R' Dani Staum - Siyum Sefer Vayikra

i'm glad you're giving me this opportunity giving you the opportunity to come to this country called brooklyn always reminds me of already i don't know if i should say this once i already lived in brooklyn and one morning was a beautiful day in may and i heard him scream borrow signing with brooklyn i parked in the bronze today but it's a very big combo and it's a very big suppose for me to be our people to be in a celebration of torah it's a very very beautiful thing i have the for years i wrote on the parsha that i used to email out the very first one that i sent out years ago was a story that i loved it's like all these things at a humble beginning a friend of mine emailed me torah this is over 20 years ago and i emailed him back this far torah and i liked it so i sent it to a few more people and it was born that way but this is the story the torah says make the same one so if you're going to talk about it makes the scene made i'm sorry and possible that's a big problem asks the gemara because they buried him so what does that mean fold on the far shelf itself that's different ideas of what it means but i once heard a martial that i love but where it comes from it was a small town somewhere in europe they were looking for the problem was that it was a town of of ignorant people so nobody was interested no love anyone who came to the town they weren't interested in joining this community what perks do they have you know someone wants something a little closer with some people who are a little bit scholarly to listen to what he has to say so every time the love came they were all excited and the rugs said thank you worth nothing so they got together the heads of the town and they said look we have to come up with a ploy we have to have something that makes our town attractive that someone would want to come here even though we're all very simple and don't know anything so they came up with a brilliant idea the next time a young grub you have a spiral down home and comes to the tower and they see like usual he's not impressed but afterwards after walking out with the president of the community he says he says rabbi have you heard of the villenegon of course i've heard the film ago he says you know he's buried in our town rob stops he says what the film the gold is buried in this house he says wait wait rabbi have you heard of the sounds over of course the part of the song is over everybody knows who comes over there he says he's buried in this town you've heard of then it's safe then it's it said yeah he's buried in this town wow all these people are buried here on the spot signs the contract takes the job the next week he moves in he's sitting at his table right after he moves in and all of a sudden he hits him what an idiot i am cause i'm so respecting precious bird they feel the guns buried in velva when it citizen velocity he comes storming out in the middle of the night it's 10 o'clock at night he's come banging on the president's door the president of the stories rabbi what can i do for you you are a liar you're a cheat you lied to me you tricked me he says well rabbi take it easy go tell me to take it exactly my whole family is nonsense let me explain something he says you go to preschool today today but whenever this makeup story happened he says you see a beautiful yeshiva lithuania thousands of people sitting and learning yeshiva he said you think that sin is dead and it says alive and well but some sofa is alive and well the village alive and well my torah is being taught in this town nobody knows anything in this town they're all dead they're all buried that's the shot avinu lomaze yes they buried him in the ground but by fiaco jaco lives where does yakov live he lives inside every one of us he lives because we're here on a monday night late celebrating many decades ago back then in gateshead it wasn't like nice tables and everything in the basement she was sold in small tables you know withering away and the police that was so packed in like sardines gemaras were all on top of each other and if you wanted to turn the page you have to get your three cabooses or three people on the side to lift there tomorrow so you can quickly turn the page that's how packed in they were he said one day a dying from somewhere comes to speak and the dying says i don't want to say it's my torah i just want to read you an article and he pulls out an article i have no idea from where this article was written by a secular journalist jewish fellow totally secular and he writes as follows i was part of a group that went with a bunch of other journalists and we were invited to tour all over europe we came to england we came to northern england and they took us to a place called wall's end what's wall's end hadrian the roman emperor made a wall to keep out the barbarians barbarians everyone who wasn't roman and he made a wall to keep them out and this is where the wall ended so in their brilliance they came up with a great name they called it wallsand and mata says he said i don't even know what you do when you go to wall's end he says will you drink a beer and take a picture and go on you know that's it but this journalist says while i was there i suddenly i remembered that i had your excitement for my mother it wasn't observant but you're excited so he went to the leader the guide and he said to him can you direct me to a jewish place like you know i need to find the you need to pray he says oh i don't know how much you want me i'm 20 kilometers away there's a gate academy over there you go there they'll take care of all your jewish needs so he says i come there i walk in it's five six o'clock in the afternoon we know what you look like at the end of five six o'clock in the afternoon at the end of a long day walk scene and he's never seen anything like him the police is packed she was screaming and yelling and back and forth he never saw anything like it the energy in the room amazing