Parshas Shemos: Rabanus - Is it a Job for a Nice Jewish Boy? The Shocking Bracha of Rav Yaakov Emden

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay welcome everyone shabis as we prepare for Pas we're going to talk about a topic which is certainly on my mind and I find very interesting maybe you all also says and died and his brothers died in the whole [Applause] generation three things shorten the lifespan of [Applause] man if they offer you a to read from and the person refrains if they say why don't you lead the Bening and you say no thank you and someone who acts as a r says the gar how do we know and the g says why did y die before his brothers says because he conducted himself how do we know y died before his brothers says it didn't say so we see from here that died first why did he die first because he was acting Bonos so from here the expression goes ronus is not a good profession for a nice Jewish boy right because the criticizes criticizes that he died first because in fact to buries those who take it upon themselves accepted from the earlier says love work love to be a plumber an electrician a shoe maker a tailor a doctor a lawyer these are all accountant these are all good things but what should you hate hate ronos don't go into that profession maybe now some people think it means hate the Ron no that's not what it says hate the rabanos in other words it's giving career recommendation it's saying try working for a living try some gainful employment but don't go into rabanos in fact in fact right in fact it says in the in his entry on we know one of the all time great said about him he was [Music] a right that's why he is called who is well acclaimed in his respon when he was a young man he was a r in the city of for a couple of years but then somehow it came to an end he never wanted to be a rabbi again and he said that every day he would say bless is God that he did not make me an EV with an Alf EV standing for azden in the morning everybody makes he would also make that but he would make the thank God I'm not a rabbi he died at 78 years old because he gave up the r he lived a long life didn't didn't shorten his life maybe he would have lived longer what could he do you know longer well how does the know that would say I mean what does even mean he would say so actually in the he says that every day he would make two that nobody else made the first is the above mentioned and he also made another listen to what it says in the I by the way says yit I refrain from then as much as possible some R they love when you ask them Shas he didn't no then said I don't know I don't know I like that I I hold to that I don't know why should why should the be on me find a different Rabbi who wants to take the punishment on him I don't make myself available to people to tell them I'm not being paid for it so why should I do it I make a every single day of my life thank God I'm not an and you know what other thank goodness that I am exempt from the I don't I don't have any guilt I don't people ask what make this I don't I don't tell them and I push them away sometimes when relatives press me I can't refrain I can't get it off my shoulders but that is my governing principle I just heard to if I don't take comments during M I'm for sure not taking during this okay says R Berlin that says Berlin R Berlin will also one of the great um he was the son of the Berlin writes that this is in a in a history book called Berlin writes I remember in the good old days when I was a slave of slaves in other words when I was a when I was a every day get me out of this [Applause] place could one day I be a free man I have to please this guy I have to please that guy this guy loves Israel that guy hates Israel this guy loves that guy hates it I can't please everybody right this guy never says this guy holds you have to say every day this guy says three times by the this guy holds this guy says what am I supposed to do with these people thanks to the god of my fathers he heard the prayers of my heart and now and now I too could make the I'm no longer a RAB Rabbi now I could sit in the and I don't have to deal with Y and with this and with that issue I don't have to be under anybody's oil other than I sit in my house and I could serve I'm not a rabbi anymore make a living wow who supported Himes okay that he had a childhood friend and his childhood friend was somebody named R Mendel Lil so one two 3 four five six line in what is me if I'm not mistaken there's one t I'm happy to say no no okay no there's a that says the word means I remember the the friend of my youthank he was the the of RAV cats who who is RAV D his cats prur or Frankfurt Frank in other words was to be he was appointed a new position and he had a big Shiloh does a new RV make that's what we're going to talk about today does a new make about so RAV destroy cats did not know what to do did not know what to do oh he didn't know what to do so what was his name his name was DAV so he got up in front of theor on the at his and he said and then he finished in other words he was so the way he got out of it is he recited and then he finished up the this way he did not violate if he should not be making a I can't remember maybe was I'm not sure why was he why didn't he just get up and say he was worried about he could get fir the next day now why would it be why would it be to make well explains this beforehand do you make a when you start a