Parshas Vayeishev & Chanukah: BLOOD LIBELS - The Haunting Revelation of Rav Chaim Filagi

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good evening everyone we're continuing our series on say fabricious the Sherman braces are sponsored by doc doctors okay a very interesting subject this evening which not only is it rooted in the Powershell it's a historical subject and surprisingly it is connected to the umptive of chanukkah there's a position you ever hear the book very good safer there are no haskamas and but still it's worthwhile to learn it um tells us so says the almighty um because they tell you a Hellas automatic you guys eat people you eat humans um and you expel bodies um you did okay and you expel bodies thank you you will not eat any more people you will not expel any more people um no I'm Hashem like him so they until now you guys were eating people you were consuming humans from now on not no more of that you can eat chicken for supper do not eat no more people I'm not going to have to listen to The Shame of the Gentiles you will not have to bear the abuse and the embarrassment of the nations of the world you will not have to expel any bodies a very unusual prophecy then I'll be saying that the goyan would say you eat people no more eating people I'm not going to listen to that anymore I won't have to hear anybody ever say again that you eat people what's this talking about says the abarbanel that unfortunately throughout Jewish history we've been accused and we've been abused because of the notorious accusations of the blood labels which began almost a thousand years ago and in almost every country almost every city in the European continent Jews were accused specifically Before pesach Time an era of pesach of slaughtering a Christian Child and using the blood for the making of matsus and for use on karoisas and in the dalid koi size and therefore now says the navi ready predicted it the navi prophecy that the time will come where the Nations will say you eat people and God is promising that on the end of the of days this will stop they won't say that anymore they'll realize that it's the fabrication they'll realize that it's a nonsense and you won't have to suffer and tolerate the great insult and shame of the accusations of the blood level okay so this is something which is predicted beforehand by the prophet and Bezos Hashem will come to an end however once it began maybe in the 12th century it still continued into this very century and you could research it there were cases and libels up to quite recently and when I say recently I mean this decade okay now uh We've mentioned in the past that um this was something that Jewish Community suffered from throughout the generations we bring over here that the balhathosis he wrote a piot in memory of the terrible blood libels and rebel Yahoo and his hagada shop he lists and goes through all the various uh libels throughout history as uh well as in the safer gazeros ashkenaz usvard so there's a long history of blood libels mostly on the on the Christian continent the European continent in fact Al barbano says that this is something that we suffered throughout the generations under edoim this is specific te edoim but as we're going to see this is uh not specific to Adam blood labels occurred not only in the Christian lands but in Muslim lands and in arits Israel and in Damascus in fact a couple of weeks in a row we spoke about Moses Montefiore and how he saved the community in Damascus in 1840 from the Damascus Affair and this is how we're going to begin tonight I just want to go through with you some of the cases in history recorded by none other than falaji in his safer at Moses Montefiore he recorded seven historical accounts of blood libels many of them happened not in Christian countries in Muslim countries and how calaiso were miraculously saved let's stop for a moment and I want to share with you a thought that I once heard from harava Victor Miller and that is is very important to study blood levels because can there be a greater fabrication against any human being then the blood level against the Jewish people can there be something that is more false than a blood level against the Jewish people I mean is there any community in the world which is more distant from murder than the Jewish people is there any community in the world that's more distant from the consumption of blood than the Jewish people if somebody gets a paper cut and they're eating a piece of bread and they get a little on the bread most people toss the whole loaf people get very nervous and especially in matzah if a little blood gets in the mat so it becomes blood is so can there be anything further than the truth from the truth than the blood level and yet millions of people believe that many tenets of their religion are based on it and that's a fact so think about it cesra Miller if millions of people can believe absolute lie not even based on a kernel of truth then use that as a barometer to evaluate many of the things that they believe sometimes there's a well millions of people believe maybe we should uh look into it maybe there's something there recognize what they believe for a moment if this was able to pass then use that Asa okay so the first historical account uh they're kind philology cites is something that happened in Izmir um palaci was in the 19th century so this goes back to the 18th century one of the greater abundance that there was a blood libel in Izmir and the rabbi was summoned when the rabbi walked into the room he illuminated he's shown he was so full of light that the sultan was startled and surprised and somehow immediately they discovered the child was really alive and the whole thing was put to an end so that was