The Last Will and Testament of Rav Yehuda Hachasid - Part 2 : The Chasid's Miraculous Birth

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com hey good afternoon everyone thank you everyone for hanging in there so this is uh the we continue in the subject of this is all to lead us up to the tsava of rabbi but as we said in order to understand the importance and what the tavares is we need to know who rabbi is in number one we spoke about the origins of the review family namely his father who is known as the navi of and today we're going to speak about in today's first shirt about who rabbi was we began yesterday by saying that there's a tradition there had he been in the times of the navy he would have been a navi in the times of the tanaan he would have been a tana and the times i know he would have been and now and we mentioned how he was sort of born in in a supernatural way in that his father was walking and the heavens opened up and he took that as an opportunity to pray for a child like him and that's what he was now let's talk about a little bit about the saintliness of khasid so we have a number 11. a person who fasts every day and therefore eating on shabbos is a painful to him because it sort of disturbs his regular uh routine um [Music] there are those who say hashima that because of that many righteous people they fast on shabbos um because otherwise if they don't it will really disturb their systems being that they don't eat during the week and in fact says the sh you hear that i mean he never ate me but he fasted every single day not once in a while not most times he fasted every single day of the year now don't try this at home okay but and we're gonna see even this practice he didn't even put in that savvy this is not you know this is not for minor leagues but uh just to get a little picture about the saintliness another interesting thing that we know about him i mean why you try it no but what's the peppers i'm saying not to eat the purpose is a way of afflicting his goof to uh stay away from uh he was from that school of thought the german the german [Music] who were very acidic and were mahabel another example if you look in the ramona foreign two days in a row beyond kippur now uh uh you should just like every other sake of the young man you have two days pesach you have two days you have two days if do that you have two why don't we have two days yum kippur the answer is we should it's just not really that feasible for a person to fast two 24-hour periods in a row but now who who is this yesh mahmirim so the rama doesn't tell us but he quotes our zarua and the arza rule is the talmud said who hell do you have to fast two days in raviam kippur review so you say review 365 days in a row right but he didn't fast me isla is here he fasted 48 hours straight well looking at our zero voices [Music] avi had i not seen my great rabbis who did this i would have said this is not correct shawnee oymer shane lassoys i would think you shouldn't do this because it's a danger um in the you shall mean in khala in the first paragraph it says taman khashoggi and the tsai maraba trained yarmouth um [Music] in other words there's a discussion whether this in fact is uh safe practice the bottom line is i saw my rabbi do this i'm not gonna protest if someone wants to do it but um if i see somebody do it i'm not going to protest but if they ask my advice i would tell them not a good idea i'm just bringing this in to show what type of madriga we're talking we're not talking about a regular human being here we're talking about someone above and beyond someone who even among the reshowing them had practices that they could only sit and wonder in amazement and astonishment okay so let's get it [Music] so at least he ate beforehand and then one day look you know now let's see um back to the biography number 14. so we said that rabbit um had two sons but so rather so to speak his father dedicated him to give over to him the mystical traditions of the three lives to give him the keys of the treasure houses of the secrets of torah has and the soyuz and let's say roof shamers until he um [Music] until he reached the madriga of he was about shame he was about shame you know what about balshe means he was able to use the shame hashem to do stuff to show guras hashem noir hashem he was able to use various shameless hakadoshem well here's a story of one particular occasion here we go this is reported by harav zalman in a manuscript um there was a wealthy man who shaved his beard bimisbahraim with scissors again you're not a razor scissors you're allowed to do that yeah not in not in the world of in the world of the beard is sacred you can't you can't cut it but it's not comfortable when i go to sleep at night i like to put my cheek on a uh on a pillow with uh it's knit you know they have a very fine fabric and the beard is just annoying you know whenever you're trying to get a good night's sleep and that beard gets in the way there's nothing more annoying than that so therefore the oyster said i need to cut my beard so if you said you should know you're going to have a bitter end after you die shade them like cows are going to step on your face and so the guy that i should said well i'm based on what you have this information so he said here's the proof it says rosham okay now it's unclear if this really means a shaver um a scissors or a razor but anyway um when this when this wealthy man died all the good oil of spire and including was there and uh then wrote a shame and he threw it on this oyster who died and everyone around there ran away and all of a sudden the mess started to hit himself in the head and pull out