mitvah no do you make a when you start you say well it's a very happy occasion what do you mean a happy occasion are not given for the quotes earlier says let's say you buy a new car you make and if it's for you and your wife you make yeah no don't make it right go Jews Jewish people make it somebody passes the bar attorney does he make a Pio first we're talking about Rabbi then we'll maybe a different time we'll talk about attorneys hopefully I won't have to Rabbi what did you do you just became um well so the sh let's say you buy if you buy a new car you make a shako you buy a new uh refrigerator you make a shako if the refrigerator is going to be used by you and your wife if you're going to let your wife use the refrigerator then you make if you buy a new computer you probably make a what about if you buy a new you don't make a not given you don't make however the says the we just quoted the right Wednesday she right we had the on right held that you could be make if there's no all right we said theard in in Amsterdam they followed the radas fine the RAS says sh let's say you buy appliances do you make any that you're happy about anything which is so according to if you buy a new especially if you don't plan on using it it's just going to look nice as a decoration in the house then you can make there's between and do you make says why was cat if he should make becoming a just like it's a suff whether you make a on a new would also be a suff if you make a on a position of of mitvah relation and therefore he was M whether he should make a and therefore the way he got out of it was what did he do he saides because it's for the wife when they get a new wife to make okay but one thing we see is cats was not sure if you can make a what was his suff according to the the suff was do you make or not do you say do you notably held that a position as a rabbi is a position of a Mitzvah somehow you could be you could have the opportunity to enhance Mitzvah observance and therefore the shil is you make a on such a however it a Mitzvah to become a then no there's no Mitzvah to be a once you decide you want to become a Rob but it's a new opportunity in in Mitzvah connection and just like if you buy new so you have something new that you're happy about so here you have something new that you're happy about what is it a new position what what's a happiness it's a happiness show Mitzvah so would you say the same thing about becoming other getting other jobs if you get a promotion if somebody if let's say somebody got a job as a doctor as a lawyer as an accountant or any profession certainly you would make a sh of course You' make a there's no sh because there it's not aah you don't have any you may run into all kinds of problems and stress sh just like usually it's the usually the Shas is if you're sitting home okay so is whether you can make do we say like you don't make do you say like there's a very amazing um it's been out where he suggests another interpretation why RAV cats was whether he should make a and he says very simply we started out the that died before his brothers because he was and says so that means that even though maybe on the one hand the rabanos has a certain Mitzvah quality to it on the other hand it's fraud with great danger and therefore we know that if somebody is assuming something new that is dangerous you do not make a Shu and maybe that's why he didn't want to make a Shu because on the one hand it was a new position and it was a on the other hand it's a very dangerous thing to assume such responsibility so the suggest that that is perhaps why he did not make a let's take a look quickly inside he says and we have a CL on the that any Mitzvah that has a you don't make a for example the isah and yet the first time you do you don't make a why because it is harmful to one's Health to she an animal the first time it's a very very difficult procedure it could wrench your back it could wrench your neck it could rench your arm it's the first time you do you can make a but on the or the says why don't you make sh on be the answer is because yeah it's the first time you're doing it on the other hand you're sad that you have you're throwing your Cheerios your Cheerios going to be with my Cheerios right the says why don't you make because there's you make that you're not actually being you're only being and only make so a position if you take if you become a plumber plumbers could it doesn't say anywhere in the G that plumbing is Mak but the does say that that it's a position that's FR with danger and therefore it has a certain degree of sadness to it maybe you don't make a was ruler so the question is we have to understand what that means what does it mean what does it mean he was giving them he said now that you're in am you're going to come to us every day and you're going to sit and look at listen to my J and they're sitting there o is daring what's going on maybe transl his management Senior Management got a lot of stress as opposed to being you know he had the Egypt to ad ministered to needed a CFO he needed 's let's see let's see well on the other hand we find on the other hand we find that you make a on a happy situation even if there is a mixture of sadness to it for example if somebody's parent passes away and they're left with a big yusha so you make you make two you make and you make you make on the and you make on the even though you would have preferred that the parents