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Modern Masters: the Rebbe of Piascezna zy'a by Rabbi Sam Shor
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Shear which I'm going to give today was
publicized under two topics two titles
one was that it's a special Shear for
Roes Maran which is tomorrow and the
other is that it's given the title
Modern Masters so over the course of the
next few months poam I'm going to be in
and out of this
program won't necessarily be in the same
slot every single week but I'm going to
be giving you a course called Modern
Masters which is going to focus on 20
and 21st century thought leaders okay
amongst am
Isel and the reason that we picked this
particular this particular um
personality to learn together today is
that his yard site is coming up next
week
Onan so we're gonna learn about today
one of my personal spiritual Heroes and
that's also known as the rebbi of Petna
also known as the H KES now Reb Kus ker
was a descendant of many many great kic
Masters and he himself becomes at a very
young age first he's orphaned at the age
of three years old he becomes a a a a
Reba by the age of 19 or 20 and he
becomes a renowned educator throughout
po people will come from across Poland
they would send young men to his network
of
Kadar in in within Warsaw in the warsa
area P by the way is a small Kar just
outside of Warsaw where he first
establishes his court he eventually SP
ends up spending the majority of his
time at a certain point in his life
communed between Petna and Warsaw where
he has many
many and during the the siege of the
Nazis of of warsa he and his family
become trapped if you will imprisoned if
you will uh as residents of the war Soto
and he spends the last three years or so
of his life uh in the waro ghetto he's
often lovingly referred to as the rebi
of the waro ghetto he is one of the last
Rabbi personalities surviving in the war
Soto within the first 18 months of the
rebi and his family are find themselves
in the ghetto he loses in this order he
his son his mother his Ritson and then
finally his daughter-in-law basically
everyone that he has in the world
everyone that all his immediate family
perishes yet despite all this he
continues to be the voice of Hope of of
inspiration of faith for the Jews
literally living the depths of H
the so when it becomes clear to the rebi
of Petna
that um the Nazis are beginning their
imaginations to liquidate the ghetto he
gathers together the notes you know you
see I have all these little scraps and
not right every every Rabbi has their
sha terms of how they make their notes
for their for their sh Shir he gathers
together all the little notes and
transcripts of his various clandestine
talks and sermons and and sherim that he
gave throughout the time they was in the
war so ghetto and he gathers them up and
he puts them in a metal milk can and
that milk can is buried together with a
a very very extensive archive that's
known as the that's known as the on
shabas archives there was a group of of
Jewish individuals that would meet on
Friday evenings to Chronicle they would
put down they would hopefully most of
much I hope I hope most of it was
written ahead of chabas but they would
sit and review together and then place
these the the the documentation what has
been happening to the Jews throughout
their time in the war Soto uh they were
gather on Friday night and then they
would place them in all in in these milk
cans so there's a large archive that's
that's hidden away underneath a wall in
one of the buildings in the area of the
orsetto and the rebi places his writings
together with that on shabas archives
and he includes a note that's actually
published here in the in the print
edition of the safe that we're going to
learn from called H col you can actually
see his handwritten note here
okay this his hand ready he writes a
note in yish and he basically says that
to the Great Soul who finds these who
discovers these manuscripts if somehow
I've survived the horrendous fate of so
many of our brothers and sisters do me
the kindness and bring these manuscripts
see that they return to me clonus in the
warsa rabet he says clonus that's what
he calls himself and um he says if
however
I share their tragic fate do me the to
make sure these manuscripts make their
way to my brother
RAB shap made Al to Israel in the 19 he
himself was an also a adore re who comes
to be known as the
Ador he comes to in the 19 he's one of
three rebies that are involved in
building in building uh the area that's
known today isim next week we'll learn
about another one of the personalities
involved in
building and um and he becomes on his
the Adar he gives up the the traditional
gar he starts wearing the long the Long
Black Coat and and on chabas he he still
wears a long black coat but during the
week he basically the pictures we have
him of look like a cowboy with a
Cowboy's Hat on with short sleeves
literally riding a horse from yesu to
yesu to give to the to the he becomes
lovingly known as the ad he becomes a
devoted disciple of Rook there's a
beautiful safer known as
erit erit okay it's a beautiful
collection of the Torah of Rook that is
basically a Le from all of ruk's
