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[applause]
>> Klal Yisrael focuses Binyamin Eliezer
right now
our people are focused on Rebbe Akiva
Dovid.
We zone in on Rebbe Akiva.
Rebbe Akiva was
was one of the entire She B'al Peh
was was one of the most important
mesorah of Torah, one of the most
important chains in the link of Torah
She B'al Peh.
When when Moshe Rabbeinu saw Rebbe Akiva
he said to Hashem, why are you giving
the Torah through me? Give it to Rebbe
Akiva.
So Rebbe Akiva is one of the important
links in the mesorah of Torah.
The Mishnayos, the Gemara that we have,
one of the most important rebbeim, one
of the most important teachers in the
Torah is Rebbe Akiva.
And Klal Yisrael focuses in these weeks
leading up to Kabbalas HaTorah, to
receiving of the Torah, there's a
tremendous focus on Rebbe Akiva.
Of course, of course Rebbe Shimon Of
course Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai, the
Talmud, the great great Tanna.
And the Talmud of Rebbe Akiva, of
course, is going to be a massive focus
Lag B'Omer and these and these weeks,
but I want to learn a Gemara about Rebbe
Akiva.
It could be It could be to speak about I
have thoughts to speak about my own
rebbe. My rebbe's yahrzeit was this past
week. And in thinking about Rebbe Akiva,
I think about my own rebbe.
I'll tell I'll tell the guys an
interesting thing. When I moved to
Waterbury 26 years ago, so I was zocheh
to learn
I was zocheh to learn with three couples
that are geirim, three three families
that are converts.
And two of the three, the husband and
wife are in Olam Haba today. And I was
saying at the time that I become closer
with them.
When I would quote names, when David,
when I would quote names for Akiva
Eiger, the Pnei Yeshua, the Chasam
Sofer, the names I would learn with
them, the names of the Rishonim of the
Acharonim were not very exciting to
them. They loved Torah. They loved ideas
of Torah, but it didn't matter so much
who said what.
Now, there's something to learn from
that because that's part of wisdom, is
not hiding behind names, to learn
chachma, to understand Torah, and not to
hide behind the name, but there's also
something that's lacking cuz there are
big tzaddikim who said something that
tells you, when I hear something from
Akiva Eiger, it tells me, Daniel, think
about this. This is important. This
means something. Don't assume it's a
mistake, and I work harder to understand
it.
Reb Shimon Shkop writes in his writes in
in his introduction that if you don't
try to be a student of mine, you won't
understand me.
If you're just lazy about this, ah, it
doesn't make sense, and run away, you're
not going to understand me. You have to
be a student.
So, there are times by big tzaddikim,
yeah. There are times by big tzaddikim,
the fact that we know they're big
tzaddikim makes us like pay heed to
their words and think about their words.
Now, I would quote to these to these
couples from big tzaddikim, there was it
was they they weren't there was nothing
magical. Akiva Eiger says, the Rashba
says, it was shrug.
Now, that's what you're learning with
them, though, you No, you're quoting the
very Torah of you're quoting the very
Torah, so
Now,
>> I don't think you can say that. No, but
you're quoting the very Torah. And if
you're I can't even say back to what
names I was quoting. We were learning
Come here at the time we learned of ace,
we learned things, but you're quoting
names. We hear certain names and we like
pay heed, we pay attention.
I I ask myself why those names are
magical to me
and there two there two main answers why
it's magical to me. When I was thinking
about this couple of gayrum, I was
thinking because my father's magical to
me.
My father means a lot to me and my
father's relationship to tzadikim and
gedolim, to me my father was magical.
And when he would say Rav Ovadia Yosef,
when my father would say Rav Chaim
Greineman, he would shake.
So through my father those names are
magical and through my rebbe.
My rebbe's magical to me. My rebbe is
somebody represents courage, honesty,
truth to me. So then my rebbe's rebbe
and his rebbe, my rebbe's rebbe was Rav
Aharon Kotler.