one particular miracle that he says Hashem so that was one particular account another account he brings on a commentary on the uh pasta on the pisgahisha can do me a favor there's a box all the way at the end of the hall I left all the way at the end of the hall with a box of svarum the one on the hagada they're in the shamda the khandas says that there's a particular situation where the sultan one night he couldn't sleep he was tossing and turning he couldn't he could not he could not get any rest so he gets out of bed and he walks outside into the courtyard and in the courtyard he sees two guys they're looking around and in the cover of the darkness they have a body and they throw the body into the Jewish quarter and they run out and the sultan tells his men go check out see what's going on and the men find out who these two people were and sure enough in the morning one of the religious leaders of the community they come to the sultan they said you know the Jews they murdered somebody last night and they have their body in the court in their quarter so the sultan summoned all of his residents to the Palace and the sultan hears out the case and this religious leader said that um Sultan if you don't thank you very much if you don't take revenge against the Jewish people right now then I'm going to incite a mob against them and uh it's going to be bad for the entire community so the sultan gathers the whole Community together and he hears the claim of the blood libel and he turns to the Jewish Community says I want to have a question for you he said really on what I have a question for you on the Posse and tehelum what's the question he says what does it mean Israel God doesn't doze and he doesn't sleep so what's going on obviously if he doesn't dose he doesn't sleep because if he doesn't even doze off then of course he doesn't sleep so the Jews start to say this shot dab shot the son says you guys don't know how to learn to heal him I'll tell you on a relationships so like this last night I couldn't sleep and I couldn't dose I couldn't do anything so I woke up and I walked into the courtyard and I saw him and that guy carrying a Christian child after they murdered it throwing it into the Jewish quarter and I realized that this whole bloodline was all bogus and then I finally understood God doesn't even those willing to guard the Jewish people he doesn't let them sleep he didn't let me sleep so that I could be guardian over the Jewish people and he hung those two guys and they put an end to that particular blood level so that's the second account the third accounts a very surprising safer he quotes a few years ago we had a few a series on the on the safer and basically it's a beginning to bake matzah era pesach after hatsois and they say hello when they break the matzah okay them gather and what's about sham doing his schmoozing who's he schmoozing with with the pastor with the priests and they're schmoozing and they're kibitzing and they're discussing and back and forth and then the balshamtov invites the pastor into his house and he gives them some pesach honey and they look like they're best friends and it's a very short while before pesach finally the best comes out he says let's go let's bake the matzah said rebe get no better time to schmooze with the priests and arabesach the best says this priest was going to throw a body of a kid into the Jewish quarter so I figured out a little bit I'll schmooze with him I'll show him respect and that put an end to that particular blood libel then you have the famous story of in yerushalayim you know that story say no otherwise what am I going to do you know you never heard that story right so basically uh what happened was the Ishmael killed a kid threw his body into the courtyard of the of the basic knesses and remember colonomous says he did what he did just imagine what that is and he prayed and he probably did some kind of kabbalistic stuff don't try that at home and all of a sudden the kid woke up and the kids said he did it he pointed to the ishmaeli who did it and he gave all the details and then he went back to the islands and that blood libel was put to rest through the miracle of rabinu kalinimus and then 16 years ago and you shall I am says there were two soldiers that were fighting if you want to follow and Simon on page two second column third paragraph and you Shot Two Soldiers was fighting and one knocked out the other and he died and he died in the Jewish Corridor and it was gonna be bad news for the Jews and the whole Army gathered to to attack the Jewish Community until God put an idea into the soldier into the murderer's head the murderers started going around you know why I killed that guy because he got under my nerves and he really annoyed me and his hands were full of blood and in the last second that blood libel was uh was avoided and then says in the city of kushta now a little Jewish history over here where is kushta turkey yeah that right where Istanbul very good Istanbul is a major city the capital of Turkey so whenever you see Islam kushta that's Istanbul or Constantinople those are all synonymous and there was a particular Sultan who he was very upset at his Governor so he the governor realized that his life was on the line so what do you do in your life is on the line you go to a Jewish Community you dress up like a cedar shagai and then uh then you're you're hidden and that's what he did he dressed up like a a Jewish guy for a year and a half and he participated came to minion he and he was lucky he was not on Yeshiva World News after a short while that he made he was able to avoid that he really nobody knew he this guy and he used to go to pesak sudarim and he he dressed up he even spoke between hamara of