Sochachzew On Parshas Chukas [Plus The Life and Times of the Avnei Nezer and Shem M'Shmuel]

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning everyone so today we have a very interesting subject today's topic is sakachav on the parsha say what are you talking about what is sahaja yoga is a city in poland that there were two great rebbus who graced that city firstly bernstein who lived from 18 39 to 1910 1839 to 1910 the avne nasir known as abner actually he wrote his uh first work elaital at the end of his life on hilheshabus which he said the reason why he wrote on shabbos is because since shmira shabbas is equal to all 613 mitzvahs learning and teaching about hoshabes is equal to all 613 mitzvahs in fact bernstein dedicated the majority of his life to teaching talmidim he would give shir a good portion of the day that eight hours a day and he never wrote swarm he would write his killus but he did not have time to publish swarm at the end of his life though he had a terrible respiratory system he was very weak by nature and he was not able to imagine torah and therefore he felt by writing and the tamidim would learn it that would be a way of being marbit's torah and then he was followed by his son the shemishma rabshmo bernstein who lived from 1852 to 1927 the last rebbe of the the second rebbe of sakhichav and actually my grandmother allah remembered seeing the shemeshmall as my grandmother's father was the last love of the city of sakhachov so his name was valman hashem damay was the last rub of sakhachob so i'm going to tell you a little bit about the avne nazar and i'm going to tell you what he says about this week's parashat just to give you a little glimpse into the greatness of the abne nazar e the minha salazar of monkat writes in his introduction to dhaki chuva and mcvoice he refers to the abnezar as the sarha toira meekham who could possibly like him my whole body trembles from his torah that's what the mankato writes my whole body trembles from his torah so let me share with you some of the hidushay torah of the abdenazer was published in the safer called naois hadesha and in this week's parashat on the na isadesha he brings the manuscript of the abnenezer why is it that a cayenne is now to become tummy what's the rationale behind it we know that the madrega of akain is to serve in the base of mikdash we know the base of mikdos down here is directly opposite the basement of shomala okay that means that they said mikdash's function is to connect the two worlds the upper world and the lower world the truth is every body is a base of mikdash because it's also the combination and the fusion of the guff from down here and then ashama from upstairs so in reality the guf is a virtual microcosm of the base of mikdash as we know there's a concept of the asuli mcdosh vishakhanti biswakam that god actually dwells on the human being therefore the cayenne whose job is to connect heaven and earth is the very antithesis of misa because mesa is the separation of heaven and earth the separation of the soul and the body therefore the cayenne being the one connecting heaven and earth cannot come into contact with a dead body which has been which has severed that connection between heaven and earth that's the rationale why equine has to stay far away from becoming tame to mason while we're on that topic in this week's power shop you know part of the purification process is going to a mikvah what's the rationale of how a mikvah is metaher you know here are somebody's tummy so he dunks in the in the water and he becomes tahar what what what's the rationale it's living water what's the logic behind that so the shame ismuel who is the son of the abdullah brings from his father nazar who by the way his father-in-law was none other than the cutscore so that married the cutscore's daughter her name was sarah cena morgenstern sarah sina morgenstern and the avneza says as follows you know there are different boundaries in this world there is the there's the gavel of eretz and creatures that live in the water if they go to the arets even for a minute they would die a fish that comes on land for a moment for a minute will die then there's the mayam a land creature that goes in the water for a minute would also die you know the two don't go together there's the realm of water and the realm of earth so when a land animal namely a man goes into a different goal namely the water he's basically cutting off his life from he used to be a land creature and now he's going to a realm which is not hospitable to his existence so that when he comes so basically he's going into a place where he can live when he comes out then he's like a new person it's like when he went into the water he cut off his life so to speak he went into a domain where he has no no ability to live and breathe and coming out is really a recreation that's the logic of how the mikvah is metah says the shemishma in the name of his father the abdenser i'll bring you another thought of the abdenazer on this week's parasha the shemeshmuel says we know in this week's passion was mushroom supposed to hit the rock or speak to the wrath supposed to talk to the iraq right by the way from here we see you could even talk to rocks you know people say what are you this guy is thick school how are you going to talk to him no sometimes you could talk to iraq it's eventually it will penetrate yeah water right and question why the first time was moisture right now in patches of basalt when they came to iraq maisha taka was told to hit the rack and he did why the second time was he told to speak to iraq i mean you know we always say oh maisha didn't have era he hit the rack but the first time he was told to hit the rack you know it's not such a foreign thing to hit iraq that that's what he was told to do the first time around and that's the question of the shame ishmael and secondly if he was supposed to speak to the iraq then why did god tell him to take the stick you know if he wasn't supposed to hit the rack why did hashem take it tell him to hit the stick to