Journey to London 2024: The Chasam Sofer Uncovers the Unknown Zechus That Saved the Jewish People

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good everyone it's a real honor to be here first of all where are we this is edwar hen sorry okay it's a real honor to be here in henden I knew that what could be more appropriate than to gather together tonight in support of mother to mother and reconnect you know there's a question on the perm story a question that is very rarely addressed and discussed and that is if you study the Y you'll notice that every single y the mitz that are enacted on the are always only there are typically no on sukus we sit in the Suka we take dalim there are no officially that are legislated comes there are no that are legislated that are interpersonal you eat mat you eat there are no interpersonal and on usually when it comes to most of the you give you give why has P been enacted in such a fundamentally different way than than any other yam so there's a surprising y piece of information and twist when it comes to P that many are not aware of if I were to ask you saved our lives in the times of Pam but what exactly did we do what was the Merit of the Jewish people that we were to be saved in the times of P there's amazing teaches us the Merit that CLA Isel had in the times of PM is that there was an orphan girl named Esther she had no father she had no mother and the godar morai took out time from his busy schedule to adopt her to care for her to raise her to groom her to feed her to be her father and to be her mother in the Merit that morai groomed and was the father and mother literally the gamar says Tor in that that Mori assumed the role of parin to Esther the Jewish people were saved in the times of PM in fact if you look at the tarum sheni on M tarum sheni is bothered Mor lived in Isel how did he get to Persia what was he doing in Persia why did he go to Persia there there wasn't really learning in Persia the Sedin wasn't in Persia were in Israel what's Mori doing in Persia he went to Persia because there was an orphan there her name was Esther Esther had lost her parents and morai was exiled exiled himself to Persia to care to be the father and mother for a little child in that merites who saved the Jewish people so to come together tonight to show support for young mothers and to my host mishas morim who have uh many many years graciously hosted me here in London Hashem should bless all of the supporters and all those who are active in this organization in your Merit Hashem brings yesu to May it come even more speedily with the ultimate redemption in our time I want to bring you back now 71 years to 1953 pum 1953 the Jews were facing possibly the most dangerous situation that we were ever in we were just reeling from having lost 6 million in Europe and Stalin made an about turn on the Jewish people we're going to talk about what his position was on the state of Israel but Stalin got in his head that the Jews were a threat to him and Stalin accused six doctors of injecting Russian Citi citizens with lethal diseases Stalin made a accusation against the Jewish doctors he started to build concentration camps in the north of Russia where the temperatures were between -76 and 94° by the way that's cold if you didn't know and Stalin was going to murder between three and M and 4 million Jews in the USSR and this plan was not a thought this was not an idea Stalin had built the railroad tracks he had built the barracks and in a few short weeks right after PM this plan was going to be executed to eliminate between 3 and 4 million Jews in Russia now many people make a mistake if I were to ask who is the biggest threat in history to the Jewish people who was the biggest criminal to our people to the world many people would say Hitler it's not true by far Stalin Stalin killed more than 20 million of his own anyone who is a threat to Stalin and Stalin was strong like steel and whatever Stalin planned he executed he carried out and it was the night of purm 1953 a few short days before this Holocaust was going to take place and they were in alagar in Russia that year shabas was the 13th of Adar mat shabas would be pm and that PM night RIT zilber with about a dozen inmates they read the Milla and then rabit zilber said you know this is a very special night this is a night of Salvation and just like God saved us 2,000 years ago God could save us again and there was a man there Isaac morovich he said Rabbi cut the nonsense what are you telling us ridiculous things about what happened 2,000 years ago what do you think Stalin is like hon hon was a clown he wore a triangle hat Stalin is strong like steel when Stalin makes a plan he executes the plan Stalin built the railroad tracks Stalin built the concentration camps he's going to freeze to death three between three and four million Jews stop with the nonsense Rabbi he was going to punch out zilber and Rit zilber said calm down calm down any plan Stalin ever made he carried out immediately he's strong like steel Stalin is a buser vumber said at 7:50 p.m. the night of Pam who knows what will be with him even in 30 minutes the next morning the report came out that 33 minutes later 8:23 p.m. Stalin the ox had a stroke and he couldn't talk anymore says zilber if you want to know why I know to Hill Bal is because at that moment somehow Hashem opened up my mind and I began reciting to Hill him non-stop around the clock for 72 hours straight until I knew that Stalin dropped dead Stalin had a stroke the night of purm in 1953 talk about so perm is not just a miracle that we commemorate that happened 2,000 years ago it's a miraculous time by the way the president of Czechoslovakia who was also a terrible Russia who had first allowed 100,000 Jews to make Aliyah in the early 1950s Stalin got so angry at him that he threatened him and then the president of Czechoslovakia shot down all of his officials he shot down 16 Czechoslovakian officials he was a terrible Russia he went to Stalin's funeral at the Leva he had a heart attack and he died so as they say we killed two birds with one stone and as they say in yish now I mentioned that Stalin did an abow face because actually in 1948 something very bizarre happened when the UN was discussing the formation