still be here and you don't have the yusa but nevertheless the is one and you make Dam and the is another and you make so too if uh when it comes to Rus why don't you say there are certain dangers and that you could deal with separately and there's a certain and may for that you make a so therefore cats was whether he could make says maybe the reason he was m is not he wasn't mopic do we go like the M or do we go like the RAS he was mic whether the Rabon is sufficient to make or maybe it's so fraught with danger that it should be avoided same scenario with the Bri what about as as as a death okay there is also it doesn't hurt the father to have a breath so why the baby is in yeah so the baby doesn't make a sh okay the father so the father's not B so why didn't make who because he say the baby is in so well the father has it s too and the father sees the baby being wounded and sees blood drawn I don't think there's a different there's a different reason why you don't make a there's a different reason there sep reason separate reason okay it's hard to imagine that the reason why you don't make uh sh on ronos is because it's Frau with danger even though did make the every day of his life that he was not anaa the overwhelming majority of the throughout the generations they did assume the responsibility and they were not concerned with this with these garas and they were not concerned with the and they were not concerned with the that we in this the question is what are telling us when they say that was what does it mean what does it mean what's that supposed to mean well there's a letter in the introduction to the from the and he says he quotes these story of the that cats was whether to make a based on the between and he quotes the author of The is rale that maybe since it's Frau with danger maybe you should not make a sh but he says if that's the case then it should not even be a suff if not even a so the wants to know in if you're going to take all these literally it's a it's a how could rabbis throughout Generations assume the responsibility why were they not concerned for y most on him and they're not concerned and they're protected so you say well maybe they did it because they were for the sake of the you're right Tak it's a very dangerous thing and Tak it could but you got to do it for says why would they do it if say why would they do it the answer is like this says the there are two elements of the RAB there's a certain element of authority and power and covet and then there's the work you have to teach you have to instruct you have to make sure the M are running correctly you have to make sure the is correct you have to make sure the a of is correct you have to make sure the is being observed there's so to speak the glor of the job and the the the nitty-gritty hard work of the job when say doesn't mean hate the job you got to do the job what it means is don't do the job because you want the covet of the job you want the prestige you want the honor you want the glory no that's a very dangerous thing if a person goes into it for the Authority for the power for the so-called then thear says to the in other words if somebody's only in it for the The Fringe Benefits which are very overrated but if someone's only in it for the fringe benefits that's a very dangerous thing it's a very frightening [Applause] thing what that's fine you're entitled to make money so same thing here yeah but here yeah but here it's um it's a certain power that you're exerting over people where people are putting themselves under your Authority and if you're doing it for that that's very critical so says he says when on the mission it means hate the of the rabanas but if M ran to be then that's something you need to do say he says that it could be that is why they were special that what we say who is more of than a so and he says he could be that's why they were Ming it because of all the dangers that are uh that are connected to this position they were Ming Especial M he says like this this has to be theat cuz what's like yob asked was the r of the brothers y was the r you're telling me when the was the one who stood up there we don't find anywhere was the of so what does it mean the answer is he exerted Authority that what he was the chief manager he was the sh he was the sh in fact the T says on the miss that the kavana is the shil the authority of the job you need to hate the authority of the job if you don't hate the authority of the job if that part of the job is not despicable to you wrong profession but then says the a different P why destroys cats did not make a when he took the job ready for this he quotes and really thees back in number n now I looked it up he doesn't quite say it like this but this is how says it over the version of the for number nine says on the fourth line from you do make if you know that you're taking the job then you can make a if you're not taking the job of then what you can't make so ask a very simple question we in do we say you could only make a if you're doing you do make if you don't do you don't make I have a question comes and it's time for you make what if you say you know I'm not really looking forward to I'm looking forward to B because I want a nice pres so then that we tell the kid don't make a is there ever any that we say you could only make and if you're not sure if you're doing you can't make since when do we say that doing azah is dependent of you're