Journey To Poland 2024: FULL JOURNEY - Warsaw, Sochotzew, Kutna, & Auschwitz

welcome everyone good afternoon everyone thank you for joining our trip this year it's it's going to be an amazing trip it's really a great to have the opportunity to travel through this country which is uh one of the foundations of the M of our TOA so many great gum lived here and and of course it's also a country that is uh so in our blood but we're going to begin and uh the learning that we do today is dedicated Burger today is his yard site be for his whole family for all his descendants for so when we talk about Poland it's hard for us to capture and identify what exactly is Poland because we know that it's a country that has been partitioned so many time throughout history and its first partition was in uh 1772 but we're going to speak about Poland today in its identity before its first partition and before its F first partition Poland included part of Russia Ukraine even in Villa and Poland was an Empire and that's how we're going to refer to it as the first well-known who made it made Poland his residence was RAAM in the year 1415 to 1485 but let me Begin by telling you something that theama would say something he spoke about on his deathbed you know theama observes the fact that as Spanish jewry was on the decline in the end of the 15th century and 1492 drama observed that that was when Poland was developing as the epicenter of Torah jwy Poland was the crowning Jewel of Torah jewry but that only developed as the Spanish community in Spain and Portugal was on the decline and the Rama observed that the ranam always pays the way like Alon is and as one sadic passes even before that another one is being groomed as one Community wains Hashem is already developing another one theas saw the development of Polish jury as the way of hasaka allowing CLA to have continuity as Spanish jury declined that is when polish jury began to develop in fact thean is deathbed he made notice of the fact that he heard recently of the passing of the arizal and and then the Rama himself was passing on and the Rama had a student named David Gans who he encouraged to learn astronomy and David Gans was in touch with one of the great astronomers of the time Tao Braha and they had just discovered a new star in the heavens the name of the star was Nova and the Rama hoped and he prayed that the discovery of the new Star was Port was a portend that Hashem was bringing new sikim to the world and new to the world at the same time that the AR and himself were passing away now contrary to what many people think and I want to thank mayor gladin on the camera thank you mayor contrary to what many people think that polish jury was always fraud with Massacre and and murder actually the Jews in Poland had a very good situation compared to a jewry everywhere else in the world uh we enjoyed relative prosperity and peace obviously there notable exceptions the of tat and then World War I and World War II now it's very interesting have you ever heard of the expression the V the it's a it's a term that people throw around but if you actually stop someone say you know what are the AR you will never find anybody who could identify what the AR are which which four countries so Poland constituted and comprised the arba what were they originally only three regions belonged to the arba AR number one greater Poland which was pnan PNA that's where reer Liv number two lesser Poland CAU is called lesser Poland then you had red Russia that's Eastern Galia and originally it was called The V then they joined Vila and Lithuania joined and even when Lithuania seceded nevertheless this term always remained the V this was the a powerful Union we could call it of that the rim and the Asim and the rashal had because the those the government of Poland trusted them and usted them in running the various kilit now in Poland they were very notable yeshivas the greatest yeshivas in the world were in Lublin were in cracko and they continue to flourish until theer ofat 16 1648 1649 at that point in history that was the end of the Polish system of yes from then and on you had great Scholars you had great but they did not learn in they would gather together in the local the r would teach budding but the the network of Yesa and the power the institution of yeshivas in Poland ceased with before that you had again in Lublin and in CAU now this is very important to understand and that is polish jewry was built on four pillars of is Polish jewry was built on four pillars of G is so number one the number one pillar the first pillar the foundation of all polish jewry is an individual who is somewhat unknown even to learned Jews his name was rakov Pak and that's why we made sure on our trip to bring mishak Pak with us as uh in honor of the first y of Polish jury rakov poak was born in 1470 he was born in Poland he was the azdin and the r Masa in Prague but a dispute arose there and he had to leave Prague and in 1492 he became the Riva of cocow I did not realize until this moment if you were to ask at in what year did po was Poland established as a tamic center 1492 that's when Rak poak comes to KOCO rakov poak revolutionized Le revolutionized the learning of gar he instituted a method I'm sure many of you know he instituted something called pple pple is not what they have like back in the day in Yeshiva every so often we had a pple share that's not what rakov pak's system of PPO was PPO was uh nothing less than intellectual acrobatics it was making it was by the way the in Poland was they would learn something called what's that was the in Poland would Master the the rashash would then come down come into the ISA the would surround him ask the rash all the questions they had on the the rash would respond then the rash would tell the his questions on the and his answers but what royak Pak did was he would take different garas and see if two random garas were consistent with each other he would make differentiations not not to get to the conclusion but to sharpen the minds of the students and this was a very controversial method of learning the mar was vehemently opposed to what this method called pple but it's surprising someone who advocated for this system was none other than the greatest Pake of ashaz jury the raama himself was an advocate of the system of Poa so the first pillar of Polish jury is rabak of Pak in his uh under his Reign krael becomes a uh a tremendously a learned City even simple people could not help but be influenced by the the greatness of of Tam knowledge in the city of Kow so now it's very interesting in ashas if you were a sage what were you called No in Poland you were in a in Ash you hear the difference you see in ashaz it was a matter of knowing the material so you were a not in Poland Poland they were sharp like attack and po you you are a that's a different that terminology captures the difference in the Tam process rakak passes away in 1530 rakak which did he write Rak did not write any did not write his in 1530 was the comes to learn from by the way if you look in the's edition of In the it talks about who well apparently liked that because he then gave theama his daughter to marry so you know anyway I'm going to tell you you know the in our generation there's something called the sh crisis in Poland there was no sh crisis it was unheard of for any girl ever to reach 18 without being married it never happened it never happened there were no single girls in Poland for hundreds of years ever and they had a system and we're going to learn about that system whether we could adopt that system lots of luck okay now shom Shak was a a student of rakov palak and all the G in Poland were students of rakna again Shak is the second pillar of Polish jewelry uh for example the mases bamin the Rama they're all students of and thees in the CH in he said asked my re why don't you write and says look because of his great humility he felt that he doesn't want anybody to have to rely on his Sak I would imagine there was something more than that and that is you know in Poland they held and this is found in the writings of the brother maral of Prague who did not agree with writing in Poland they held that you can't ask soone a Shila you know in America they have something called the hotline you know so if you don't if you have a Shila you call up the hotline and you speak to some Rabbi you never met him you don't know him from Adam he doesn't know you from Adam or from Eve and and he gives you a in Poland beh held there's no such thing as asking a sha you're are you Jewish is your mother Jewish you have a Jewish name so open up the gamarra learn the gamarra learn the Rashi learn the tus learn the sugya you're the only one who know know the factors of your situation what you such an that you can't figure out this was the opinion of R the brother of marala prag and