Rav Aharon Kotler's rebbe was the Alter.
The Alter's rebbe was the Alter of Kelm.
The Alter of Kelm is the Alter of Kelm's
rebbe is Rav Yisrael Salanter. So it's
magical to me because my rebbe's rebbe's
rebbe's rebbe. So the Mesillas Yesharim
is something that's focused on David
these weeks.
I could talk about my rebbe and it could
be kedai. I'm not sure to talk about my
rebbe or to talk about Rabbi Akiva.
Right now I have two thoughts, David,
what to do.
My rebbe's yahrzeit just was. I could
definitely focus on my rebbe. I think
right now to learn maybe I'll do that in
the next coming days, as well. Maybe I
want to talk about Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi
The great Rabbi Akiva who handed us
Torah to talk about his origin a little.
Maybe in the ensuing days, as well, I'll
talk about my rebbe, as well.
Rabbi Akiva
Rabbi Akiva was 40 All of us know the
his origins, his humble origins. He was
40 years old. He was a
serious am ha'aretz. He didn't know
anything.
He not just was a serious am ha'aretz,
he didn't like talmidei chachamim.
He said that he wanted a bite talmidei
chachamim. He was He was 40 years old
and he didn't like talmidei chachamim.
In the yeshiva, we're learning Psachim.
Rebbe Akiva said on himself that he
would say, "Bring me a talmid chacham. I
want to bite him like a chamor."
But not the bite of a of a dog. A dog
bites, okay? I want the bite of a donkey
that crushes.
And he wanted to He wanted to He wanted
to crush talmidei chachamim. That's who
Rebbe Akiva was.
And Kalba Savua
Kalba Savua was one of the wealthy
people of Yerushalayim. One of the three
wealthy people in Yerushalayim. Kalba
Savua, his name was a hungry dog cuz
people would come hungry like a dog and
they would leave satisfied. So, his name
was satisfied dog. Kalba Savua.
He was very, very generous, Kalba Savua,
Rebbe Akiva's father-in-law.
And his daughter married Rebbe Akiva.
His daughter, this this girl who grew up
tremendous, tremendous wealth. And she
marries Rebbe Akiva. Is Gad she laid by
Rebbe Akiva Kalba Savua. He did
kiddushin to the daughter of Kalba
Savua, Shammai. Kalba Savua. Kalba
Savua, the satiated dog, this generous
Yid whose very name spoke about his
generosity,
he heard that Rebbe Akiva married his
daughter.
Adra nom mikol nichsei. He ousted him
every penny of his.
He check Kalba Savua said she can't have
one penny. We're reading a Gemara in the
daf nun. Kalba Sava, the satisfied dog.
Why was his name satisfied dog Ben See,
this rich guy?
They came hungry like a dog, they left
satisfied.
Why would you call him satisfied Ezra?
This Yid's name this this tzaddik's name
was Kalba Sava, the satisfied dog.
It's funny in Yeshiva if you call
somebody a dog, I think it's a
compliment. What do we mean when we say
he's a dog?
What do we mean how we What do we mean?
To the way he's tough. He's a dog is
like such a compliment. It's funny that
Kalba Sava was called the satisfied dog.
It doesn't sound so complimentary. Today
when we call somebody a dog, we mean he
like goes after it hard. He's a dog on
the court. It's like a
David is a dog on the on the paddleball
court. He's on the on the pickleball
court. You're a dog, David. You go after
it so hard. Mamesh to go after it is a
dog. Kalba Sava was called the satisfied
dog, Chaim. He was called that cuz
people would come hungry like a kelev.
Like crazy hungry and they would leave
satisfied. Why did he get the name such
a crazy name to call somebody? Here the
satisfied dog is here.
It's funny, it's so weird. Kalba Sava,
satisfied. He wasn't the satisfied dog.
He made somebody else a satisfied dog.
Why was he called the satisfied dog?
Kalba Sava.
