The Last Will and Testament of Rav Yehuda Hachasid - Part 1 : The Mystical Origins of the Family

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning rabbi welcome everyone as we begin a very special series which will be about at least five parts we always have around shibuya's time an interesting series so this series is going to be about the last will and testament of rabbihood that's it left a number of very interesting admonitions some of them are somewhat questionable especially because they seem to contradict what it says in gemaras today is rosh haider so we'll mention one of the tsavasa review and it's even cited in the mission of burua is not to take a haircut on raj dash well the question is what is this is a sava of a god will be so really binding on the jewish people is it binding on anybody is it us or do we have to listen to it does anyone have to listen to it what is the meaning of this sabah and in order to really understand uh the impact of the tsava and the by whether it is binding we have to get uh the historical background of who rabbi was the times that he lived in where he comes from and that will give us a better picture to understand so i think today's presentation will be about the father of rabbi khasid then we'll discuss rabbi hustle himself and then we'll go on to hopefully tomorrow discuss some of the things that he he left in his will and whether in fact they are binding or not so this will be a many part series it's a really a sensational topic and let us begin so uh much of the information we have about rabid ah comes from a biography which i don't have but uh it's available it's called hasidim harishaynam now when you say hasidim you have to understand that this is well before the best well before the baal shampoo right the balsham tov was in uh only a few hundred years ago we're talking now about the 12th century okay five hundred years before hasidos but these were rishenim who lived in germany now also understand there was no kabbalah in terms of the zayah had not been discovered yet so in germany there was mysticism without kabbalah it was a different brand of kabbalah of the arizal it was a very acidic type of movement where you had great people who were talking about who who would fast always people who did not have any hana from this world at all and one of the things that they specialized in is the exact wording of the siddha that was one area of their specialty these are called the khasi ashkenaz the hachom of germany and they were their own brands so to speak of khasid and we know the balayatoysus were very much in france but these were bali hatoisus in germany and spire in regensburg and we're talking now we're going to go back to the 12th century let's just begin with a comment so a lot of this information comes from the safer hasidim harishanam written by ruby kusil arya kamalhar who was a rav and a historian at the end of the 19th century beginning in the 20th century ultimately he's a love in europe and then he the end of his life i think he came to the bronx um and as well as the seifer hasidim the most well-known work of rabbit is and there's the edition that was published by masarav cook the ravine margolius edition so rave margolios wrote an extensive commentary on the civil hasidim but let's begin with a statement that we have a tradition about ravihudan khasid who we have here was born in the year dalid tough tough kufiyod that's approximately the year 1150 and he was nifter and dollar tough tough cuff ian zion that's the year 1217. he was born in spire in germany he was nifty in regensburg in germany on yud gimel ada and tainasasta in 1217. we have a tradition about him that if it would be would have been in times of the naviem he would have been a navi if he would have been in the times of tanoan such as the tradition that we have about him he was the son of rabbinus hasid the grandson of claynamus hazakin from magencia had very mystical traditions about the precise number of words of each twila the significance of that number of words and a lot of the kabbalistic uh meaning of the twilights okay so now one of the other great khachme ashkenaz who was considered like a student of abu dhaka who we quote from very often when we learn about the siddhar is the reikayach revelator of garmaiza and then he does entry to revelation of garmaiza he writes the siddhar and the safer lord kayak was a safer that was compiled of philos and their secret he had a tradition from rabbenu yahudah who had a tradition all the way back from his rebel till shimon hapakuli shimano pakuli the gemara magilla says was the one who formulated and one who gave the meaning of the schwann esri so their tradition of the tv was given the appellation oh we'll get to that in a minute in a moment now we'll see who's revelation rev clinimus the father of shmuel again the line is the son of shemo the center of clainamus a believer of claimants passed away when rashmore his son was very young and he wasn't old enough to receive the mystical teachings from his father so his father gave over these mystical teachings to someone by the name of rebellion who then gave it over to roshmal when roshmal was a little a bit older be it as in may the marami rothenberg in the chuva kofir gamma excuse me in a chuva page curfew gimmo says that rav shmuel the father who was given the title navi okay that's what we're talking about that he was given the title of navi and they had a tradition about the tv but so i want to give you a little picture of what the father of like because when you're going to see that you have to understand what this is where this is coming from this is coming from people from on a different realm living in walking the same plan that we walk but living in a different world so in the safer hasidim he brings down like we mentioned rav shmuel the father of what we'll conclude to share today with is there is a famous piyot written by rab shmuel that we're probably all familiar with i