JOURNEY TO BELARUS {Full Journey}

Okay, good morning everyone. Boca, good morning. Live from your favorite place in the world, Bellarus for the first ever recording Torah any time in Barus. To any time has recorded in many locations all over the world, but never yet in Barus. Okay, as we are headed toward Raden, perhaps for the highlight of our entire trip to be at the Mak of the Holy, one of the great lessons that taught is the value of time would say that he heard from the you know the garra says who is a fool. The garra says in the garra says someone who loses whatever you give to him. You know there's an idea if you have a bunch of kids which kid gets the most money you know you're giving money out to the kids. Which kid gets the most money? The kid who has a wallet. the kid who's not going to lose the money because he's a would say but there's nothing more valuable in this world than time would say Americans say time is money how foolish that is time is not money but the only value of time is that you can make money just the opposite money the value of money is money could be used to purchase time to save time. In America, we evaluate time. How much money can I make in that time? No, that's not the proper attitude. Not time is money. Just the opposite. Money is time. It's very interesting. The when the was scheduled to speak at a certain time, say 8:00. So, the wouldn't start getting up to the podium at 8:00. The already made the move at 7:58 and at 8:00 sharp on the dot 8:00 and 000 the began his scheduled drasha. You know we're going to learn that passed away in 1933. Three years earlier the granat who by the way is buried right next to the afterim's kev was refurbished they refurbished the kev of the granat the granat fell deathly ill and he was very beloved the granat is one of the four rash yeshivas that restored the amatra you know who they were who were the four rashas who restored the amatraim salvichek and Rabat Tali and he became deathly ill and he was very beloved to his tamidim and the tamidim went around collecting time for the granat one donate was willing to donate a few months to the granat one said I'll give him a week one said 3 days one said 8 hours they came to the rebba reba how much time will you donate to the granatim ponder What says I will donate to the granad one minute one minute I'll give to theat that was the value the placed on time when word went out that the was willing to give one minute it created a great impression on the students somebody once visited the and he noticed that home was painted white, you know, like in a an industrial building, very simple, not not an elegant paint. So he was asked, you know, rabbi, why don't you use wallpaper? So the time said, wallpaper? You mean I should rip out pages of my gar and cover the walls of my house with plat of garam? So he said, "No, Rabbi, that's what I mean. I don't mean use the plot of shas. I mean there's something called wallpaper. You have beautiful paper that could cover the walls of your house. Says, "How am I going to buy it?" But well, you have to go to work. And then how am I going to get money? Well, the somebody will pay you. But said, "You mean instead of learning Tyra, I should go to work. So you want me to wallpaper my house with black gamarra?" Because instead of learning the black gamarra, I should go to work to buy wallpaper. So I'm wallpapering my house with the black gamarra. Actually, you know, before it was discovered that smoking was dangerous, already told he would say cuz you'd have to wrap the cigarette and it would take a minute or two for each cigarette. You smoke nine cigarettes a day, that's 18 minutes, that's many, many black kamura a year. I'll just end this segment and I think this is a good beginning. You know the writes in the Mishna how early should a person get up before the shaharis before the shakahar 30 minutes before the veer comes the veer would come to bang on the shutters as you all know here in Bellarus you know they have shutters and the veer would come bang on the shutters writes 30 minutes before the veer comes to wake up you need to start rising for shakra So one time the's grandson said, "Za, Za, how old are you?" So the ignored the question, so the kid dropped it. He figured, you know, that uh didn't want to answer the question. A little while later, the gives his grandson an envelope of cash. What's the What's the currency here in uh Barus? Rubble. Ruble. He gave him bills. He gave him a wad of bills in a in a closed envelope. So the boy says, "Oh, thank you so much, Si." He slips it into his uh slips it into his pocket. Says, "I don't understand. You're not counting. You're not opening up the envelope to see how much money is in the envelope." So, first the kid said, "You know, first of all, Zeta, just the fact that you gave me a gift is so precious to me. It doesn't really matter how much money is in there. Second of all, it's really bad taste to start counting how much money is in the envelope as uh when the when the benefactor just gave it to you. Said the greatest gift we have in this world is time. And just like it's bad taste to say to look at how much cash is in the envelope, it's bad taste when somebody asks how old you are to start counting the years in front of the ribosam as if you're trivializing just the fact that theam gave us life. That is such a dear and precious gift. It would trivialize it to start counting it like you're counting cash. This is one of the great teachings of the the great value of time. Okay. Good morning everyone. We have the great to be in the vicinity of the the