Almost like maybe even like the
satisfier of dogs. But a sat It's funny
he's called a satisfied dog. He wasn't
the satisfied dog. Who was the satisfied
dog? The guy who came to him. Why was he
called the satisfied dog? I would call
his guests the satisfied dogs.
I would say anybody who hung out with
Why did he get the name the satisfied
dog? It can't be Kalb Sava the satisfier
of Of dogs? I don't know.
I don't know if that's what the English
means. Kalb Sava
is a satisfied dog, not the satisfier of
dogs. What what kind of organization
calls the name of God
It's a very good question, also.
It's funny, what a name. It's like
really not nice. The The satisfier of
dogs or the satisfied dog is here.
Who looks at people like that? Who would
Who would look at people like that?
People are people. I'll tell you it
reminds me.
Reminds me I asked I asked the Zadek
asked, "My wife and I Hashem Yehuda, my
wife and I Hashem are making a Hashem to
you for Ishmael."
That's a And and and we're hiring
somebody. [applause]
Girls,
you'll hear this. Joshua, girls, we need
people we need a makeup artist.
I Hashem Zaken have a daughter to have
You need a makeup artist. We were
meeting with somebody about the makeups.
So, the person says, "How many faces are
we having there?"
"How many faces are we having?" I said,
"We're not doing faces here. We're doing
people."
We're doing people, no faces. I I'm I'm
like I want it I'm very stark. We're not
like six faces, we're six people. Six
human beings. Six human beings. They're
going to have makeup Makeups wonderful.
Things are wonderful. Looking nice.
Things are wonderful. They're six human
beings.
They're human beings. They're people.
They're people.
It's interesting. I I able to go to Yair
and I went to a Pesach program. It was
what I loved about it. It was very
fancy. Very. I loved it. It was perfect
because the iker was friendship. It's
like people are close. People are
hanging together. The friendships are
the iker. Then you have things I I like
Sukkah with all its fanciness cuz it's
never the iker. The main thing is Sukkah
is the friendships.
The seder the fancy nice things have as
they should. The fancy nice things,
that's a backdrop to the iker is the
relationship. Whenever it becomes the
thing itself, it's literally stupid. If
you go to a wedding, I don't care the
wedding's fancy. When that becomes the
thing and takes over the thing, it's the
worst wedding. Well, have have a nice
singer as long as he's a backdrop to the
thing.
So you call a satisfied dog? Who just
asked? It's not even nice. Who said that
here?
Check it said that's what you call the
people who come to them, dogs? This
whole thing is weird.
Kalba S'vua, this man is called
satisfied dogs. People come hungry like
a dog and they leave satisfied. Then
he's called a satisfied dog. What's
happening?
What is going on? Not nice. Really? This
is This is a bad name of the seder.
Chazal tell us something. What's
happening here? It's not what I wanted
to learn right now, but I want to I'm
not going to write to it. Believe me,
let's think about this. Yair, I need a
chat. He's called Kalba S'vua, the
satisfied dog. What's happening here?
Let's look up for a second. I want to
read the Rashi and Gittin.
Page, could you get me a masechtas
Gittin from the back? Second second
thing down, masechtas Gittin.
Perfect.
You're so sweet. Thank you. Welcome,
[applause] my dear.
Thank you.
>> Go tomorrow?
You're not going to be here?
Then cut Listen to a Gemara getting
Joshua to Gemara getting that noon verb.
Page 56 and getting Yehuda. Kalba savua,
why was he called the satisfied dog? See
there, it says like this.
Whoever walked into his house hungry,
like a dog, he left satisfied.
Yotzei kshu saveya, leaves when he's
satisfied. Gemara getting noon verb.
Whoever walked into his house hungry
like a dog, left satisfied. So what's
his name? Satisfied dog.
You serious? Does a dog When a dog's
satisfied, does it not Does a dog see
you?
Well, before you said tsitsis, you're
getting to a tsitsis. I want to hear
that. I want to say your kashrus. Yeah,
you hear the zip code of this man's
name. I think that's like crazy.