don't think anybody knows that he wrote it though that's what we're going to conclude with today so anyway um rav shmuel was born to his father of clintomus in the city of spires around the year tough tough ayan hey 11 15. when he was 10 years old his father of clintonis passed away in the year and his older brother rabbi yehuda raised him and learnt with him and then when roshua got older this revelation of spires gave over to him the secrets of his father because if clintumus gave over that to give over to someone a son gets older so here we go how old was his older brother do you know i don't know i you know the birth certificate i don't have to his older brother didn't give over listen to this story goes that rav shmuel was walking down the street and all of a sudden he looked up at the sky and he saw the heaven open he saw the heaven open and he told the people who were accompanying him you see it you see it you could ask whatever you want everyone ask for whatever you want so one of them asked for children one of them asked for wealth and roshmal asked to have children like him and he had two sons rabbi avram and ravi huda by the way and and it's pointed out that we learn from here that if you're ever walking down the street and you see the heavens open up it's always a good opportunity to dive in for whatever you want so don't miss the opportunity you always have to be aware of the moment of the opening of the heavens okay now besides his torah and he was one of the specialists in the secrets of the torah he was known like we mentioned as a kash and a navi he was one of the first to be mafar same kabbalah and what's called kabbalah maisius meaning practical kabbalah when i say practical kabbalah i mean he can make things he can do things not just learning about the spheroids he could do things as we're about to see 3d printing um so he was most in this lowly world and his mind swore the heavens okay here's another story story goes that she's so poor he didn't even have bread to eat so one time he told his wife that the community of spires there's a terrible looming decree and therefore they both need to fast for three days so and they did on the eve of the third day rashmo said to his lifeboard hashem the danger has passed cook up a chicken now that was like beyond their uh budget the chicken you know if anybody they were forced them as anemia you know it would not have been good if people would have got a win that they were eating a chicken you know that would have sort of uh that would have given that would have given up their uh but be resume one of his tamid saw and he couldn't help but ask but revi why are you uh having a chicken on a regular weekday i thought you know we all thought you were poor sir shmoe says if i would want to reveal to you what i did you would mock me and everyone would mock me and therefore it's better that i keep quiet but the talmud pressure and pressured him and finally he admitted he fasted for three days and he abolished the looming decree okay now again are these stories did they happen it's not it's not important whether it happened yet stories give you a picture of the times of the personality you know we're talking about supernatural people okay here he brings that the wonders and the moisten that rashma did became widespread in the world so legend has it that uh three galachim came to himself from a faraway land and uh these galachim knew how to use shame ice of tomah okay sheamus of tomah so they told her of shmuel we heard about your wisdom and your godless and how it spread to the whole world but one thing we have so say is so they said to the game said show us you know show us one of your tricks and we'll show you one of our tricks you know after all these galactus specialize in kaikatoma and he had uh he knew how to do my sims so they wanted to exchange techniques so they said like this now there was a certain rabino yaakov who lived at a distance lived far away from rabinoshmuel who had a certain safer that rabbinism really wanted to see so small said if you could bring me the safer from yakov like that if you could say abracadabra and bring me the safer that's that's pretty kashif then uh then i'll believe that you got something going so they said we'll do even better we'll do more than that come out with us to the field where nobody's around and we're going to show you the trick of the century we're going to we're going to draw a circle one of us galachim are going to be mashriya the other galact remove his nashamah send the neshama to rabino yakov and by the way if you want to send rabinoyaka of any writings or anything give it to this guy because when we remove his nashamah he'll deliver it to rabbenu yakov and he'll come back with the safer from abhinuyakov and then will you believe us that we've got something you know we've got something good going same day delivery yeah it's basically nowadays they call it a drone right but um they he said yeah let's go for it so they basically uh they swore that the neshama needs to leave the body and will return in three days and surah avenue followed them into the forest and on the third day they're waiting for the soul to return to the body and banishment standing there no no no no no nice try i will not let them and he was ma'aqia the neshama from returning back into the galactic and all the galactic were crying and screaming no how what happened that's impossible nobody ever foiled our soul removal retrieval trek you know and rabbinus most said on one condition you have to remind it to me that my power is greater than yours and finally they admitted and then the soul of the galact returned to his body and from there on everyone acknowledged that rabino shmuel's power was supreme again yeah yeah he got the book he got the book and he got the book so you know you don't just use this this power at will it has to be a real need you can't just do it because you know you want the latest edition of a book that came out again