bring the stick he can speak he says give me the water or else i'll do it again carry a big stick right but why was he told to bring the stick if he was told to speak to the rack so the abner says that this stone was like tashmishay kedusha and that tash meshe mitzvah what does that mean mitzvah what's the difference between the tashmi shaykh and tashmi mitzvah let's say you have a lulav and you're finished shaking it on sukkas what could you do with the love you could throw it out you know some people it's not touch me it's not kadash no it's only tash meshe mitzvah now many have a cusp many have a custom to put on top of the orion many have accustomed to burn it in beer but you're not required to do any of the above you're permitted to throw it out why because tashmish articles of a mitzvot you're allowed to throw out we're we're we have a sort of a saintly practice and we treat it we we say since the midsole was done with it we should do another but that's not a requirement for example it's it's this after you finish wearing sittsis technically you are allowed to throw it out okay so we'll put it in a safer but it's not absolutely required however tashmish kedusha you have to bury so for example even a retsua of twillin once you're finished with its filling you must bury it it's not optional to take care of it in a nice way you're obligated to bury why the concept is once kedusha is associated with something now kadu what's the difference between kadusa and a mitzvah kadusa is something associated with torah so for example ritsuyas were connected to parshiots of twilight or mezuzah bax was connected to a parasite of mizoza anything connected to torah you have to bury anything that's only connected to a mitzvah you could throw out in the garbage yeah pennsylvania in the summer we built an old shoe and we had it all over so i had to ask the local love i find what do you do with an orange it was like 70 years old it was just like a big closet well yeah you have to take it apart and bury it and bury it yeah you have to bury it in a cavity there no any place you could you could bury it what do you do with parolees so i had a beautiful caracas which i was going to put in the circuit and then after a new shoe in my neighborhood opened up this party shoe i gave them that uh parochus so and i had to use it but you would not thought means that once kadusho was put into it it doesn't fade mitzvah the kadusa fades okay this stone he needed to hit the first time because you need to make attachment but once he hit it the first time he didn't need to hit it again he only needed to speak to it because it already retained its kedusa from the first miracle so the question is so why did he bring the stick the second time if he wasn't supposed to hit it if he only needed to speak to it so interesting the shemishmur says as follows he says that this is provided that moshe would have gotten the same stone but if he create if he doesn't find the same stone and now he has to recreate the kedusha it's not going to be enough to talk to the iraq then he's going to have to hit it it will only work to talk to the iraq if he gets the same rock if he doesn't get the same rock he's going to have to hit the rock el hasselha right very good the rock that's what the abner said excellent the now the truth is because the question is did moshe misinterpret the prophecy of god the ramban writes kasper shalom in particular but rather mushroom was told get that rock and if you get that rock just talk to her you don't have to hit it if you don't get that rock you're gonna have to hit the was 100 miles away now okay the moisture of vayner was looking for that rock but the problem is rashi brings down the rock got mixed into the other stones and moisture didn't recognize it at first so he's looking while he starts to look the jews call out moisha what's the nafka mean and what rock it is well when moshe heard that he got angry what did he say so rashi says once he got angry he made a mistake but the mistake wasn't he didn't realize he needed to speak to the iraq the mistake was he couldn't recognize iraq anymore that's a mistake that anybody could make and that is the explanation of the episode that the shame ishmael quotes from his father the amne now i'm going to tell you something over from the shame ishmael soon but let me tell you a little bit about the life of the amne nasar so we mentioned that was born in 1839 and he was the son of his father's name was bornstein which this is something that he writes about his family history in the abdenazar avenue ezra simmons and he also had very uh distinguished us and that is if you look in the egg latal he was the descendant of the shah he's the standard of inability he writes he's also a descendant of the rama and in evidence of racial tests he writes he's a descendant of a maserati who was a descendant of rashi and after that david there's a kid it's yum kipper his father says go eat but don't forget to make kiddush in in his gaoina said kedesh i'm not going to make kilish so i said why not if you eat onion kiwi you have to make kid there she says no i don't have to make killers what's the reason in general a child makes kiddish so that he should remember when he gets older that he can't hear that kid she said but when i get older i'm going to fast on yom kippur so i don't need to make kiddish on yom kippur now when he was 12 years old he was already known as the eloy of elkish so his father absence took him to the house of the khatskar and after he took him to that house the meeting ended that the abdenazer was engaged to the cutscore's daughter okay so that you know how old was he when he uh got married it sounds like under bar mitzvah he spent the next seven years learning from the katskar where he writes that he already had was writing hidushay torah but once he learned from the concept of the qatar so to speak put him on the right path and told him what hidushay toro was and what pilpo really is and that really he became his main rebbe in life now interesting this side didn't realize