author of and of course author of the Mishnaba the importance of the Mishnab in one of the basic for every Jew. We know writes therefore every Jew must know and the says the are like it comes from the you can't argue on it. It's like the the and the smile. So on this occasion I would like to share with you the very first and we could think how these words are so appropriate of the says I want you rise like a lion to get up in the morning says that's what man was created for. [Music] Everything calls out on the name of Hashem and was created to bring honor to Hashem. That is the life of the that you know we walked into this room and we we had a little we had a shiver. It's very cold over here and it's May. Okay. May you can imagine how cold it was in November. In November or December continues is going to try to persuade you in the winter to say it's really cold outside. You could get a little bit of a picture what the Mish was talking about what cold is why a person might want to stay under the covers. By the way, if if a person wants to be mim the first page of the mishabur mishabur talks about the importance of washing your hands in the morning within your mish brings various leniencies and the says do not rely on them but one should fulfill the to in the morning within ones four cubits. Mishu also brings what does it mean? You should envision the shame in front of your eyes with what are the under the under the under the hamats under the above. A few that are that are applicable every single morning when you put on your talis in the morning should be to the talis. We make a we put on a talis in the morning but we don't make a braha but it's not so simple that you should make a braha. Mish says when you put on the talis should have kavana when you make the bra you're pinging the talis mur brings when you put on in the morning should make sure to add the you're putting on also tells us that when you answer a you should have an awareness what you're answering so if you're answering for praise you should have you heard the you should say I believe that hem is the one who gives sight to the blind when you're answering to a you should have in mind I believe that is and I'm follow that is and of course the mish says that the inference of sash that during one has to be intent on focused on answering one cannot learn during khazar sash fast even goes so far as to say to learn during a mitzvah during that time you have to do it again. So these are a few pointers from the that has become as you ready for this. The very first says the says we were created to honor Hashem. The last Mishna talks about whether you should make a Yam on the Mishna says you should commemorate it somewhat the says the in the final. So just like the begins, we're created to honor, he also ends likewise to be the miracle of so opens and closes with the same idea. Welcome to yeshiva. It's a beautiful chilly day here in Raden. This was the yeshiva who was founded in 1869. The was in his 30s. Can you imagine? He was in his 30s. He founded the Sashiva which this area of Bellarus is very undeveloped. It was not a convenient place to have uh amenities. Uh it was not a convenient place to have donors, but it was a convenient place to put a yeshiva because there are no distractions over here. The enrollment remained very modest from the time the began until the 1880s when the brought his son-in-law levenson was a very tall man. The was not even five feet tall. So to see the two of them together it was a contrast of her slave was a sadic and a go and he was very popular and because of him the enrollment really increased very much in the year 1900 the appointed lendski to be the rashiva and then in 1904 the granad of became the rashiva of raen so the was not the rashiva he was the owner of the yeshiva He was the CEO of the Shiva. He was not the Russa. If when the wanted to speak to the boys, more often than not, they would go to his house. But the Granad and the had a very a mutually loving uh relationship. Maybe we'll talk about it more when we get to their karum. But on on this occasion I want to share with you the famous drussia that the granat gave the night of. Typically the rashiva would not be the one who would give the schmooen. Usually it was a mash but was the granat to say the night of and the granat got up to the and this is recorded by Mah who is a mik of the granat and the granat said on the words the granat said not with kindness not with good deeds do we come before you but come before you impoverished. Literally that means we tell we have no we have no but says the it also means that we cannot be confident with anything that we have. We cannot be confident that we have family. We cannot be confident that we have money. We cannot be confident that we have health. We're not a on anything. This was a very stirring that the granat gave here in the rahiva the first night of the makad the place where Tyra emanated to Israel and at this occasion we're all mowed together hashem should open up all of our hearts probably the highlight of of our trip is to be at the of the sing. How can we possibly say the correct words at the of the so many of us have mentioned the shin family, the Rosen family had family that learned by the and feel a personal connection to the but all of has a personal connection to the who has not improved their speech because of safer Who does not learn from the safer? He illuminated the eyes of all of Isra with his righteousness and his awesome accomplishments. One of the last of the wasite and he was once asked you know the lived in a dar of all time great