i wasn't there personally and it's not a this these are the the agado is that they say over about rabino small another one rabbino shmoe was one of the first hasidim who would uh do let's go he would prav gulas pravgolos means to travel from community to community with no money with no provisions as a way of expa a way of cleansing oneself from their sins and to spread torah to spread euro shamayim and says it's brought over here ravenoshmo is one of the first people who created a goylam probably never created a gailan however rabindra shmuel in the 12th century did in fact the golem came with him on all of his travels i could use one of those you know but anyway the story goes that ravinoshma was on a boat and he heard a lion in distress and he goes off the boat and a lioness had attacked the lion now everybody knows the the lions don't the lions are the babysitters the lionesses are the hunters you know but the lion is the boss of the pride yeah it's like at home where the man is the boss and the woman does everything you know but anyway so this line was in distress so revenue saved the lion and from then on this lion accompanied with shmuel on all of his travels now i know it doesn't say if it was at the same time as the gailan or a different time but but uh interesting entourage here goes another story okay and the story goes like this there is a toy system in aqua islamic human beings let's see if we can find the menaches here and that is no there is no menaches there is a taisus where did god okay the story goes like this we know that there's a mitzvah to be mahade your villain on your head to put the tullin on the head do you need to tie this villain of the head we don't but many we shine them say it's a mitzvah to tie every day that's when characters and asked the navi now which navi it's brought in the safer cedar aldo guys and they said ask rabino yahoo from paris and i asked obey no time how they tie the kesher shot felon do you have to tie it every day or could you just tighten it so the navi came and he summoned matachon he said matatma tat get down here matata what do you want from me i can't i can't come down because moishe is here and i'm embarrassed i'm afraid to leave ask whatever you want and i'll respond to you and the navy got angry he said come down here and bring rebellion from paris and rabbi no tom he said no rabbi rabbino can't come down because he's bringing being bring a leo anovi he's bringing carbonus and shamai melio is too busy right now we're not getting him down in other words they had a halachic sheila and this navi who we're going to see was clearly against about whether you need to tie the kesha toronto rush he says the elio can't come as immaculate of carbonars so small nobody says get down here i don't care what he's doing i have a question i mean i'll have to do that later she said no if he comes down the shrine is going to come so the rabbana decided it's not right to bother hashem about this so rabino yaakov said let's just ask masrabeno that should be good enough so the navi asked moshe albino how do you tithe villain shall kesha shout out so moshe says you're not doing it right you don't tie the shell yad you tie the show rush every day moishe abeno says and rabino tom said what ma he said moshe you made a mistake you're wrong my sherab says you don't have to tie it every day you only have a hadik because it says his great humility said i never said you have to i just said it's a mitzvah too it's not my cave so some said how could a mitzvah not be marked so much just says don't get so worked up ravenous time you're wrong maisha said you have to tie it every day and the the kesha has to be in the shell royce and the dalid and i'm going to bring you arrive for my torah that i gave you moshe says and for the passing that you quoted me it says it chucks the poses to ukshatan it says to say that you need to tie that which is an ice the tone show yad is not a noise because you don't see it it's covered only tone shall rushes are nice you need to tie the ice says sam says but it says the word that's the shall rush that means before that we weren't talking about the show i just said no let me explain to you uk is going on the show rush which is the ice that needs shira i it says that just means you know when uk when that's how you read the pasta now this is not my shot but i said this is shot in the torah that i gave you i think i know you know i think i know what i meant tie the ice when when you're wearing what's al-yoda then it should be when it's been and according to you that texture has to be the yad i never told you to make a yuran tone show yeah it doesn't say that anywhere where did you get that from even i never taught that on the tone but it's not what i gave to you what i gave to you is the dollar of the show rush so as you don't make a mistake and think it's an absolute command and then eli yahoo came to support maishrabeno and they were going back and forth and bringing uraius and roberto tom responded or riakov mi paranti said to ravenous mueller who should rely on and musha abenu said nowhere in the whole tower do we find you have to make a yud and if you do you could rely on utam you don't have to tie it but mitsubinam of course says no time is not correct you have to tie the shall rise so the next day shmall hanavi asked maishrabenu why didn't why is it not written with the shin he said i'll tell you why because when i saw god i only saw his fill and shall rush i didn't see his phone shalyard and i saw shinana dallad and i never saw the phone shall y'at of hashem that's why i didn't tell you to do it this is a very interesting story obviously this is a conversation that shmuel the father of rabbi dachas that is having and apparently rabino tam also was in on this conversation rabbi no time argued on mushroom so very interesting time says you don't have to tie the tail and shall rush mosham says you should that's a but here's the here's an interesting question