a couple of years this guy really had it going and finally the sultan gave word that he forgave the governor and the governor took off the yada shagarb and he came back and he was better than ever while he was in his Jewish Garb one particular pesach he saw a guy got a paper cut and you know he got a little blood on one of the maths side and it was like you know a big Saga they threw out the whole run of matzah and sure enough a little while later the Jewish committee was accused of killing a child and using his their blood to bake the matzos and this Governor got up and he said I want to tell you something I know intimately the Jewish Community I was there I was one of them and I saw that if even a little speck of blood gets anywhere near their matzah they throw out the whole matzah and that put an end to that blood libel so says the same thing happened in our times in Rhodes in Damascus until we were rescued by none other than moisha Montefiore and now in the uh repositories in Izmir we have a letter from the sultan that from now on anytime anybody claims the Jewish people spilled any blood from matsus it's all nonsense it's all Sheck of okay this is some of the history of the blood levels so here's the million dollar question and perhaps there's a question we've discussed in the past but I found some really amazing information about this and this is addressed by none other than he says there's a principle that shekere that does not have a granule of Truth cannot exist cannot be sustained and yet there is no more blatant lie in the history of mankind than the blood level it's not even based on a kernel of truth it's like take the most outrageous impossible situation and claim that it happens that's what a blood label is so how come the revolution has allowed the blood label to be sustained and to continue for Generation after Generation Um Community after Community for almost a thousand years why would God allow this to happen but such an blatant lie God would never allow this to happen unless it's a punishment for something that the Jewish people did and we know the ways of God are quid pro quo what exactly did the Jewish people do to deserve that we should be accused of spilling blood even though it says no basis in reality foreign I'm afraid to say this and the truth is I'm not worthy to say this but if I would be worthy I would say and if I'm not right God should forgive me image I would say that we are punished because we committed the first blood level the sale of yourself we took your ice safe we shattered a god we took his tunic we dipped it in the blood and we say hey does this look familiar and they made Jaco think that Joseph was slaughtered blood libel false blood liable yes it was alive and kicking we fooled him with them and they're from all generations we are punished with the blood labels until the end of time before and why did the blood libels happen to us by the way just as an aside there was another safer written about the Damascus Affair number 13 it's called that there was a Jew a rabbi who had a dream and in his dream it was revealed to him that because Jews were not careful in avoiding their wives at when they were Anita they didn't avoid Dam Nida we were punished with blood levels and al-kali says heaven forbid we would never violate such a thing and it seems like ultimately he did accept that reason but take a look on your sheet number five on your Sheetz wrote probably in the 1930s that he wrote he's not worthy to say and if he's mistaken God should forgive him and if he would be worthy he would say it already wrote it a hundred years before that in fact the reason for the blood libels almost 100 years before is because we took soyness and therefore throughout the generation ends we were punished with the accusation of the blood level so what rabba khanan suggested and is afraid to say now in the past we asked the following question because let's um sort of follow the approach even though nowadays it seems like most Israel if tragedy happens they are very hesitant to ascribe a reason for it even the Holocaust that became very controversial if we're entitled to offer reasons for it or we have to say you know the ways of God are mysterious but it seems like before the Holocaust whenever something happened the good Island attributed absolutely a reason for the tragedy seems like from the Holocaust then on it's been it's a very controversial practice is uh known to have said when tragedy happened aimly asek been a star ice you know it's above my pay grade Holocaust not going to get into that subject here pre-holocost every tragedy has been ascribed to a particular cause in a particular hate here we have Rebel khanon so let's follow rabochanon's path and regarding the blood libels let's ask well okay we understand it happened from safe well why did the blood libels always happen pesach time like why did God allow the blood labels to occur pesach time and that question is actually asked by romanticio Solomon so I should send them before she Lema and the romanticio offers a very lengthy exposition of why the revolution allowed the blood libels to happen pesach time and basically the point is that every pesach we need to remember not only the Exodus not only the Redemption but what put us into the Exile in the first place and why did we go to Golden time in the first place because we sold the ice safe and we know the Jewish calendar is a living calendar and every year pesach we sort of have to ask ourselves you know why did we go down and how did we get out and if we still have a similar hey to material namely then we're still accountable for the type of Cinema safe and therefore the Mercedes sort of is aroused every year pays off time that was the approach