What Is the Value of a Jew in 2023 {Toras Chaim Mesivta Miami }

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com be an intros good morning of very special this morning you may be familiar with the name Rabbi Danielle gladin if you're familiar with Torah anytime you definitely are he's someone who's given thousands of shim that people have have listened to um to quote R Bita in his in his wit that R gladin May tah anytime famous it's really uh special SL to have him with us here this morning in particular as he was uh coming out of the car and reminiscing back in our days in Yeshiva he's someone who is not just a speaker but this is a person who's a his some of the r over here are amongst them recall someone who staged in learning worked on the and became a true through harving and working and learning and that's something so special to have someone who's both a talented orator is able to give over message message at the same time is bringing a beautiful message of Torah with him from the the depths of his heart it's really a special by Daniel gladin okay good morning everyone it's a real pleasure to be here thank you RAB drus for the generous introduction perhaps you don't know I actually have a very special connection to the sushiva about actually exactly 25 years ago my brother was learning here actually it was the first year Rabbi Luan came to the Yeshiva and he was here in the Yeshiva even before his family came and my brother was from the first pioneers with RAB Luan here in Florida and for some reason he needed a Kusa so I was an older B learning in Queens and I had an opportunity to come down here for two months during those two months the Yeshiva had its dinner and Rabbi CH uh needed to fund raise and they needed someone to give RAB Chad Shir so actually my first opportunity teaching was I took over Rabbi Cher for a few weeks here I think it was the 11th grade and the 12th grade so I feel very special connection here and I want to share with you a thought that's really been weighing on my heart of recent everyone is tuned in and everyone has their heart and their focus on what's taking place in our right [Music] now and we always have to ask ourselves you know we're so familiar with what we constantly hear and we constantly know about there's a concept of that the generations as they progress we go down and down and down you know the gamar says if the early Generations were like Angels then we're like people and if the early Generations we're like people we're like we're like animals the gar says what are we we're nothing would say he would say we can't even imagine the greatness of our grandmothers doesn't say our grandfathers even of our grandmothers he doesn't say we're not on their level he doesn't say we're not close to their level he says we can't even imagine the greatness of our of our grandmas and that's something we all understand but let's ask ask ourselves a very serious question how does Hashem look at us us me you 2023 what's our value right now in shamay I'm giving a sheare I give a sheare on Friday on be just going through the daving we're up to the of so I've been using very extensively the commentary of shim Schwab it's called and he says something it blew my mind do you know what the wordsa mean we would usually translate it to mean loved us with a great love we usually translate as a great love Schwab says the word rabba doesn't mean great doesn't mean great the word rabba means increasing ever increasing getting bigger and bigger and bigger sayab the Ream's love for Claus is not static it's not stationary it's increasing it becomes more and more and more in every generation says RAB as much as learned love he loved more he loved going more he loved more he loved more I'll tell you I mean between me and you without your principles listening when I was a kid just reporting the facts in high school and there was a gamarra test I mean I don't know if you're allowed to do this but like if you missed the word you need a crutch once in a while so what did we have they had something called the Cino gamar you know what the Cino gamar is like they would have a translation of the gamarra in the you know in the queen's English actually you know most of the time the Aramaic was more understandable than the English and the Cino and you had to somehow figure out you know the gamar based on the and then when I got to high school they had something called sh don't tell anyone art SCH right art scroll and they came out with art scroll so wow I remember in Camp I was like I could actually learn a m on my own and then they came out with Hamed and now they have the whole sh says why is that it's because in every generation loves the Jewish people more and more and more now you could actually you have uh uh tools and and resources that explain every Rashi and every to and you could hear a sheer on every subject in K say you know in the early Generations they didn't have a because then Ream's love for cl was still developing I was I was very blown away by this idea that hashem's love for clais is getting bigger and bigger and actually I remembered something the rash said to explain aat in a actually had this to be in the last year he gave she I think he gave she less than a handful of times but I was in the last year of sh but I want to share with you something that Aral said and we're going to bring it back to what I mentioned that Aral would tell v v was the main student of he would tell V you know how great you are in shamayim you know how much you count in shamayim you have more value even than the earliest Generations would say what are you talking about but you once told me that I don't hold a candle to the early Generations says to you told me that the smallest of the earlier Generations is greater than me say Hashem does not evaluate a person based on what they're doing object L Hashem evaluates a person based on the times they're living in says the AR you know what kind of times you're living in my dear the is so out of control in our times that your value in shamayim is more than the greatest leaders of the early generation very interesting now I could just imagine what kind of Tuma was in spas in the 16th century you know what kind of billboards do you think they had what kind of it was probably we would go there we would think you know may is not on the level of of the 16th century and yet that said compared to earlier Generations is so powerful that the eyes of you are greater than in earlier Generations what would the AR say about a Yesa Bak in 2023 what do you think