Parshas Chayei Sarah: Rebbi Akiva's Wake Up Message - How To Gain Olam Habah In One Moment

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning everyone Hills New York actually this will be our last live share here in Kew Garden Hills it's been a nice run we've been getting together for I believe 10 years and uh best from next week this year is going to segue to what Roberto said is a national Sheriff so it's going to be for all the Agra de percos it's going to be on Zoom and the the trip from the five towns to Cuban Hills I'll no longer be able to spend a good chunk of my day on the Van Wyck Expressway hopefully we'll come up with a better uses of time uh it's been quite a while since I saw everybody live in the last year and a half we have some news Forum so if anybody wants to take a look at them after this year they're welcome too and um but I'll be we'll be seeing each other live as this Hashem okay passion what the show will be 11 40. okay Sarah there's a very well-known madrish in the beginning of practice Simon gimmel and the matter says review Kiva was sitting and darshaning and the more things change the more they stay the same that zebra was dozing off right wanted to wake them up Omar he so he pulls out of his sleeve his uh by the way I want to say before we start you know I give a live stream online but um for those listening online I think the favorite cheer is the Monday I go the character I always get comments I've heard from other countries what's Agro the perk of the aggregate share why because it's the best audience they could hear the people laugh at the jokes so I just want to give you a Yasha Claire for that even on Zoom sometimes you laugh at the jokes but it's it's you know it's not the same okay anyway rabikiva wanted to wake up his tummy then so he pulls the best rabbit out of a sleeve he says what did Esther see to rule over 127 medinos why would in other words why was Esther's to rule over 127 medinos and the answer is Esther was the descendant of Sarah sorry Emmanuel lived 127 righteous years and the Merit of her 127 righteous years Esther ruled over 127 medinos and here is the million dollar question if you were a rabbi and you're standing at the pulpit and your constituents were falling asleep and this is what you pulled out of your sleeve they would all be out cold okay do you find this particularly interesting that why was Esther to rule over 127 denois in the Merit of Sorrows 127 righteous years what in the world is so interesting about that that was Ruby akiva's best you know Nosa over here what is so interesting about this teaching of rabi Akiva and the khadu shaharim it's called by the premium I believe it's well he offers the following uh explanation rebuke was telling his tummy them let's make the following husband if in this 127 righteous years of Sarah Esther ruled over 127 countries then the Merit of every month of Sarah Esther must have ruled over a whole region and in the Merit of every week of Esther of Sarah Esther probably ruled over a state and in the Merit of every um day of Sarah's life Esther ruled over a city and they married a very hour of sora's Life Esther probably ruled over a neighborhood and the Merit of every minute of Sarah's life Esther ruled over uh a district or a town and the Merit of every second of Sarah's life Esther ruled over a whole city block look what you could do in one second in the Merit of every second of Sarah's life Esther got a whole block and if she would have blown that second Vanessa wouldn't have gotten that block look what you could do in a second tell me them don't fall asleep if you'll miss this second you don't know what you could be losing out on every second in life is precious but because wasn't trying to make a joke he was telling them you have to take advantage of every moment of life and the question is so it comes out which Tana teaches us the value of every moment of life why not rough terrifying why not run gamlea why notarya there's so many Akiva so you ask why the Akiva I don't know are you allowed to ask such a question but uh that question is definitely um worthy to be addressed anytime you see a member on the gemara you're entitled to ask why is this saying that memra like we once discussed Purim time you know the gamara says why rava why not I don't know why not abaye why not run gam Leo and until rava they didn't drink on poor and what you know why is rubber the Bala memra and if you remember we quoted from the safer State yards Who quotes from the arizal that ravas nashama was connected to who lights that's why when light was saved as Lloyd the S rochus says connected to light and light made a misstep with the eye in so to rectify Lloyd's messed up with with the iron always and Shas is telling you good things you could do with wine like drinking on Purim or the gemara says that Rubble would drink wine era of pesach to wet his appetite so throughout shots whenever there's a statement about wine you could take it to the bank it's rava anytime in chess there's an anti-wine statement it's always abye ironically so you're allowed to ask the question if you have a memera in the gemara why is so and so the Baja memra