that was born in 1852 that means abnezer was born in 1839 that means he would have been how old when his first son was born 13 14. now according to some he was born in 1855 so for example over here it says that the shame ishmael was born in 1855 elsewhere it says he was born in 1857. either way the abnessa was quite young when the shemeshmuel was born he taught talmidim for 50 years and he said that it was never his intention to publish his production but as we mentioned as he got older he was very weak he didn't he didn't have the luxury to teach tau medium anymore and that's why he wrote his hiddushem story goes at the end of the life he was so ill he was literally pouring blood from his throat and when it came to achilles massa he couldn't eat so he took out the zayer qadosh and he hazard again and again and again with great devotion greater slavos hamas is the bread of healing the bread of healing bread after learning it so thoroughly he was able to eat too kaze sim like a healthy man so then his children said okay so eat something eat no you know some real nourishment literally cannot get a morsel down eat some you know some oil you know some of the fish juice to swap could not get anything else down so amnesia says like this very interesting thing at the toward the end of his life he was a roof in many communities but ultimately he uh he became the raven sakha chav and the rev of sacha many communities did not want his absolute adherence to manhattan israel you know it was too too much for them in sakhichov though they accepted him and they accepted his adherence to minogue and he accepted upon himself the rebel rebel shaft which means like this when he was a young man um well he was uh he was a devotee of the cutscore and then he became a hosted of his uncle revised mayor out there him and then when the kadusha rim died israel became alexander and then when the rabb of alexander died in 1870 the amnesia agreed to be to be rebel but he had he was a different type of rabbi he did not see people for long he had an issue that's it you know he didn't spend and he said why don't you spend time he said you have to know every minute i spend with hasidim it's bitter torah every minute actually i spend with them they're losing money at home because i'm being mavato for my learning so he only he he only accepted the rebershaft amanas he would not give up his rigorous schedule of giving shirim now he said something very interesting that he thought when he took a took a rubber shaft that the only people that would come to him or people that he had what to talk to about learned people a learned person said when they're going to come to a rebel they're going to want rohnias and gasmes to help somebody with both is very easy for rabba okay now you have to be a rebbe to understand this i'm just saying the words for a rebel to give a bracha for rookies and gosmius it's an easy thing to do so for example he would say if somebody needs to get out of the drafted you know get out of the army which is relevant to rochester and gasmus then all i would do is ask akasha on the gemara and give a terrorist and they would automatically get out of the army but then what happened was once i became a rebbe then who comes to me all the unlearned people and the unlearned person what's he coming to the rabbit for the learning he wants parnosa and refuha that's much harder for a rabbit to give and that unfortunately takes away a lot of my time but i can't turn people away and be empty-handed once i heard that the adnai nazar supposedly they say had the soul of none other than the maral of prague that the abner had such a great and lofty shama some of his talmidim were ramir don platsky who was the clique of the and ravioli of yeshua winegarden the khakis of kinsk and also ribshell maisha zilberman the varshava rav okay now i'm going to tell you an incredible thing but first let's speak about his son the shemi shmuel shmuel lived from 1855 according to some 1857 until 1926. so he was the second rebbe of sakhachav and he was very close to his father while normally when somebody gets married he married the daughter of the son-in-law of the slain of radamsk and normally you move in with the swear not when your father is the abnenezer when your father is you don't move in with the shepherd you move in with the tata so he devoted his whole life to promulgating the teachings of his father the the egoital he recorded and collected all the response of his father in the seven volumes of the nazar and he really devoted his life to promulgating the torah of his father but when his father passed away he took over the mantle ship of rabba shaft and on the first yard side of the abdensa which is adar he created yeshiva in sacha and his first rosh shiva was rab ariyatsi from who later who was known as the going of khusha glove and later became the rashishiva of blind when ramirez shapiro passed away okay he was weak and he had to go um because of persecution of the czar's government he had to go uh to germany but be it as a may he was buried in sakha chop so what happened to the kwaram of the aldenazar and the shemishmoi i knew you were going to ask that question so i'm going to tell you the whole story after i tell you over a hideous from the shemeshmall you ready the shemishma quotes hezeda now who's the zeida the khaskar right because his father was abducted with his son-in-law kaskar said why did david hamel have to come from mayav david had to come from mayab because there was no malchus in claude israel and we had to borrow it from mayab that's what the katskar said says the enoch of the shemis let me explain the enigmatic words of my rev of my zeida the katsuka what does that mean there's no malcolm israel what's marcus that ruvain who's the mellah is above everyone else that concept is antithetical to judaism what do you mean above everyone else you can't have them allah but we do need a malach but there is no gaiva in kali israel but the khlipa of mayav the medara of maya was guiva there's a pasta kenobi that says mayev is very