is what was it about that he rose up to be the greatest from among among all of them and gave many answers said first of all was a great genius and he devoted all of his kite for Hashem said that in terms of the personal that the made every night he was unparalleled. Nobody made an accounting for their daily life the way the did in the in the biography of the of the son says that his father would always say you know people have a business and they have books about what the expenses and what comes in and what goes out. So why would a person not make a on their own life which is so much more important than their businessman said in terms of being precise with time not wasting even a moment of time there was nobody like said you know at the end of the life they brought him the tollum of his mother the tear drenched to him of his mother and the cried when he saw the of his mother. He said, "This is what made me. This is what created me." We mentioned's father had three children with his first wife. And then the father's first wife passed away and he remarried and's father and's mother the brush had the then the's father passed away and the's mother remarried Shim from Raden and Shim from Raden had a daughter and this girl was older than the and the stepfather wanted him to marry this older girl and the brother says what do you marrying an older girl for she's the daughter of a simple guy marry the daughter of a rashiva marry the daughter of an oish and the for the sake of the marriage of his mother married this woman who said never asked him for anything let him travel to sell his supported his learning said who knows what would have happened to him if he would have married the daughter of a wealthy businessman they would have pulled him into the family business. But above all, says, "What made so great is what it says here. Everything he did, every decision he made was to honor." And that's why the first words of thee one thing did is that he would be mits for Israel. One of the things he would say he would say look at every in the is there any in the that did not explain in from the is there even one word of the that there aren't hundreds of perim that wasn't to explain this is there even one line of the garra that was not to explain with countless perushim is there even oneus and chass us that wasn't to explain. So we could say in of the holy say on the Jewish people on all of us to answer all of our we all came here to be for personal needs in whatever we're we're dabbing for and the merit of the saintly who is always may answer all of There's a list over here of all the we have a shame is on [Music] the habas. save for but there's one empty space they left one empty space also wrote Yeshua there's an empty space so you know they left us an open space one of the reasons we wanted to come here is that we're publishing the safer we came to be that it should come out with with the blessing and the and you know the writes in Yeshua he says just the opposite you think in the earlier generations there's a good chance for mash to come just the opposite in our times it's it's more reasonable for us to anticipate the coming of Msiah that it's more likely nowadays for the Miach to come. So we say is in the best now he wrote in it's more likely now for Msiah to come. So we hope should accept that and the merit of us stirring of we should all be to for everything that we're dabbing for and okay we're here in Raden right outside the where the rashiva of Raden the granat who is rashiva from hop Sama to pay test 1929. He's received here for 25 years. On his 33rd birthday on his 33rd birthday, he got a letter from Hers on behalf of to come be the rash here in Rad. Aside from being a great lambdan the granad is considered one of the four great roshivas who are making the oil of who established tora in [Music] Israel and the granataki said about his personality that he was an angel his demeanor his precious his kadusha. He was considered to have perhaps the quickest and most creative mind in all of Europe. But he was especially devoted and loving of the tamidim. Any good bakar was to have a personal with the grenade in the yeshiva. Some in the afternoon, some of the night, some in the middle of the night. But the granat had a personal kesher with each bakar. One time Abak was telling the granat you know I should come to the yeshiva because you know who my great-grandfather was my grandfather is. The granat says I don't need any of that. If you're my yeshiva then you're my son and that's the greatest that's how the granat related to all and when the granat fell ill so he was so beloved to the as we mentioned they all gathered together to donate life to their beloved rashiva when the granat passed away in 1930 cried out who will now protect Israel imagine said when the granat passed away who will protect So the granat aside from being a great gun, he was also a great balm muser. He would learn musilus. If anybody heard the granat learning mus his soul stirred granat was so great in the world of muser that the alter of sabaka chose him to be his son-in-law and indeed he was engaged to the alter's daughter. She passed away during the engagement and the alter wanted him to marry the next daughter and he said no. He took it as a sign in Hashem that he wasn't Roy and he married the daughter of a great in Europe. Arosashiva was married to the granddaughter of the gnat the daughter of Rabb actually Rab became deathly ill and the grenad came to and he said please dab for my son and poured out his heart on behalf of the granat and he told this boy Rab that if he