of the state of Israel and uh the state of Israel needed a certain number of votes Stalin was deliberating whether he should support the state of Israel or not one thing he knew he didn't like the Brits sorry it's not a insult that Stalin didn't like you guys because the Brits were were um they were uh it was a democracy and he was afraid of the British mandate in the Middle East and he figured you know if if Israel becomes a state it will probably be socialist and maybe even communist so Stalin got in his head that the state of Israel is a good thing for Russia and because of Stalin he voted that there should be a state of Israel not only that through his proxies he supplied Israel with ammun ammunition to win the war of independence if you want to know why is there a Yesa today with 8,000 why is there Aon Yesa why is there to is Yash kak Joseph Stalin Stalin is responsible for the state of Israel in past years as we discussed the following phenomenon I want just to mention it to you and then take it to the next level there's a certain phenomenon that we see in the Miga I call it right back at you where KES co-ops and hijacks the plan of the wicked and uses that very plan to backfire against them case in point you know in the beginning of the Milla H has a problem has a problem with his wife now don't get nervous but you know it happens to be back in the day if you were a king let's say the king's in England they would go through wives they were like disposable right it would be like a daily occurrence the the Kings usually didn't speak to marriage counselors when they had a problem with their wife they didn't talk it out with anybody they eliminated and they moved on to the next sorry that's just the reality why was it that when can't get along with his wife he goes to the he has to ask the officers of Persia media what's it their business he's the king of the world why is he asking anybody what to do so actually if you look carefully in theum of the Milla you'll see that the law in pers was anytime law was relevant to the king the king was legally required to get approval with the officers of Persia media but then you fast forward to the end of the Milla when H takes the misstep with Esther and is angry and just says you know hang him how does he have a right to hang him why doesn't he have to discuss it with the officers of Persian media you know who he have to thank for A's ability to make a unilateral decision there was a man by the name of M says this is a ridiculous law in Persia that you can't make decisions on your own you should be able to call all the shots so I propose from now on you should be able to make unilateral decisions thank you because of your proposal by the end of the story when you're getting a angry he could say hang the guy and he doesn't have to get the approval of the officers of pers media and therefore I want to bring to your attention that the Milla toward the end of the Milla we read about the taxes this you should remember I'm just reminding you of this part of the story because I want to take it to the next level but by the end of the m is taxing the people did you ever wonder hey why does the Milla end off that a is taxing the people of what relevance is it that a was taxing the people so if you look in say for Ezra say for Ezra talks about the rebuilding of the second B mikdash and the Jews are not able to afford the rebuilding of the second B mikdash so they make a request of the King of Persia his name is Darius and they say Darius do us a favor would you mind helping us fund the rebuilding of the second B mikdash and Darius says sure and the PK says Darius opened up the treasury of tax money and he gave it to the Jewish people to rebuild the B mikdash and I ask you where did did Darius get all this tax money from who is Darius Darius is a son of Esther and aash aash died he inherited all the taxes collected and he then returned the tax money to the Jews to rebuild the second B mikdash so the Milla ends that by the end of the story is raising money to rebuild the second mikdash but really the story has come full circle cuz at the beginning of the story aash is celebrating what's celebrating that the 70 years of the Babylonian exile were up and the prophet said that the temple would be rebuilt at the end of the 70 years and it's not being built so is celebrating the permanent destruction of the B mikdash and by the end of the story a has become the chief fundraiser to rebuild the second M mikdash but even more at the beginning of the story aash is celebrating the Eternal destruction of and little did he know that Hashem is looking down from heaven and Hashem is laughing you think this party is celebrating the destruction of the B mikdash this very party is going to knock off your wife you're going to ask vashy to come she's not going to listen you're going to have to marry Esther you're going to have a king Darius she he's going to inherit you so this party that you think is celebrating the Eternal destruction of B mikdash is actually going to be the party that rebuilds The Bash you should remember that from my last trips to henden however I want to take it to the next level does anybody know the very last in the M the last PK in the Milla is the Milla ends that the rabbi morai was popular he was well-liked everybody loved him and there was peace for the Jewish people who cares why would the Milla end off that Mor was popular that almost everyone liked him right it says most people liked him which is as good as you're going to get if you're a rabbi not everybody but most people liked him that's the end of the Milla the Milla ends off that most people liked Mori of what relevance is it to the PM story who cares that most people let's let's say people didn't like Mor is it relevant that most people like M let's focus on one thing God gave us the Tyra in what year anybody know what year on the Jewish calendar God gave us the Tyra 2448 excellent you know how you remember that says the year 2448 is how do you write it in Hebrew Bim B 48 T me b t that spells out his love for them it was the year of hashem's love for the Jewish people soem gave us the T in the year 2448 and when God gave us the T what did we say thanks but no thanks I know what they told you in kindergarten