First of all, to talk two simple
questions I want to figure out.
Rechiva's father-in-law's name was
satisfied dog. Why? Because when people
came to his house hungry like a dog,
they left satisfied. I have two
questions. First of all, it's very not
nice to call people hungry like dogs.
It's not nice. I can think of many
better names to call people.
>> Let's hear. Hungry.
Call him the defeated hungry people with
satisfied hungry.
You call them dogs?
>> Why is it not nice to [clears throat]
call people hungry as dogs?
So it's not a nice way of talking.
They're humans. Humans get hungry. But
why can you Why Why can you be hungry as
a dog?
It's not a nice way with human beings.
They're human beings. It's like a funny
seems such a right Rabbi Russ was so
strong that he's called Kalbus Savua.
Two questions. First of all, it's not
nice people are hungry like dogs. You
call him a satisfied dog.
What is
Kalbus Savua? Hungry like a Caleb leaves
full. What's happening? It's a And
second, well, he wasn't the satisfied
dog.
I don't The name doesn't sound like
Rabbi Russ that the satisfier of dogs.
It calls him a sad
Somebody comes hungry Caleb, he leaves
and leaves Savua. He's not the satisfied
dog.
The Gemara in Gittin
Caleb Yois Savua, he leaves when he's
full.
So he's called Kalbus Savua. He's not
So The dogs are the people who are
coming or him?
Could it be a man? He got the name. So
he could be a man. But it says the
people came Rav Kelev, hungry like a
dog. And they leave when they're
satisfied. So he got the name satisfied
dog.
>> It can't be a man.
Doesn't sound like that.
What do you say?
What do you mean on him? He treated them
in a sir? No, he was He was such a dog
to satisfy that.
Oh, he was the dog like that. But it
doesn't sound that way. It sounds like
they were Rav Kelev. They were hungry
like a dog. I would have That I like.
He's like a dog the way he said it. But
it's saying they were hungry like dogs.
Sounds like it's just like a metaphor.
It's not like they're actually like
calling him like a dog. [snorts]
Rabbi, if I was in his place, I wouldn't
have actually
satisfied dog Yeah, So something's
Something's up here. What do you hold
Yair?
Something's up with this.
Yihud what do you hold?
Interesting name, right?
Clearly there is people hungry like a
dog and they left satisfied.
It's funny it's funny.
That's dumb it's funny in the
compliment. Is that a fact that dogs
like hard to satisfy? Like they always
want more?
Is that true? Says they were hungry like
a dog. What?
That what?
What's shot?
They're hard to satisfy?
Rov Kikalov. How do we
Dogs do Dogs do express It's funny when
it says hungry like a dog. That alone
the expression hungry like a dog hungry.
They're hungry like a dog. Human beings
get like did you anything Josh when
people came hungry like a dog hungry?
Human being hungry What's what's my safe
hungry like a dog? Now dogs are very
vocal.
They're like they're like they're like a
certain type of begging a certain type
Is that What's this hungry when people
come All of us The Gemara is adding when
people came hungry they left satisfied.
They came hungry like a dog What's my
safe?
Can't handle it. They can't like
>> [laughter]
>> Yeah.
In general like the alpha dog in like a
pack of wolves, the alpha will eat first
and once he's satisfied then he allows
the others to eat.
Maybe if he's a satisfied dog that's
showing that he's giving to others. He's
happy to stay like and and then they So
calls him that?
>> Yeah, cuz he the alpha it's not an
insult to say he's altruistic.
Mhm. He's once the alpha's satisfied he
can share. So he's always satisfied.
Mhm.
>> [snorts]
>> One of the things here that I don't know
if this shot it doesn't even sound to me
like a shot. The Gemara says about a
dog, the Gemara in the Nedarim says dogs
take and don't give. A kelev represents
that which takes and doesn't give. Lav
kalba now I'm not a dog. I'm not a hunt.