so we want to know why is there a Kiva the one who teaches the world the value of time so let's speak a little bit about this Indian the yukaris has man how precious time is we're going to start in the beginning that's always a good place to start God created The Luminaries God said let there be luminaries in the Heavens to separate between the day and the night Adam and it should be signs and it should be to bring light in the heavens so right now this possible God is creating the great luminaries the Sun the moon the stars right you know what that is right you've been out of your house in the last year and a half you know there's something called the Sun that round thing that gives off light what is the function of this right if I were to ask you what is the main function of the Sun the moon and the stars what would you say what is the main phone what's their purpose most people say uh to give light no sounds good to give light to give Heat look at the possible to separate between day and night and to make yamim toivim and years and days and they should give light says by the way a secondary function as they should give light as if the fact that the sun and the moon give light that's their secondary function and what's the primary function askserman this is quoted in the safer countries al-azhar and also in the kovitz parashoice how could you say that the fact that the luminaries give light is its secondary function isn't it its primary function and if simchosterman says no the fact that the luminaries give light it's it's secondary function you know what the primary function of the luminaries are to tell time to know when it's day when it's night when an hour has passed when a moment has passed how do we know what time it is we only know what time it is based on the sun and the moon the primary function of the Sun and the Moon is to tell time and by the way the fact that they Keep Us Alive that's also another function the fact that they give heat and light that's another function but that's not primary primary is the fact that through them we're able to tell time is the primary function of the Sun and the Moon listen to a mishna mishna Misha enough that's one thing that we've encountered in the last year and a half somebody who an avalanche fell on them unfortunately he might be there he might not be there he might be alive he might not suffix Israel you're allowed to desecrate Shabbos and uncover the pile is alive you continue to uncover if he's dead you can continue to be Mahala Shabbos meaning you have someone Loyola they're under the rubble what if they're basically almost unconscious they're a guy says and there they can only live one more moment right are you allowed to desecrate Shabbos to prolong someone's life one extra moment of course so the question is why what could they do in what moment what could somebody do in one second why would you desecrate Shabbos to be able to prolong someone's life for one moment and the answer is look at this says if you began to uncover ubuduku and you checked you checked his nose right they put the Feather by their nose found that he's alive you complete the the uh overseeing afo patient is bower even though it's clear she absolutely that's impossible to live for even one second in that one second maybe the person will do chuva it only takes one moment to do chuba in that extra moment the person is alive the person could do chuva yeah Rabbi black says over the story that um he had a elderly parent or grandparent who was on life support and the doctors were you know pressuring him you know to take off what value is the person's life and he remembered he walked in and he says to the relative kochabbas and the relative responded back Good Shabbos and according to Rebecca veger when a person says go Chavez they're makayaim de mithvas asiam in one moment of Life a person with that Mitzvah yes remember um my great-grandmother was in the hospital in her last day and my uncle my father went to spend Shabbos with her and she was on complete life support and there was no communication with her but they figured okay those things mirrors with her those things mirrors Friday night and they sang the December of her of her father they sang the curry bun and that Curry bun stirred her and she was shaking and she was swaying to to participate in this mirrors the safer has see them rides singings miros on Shabbos is a Mitzvah the erisa what's the midst of the rise of seeing as well Chavez it says he cursed his life he said in my house there should be no light it should only be cursed there should be no light there should be no song so we see the definition of cursed is lack of song so if Shabbos is blessed then if God says the way to make Shabbos blessed is so you never know one moment of life you could do chuva you could be McCain there is a well-known observation that was made in slovaka in the naviona remember good old Yona Jonas on the ship he's running away and everybody realizes that it's this guy's fault it's Jonah's fault so Yona says okay I'll take the blame he says throw me overboard throw me over and then the storm will stop so the politics says Lift Me Up and toss me over and Hassan