doing we say so why when it comes to someone is only says very simple cuz when it comes to it all depends on what the kavana of the is if the kavana of the is he's looking forward to the coved then is a bad thing for him you can't make a but if the person is doing then it's a good thing it's a wonderful thing then you could make a so it depends what his it depends what his Cav is cats he was mic well who could say their their heart is pure who could ever say such a thing who could ever say they do something purely so therefore he he didn't want to make the who would ever dare say they're doing something completely so therefore says the maybe that's whyo cats did not make the shame you take a job because you need P to support your family is that not pure does that detract from Shay I mean you're doing it because you want to help and do what you have to do but you need to be able to have par to support your family does that detract and make you to I think there's more cover since it's something you know profession I think it depends like the same thing if somebody gets a position as a director or a senior if somebody is um it depends if somebody is if somebody is taking the job sh look he's taking the supp support his family so the fact that he's getting a salary from it uh you know it's an added perk that's fine and even if a person is doing it only for the money I don't think you apply these critique of everybody needs to make we're we're talking about somebody who takes the job for the cover of the job that's the that's the bad part about the somebody's doing it to be to be sh over other people someone's doing it to rule over other people that's that's frowned upon so therefore says the he says on the second who could say they're going to be maybe going to get used to the cover they're going to like it therefore he says he quotes since when is the answer is when it comes to if you're not then it's not a good thing it's not a good thing it's not it's not a a happy occasion so if David wasn't sure about himself that's why he was mipic and that's why he said right I would say that 99% of human beings would be put in that position have to have the same suff look it' be impossible most people are not that introspective well okay say without saying something else to avoid the stuff like that's the way that's the take on it okay so I don't know if that's but again we're not we're not saying in we're saying in a story there was a r that I don't think anyone here ever heard ofat and he got up and he made the in the guys of a now what what his were we'll never know it's all speculation says whether it's others has let's look at number 15 the who wrote the if you don't know you could guess if you guess you'll guess right you don't know either no who wrote the very good right if the wrote the somebody who wrote AER when you print um you someone who has given a position you make without you certainly have to recognize the kindness of and bless so you make's quoting in my opinion what you should do is you take a new fruit take a new fruit the ah so what you do is if anyone becomes a r or a new position you take a pomegranate you make and new position and the same thing is if you're to move to you hear this you make a and if you want to P yourself you take a new fruit and you make a to move to but if you if you do that but your real kab is and you're not sure about your AR you isn't a sub to make the sh under those we always do that you're doing the no I always had a difficulty that because Justice it's a it's a work around yeah but you have to make the on the fruit but you wouldn't have been eating you wouldn't be interested in eating the fruit you and you can make a sh every day of year make it on we're eating the fruit we're eating the fruit but here your your when you move to you also need to eat fruit job what's more important the fruit of the job so the job is more important just the technically speaking you can't make on that no no I think it's it's more humorously he's saying he every day he said in other words he's grateful that he's not he doesn't have to be a rabbi slave to the congre okay many yeah why do you say that why would he say it every day should say it once a j every day he appreciated the fact that he wasn't a RAB you say the Bros every morning for the same reason yeah it was a joke okay okay all right says that's I'll tell you something over I once heard I personally I heard from he once asked um yes he was sitting in a we were sitting there was an he said does anyone here know what Simon is in in so uh nobody knew he said Sim he said don't think I know it's obvious s okay so says somebody who got a new job or any position let's say maybe you became the president of the sh or you became the president of your company what should you do get a new suit or get a new and then you make a and you have in mind to and that is why say and this is what he did when he became then on the day of they put on a and they make and is a very authoritative he brings down somebody as a you should make and he brings down in foot from that the is at the time of they put on a new bag and they make a so they asked the GID of what did he do when they when he was appointed the head so he said what I did was I spoke at I spoke out the story of Ravid cat and by giving that sheer I had in mind with the shear to Potter myself on the of you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tor anytime.com