dedicates his life to Tyra his life will be spared and indeed Raab the the son of the granat his life was spared He later became the rashiva in Stalin in New York and his daughter was the rabbit of Raen Liitak of Rafael. Okay. We'll do one more. It's a great to be here in Raden at the Kev of Ra Felson who is the son-in-law of Hagnapali trap and his mala in the Rad yeshiva Felson lived from 1895 to 1933 son of Rabo Mayor Felson son-in-law of the Granat and one of the foremost lambdonim in the Lithuanian yeshivas he was one of the greatest tamid of Sabaka yeshiva he was a close talmed of the Ritzulah Panovich and in 1929 he succeeded the granat as Rashiva of Radin and he was very successful. He gave very deep and dynamic sharim and unfortunately he passed away at the age of 38 after giving sh for only four years. During World War II his wife and children were exiled to Siberia. Some survived the war. He had a son who established a kal inhib and about 50 years after his passing they published a safer 1983 that has the hama of many that show the great regard that yo fav was held and the bright future that they hoped for him. Ravakov Kamitki writes he's mayor the enam of anyone who studied at the Rad yeshiva he was uh well known in the entire yeshiva world as a great kakam and author of Torra and even though he died very young he was considered one of the greatest rash yeshivas in his time and Kameki says that he remembers when was in Slabka He astounded the tamidim with his sharpness and he excelled more than any other tal in Sabak. Ravak says that he knew him already from his youth in 1911 when he studied in Panovich and Rav Shak says that the name of Rafosin together with LA Panovich uh their names so to speak um were both legendary. So it's a great to be here alenu the alcohol is a great to be here in Raden at the cav of Ramosa Lendinski who is one of the rashish shivas in Raden we spoke about it when we were standing in front of the yeshiva he was born in 1862 and he passed away in 1938 he was born in a city near Bialistak to his father Abdavid and when he was a young and he was renowned and he married one of the daughters of the wealthy people in his area. His father was hoping to see the son-in-law assume a very eminent position in Rabonos. But when he realized that the son-in-law took upon himself not to accept the O Rabonos. So he made him a partner in his lumber business. Eventually realizing that this this son-in-law was destined only for the Bamemed the after marriage Mosa went to learn in he became a very close of the and at that point the invited him to become the rashiva in Raden. He was very attached to the he would travel with and his surah was in the manner of the wearing simple type of clothing that regular people wore. He did not wear big day raonos. But Melindki would say over that when the nits was alive, he would always pour bitter tears for the tsarus of Cla Israel. And he was mispal that hashem should bring the kates and bring the gyak. And when the passed away all the thought he's going to go up to the kavid and aroused the hashem should bring the gula. Meanwhile months passed a half a year passed a year passed and we didn't understand where was the gula until somebody showed him. Somebody showed Landinski from the Arizal that in this world we ask questions because all we see is but upstairs in Hashem's it's and there there are no questions. Based on this explained the hill in this world we thought it was but in reality your is in your palace where hashem is it's one of his notable son-in-laws was rais Mosha Solomon the author of Nivas Bakesh who became known as the RV of Charavinski passed away Huff R sadik in 1938 Alena okay we're here in the Rad cemetery and there's a monument to commemorate the 2,132 Jews who were slaughtered and buried in this mass grave. were actually here in a way on their yard site because they were mur murdered. They were massacred 1942 on May 10th. That was yesterday. But we couldn't come on Shabas. So we came the next possible day. It's Kilu. We came on their yard site. I don't know if anybody ever whether these namas ever had anybody come on that exact date. So uh we're here to commemorate their lives. We're going to make a calm Yes, here I am. [Music] Okay friends, we just had the zus of a lifetime to be at the kev of Rabenu. You saw Mayor Hakay in the what a wondrous opportunity. What a that we had to be in this very special place. I want to tell you about a historic meeting that took place in 1874 between the and one of the all-time great theim revered mayor lies Ben the Malim. He admired his amazing intellect, his godless. The would say, "Who could ever imagine a head like the Malbam?" The Mishabur quotes the of the Malbum very regularly. The Malab wrote the and the quotes. He was especially fond of the Malam's commentary to in fact the writes that we are not on the level to understand how kazal makes rush. You know sometimes the will say this what do you mean alory? Why shouldn't you read it that way? The Malbum was the said only a god of Israel like the Malbum could understand how Kazal made. So now in 1874 the Zar made a law that obligated any man from 21 years old to be conscripted in the army for 6 years from age 21 to age 27. The problem was that most Jews got married at either 18 years old or maybe as late as up to 20 years old. And now would it make sense for a young boy to get married at 18 or 20 when they're going to be taken away to the army for 6 years? So they changed the policy. They delayed getting married. Most young men now got married at 27 when their conscription was