writings an ed edited edition of all
rook's writings about the sanctity of er
Isel and it's the
Adar who publish that safer who edit
edits and publishes that safare and so
the rebi the Petna writes to writes
writes in this letter please see that
these documents make their way to my
brother RAB yesai shap living in
erel so the rebi Bears these mil this
mil can and a few months later he taken
to the to the treni Work Work Camp where
where he's enslaved for a few months and
finally he's executed together with with
with many of the other inmates of the
treni Work Camp and in on Dollar kesan
in
1944 so fast forward to 1951 because
obviously his story does the story
doesn't end there because we're going to
learn from these writings so a
non-jewish Polish construction worker
who has to be disc described you
understand why in a moment as one of the
sadik one of the righteous amongst the
Gentile na Gentile Nations he discovers
these manuscripts okay all these
manuscripts of the of the of the on
shabas archive which are written in
Yiddish and certainly the Reb's
manuscripts are half yish half half
Hebrew and the Reb's works are all
loaded with cabalistic references and so
this non-jewish polish construction
worker who absolutely has no idea what
he's found
but he realized this is something
significant and he remembered that his
mother had a distant cousin that he had
never met who was a museum curator in
warsa and this before everyone had one
of these right so he spends weeks
tracking down okay there was no Google
okay spends weeks tracking down this
distant cousin and he finally brings
this archive that he found this treasure
drove that he found to this distant
custom and um she was also a linguist
and she had other linguists that were
involved and they were able to begin to
slowly archive this project okay and
when it became
clear to them that this is something
significant they let it be known to the
world Zionist organization that we found
this Treasure Trove of of documentation
from the war the time of the war Soto
the Jews of the war Soto
and the world science organization sends
a represent representative a gentleman
by the name of
barani to to Poland and before barani
leaves for Poland the Reb's nephew okay
the son of the of the adars who had
become one of the leaders of world B AKA
he met with barani said listen if they
really have found a treasure Trove of
documentation from the war Soto maybe
maybe you'll find some writings from my
from my uncle the rabbi of pet so takes
it upon him himself Theus to go and and
and and and help archive this material
that was found this on shabis um archive
and it's barani who indeed discovers the
writings the hidden writings of the PS
that's the rebi brings them back to
erel and a few years later the
here inel published the first segment of
the writings subsequently the other
works have also Subs be published but
the first segment of the writings that
was published they they gather together
and they're his the re's
drot and andot or at least what we have
left of them the transcripts of what the
rebi wrote down are the various talks
that he gave the sermons that he gave
throughout the three years that he was
in the war sag GTO and they titled this
work is kodesh which means a sacred
flame and this this becomes the moniker
today many many people refer to the Rie
simply as the H
Kesh um and I'll tell you something else
very powerful if you Google
barani nurmberg trials go on YouTube or
just go to YouTube and put in barani
nberg Trials bani testified in the nberg
trials and his testimony was was shortly
after the this first edition of the ish
KES had been published and his testimony
was to read excerpts from the psets the
Reb's own words to
describe what was going on to the Jewish
people the the torture and the and the
and the agony that the Jewish people
were were sustaining at the hands of the
Nazis throughout the three years of the
re was in the war I promise you if you
Google and go to YouTube and put in
barani nberg trials you'll hear you'll
hear him reading from excerts from the
re re's works anyways this incredible
personality who you'll you'll get to
meet a little bit today and learn from a
little bit today was an absolute
Powerhouse of spirituality of faith of
amuna particularly amuna in the diff
most darkest of circumstances over the
past many months I I've had the fortune
to speak in a lot of different settings
bar they keep me busy and I often find
myself in terms of when we're dealing
with how do we how do we contextualize
our mitsu what we're living through as a
Jewish people now and how do we can
remain faithful and and committed and
positive in the midst of all the tragedy
that we're seeing around us I find
myself being constantly pulled to the
re's
teachings and you'll see as we learn
together this this afternoon that have
these teachings been said at any time or
in any context they'd be inspirational
but when we know his story we know when
these words were shared and what the RB
was living through it makes them even
more powerful so before we actually look
at this sheet I want to since we're
talking about a y his yard site this
week I want to share with you a