around mathisil Solomon says something differently I mean this is really surprising to me because when I'm at to sell Solomon you know where this century was uh much earlier and he has a little bit of a different spin on it and I would like to add to what he's saying maybe he even means this basically says like this look the Jewish people have to pay the price for mercury time because God wants to protect us how does he protect us he makes the accusation and the danger come about through the performance of the Mitzvah so that this way it's coming back through a Mitzvah the Mitzvah will offer us protection instead of it happening you know on uh the third Tuesday of November it happens on pesach through the matzo so that the Matsu offers us protection I think you could still ask on that okay so you know it could happen so far it could happen through love it could happen through many many mitzvahs he doesn't explain maybe we could say as follows he he gives seven historical accounts of blood libels that Miracles occurred you know Supernatural occurrences happen to save us from the bloodline or something he's shining like the sun and he scares off you know the the Emperor or of colonimus brings the kid back to life and the kid says it was him or it was through some story where some governor was a Jew for a year and a half and he came back and he or or the king couldn't sleep so in all these seven cases miraculously supernaturally we were saved from the blood level now if there's ever a time of the year that it would be um ominous if there was ever a good time of the year which is predisposed to Miracles happening to protect the Jewish people it's got to be the night of the say there got to be pesach time so maybe in the approach of palaji they buy some orchestrates that had happened that time of the year because it's Nissan you know Ezra told me you know you told me like nine years ago from my from the muscle Levenstein thank you that Nissan is from nisim it's a month of Miracles I remember you told me in tarasamas so if there's ever a time of Miracles for the Jewish people that God needs to protect us with Miracles it would be that time of the year and therefore maybe there are some allows it to happen them because if ever a time that he needs to tap in and to access like Rashi says that the night that avrah mavino defeated the Four Kings Hashem put away the second half for you'd see us in the time so that night is leil shimurim it's already designated for miracles maybe that's why it happened then by the way okay so let's offer some uh insights so so when's this coming to an end hopefully it did we hope we don't know for sure but it comes out then that there are two great sins in the history of the Jewish people they you know they're never depleted one of them of course is she says whenever God visits punishment on the Jewish people he always visits some punishment from is visited upon the Jewish people in every generation is visited upon the Jewish people in every generation and he even says that this is alluded to in the Yom Kippur davening we say Israel um we say Israel um now this whole concept that we have to keep on being punished for a sin that we didn't do doesn't sound that reasonable why do I have to suffer for someone else to sin Allah when the kids do the same Avera so the meshachma learns there are two let's say father sins in the history of the Jewish people there's God gives us a little punishment and then there's Hashem visits upon us safe so he says the Sin of the aega what did the Jewish people say when they made the egala Israel and how did God forgive them you said yes that's the tribes foreign I'm going to give you a little a trailer now a little preview of the sisa brought about the blood libel which is a tragedy in every generation then what reoccurring tragedy and Jewish life I'll bring about this is mind-boggling but I can say it because then you're not going to come back okay so but think about that if you're safe is repeating every generation with the bloodlah what exactly are people are not making golden calves in every generation are they I can't believe because I read this paragraph many many times I don't know why I never read the end of the paragraph I saw it today I could not believe it it's really mind-bogging okay so here's what I'm thinking I am not worthy to say the following who am I to say the following I don't even want to say if I'm mistaken then Hashem should forgive I can't even say that so the way I'll the way I'll say it is that following the same line of reasoning maybe he would say this of course I'm not worthy is that but just food for thought taking to the next level because Barbara now said throughout the generations we've suffered from the blood libel let's see if we could find it under whose regime look at number two at their line Bane among the so I have one one on that that uh is that really true did we only suffer the blood libel in Christian lands we just read in falaji like five or six seven accounts of blood libels that occurred in Damascus in Jerusalem with yeshmael it does not seem that the blood libel is specific for edim now if it would be specific to ethereum it would be beautiful because we always said many many times that Josef is the antithesis of ace of is the is the LA Hava that destroys Adam so it would be very reasonable for the sin of we suffer under ASAP but why are we suffering blood libels under your smile so is the sale of your safe the only blood libel that happened in pasius I mean we know that joycef brought the basamrah Allah brought a false report about their brothers what did Joseph say s according to Rev uh Yehuda um they may were mazalsel the benebillon the benazilpa and according to rep shimen they acted