finished. And the felt this was not a great idea. In fact, in Poland, you see the reason why they delayed getting married is first of all, who could have a head for marriage when they know they were going to be away from home for six years? The father of the girls didn't want to give their daughters away in marriage because they're leaving their daughters like living ams who knows if they'll still be religious. However, the kid in Poland continued to marry off their sons at 18 years old, 20 years old because of the following philosophy. The masle of two is better than the masle of one. Maslo deaf. So they figured the masle of two sets of parents would help bail out this boy from any dangers in the army. And plus if he was married he was so to speak tied down to a wife and that would keep him loyal to Tyro Mitzv. So in Poland they continued to get married at age 18 or 20. Theim held that even though boys were being drafted they need to continue to get married at 18 and 20 years old. And this way they'll be able to preserve their tahara and they'll be these young men will be tied down to a family to a woman and that will keep them on the straight and narrow and wrote a k that from now on Jews have to go back to the traditional age of marriage 2018 irrespective of being drafted in the army. The problem was that because of censorship, the Zar did not allow this Kulkar to be published because for him he felt the Russian army was better off drafting single men rather than married men. So the Kabat could not publish it in Raden. So he went to Prussia to a city called Adidan and he published it there. While there he had a historic meeting with the Malbum and he asked the Malbum to sign on his ky that boys should get married at younger at 20 to 21. What's the shik crisis? What are they saying now? They want the boys to get married after 12 younger younger younger. So the said the boys have to revert back to getting married younger. The Malbim did not give a husk to theim. The Malbam disagreed with the However the had a historic meeting with the Malim and the Malam as reported by Rabbas poured out his heart to the of all the troubles he was having. They were royim. The Malbim was chased out of many different cities by the uh reform. The Mabim had a very tragic life. The malab says in his life it was fulfilled and commiserated with the malam empathized with the was the in the end the malb became very ill in kiev and came to visit him and the bought from the malb the malum the five volume commentary of the mahra that was very dear to the for his whole would boast this set of malam I bought from the himself. This is the historic meeting between the and the mal. Okay, we're here at the yeshiva, the original site of the yeshiva. It was redone by the uh government. But this is a very important sign 1806. That means the building, the building was built in 1806. The yeshiva started in 1803. This is the brainchild of he proposed the idea to the go while the go was still alive and at first the go says do not no it's not right it's not time to open up the yeshiva but then 5 years later he again proposes it to the gr and the gr says it's time to open up the yeshiva the yeshiva is not open until 5 years later after the g's petira so it's opened up in the year 1803 you have to understand Before and there was no concept of yeshiva in cla. Young students would study with the rav with the rebi in the in the in the shul and that at age 13 most students would go on to work and a few select students who showed promise in their learning would continue learning under the tutelage of a rebi or a rav. There was no formalized education in the Jewish people. Saw the influence of the Hascala and there would be no continuity for Judaism if there was not formalized mandatory study for children beyond the age of 13 with a set curriculum. It could not be that each rub just taught whatever was interested, whatever he was interested in, whatever the students was interested. And this the idea of yeshiva which really maintained and preserved Judaism for was the creation of with the blessing of the go began in 1803. This building started in 1806 was the first rashiva from 1803 until 1821 when he was taken over by his sons of if you look in the introduction of the nepheshim that was written by we'll hear more about the history inside but just I wanted to mention this by this uh important site. Okay. Okay. We're here in the refurbished yeshiva. We're continuing with the history of the nishiva which was opened in 1803. The building was opened in 1806. The valer served as the first rasha until 1821. His sons of who is mentioned in the introduction. He wrote the introduction of nephay he became the next rashiva was very involved in funeral affairs and it's very interesting to note that he worked hand in hand with the sedc of labavich going many times to St. Petersburg to speak to the government on behalf of Jewish needs because of the son of was very involved in communal affairs. His son-in-law his two sons-in-law really served at the helm of the yeshiva. Who are the two son-in-laws of number one rebel Isaac Frered who became Rashid at age 30 and the other son-in-law was the more reticent Napali Berlin of the two between Revelar Isaac Freed and the nits revelar Isaac Freed was much more popular so he assumed the role as the main Russa of and So when passed away, the mantle of rashivash shaft the man the mantle of rashiva shaft was taken over by revelar Isaac freed in in the year 1849. The only thing was rebel Isaac Frered was very sickly. So after four years he passed away and the nitiv becomes