Rabbi Avrohom Pam ztz"l speaking on Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz's 50th Yahrtzeit

very very want I'm not Tak to introduce but when I came to to the I was in the was already in and it was from the very very very best medium I mean uh I've been asked to speak in English I'd like to start with a POS from next week's s and we'll come around to the indanes in the beginning of v it says that yank sent y asks says come the union of sending y to to see his brothers to go in and from that was the whole Union of was it why is it attributed to so it would seem from that that there were other ways of implementing the of B but the demanded that it should be implemented just in this particular way and what is the a profound plan I often thought I I could do it in a simpler way much less complicated after the of shim what they did to Shem so naturally all the um of that area the Canim should have pursued them attacked them made with them a specialness that they didn't attack now it could have been simply that they did attack them which is the most natural thing to do and yank escaped to MIT so he would get them into MIT and a very simple and natural way but the problem was not how to get them into MIT the problem was how to get them to survive the go to get them in there the could have had many many ways in fact he doesn't need any AES from me or anybody else but the problem was you send in a land Al for is how do you maintain how do they maintain their [Music] identity so the first thing y was put through a of el and the says that was YF paved the way for the B yank that they could withstand the immorality of as the say about the two one one is y yon means that they gave a k into CL ISU gave into is the of Y gave a how to survive 20 years of and come out y implanted in CL is the of under the most difficult Miss is imaginable so this was a prior condition before sending in the Ben yank sending him into MIT prior condition was then how do you get them with this alone it's not enough how do you get them to be living in MIT so made M and he picked him a place out of the center Gan and he supported them totally and they could sit 70 years with absolute man YF pays all the bills yank is the yud is the man from from theal and yes pays everything is the first 70 years of going into of being in MIT there was a provision of an absolute ideal Place ideal situation I'm was afraid to take his family into M so the said to him said with don't worry that's a I believe of the that we can see are many and so comprehensive that we can only maybe see a mashu but this Mash is what I think we can see was an to make sure that they can survive in and was much less of a problem that was the problem and that's was this promised them as this is what how this is the way it had to happen before the first you 11 years prior to the by it was the the was the they were sent ahead of the main body of Cl is they were sent ahead for what purpose before going to B again there's the problem of how can they survive Tor from away from the M after such a horrible they're going to come into B theim how are they going to survive so the sent the head sent the head and they established that once said toah who came from B and he spoke in learning with him so he said I used to think he said it to his the future of is yours you never went into go you're learning in I see that this the center of is that's due to the where they planted so we see which is is I once heard a t from one of the um he said prot The Eternity of to go a little closer to our time it's still not very close about a thousand years ago the when the center of was beginning to decline after the great among the last the center was beginning to decline so there was a were traveling together in a overseas it's not clear for what purpose there are different for what purpose for were together sailing the Seas and Pirates captur the ship and who were the four one was the father of another one was and his son the third one was and the fourth one is not known who is the fourth one but one of the is when the ship was captured they were brought to different ports for ransom so the father was ransomed in Africa and he established AIC center from in caran where the reef lived there it became one of the strongest centers of through and his then the MOA and his son they were ransomed in Cordova and from that time on Cordova was the great Center of th in Spain the r learned in kov and the whole kuf which is called in history the to the Golden Era the Golden Age the center of it was K Spain and from there to spread to ashas to the ashas the third one the third one is was in MIT he was ransomed to MIT and we know at that time MIT was a great Center of to Alexandria more talks about it so again we see the that before you see coming very close to our time before the of the whole and the Bel of all the wiped out in the course of a few years totally destroyed the all sent us from and not only that but prior to that he sent a few of the to America he sent them ahead to start a new as well known that said as before America will be the center of so he sent ahead to establish in this mid mid to start planting seeds which will develop into a gra and was that that among a few others not going to mention other names because for fear and leave out perhaps one was certainly certainly one of the if we see today he certainly has a great great great in the expansion of today with so [Music] many so many reflecting M total dedication to Li and a growing a growing growing which is shame and the was very very for this to [Music] the the warmth Mish when we speak especially at the Y side we see the most and a shot of warmth that runs through us we we recall personal personal warmth and the cover the covered for each thousand I can't get over it when I think about it I was less than 15 years old 15 years old when I entered his she and right away he called me speaks to me ear dresses