beautiful teaching that the rebi
himself shares in terms of this idea of
learning in the Merit of a Nish that's
departed we all for your art side it's
very common that we give a shear and we
dedicate that Shear in the memory of
that departed Soul right so what's that
all about so the rabbi points to a a
well this is not on your sheet it's in
the saer the rbbi points to a well-known
medish in the med and the theum is
describing that moshu is is getting
nervous about what his legacy is going
to be and
says when I pass on from this world
who's going to remember me that's what
MOS is worried about so K says don't be
ridiculous every time they the Jewish
people open up a safer Torah and they
read the
words they're gonna remember it's gonna
be and listen to those words it's going
to be as if you mosha rabenu are there
together with the Jewish people teaching
them Torah at that very moment so the
RBI points that that beautiful m
and he says
therefore and therefore he says in
addition Beyond just saying Kadesh and
learning mishna in memory of someone who
passed away why do we learn mishna
memory someone passed away because the
the word the of mish are the same as the
as the word right so in addition to
those beautiful customs and saying
Kadesh and learning mishna memory of
someone who who's who's left this world
he
says it's a great kindness for The
Departed Soul even as we recall them
when when we do a Mitzvah dedicate a
Mitzvah in their Merit or learn Torah in
their Merit he but it's important he
says lo but that that dedication is not
simple intellectual recall we're not
just reciting their name and recalling
their name that's not what's going on
rather rather what are we doing why is
it a great kind kindness for that just
like hasem answers mosu don't be
ridiculous every time they open a Saar
and they read about Mo you mosha it's
going to be as if you mosha are there
with them learning together with them
teaching them so too when we dedicate
any Mitzvah or any learning in memory of
departed says the RAB it's as if we're
giving that we're doing a that that it
can join together with us learn together
with us and in our case that we're going
to learn together from the PS that's the
rebi himself so having said that in the
Reb's own words we're now going to look
at three pieces together from the
okay so we're going to
start
with we're going to jump around through
I'm sorry I just pick three pieces that
I thought we could get through today
we're going to start
inra um and and we we we're all familiar
with t the of TS where we're introduced
to the spiritual um leprosy known as
Sarat okay leprosy is a bad translation
we call it a spiritual leprosy a
spiritual Affliction known as Sarat and
Sarat is is is something that's
metaphysical meaning not only can It
afflict our bodies but it can afflict
our clothing can afflict the walls of
our homes okay and specifically we're
gonna look at a very very famous Rashi
on these okay just take a look text
number
one okay when you come into land of
Israel and you inherit and you take over
the land from the amorites the Amor not
the Amor the amorites but the amorites
right the amarim who lived in the land
before us okay and you're going to
inherit the land and take over their
homes and what might you find on the
walls of the homes this m mysterious
spiritual um Affliction okay
near Li but when you come to the house
you have to and you see such a an
Affliction on the wall you have to go to
the Cain okay and say to the Coen it
appears to me as if what there's a
Affliction on the wall we're not allowed
to diagnose it ourselves even if we're
even if we ourselves are indeed we're
not allowed to make that final diagnosis
only the co okay we'd have to pick up
the phone like I often do and callah
and my my resident cohain and re would
have to pass the Shila for me okay
anyways we go out a little bit more just
we'll just skip to the end what what
ends up happening the house has to be
closed for seven days and then only
after the seven days are you allowed to
return and take over the house so Rashi
a very famous Rashi this is text two
okay and you'll see that Hashem has
placed a
a mark of Affliction on the walls of
your house listen to this unbelievable
Rashi wow he says it's a sign for you
okay thisen the Rashi he says this
Affliction what appears to us
K okay and it seems like an Affliction
to me okay appears on the wall but in
reality why does it appear on the wall
to it's a spiritual treasure map okay to
say what that the those who inherited
the land beforehand they hid Treasures
in the walls okay and they Buri them in
the walls and they left them behind and
it's only when we see those those those
those marks that we know what that
eventually we're going to after after
the seven days we're allowed to come
back to the house and remove those
stones that were Afflicted and when we
remove those stones Rashi says what are
we going to find we're going to find
those Treasures so the house is struck
with an Affliction apparently and
ultimately what comes from that that
that that
Affliction treasure hidden treasure we
find hidden treasure says Rashi
so listen to what the pset the rebbi
does with that famous Rashi this is text
