that the older one will go to the older one and the younger one will go to the younger one so Leia overhears this she's the older one she says tell me about the older guy all right Mama okay so she didn't ask is he handsome she didn't ask is he wealthy she didn't ask is he athletic she said what's his character like that's what she wanted to know and the answer came back he's evil and he's an armed robber what about she asked what about the younger son he's a very pure and innocent person and he's a Torah scholar listen to what happened next it says she cried until her eyelashes fell off I asked Dr setet he says he can't provide uh whatever scientific evidence but he does know that people's eyelashes fall off when they're in pain and sorrow she cried so hard harsh hard that her eyelids fell off that's why she was drippy she called drippy now that's not all okay it wasn't just a rumor that she heard listen to this um riffa and Lavan brother and sister right and Rifka has the two boys Lavin has the two young ladies right they made a deal right they said yes let the older one ASA go with Leia and the young one ra with yov so listen what she did she didn't just cry first of all she directed her tears to Hashem and uh to and this is her prayer shal shal Russia please may I not fall in the lot of a person of bad character a wicked person and then the the midis says that prayer was so um powerful it just there was a decree they signed a contract brother and sister there it was there was decree in the heaven Leia goes to asov she cried till her eye lids fell you know her eyelashes fell off and she prayed to please know and the midis notes what happened she was supposed to go at him not only did she not fall to the lot of the one with the poor character she came first she was the first one to marry the younger one look at that prayer bang right that's the power of prayer with tears right she prayed until she cried her eyes out she literally cried her eyes out and look what it did all right so the Mitzvah what Mitzvah is that okay we know prayer is a Mitzvah we have discussed that praying in times of trouble is a Mitzvah daa but there's a there's another um I want to say another Central Mitzvah here why is it that crying when you pray to God you pray to hasem till you're crying your eyes out why is that so power it has super it has yeah above nature Supernatural Powers it can there could be by by hashem's Providence a decision is made and it's not a pleasant one boom it it tears up the decree right the zor says that the gamarra learns this that it tears up a final decision a verdict that's negative by praying till you cry your eyes out okay why why why is that so powerful so let me tell you something that happened uh on that horrific day of the massacre uh which you know we know Torah observant people are we don't have our radios on things no one expected that there was any reason to Etc so many of us here in jerus I was in Jerusalem here in Jerusalem early in the morning uh you're hearing sirens and in Jerusalem thank God it's not on the edges where there's Sirens there's evacuations of communities all these crazy things happening but here it's almost never in in let's say in about 30 years but prior to this I had only heard two sirens in Jerusalem so that day there was about five Sirens so I heard it when I was in but then I came back and it you know it's a holiday so I had my my daughter with her children I my grandkids over and the first siren it Disturbed my granddaughter she's four years old and uh the other one's too young but it Disturbed her but the second time the siren went off I saw her screaming right and she's running and I went to try to pick her up but she blasted right past me and she jumped into her father's arms and started crying absolutely balling this little four-year-old girl was so heartbreaking how did she was shaken by this right when we the Mitzvah we can do when we pray to the point that we're crying that's called Deus Deus that's that's Clos in it's not closeness yeah close means you're close but you're not attached de vacus is your literally stuck stuck it's like glue you're glued on right now how can you do that well we know that the the true God has no form no physical form it's so how do you do how do you do that the gar asked this Etc the ranan and the IAM explain that you have a soul every one of us has a soul and when the cry comes from the soul when you have feelings of love when you have feelings of um total dependence on Hashem that's a Mitzvah called the Vagas you are experiencing and fulfilling the Mitzvah to cleave to AEM your soul can jump if you will there's no images but can jump in cry and hold on to Hashem if you will okay that kind of teila when you're you're not close you're attached literally to Hashem that is a game changer that's a rule breaker a law breaker it changes everything okay so that's a perfect leadup okay wait so let me just review this and then we're going to put this remember we want to adopt the Mitzvah we don't want to let another week of para pass Us by where we haven't reopt a Mah where we haven't said n we'll do AEM we'll not just think of clever insights and discover and Plum the death of your beautiful Torah called nishma listen we're going to do so this week I want you and we're going to try to do it now make sure we've got our bases covered I want us to pray with tears I want tear field tear filled um prayers to Hashem right now for the CLA Israel now let's just we realize I I know everybody's following the news so we we know there's a ceasefire but there's not a ceasefire till 10:00 a.m. and we don't know what's going to happen but just let's just think about it right now uh you know where I am I heard airplanes airplanes flying over all the time there are young uh young men and women in their 20s are in Mortal danger the the death toll of holy sweet Jewish kids you see their picture and you want to you want to cry and I hope you will 70 70 there's more danger we have what we have a certain number of kids are going to get out thank God but what about all these other people these hostages these from every age okay there's plenty to cry about