A hunt is the spitz is the epitome of
that which takes and doesn't give. Now
why a dog is that? I've had pet you
know, turtles that take and don't give
anything back. A dog though even what
they give back is very manipulative.
They're only giving to get. They're the
spitz taker dog. A dog is known in
chazal as the taker.
Dog is the spitz. Lav kalba now I'm not
a dog means I don't just take and I got
to give also. The way to say I'm not
just a taker and I give ich bin nicht
kein Hund. I'm not a dog. A dog in
Gemara represents that which takes and
doesn't give. It's constantly just wants
to take, just wants to take. Lav kalba
but I'm not a dog I want to give. I want
to provide. I'm not a dog.
A kelev represents that which takes not
to give. People came hungry like a dog.
I wonder if there's an expression people
who weren't in a position to give back
to them and they left satisfied dogs
that he wasn't looking to get back.
That the way he gave satisfied dogs that
it would expresses he gave people not
looking to get back.
Now, I don't know if you're allowed to
give money to get back.
Melech says, "Shlach lachmecha al
pnei hamayim." Give and you'll get back.
You get back from giving.
Is that a maila that he satiated dogs?
He didn't look to get back. I don't
know. I want to be honest because you're
allowed to give to get back. So, that's
the maila satisfier kid. He didn't try
to get back.
>> Yeah, you're allowed. It's my draga. Is
there a my draga he gave not to get
back? I'm not such a my draga. You're
allowed to give and want to get back.
What?
Yeah. But, yeah, I don't have a teretz
that but it calls him the satisfier of
dogs. I'm not answering that. I'm just
saying people it could be he was able to
give people not looking to get back. I
don't know. Somebody has a shot I want
to think about it further. I don't know
pshat that he's called the satisfied
dogs. The bottom line is is back to the
Gemara in Nedarim is Kalba Sava, the
satisfied dog. Now, I do know that his
name, his very essence was generous. His
name, that's the Gemara in Gittin. His
name was generosity. He satisfied
people. He, when his daughter married
Naama Arut, said, "I'm not giving you a
penny." Now, understand this wasn't like
a fit of rage. Kalba Sava's name was a
generous person, but his daughter
married a guy who didn't know one word
of Torah and he said, "You're not
getting a penny from me. If you marry
such a person who doesn't know a word of
Torah." He was Adriyani Kol Nisa. He had
a basic love of Torah. Torah mattered to
Kalba Sava. He didn't want He wasn't
looking for reputation for a big Talmud
Chacham. He says later, "I would have
known he knew one perek. I wouldn't have
done this." The guy didn't know one word
of Torah. Rebbi Akiva knew nothing.
He said to his daughter, "You marry
somebody like this who doesn't know a
stitch of Torah. You're not getting a
penny from me." And his essence is
generosity. His very name is Kalba
Savua. See, Asnat his daughter, Asnat
love him in secret. She went and married
Rebbe Akiva. She defied her father. Such
was her belief in this Rebbe Akiva. She
ends up marrying him. The Gemara says
two things. Not here Gemara Sofrim, this
is Gemara Nedarim Daf Nun. It says,
"What did she see in Rebbe Akiva, guys?"
She married him. She saw two things.
Mali, Mali many Rishonim say good
middos, and Josh he said snua. He was a
snua stickler person. He wasn't a seeker
of the attention. He was a snua.
He had snuas. See, he was Mali, he had
nice middos, and he was snua, and she
went for him. She married him. Her
father was beside herself, beside
himself. She marries him. Bistoy in the
winter,
the Gemara describes in the winter
having a gunny beit tivna. She's lying
on straw.
This girl who grew up in the lap of
luxury with fancy therapeutic
mattresses, she's lying on straw having
a kaminka le tivna in mazia.
Rebbe Akiva is picking straw out of her
hair. First of all, I love this picture
of the husband who doesn't have, but
he's providing for his wife Yair.