number three on our
sheets
V says rash we we accept rash's right
it's true that the the reason why the
reason why this Affliction appears on
the wall is what to be that spiritual
treasure map for us in order that we
should find the hidden treasure that's
hidden in the walls so so the Reb asked
a very simple question on rash that is a
what if that's true why do we have to
wait seven days Hashem wants us to find
the treasure just give us the treasure
what's this that it has to be it's an
Affliction it looks like looks to me
like it's something bad but ultimately
it's hidden treasure what do we meant to
learn from
this and only afterwards can we remove
the
Stones it's really the reason why this
Nega appears says the rabbi to is to
tell us that there's a hidden treasure
why do we have to wait seven days okay
and he he quotes a ran he ran that's
quoted in the of his father okay and
that says
that he says the first thing we have to
understand is that what that when a
leprous mark the spiritual leprosy this
spiritual Affliction which can appear on
clothing or on the walls of a house
that is
Supernatural you can't explain it's not
it's not like any other contagion right
it's something Supernatural it's beyond
the laws of nature that you would have a
leprous mark on the wall or seemingly
leprous mark on the wall or on your
clothing that's
Supernatural that's the first thing we
have to
recognize and if that's true then the
only purpose of that Nega appearing on
the wall is what
for the ultimate good for am Israel that
to reveal those Hidden
Treasures the
L and so the re rebi asked again the
same question why then do we have to
does the Torah say we have to what wait
those seven days that the seven days of
impurity and then and only then can you
can you re fi kind of go find the hidden
treasure so now look what the rebbi does
with this question there's a second
paragraph the first important yod of fa
faithful Jew is that what that the the
under we we can never fully understand
hashem's reasoning and the full meaning
of hashem's Torah and mitah okay doesn't
mean we don't try to find meaning and we
don't try to relate to it in in a way
that that that is Inspire inspirational
to us but the reality is is what we have
to recognize that the reality is is that
we can't begin to Fathom and to perceive
that we
understand exactly what Hashem intends
with giving us the Torah mitv and
exactly what hasm intends with
everything that exists in the world okay
that's the first important spiritual yod
as we say all right and then he says
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but what we do need to embrace he says
we can't understand why but what we do
need to embrace and believe firmly is
what that even when Hashem appears to be
harming us and striking
us that ultimately what that there's
ultimate good that's going to emerge
from
those challenging moments and those
difficult moments talk about a relevant
message for us today and a relevant
inspirational message for us
today how do we continue to
persevere and put our total trust in the
ultimate good of the big
picture my great teacher AB by David
Aaron many of you may have heard of him
RAB by Aaron so he he describes he gives
a beautiful mush in terms of
understanding this point then we'll
learn the next piece of this from the
rabbi so if a person goes to an art
museum okay you go into an art museum
and you see these beautiful tapestries
masterpieces on the on the wall right
but so when you walk into that art
museum you start to see the full picture
on the wall and it's a masterpiece but
if you to put your face up directly
against that the tapestry what would you
see a bunch of random ugly squiggly
lines of blotches that make no sense
that we can't make any un any any heads
or tails of okay it might even scare us
and be ugly to us he says but when we
take a step back and begin slowly to
take in the full
tapestry then those random ugly blotches
and squiggly
lines become a piece
of a beautiful
Masterpiece and that's how we have to
look at life says Rabbi Aaron there are
moments in life where we have difficult
difficult troubling ugly episodes
episodes that don't seem to make sense
to us that might confuse us might
frighten us might sadden us might
terrify us it's only we take a step back
and work to begin to see the bigger
picture and embrace this idea of the
bigger picture that slowly we can
what Embrace this idea that there's
ultimate good there is eventually going
to come from those challenging moments
okay so let's go a little bit further
and now the Reb's goingon to say now
he's going to get
personal what does K
mean what does K
mean right now as we're seeing K as
we're seeing right now should we maybe
close these windows is that
okay
thank
yeah so the re says as we're seeing
right now
shalu that Hashem doesn't seem to be
striking us solely physically
but he's also
what we're not we're not only being
Afflicted physically but we're also
being afflicted by what by having taken
away from us many of the things many
that we many of things we have that
bring us closer to Hashem and he's going
to list them okay he's saying he's
talking about his reality there in the
in the in the in the ghetto ghetto the