okay now so I want us to fulfill the Mitzvah okay we're going to say it to him together but we're going to um first of all we're going to fill the Mitzvah when we say to we are fulfilling the mitah to cry out to Hashem in times of trouble and we realize because we realize hasem is the the address and we realize that we're all collectively responsible if we were on our game fully this wouldn't be happening okay that's the main what we usually do but let's adopt this mitah let's have drippy eyes now I know that's uh not easy on command okay you know some people um cry more more easily okay and some people it's more difficult all right um but I want to give us like a a little bit of time uh to think about um you know to put ourselves in a state where we can cry all right but additionally there's U parrot can you um please put up that picture sure I want to there's certain people I want to pray for in particular want us to pray for okay parrots yeah that's coming up okay let me explain this picture uh I think it was AA Torah um came up with the soldier for Soldier campaign where um uh if uh that you Vol those Torah Scholars who it's says the Torah protects and it rescues they they have are matched with a soldier so I was um matched with the second one on the list Avatar saduk Ben avishag and his uh sister put his name on there and reached out and you know and when when the war first started and he was being called in you know she made contact and I got his name but about a week and a half ago uh she contacted me and she said they're going into uh Gaza tonight this is about a week and a half ago and can you please um up the game and also can you pray for his whole unit so I don't know if you take a look at these boys uh I mean yeah thank you parents these are just they look like a you know again i' I explained to some people in the United States you know I know I have friends who's who's uh sons are you know uh right on the border of Lebanon Etc it's just very not a simple situation okay so uh here's what I suggest we're going to take um a couple minutes uh I find that when I say theu prayer uh which we'll say at the end which says and but oh and I remind people that if you want one of these uh graphic to hilm cards that has uh a good English translation and prayer on it please either at Rabbi gmail.com or Whatsapp group okay but what I um what I want us to do is this is I find when I say uh ban uh SAR b bashia i I can say the words you know it says our brothers all of Bas Israel or brothers and sister who are put in trouble or in captivity when I say captivity my eyes always tear up um but uh I'm sure everybody that's listening and Y and all around the world you've probably seen some pictures that will break your heart you probably heard things that you break your heart or you can think about the parents who are just who are informed that their child is no longer in this world um Etc there's so much to cry about okay and what's beautiful right now is we're crying for for the Jewish people which is LMA and rash says that's so powerful okay so uh I'm going to take a little time to get myself into a state and you to and have in mind to M the Mitzvah again of praying theem in times of trouble and the Mitzvah of of um de vacus to pour our H heart out and um and shed tears um to our ABA in the Shayan okay right just so you want to take a second I'm G put that picture up too you Canen okay [Music] say is okay uh that's not the easiest mitzah all right any questions or comments thank you you're welcome um that make a comment please sh welcome back thank you you know there's been so much uh media so many posts and chat groups and things like that I just want to sh you know in terms of connecting to the pain I'm crying out to Hashem one thing that really uh really got me was that there was a very detailed interview of a father who survived I think 12 hours in a shelter on October 7th he his daughter his wife and his son and um unfortunately his wife was shot by a terrorist and uh was killed and uh his son tried to force the dresser against the door to prevent the terrorist from coming in the terrorist shot through the door and uh the uh the force of the gun uh destroyed the son's hand and he was bleeding profusely and um as time went by the sun was getting weaker and weaker and the son said ABA ABA I know I'm not going to make it and the father kept on trying to encourage him encourage him and the father who was himself shot in the hospital when he was telling the story said that the son made one request the son loved surfing he was a surfer he was 15 years old and he's a surfer and what he said was ABA please bury me with my surfboard and when I heard that it was just like too much you know you just think about and I didn't really understand like why why did that get to me so much and I guess you know when you think about it for me anyway you know that's so much life so much hope so much Youth and enthusiasm and in that moment still clinging to this to the joy of life and then saying to you know like the unbelievable moment where he has to think about burying himself and then he wants it to be with his surfboard it was just you know so powerful and and when I think about that it really um it allows me to grieve and connect to the pain of this experience and I'm sure there's a thousand stories like that in so many different ways that I just want to share that because it really affected me and perhaps it can also be a way for other people to really connect to the pain and connect to the Mitzvah of crying out to beautiful unfortunately yeah that's kind of an unforgettable uh image I don't think easily forget that wow yeah wow so uh I just encourage people to there's still there's time before the ceasefire and I we should really uh do whatever we can uh um uh um right now all our efforts are just incredibly important you know all right and uh um or also maybe we'll we can forward this to whoever wants these names uh I would be thrilled to have your you you're being added on to praying for them I I I I read off their names before learning and teaching so alrighty Shem should have mercy on us yes [Music] everybody [Music] oh