I love that he's picking straw out of
her hair. I love the picture of a
husband providing for his wife. I want
the guys to be husbands. Provide for
your wife. Show up and provide. That's
what a man means. You provide for. You
take care of her. She's saved by you. I
love the picture of Rebbe Akiva, the
great teacher of Torah, is picking out
straw out of her hair. They're sleeping
on straw. And literally, she wakes up in
the morning, she has straw in her hair.
This girl was a fancy girl, used to
luxuries, and in the morning, have a
mink tip numb in mazia. He's pulling
straw out of her hair. "Oh my love," he
says to her,
"If I If I had I don't have anything. If
I had the mink
shalim didava, I would buy you the
richest ornament in the world."
She's living in abject poverty, like
nothing, and he says, "Oh, do I wish I
could give you the world. I would buy
you
didava." It's a very fancy crown
ornament. It's like the fanciest
pashit.
And he says, "If I had the money, I
would buy you a shalim didava."
I like that line a lot. What would the
cynic say?
David, get cynical with me. If you would
be her, get cynical. She grows up Let's
Let's make our own like visual of this.
She grows up in like the fanciest
palace, like
gorgeous house. Give me a neighbor that
has houses like wall, like
Give me David, give me a neighbor that
has like the nicest houses you've ever
seen in your life.
In the world. In the world.
Not in Woodmere.
What? Like a gorgeous house. She grows
up in the lap of luxury. He has her
living like homeless. They're in a
shelter.
Now, he says to her,
"Oh, if I could afford it, I'd build you
a mansion."
If I was her, the inner cynic, I would
say, "Could I at least just have a
house?" Like Like forget your dreams.
Like just give me a house. Like
It's funny. She's She doesn't have a
mattress. She's on straw, and Rebbi
Akiva says, "Oh, do I wish I could give
you I could give you shall I am the dove
if I was her I'd be cynical I would I
would say to him can I at least have a
mattress like forget your big dreams
You who did this tomorrow is one to me
is beautiful
that what he gives in in Watson is
valuable to her I think this the every
word says saying something
tomorrow is a not just like talking
every word is relevant and that's that
the tomorrow records the story I think
this is what she sees in him
he has big returns he has big returns
and she doesn't she's not without all
his Watson
I have spoken to younger guys in the
Shiva to parents a younger kid is
struggling will usually say to his mom
one day mom you'll see
one day you'll see a kid who's
struggling tells his mother mom tell me
one day
the mother who doesn't understand the
parent who doesn't understand acts
cynically
if the parent doesn't understand like
>> [groaning]
>> yeah yeah you always say this
or just be normal just be normal because
like my you'll see one day I'm going to
be like the biggest side of
the cynical mother rejects what he's
saying the sophisticated mother makes a
kid dish say that again say it again
say that again it's a big thing
it's interesting I've gone through
stages in my life with purim I could
tell you today I like when guys cry
rebbe I want to learn we've made we've
all made so much fun in the different
times in my life I like when the kid
cries rebbe rebbe I want to learn
beautiful it's worth to let's get drunk
again to say that
whenever we touch like that Watson that
Watson the type is a very big space that
Watson the type
they even they teach you
they teach in parenting courses this
true
they teach in parenting courses what you
can't give an actuality given
they were they were I've seen this in
parenting courses a kid says I wish we
could go my whole class is going to
Disney I wish we can go
the father could say to his kid I wish
I wish I had like this private jet I
would drive you once a week to
Disneyland
There's something very real to that as
long as you really mean it
dream with the kid
I wish I had a private jet I wish once a
week I can manage drive you to
Disneyland to real thing
give your kid and dream what you can't
necessarily give but as long as you mean
it as long as you mean it kid says I
heard somebody's going there to throw
crazy vacation
if you don't mean it don't say anything
if you mean it and I wish we had a
private jet I wish once every two weeks
I can fly you there to
go to the wish Mac okay
There's such a thing Rebbe Akiva's wife
Rebbe Akiva says to his wife if I could
afford it I'd give you the world and she
accepted that she took that from him she
took that from that's a real thing I
love that she wasn't cynical she took
that from I suspect that's how she
married such a year cuz it there's
dreams and dreams count too
So she says she says to her if I could
give it to you the diamond advice she
she doesn't respond back advice does she
accept it by the way later on Rebbe
Akiva becomes rich and buys it for his
wife
Later on he becomes rich and buys it
Rebbe Miller Rebbe Miller used to tell
people you get a Yeshiva's collecting
stocker you get an ad for a Yeshiva
Rebbe Fischer's is raising money he said
sit down and dream I wish I could build
them a building.
