The Motivation Congregation Interview - Rebbi Meir Baal Haness and the Eternal Children of Hashem

[Music] all right we have a very special edition of the motivation congregation podcast and special because while we always try to highlight great works of Tor literature fascinating new saarim this safer is different different because of his author and different because it's a deep dive into something that interests a lot of people but what perhaps others may not know a lot about the topic uh without further Ado I'd like to welcome the great RV speaker historian tomam Rabbi gladstein into the show once again thank you so much of course Rabbi gladstein all I know when we talk about the great tanor R mer is that El anen is a famous song and that the Sedaka boxes are quite widespread and frequent in shes okay so that's uh good starting point we know uh the famous teach the famous prayer and which uh is a little bit puzzling because why is Hashem associating himself with raor more than any other person uh there there've been a lot of great luminaries over the generations and we don't say May so what is hashem's asso association with raor and isn't there a rule Hashem doesn't associate with the living so it was right even yov or exact so and R was the one who said this that's sort of the starting point how could R say that's the question of the mar where is this gar and he said what wasil in the background of that so the gamar in aara it's a it's a worthwhile gamar review but the gamar says that R's sister-in-law Romero is the uh married to the daughter of TR he was married to brya and B's sister was captured by the Romans she was brought to a broel a Bas Z and R was tasked with rescuing her and rera tells the warden okay I got to rescue my sister-in-law the warden's like well I have a job here so R says I'll give you a few bucks and if you have an issue you just say and the warden was incredulous what do you mean just say any who says it works so they tested it out on some wild dogs and it worked and the warden used it Rome was able to rescue his uh sister-in-law by the way so we see that of uh all the different powers of the it's most effective against dogs it's most actually what happened to those dogs yeah they they left somebody told me that they were on hat Salah and just yesterday somebody showed them that they got bitten by a dog and he's like well you uh you know you know the new book that came out you should have said that's it if I'm in traffic now on the way to Yeshiva in Lakewood and it taken me an hour I'm on the nine I'm just going to say El de an look uh it depends if if they're wild dogs holding up the traffic absolutely but um right in general you know the we bring in the book that the closenberg rebba would advise his um students and people who asked advice during the Holocaust what they should do in one of the pieces of advice Ken babba gave was that people should constantly say the and it's written in in the kenberg biography that those who did were actually saved so it's let's say we'll call it a general purpose F it's an effective overall uh so so maybe the the we're speaking about rme who is uh one of the most frequented cited Tan in all of talad B yes yes right in other words the T we're talking about the tanama the student of RAB AKA um and what and where did where did the RV find out of all the topics to write about and uh it last last uh calculated there were 10,000 shum uh By Glass anytime so so what's with with respect what's with the new obsession and and interest in specifically theana rir and him being a balones or um honestly it's inexplicable I Rome grabbed a hold of me and I couldn't shake it he what does that mean in the m in the I just started uh noticing his opinions in the gamarra I had a question on one of them I had an idea to answer it that idea snowballed I thought I was going to write like a small contess on the subject and about how many statement mayor are thematic and L and once I began the process I literally could not shake it for a year until this work came about it just came about um yeah it's really super honestly it's like l i well I I I I reached out to a couple people to try to educate myself about the book that have read it and they are all speechless and according some of even from some of the people at Art scr they're very excited about it um the front of the safer along with some of the um advertisement that art scroll does for it is based on R mayor's the worldwide sha the worldwide phenomenon and specifically has to do with um the love that has has for Jewish people maybe the r could speak to that yeah so the specific world viiew and sheet that I'm referring to is the mayor's opinion that irrespective of our Behavior irrespective of our actions our conduct Bank we're always considered the Beloved children of hm in cont distinction to the of rud who says that our our relationship is conditional that we're only considered children when we do the will of hem ra says it's unconditional that irrespective of what of how we act we're always the Beloved children of Hashem and this is a theme we see in many just to name a couple uh let's say ra says that Hashem says that when a Jew suffers my head hurts my arm hurts mean God says he he feels our pain why does God feel our pain why is God empathizing and sympathizing with us because we're his beloved children same way a parent feels the pain of a child re mayor thematically says that because we're the Beloved children ofm feels our pain there there many many proofs yeah is is the my my Yeshiva had right okay so actually um in the book we do um offer a connection between the view that for the and R always the Beloved Children of hasem the connection being that in the world of raor we're never down and out there's always that remote possibility of return is significant the remote possibility so there a funny story that um when rev David oppenheim who is the RV in Prague was on his deathbed and they wanted to ask him you know who do you think uh who do you think should be the next RV so up and says what about rer and and then he passed away and they couldn't figure out you Rome who which R Rome and PR and ultim the got the job because the said he wasn't referring to Mayor a RAB mayor what he was saying is it's true he's on his deathbed and he's a and most most don't make it may and maybe I'll make it because on to that he was appointed the next brother of Prague whoow that is an interesting anecdote Vette of so so so the reader it sounds already very exciting the Jewish people are are very much aot uh in the world and being and the hope that's is even when you're down and out being the underdog perhaps um there's a lot of Charity and giving of to Daka that's involved with r where does that fall in here okay excellent um it's very much connected to uh what we just meant mentioned it's connected to the idea the is for the Mi um in in the worldview of romea we're always the Beloved children of hem which by the way allows us to give Sedaka because there's a there's a discussion are you allowed to give Sedaka because think about it God decreed this person should be poor so you're what you're going against the decree of the king it's like imagine if a king threw soone in jail said no one could support them so if you sneak them food and and resources you're going against the king the only allowance for sadaka and this was the argument RAB AA said back to toris Rufus he says what if the king locks his son in jail and then someone sneaks in and tries to support him then um that then the person would be rewarded so really what allows us to give Sedaka is RA mayor's opinion that we're always the Beloved children of Hashem and that means R and RAB AKA are in agreement about this issue which is which is of note because R was a talet of RAB AA right and amazingly you know in um per who sayson guess May yeah but you're right in it's ra and the ask yeah well so who was it and one of the answers given is it was Raba and he gave it over to his T re mayor so it was both of them which is consistent because they both hold of Saka R argues to turn Ro Saka is permitted and as we know is very much connected to the opinion of rby Mayor ah it's epic I'm I'm so excited because the it's such a big uh emphasis that a lot of rabbis will put in Learning To Have lushy tusos and Have everything kind of add up nicely to build a nice Tower of perfection and logic and in SAR but it almost seems like somebody's going to meet rev mayor by reading this book you you kind of see how everything comes together um yeah very much so I I I hope you know we could say we bring some of the view of R to life and R is actually buried in a very unusual position R is buried standing what does that mean most people they're buried horizontal the mayor is actually buried standing up this is what's brought by the Ben from V and the reason being because in the end of days when it comes time for hasem to bring the gula ultimately what's going to bail us out is the fact that look we might not be worthy but we're the Beloved children of Hashem so R mayor's Viewpoint is what stands up for the Jewish people until the end of time wow yeah wow where we glad see I'm so excited because in a world where a lot of the SPM that come out are are uh you know short little nibbles on the paraa like quick hits it's so exciting to hear to see a new Niche and and and like uh someone that's bringing all the Mastery and all the depth of a topic to uh to somebody it sounds like but there will get more than what they bargain for when they will get the safer I I thank you for your time I I know you that you are a busy man and I I wish you luck on all the trips and I'm very much looking forward now to uh reading the saer and El and I'll make sure to hit the Sedaka boxes wherever I go very good nice talking amen thank you very [Music] much