his hairs and rabbit said pal why are you doing this and he said again he's dead he said woe to me that i didn't listen to you so rabbi hassan please tell me what's happening to your soul right now he said my soul when my soul departed a shade who looked like a cow came and he brought me a clea full of sulfur and burning ashes and he filled up my whole soul with it and i couldn't leave and then um said to me reviewed did you ever learn homish i said yeah did you ever learn mishna i said yeah so they brought me a hummish to read and when when i opened up the hummish i saw the apostle and i didn't know what to answer then another voice came out and the voice said give me a soul so god delivered my soul to him and they were carrying my soul and another basketball went out and said wait a little bit um and that's the story okay rabbi said now again i wasn't there so this is not but you know stories give you a little picture of who we're talking about we're dealing with a very big uh mystic another another maison country some lame sliders he had a chest full of secrets he had a secret chest all great mystics have this chest full of documents and secrets holy secrets and he warned his wife don't go near the chest when you're and one time she forgot and she touched it and you know what happened because of that had to go into exile and of spyra his brother had to go into exile and they went to rigensburg and that's where rabbi hidaka opened up his basic nessas but he was he was not allowed to stay in spire anymore okay there are a lot of wondrous stories that spread about review regards to the fact that he was a bao shame let's just see a little bit more again just to get a perspective of who we are dealing with whether each story how it happened this is this is the legend well look at number fifteen review and they say about her about uh him then in ringenberg the minute was that when they bri when they brought a child to the base of knesses to for brismila everyone stood up um when they brought the child through but did not stand up and they asked him why didn't you stand up he said he said i'll tell you why i said look he showed a few select you see he's not at the sanduk he's over there he pointed um and the reason is says because this child will abandon his religion in the future and therefore navi did not want to show up at this press okay so that's the story that review did not come to a particular bruce based on some ruach that he had on the other hand even though he was about shem he very much warned against um kabbalah maases he very much warned against supernatural practices instead of said that if a person lee lives extremely punctilious and moral life and very careful in halacha especially in the media of ms they will be zoyka that whatever they say will come true look at number 16 it's anyone who does not speak falsehood even that falsehood should enter his mind called the var of messiah all of his words will be fulfilled for goes here malmata he'll decree down here and god will fulfill it on high and about him it says so just to get a picture again the picture of these early hasidim in germany is not of mikhubalam who are busy creating a golem or have summoning lions to assist them it's strict aceticism strict um adherence to muscle and to ethical behavior but to a level that it's you know beyond our grasp so he brings over here that this is an example of a re [Music] focused review and we'll just end off with uh the following anecdote about the tear of rabiut and then we'll uh begin the subject story goes like this and um in the year tough tough in zion it was his final illness these super i love kazais they told about him as follows regensburg be made tougher the story goes that kisha basically there is a certain gate they they would have to pass through and there was a bell hanging by the gate and every time they would carry out the dead he said if i am a son of the world to come let the gate fall down after my i die and when the two aire walked through um when they when the tube here came to visit him he commanded before his patira to sweep the house to sweep before his mita and he said to those who were saying before him and he said if do you see anything and they said no he said but you just swept the floor look at the floor and on the floor in front of him it said khasid in the earth it was engraved okay again that's the story shabbos koi this parashat sabha in the year uh 1217 do you remember he was nifter and parashat zakhar and he on on who is uh close to dying you should speak director with him so that his soul should depart me torah that's what they did to rabbi lazar so he started to speak the vitara to them and he asked them remember don't get angry so do it so take care of it why didn't you won't just give us a second why did the sun have to stay still when they go in the story of the govindam who asked claudius to help them save them from the attack of the nations in kanan and he also asked when isabel killed naveem hashem what aveira did these naveem do that a russian government should call itself and he tried they tried to answer budok bed out of the gate that had their bell so the gatekeeper saw the body coming he runs to ring the bell and the entire gate collapsed with the bell and the gatekeeper was killed and all the realized the uh unique kedusha of hasid and they realized that this was a a man of uh uh on inordinary ability and uh marvel i said this is the life of rebbi so this will conclude the second part of our segment hashem we're in the next part we're going to begin the halachic ramifications of the sava of rabbi you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com