once told his tamidam at the end of the last Yom Kippur of his life he said what's Lift Me Up and hurt me just say hurl me why the extra word so uni and I believe Hassan would say Jonah understood his end was coming he understood he has to go but if he could buy if he could buy one more moment of Life Lift Me Up and then throw me overboard Jonah said that's worth it every second of life is so valuable in fact in the hakadama of the safer Terrace of RAM was written by the um grazinski I believe was the father-in-law of many notable he was the found law of Heim christworth he was the father-in-law of um is it possible I don't remember he was the father-in-law of many member of yaakov and I had those close to meet his son in artistra grazinski he lived in the building of rabaran lieb's diamond I remember when I was a bachar you couldn't get into a bar and leave it was like but we used to go to rabitzra grezinski and the hakatama of the safer was written by somebody was the one of the last uh I remember as a bachar getting a bracha from in fact Ron grazinski had the following idea that in the Covenant ghetto and the end at the end when the when the Nazis uh basically took over Elita So based on last week's Powershell that if there are 10 sadikem it would save the city sort of gathered 10 people who would accept upon themselves to be ten sadikim and in their Merit they would save Lithuania from the Nazis now one of these ten Sadiq was anyway we're at the end of the life of Rome grazinski they're they're very scary pictures you don't get a long beard there's a picture of him when the Nazis shaved his beard except for his uh mustache Rabbi Mordechai kamenetsky put out a book about the history of the five towns so in that book he has the picture of grazinski when the Nazis shaved his beard it's a very it's a very haunting picture so anyway at the end of his life he was but he begged them to take him out of the hospital and bring him to the ghetto even though he knew his end was coming just to be able to buy a few extra moments of life so and he quoted this idea of that said he quoted the name of the author of sabotka that so univah lift me up because if you lift me up so I'll have one additional moment of life in fact it's um I have a safer at home one of my favorites for him the name of the safer is written by the great coinage was the the rabbi of Turkey of uh Izmir and he wrote many many's for him and he wrote the when he published it he published it in small size 101 ways to connect the last possible to the first person 101 ways to connect Israel to baratius bar like him you know what one way Israel Borah for all of Israel God created the 310 worlds of oil Israel Barossa Shai so he has these kinds of um he has these kinds of mnemonics anyway he he writes the reason why he published in small size is the whole reason he wrote this safe air is each pay Rush each way to connect the end of the beginning is very short it's like a short vatara and he says in the month of tishui people don't have a lot of time to learn so yeah you know they're busy Roshana Yom Kippur building the sukkah they're waiting online they're here so they don't have set time to learn they only have a few minutes here a few minutes there so he wrote the safer this way people have a minute here a minute there they can hop okay one shot another another shot and that's why he published it in pocket size this way people could carry it around with them and they could take advantage of the um the the regoim US virus the the small amount of time that they had that's why the recommended in the safer Terrace habayas in paragraph We have over here on page recommended that that people should try to be a Bucky in foreign writes many benefits number one by doing so your makaiim the Indians this way the Torah is upon your heart number two he um I'm skipping number two for a moment he quotes desirock others that somebody who inherits one masekta inherits a whole world how do you know if you know one message so you're kind of that or we have him foreign fortunate someone who comes upstairs with his learning in his in his hand that if you know you'll be able to come with tamudai and but one of the main reasons recommended knowing him the indianova this way your Makai and the Indian that when you're traveling when you're on the road when you're waiting online when you're here when you're there you'll be able to be with kayem the midst of Tama Torah Wherever You Are let's give an illustration how valuable one word of Torah is an experiment how many words of Torah can a person learn in one minute writes that he looked at his watch he got a stopwatch and in one minute your person could learn 200 words that means that think about it not only the value of a second the value of a third of a second the value of a third of a second a person could learn 200 words in one minute so I want to share with you a teaching of the altar of kelm it's brought amenities forum and uh the following idea the altar of come said this is on page the altar of come said the whole world was created for one purpose look my day that means does the altar have come it was worth it for the almighty to create