The Life of the Shevet HaLevi - Harav Shmuel HaLevi Wosner Zt"l

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com this week klaiso will be commemorating the shloshem of one of the guidelihaddar one of the paiska hadar of levi vasner after the name of his eleven volumes of shout outs to chuvas on the dalai lake ravner passed away on the first day of pesach and matsuyam over a hundred thousand jews gathered in iraq to pay homage to this paisa khadar and by the account of his son ravner was born in elol 1912 which would make revosner 102 at the time of his passing one who would look at ravner even at an advanced age after 100 years old would seem to see what looked like the perfect picture of health yet professor leo sorkin the head of the icu at ichilov hospital and an international expert on lung illness he said that by looking at the x-rays it showed a completely different story the doctor asked the family for vosner ever suffered from any lung ailments and they said yes in fact eighty-four years ago when rabbuzna was still a bachelor learning in shiva khame blind he used to wake up every night at 2 a.m to learn to learn for the rest of the night and even though the yeshiva had a heating system to combat the fierce winters of lublin the heat would only begin to kick in at five am reverser would sit there night after night and the freezing cold warmed only by the gemara that he was learning however in time he contracted pneumonia the doctors feared for his life the prognosis was very grim but the torah that he sacrificed for us seemed to have protected him from sorkin showed the family the x-rays he says look the infection never left your father's body for the last 84 years he was living with pneumonia but the family understood perfectly even a germ did not want to leave the holy body of their father as a young boy rav shmuel learned in salem under rabbi and it was during this period that he forged the steel bond with masek the shabbos he would learn shabbos in all of his free time and until his final illness he wielded a special mastery over this messiah and torah 1923 a new chapter in the era of yeshivas began with the commencement of yeshiva blind which is really the very first yeshiva that had a full campus dining room dormitory and of course the sushi was founded by the legendary ramir shapira mayor shapiro was in vienna raising funds for his project and when he shared the vision with the jewish community leaders of vienna they said look we have among us a young bachelor who's destined to become a great rav and they bring ramirez shapiro to the shul and he sees this diligent young man radiating ira shamayim labalina rav meets the bakar he's very impressed and he invites him to have a fahrer in the yeshiva so ramirez shapiro the young boy purchases a ticket he travels to poland he arrives in lublin and he's scheduled to have the traditional fahrer 200 blob of gemara say their kachin the boy the testers however were not impressed and they informed the bakr that there was no room for him imagine future god allah was not accepted in the yeshiva young small he acted with complete equanimity he asked about the next train back to vienna and he goes to learn in the shula in the meanwhile he sits down in the shul and hashgakka had it who walks into the shore none other than mayor shapiro he sees the young man immersed in a safer pouring over the safer ramir shapiro greets him he says what are you doing here he says i came for the beginner but i did not succeed shapiro said you go back to the shiva with permission with no permission yet my permission will give you three-month trial period that three-month trial period lasted about 90 years and ended on the first day of pesach in fact when ramirez shapiro passed away at the age of 46 years old out of hundreds of bahrain in the shiva it was rav vosner that was selected to travel all over europe to be mass bid for mayor shapiro as the bakker and yeshiva leblanc ravner was like a fixture in the yeshiva and the tamidim used to joke that if the shiva ever wanted to renovate they would never be able to move him from his seat for a period of time he remained in the yeshiva building for months did not leave the building late one night when it became too dark in the basement rich for ravosnar to learn so he moved to the balcony to learn by the moonlight and romero shapiro walks in and he's very taken by the scene of this young man learning straining his eyes by the moonlight and he gave him a bracha he said may i bless you that you never need a cane and that you never need eyeglasses and in fact even at the age of a hundred and two red busner did not need a cane and he did not need glasses one time late at night rashiva was walking with bravasnar and in a moment of candor he confides in ravner the mahesh people do not have children he confides in him i have two children in this world one is a daffy me and one is yeshiva blin i wish somehow i could transfer the yeshiva to artsy strong ultimately ravner carried on this legacy when navasner came to arts israel he had a dream and ramirez shapiro came to him in a dream asking him to reestablish the shiva in israel which he did now the story of howard