Preparing For Sefer Shemos - A Maggid Harakiah Special Event

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com and welcome everyone to tonight's very special event in honor of the new safer that's hot off the press very excited and I'm very humbled to have this uh opportunity this is a safer that's very substantial in size and I hope in quality as well it's more than 700 pages and it covers many of the main themes and subjects of safer shimais first let's begin by thanking the hosts of tonight's event tonight's sheer is hosted by hazak I want to thank my dear friends Ravi Ilan ravian the leaders of khazak they do tremendous work uh I want to thank my friend Robbie aboff for organizing tonight's event and whatever you could do to help kazak especially in their capacity of enrolling Jewish public school students in yeshivas which is uh mamish I want to thank the sponsor of tonight's year chickens for Shabbos I know chickens for Shabbos personally from the time that I was living in Queens when I was a robin queens and you could go to the Yad Alias our site and hit the icon for agunas and malamdim and whatever you could do to support these families these are yiddin who need it most without our malamdim then we don't have a future we don't have hope for the Next Generation so please contribute generously to chickens for Shabbos and then Hashem bless you and your families only with say for sure much of course the main personality that we're introduced to in safer shimais is moishra Israel and the gemara says that this moisture had many names the gemara counts seven names of my Shabana moisha yeared adds three more names a total of ten names and in fact the murderer says and despite all the names that his father and his mother gave him and all the names that Claudius referred to him as he is referred to in the Torah only by the name that Basia the daughter of the Pharaoh gave him like the plastic says it's a wonder why was the name of Maisha established for all generations based on the daughter of the Pharaoh and not on any of the other names he had very nice names tovia is a nice name toiv sounds pretty good to me avigdar no the Torah refers to him repeatedly with the name that the daughter of the Pharaoh gave him we could ask even further because I'll say in the marriage on the Posse moisha foreign by your life I swear from all the names that I'm gonna call that you have I will only call you the name that the daughter of the Pharaoh called you that therefore so hazal are focusing on why is it that the rebanishum calls out to this individual by the name moisha it's because God took an oath he swore do you run some swore he will only use the name that the daughter of the Pharaoh called moishra albino and this is very uh interesting and worthy of our attention why would it be that the revention would only use the name called now if we contemplate the matter we will recognize and understand that every Jew today even though we go about our business and we may live in a free country and we have Liberty and we have freedom but every Jew alive today after 2 000 years of Galas after all the trials and tribulations that the Jewish people have encountered for two thousand years we could consider ourselves we are a shayaris we are one out of a thousand and this is something we have to live with constantly we can't just go through life oh yeah I'm a Jew and uh I'm continuing a long Legacy of loyal Jews we have to have the proper perspective and proper understanding of our history in order to move forward into our future and it is imperative to recognize that we are all what is called a shayaris haplata a small remnant of survivors after a long difficult history that the vast majority of our brothers and sisters did not survive Rabbi Barrow wine the great rabbi he was rashishiva historian he records in his safer by Massillon actually I was looking for that safer for many many years and they just uncovered like eight copies and I was uh of course I ordered it and in our new safer Margaret bring down a few very powerful stories and I've said these stories numerous times over the years but I like to repeat it in this context again this is in the news which is available on our site Rabbi dg.com you could order now with free shipping and Ruby wine talks about the first time he came to the special Memorial the Children's Memorial in Yad vashem memorial made to one and a half million Jewish children whose Souls were plucked out in the prime of their life in their youth it was donated by a family named Spiegel who lost their son in the in the in Auschwitz and they made a big contribution to yavashem and they later endowed it and this was uh a memorial that caught Rabbi wine off guard he expected to see exhibits uh brochures documents and he was completely unprepared for what he encountered he entered a room many many feet tall three times the height of an average room and the room was black it was dark it was pitch black you couldn't put one foot in front of the other and you go into the room and your eyes have to adjust to the the palpable Darkness and there's one candlelit and through the genius of the architect and the designers through mirrors that one pinpoint of light is reflected until it becomes a million and a half pinpoints of light glimmering in the all pervasive Darkness and all you hear is a voice that is playing and the voice says Miriam Cohen eight years old Sarajevo yaakoi Friedman nine years old vilna Raquel Grossman six and a half years old lipna voice name after name after name after name after name and after name until you can't take it anymore and you have to run out of the room and Rabbi wine writes that he thought to himself wait a minute my name wasn't