the whole world and to maintain it and to keep it alive for six thousand years so that one guy one time in his life could answer my obviously that guy's not agronic because the girl holds you don't answer Barack Obama just for one guy to one time answer the whole creation was worthwhile says the author of calm one thousands is not equal the value of one amen and now Barack Obama is pretty valuable because it's worthwhile for God to create the whole creation and go through the Cayenne killing Heaven the whole marble and the whole daraflaga and the whole uh oh the Roman Empire and the Babylonian Empire and all these hilarious just so one guy can answer my but one thousand does not even equal one I mean and one thousand domains is not equal one I mean and one thousands is not equal one word of Lima and how much time does it take to learn one word of Torah less than a third of a second and it's worthwhile to create the world so that just so that one person can answer foreign so a person might say okay I don't know not only that I don't even know one Mission about I don't even know one word of mishnais I can't even translate it worry not because there are still many things a person could accomplish in Split moments take a look in the bottom page writes that certain Mitzvahs only apply at certain times only apply to certain people can only be fulfilled during the day during the night when the base is standing except for six Mitzvahs that their obligation is constant these six Mitzvahs do not cease even for a moment for one whole whole life and these are called the sheish midsize to me the ice number one to believe in Hashem number two not to believe in anyone else number three to believe there's only one God number four to love him number five liera isai to fear Him number six not to turn after the thoughts of the heart and one's eyes says to say these are the six Mitzvahs to Medias which by the way the mission of quotes them and he says anyone any moment calls none any moment one thinks about them there's no end the reward for missus is infinite the ashrae hamakai mom karoi fortunate as someone who fulfills the Shea schmitzos properly says how do you remember there's six minutes here's the mnemonic ready foreign there are six Cities of Refuge now I don't think it's so complicated to remember that there's six constant Mitzvahs that I need oh well you know what the mnemonic is there's I don't know why not that's the six Ora McLeod by the way you know that uh there's a lot of speculation now that the Taliban are come from you know about this and they have a number of Jewish practices most prominent among them is this and this answers a very well-known question it says why were there so many clubs right equal to the messages because there are a lot of murderers so the question is that's very nice but all right you don't go to the McLeod If You're a murderer you go to the Ari McLeod if you murder by accident and what's the answer the more intentional murderers there are the more accidental murderers there are same thing with the Taliban what's Mitzvah do they really emphasize more than anything else that's that's their Mitzvah you know some people they're Mitzvahs fill in Talis has said by the Taliban their Mitzvah is so what do you mean why are they killing so many people bashoi gig same thing when there are a lot of there end up being a lot about I happen they're not my cousins but I know other people down my block who might be related to them but that's the a lot happens in a year and a half you know you find out about a lot of long-lost relatives anyway why do we need to know that the semen for the sheikhism are the Ari McLeod so the Prima goddam in his hakadama Prima Gotham says you know why you know what the analogy between the ra McLeod is and the Shea schmitzvahs to Media is says the the Prima godam he says on the bottom of page I think like a murderer the moment he comes out of his Refuge near Zach he could get killed the moment the right leaves the miklad he's endangering his life so too these six midsolutes one has to place on their mind always the moment you start thinking about other things it ain't good it's like you're leaving the RMA Club these six misses offer you a spirit of protection it's like an Iron Dome the moment you leave out the moment you venture out you're in danger perhaps we could add what's the connection between the ra miklot and the Shea Schmitz to meteors and that isai life is very short I just saw yesterday Something Beautiful from the gamara babakama says I'm ravino minted coins I happened to no I just aravino minted coins what was on the coin of avraham avina so um the gamara says on one side was bajor ubasula and on the other side was zakain uzakena young man young woman on the other side old man oh what's what's the meaning of that says Frank the meaning is aravino is teaching the world life goes by very quickly time flies you start off young man young woman and you just flip it around and before you know it that was the message of the coin of amravino so life is very short and there are a lot of things in this world that take away our time that that diminish our time however through the