If Miller is used to say this, say I
wish I could manage building a new
building. That was a beautiful dream
that and and like hope for that. He said
there's a big value in that. There's a
tremendous value. He said then when you
become rich, talk about it for them and
build it for them. Rebbe Akiva says, "If
I could afford it, I'd give you shalom
to Dvir also Eliyahu."
The bottom line is they're living in
abject poverty. Ari, welcome home.
Thank you. Do you know Yair Konari?
Yes, I do. Oh, sure. Glad to know you.
As do you know Yair also? I didn't know
him until now, but yes, now.
Obviously.
So, also Eliyahu
Eliyahu Hanavi comes to Rebbe Akiva and
his wife. It me lachain kasha, he
appears as a man. The kokari above, he
calls on the doorway. Amar lo and he
says, "Have we poured to the tivna? Can
I have a little straw?
The yaldus it see, my wife gave birth.
The list they made them laguna. I don't
even have straw to lie her on. Well,
mamesh on the floor, I don't even have
straw.
Amar lo Rebbe Akiva lein, say Rebbe
Akiva says to his wife, "Chazi gavra, do
you see a man dafilu tivna la yesh lei?
I see a man who doesn't even have straw.
I thank Hashem what we have."
Rebbe Akiva through this story, Hashem
sends Eliyahu Hanavi
and he comes to appreciate what he has.
He says, "The man b'chelko, he says,
"You see there's a man who doesn't even
have straw and thank God I have straw."
And he's sameach b'chelko. Amar lei, she
says to him,
"Zil chadi b'Rav, go learn Torah."
Now, I wanted say full disclosure. This
is a separate story. The Gemara quotes
that first story, then the very next
words the Gemara quotes, she says to
him, "Go learn Torah."
Now, you could learn these two stories
nothing to do with each other. This man
doesn't believe I don't believe it.
If the Gamara wrote these two stories
back-to-back, then they're connected.
I don't believe the Gamara just randomly
put two stories back-to-back. Now, it
doesn't say because he was sameach
b'chelko, she said go learn. Says a
separate Amralai, she says to him, but
it immediately follows that first story.
They're sitting in a jack poverty
Yehuda. The mom is sitting in poverty
with nothingness.
She is picking straw out of her hair.
Eliyahu Hanavi comes and comes as a
person doesn't even have straw. He said,
"My wife gave birth and I don't even
have straw."
And Rebbe Akiva says to his wife,
"Baruch Hashem, we have straw." He's
sameach b'chelko. When he's sameach
b'chelko,
Rebbe Akiva's wife says go learn Torah.
She says to him, Amralai, "Zil havei
b'rav, go learn Torah."
It's interesting when she saw sameach
b'chelko, she saw that he's happy with
what he has. Look, somebody doesn't even
have straw and we have straw. She said,
"Go learn Torah, Rebbe Akiva."
Now, there has to be I don't know p'shat
why is that connection Why are these two
stories connected? This previous story
where he says to he says to her, "Baruch
Hashem, sameach b'chelko, thank God we
have we have straw." And then she says
go learn Torah.
I do want to express that Rav
Volbe says, the great Rav that the
biggest danger in the Beis Medrash is
jealousy.
The biggest danger in a room like this
is jealousy. People look what other
people have is the biggest danger in the
Beis Medrash.