we said n that's the Feelgood story but that's not what happened you know we tell that to kids what are we going to tell them we didn't want it we didn't really want it we said we're good with the but we're not we don't really want to do what the rabbis tell us we don't want to do any of the T does anybody know how long did it take until we said you know what Hashem we're willing to accept the T took a very long time 40 years in the midmar 440 years before the first B mikdash was built 410 of the second B mikdash and then at the end of of the 70 years of God's B took over a thousand years till the Jewish people said you know what God we are willing to accept the Tyra you know when we when Hashem offered us the T shab we said not no thanks we said absolutely not and God took the mountain of harini and he suspended over our head and he said if you don't take it I'm going to kill you so he said yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we really want it but we didn't want it we said no thank you we Bas we basically rejected it and God threatened us with our lives unless we accept the tus so we said yes so what happened in the PM story that it changed our mind so we we sort of have to ask a few questions why didn't we want the Tyra and what changed in the PM story that all of a sudden now we're willing to accept the T here's the deal and this is is a very prevalent attitude and Hasa and it's very important to identify it and recognize it and this is the explanation of the many times in life when we're confronted with let's say a or dilemma or a difficult element of observance sometimes we say to ourselves you know I would really like to keep this Hala but I don't know I'm gonna lose out from it maybe if I keep this Hal um I'm going to lose money or I'm not going to get the job that I really want so maybe you have to start cutting Corners a little bit look I could give good examples for men so you'll help me out maybe but I'll give you some good examples for men I'm going to be I'm being honest with you okay let's say a man says well you know I would like to stay the whole doing but I think I have to leave like 5 or 10 minutes early because I got to get to the got to get to the job and if I don't leave ding early then I'm not going to make x amount of money or you know I really have to cut corners on SPH or I'm sure you could all think of examples in your lives where when you look at a you say you know what I guess I'll keep that Hal but it's not good for me you know I'll keep eating kosher yeah eating kosher of course I'm going to keep it but maybe it doesn't taste as good or it costs like seven times as much that's in henden in New York it costs 70 times as much if you think life is expensive here in England do not move to New York okay in New York everything's on a totally different scale so sometimes a person thinks you know Jewish lifestyle it's it's what God wants it's what theam wants I'm not saying it's necessarily good for me it's costing me a Penny it's not good for my career it's not good for my life it's not good for my happiness maybe I'd personally be better off without it but I'm willing to do it sometimes that's our attitude toward a lot of to where we say of course I'm going to do it without question but I don't really see how it's good for me and actually come to think of it maybe it's not that great for me and let me give you a good case and point there was a man by the name of morai and I think sometimes we have this challenge when it comes to what Rabon May advise us there was a man by the name of morai and there's a man by the name of ham and hamon is walking around with Anar on hanging around his neck and morai does not bow down to him and it's a problem for the Jews cuz it's getting this Russia very angry and other Jews are bowing down they said I don't know you know we uh we asked the Sha who' you ask uh they they they went online and they typed in can we bow down to H with around his neck and they got an answer they asked AI they asked they asked their hotline yeah but says I'm the I'm telling you that we're not all to bow down Rabbi I'm sure you could come up with a header for this one you're really making our life very difficult he might get really angry he might want to kill us and every single day Mori went out there and he wouldn't bow down so the Jews said okay you don't have a heter who asked you to go out of your way and stand there in the streets of Persia and get him upset so just you know go into the B Med and I'm making a statement I'm not bowing down to him and they said Rabbi with all due respect now whenever somebody says to a rabbi with all due respect it's a you got a duck or something you know he got hide under the table with all do respect Rabbi you don't know what you're talking about you I know you know how to learn gamar Rashi andus but you don't know the real world you don't know the real world right whenever you have a question on what a Rabbi says say he knows how to learn but he doesn't know human dynamics he doesn't know the real world he's removed from reality and the Jews were not happy with morai they called him a yehudi he wasn't a y he wasn't from sh was from shy they were saying the says they called him a yehudi that he's wrong they were not happy with Mori morai was the most unpopular I don't want to say Rabbi in history because there have been many but he was very unpopular and what did the Jews learn from the perm story that because morai got hon angry and hamon made a big Gallows and Hashem orchestrated events that h should take a misstep with Esther and that they should be able to petition the king to kill hamon and his sons and thousands of amim and then finally relented and he allowed the rebuilding of the bikash why did all of this salvation come about it came about because Mor said this is the and I want you to know it might not seem convenient it might not look convenient it might not be immediately convenient but when you do the right thing good things happen is not an inconvenience you might think that if you leave daving early you'll make more money or if you cut Corners in h life will be better but it's just the opposite when you sacrifice to do what is correct and to follow the Hal properly not only will the Hal not cause