inappropriately with ourayos but a mayor says well what did Joseph tell the father that the brothers were eating chicken for supper but they didn't check the chicken they bit straight into the chicken they ate a verminakai that's what that's was this true was this nacho I mean it can't be true the brothers weren't eating it can but on the other hand doesn't say that Joseph was moitzudiba implies fabrication he was maybe deba which implies it was true so what were the brothers doing so of course there's the famous approach of the parishes drachem that the brothers held they were uh israelim and we know Israel that checks an animal and animals says it's still moving around but it's not dead you could eat it and Yosef held they were Bane they couldn't eat it has an approach that what does it mean they were masalza with the schwachres so he says like this don't try this at home by the way last time I said don't try this at home somebody raised their hand why not um but really don't try this at home what were these arios that uh the brothers were were fooling around with what's going on so the shot color says that the a voice they knew the safer hayatsira like rava and they could create things now if you create a chicken for supper you don't have to shuck the chicken right OU is trying to make uh different kinds of meats and I mean it's very simple just you say for hayatsira if you if you make a safe ride Sira you you don't you don't have to uh you could eat every mess not alive so what the brothers did was they were making uh beef from safe Zira it's much healthier it's much more lean and less on um less oxidation it doesn't affect the heart you know the animals create a saferite zero much healthier and even the notion that they were accused of they also made them the severeign they also wanted to get in on the action because they didn't want to eat like these hamburgers that are full of fat so the brother said you can you say if it's zero you're not miyushas yeah that's a rule in Kabbalah so that in that sense they were mazals the bottom line is there's a little bit of a blood libel going on against the brothers I mean they're being accused of eating so is it possible would would say that they're really two blood levels going on there's a there's against the brothers which is a little bit more innocuous I don't think it personally it was a little bit more innocuous and uh there's a libel against uh and maybe you know in the Binet in the erets in the asov we suffer from we know connected we suffer from the accusation against the binayahuda who knows he was silent which implies he agreed with it we don't know it's not reported he was shawshack then I came across something unbelievable no right in the center of that result that reason says how much oil should you use on Hanukkah he said he says you should use mem dalid darham I don't know what darham is some kind of ancient measurement but make sure you use mem dalid why not using 44 measures of oil on Hanukkah will protect you from being murdered that's which is always a positive thing you know you always want to be protective by the way how many candles do we light over the course of Hanukkah 44. it protect us from damn the 44 candles of Hanukkah protect us from damn 44 down like what in the world got to do with being protected from hariga's Dam well maybe because you know vaishev is the Parish of Hanukkah and is the root of of the blood levels says the imranium of Jacob he says when did Cayenne kill Heather I don't know all it says is uh you know he was born on the sixth day of creation on the very first day that Adam and Eve were in Garden of Eden they had kind in heaven and how much longer did it take for a kind to kill heaven 50 days says the marriage from sukis until Hanukkah he killed him a Hanukkah Kion killed hevel and Hanukkah and God said Hey where's your brother foreign you faked him out he he tried to cover it up everybody says first blood libel in history chanukkah kinda says that the reason why the meme is measurements of shemen on Hanukkah protect from him because on Hanukkah you need extra protection from that because the first murder in history happened on Hanukkah that's what the matter says and he says Hanukkah is gamatria 89. and he doesn't really explain Adam there you go so I'm just here to point out some of these very interesting our eyes that it seems like the age-old uh tragedy of the blood libel according to according to Abrahim falaji is rooted in as well right that we have to deal with in all generations specifically pesach time we have to be conscious because that's what brought us down to Missouri in the first place and we added maybe the revolution made it happen pesach time because it's a time of Miracles and he wanted it to be a time that we could tap into these Nissim to protect us at this man of the year and maybe these two accusations do they correspond to different areas just pointing it out but it does seem like there's a connection between chanukkah EV the memrise which I Rizal says protects from Adam so we hope the evansham should protect us from any accusations and this should finally be put to rest and be put to bed and the message says that there's a very simple way not to have to uh face the cinema and that is if we Elevate ourselves in the area and we're able to come together which of course Israel where all of Kalisa come together specifically it's the only time in halacha where like the Rama the Berge points out it's the only time in Alaska the Mahaba pascals like one person lights there are more poskin's like the rambam that everybody in the family likes so we should be zoja through this to overcome any kitrugama and Israel and bizoka to all the great another to you like torahanytime.com