wor of ghetto he says
there's no for the little boys there's
no yes for us to
study and there's no for us to together
in and there's
noik things like
this and therefore God forbid what could
happen because we don't have all those
things that are normally our way to
connect to Hashem what could happen as a
result God forbid one might begin to
question if there's ultimate good that's
going to come from this we might begin
to have our faith be damaged God
forbid
okay and if Hashem wanted us okay to see
the good if was really for our good we
might think what then he wouldn't take
away the things that allow us to come
close to him he saying God forbid a Jew
living in the circumstances of the wetto
God forbid it would wouldn't would it be
a stretch for them God forbid to lose
their faith in God okay their ability to
see the the big
picture he says
he says that's why we have to learn for
the T from this example of the Torah the
story of the T the
neat that the Torah tells us that we
come into our house and it seems like
we're being
struck but then ultimately what it's
revealed at some point that there's
ultimate good and he
says it starts seven days it's and then
the goodness the treasure is
revealed it and that's why a person has
to say it appears to me from my limited
human perspective as an Affliction has
come upon the
house and even a that knows with
certainty that this is an Affliction
okay ra he has to say appears to
me
shal only he has to say what from my
limited human perspective it looks to me
as if there's an affliction
the truth is that there's going to be
ultimate good that's going to result
from that Affliction that appears in the
house for the Jewish people and so too
Hashem will bring good to us as well
says the re that's the first powerful
piece okay we're now going to learn
another very beautiful short piece we're
going to learn two more two maybe three
more short pieces from the rabi we're
going to learn a powerful piece
from from parl
everyone knows the story the story of
theing come and they come and they have
all these seemingly less than positive
things to say about about about coming
into ER Israel they talk about how the
people are Fierce and the cities are
heavily fortified and it's going to be
difficult for us etc etc and then along
comes
khuna and andu and the tells us text
number four
and KH quiets down the people before
Moshe there's you can imagine they hear
the report from the Morag and all Israel
is suddenly
what they they're going crazy what are
we gonna die what do we do what what
what's going on here why does hasm want
us to go there and KH quiets everyone
down and says
Al we shall go up okay we shall surely
go up and settle the land
because it's within our capability to do
so without any without any Rhyme or
Reason without any rational um
disputation of of of of the various the
various complaints of the Morag
simply we shall go up and take the land
because we can right remember there's a
there was a uh a certain presidential
candidate without not taking sides a
number years ago that said yes we can
and won the
election k k basically gives a similar
pep talk says why should we go to the
land of Israel because we're capable of
doing so it's a gift by the way in our
generation okay it's AEL to me that in
today's day and age when all is flying I
mean even in a war time El is flying
regularly here to a how
how are people not realizing the gift
that is to come to this land but that's
exactly the message of K like we shall
come because we can so take a look what
the does with
this this text
five he says the let's understand this
he says the mor give very thought out
rational reasons for why they don't
think we should go to land the people
are Fierce they're we saw the children
are giants there the cities are heavily
fortified
okay then why doesn't K try to argue
with them okay any when you I was on I
don't know about you guys but I was on
debate team in high school right so what
do you what do you learn about in debate
when you when you practice for a debate
okay if you have the opposing team the
opposing side presents X Y and Z as fact
what's our job to contradict
them to what to debunk their pres what
they presented as factual same with any
any any defense attorney okay if the
prosecutor presents a certain case then
a defense attorney's job is what to try
to debunk the information that's been
that's been presented as factual okay
but KH doesn't do this says the rabbi he
says why doesn't he do that
Al he only says let's go up because we
can now listen what the rebi does with
that that's that statement
by he says KH is teaching us an eternal
message this is the way a Jews faith has
to
be so not only in those moments when a
person can look with their own intellect
and see a natural way out from a
challenging
situation and therefore be encouraged
and strengthen themselves and
persevere no a Jew has to believe always
even when we don't see those natural
ways out
but even in those moments what when we
don't see any natural way out doesn't
appear to us if there's any any way that
we're going to be saved no je tell us to
believe what
yes that Hashem can indeed bring the
Salvation at the blink of an eye and he