you any harm and any damage and any heid theam will use thats OB erance of itself to bring about tremendous Yeshua how did save CL in the time of P because morai went out of his way not to bow down to Haman and the Jews finally recognized that what they thought were restrictions that maybe was making their life difficult it was a way ofes ultimately bringing them great blessing and great Yeshua so only from the purm story did the Jewish people accept the Tyra with love because until then they just thought perhaps Tyra was a nuisance that they had to observe because God said so they came to recognize that what they thought perhaps was challenging would ultimately be the source of the greatest blessing so the Milla ends off you would have expected morai would be the most unpopular Rabbi in history and look Howes used the decision of morai to bring about such great blessing that by the end of the story morai is he's beloved by the majority of the Jewish people I want to share with you another very important element of the PRM story sometimes we don't appreciate the gravity of this does anybody know what was the single greatest sin since the sin of the golden calf since the worst thing CL ever did this sin was considered so egregious that because of it Hashem allowed a man to make a decree to annihilate the Jewish people it was the sin that the Jewish people participated in the suda of Mor said you can't go this is a meal that's celebrating the Eternal destruction of the B mikdash that's what it seemed like you cannot go to the suda this ATT the attendance of the suda was considered so egregious that hasem said you know what I'm going to allow H to make a decree and it was sealed in cement and it was almost sealed in blood that's how egregious the sin was now let's study for one moment when dides start to orchestrate events to save the Jewish people in other words we sin at the party but when did Hashem start putting things into motion that if we were to do chuva he would save us when did that start did it start when we started to do chuva no we didn't even do chuva yet you know when the Salvation began at the very party that we were sinning so egregiously that who allowed H to make the decree at that party Hashem put into's mind to ask vashi to display herself Vash refused vashi was eliminated to set into motion that if we were to do chuva Esther was in power and that would bring about the Yeshua so writes think about Theus and the love hasem had for cl at the very moment that we were sinning so egregiously that Hashem allowed H to make the decree at that moment the ream was already sewing the seeds to save us why would he do it at that moment at the very moment that we were sinning Hashem was already orchestrating events to save us but we were sinning then we had never sinned before in such an egregious manner why did Hashem pick that moment you know why Hashem picked that moment Hashem was was teaching CL is the fundamental principle of the whole T do you know what the fundamental principle of the T is fundamental principle of the T is that loves a Jew so much that we are the Beloved children of Hashem that even when we sin and even if we don't believe in him and even if we serve abara hashem's love for us is so powerful that says you are always the Beloved children of hasem so let's let's study this for a moment does anybody know what was the greatest salvation in the history of the Jewish people it was Pam that says the light of salvation of Pam was the brightest light the world ever experienced so it's probably very important to know when did Hashem begin to prepare that light he began to prepare that light at the moment we fell to the lowest level in our history why do you think Hashem would choose the lowest moment in our history to bestow on CL Israel and begin to prepare the greatest light in our history because it's very important for Hashem that every Jew knows that you know sometimes we feel well I know Hashem loves us but maybe only only if I do X and only if I do y and only if I'm on a very high level and Hashem wants us to know that of course there's accountability in this world but the fundamental relationship that AES has with CLA Isel is that Hashem loves every single Jew with such a powerful love and with such an unconditional love that at the lowest moment in our history Hashem chose to begin to seow the greatest salvation for the Jewish people as much as we love our children as much as we love anyone in this world the says the loves CL is this is the fundamental principle of the whole T the writes the Cornerstone principle of is that we are beloved by Hashem that is why the first letter of the toyra is a base b stands for B that is why the first the is a you have a what's what does aote what does canote a is like brother and sister is like father and child the first letter in the t is a b that were the first the is a father and child this is the Cornerstone principle in the T this was a principle that Hashem showed the World by Paving and preparing the great salvation of pm at the very moment that we fell to the lowest moment in our history so as we started with the Z of PM is a is a Zan of great salvation for the Jewish people back in the times of PM in 1953 and throughout our history every year when we read the Milla we give them we give we chip away a little bit more a little bit more a little bit more at I want to share with you that whenever you have the opportunity to go to sh and you could answer I want to tell you what you should think when you say makes it that God's name is incomplete right we're going to read it on makes it that hm's name is incomplete so when you say you should think sh God's name which is it should be made Again by eradicating every time you answer you should think should wipe out and every year we read the m and every we give and every we answer we wipe out a little bit more this year we need an extra boost because the all caused us to confront the new Enemy zah andem by us gathering together tonight to the of in preparation for p we should be able to give the final knockout punch and we should see the nef of all the enemies of the Jewish people andem in our time the coming of thank you very much okay you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com