mentioned I was of age if my family still would have been in Europe then I would have experience what those children experienced but my name wasn't on the list they didn't read my name and if my name is uh is not on that list and I'm still alive and kicking then there's a reason for that there's a reason the almighty saved me then I have a responsibility in this world I have an obligation in this world I have an aquarius if my name is that not on that list and the truth is every Jew alive today his name is not on that list he made it through two thousand years of selection of Egypt where four-fifths of our people were decimated of the destruction of the first temple destruction of the second temple of forced baptism 1391 Inquisition 1492 Crusades of the 11th century Holocaust and if we're still around that means our name is not on that list and we have a responsibility Rabbi wine on page 415 in his safer brings the story I've said the story over many times it's because the story has a lot of personal meaning to me because my grandfather said gladstein met rev Herzog in the DP camps with Herzog taught told him about this incident of one with Herzog went to meet with the Pope so I'll share with you Rabbi wine says that when he was a young boy he was an only child and one day shortly after World War II his father said Barrow we're going to the airport and he says what's in the airport and Reba and Riley Wine's father said well a great Rabbi is coming a great luminary Rabbi Isaac khalifi Herzog he's coming to Chicago and we're going to greet him at the airport and all the Yeshiva students and the balabhatim greeted with Herzog who's a very aristocratic personality he wore a shiny top hat and he had a cane and he lit from the plane holding his Tanakh and he's accompanied by a few hundred boys and and balabatim to the Skokie Yeshiva where if hersa gives a 45-minute pillpull share and then he says I would like to speak to the young men of the Skokie Yeshiva he says my dear boys I just came back from audience with the Pope and I brought with me to the pope a list of names of ten thousand boys and girls children who their families didn't know how they would be able to care for them and that if they would stay at home they would probably send off to the gas Chambers to be gassed and burned and therefore these families gave over these children to Christian families to monasteries to convince rev Herzog said to the Pope I have the names of these 10 000 children they're our children now you're holding on to them unlawfully unrightfully give them back give us back our children and the pope flatly refused the pope said all these children that were given over to us they were baptized and once a child is baptized they make they can never be given back to another religion all of these children have been baptized we will never give them back and the pope slam the door on referred sag Herzog then says to the young men of the Skokie Yeshiva there is nothing that I can do for these ten thousand boys and girls but you're still around what will you do for the future of the Jewish people Rabbi wine says those words reverberate in his ears throughout his life whenever he's despondent whenever he's at a loss of energy whenever he wants to throw in the towel he hears her of Herzog cry out what will you do for the future of the Jewish people if you're still around and then Rabbi wine writes that it occurred to him that this is the reason why the ribena always referred to this individual as moisha I saved you from the Nile Hashem came to Maisha and he charges him with this great mission to be the leader the savior of the Jewish people to take us out of Egypt to give us the Torah this is not something wanted to do on his own my shabin was a humble man he would have preferred to say give it over to Aaron give it over to kolei benifuna anybody about me anyone but me this I don't want to do this so therefore God close to him my yank you yank your the ass crocodile Rose and you should have has underwent the same fate that the rest of the children of the Jewish people underwent the rest of the yada Israel they were eaten by the crocodile they were killed by the pharaoh but I yanked you out of the sea myself I saved your life and if I saved your life you got work to do you can't throw in the towel if your name is not on that list if you didn't go down into the Nile like the rest of the Jewish children if I pulled you out of the sea then you have a responsibility you have a mission you have a tough kid you have a purpose in this world to fulfill what I charge you with and therefore it says revine the reason why my sharabino the reason why moshabino is called only by the name of Maisha is because God is explaining to him why he has to accept the task Maisha moisha I yanked you out of the sea and you didn't suffer the same fate of the rest of the Jewish children well the wine brings down the story that when he was a young boy the panavita came to the Yeshiva and he spoke about how there was a group of young men in Palestine who they were single-handedly fighting off the British sort of being sowing the seeds to be able to establish a Homeland and a state but the Panama said that if he had a group of eight or ten young ambitious he'd be able to build a country of toy review avoida well the panovic was teaching was that if a person feels the responsibility of having emerged as a Plata from 2000 years of trials and tribulations then there's a major responsibility that rests on our shoulders and we should feel okay I'm energized we butter some what would you like me to do for cloud Israel and the Jewish people and these are stories that a vocal out of emotion with me personally because I had this horse to