Parshas Bo: Pharaoh, Women's Education, and the Most Impactful Individuals on the Jewish People

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good luck everyone it's a pleasure to be here I want to share with you something this is the first time I'm saying this really something very fundamental in observation of a great go his name is the rvas rvas was one of the great commentaries on the USI he lived in he was in a inas and he was in actually in Chicago and he talks about this conversation that takes place between and where wants to know exactly I'll let you go but who exactly do you want to take with you and says what do you mean who do you want and Par says I'll let you know who you could take you could take the men and P says no no no no we're not taking the men says we're taking our boys and we're taking taking our girls and Par said no what exactly is this dispute between and says the RAS from here we learn the fundamental importance of Jewish Education for Jewish girls par understood if the men go out to the midbar and they bring carbano and they learn and they re-energize but the but the girls are not on board K has no future so par says butu understanding the critical importance of Jewish Education for young girls says this and was really a dispute regarding the importance of Jewish Education for girls I want to share with you a story a story that happened that AB bris about 65 years ago this was the grandson of raos by the waya was also a Descent of the GBA and it was literally a who who of the is you had gim there at um at this bris a grandson of the alter ofka grandson of the alter of Kel of the slba of the alar of n of the you name it the God was there and and gets up to speak and he he knew how to stir the pot and he did and he says I want to pose a question to you I want to ask you in the last 100 years who is the most influential person in the history of the Jewish people and I know what you're thinking each one of you is thinking oh it was my grandfather was it was the AL of Sabo the outter of Kel out of you're all wrong it was none of them and uh you know it began to really stir things up people said sit down why you picking a fight why why you stirring things up it's a bris just keep quiet and he went on and he said not only that the person who's responsible who accomplished more in the last 100 years never even learned to BL gamar and at this point of time like it just broke down people were were angry people wanted him to step down and he said by the way when I tell you the answer you'll all agree and when he did they did agree and the answer was sarn she did more for cl is than anybody in the last 100 years that includes all the aention G is when you talk about to girls we're not talking about something important we're not talking about something critical this is the very Foundation of CLA is you know you have to be a little bit of student of History everybody knows in the last 100 years there's been an explosion of the Tyro world the likes of which we've never seen in our history we we have never seen a Yeshiva like Lakewood we've never seen a m Yesa in Isel this size do you think it's a coincidence that the explosion of the Yeshiva World coincided with the Advent of the bakov movement no what we're learning is and when you go to school every day you need to think I'm literally building the very Foundation of K is now I heard a similar statement that raron Cutler said that in the last 50 years or 70 years there's an individual who did more for the formation of the Jewish people than anybody else you know who he said Ritson Kaplan and I was very incredulous because look I'm not a Storyteller I don't believe most of the stories I used to go to a Victor Miller he used to say 90% of the stories never happened and he never even said this either he never told me this either no he so I'm not a I'm not a Storyteller I don't really so I wanted to verify the story so I went to this farm store I was asking around did did raron Cutler say this raron Cutler say toyra in America is because of re Kaplan so finally Ari in this Farm Store told me it's in the book I said which book the book The biography ofap so I don't have the books so I then I saw was written by you know who wrote it rabbitson Danielle lioz who is the late wife of my Rosa so I I know her I learned in so the rash married Revit Danielle lieu she's actually been on some of my trips so I called her up I said did rabaran Cutler say this she said yeah it's in the book I said what page she said I'll call you back 20 minutes later she called me back it's on page 344 raron Cutler knew that for yish Kai to flourish in America there has to be Advanced learning K learning and that's not going to be possible unless there's Baka movement in America so what said Aon Cutler said in this country but what's interesting is you know who knew this better than anybody said let the men go and said no this ain't happening unless it's you know writes everybody knows come on this is like the ABCs right say first the same point that without as the foundation there's no to for cl par is the gar and Par understood you want to stop CLA their tracks it's it's I remember when I was a B I used to uh I mentioned I used to go to VOR Miller so I grew up on you know flush em 31st but Victor Miller is on what s or R in Ocean Parkway so I used to walk every shabas uh tour of Miller so I remember he once made a statement he says all the Tyra that we have today every BL gar every mishna we learn is because of one person this person wasn't a this person wasn't the rashash and he said uh you all know the story there was a ignoramus his name was Akiva he didn't he couldn't read anything and he's noticed by his master's daughter the daughter of cab and she sees something special about him even though he's an ignoramus she sees dormant potential in him she sees that he's capable of greatness she sees that he has a certain nobility of character and by the way back in the day to be a was a mark of aristocracy soab said you're going to marry this guy it's an embarrassment to me she disowned him yeah we all know the story she literally he he disowned her he disowned he made a n you cannot get any benefit from my property she literally had to pick out seeds from the from animal refu he made a net there and she AKA went to learn for 12 years and without a discussion with her he overhears she's talking to some old man and he says why do you live like a you know a living almana and she said the famous words if he would go back for another 12 years I would be very happy he made an about face he goes back to the Yeshiva and he comes back with 24,000 students and she comes out to greet him and the didn't want to stop her and he says the famous words but shortly after all 24,000 students they died many say they were killed in the war in B and what happened after that rabi had nothing he had nobody and he went to RAB Shabad and he taught how many five mayori Ruda shim [Music] razar so Miller said all the to that CL is has today is because of Rael AES reab AKA it's interesting throughout history yeah you have S you have reab Kaplan understood this better than anybody said you know