he had very big problem with codifying so I would imagine that did not cify because to be a vibrant you you have to have independent knowledge of the in any event from sh Shak did not write any his Yesa was in CAU then you had revman of verisa who is marid T in La for 42 years and the fourth pillar of Polish jewry was Raam Min Ra shamin was born in Mains he learned from his father and then he learned from rakov these friends were the four pillars of Polish jewry number one Rak of poak number two R Shalom shna father-in-law of the r number three rman of Raa who lived in LA and number four Raa Min from these four G Poland became the epicenter of Torah jury in the entire world from all over the world came to learn this these and everything we're going to see in the next couple of days all the that we're going to visit from Warsaw s kutna cow All Began because of the roots of these four gum soon we're going to learn about the six pillars of ideology that polish jewry was built on thank you very much we go okay we're uh we're going to try this uh it looks like the severe weather is slowing down so I'm going to speak now 5 10 minutes this way we don't have to do it dur in the rain also we're going to pray within 5 10 minutes it's going to stop anyway and uh at the Kev we're going to save you know the real core information but now I'm going to give you a background where we're going this is the warso cemetery it is one of the largest cemeter Jewish cemeteries in all of Europe and in the entire world there are more than 250,000 marked Graves and mass Graves of the victims of the wora so my great-grandfather who is the r of the city of s in all likelihood this is where this is where he's buried let me tell you the names of the that we're going to visit here number one theet we're going to be at his C Reb AR s if you see a random safer in a sh and you don't know who it's from in all likelihood it's from AR La since and you want to see what a go he was in his dying words he says that anybody who helps publish his safer you know he promises great yeshu so now he is the most published author of any of the because everybody's everybody wants a piece of the suula so we're going to the Kev of R AR number three rakov gunite theer yov rakov gunite Chief Rabbi of Warsaw from 1870 to 1874 and then two of the most notable alltime great isin and who are they were both rash inan and they're buried next to each other I want to tell you a little bit now about the and about the NV was born in 1817 in the city of Mir his father was rakov Berlin who is a well-known at 13 and a half this is very important history to know the NV becomes the son-in-law ofer's son so you have the vill his student was his son was and his son-in-law is the now started the his son took it over at 13 and a half Berlin becomes a son-in-law he's so to speak the AA parent to lead the biggest in the world however the problem was he had an older brother-in-law because gave the older daughter to by the name rear y so when ofan passed away in 1849 elzar the first son-in-law is the top rashash then is second Riva but only four years later the oldest son-in-law had an untimely passing and the NV now takes over the mantle of the most important Yeshiva in the entire world the mother of all yes the Yesa all yeshivas today are offshoots modeled after thean Yesa now question I'm going to ask an opinion question when the N became the rashash do you think it was uncontested or contested do you think it it was unanimous that the N becamea it was contested you know who contested the B the B says I'm the r in brisk and he contested the appointment of the it went to a of SL of Minsk hamd Spector Pas then and only the NV will run the Yeshiva whereupon the NV became the leader of world jury that was the result of the then a new movement began a open expression of love for the return to the was an active member of now many went to the N she not everybody was sold right away for example would say what sold him on the's approach to learning they say you know the and were Polar Opposites the nv's opinion was in order to learn one blood of gamarra you need to you need to know the you can't learn a blat if you don't know the whole when you learn the whole you can understand one blat Sal said you know how to learn the H when you learn one BL of gar and you get to the bottom of it and you cry you get to like the the core of the the blot you'll know theas they had ex polar opposite approaches and at first was not sold on the n's approach one night after midnight the comes into the B and as a b or a young man was delving into a comment of the rashbam and theim goes over to the and he says rebbi you know I'm having a hard time with this rasham and the says listen to this do you know how many I had to visit to understand this rashbam think about that statement the says do you know how many I needed to visit to understand that rasham now I like that statement because that statement really endorses our trip you know because many people would say aren't there better things you could do with your time maybe maybe it's better to sit in the it's hard to argue with that but you see even a great sadic like the in order to understand the depth of he had to visit multiple to pour out his heart in fact he told his student melzer that any day that he can't he doesn't cry when he says he's not able to be mades in his learning so this was the the was a tremendous mmed I'll tell you he uh when he got married he went into a small room in vagan and he learned there day and night for 20 years so they came to the n and they say is it true that you learned 20 hours a day the said no it's not true I only learned 16 hours a day but I learned 16 hours a day Friday and shabas and I didn't miss one day as the famous story of the goes once came to the and the says do you know what learning is said yeah do you know what it means to be a mmid what rebbi then says a eats when it's time to eat sleeps when it's time to sleep learns when it's time to learn you ever notice in manyas the hours between 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. are packed how about at 9:30 when the S starts in the morning maybe that's not the most glamorous time the Masid learns when he needs to learn when he's supposed to learn he sleeps when he needs to sleep he eats when he needs to eat now let's come back to the uh V yiva remember the base Hali was appointed I wanted to be appointed the rashash of Thea and the g said no it belongs to the but the briskers eventually got into vajan here's how they did it leave it to the briskers to figure out way out again to vajan the NV had a son-in-law of rfal Shapiro R Shapiro had a daughter this is the granddaughter of the NV the nv's granddaughter married reim salek so the bivi the Tata the father he couldn't get the job but now his son is AA parent to take over the vaja you hear this so the bivi couldn't get the job his son is the marri the granddaughter of the NV and brisker starts to give shim in the Yesa to the point where the and were Kush yeshivas in fact there was no decision in the Yesa that was made without the participation of Rim salek so he starts giving sh on theiva in 1880 at 27 years old and his shm gain him Garner for him World Acclaim he taught thousands and thousands of tamim um who many of them became a g he gave she and for 12 years now in 1852 this is also very important then we're going to talk a little bit about the history of the V Yeshiva and when we finish the rain will stop by the way the NV in his second marriage married the daughter of the you hear this the married the daughter of the he was 30 years older than her she ran a good chunk of the Yeshiva Berlin you ever hear the the Yeshiva Berlin Berlin was the son of the N from his first marriage and his daughter from his first wife married Rafal Shapiro and through and their daughter married rim salv his son from his second wife was rev mayor Berlin who later later changed his name to Mayor Baran Berlin to Baran Baran University is named after the son of the nav mayor barand now 1852 the isiv is under tremendous pressure to include secular knowledge in the curriculum that they should teach Russian and Russian culture the NV is getting older he's planning going to Israel because you're probably wondering friends what country are we in are we in uh bellarus we're in Poland so how did the NV end up over here the NV was rashan let me explain he was planning on going to and giving over the running of Thea to his son R Berlin and his grandson R salek but on a Thursday morning the fifth of Shar in 1852 the government came and because they did not allow as part of the curriculum the uh Russian culture and knowledge the government closed the V Yesa and everybody had to leave all the Tam had to leave and they're looking there's still there's one person remaining in the Yeshiva the NV the