grow up hearing about the miraculous salvation of my revered and saintly grandfather blessing who every day of his life also heard the call of Maisha moisha because he was saved from the gas Chambers from the crematoria from under the nose of the SS from angelinos of the German people and the Nazis and he felt the responsibility that if he was an udsome what could he do to revitalize to resuscitate to resurrect the shairas have played the remnant of a people who had survived that great catastrophe I would like to share with you two stories that happened to my grandfather personally that are recorded in the safer magadhara Kia again it's available at our site Rabbi dg.com you could order with free shipping or it's available at better sperm stores in your neighborhood two extremely powerful miraculous stories that my grandfather experienced and he told us about and they're recorded in the biography that we put together on our grandfather which is not in print right now it's called parashas and I would like to share with you at this time when my grandfather a blessed memory was in Dachau the Valley of weeping of the Germans machine of murder he was chased to the crematoria a place where thousands of Jews were convulsing were being burnt choking with Misa mishuna and he said to his brother he said you know we have to prepare ourselves now for our death and his brother said please my dear brother my throat is so dry I'm gonna die of choking even before I I enter please give me a little bit of water and my grandfather responded we cannot drink water now because then it will prolong our death and they were waiting at the threshold of the crematoria and they were about to go in and at the last moment they were yanked out the Nazi said you're young you're capable of work get out and my grandfather said it was an open miracle and then maybe the most well-known story set over about my grandfather my grandfather smuggled in a pair of filling into a particular Camp called radam which was under the auspices of a terrible Russia named ficus and despite the Great Danger stay awoke every morning to put on the fill in at the crack of dawn first my grandfather and then his brother my grandfather put on the villain one particular morning and then he gave it to his brother and Uncle that's fill in Chiliad and he picks up the phone show Royce to place it on his head and just then Ficus walks in and he sees this Jew putting onto fun and he raises up the pistol to shoot but then he looked at the fill and shall Rush perched on the head of the Sadiq and he was gripped with Terror he was stricken with panic and he put the gun down and he ran out and my grandfather said it was an open Miracle this is what the gemara says in the possekin davarian hashemi Mecca these are two stories just tipa shabayam of the Allah of Miracles that Hashem performed for our grandfather not just that he should survive because it occurred to me very simply that not only did God save my grandfather but he saved my father you saved me he saved my children had the Rebellion some not made those miracles for him we would not be here and therefore we have to always be cognizant and focused on the idea that if we're around today then Hashem is calling out to us he's saying I rescued you from Egypt when four-fifths of our people were destroyed I rescued you from the destruction of the first temple from the second temple when where the death toll was 1.1 million and then the Romans hunted down every last Jew they could find and we mentioned some saved us from all the various difficulties of our history you know the famous words of his sither he says someone who analyzes the state and the status of the Jewish people in this world the storm toss Nation the scattered sheep after everything that has transpired who the nation's world have attempted to annihilate us and yet we're still around in full Vitality nada and a letter of our Torah is missing after everything that has taken place when I contemplate all this I swear it is greater to me because then all the Miracles that God performed for our forefathers in Egypt greater than the splitting of the sea greater than the Macos is the miracle of continual Jewish survival you know we always say if only God would perform a miracle for us like the splitting of the sea no the people in the times of The Exodus when they saw the splitting of the sea the miracle the likes of which will the Jews in 2023 will see when they look at the face of another Jew that's a much greater Miracle than the splitting of the sea but the miracle has a message and the mer the message is I've saved you you've been rescued you've been saved it's for a purpose it's for attackless you have a mission in this world you have a purpose in this world and we have no choice but to say everybody's time what do you want we're willing to do it it's a call Mila Shema Lai that is the message of the name of moisha that's the message of safer shamas and that's the message of Jewish Jewish history in general I want to share with you one other thought about the name moisha I want to again thank the sponsors of tonight's event chickens for Shabbos please go to the yada Eliezer site whatever you could do to help out sir focuses on the idea that a name is not merely an appellation attributed to a certain person or item but a name is great wisdom when the Malachi is asked God about Adam about the first man Hashem said his wisdom is greater than yours because he could name could look at an entity and capture the essence of all the fullness and details of that entity with one word that was the wisdom of other reason he gave a name for Hashem so if a name captures the essence of something why of all the names that are ascribed