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Journey to the Galilee Summer 2026: New Destinations Accessing New Topics In Torah

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Boker to. Good morning everyone. Thanks for joining this year's I'm not going to say this year's uh trip up north because we've already been up north but the annual summer trip up north over the years. We've been to the safhone many many times to vary to meron. But this year we're going to go to new locations, new destinations in the new biography of Raisha Wolfson. He was always very excited to visit new areas and new nooks and crannies and corners of Artis. And it was based on the following very important principle that there's a concept in Jewish thought that places and parts of the Tory converge. Meaning is there actually two dimensions to this idea. First of all, in Cababala, there's a concept called ashanam sha and nephesh that there are places and people and times of the year that are parallel to each other. And because of that, you know, there's there's an idea that is the shabas of the world and shabas is theim of time. That's why every Friday night we don't just say we say is the shabas of the world shabas is of the week and therefore would teach in a certain way when you enter is and you enter you really need to make kesh you're entering shabas when you leave you believe you need to make a halfdollah. It's a it's an idea very powerful idea. Uh he develops develops this idea to explain the concept of kabala shabas that shabas and the bikdash and are synonymous and that the opportune time to be mithua is Friday night during kabala shabas. But we're going to take this idea a bit further in the city of Tvas and we're going to go to Tvas today but not this part of the cemetery. Buried side by side are the Basin Rab of Aberish and the Arveal Rabbid Ishitz. Raitz and Aral has an amazing teaching. The garra tells us that K benua said that anybody who conquers the city of Ber I'll give them my daughter a as a wife. However, the Gar interprets it not that if they conquer the city of for anybody who reminds us of the 3,000 that were forgotten during the Mosha, I'll give them a wife says the simple meaning of the Puk and the Gar are not two disparit interpretations but the Garra is giving you the deeper understanding of how to conquer the city of Kiryat based on the idea that it is a concretization of the Tyra itself. Each part of Israel corresponds to another of the and each city in Israel is conducive to understanding another very interesting. So for instance the city of corresponds to brisma. Therefore, when Abrau is inv teaches Abraham, yes, to do the corresponds to Shabas. Over the years, we would say over the teaching of the Abra is a great great grandpa. The writes that there's no city in the world more conducive to plum the depths of the secrets of the Cabala than the city of Tvas. Ander famously asks in his chas how could such a thing be how could you say that any city in Israel has an advantage over and we explain based on this that it's not that it's greater than but the of the secrets of Tory correspond to the city of therefore in the city of we have more of an opportunity to plum the depths of the secrets of Tyra. So in that vein, Ramsha Wolfson was always very excited to visit new areas of Israel. That's what we're going to be doing today. Hashem, this was unplanned and it has nothing to do with me preparing to become a father-in-law, but we're going to be visiting the Kev of Yay. Yeah, you get it. I always would joke around somehow my father-in-law always ended up visiting us. Shabas paras, you know, >> Israel was the father-in-law. Remember? >> Yeah. Because he's called, you know, he's the he's by the way, just as an aside, you know, almost all relationships are mentioned in the Tyra. You have a conversation between father and son and father and daughter. There is no you even have father-in-law son-in-law there is no mother-in-law relationship in the whole you know there's no there's no >> what in the f father a mother-in-law son-in-law mother-in-law son-in-law no interaction at all between mother-in-law and son-in-law this is just no extra >> Russ was a daughter-in-law >> she was a a schneer Not a son-in-law. There's no conversation >> between a mother-in-law and a son-in-law. >> Oh, a son. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, >> sorry. Sorry. >> It's okay. >> Um, >> we're going to be going today to the city of Gush Kalav. We were never there before. We're going to be going to the Kar of Israel. We're going to be going to other areas that we haven't explored. And as is Hashem in that merit, we should have a wider connection to more of Hakadosha. It's uh very interesting. >> Ohas and >> it's Asus and she was mother at the time. Too early. It was good mother. Good good. >> Okay. Very good. >> Yeah, but she became one >> after. >> Okay. So, we're going to develop further this idea that each of corresponds to a different part of Israel. Now the city of which we're not we're headed to a completely different region which we said corresponds to the mitzvah of blehud that city corresponds to the mitzvah of yehud yel or yulad ben lami rash yeel Each mitzvah corresponds to a different init. What about what would you say the city of Benbra? The city of Benbra which of Tyra it corresponds to Benbra. Well, Benra has always been the city of really you know it's a city of Tam. I would say that Benbra corresponds to Kesha. First of all, we find in uh the Mishnayas that the Tanoim gathered at that epic sedar and the Tamid were very very worried about Kesha. They said Rabbi Seuya Zaman Keshma it's close enough because according to official law you're not to have the name of a biblical city unless you're within the vicinity. Okay. But that's why in we find that in they reminded the so it's interesting though was advised by to go to go in the morning. Why in the morning? So the matter says yeah. So Hmon camees. So Ben is the city that upholds Dishes. Now the Hamar teaches that Kesha is kaisheshma is a synapsis. So Ben is the city of Kesha and really the city of Tyra in general at this time. I want to give a special yasha kayak to Nasen Weller for for organizing this trip. Now he did have enough time. He had plenty of time to put this together.