There's a safer Pri Eitz and he says
people don't become great is cuz they're
not satisfied with their
breath kind of lotion somebody thinks
in roughness is only like a
thing but kind of lotion and after
shower in
says the Kenyan of tires
and the
roughness first to be happy with what
you have in roughness. I learned I got
something I did something interesting
when she was when he was
the
she said go learn there.
If you have if you're happy with what
you have the world of roughness is a
world that's always shy of tomorrow.
If you're not so mad but
in roughness it's deep trouble cuz you
could always have more and if a person's
in insatiable so interesting because in
the
we taught a lot about a true topic we're
taught about
aspirations always to be shy of to want
more and there's such a thing and that's
we have that in us that we want more and
that's valuable but equal to that is a
it's a me that's considered in the cave
of me that of so mad but
happy with what I have I'm very very
satisfied it's good what I have it's
good what I have I really have I really
have
I would I've been speaking about this
prayer of David
with David says
we could always get more in this but
that's also a
I'm happy with what I have so nice we
learned for an hour oh I wish I could do
more I wish but say that but
it's interesting every single time a
person learns upon exiting the base
madras you're supposed to say my darling
thank you I shall for what I have
what I mean you could want more yes a
guy how was the same day battle it
wasn't perfect I didn't mean It's the
end of the said. It's Baruch Hashem we
learn Torah. We learn Torah. Sameach
b'chelko. I learn Torah. That's what's
supposed to be the process of learning
Torah. Baruch Hashem I learned. The
energy that I have something that I have
When she saw he was sameach b'chelko,
she told him to go learn Torah.
When she saw he had that midah, that
chuna, that possibility being happy with
what he had, she told him go learn
Torah. That's the order of things. She
said Zilhavei b'Rav.
Ah, you have sameach b'chelko.
Yeshayahu, learn Torah.
Learn Torah. You're sameach with what
you have. Zilhavei b'Rav, go learn
Torah.
I want to continue the story of Rabbi
Akiva and we'll we'll need to continue
the story. We'll we'll we'll stop for
now this story of Rabbi Akiva.
I want to ex- I want to express to the
guys I want to express to the guys and
I'll be brief that there are things
going on today that after reading more
about Rabbanim of Shesh and how we
viewed limud haTorah.
Is your Torah coming from you? Rabbanim
didn't like when people came to learn
Torah imitating others. Your Torah,
Hashem's talking to you. This gemara
becomes even deeper to me that that
Rabbi Akiva was sameach b'chelko. He saw
his station, Zilhavei b'Rav, go learn
Torah.
When you can accept you and come as you,
go learn Torah now.
I would I want to express that the
Yeshiva big Torah of the Yeshiva is the
person comes as themselves. Don't
imitate another. Don't play for another.
In such a space you're shaya to Torah.
Now go learn and ask what is what what
resonates by you. What's Hashem saying
to you?
When you have the self and the sameach
bechelk, an acceptance of self, zil
havei be Rav, go learn Torah.
Rebbonim used to ask somebody learning,
"What's Hashem saying to you?"
I would start saying Torah. "No, no, no,
not what Hashem says. What do you say to
you? What are you hearing in Torah?
What message did you hear? What truth
did you hear? What was said to you?"
The way Rebbonim asked the person to
learn and to show up to Torah is showing
up in your situation and then the Torah
talks to you.
Show up in your situation and the Torah
will have what to say to you.
When he was sameach bechelk and he
accepted and was present to his
situation, he said, "Go learn Torah."
That's how you're supposed to learn.
That's when Torah is magical, when you
show up with you,
with what resonates by you, with your
situation. When he was sameach bechelk,
I precisely then she said, "Zil havei be
Rav, go learn Torah."
As a person who accepts and is present
to their situation, zil havei be Rav, go
learn Torah. We'll continue. Thank you,
heaven. Thank you for having
Thank you. Let's have a moment Thank
you, Malcolm.
Yes. Yes.