Journey to Slovakia & Austria: FULL JOURNEY - Bratislava and Vienna

what could we even say in the place in the whole history of the Jewish people did we ever have somebody who occupied three Central positions in CL and he did each one he was m in each one number one he was the r of pressberg he was the r of the kahila he was a great R for kilas pressberg number two he was a great rashash Shiva he was the one who founded the Yeshiva of prur he his whole life his ambition was to be to initiate and to found the Yeshiva and prur so he was a r he was Riva and he was also the greatest m in the generation in terms of riding shaas never did we have somebody who occupied all three positions the way theer did just to give you a little bit of a a glimpse into one particular unique facet of the life of theer that really perhaps we could say captures the essence of in the he says that he did not stop teaching T for more than 40 years in fact says that he heard from the that from the day he began to teach talim he did not miss one day that he was not Mar except for but even the night of to teach I want to share with you one question that asks that again will bring out this particular point of the many different he's bothered by the following question and you can almost feel the worry and the anxiety in the heart of the he asks that if the yes says that in the in the future the day will come if the day will come that that if one day that everyone will know so how will be how will we be able toah this is a question that occupies many different in the writings of so in some places says well will be by teaching the elsewhere he says even will know so he says that in the future CL will have to teach the but you could see the worry in the heart how will we be the most important mitah of what does obviously it's a CL in the to then what it's not a CL in the telephone book what do you mean when says he means as follows it's R's opinion is if two people are going in the midbar and there's only one glass of water so what does hold says you take the glass of water it belongs to you so when it comes to we don't say it's a mistake to think you have to love your friend like yourself it's not true you love yourself more but when it comes to to when it comes to then we say everything else we say when it comes to you have to put you have to put your friend ahead of yourself this was the great ideology of the brings in that said there's only one individual in the whole T who's called someone who loves Hashem and that hasem loves them Abu AB is called abam why because Abu gave up of of himself he gave up of his own to teach T to others that's the greatest Simon of and this is uh that not only the was but really epitomizes the life of the all of our okay we're here in Braava in Slovakia here we're at the Kev we were just at the we at the K ofish the author of Misha who was n in 1758 he was a talid and by the and in 1756 he becomes the assistant to in prur when he was a child he went to with a very difficult question and later on when R was was accepted in his Rabon inat so said that a city that could produce such an eminent will certainly be successful now ra who raber was his assistant was n on gim R was Mas him he comes home and immediately upon coming home Rish became ill he was nter 11 days later on the 15th of el and at AA the masit said only 11 days pass since the and now RAR who we're familiar with was a grandson he qu he quotes the [Music] Miss here is we mentioned he was the who was the assistant to okay it's a great we're at the C as well ofra lived from 1742 to 1801 he came from a Rabin family from buas of Galia by 9 years old he already gave complex pulim in bro at 17 years old he had his first rinic post he he was the rebi of raet he was the rebi of Theus hbat in 1793 he became the r pressberg and he's best known because his immediate successor was so just to have in your mind first and then theer he published shra and uh again he was the ren pressberg followed by the cers we're here in prur at the C of the pr Danel who is very close with theer as you see he's buried lead Mish of theer he's the author of Theon he was a student of R mayor BBI and he served as the azin over here we have with us on our trip R yakob Pik who is a descendant of Abraham Pik who's descendant ofel we have a fromel that's published in the this is he taught each deor on each day of the so on the first day was on the second day was which says that's because since so therefore the two days of are also considered the 10th day taught the of that's why the teaches encapsulates okay at the to be at the of the close time of the conclusion of is inextricably bound with the number 33 first of all LED this for 33 years we're going to see also led the 33 years now famously in his CH inim wonders what the reason for is says it's the yard side since when is the yard side of sad a joyous day usually it's a day of fasting and even so throughout the writings of supplies many many various reasons for among which it's the day that the M began to fall it's the day theas of were positioned in them when they left when they left MIM it's the day the secrets of the T were given over to CL is so what was the's question about but one of the great principles of was even though he had great reverence and great knowledge for Caba he held you do not mixa with in fact writes anyone who mixes with is on the is of and so this is also part of the ideology of the distinct Realms of the and the cabala okay we're standing here on the top of the mountain overlooking