takes it a step further
it says quite the contrary bishu what's
bishu at this moment what we're living
through
okay wow he says in our circumstances
what it's better not to look for natural
way out why because when we do what's
going to happen we're going to come and
realize that it looks hope hopeless and
we're going to feel helpless and we're
going to become devastated and depressed
and our faith in God our trust in God is
going to become damaged impaired
deficient and what happens when our
faith becomes tainted like that
okay the re says that if a person Faith
becomes damaged or impaired than what
can happen that could be the impediment
to the Yeshua
coming now what does this mean I want to
share with you a very powerful idea from
another great cidic
master
sakin sakin who died in the 19 I think
around 1910 if I'm not
mistaken he asked a very very famous
question about Le
Le the Magi begins in Le with the
words this is the matah this bread that
we eat this matah we eat on the Le is
the matah represents the matah that our
ancestors ate okay when they were in
servitude in MIT it's matah in the
beginning the Seder we declare that
matah is what the slaves rations okay
that Israel ate for the 210 years that
they were enslaved in
MIT all right and then later on the S
when ra gam comes and teaches us that
there are three things we need to speak
about and discuss in great detail and if
we don't do that we we we don't fill the
Mitzvah of those three things are we
have to talk about the P the carb P the
mat and the mar what is Rao give us the
reason for why we eat
matah because Hashem took us out quickly
from and there was no time for for the
to to rise so ask a question he says
which is it
okay is matah representative of the
slaves rations or does matah represent
the fact that we left quickly great Hast
so what's the
answer but well the answer says it's
both but then he goes on to ask another
question and says but let's think about
this if indeed it's
both and if indeed the Jews have been
eating matah for 210 years and they
believe in a they see that hm's got
their back he's just turned the world
upside down with the with all the makos
right so for 210 years all they've had
to eat is
matah and they're baking they're baking
bread of their own finally and Hashem is
just turned the world upside down and
demonstrated that he's got their back so
you don't let the bread rise and EXT few
minutes extra half an hour and you
finally have a nice Bila or a marble Ry
or something like like like it's a good
question it's a good casha right so
listen to what says sad says what we
learn from this is that
sometimes brings us a moment an
opportunity opens up a window to
experience yeshu in our lives and if we
are constantly
open to those moments our eyes our minds
and our hearts if we really believe and
put our faith in Hashem yeshu if we
really live that that motto and we
believe wholeheartedly that hasem could
literally bring a Yeshua at the blink of
an
eye then we're always ready for those
OPP to seize those opportunities to jump
through those
windows as they open up for us but if
we're blind to it if we've given up we
don't believe that that's possible and
what could happen God forbid that's
exactly what the Reb is saying in this
piece when those moments of
opportunities open up we won't see them
and therefore says the rebi the most
important thing is that a Jew has to
believe and put their full faith and
trust in
the okay even when we're in pain even we
in difficult
circumstances because God forbid what
can happen if her faith is is Tainted
that when those opportunities do come
our way if we no longer believe it's
possible then what's going to happen
we're going to miss the boat okay and
now just to finish this piece
off look listen to what the rebbi does
here because he takes exactly the words
of and talks about their circumstances
in the war
Soto rather we have to say everything is
true it's true the people who are who
are dwelling among us are
Fierce the words are
correct that the cities are indeed
Heavenly
fortified there despite that I put my
full faith in Theon sham who Beyond any
limitation of nature that he will indeed
redeem us
he says we should surely go up we
believe this kind of level and faith in
Hashem and Trust in Hashem will speedily
bring our Redemption bring our
Redemption
closer so just share one story about
this piece so many of you have met my
father-in-law Rabbi snow U you should
live and be well and please God will be
back with us um to learn together with
us soon but rabbi snow for many years is
the rabbi of the young Isel bethl Bar
Park in Brooklyn and um poam he and I
like to when we have time we like to try
to learn a little bit throughout the
week you know share ideas about the
sedra things we're going to share and
our sh some I think about 10 years ago I
happen to share this
Torah um the week of parlak with my
father-in-law and he shared in his sh in
bar park in Brooklyn okay
now fast forward about seven months
later my in-laws were here at the time
they hadn't yet made Aliah but they were
now they have bar they're here here at
the time visiting and my father-in-law
and I went to the cotel