me as ear naturally that that makes you feel like some like you're somebody and his whole M his whole attitude if we saw Shing sometime in the afternoon say he wouldn't go over and say to us what say it just he was walking up and down the bis and cast him an eye once twice me but he would never would say anything as the house was open all hours of the day and night and the cover he tied us to so the to learn and to be misled and and aspire to Godless betray the sheer itself the sheer blood Shear was fascinating m is fascinating it wasn't somebody saying and somebody listening it was a joint project everyone participated he challenged everyone he wanted to hear from everyone but there wasn't a dull moment he always ran over the time the last five minutes he would say blood that episod [Music] I think his purpose in that I think it was a maybe a two-fold purpose it says in that talks about and inor we well know the is who is called it are three days says don't remember exactly the the words but this is pretty close closely to it what's the so the is push it today we learn mostly from there was no no for but today we have many many we have we have the we learn from all of them so who is today the one who teaches him how to learn the one is it gives him Theus of he should think straight he should learn be and think straight we are and now he should get to the real meaning of what he learns gr CLW so that's why he wanted he encouraged the total participation of the tal and he listened carefully to what they had to say and if it was n if it was not Al not the he would correct he would straighten out his thinking and that was eek Li he didn't he didn't cover much ground but because that wasn't his purpose his purpose was the second thing is it wanted active part participation because only through that it becomes it develops first of all aish in learning and by active participation it's nlot in your mind in your Z by active participation so that was his D his D of giving giving a sheer challenging the tal challenging the tal and bring out his develop his and part of that was of course we every one knows tonight is Thursday night the Thursday nights after 10 10:30 when the senior tal were asked each one in turn to say and the RAB sat there till 1:00 sometimes 1:30 listening and ding up oh he was sweet and warm and loving as he was but when came to the S it wasn't easy to get us from him when wasn't easy at all because the EMS the EMS of tah was his whole whole purpose in in developing T Med em [Music] and that was a big help to straighten out you couldn't get by couldn't get by with good get Mas oh no another very very big factor in his in his from we have to remember that 50 years ago there were hardly any to speak I mean even the felt that sh is enough and remember when was going to open up the some of the finest balab resisted it they said what do we need that for we have if somebody wants to be a rabbi so there Unity if somebody wants to be a rabbi we have that's for rabbis who needs a high school so the few high schools that were came later were very few very few Mee in the on thees level hardly and I must say we were lonely right today high school today one feels great there a great great from it's a and it's a pleasure to in that that but in those days was lonely very well but the re connected us with in Europe by by constantly talking about slot about r he made us feel that we are a part of a great unun unfortunately it's not here yet we first have to establish it here but his stories his any with the I remember one was and then the and in describing life in the yes great made us feel as it says in when Alisha was attacked was surrounded rather by AR big army of arom came to capture Alisha and the Alisha's Gabi looked out and he saw what's doing outside so M was terrified so said to him don't worry he said we have a greater Army and he he was mis to he said and when his eyes were opened he saw I am so through these through these he brought us into the world of in Europe and we saw never mind gas never mind gas in America and all the B and all the going to college and nobody had any thoughts of staying in t for long the ideal was to be an engineer a doctor a public school teacher T does so he made us feel there's a whole world of and he depicting of being a there's nothing greater than that there's no greater There's No Greater Joy there's no greater than that and of [Music] course and he analyzed that like gave it the and encourag so in this way was modeling the ambition to grow into and the the top achievement is to [Music] be the same D same type of Shear the same stress on W the same demanding participation same same there and Mish this that there's no greater is so evident is so many to train to train the for [Music] one this is which has to go out and combat the ignorance the of a taste of and the ideal is to go somewhere no matter where it is in hick towns no matter where it is to Kindle a light of [Music] tah sh is known especially for this drive to bring TOA to outline communities the whole hash is geared in that direction this is mish a continuation of the [Music] we mentioned before and and M is the one who now there's an interesting to stand up only when he's in the for a know now there big what's the reason why you're not to stand up for if he's further than the soash explains because it's not n that he stood up for him if he's further away it's not n if it's not so what if but it's not n let's the said say how can you not how can you not be must be ared your site I feel is a he's not in the but when we think about it and if not for him I can speak only for myself I doubt if I would have stayed in everybody had different ideas and different ideas but the Mee [Music] further expansion of and what anyone can do to contribute to that be the greatest begins in I'm sure that uh my task is exceedingly difficult obviously besides the lateness of the hour to follow for