he would say about the today if it was out of control 500 years ago who could even imagine what the arizal would say today so you say I don't know that's the Aral you know we don't we don't necessarily understand what the AR means it's not necessarily something we could comprehend he writes he says I don't like to say this and we don't like to talk about add it too often because it can make someone feel arrogant says it is possible to have a Yesa student reading aish a a rash a and he doesn't really fully comprehend the words of the tyus and in sh they look down and the Yeshiva student is held in higher esteem in the shamayim than the reine of the words he's learning and he says I don't like to talk about this too much but you could see his words black and white then the sh today could be considered in higher esteem than even a reine so I saw in the newly printed Das of he brings and if you think this is a far-fetched idea who he told the same thing to would say you know there's a famous T that we blow Sher twice on rashash WE blow the Sher sitting it's called we're standing but you're allow to sit and we blow theer and the says why do we blow the Sher twice to confuse the Satan so T says what do you mean to confuse the Satan how we confusing the Satan says T the first time the Satan hears the he says what's that is it the arm is it rashash is it msia the Satan gets a little confused and the second time the the Satan says this is definitely mhia and he runs away isn't there an obvious question on the Satan is such a fool that every single year he thinks it's mhia isn't he a smart guy he does pretty well with me and you he he fools us time and again and again so why is he so foolish as to think that Messiah is coming it didn't come last year it didn't come the year before it didn't come 10 years ago it didn't come for the rashba it didn't come for reaber didn't come for theer it didn't come for the mar and the rashash Shiva said that's right it didn't come for them but only the sa knows how much more powerful he is now and how great the challenge is now nobody better than the sa knows our challenges and therefore nobody better than the sa knows the likelihood and the possibility and the probability of the coming of Messiah so we have this really very interesting idea that perhaps on an objective level if we were to evaluate our madrea compared to earlier Generations no we're not as great as earlier Generations but if we were to evaluate the esteem that we are held if you would know how important it is to to even come a minute earlier to to even apply yourself a little bit more to your learning if you wouldn't know how valuable that is to Hashem we are taught that the efforts that we put in today in our generation are more than in other words you have a right to get up in the morning and to say you know what I am held in no less esteem than a reine than a na'vi than a Tana in in a way we are held in much greater esteem I want to share with you just one more idea along the same lines you know with the recent events that happened in isra and we hear about atrocities the likes of which we haven't seen since the Holocaust I I remember my grandfather would say that in the Holocaust he was taken from a Work Camp called radam he was taken to D and he was literally online to be taken to the crematoria he was going to be thrown into the fire with his brother and at the very last second two SS officers came with he had a foot in the fire he had a foot in the basa they yanked him out they pulled him out they said you're young you could work and his life was saved and whenever I think about that I have one simple thought you think the ream just saved my grandfather from the crematoria if he saved him he saved my father he saved me saved my children I guess ream wanted us and the truth is if you're in Yesa today and you're alive and you could D in and you could learn the ream saved do you too do you know how long theam has been looking out for you to make sure you could be here today I mean if you go through the record of the Jewish people from the time of where over a million Jews were massacred the Crusades the Inquisition where hundreds of thousands were were Force forcibly converted kazaks kitki pams Holocaust if you would understand that the likelihood of there being an observant Jew today it's not highly improbable it's not statistically unlikely it's downright impossible it's an impossibility of Epic Proportions I'm sure you know the words of of rakov rakov writes in his introduction to S he says how can a heretic not be utterly ashamed analyzing the state of the Jewish people today says after everything that we had to go through after thousands of years you know who by the way the said he was AI writes those words about says I swear [Music] says when I think about this miracle the miracle of the continuity of the Jewish people God it's a greater Miracle than all the Miracles did in Egypt you know a lot of people think and say you know you know I would really have a lot of amuna and Hashem if he would show me a miracle like if I would see the splitting of the yamu then I would believe in him but what do you want from meam you know I live in 200 23 I don't see any Miracles you see a much greater miracle if you could go to Yeshiva and you could learn Tyra today after 2,000 years of Gus that's a bigger Miracle than when they were walking through the Red Sea they were saying you know if only God would show me a real Miracle they like what like Jews learning toyra in 2023 then I would really have but now you know I'm not really seeing a miracle so they rebelled at the yam they didn't have cuz they didn't really see a real Miracle but today you're seeing a miracle that the Y never saw think about that think about of all the generations in the history of the world which generation did Hashem choose to show the greatest Miracle to you you know why ran because as much as hem loved them he loves you more he wants to show you greater Miracles he wants to reveal himself more so this to me is a very empowering idea that everything that we do every small thing that we do every great thing we do is so important is so valuable the re's been waiting for us to bring bring clao to the Finish Line never has a Jew had more ability and power than the that you offer today than the t that you're learning today so it's really a great to come back to this wonderful Yesa to see a lot of good and all of you in all of your endeavors thank you for having me thank you thank you you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com