the rashiva. So you'd expect it would be unanimous that the nitiv should be the rashiva. However, rebar Isaac freed had a son-in-law by the name of Rab Salv the BI. So and the Balei's Shirim dazzled the Tam. So now there became some somewhat of a rivalry between the son-in-law of Salah and the grandson of the Bi. So they basically split the role of the rashiva but this became an untenable situation as you can imagine you're going to have the and you're going to have the bi who's responsible for the finances of the yeshiva you know because after all the rash is the one who's responsible to support the yeshiva so they convene the bezden who is on the number one number two the number three. Number four, the magnet of he said, you know, you know what this feels like to me? It feels like parasa. Why parasa? Because if you look in voracious, there's contention between Adam and the snake, good and bad. good and bad and the people par and then you have and there's always a fight between good and evil not until is it the fight between good and good and the brothers so says the fight between the and the isa ultimately Only the best in Pascin that both the Nitsv and the Basi could give Shir but the mantle of Rashiva Shaft went to the Nitsv but the Basi very soon stepped down and he started the Brisk dynasty and the Nitsv now is at the mantle of Rashiba of Felia. However, the Nitsv's granddaughter marries the BI's son. Okay. So in the in the contention between the BI and the then one the step down but the lady has a son marries the grand. So, so the invites to come back to and they both split the and between the and now the approaches to learning of the and were polar opposites. I am held if you understand one blood of shas you know the hosas then held if you know the hos you can understand one blood of shas then held you can't understand one blood unless you know the whole held if you know one blot you know the whole this was the the two different pathways of learning in now actually had a different system than any other yeshiva at the time you see in Some yeshivas they learn sudius. So let's say you're learning subus you'll [Music] learn then you'll jump to aos and you'll jump to and you jump to that um and then in some yeshivas they learn straight and they focus on in they learned every area was treated equally. You learn the homa from beginning to end. You learn. You learn. The gave on. Hence the perish hamdar. Don't be fooled by the hamdra edition in that glass case. This was not the original edition of the hameda. But this is a little bit of the background of the in the year 1887. The government forced the yeshiva to have Russian in their curriculum. So they try to be yo by taking a minion of bakim sending them across the street and whichever bakham wanted to dabble in that the rashas allow them across the street to learn a few other subjects. But eventually this was not enough for the government. So the yeshiva had to make a decision. Can the yeshiva remain open? Because the government was demanding secular studies from 9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. And a bezdon was convened. And you know who ultimately was on that bezdon? The base. And it was decided that the yeshiva has to close down. And they opened up the ar and they took out the and they marched the out of and the doors were locked. And that was the end of the and they would go early in the morning and they would see footsteps in the snow and they would see every morning the nitiv would come to the yeshiva brokenhearted crying at the door that his beloved B mikdash had to be closed. Ultimately the nits heads to Israel but he became deathly ills and he passed away in Va. He's buried in the worst of cemetery and you know who's buried right next to him is buried right next to the but said that the closing of the yeshiva was the birth of because from there it spawned many yeshivas all over Europe and this is the mother of all yeshivas and even in its closing it gave birth to many many yeshivas that came from the yeshiva Okay. Okay. One of the main teachings of are the ramifications of the actions of a Jew asks a famous question. Why is it that when Titos went into the Shakash, when Titos went into the holy of holies, nothing happened? He took a safer tyra and he committed the unspeakable act in the holy of holies on a safer tra and nothing happened. And yet we have an idea that when a Jew has even one improper thought, it has a more severe ramification in the universe than when did so teaches that the Jew is linked to all the all the superal worlds, all the upper worlds and every mitzvah that we do and every act every ma of Tory that we learn, every act of that we do brings great light to all the upper worlds. You know, we have an expression shayim. Yeah. What does yay mean? Most people translate it fear of heaven. Fear of heaven. What does that mean? Fear of heaven. Most people think it means fear of Hashem. No, says the doesn't mean fear of God. Your shay means fear of the ramifications of your actions in heaven. So, they did a good job over here. One of the great teachings of this is the great of man. Nobody should say who am I? What is the strength of my actions to affffectuate any ramification in this world? shall understand and know and establish in the thoughts of his mind that all the details of his actions and his words and his thoughts every hour every moment every act of a Jew has universal ramifications through all says this is one of the great teachings he would say you should know everything that happens in the upper world it's from you it's from you