the city of Bratislava in Slovakia we were at the cover of Kasam who he said served this community 33 years we're now at the cover of the who likewise served theil Legend Has It 33 years if you look at the mat it says 32 years we'll see the as well the kaber was born in 1815 he only lived 57 years till 1872 at 6 years old this boy fell ill his name originally was bamer they added on Abraham as a scho they called thead they lit candles the doctor said there's nothing they could do theer goes into the corner and all of a sudden the boy cries out sh is Ander is reputed to have said that he asked for y and theer was given an additional 50 years now living in the shadow of a father like theer theer however excelled in his own right first of all in grooming because theer's personality was that you might think twice before you ask a question to someone who he he didn't have to bring Ras to what he said whatever he said however the he would deal very patiently with all the he would come to the Yesa and for hours and hours they fought also excelled in his dealings with the government he was a an eminent speaker an eminent Statesman for for CLA Isel so he continued the legacy of his father for another 33 years here we are after lagba and the number 33 represents going above and beyond just the he took may all of our next to was his son who the son of he continued the great lineage the sh also Legend has it he led theil for 33 years but when you look carefully the the says so that's a little trivia even though they say 33 33 33 it's really 33 32 35 the Sher was compared to rebbi Kar in terms of his quickness and his grasp he was able to learn for instance six pages of and once he learned it once it was I'll tell you something from the we know that on is what's the meaning of that what are we trying to what's the message of so the writes in that the refers to the one name of the on the other hand the refers to the seven names of the says seven names which means seven to be able to get us to fall so the explained that this was like a where we're telling hasem on us we only have one force pulling us up but we have seven forces pulling us down and this was a way to be M for on the this is a little bit of a flavor for the who led the here for 35 sh we're learning a little bit about the life of the and the background of we mention Sam's family originates inim of Frankfurt the author of The Who is a descendant of rash and came fromin was the author of The onik is known as the maharash sh the maharash SH now theer's parents did not have children for many years and when samer's mother was finally expecting him it was Z it was Arab shabas and it was and she was about to give birth and she sends word to the r of the city of Frankfurt the main who's the r of the city abish he was the r of Frankfurt domain and she asked him I know chabas is coming and the City of Frankfurt is maab chabas by saying could you delay cab shabas I don't want the birth of my child to be the cause of shabas and the r of the city that this child was destined to be through his efforts through his actions through his and heeded to her request and he delayed cabala shabas in the city of Frankfurt the was born they said Ma and then the city was mael shabas so this is the uh the birth the miraculous birth of the Holy now had many notable first of all rud Assad Assad 1794 to 1866 the r aronfeld the who is thean r Hill kamenstein the author the Mas also the maharam shik raik 1807 to [Music] theer known as the known as the these were all who's is the re ofel these were all okay a little bit more on the at the end of's life he was on his Deathbed and theer was there and theer gives the an epic he mentions and those standing there were astonished that was able to summon all of these in his last words and then he turns to the and he says Don't Be Afraid don't be worried he says beautiful words he says your grandfather hold be on your right side always your other grandfather will be on your left side such and such will be on your head I will always be behind you as well the saer never took credit for himself never self agonized when his children would sometimes feel Hoy that they had a father like theer theer would say he would yell at them he would say why are you being arrogant just because you're my son you don't think so and so's father has more than I have the had tremendous humility however he would interpret the PK as s he would interpret the an offering a carb is a broken heart but you always have to be careful humility is very dangerous don't shame God through your humility many people shame Hashem through their humility they say you know why should I say something to so and so who am I what am I so would say humility is all the carbonit put together but don't disparage God because of your humility don't be with your Nar once interpreted we have the m and the question is misar is it a misar would say as follows you know what's worse than Gentiles defiling the B mikdash and Judaism Jews defiling The Bash and Judaism because a gentile can only destroy he can't desecrate a Jew could even desecrate so when fighting the reform movement explained M you what the joy is it was only Gentiles that came in and it wasn't Jews like we have in our times but in our times when we have to deal with Jews who defile and desecrate that's an even greater hasem that's not a misar that's a in the official biography of the he indeed br Rings differently than we saw in the KE that he guided the Kila for 32 years he says he guided the K from the year until the