NV was there but he fainted they banished the NV from vilna he figures okay he's going to go to Minsk and then from there he went to war and from there he was going to go to is and fulfill his lifelong dream but when he got to warsa the NV had diabetes he had a stroke here in Warsaw he lived for a year and a half but it was no life and the day before the ptia of the NV he turns to his son and he says my son many gum say they don't want to be eulogized when they die but that's wrong it's wrong to say that if kazal say that a h does something for the mace how could we be smarter than kazal therefore we are not authorized to forgo a hesped but how long the hesped has to be you'll give me a short hesped and I ask of you that a um after the short hesped everyone should learn a few blot of gamara instead of the hped and that will bring me K in Gan then taught t for 46 years he was 76 years old when he died Berlin said at the L that the Y brings that when the first BD was destroyed the young Kim went up to the roof of the bik they took their keys in their hands and they said we were not to be proper treasurers they took the keys and they threw it heavenward and a hand came down from heaven and accepted the keys from the Kahan says the son of inan when Vin closed then NV came he threw the keys of Alan up to the shamayim and God accepted them says the did not have to close the he could have allowed them to learn a period or two of Li but that would have been a slippery slope and first it would have been a period or two and then ultimately there would have been a period a period or two of Lies the understood that is that he needed to close the Yesa so that other yeshivas throughout Lithuania and Poland could spring up in the age old tradition says if not for the who knows if we would still have t today says about we say for closing the okay so we're going to head in briefly into the uh Cemetery we're going to visit these it's a great to be at the of who lived from 1849 to 1920 the son of yahu of Zen and and he succeeded his father as the Reb voler and in 1891 he cames he comes to maitus a town in Poland and he became known as the majba he composed many Nuna many Melodies now the Maba suffered from diabetes and 1913 he traveled to Berlin and the only way to save his life was by amputating neb his leg and before the operation the Reb observes the architecture in Berlin and he's very upset because relative to the desolation of Y he saw the builtup state of Germany and during this operation he composed his famous master piece on the words of AAR which is sung every year at the MA's yard side now he has a on his but his great grandson collected his based on other things that the Z wrote and that became the basis of the onbar and he was n in 1920 and he was succeeded by his sonar what an awesome place that were standing the K of the and salek the lived from 1817 to 1893 we spoke a little bit about him on the bus but I want to focus on one aspect of the nav's personality that was unique among G is and among the way yeshivas were run we mentioned the NV would learn 16 hours a day every single day but what was unique about the NV and especially in the way he ran thean Yeshiva is he would start off every day learning with the with Rashi and his was based and predicated on these shum that he gave now why is that so unusual usually in Yeshiva the curriculum is limited to the gumar The Tam inan the expanded it and let me explain there are three types of yeshivas yiva number one a boy is expected to come in to have learned the sugya with and the will come in and say if he doesn't have they won't learn that so you can learn yam and they'll jump around from Su to that's the first type of that was not Vin next type OFA the rashash reads through the but he'll focus on certain points and he'll highlight certain so if you're learning subus okay you learn D you learn the Su of AOS you learn the Su of you learn you'll Jump Around in terms of you learn everything to say there but you focus on different highlight spots and they would only do that toik notan inan they started from the beginning of sh and they learned every blot the same way there was no such thing as highlights there was no concept of focus the whole tah was equally valuable and precious and digging in one could dig into now as radical as that was at the time then it's revolutionize that and expanded that what do I mean the na expanded curriculum to the the the the sh the the's teaching encompassed and he did this for 40 years and in his H is an introduction to the ham D to the ham sh he has something called and he says there are two parts of the T there's the and there's the dust the dust is the cutline m better not to do it's okay to do but the a is the pull the fire of it and there's always has to be a balance between the knowledge of the of the material and the dust and a balance with the H this was the difference between Yehuda and Ley Ley was a pis but yud was the the lawgiver he dug into the details and the depths of every single aspect of T you have the same thing with and in they had the they cut the but in B they delve deep into the shakar and this was the expansive method of learning of the where he made part of the curriculum in fact the NV says that uh this was his unique approach now when we understand the tremendous from the age of a young 13 and A2 years old where he was learning so many hours a day and writing and teaching Kal he would sign off all of his letters laiden with the great a of Li and no one like the took upon themselves this entire gamut of K to give over to CL he carried the Yeshiva for many many decades this is a great contribution of [Music] Nim 1893 what an awesome location the the son of the B first R in and then the of brisk and Lita his sons write about him that he was the quintessential and unquestioned leader of the Jewish people he established thousands of students throughout the gas his methodology of learning probably more than anyone else influenced the way they learn in Yas today created what we call the idea of that in tamic process there can be a certain idea or and there could be two reasons for it for example the the classic question and answer of is a contradiction in the rambam where the rambam writes in that there are five five things that are one of them is wash um purity of one's hands and having one's era covered and that the place should be clean andavana kav so that it seems like according to the ravana is absolutely necessary for daving and if you don't have it you're not and on the other hand in that if you're just for the first so that seems to indicate thatav is not absolutely only for the first famously says there two of kavana there's one basic din of kavana you have to be cognizant you're standing before Hashem that has to be present throughout the entire if that is not present even in the last you're not so the Baseline kavana that you're cognizant you're standing before the king that must be present throughout but says there's another of kavana there's another element of required kavana namely the meaning of the words thinking about the meaning of the words that din of kavana is only needed for the first that's the a classic example of doesn't agree with that learns the r that the ra first says you need to have kavana and later on the ra is saying when you need to have kavana it's only needed for the first would say there are two distinct uh elements of kavana everybody knows the farmer of Sal is the backbone of methodology in theiva world but what I want to focus on is something else entirely as much as R excelled in learning he excelled in and kindness amazingly Rim's house was Ain was like a public domain somebody once said to the Grizz is it true that R's house is a public domain he said no it was worse than a public domain what would happen is literally people off the streets would come go into Rim's bed and they would say move over and rim would have to get off his own bed in 1895 there was a terrible fire in brisk and R would not rest until he helped everybody rebuild their lives and during that time Rim did not sleep in his own house he slept on the floor in the sh and his family pressured him come sleep at home a little bit he would say I cannot sleep in my own bed knowing that many don't have a roof over their heads somebody once asked you know what's the role of a RV what's a RV for to Pas Shas no that's an a to give sh that's a what's the role of a would say the word RV only appears once the the role of a is to do a lot of kindness lo and behold had that on the top line in the inscription of's and then s that was the title that was given himself where the the world understood that as great as he was in he was equally excelled in ver the Abundant kindness that he did for his brethren for his community and for the Jewish people he was n inas which was a resort area