arrogant but sometimes you could use and hone and harness gaiva for holiness so we borrow the meda of gaiva from mayof to be able to use it for malchus during world war ii the nazis uprooted all the headstones in the cemetery with amines and the shemishmal were buried and they threw them in the river the oil of the sacramento was destroyed along with the rest of the cemetery and it turned into a barren field during the communist era the cemetery was a soccer field and a garbage dump many sakura java khasidim tried to locate the oil they were not successful 1991 the fall of communism ravihuda vedavsky asaka khasir from lodge lived in tel aviv went out to find and restore the islam he successfully petitioned local authorities to make a fence around the perimeter of the original cemetery and asked for of aaron you saw bernstein a son of the shemishna lived in tel aviv if he remembered where the ayah was the aaron bernstein said it lay 35 meters from the entrance they hired polish workers they dug and they dug and they dug and they dug no sign of the ayah they hired a professional who used different kinds of machines and like sonograms to look at graves no luck then robert vadavsky found an alta lithium or old lady there in sakhachov do you remember where the oil was so she goes to the cemetery said why are you digging there you're looking for the sadiq he's not buried there he's buried here they dug they found wooden boards which were the grave of the abnegazar they found the wooden pieces of the grave of the shemishmuel they were able to restore the graves and built a new oil on them and in 1993 the presence of arabah traveled to poland for the occasion of the restoration of the graves in sakhachav there in that cemetery is a monument memorializing the jews of sacha murdered by the nazis and as i mentioned my great grandfather hashem yum kamdamma was the last rub of the city of sakhachav and when he was in the warsaw ghetto he was the agoda gave him papers to try to smuggle him out and save his life and he wouldn't leave his people he didn't want to leave them like a sheep without a without a shepherd i'm going to end by telling you one incredible story a sacred chaveza like you never heard now this story this is one of the most incredible stories i ever heard in one of the filos we say is we ask god to emantic his strong denim to sweeten his din and zilberstein was asked what does that mean what does that mean said the who composed he put in to this villa very deep cavanaugh's let me explain one of them now this story is a story that was told over by rabbits who is known as the tsadik of ranana was also the harusa of my great grandfather who i said was the last rav of sacramento was a great mukabal the gerareba the basis israel was a big admirer of this sadiq of ranana who lived in ranana near tel aviv and he was going to come to visit him to watch his saintly ways and by the way that sadiq of ranana who again was my great grandfather was blind my father once went to visit him and he told my father you look exactly like the eld like the zedda but this is a man who couldn't see okay baby resume so the ghetto rebels coming out oh the kasim heard the get the guy rebel was coming and for hasidim you know when when you need to see the rebbe in his court it's very hard to get in everybody is you know everybody is uh clamoring to see the rebbe it's hard to have audience but when the rebels in a different makkah you know you have more of an opportunity so audacitum used this as a opportunity to try to see the revenue the rebel was very punctual so they knew the rebels going to be there at a certain time at the end of the day the rabbit couldn't make it so that sadik of ranana said you know i see how much respect and admiration you have for your rebel let me tell you a story of respect for a rabbi the story goes like this in sakhachav there was a custard of the abne nazar who never had children and the this cross had always came to the rebbe and obviously his request was please bless me for children for whatever reason like the avneza always avoided the issue like you didn't give him the bracha so the hosted figured you know what maybe he has to write wait for the right opportunity maybe when the reb is in a moment of great joy he'll catch the rebels say rabbit please give me a bracha and then that will be the opportune time so you wait until somehow and the rebel is dancing dancing dancing up the storm and he says rebel rebel please and the rabbit turns to him he looks them in the eye he says what you want to have a son who's going to be a priest and was shaken what does the rabbi mean doesn't he know how broken heart am i he he knows i'm asking for a child and then he realized the rabbi must have seen that if he has a child that's going to be a priest and that's why he didn't want to give him a bracha and the abhinezer passed away years later who's the next rabba the shemishma mishon knew the pain of this qasid and one time on simcha's toro when the shame is dancing he goes over to the discussion that i bless you to have zara shall kayama and not only didn't say amen he nearly fainted what's wrong he told them what his father said schwa closes his eyes he says no aphapi cain i give you a bracha you're gonna have a child answer amen and somewhat confused said amen he had five children four of them were murdered in the holocaust the fifth child the bachara saved his life how by masquerading as a priest so it says reviews of silverstein this is what it means that sadiq our mom take the deenam they sweeten the deenum sometimes there's a din on somebody but that sadiq is able to dive in that even whatever the xero is sometimes xero could be sweetened lotive so this was the story that that sadika ranana said over that he heard from the aliens of all these and they should be military for all of israel okay so he moved after the war he went to renato and then um the executive is patira i'm not sure i happen to have many many letters from the sacraments you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com