Filling The "Makom"- Rabbi Noam Koenigsberg

as you hear these words there are 45 new shiva houses in israel in which the words are being recited repeatedly over the next few days one of those shiva houses is that of our dear talmud of yeshiva challenge morris and over the generations various interpretations have been offered for the usage of the word hamakom in this context we know of many names for god and for some reason the name hamakom was chosen for this tfila for this bakasha may the makkom be your comfort this shabbos was a very difficult shabbos in yeshiva shaving but i found comfort in the words of salad that can be found in the safer de veg offered a very unique and what i found a very moving interpretation for the words we know of the concept hamakom from ahalakha in qibla a son or a child may not sit in the muck of the parent the reason for that is because we're supposed to be in awe of that person's stature that person's status and what they've achieved in this world but after that person passes on [Music] como and rasolavicik did not just interpret this as a heterolyshe but this is symbolic of the fact that the child need not need not accept passively the meanest to lose that loved one but rather yeshe bimkomo it is now time for the child to look to that parent and say what is it that i can learn from my father or from my mother that i have not yet integrated into my life something i can adopt something i can do where i can mourn kane's lima como to enter that person's place and that said thereof is hamakom that ability that we have not to passively accept xavier but to actively fill that person's footsteps in whatever capacity that we can this is the greatest the ability to be active to learn from the person's ways to do mitzvos and mossing that are inspired by this individual the ability como and to pattern our own behaviors after that loved one [Music] that's the greatest perhaps we can listen to the numerous stories that are now surfacing about our dear talmud dania dani morris was a person of migos he was a bakra that lovely torah he loved dibu khalen he loved to work on himself and i heard him say with my own ears i don't want my year in yeshiva to be something that doesn't change me that doesn't form me i don't want it just to be stuck in my brain because of the information that i've taken in the yeshiva experience needs to change us and and form our middles togos to make us better people to accept upon ourselves more mitzvos and masentovium and our interactions with others need to be fixed and improved upon this is what danielle was looking in his yeshiva experience and therefore i believe that the greatest muhammad is to attempt to do whatever we can like to accept upon ourselves a new media together that perhaps we're ready for but we haven't worked on yet to do that favor to that smile for a friend to be a better child for our parents a better parent a better sibling a better spouse may we be comforted in our ability the hikanes lima coma to improve our own middles to improve upon ourselves because of who this special individual was donnie morris that we love so much and that we're going to miss so [Music] with much [Music]