outside of okay it's a great the K of the SCH the lietz he born in 1765 he n in 1839 Rua writes about him I am not not even worthy to question in my mind his even if I wanted to be the says he's is I want to tell you a little bit about him he was born in Posen his father was a leader in the city in 1804 he becomes the RV in nlas nlas is a city in area near warsa in 1819 he's appointed the r in praga now praga is not Prague this is important to know praga is is an area a district in warsa separated from wara proper by a river so there's warsa proper and there's prago which is a district of Orsa separated by a river now 1821 comes until 1821 they never had a chief Rabbi in Warsaw in 1821 they're trying to appoint a chief Rabbi in Warsaw the rushil r danziger he agrees with the other heads of the Kila that they're going to appoint R AR s we're going to go be go to his C however they get a letter from raber RAB ker writes as follows now RAB kager was one of the greatest anov one of the most humble men but he felt he needed to voice his opinion on this matter he says I know this city wants to appoint since I don't want to take away the respect of his of this G however what the people of Warson their various opinions their various personalities the r is going to be going to have to be m to the needs of the people therefore I recommend appointing Ritz he's the he'll have more of a hash on the people for each individual because is going to be very immersed but knows how to make and he would be an more appropriate leader they follow the advice of and they appointed as the r now this is a story printed in the said every Jewish Home has to have is the official biography of I'm sorry and of course is Amazing Story Shar is the son of rear his father-in-law left in his ethical will in his will that whoever names the first baby after me I leave them 40,000 Ruble okay so here you have the father- of Shar whoever names the kid the kid gets 40,000 Ruble so Sher had the first boy he names the kid the baby died within 30 days says good it belongs to the baby and now I inherited the baby I get the father I get the's money okay so they go to uh they bring the question to the says I need 30 days to deliberate about this question he comes back after 30 days and he says toer sorry the money doesn't go to you start over the next child that's born shamer wasn't happy about this he says maybe you want to discuss this with my father reer I know he loves you I'm sure you would value his opinion so said let me tell you a story about the Reb the rebel we're going to visit him in cck not shabis one year the re of hesel was uh a young boy and he stole his father's afian so when the father wants the afian back the re of says as a little kid tati I'll give you back I want silk garments silk garments I mean you know that's like a kid asking for uh you know a Mercedes you know what do you mean silk garments the father said look what could I do I need that coming back give me the aan I'll give you the silk garments fine so now the father has afian he's giving it out to the kids he turns to his son hesel he says I'm not giving it to you he says why not he said I'll give it to you on condition your Mo the silk garments so the Reb looks at him he says Dad I knew you would do that that's why I gave you a decoy a I'm still holding on to the real AF and I'm giving it to you on condition that you give me so garments and don't make any says I knew you were going to tell me that I should ask reiker first I already asked him here's theak he agrees with me so this was I want tell you a little we know there's a concept if someone has an extenuating circumstance they're exempt the question is in gar we'll go we'll go inside the talks about the Su of you remember that you come in if somebody says to their wife here's the document of divorce on condition only if I don't return within 30 days and the guy wanted to return but he was not able to return so the question is why does o play a role in this situation doesn't o mean that if you're an O it's not your fault it's not your fault okay that's when it's a matter of punishment not when it's a matter of not coming you said if I don't come it should be a get so you didn't come it doesn't matter why you didn't come so the says what's the L how what's the mechanism of the mechanism of is if the reason you didn't do something was because of extenuating circumstances we don't attribute that to you it's like it just happened in the world in general the mechanism of O is not oh it's not your fault so you won't get punished it's if the reason you did or didn't do something is because of extending circumstance then we say the thing happened but it's not connected to you it's not attributed to you that's the mechanism of uh we learn that from the that if a woman is violated we don't punish her not because it's a mitigating factor it's because when something is done and it was not your fault we don't attribute it to you this is of okay okay we're at the C of a tremendous personality R since Mar the author of get makush many that were already published and we're going to talk about the promise that he made before his P his first saer he wrote at 25 years old the saer Yas and it says over there it was composed by one of the young men of pinov great entire now Benet wrote about him about in that same year when he was 25 his heart was like the heart of a lion that was his name the had a policy he did not give to but he made an exception for that's a rule you know all all P people say but that's my rule okay it's a good rule to have it doesn't mean it can't change sometimes again that if that's if it's your rule not if it's a not only that was so close to he was frequented the table of theud he was a r PL he had some responsibilities together with the here in Warsaw he was the rebi of G there's a famous story that a woman was having a difficult time giving birth so RAB says I have a very simple solution and you could try this I'm going to ask a question on the gamar I'm going to give a tet and by answering the gamar it will help the woman give birth it's a tried and proven method un unchartered untapped in now in his he utilized there was a woman who was in auna he utilized the dream somebody had about the whereabouts of the husband as an factor in permitting the woman to get married because he he felt the dream was somewhat verifiable he used this as a factor to help the woman get married he wrote in his dying words and he wrote this in the that anyone who helps publish for the will be for them if they are able to who n on on a Monday giml T sad giml lad in the year what L gim so that's year 183 three over here we have uh 18 yeah 1833 okay we're at the cover of he established many who were excellent inov he's the author of it's it's a he as a Young Man finished the sh and age 18 is also onb he led the Yesa here in wara for 42 years and served as a chief Rabbi for from 1870 to 1874 next to him is buried RAB benel who is the son-in-law of R Simka of dvinsk uh they're buried side by side okay this is the of thousands of K of the wor ghetto we're headed to the city of sakov our great-grandfather was actually the last R of the city of sakov and he had the opportunity to come to America and to save his life the good was going to create a position for him he was going to be the chief Rabbi of United States of America and he didn't want to leave his kahila he was taken to the war Soto he was killed in the war Soto he died in the war Soto and this is the Kim of thousands of kosim of the warto so with your permission we're going to make a k and I don't have the N for uh the we're going to mention the name of the Z this is for 6 million it's not specific for more so getet is that okay I I'll take it shall getas Ben Abraham for okay good afternoon everybody we are headed now to what polish jew does not recognize the following name s sov was recognized far beyond its borders even though there were hundreds of towns throughout Poland but there was something unique about sakov the court the of the rebas certainly contributed the rebas being the borin his son of schm Borstein but traditionally historically sakov always had success with its rabim even though it was a small town they had ranim like ha Raa Raa was the brother of the Shak they had the great r r mayor ashkanazi the author of the pame The Halper other the was uh in s and it's assumed that run also came to S to learn with thead one of the reasons why s was so successful in its flourishing spiritually is that it allowed its rabim it allowed its rabim to conduct the Yesa in s and the whole city participated in supporting the B of the Yesa so it became the culture of the city to support Tyra to establish Tyra and this was a unique custom where the ronam of the city were allowed to conduct theiva and the whole city participated but when RL RL is R Borstein