the story of the mother of Romeo Shapiro yeah you know that one already so I'm not going to repeat it but I'm going to tell you something personal I have this to teach senior citizens working people Kyo people teenagers and children and I'm going to tell you one humble observation if you see a kid if you see a man you could see a senior a senior and there's a sparkle in their eye and they have a for learning I would like to say always I'm not going to say always but I'm going to say in many situations you could be sure there is a wife or a mother who's encouraging it I remember there was a guy he was like a cab driver and in his older years he got into the gamarra like he had he had a gmach in the learning he he's maybe what you would call he was anat but he got a gmak in the learning you know why because his wife would encourage him and he would walk into the shear like with a sparkle in his eye that's the when you see a kid who comes to the Yesa and he's he's excited about it there's there's some there's a twinkle in the eye there's someone behind it there's someone encouraging it there's the foundation there that's what par understood par said let the men go as long as the women women stay back in MIM CL Isel has no future so really it's uh it's very special um what you're involved in and you shouldn't treat it lightly you know the the story I think they printed it this week you know with Rao Solomon's mother did you hear that one okay good um I actually verified this with the family but you know raat I heard the story many years ago and I try to verify it nobody remember the story I called up ra who like t m never heard the story I said I'm positive ra said the story I think he said it when he was inaugurated in the lakea he says it's impossible I was there when he never said the story I said Who would know the story he said call up ra uh son-in-law so I called up the oldest son-in-law he said it sounds Vaguely Familiar I said Who would know for sure I don't like Vaguely Familiar I need to know black and white so he said call the second son-in-law Weinberg so I called Rabbi Weinberg he said ra said it when he was honored by the lake W yiva in the Brooklyn Marriott for some reason the recorder broke nobody recorded it nobody knows about it's like it was forgotten so The Story Goes Like This raat is being honored by the lakea he gets up to speak and he says this is not about me you're here tonight to honor my mother what's he talking about says let me explain to you why I am positive I was to become Thea everybody's wondering you know what's he talking about he he says it was uh the ' 40s and his parents were living in London and with Aon Cutler's Yesa anybody know Iron Cutler Yesa was originally in klk and the Nazis were on on the trail and they they were going to save of aon's aon's life either via America or England and if he was going to come through England they needed someone to wait at the phone on a particular night in case the call would come in to save the life of Aaron Cutler and that specific night it was Friday night and they needed someone to basically beab they had to forab to save the life of aarin color and there was a young woman her name was Ethel Solomon who is moister nees to sit in a secure bunker while it was during the blitz where the Germans were dropping thousands of bombs after bomb after bomb the city of London and Ethos Solomon risked her life on shabis to wait by the phone to possibly save the life of raron Cutler and 70 years later ra got up and he said in the that my mother like Miriam waiting foru sat at the side of the river waiting for mha my mother waited to save the life ofon Cutler I am to become the of that's what ra said over what's interesting is we could really take this back and trace this back if we were to say all the tah that we have today I know we mentioned very eminent but you're not teaching in your class you know they're not yet said you know I always I always say in the SAR there AR you have the you have the Russia you have the sh and you have the T and they're four kids right but you know there are a lot of things the the say there that are four but there's always a missing five for example you have uh four questions but you know the the mishna says there's a fifth question that they used to ask when the B mikar stood they used to ask why every other night do we have have roasted or cooked meat and tonight only roasted so there's a fifth question that's hidden that we don't ask anymore and there four languages of gula from this week's para but there's a fifth expression that we don't mention because it didn't happen yet you know that hasm will bring us into is and there four cups of wine but really there's a fifth the ofi so all the fours have a fifth that we don't talk about so who's like you know the fifth son so some say well the fifth son is the son that's so acculturated and so assimilated that he doesn't even show up I don't like that explanation because it sort of doesn't fit with the other missing fifths the other missing fifths are a fifth that we're not yet you know we're not yet to go into is we're not yet to the we're not yet to the I believe the fifth son is the son that nobody has yet we have a lot of our kids are a lot of our kids they're you know we need to help them out a little bit some of the kids we have to develop their level of uh sophistication some of them they but nobody has a son who's a nobody has a daughter who's aad that's that's a lifetime of work that's what we're trying to groom all of our children to become so we have these uh four children and we're trying to accomplish the fifth Miriam hania you know we we we said that all the tire we have today is because of these eminent ladies the truth is all the ti we have today is because of a young little girl who at the time I don't know what level she was on but this young little girl asked her father a very important question there is a man by the name of amam and amam was no slouch amam was one of the four people who never did a you know who they are the the son of Yakov ainu yesai the father of DAV kov the son of DAV and amam amam never did na but after he had a son and a daughter from y he called it a day and a little girl came to him and said tati yes you're worse than parai har is only trying to kill the boys what's you're taking care of boys and girls and what did amam say amam said you're right and who was born because of that question of that little girl so the truth is all the tower we have today because of one inquisitive little bakov girl who came over to her father who could have easily dismissed the question and could have said you know L stop bothering me and amam took the question seriously so sometimes when a little girl asks the question that might be a very important question the answer to that question just might bring about G and T for so recognizing this it puts into perspective really the tremendous of what you're involved in really every day you're very fortunate to be Mish you're the agent of to really lay the foundation and uh build CL so I wish you all and we should thank you very much you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com