right when did robin uttam from france ever meet shmuel from germany when do they ever get together so here we have it actually look at number seven actually one time there's a story with rabino yaakov of meruma which means miro mara that's rabinotam he always wanted to meet small hachasad one time remember we said he was on one of his uh trips and he he was there for seven years some say nine years and he came to ravino tom's house and ravino town asked him uh he asked about rabino tom and he went to middletown's house and he didn't say one word shemalah did not open his mouth and one time rabbit said what's your name he said my name is shmuel fratzminer now there was some lowlife in those times who had the name small fratzmaner so after rabbenu tom heard his name ishmael frasmunder he didn't have any more conversations with him he was sort of just waiting for him to leave after he left one of tamir venus said moiri varabi i think yesterday when you asked this guest who he was and he said uh his name is shema fratmooner i think that was shemolhanovi i think that was raby no time said really so why didn't he say a word i think out of humility he didn't say anything so they know tom said let me see myself and he wrote after him and he and he wanted to see if in fact this was shimon hanovi and tom said if he's if you're lying to me i'm going to put you in here wouldn't they have seen the lion and the girl he was traveling with the lion guard you mean yeah apparently they booked in the holiday inn that night you know so stay behind and go with them so ravenous time wrote after him with some of his tamidim and when he caught up with him he said young said um are you are you sure he said yeah so but you know and show the khmer i didn't respect you properly um i know you're europe and then atom pressured him and he came back with him and he spent two weeks with him and after after they spent some time they had your fetus together in a room and they did what they did okay which you know we can't get more explicit yeah and brought over here very likely that whatever went on between shemol hanavi and rabino tom and maishrabenu probably happened during those two weeks so everybody said take a look at number eight it's brought over here in the tour the tour brings down darshay the those who expounded those who expounded on the jurassia is him as the tour says are the sages of ashkenaz from mr amign they would weigh and count the number of words of the torah of the filis and the brochures and connected what they're they're corresponding to so the if you want to know which specialized in the number of words of the tifila and the meaning of the tfilah these were the haside ashkenaz and who are the khasid ashkenaz says number nine there's no question this refers to their that we see from their swarm how they count every word of t'fillah and this was something that they specialized in is there any remnant of the writings of shmuel is there anything that we have from him yes indeed one of the most mystical songs that claudia's role has is something that we sing the night of yom kippur after the tv and in there are all kinds of mysticism and mystical ideas and all kinds of kabbalah so here if someone who does not recognize the guru of shaman just look at the shir and this work testifies about the one who composed it um you'll see in the shira yikhood that this was written by abba khakidash almost on the level of navua by the way the choice of lublin yeah said there's a story that there was a famine and the earth was so dry that the animals were dropping dead and people came to the khaiza to spout to them for the rain and all he did is right now the only school we could do we have to talk about the godless of the mahabharat of the sheer and he described the greatness of the baasher haiyuku all of a sudden the heavens clustered with thick clouds and it rained and it poured and until they couldn't even leave the base madrish then the choices said that bashar at a time that a person cannot sort of wrap his mind around all the proper yehudim the shira yikra okay so that is the father so now you know what is born into you know he's not born into the average american home he's not born he didn't grow up on uh frosted flakes and fruity pebbles he grew up in a house of extreme kedusha uh mysticism kabbalah his older brother we just just mentioned it in passing yes i you know there's a whole say for written about the family i just took out some of the highlights over here but let's just start review that just to complete today's uh subject so here he brings this is already hey like bayes of the seif hashem that one of the great luminaries that shined 700 years ago for many many centuries a luminance light a brilliant life is rabino yuhuda khasid who was born in spires and we don't know exactly but approximately we said in the year 50 or so um let's just say one story uh one the one story we mentioned already how his father was walking down the street in the heavens opened up and again that shows that where his birth came from where his creation came from from this magical story but there's one other maisa which is interesting and that is the wife of rabino shmuel when she was pregnant with her husset was going in shul in worms and a wagon was coming by and pushed her against the wall right you know the the narrow alleyways and you know basically you know there's a truck coming down the road a full steam and legend has it that that um a miracle happened and the wall bent backward and in a way that the mother yudhakha said was able to be saved i think i hear a boss call right that uh that that the mother was saved that's similar story that we have tarashi so this gives us a little backdrop into the world that rabbit was born into because of hashem tomorrow in the first segment we'll learn about who raved was and we hope to start about the tsava of on that note wish everyone a you've just 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