when he came to sakov he infused a force of attraction all the sharp mines throughout Poland are attracted to sakov what was special about rabal RAB RAB Borstein was a son-in-law of the katar kidos is unique it it minimized it trivialized the costume the externalities in Kut it was always about search for truth adherence to truth self-introspection not fooling oneself it was sort ofus like the mus movement it was a very rare form of kidos a very grueling and demanding form ofid and then R's method of learning where took the sharpness and the scholarship of the and was able to combine the the mus the search for truth of Kat and the analysis of G and this produced a combination of unique mixed with li it was one of the most vibrant alive and elevating forms of the combination of to andos that was in s the greatest mind throughout Poland came to s for example yua the the kar came to learn from the of even LX came to S to learn from the they so to speak put aside the fact that he was he they had they were forced to acknowledge that he was the greatest of all the and what's interesting is in the same way became the acclaimed P of in the in Lithuanian World so to the abar became the PO in Poland so this is a little bit of the background of Sak but it became almost a brand so traditionally if you went to a rebba the rebba would spend time with you hear you out talk to you abnar was very uh Swift with those who sought his advice he says every minute that it takes away from his learning is uh is something he can't give up so he established a court but it was really geared for and those who are very knowledgeable in Ty however if Aid came and uh theid so to speak felt like he wasn't valued enough because he wasn't he did not excel in said look don't feel bad don't be don't be hurt he would say that if you conduct yourself honorably honorably and honestly it's like you're learned this was the Supreme value in s it was a strive for truth both in personal conduct and in Li and it was the Envy of all of Poland so they began to establish throughout Poland people didn't even know anything about s all they knew was if you want honesty and conduct honesty and discipline honesty and learning then you needed to establish a s style so for example if uh you were looking for a son-in-law or you wanted you had a mischievous son and he needed a friend or you needed a rebi the best place to search was always in the in theal to have some kind of flavor and taste of the style of learning and discipline that they they conducted themselves in s by the way we mentioned the Yesa in s but in the end of R's life he was very ill we're going to see he had very weak lungs he had a very terrible cough but when uh R's son the sh is took over and especially when he employed from the Kover the in one of the most popular Yas in Poland sakov and sakov life was really destroyed in World War I and at that point the shm moved the court to L and later to Zagar but they always called it Sak doesn't matter where they went they could have been in any City in Poland it always retained the trademark name and the branding of Sak after R passed away ridel the oldest son of became the Reba and he was in different cities he first he was in wizr and then later in ATAC but wherever thisas moved it always maintained the name s which was synonymous and reflected the unique combination Innova by R barnstein Who combined the rigorous self-discipline of Kut and His Brilliant tamic analysis and this became one of the most vibrant brands ofos in all of Poland it's we're going to go to the Mak shortly okay it's a great here in Sak this was the ancient Cemetery the Jewish cemetery in sakov it was completely destroyed by the Nazis in World War II every single headstone was taken and thrown into the river including the oil of the T rebas and their headstones this was then turned into it laid at a as a Barron field during communism it was used as a soccer field and then a garbage dump many tried they came here to try to locate the Kev of the ab and the sh ISM with no luck for how long for 50 years 1991 after the fall of Communism rud vski from L he was in Tel Aviv he came here he tried to restore the O he had petitioned to build a fence around the perimeter of the walls of of where the cemetery was they built the walls he invited R and Borstein the son of the sh ismo in Tel Aviv to come here to try to remember where the K was recalled that it was 35 M from the entrance so ravski hired polish workers to dig out the area they found nothing he hired someone who used machines to scan the area for bones nothing he didn't go give up he searched the neighborhood he found an old Sak lady who grew up here he brought her to the cemetery and she says why are you searching here it's over there and they started to dig where this lady said they discovered the wooden board where the a was buried next to it they found a piece of the wood where the sh is was buried they restored the graves they built thisel there's a monument here to commemorate the uh Jews of Saka before the war there were there were 5,000 Jews in the community here when I was here 5 years ago there was one Jew in the community and today there are no Jews in the entire city of sah okay okay we're here at of the Borstein 1839 to 1910 k of the author of it's interesting now he's known as thear he was not known as the he left over seven volumes of manuscripts of responsa and was published by his son the sh and the name that the the sh used n is because his father was Z so n a z and thater was the son-in-law of the katar and we're going to talk about how that sh was made amazingly he writes in the hak of theal that he was a descendant of the Shak okay the Shak Ona in he writes he was a descendant of the he writes he a descendant of the so that means he's a descendant of Rashi as well his father Borstein wrote the and he was a Kar and the kar told him you know why you're to have a son like because you spend your whole day PM learning Tyra in that Merit I always tell my my my kids everybody goes around collecting on PM the best thing you could do on PM is to learn in the Merit that the spent the day learning T he was to have a son takes his son when he was 12 years old to meet the katba the katba is so impressed with him he then immediately at at that meeting became engaged to the the daughter of the karba the katara's daughter Sara Sarina and they stayed in kusk for seven years they have one son shmuel he was born in 1857 what's amazing is that when the ABA was in kusk he he he uh uh spent 2 hours a night learning uh 2 hours a night sleeping he only slept for 2 hours a night after the ker died so now the ab is looking he still wants to have a rebba so he went he became a of his uncle the then he became an Alexander and then when Alexander rebba passed away now theer so to speak is in a position where he has to take on the RAS but his was teaching the now if you if you're familiar with the Yesa system how long a day does rash give sh for per day sometimes they give a Shear even once every few weeks or once a week but the most they'll give a Shear an hour a day an hour and a half a day thater would give she every day for eight hours to his Tam he taught eight hours for hisim he had did not have time to write anything it was only later on in life when he was so weak and he couldn't teach his T and he wanted to somehow be M the of so he wrote the EG to M the ofb by the way people started coming toer as a rebba and he writes he says like this people want to get out of being drafted in the Army that's a piece of cake to get somebody out of that all I need to do is learn I'll ask a question I'll give a teret and that automatically will mystically get somebody out of the army but then they want are is much more difficult I don't have kak to do that now he served as the rebba in Sak for years as mentioned that he was not known as AER during his lifetime he only published the EG tal I want to share with you three classic Kim of by the way it is said that he had the soul of the maral of Prague one there's a great dilemma what do you do the night of P you know the Seder is running late and according to you can't eat the after because according to the has to be eaten by and then after that if you're going to eat a you won't be able to eat the meal after that RAB says you could eat a the whole night so has an incredible you know the of an amazing makes a he says if if you see the suda if you see the seders going late you could say like this is in 30 minutes I didn't even eat the meal yet what I'm going to do is I'm going to eat the now after I eat the I'm going to wait until I how could I eat no according to that you have to eat the prohibition of eating after the is only until so I'll wait till then I'll eat the sud and then I'll eat another a so we what we call it is I was with the first like I'm with the