to the leader of Claudius Maisha why choose the name moisha the name that Basia gave him the question we began with foreign stretched out her arm to save Maisha that act of Salvation injected in moisha her capacity now what was she doing at that time she was risking her life violating the decree of the Pharaoh who said and she was risking her life to save this child she was being my sir nephis and the key ingredient of a Jewish leader is masira's nephe self-sacrifice so by rescuing him she injected within him to self-sacrifice that she put into him so moisha's Essence maisha's being was elevated through the self-sacrifice of Basia basparai but perhaps we could offer another beautiful idea to explain why the name Maisha really captures the essence of this individual going along the lines of us that the act of Basia really injected within him a certain kayakan capacity you know when moshebenu stood at the burning bush and he wondered why the Bush was not being concerned consumed the plastic says [Applause] let me turn around and see why is the bush not burning God said you're trying to understand why the bush is not burning foreign God called him from the burning bush farno explains when the public says I will turn and I will see that means I will contemplate and see and then Hashem reacted that he turned to see meaning to be Miss boynane and God called out to him to tell him the idea like in other words this farno's understanding that my shabinu made a small effort to try to understand the prophetic image that he was seeing why the Bush was not being consumed God saw his efforts so God said you're making an attempt you're trying to understand I will endow you with the depth of understanding and wisdom of what the meaning of this prophetic image was this is an example of one who comes to purify themselves they assist they assist the person and then the svarnow says this is not the only time in Malaysia's career that he did a small act and God assisted his efforts says esparno um that Moshe went up to God and God called out to him from the mountain so I heard from one of my rabem in Russia turkslita but the swarno means is what he explains in Paris foreign are busy with their tents but moisha went up and he prepared himself for navua so because Maisha prepared himself for navoa God came down and he gave the Torah to Maisha herzegrine listen to what's taking place over here Maisha Bean Was preparing himself for navua and the almighty says okay you're doing your effort I will now come and teach you Kala tarakula two times in history my shabino makes a very small step he tries to understand the meaning of the burning bush God says you're making an attempt I will give you the insight to help you understand the meaning of this prophecy prepares himself to receive Divine communion God said you're making an attempt you're making an effort I will reward you the rest of the way think about it not made that small effort the Tyro would not have been given but once marshmallow did that small step then this Grand body of information that no human being could fathom was given to him because of his small efforts this is the greatest illustration of how Bala Tahir Messiah one who comes to purify himself they assist him thank you which means that the greatness of my shopping if you needed to sum it up what was it based on what catapulted him to Greatness what catapult him to Greatness where he recognized that through small efforts rebanishum comes and elevates you many times over where did he get this limo from where did he get this capacity from who taught this to my shopping writes that we see a similar idea from Basia basparai basketball was bathing in the river she saw a Jewish child he was so far away what does she do she stuck at her arm would that reach him no that would not reach him that would not do the job she would never get to him but she did her part she stretched out her arm and the gemaran soyta says that Tisha amoy's Harvey she made a small effort everybody took her the rest of the way there in other words yes my shabino's operating principles modus operandi was attire Messiah said let's just do a small effort emotional take us the rest of the way there but the first illustration of such an idea was really brought out by basio basparoy so we could say in the direction that of all the names that Moshe was given you know which name really sums up his greatness what's the greatness of my son moshe's greatness was he didn't say well it's impossible to receive the Divine Divine communication of Torah so why even start it's impossible to understand this Prophecy of the burning bush why even start not much Rabino understood you do a small effort you try to understand the prophecy and Hashem will help you you try to prepare yourselves for Nevada and God will assist you many times over but what endowed moisture have been with disability when Basia stuck at her arm just a little bit do you bunch of them extended that arm many many times over that with this operating principle of the power of the Dynamite of the principle of Messiah this was the greatness of my sharabino and therefore of all the names that Hashem gave Maisha he said I will only call you by the name of Basia my sharabin so I thank you all for listening I was very happy to share with you today from the ipsicha of the safer magadhara Kia as well as the mimer called shamois which is Neymar dalid the safer is available at better Farm Stores you could get at Rabbi dg.com with free shipping I thank hazak for hosting tonight's event whatever you could do to help out khazak especially an enrolling public school students in yeshivasa please thank you to chickens for 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