Shea Schmitz to meteors a person could rescue themselves save themselves from the danger the greatest danger in the world what's the greatest danger in the world sakonas the the danger of losing time so they once asked the shepherd halevi they asked him you know what do you say about the Shea Schmitz to meteors they figured I don't know you know he's learning tairo all day he's gonna say it's a bit though you know what a person doing thinking about I love you Hashem I fear you Hashem let's get what they are the first one is to believe in akadesh barucho number two there's no other God that God is one that you love High color Sparkles by the way right that why should the love of Hashem be different than any other mitsudairisa the same way you know before you go home in the morning you make sure you said Shema and you put on fill in and then you eat breakfast so so too why should a person let any day of their life go by without first being Makai in the Mitzvah of Abbas Hashem and then you could go uh you could go eat and you should have it in mind when you say the possible you don't have time there at least before you go home at night before you go home in the morning rev Miller would say that you should make sure to make it your business say I love you Hashem if you're embarrassed to do that he would say go into a telephone booth and make a long distance call so you say there are no more telephone booths so these things could have some purpose anyway all day people they're on these things so you're also on it you're like I love you Hashem and if you're embarrassed to do that you could send a text message either all kinds of ways to take advantage of this little device that more than anything else it strives to take away our time so they asked for a buzner what do you have to say about the Shea schmitzers to me the ice says reposner believe you me Habibi zalik versus for 70 years not a day went by that I did not fulfill Shea Schmitz to meet the ice at least a hundred times foreign now who's the great Tana who sees his tamidam they're falling asleep they're losing moments they're losing seconds and he wants to wake them up and he wants to tell them no the value of time every moment so we want to suggest what does the word Akiva stand for says the ramami Pano Akiva stands for yes so you say but that's only if you spell Akiva within Allen but what if you spell Akiva with a hay now we spell with an aleph but you know the or zarua reviews and when he was asked why do you call he said look I was writing a book and I had a dream and then the dream I saw the following I said why is the heaven showing me or Israel he says because I was trying to I was writing in the safer how do you spell Akiva forgetting and I wasn't sure if you spelled with the olive at the end or a hey and then I realize based on that Akiva spelled with a hey by the way we don't pass in that way we spell within aleph but he named it our Zoro because what if you spell like he was a hey he says not a problem then Akiva stands for yes you could acquire in the one moment is it coincidental that this individual was given the name Akiva yes we know a name captures the essence of the individual and if there's one person who we know who got a late start in life but made sure that in his remaining 80 years he took advantage of every single moment it's the great Tana rebecciva to the extent where khazal say he reached levels even higher than my shopping or have the man do it he until age 40 he was amharets he didn't have that much time after the answer is he made sure to take advantage of every single reggae and moment and minute and that was his the essence of his being he was he personified he embodied and therefore if there's any Tana who could teach Claus Israel teaches talmidim the value of an hour the value of a moment the value of the second it is none other than the great Tana rabi Akiva and therefore Rabbi Akiva when he wants to wake up his tamidam he says my dear tell me them in the Merit of every year of sora's Life Esther ruled over a country in the Merit of every month a region in the Merit of every day a city in the Merit of every moment of Sarah's life Esther ruled over something quite significant every moment of life is precious that's the main objective of the sun that's the uh that's what our life is made out of these moments that colorful gives us and we see the greatest of people somebody like the shaved alavi took advantage not only of the hours he had to learn but even the milliseconds the meaningful milliseconds he took advantage of and he was makaiim these Mitzvahs by his own testimony at least 100 times a day it is a great pleasure to see everybody I'm sure we'll be seeing each other around and uh please join us starting November 1st when uh when on Monday at 11 40 for this year happens to be on November 8th I'm out of town so we're not going to have this year November 8th but we'll be back on the 15th and uh until then thank you very much if anybody's interested in uh some of the new song these are the samples and there's more on the car that's fine you've just experienced another Torah class 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