second then has a what we call a life-saving writes that many are familiar that the Z writes that there is one sin that there is no atonement for one cannot do chuva for the sin of of wasting seed the Z says you cannot repent there's no way to correct it and many find that very depressing and demoralizing and ab says a very amazing that somebody who learns with great AOS meaning not just to learn but to to put in strenuous effort and they really use their mind it's a complete kapar even for that sin why he says according to the zar the Z is created in the so by using the it's for that sin even scient scientifically biologically they've now discovered that it's created through the pituitary gland so what Caba knew from this is confirmed I'll tell you one more and this really captures the essence of the and in general says that there's a great error people think that if someone is very into learning and someone really enjoys learning then it it mitigates their learning it minimizes their learning it's not really because they get an enjoyment a satisfaction out of it however says are just the opposite the main tyma the main Tyra that changes a person the main Tyra that elevates a person is a Tyra that you enjoy and that you learn and this really epitomizes What attracted all of poish jewry to it was the that was invigorated through the okay what a great it is to be here in s who could have even imagined to have such a wondrous privilege we're at now the Kev of the sh ISM we mentioned here it's uh Ruda vidavski was the one who restored this area and was able to find the of ab and part of the sh and He restored this area the sh ISO was the only son of R and S by the way my grandmother her father was the last R of the city of s my grandmother's name was also so you see it's a it's a s name and he was very close with his father he had a very strong bond with his father so rmu even though he had many children he always considered himself his father's tud when he married when the when the abnar son married he married the daughter of alzar liman L manoz now you all know the Min is when you get married who do you move in with the you know you move in to the In-laws no not the shame ISM he moved in with his father he had two sons David David was a m Mak David and and he owned a wine store that was run by an associate this is amazing you know the had tremendous so for example you know many discuss the issue were we allowed to return to is by force what about thear what about has a Chua why the are not relevant anymore you know that abar wrote a Chua that we are not bound by them they're not binding and in 1891 theer sent the to is to buy land to reestablish in is but the Turks would not sell any land and the sh is had to come home in 1910 theer died he establishes the Yeshiva B sa and the Yeshiva attracted hundreds of and especially when he brought in R to be the rashash of was a tal in thata he learned by the the World War I breaks out the sh is was arrested in Germany as a spy he was not able to return to sakov and he had a reestablish sakov in ludge in 1915 the Germans came they destroyed the city of Sak in 1926 the sh's health worsened he moved to atak near wora he died at 70 years old and he's brought to burial right next to his father and he's succeeded by RAV the third rebba of s if I could share with you a thought of the sh is that he brings from his grandfather the karba the sh is brings think about it where does mal space St would come from we don't we didn't groom it from within the Jewish people we had to go to mayave why does have to come from so says from the kar because Mal is when one individual is elevated Above the Rest that's not something that's inherent in the Jewish people because we're all we needed to import it who did we import it from the kip of thei says they're very arrogant so we had to adopt theid of Majesty we had to take it from and utilize it for the but it was not something that was gerain to the Jewish people this is what the sh ISM brings in the name of his grandfather the katar and the sh ism's also is a very unique blend ofid cabala L which personified also the very vibrant approach of combining Tyra and that thrived and flourished here in Sak until the Holocaust and uh all these all the yiden that lived in the city May Hashem avenge their deaths and we should this is a monument for the third the of v and again he had to relocate s to other cities because S as a a great Center of toyra really ceased after World War I and it was on the move in terms of the he was the of the he was of his grandfather R the ab he was a descendant as we mentioned of the kba and of theam he was he died on klave T Shin gimmel 1943 and in the war Soto and we don't know where he's buried so they just put up a commemorative plaque for him but this is not Mak again he's the third Reba of s Dynasty as we mentioned before the war there were 5,000 Jews in Sak after the war nobody left the Jews of Sak and its surroundings have lived here for 600 years they were annihilated by the Nazis to 1945 including our immediate family my grandmother grew up here in sahav very close by to here her sister all of her siblings her parents were uh rounded up they were taken to the war Soto and with the exception of my grandmother and her sister her whole family was uh was annihilated by the Nazis we're going to make a Kim for the then I'll show you on the other side how even today they continue to vandalize this uh Memorial [Music] h so you'll see uh around here [Applause] if you look up this Monument they write that it was uh vandalized with the swastika and they fixed it but apparently was vandalized again so you see that they are very happy to keep the status quo here in the city of Saka come around wow they threw them into the river that they found yeah we're in the area where the Jewish cemetery in kutna was up the hill there was a monument commemorating those who were buried here in this cemetery and the legend has it that at this tree is the burial of one of the great Pim and gim in all of Polish jwy Rabel yosua trunk known as Rua mikuta or his full name is rahu yushua trunk is he was named after the Bahu he was named after the V yosua he was named after the P yosua he had these three eminent names however when he signed his name he left out the word elu you'll ask why but his name was Isel elah yosua the answer is if you take the word is and you put it next to yushua the last two letters of is are Al the first three letters of are Al spells so he didn't have to say it was already automatically spelled out by connecting is to yua now I have a special family connection to Rish my grandfather my father's father's mother's my father's father's father's mother's father okay so my my my grandfather gladin his mother's father his name was PES Goldman he was a student of rishu lutna in plat and he helped rishu lutna publish his yes my friend once showed me in the of theu it's brought why did he call this commentary on the rambam why me because most commentaries on the rambam have the word Mel in it because according to the cabala the rambam was a gilgal of shmu Shu in the gar is called has a famous chuva written about addressing the RBA who claimed that he found and the question was well should we at least perhaps be concerned it might be so maybe we should put it on just in case it is and said no since most say it's not and there's a strong tradition we will not have it until M comes says you're not bound by by my view but in my opinion one should uh one is not required and it's not necessary in any way to put on this wasik's opinion against the RZ rebba who by the way when we were wandering around in the cemetery today we passed by the cover of the Rina RAB now Rik it's very interesting was a great is and in 1886 he visited Isel with the goal of encouraging the yes to begin agriculture settlement and in the controversy of 1889 that it was permitted to sell the land during the year he loved so much he praised the booker I want to share with you an amazing uh that my father showed me in the writings ofish mik about the you know in the we say in every generation every generation they stand up against us to destroy us what's the very next passage in the the next passage is what does that have to do with what we said before we just said in every generation they tried to destroy us now we have to go out and learn what tried to do to good timing says you might think the is exaggerating ing in every generation they tried to destroy us no not in every generation you might say not in a democratic country not in a country that speaks softly and lovingly to the Jewish people so maybe like maybe only usually in every generation they try to destroy us but not actually in every generation says no go out and learn what harami tried to do to yabu he sweet talked him he said you don't have to work for me for