and gentleman stops us when we get to
the cotel and he says to say my
father-in-law are you Rabbi
snow and my father-in-law says yes and
he says I want you know that many months
ago I was in your sh in bar Park and you
shared an idea from the psets and the
RBI I just I had just gone through a
painful divorce my family was very upset
at me that that that I that I left that
sh and left that again he was from
family young man and I decided you know
what like I need to heed the Reb's words
and I need to to to move on and he came
to ER
Israel and decided that that speech
inspired him to come and see if he can
make it here in Israel
and he said that
he and had just become engaged he wanted
to invite us to the that evening we
didn't go we didn't go but the Reb's
words
yeshu I want to learn quickly just I
know it's the hour is L we have 10 more
minutes I want to learn one last piece
that is probably there or to say there's
a defining Torah of the P that's the
Reby that I like to share and then I
probably shared about 00 times I'm not
kidding this
year it's this this piece from perum of
1940 in the war ghetto I can't think of
a more
challenging speaking assignment for a
rabbi what do you share on P in the
warto and this year we had two months we
had two months of Adar so I must have
shared this piece of
Torah probably 50 times or more during
those two months and and um we're going
to learn it together very quickly now
and the rabbi points to the very
very important teaching and well-known
teaching in theun that Pam is like yum
Kipper okay okay the Torah calls yum
Yumer Yim and the tiar says that
therefore yipper is like P P Yim and the
raban raban said famously said that if
the Torah calls it a
that means that Yumer is being compared
to P which means that the Lesser day of
Yumer is being compared to the greater
day of P okay that's a whole different
discussion for before P we'll learn this
Torah again but let's learn what the
rebi does with this
piece says says um what does it mean
that these two days are are are likened
he says well first of all let's start
with young Kipper no one wakes up in
young Kipper morning says the rebbi and
says I'm so excited to fast for okay he
says why do we do it why do we fast the
young Kipper we do it because Hashem
tells us we we we have to he
says so too The Joy were meant to feel
says not only is it when it's when a
person's in a good mood and it's easy
for us to be happy should we be happy on
per but even if a person is depressed
and
brokenhearted his entire Spirit has been
crushed it's a on this day of per we
have to find and allow some spark of to
enter into our
hearts so to from above directed down
below just as with the famous G and Yuma
that where rebi says that the very
essence of the day of yam Kipper brings
kapara even if we haven't fully done
sh okay
even if a Jew is not as happy as we're
really meant to be
on and therefore all the things we're
supposed to do on Perm are incomplete
they're not they're done half-heartedly
or or we can't really do them like we're
meant to normally to Rejoice think about
this what was shus in the in the
warto okay today we go crazy on with SH
to make to to bring something to our
neighbor to make them happy okay
what a moldy crust bread and a rotten
onion what was think about
this he says despite this even if a Jew
can't be as happy as we're really meant
to be and therefore all of our the
mitzah that we're meant to do on per are
not truly
complete that Yeshua the salvation and
joy that per brings metaphysically to
the Jewish people it's happening even
now there's something spark of Salvation
and happiness that's coming from above
projected down to us even now in the war
soos is the rebi Emperor and therefore
we have to tap into that and allow
ourselves to tap into that energy of
being
B any rate the re's yed is coming up
next week D kesan may his inspirational
Torah that we got to learn together with
him as we said in based on the
introduction today may continue to be um
a source of inspiration and for us even
as we navigate these difficult and
unprecedented times and may indeed we be
strengthened to know that and to put our
full trust and faith and to know that
indeed
yeshu that hasem can bring Miracles at
the blink of an eye even throughout this
difficult period I think we've already
seen a couple of examples of the
miraculous things coming at the blink of
an eye may we be blessed to see the
Yeshua the GMA
bov
yeshu right so next week the schedule
again for next week we're going to learn
at 9:15 next week I'll just give a a a
commercial for the the the class next
week we're going to learn from two great
kic Masters who both made Aliah
to ahead of the
nais that is the the a of kajit who's
the actually the brother-in-law of the
rebi we just learned from as well as
the ohal yov the rebi ofan who was
lovingly known as the ad we're actually
going to learn two beautiful p a few
beautiful pieces from each of these two
Rees that are gonna speak to the
question
ofel and I think uh we give us some very
relevant and Powerful food for thought
as well so that's that's the commercial
for next week Shak have a great shabus
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