doesn't mean fear of God means fear of the ramifications of your actions in the upper What an awesome that we stand at the light of the world. The author of passed away on Yadalan 1821. of what's interesting in is who remembers what day was born? He was born on the day of the execution of the gadic which was the second day of Zion 1749. So he was born on Zion. He passed away on the tells us Hashem fulfills the years of the sadikim from day to day. In other words, are born and pass away on the very same day. So the [Applause] student asked so why was he was born on Zion and he passed away doesn't hashem make sadikim he creates them and he takes them away on the very same day says it's because a person is really born on the day of their mil his so he passed away on the very same day he was born. So if asks butu and they were born passed away on the very same day. No, cuz they were born mah. They were born cir uh circumcised already. He was born on Zion 1749. He passed away says there's no [Music] doubt. If there would be a moment of time that somewhere in the world someone was not learning Tyra the whole world would cease to exist the world would disintegrate when we say that the is the life force of the world it's ara literally what pumps vitality into the world is and therefore instituted that there were misharim learning tyra around the clock famously said that's the reason for time zones so that when the Jews in America are getting up then the Jews in could go to sleep the reason for time zones is so that 24 hours a day there's always tyra being pumped into the world legend has it the mother of majnar used to house someone who would ultimately become one of the rabb of namely the shagasar and when it came time for the mother of to give birth she didn't want to disturb the shagasar so she went off into the corner to give birth so as not to cause any cessation to learning the shagasar shagasar saw the care that she had that his learning should not be interrupted he was the mother of that she's a son whose will fill the whole But according to what we're saying, he was to have someone who instituted that the cult would never cease in the entire world because he taught the world that what the world stands on is actually there's another version of the story that she wanted her child to hear the learning of the shagasar as he would be born. So she he was born was born to the cultra of the shagasar. Ultimately the learned by the shagasar he learned by hamburg but his life was changed at age 19 when he became the primary disciple of the vagin. At age 26 he became the rav here in he opened the shiva in 1803. I want to just share with you two things that the neim teaches. teaches us. If you look at the introduction to he says that his father would always tell him this is the purpose of man was not created for himself but to benefit and to help others in whatever capacity possible. that one of the great teachings and lessons of is that man was not created for himself but to benefit as many and others as possible. You know it's interesting says that only gives wisdom to the wise God only gives wisdom to the wise. So the asks so how does somebody get the first bit of wisdom? If God only gives wisdom to the wise, how do you get the first case of wisdom and then says the first piece of wisdom is in order to acquire in this world one needs. What do we make on the he who gives from his wisdom to who? Those who fear him is the receptacle to the more you have the more you could have. Now says what is our attitude to our Torah? We say the Tory is it is a tree of life to who? To those who grab a hold of it. Says imagine somebody who fell into a raging river and is threatened to be taken down in by the river to be drowned by the river and the person is about to go is about to go under and he sees there's a branch from a tree overhanging the river and he knows if he grabs a hold of this branch it could save his life. How is he going to hold that branch? Is he going to say, "Well, I'm a righty. Let me try with my left hand, with my left pinky, and see if I could rescue myself." No, that person is going to grab onto that tree with all of his might and all of his energy. And he's not going to let go at all. says in this world is a torrent is a raging river that threatens to take us under. But we have a a salvation and that salvation is the Tyra. But the Tyra will only save us if we embrace it. Taught us the Torah is a tree of life, but only to those who grab it with all of their heart and all of their soul. even fathers. Okay. Tonight is Yodalar. Yodalar is Pesak Sheni. And traditionally Pesak Sheni is considered of Mayor Balan. The mayor Balan say yeah we we do say oh because of it's a question but you know there's a tradition that we have that if somebody loses an object you pray to find it in the merit of Rome banas. You know, you lose your car keys, you lose uh something else. Just making sure I have everything on me. You know, I don't even want to lose your toothbrush, you lose your socks, you invoke the merit of Rome Balines, you say anini. And the merit of Bales, we hope Hashem will help us find our lost object. So, what's the connection between Rome and your toothbrush? I mean, why is it Rome's problem that you lost your car keys? You know, we don't invoke Rabaka, Rab Gaml. Why do we invoke Rabi mayor Balines if somebody loses an object? So we always like to say over you know the physical world is a reflection of the spiritual world. We all know that a mayor has a well-known opinion in chass that in contra distinction to Rabi Huda who holds that our relationship