free we're not Brothers I'll pay you so it would seem that laan really loved yino but in the end of the story God had to come to laan and say don't do anything to yob and Lan himself admitted last night God came to me and he told me I shouldn't do anything to you not good and not bad so we see from here that when the hag says in every generation they try to destroy us there are no Exceptions there are no Democratic countries that are not part of the prophetic words of what could be a more prophetic and compelling comment for our own times this is what Rish mik writes in the so again he was a great he supported the movement of the uher and as I mentioned my great great grandfather was a student of his and helped publish his work Yeshua so we're in the vicinity of the range of the spiritual energy of rabish and in this all of okay we're on the top of the hill in the location where the cemeterian K now was it says over here this is the final resting place that that was settled in the beginning of the 15th century and this B was established in 1793 and it was used here until uh 1948 so in this cemetery is buried the great go rishu mik I'll share with you one mik said Rish mik brought you know there's a question how yaku could sell the to but the and the rights of it were so the r famously answers that before the Torah was given you could sell something that's not in the world so wants to know what difference does it make before the Torah was given after the Torah was given says that before the Torah was given the whole world was because the whole world was mly T it was suspended it was hanging in the air it was dependent on the day that CL would accept the so before the Torah was given the whole world was so in order to facilitate there had to be the ability to be that's the meaning of the r that before the Torah was given you can be because the whole world was before the Torah was given okay good evening everyone so we had an amazing day today we started off in the cemeterian Warsaw we saw the theis the we saw the son-in-law of R simin we saw rakov gun we saw the tree where the rebba of K I would like to share with you the perspective of rasan Nat Hanover who is rasan Nat Hanover he is the author of yav mitula which describes life in Poland in the aftermath of the xero and during the xero of tat and he writes really a very beautiful account of what polish jewry was like in the 17th century he says polish jury stands on six pillars what are the six pillars pillar number one Tyra the pillar of Tyra this one is obvious there was not Tyra like there was in Poland anywhere in the world says of Hanover the first thing they did was they paid the rash Yeshiva a lot of money what's the advantage of that you see nowadays rash have to spend a lot of time collecting money they spend a lot of time collecting money they don't have time to learn they don't have time to learn they devalue themselves as rashash Shiva in Poland they value Tyra so much the rashash did not have to go anywhere other than the B occasionally he would go to the B and then the saw the great Cav that and the esteem that Tyro was held in and they all aspired for godov writes there was Kat no house in all of Poland that they didn't learn Tyra either the balabas himself or maybe his son or his son-in-law or they would host a bakur until about every home you could say the if you love your children will be ra if you honor you'll have son-in-laws if you fear you yourself will become a and sometimes says sometimes all three applied in a house in Poland as we mentioned earlier today the method of learning in Poland was they would learn Hal an everyday gar Rashi and TUS the rashash would then come into the B Med they would ask the rashash all of their sh and then the rashash would ask the and say this they did until Tu and bat now very interestingly they had gab the gab would test the B every week if somebody was not familiar with the material the shamish would come and whack and hit and beat the talad to make sure that that would never happen again so there was accountability there was physical accountability if you did not know your learning they beat you and you know what next week you knew you're learning now this is the most interesting part uh many asked we mentioned earlier that PO in Poland they had a unique way of dealing with the shil crisis here it is twice a year after tuab and tuat there was a big ID it was a big fair and all the merchants came there and when the Jews came there the men and the women were all dressed in big day malus they were held in very high esteem by all the nations of the world and they would go and and U sell their Wares but aside from that all the Yesa B would attend or the rash Yesa would attend and the yes Bak would try to meet new rash Yesa maybe they would want to switch and vice versa the russas would meet B and any balabas would go there and they would meet friends Associates new people and they would say I have a son he's 21 he's looking for X Y and Z and the friend would say I have a daughter she is x y andz and the sh was made in fact hundreds of shim were made every yid sometimes a uid would go by and they counted a thousand shim were made at the uid now the rashash would have to get schi every single chabas and every single yam nobody was allowed to leave the sh until they first escorted home the rash Yesa so that's the first pillar of Polish jewelry Tyra number two the pillar of there were many they would wake before to over the at they would say to him they would say to him for like they would say to him for like an hour then they would DAV nobody would leave the SCH in the morning and go to work until after being in the Bas cles for quite some time and making sure after the ding to hear different from the number three the third pillar says the she the in Poland was anytime a r or a Dar would come to the community he would automatically immediately have lodging and a place to sleep and especially in the area of shim any bakar who is a good lyate they would grab him and even if he was not such a good liid but if he had the capability to learn very often ashim would hire special tutors to learn with these B to to elevate their level of learning and then there would be women who had an association to make sure that every girl got married says with no Hanover no girl in Poland ever reached the age of 18 without being married didn't happen didn't happen happen they made sure the community made sure everyone was taken care of so that's the pillar of number four the pillar of D in Poland like in y before the base of mdash in Poland they had bought aim in every single City you didn't want to go to the bzden of your city you'd go to a nearby bzden if you didn't want to go there you would go before the great Court the MIM theim were established in Poland like it was once upon a time in Yim number five the pillar of Ms every kahila had appointees who would check the scales the weights to make sure gladin that every single Stone used to measure was smooth and correct and accurate and finally the pillar of shal the pillar of shalam in Poland says Hanover there was so much T that at the meals there would be mafel and or mid as long as they were eating they were talking and learning to the indion of May these are the six pillars upon which Polish jwy stood Tyra the prolific operation of learning a the Excellence anding the unparalleled acts of Charity specifically in the area of shim din setting up court systems Ms honesty and Shalom peace on these six pillars stood the greatest Center of world jewelry polish jeury [Music] thank you very much okay you thought you were done no now the moment you've all been waiting for the great lus of rishu this is really I want to share with you two amazing questions one has an answer and one has no answer it's an imponderable whoever gets the answer gets a special treat I don't know what that is yet okay question number one rishik asks that in the he writes the Mitzvah of building the bikash will only be when the majority of the Jewish people live in the land of Israel by the way you know that that will very soon take place very soon in our time in the very near future thej majority of the Jewish people will live in Israel you know what that means something one thing very simple we could build The Bash that's the opinion of the question asks in the times of the second there were only 40,000 Jews in AR Israel they were by far that was not the majority of the Jewish people how were they able to build the second mikdash if at the time the majority of the Jewish people did not live in AR is good question rasan rasan gives the thumbs up want to thank rasan for being the mimuna over the videography and we want to thank mayor gladstein for taking this video this is the question of how could they build the second mikash the majority of Jewish people did not live in