wesner came to our destroyer is one of the most remarkable stories you'll ever hear 1938 the winds of war had already come to europe but no one had any inkling of an idea that would make its way to pressburg to this day no one even knows what motivated ravner to make his decision everyone thought he lost his mind he was already distinguished feature in pressburg he is already living in a beautiful home he amassed many talmudim a big following but somehow he felt the devastation of war was approaching and despite his father-in-law pressured him mightily to stay he said nothing could happen in preshma some said look there are many good islands buried in frankfurt look what's going on over there revlon was resolute and he together with his wife boarded an illegal haganah ship with the slim hope of being a loud entrance to palestine now at the time the british were not letting anyone in there were 150 passengers on board the boat was rejected at all the israeli ports all the palestinian ports and for weeks the captain piloted piloted the ship by all the ports of the seacoast hoping in a moment of mercy the british would let them in never happened after two months the announcements came on the loudspeaker there were no more supplies and the following announcement cried out we regret to inform you we are out of fuel either jump off the ship or risk drowning in the middle of the sea with no guarantees we make it back to europe of the 150 passengers only 16 made the jump out of the ship successfully the dream of arizona was in jeopardy as was life itself two kilometers from the seacoast only six people of a hundred and fifty made it to shore ravner had been an avid swimmer in his youth and he guided his wife to safety on the beach of netanya by the way until the age of a hundred rabbusner continued to be an avid swimmer and at the age of 90 his tamiden built him a private swimming pool which he continued to use until the age of a hundred aside from his tremendous hoos that protected him even at an old age ravner always maintained his health he walked daily he carefully maintained his daily schedule he would not go to sleep after 10 30 p.m he woke up 4am he went to sleep he was making it to go to sleep early and to wake up early but he always cared for his health ravozner's parents how are they zaika to have such a goddaughter well when ravner's son joseph sue was a teenager his grandmother was sitting at the shabbos table and he asked his grandmother baba tell me how are you to have a son like our father who has illuminated the whole world of fire her face lit up and she told the following story a story she never told her own son rocco was her name her maiden name the mother of the shiva levy was blessed with an enchanting singing voice she related that as a child they were obligated to attend government school and the report of her magnificent voice eventually reached the staff and administration one day she was summoned by the headmaster of the school headmaster says young girl the vienna court opera has heard about you he said beaming and the famous gustav muller has invited you to join the opera they pressured her mightily thinking of the prestige it would bring the school when i resisted she said the principal had government officials get involved and the ministry of education even offered our family a generous financial grant the newspapers began to write about it how a young girl named rosa shift rejected an invitation to join the court opera because of religious beliefs meanwhile she said my father was a student of the khabit khan and he heard that the great goddess was visiting vienna and he asked me to come along to get a bracha he said you're already 18 years old let the god will give you a bracha to find the shidduch so i went together with my father and mother we all went to greet the and when we entered he raised his holy eyes he says rebeccion it's good you came i heard in vienna there's a yiddish who generated a great killer hashem by her refusal to bend her principles i heard her name is schiff are you related to her my father was overcome with emotion he pointed at the door and he said yes it's my daughter there she is how this time's face lit up my father realized this was an auspicious time to ask for abraha said the prophet in this of your great deed you will merit a wonderful shidduch and you will have a son who will brighten the whole world vuzner couldn't believe it he never heard from his mother about this bracha so a vasana asked his son ask your grandmother why she never told me this story she asked the grandma she said for what purpose it would only make him into a balgaeva said rabbusna now i understand my whole life my mother would warn me she would say learn well i gave up a lot for you and i never knew what you meant may we be inspired by all of his achievements but let's not forget how precious every challenge is in life how every opportunity in life is so important don't forget how one simple young lady in vienna as a reward for overcoming one challenge in life one opportunity in life hashem rewarded her with a son that brought life to the entire world you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com