he says i didn't understand one word that they said but something caught my ear um akiva he says i know rabbi i'm historian i know that he said he struck me he said i'm coming from wall's end wall's end was built by hadrian hadrian the one who commissioned the murder the brutal murder of rabbi akiva and what's left of hadrian today moss covered stones you go anywhere like australia new zealand you go anywhere in the world south america north america earth eastern england wherever you go over that's the message that i want to leave with you a part of something eternal once described yesterday salvation once described it's a famous passage of what it's like in his sheer he said i'm giving to young men he said the door opens an old man walks in it's my grandfather no cayenne brisket the father of all thought to the the style of learning today a few minutes later the door opens again another old man walks in who's this the shack this fifth state cohen from the 1700s you can't learn anything in the laws of monetary uh monetary responsibility without looking at the shock the door opens again who walks in rashi new ramban there it's arriving he says we ask each of them to say their peace to explain how they understand the gemara how they understand what's going on walks into that she looks interesting he says the room is alive he said one student i write it says his attack on the roundabout and one student gets up salvation you know the way students can be and in a fresh disrespectful manner he doesn't need to be but he challenges the right how can you say that about the rambam he says i have to tell him to calm down and the salvation says this is the experience that happens in front of us generations and generations coming together from all parts of the world it's really an astounding thing on the page of gemara in front of us on a standard village russia is from france ever coming together and it's thousands of years all coming together at the same time a bunch of years ago i had this supposed to be an artsy struggle with my son my older son is our missile five years ago so we we spent the day we went all the way to the north of the country and came around my brother's father-in-law who was why the eight years ago knows the country well he took us to turia we went all the way up north but i saw in one of these guides that ravina and that abaya and rovo are buried in the northeast class i'm gonna buy in love with very i was surprised to see that they're very just north and south so i asked my brothers father-in-law can we stop by a guy in rubber my son and i were trying to keep up with what he was learning in yeshiva we added this fifth paragraph they say you don't go i think three blocks in all of shots without encountering a buy-in rubble the embodiment of talmud bottles died in rubble so i asked him if we could stop there he said no what's that so we come we had one of those prayer cars the cars that you have to pray that they make it up the mountains especially in the northern parts of israel so we drive up this steep mountain starting to get dark and it's you know driving up the mountain by right where they are right just north and south and we come to a spot where even the car made it up there that's as far as you can go you have to walk the rest of the way and if anyone's been there you walk around the bend there's a gorgeous view of the of its last one there and then there's a cave behind us on a long cape i forget who's in the front neighbor i don't remember one time around is very in front you walk in and we walk in it's already dark from the from outside and i put the light from my from my phone and it's a blue sweat it's a it's a slab of stone here and per particular another slab and spray painted blue and on both of them and one says i want to see on raw and i said to my son let's review outside have a good morning my hand let's review what did my buyers say what didn't love to say this was an amazing trip we had this close together it was an amazing trip to me when i think about it it still makes me emotional that to me is perhaps the highlight of the trip the two american kids the two american people said one kid wants to talk something but like in a different world if i'm that i buy in love i wouldn't know what to say to them you know what i can tell about trump fighting what i'm gonna and here's these two americans standing next to the counter and speaking about what they argued about a shark an axe that caught a cow 2 000 years ago in both them the connection is unbelievable and that's what we're a part of and we're coming to kabbalah in a couple of weeks is the connection from all the generations throughout the world it's an amazing job of an incredible connection and i want to add one last makuda specific for this silva tonight a jew lives from parshat to karsha so keeps us going and i don't think i appreciate it as much i appreciate it always especially in the winter months when it's cold i really feel like the warmth of the parties look in the aquas it keeps you going and what they do in australia but but last year i really felt it when there was like very little structure we couldn't go to what kept us going it was these weeks where these parshiots and that's it it's the excitement you need you on the street say a phone on the powershell mushroom on the powershell imagine imagine somehow you would meet your great great great great grandfather what would you say to them same as with the buying rubble what would you say for politics the yankees unfortunately whatever what are you talking about but you say uh bahar sinai maang shmi dates arsenal and your great great grandfather will rattle off the rest of roshi [Music] we're connected throughout the generations connected through the torah through gemara and through the homicide that's how jew lives so this is a very very beautiful simcon it's a very tremendous tremendous event for me i have a tremendous appreciation to be able to celebrate