the land of Israel he says it could be we know the says that after 120 that sadic will take his share and the share of the Russia so from here we see that everybody has a vote and if you don't exercise it somebody else gets it in the times of the second they all had the ability to come back they didn't exercise it so those who did come back have the ability to assume the role of those who chose not to and in that sense we could say the majority of the Jewish people were in fact in is says I'll give you a riot to this you all know that the RAM and based on this Ram R wanted to reinstitute the original SM system right we know that today the SM that they give in yes is not real dating back to that the r says that if you have the majority of the is in is that if the majority of the sages of Cl is in is agree consent to reinstate you could do that what about the that live in says the r we don't pay attention to those sages who live in so we see from here that because those sages could have come up and they chose not to they are irrelevant if you have the ability to go to Earth is and you don't you are hereby irrelevant and the only reason says that the r reads it leaves it as a suff is because maybe B the sages of are not able to go up so therefore they don't lose their vote and it's not assumed by those sages in AR isra but certainly in times of the second mes where everyone had the ability to go up those who didn't their role is assumed by those who did and it could be considered that the majority of the Jewish people are in Isel now I'm going to share with you a question that nobody's going to have an answer to no one is even going to have a suggestion this way nobody could get the treat cuz nobody will have a good answer to this imponderable I'm happy that my friend Isaac anab came all the way from Panama cuz Isaac likes the inra balls so here's a um Eastern Europe imparable ofik what's the if let's say a person cannot afford to buy neara what do they have to do they have to sell their clothing and sell their shoes to buy nah does one have to sell their clothing and sell their shoes to buy n shabas no we don't find such a what if somebody has a few bucks and they could either buy n shab or which takes precedence shabab why sh so as I don't get it so a guy has no money so he sells his shoes he gets a few bucks well now that he has a few bucks he has to buy n shabas yeah but you don't have to sell your shoes to buy n shabas so he didn't have to sell them yeah but he has to sell them to buy n yeah but once he sells them and he only has enough for one then he should use it forab this is an imparable of in a called are little imponderables it's always good to have some learning to think about before you go to sleep it helps you sleep better if you aren't already [Music] okay good morning everyone so uh yesterday we were to visit the abar and immediately we incorporated his holy custom that abar when he was in kusk he only slept 2 hours a day so that's what we did last night hopefully that custom will not be a regular one and uh yesterday we learned that from rnas Nat Hanover that in Poland one of the six pillars that polish jury stood on was Tyra he said that the custom in Poland was people would get up before Al todash people would then say to and nobody would leave the until they heard at least the after the that someone who goes from the to the of and of course the special custom they had in Poland for many hundreds of years they didn't bring their phone with them to the daving that's another important minog to remember okay everyone okay friends we're we're here in ashz it's uh very difficult even to collect our our thoughts my grandfather har Mor bladin was in aitz and he has many remarkable stories that I'm going to save but here this is the uh room of resistance I want to tell you the story how 1944 before rashash 1,600 young B were taken here to aitz the sadistic coo had a metal stick and if you were reach the stick that means you were big enough you were tall enough to survive and anyone who is under the stick would not survive and after the selection 1,400 young men were selected to go to the gas Chambers on rash in 1944 there's a saer sh M sh M was written by misel who was later a r in Chicago one of the rabim who was in aitz and a father of one of these young boys came to him to ask what he records as one of the most heart-wrenching stories he ever encountered he had the opportunity to rescue his son to redeem his son to buy off his son but rescuing his son meant sure death for another boy so the question is Hally is he allowed to save the life of his own son at the expense of the life of someone else so he came to and he said rebba rebba please tell me I'm asking you I'm asking am ially allowed to rescue the life of my son if I know will mean the sure death of somebody else I know you can choose life who says one blood is more red than the other and says please don't ask me this question I don't have any of my here I don't have my sh here I don't have any other ranam to consult with please don't ask me this question and the father said no you have to tell me if you don't tell me then I won't be able to do this and if you don't give me a definitive answer I'm going to take it as a no and I'm not going to be able to save the life of my son so says no I didn't say that I didn't say that if I don't give you an answer you should take that as a no consider it as if I never heard the question make it as if I never heard the question he said Reb you don't understand I'm asking you I don't make a move unless I know whether I'm allowed to do this or not and says no make believe you never saw me and the father said said re RV I have my answer if you cannot tell me definitively I'm allowed to do this I will take it as a no and I'm a and he did not rescue his son and said you should know that that decision of that father probably made such a storm in the heavens and he said the whole day on this father said that abah ainu sacrificed y on this day and I merited to be o my son here in aitz in 1944 on rashash accept my offering like this is an example of the types of questions and the M that y didn't had in this in this geham on Earth you know and we when we when we come here we see the we're going to read this coming chabas next and sometimes we read the graphic descriptions of the we think it's hyperbole we think it's exaggeration we think it's far off and we come here and we see that whatever the tah wrote was exactly to the point everything was accurate nothing was exaggerated whatever it says in thees that's what happened and all the good promises we should be to see with our own eyes so we're here in Alit at the location of the gas Chambers in the cremator I want to tell you a story that's recorded in the respon on that happened here at the gas Chambers in aitz R 1944 we mentioned the story early earlier shortly after it was 50 young men were sent into the gas Chambers but they said it's and this has even more compelling and profound meaning in the aftermath of the tragedy that happened on October 7th they said if we're going to die we're going to die rejoicing the way a Jew rejoices on and in the gas Chambers these B they got together and they danced wildly with with such mitzah that they made a loud commotion and it was heard from outside of the gas chamber the app comes running in what is this you're mocking us you're you're making fun of us in the gas chamber this death is too is not painful enough for you he took all 50 men out he says I'm going to reserve for you a much more painful and torturous death he took them out later that day they were sent to a different Camp all 50 of these B survived the camp this is what we say with Sim it could extract from any type of difficulty and torture this was a nest that happened here at the gas chamber 1944 we're standing here outside of aitz and there's a sh if somebody's father or grandfather survived aitz certainly it was with great do you say says no you only make a if something was a however it would seem for those who survived that one could argue that it was certainly something extremely miraculous in fact the sa of writes that if someone's father or grandfather survived aitz then they would make the braa others FM as well bring down that anyone who survived ashz certainly should make the braa because it's considered a miracle but what's amazing is I found that the kba when he came to visit ashz he made the that means he held that just surviving asht is considered certainly worthy of making a but my grandfather wrote in his personal memoirs about his experience in aitz he said spending a single day here in aitz without losing Salim was nothing short of a miracle so it wasn't just a miracle to survive but to maintain a sense of humanity of dignity that was a great nce so we're going to in this make a that is endorsed by theim