year those were the dates that led his okay we're here in Vienna and we're at the old Cemetery as opposed to the new cemetery and there many notable G buried here uh here we're at the K of rabi Ben Hartz who was a relative of the schah he wrote two interesting Pera first he wrote nishas shabi which is a cabalistic work on the the essence of the soul and he wrote sheal which is a compendium of cabala so here it says he was the the the sh the here in Vienna and okay one more important over here Hartz here it says was the Ben so he's known as he's the one who edited the works of thead kados when he was in Prague he wanted to go to is but he didn't want his family to prevent him so he basically went without letting them know and the sa kades was the kad's ethical will which turned from a short document into a massive composition it was edited by rapi Hartz who n in Nissan T okay we're in Vienna here we're at the cover of one of the most notable not only rabim but figures and Personalities in all of Vienna over here he was the chief Rabbi he was azin in Prague in worms and he lived here in Vienna shimin verim shimin verim was uh a eminent RV Finance here banker and he was a great asan for the Jewish people as you see on the sign over here this Mata was refurbished by the city because of his Prestige not only to the Jewish Community but for the entire region and he had a close association with the Rak from Vera Rak says about him that from the times of Rashi until we never had like we're here in Vienna in the newer Cemetery at the cev of one of the alltime great Engel Angel lived from 1858 to 1920 he's the author of which is seven the answers to one question which is a classic of which is a safer of 80 answers to one question Shas he also wrote learning a piece of is a journey through just to give you one little a few little flavors of the greatness of yel and hisra first of allel was R and crackout so he gave a jha on the occasion of the ran he has a beautiful D why the students stop dying develops the very um meaningful idea that thanking is the definition of life and what promotes life and what gives a person longer life there are many proofs to thisel says says God what benefit is there if I die can the Earth thank you well if somebody dies they can't do anything why is focusing on thanking hasem says from here we see that the definition of life is thanking hasem and he says we see in that thanking AEM promotes life and therefore when they got to the fifth day of the fifth week gratitude gratitude promotes life and therefore on this day the stop dying this is an amazing Dr why this stop dying in another amazingel has is he asks how could Y what does Rashi say on the words I kept the really yob kept allz but he married two sisters so how could he say so I know you're thinking he was allowed to he had terum fine he was allowed to but he still didn't keep it he may have had a reason but how could he say he kept all 613 so is a very long this is one of the many proofs that you're allad to be off by one he kept 612 that's good enough this is one of the proofs he brings multiple proofs for example parum has to be completely red but it's it's now to have how many uh other hairs two why two why not one one you're allowed to be one off says he brings multiple Ras another R the brings by the way is we say says if you take the it's equal to Ru and Sh the only thing is it's off by one you could be off by one then has an amazing uh observation anybody know the words in mishna there's only one t really with a few notable exceptions in maybe Thea who says the words who which T would say say we only find it by rebi re would say why where does this come from so say you know the expression where does that come from it seems according to my humble opinion it comes from rebi using the words meaning you don't have to accept my opinion this is just this is what I say and you're entitled to your own opinion this is the precursor of because Reb was such an un of like say furthermore says is the name of like the says in we say is the name of it's one of 72 names rebi was saying when I speak this is the this is the say this isas because there's only one time in the whole tan we have the words you know where that is inim what does it say inim says per says if you see the words it must be a rem to who said and what did rbbi do an act for the king that is a there's a time to act for the king to do what my tongue the you need to write down so we there's a remes to Reb's way of speaking we have a rem to re's activity of writing down the mishna in fact says amazingly yud these are a few examples of ofel when the B for declaration came out the Govern government in Austria wanted rim to sign a letter against the Bal for declaration Andel would not sign he said anyone who signs against it their hand should be cut off okay we're here in the newer Cemetery the same Cemetery ASF Angel and we're at the cover of one of the brightest luminaries of pre-or Europe there were many many Rebus in pre-or Europe but one particular one that really stood out wasmer he was 1934 at his Tish it was not rare to see 200 R not talking about he had tens of thousand The Greatest R in Europe the of tar he would come to the CH ofba Shin was a of the CH ofba the maram was a of the CH ofba and maram was astounded by the CH of's Yas his knowledge ofak so this is the here in the new Cemetery in buried in this is the son of the chba and then you have R the the rabbitson and this is the of the again one of the greatest luminaries of pre Europe [Music]