with Hashem is conditional that we're only considered Hashem's children if we act like Hashem's children holds we're always considered the beloved children of Hashem means a Jew is never lost you know if a Jew is always considered the beloved child of Hashem No matter how far he strays, he could always come back because he's always considered the child of Hashem. So if in the spiritual world a Jew is never lost, in the physical world nothing is ever lost. Your toothbrush is never lost for good. Your car keys are never lost for good. If a Jew is never lost, if in the spiritual world you're never lost in the physical world, you're never lost either. That's why in Pesaki these Jews who didn't have the opportunity to bring the pesakish but they said why should we be cast away why should we lose our opportunity and this is something we see here in the city of Minsk you know for 70 years communism shut down any vestage of Jewish observance and all of a sudden the iron curtain falls and they have centers for giving out mats and thousands of Jews who you would have thought thought would have been lost forever ever they return. How is such a thing possible? It's because of what mayor taught Bangkok mikim. So is there any more opportune time to be here in the city of Minsk than Pesak Sheni the great day of Bangkok? That's why we see all these thousands of yidden here in Minsk. They're returning to reclaim their status of banak. Beautiful. Okay, we're here in Minsk. We're at the memorial where 5,000 Jews were killed on March 2nd, 1942. I want to point out the Hebrew date of this terrible pug. It was Purim 1942. Can you imagine Nazis Hmon killed 5,000 Jews on Purim? This is a memorial to what we read in Migillash. when God ratified the decree of Hammon, it could not be rescended and it came out during different periods in history. So for example, we have a tradition in the McGill there's a big tough and because the decree of Hammon came out in 1649. Likewise if this tragedy happened on Purim, this must have been a remnant of the decree of Hammon himself. We know that the Jewish people five years later took revenge against the the Nazis on Purim. But if they were able to kill us on Purim, this is because this is the decree of Hammon himself. Is one of the reasons why we fast on Tinus Esther is because Hammon's decree is looming every year. Usually we're successful in abolishing it, but unfortunately March 2nd, 1942. This memorial is a testimonial to what we read in the migilla that the decree of Hammon is looming annually. Okay friends, we're here in Minsk at Damo Stadium. You may ask why are we here at Damo Stadium? This was the site of the burial of the Jewish community and many sadik and most notably the sedar had the bikin who lived from 1660 to 1746. Now very interestingly you know who else was here in Minsk the shagasar. And the question is who's going to be the rv in Minsk? The sedra or the shagasari. The shagasari said if the toy would ever be forgotten I would restore it with my pill. But the sedo said if the tora would ever be forgotten I would restore it with my stories. And the sed became the rv here in Minsk. He wrote a classic safer called sedar had sed is such an important safer. The wrote footnotes on sed. So the didn't make it here to eastern Europe. However, the did write on the does criticize the regarding his quoting which says is not a reliable safer very interesting there's a legend regarding the of the legend has it that it sunk in the ground it became illegible when the communists came they destroyed the entire cemetery except Except for that one kev there is such a legend but then when the Nazis came the entire area was destroyed but the sedra had the importance of it and that particular safer lives on it's part of the rich legacy of Jewish literature it's a safer that every Jew needs to be familiar with it has a list of all the gdylum that lived from the beginning of time until the year 1696 it was uh until 1696. It has a lot of information ali about many of the gdylan that lived including their gilgulim. So this was halper the author of the sed here in Minsk. Besides the sedar and the shagasar you had student of the shagasari hamburger was a r here in in Minsk. You also had the David was a student of he wrote on and based it dash based which are classic dris that follow in the rich maso of the vnag. So all these gdylam grace this great city of minsk. May their memory be a blessing for kais. Friends this is where we uh say goodbye. It's been a great pleasure and a great honor to spend the last couple of days together. We had really those hosts of a lifetime to be in remarkable places starting with we were together in Panovich by the Panovicha. We went together to Dvinsk to the Kev of the Arsame and the Rugged Chav. We were in VNA. We were at the Kev of Barak Liuit. We were at the grave of the vagon rab rabinski. We had a beautiful shabas together. We were in the synagogue in VNAm. We came here to Bellarus. We were to at the yeshiva in to be at the kev of the to be at the kev in of to be in the yeshiva of and to be here in Minsk and to be in a place where great gym grace this city. So we hope this is just the beginning of your journey. Now that we visited these, you will certainly see how next time you learn from Mishna, you learn from you learn from the rug, you will see how these swarm will be coming to you. You'll have new insight in them. You'll appreciate their history. These should be mess for you for all of your should and we look forward to spending many more happy journeys together. Thank you very much. Get down.