Yahrtzeit Event For the Abir Yaakov, Rav Yaakov Abichatzeira

to everybody for the yearly is actually a triple quadruple but we're celebrating tonight the hula the grandfather of it's also the site of the Ram tonight and in four days will be the site of the zak. So let's proceed. We're combining all three of them together and we'll hear the brea throughout the night connecting connecting them together. >> It's interesting. It's interesting to note, you know, actually I want to start off with a little story just to tell everyone because not everybody understands or appreciates enough the value of participating in a what it means to get a bra. What does it mean? So, I want to share a story with you without saying a name. Somebody called me up a few days ago and he said, "I bought a bottle last year by the Hila of Baba and I want to know did I pay for the bottle?" I said, "Let me look through the our chat group." Our chat, I don't see it. I see that I asked you twice. Didn't happen yet, but I'll look on my computer. Maybe I I wrote it down there. Maybe you did it online. Let me check. I'll get back to you in a few minutes. I called him back a few minutes later. I said, "Unfortunately, it's not paid yet. What's going on?" He says, "My daughter is about to get engaged. And last year, I bought a bottle by the Ula that my daughter should get engaged before the next ula. I want to make sure that before the engagement happens, I want to be paid up for the bottle. Said no problem. Sent over his credit card. We charge it on the spot. Hashem, why am I saying this story? Cuz people think sometimes, you know, we try to sell bottles, we try to sell candles, we have beautiful pictures, other nice stuff. [clears throat] And uh the thing that I'm selling, hocus pocus, but it's not hocus pocus. It's not a joke. And it's not a way to make some money and to try to cover our budgets and to even to try to cover the huai itself. When a person buys a bottle of AR or a candle or just donates money of the for the good work that we're trying to do for the shim for the sh for the fact that we keep the of jewelry alive here in Heights and they do that they are bringing to themselves that you can't buy any place You can't go to the grocery store to get it. It's something very very special and unique. And over the last two years, even here by our there was a person who came a few years ago and he bought for his daughter to become a kada or hashem. She got engaged that year. His mouth was an Ashkanazi Kabad doesn't know about Hel said listen if it worked for my son and my new daughter-in-law I have four other boys I want four bottles two of them two of them got married that year >> here we have a story that happened last Friday that the person tells me that his daughter he bought a bottle for his daughter and it happened But it works when you believe. It works when you believe in the sadik. It works when you believe that by you contributing money to the of this by you contributing money to support these which don't happen in a vacuum that you are connecting to the sadik and you are bringing from the sadik and what better night to do that than on the night of his We have with us tonight a very special guest a big someone who travels and he went to visit many of the kits and he came in Morocco just came back from a few days ago some of you may know him very a few people came over to me and asked me wow I didn't know you know Robert I said I didn't but I got to know him about him I invited with him. He came and we're so happy to have him. So, I'm not going to share the Torah to talk about the connections of Air and the Rambam because maybe it's part of his speech. If he'll cover it, you'll hear it from him. If he won't cover it and I still have something to say later in some more time, I'll add it a little bit later. I do want to acknowledge that tonight the hilah is basically this is a hila that was prepared for many many years by one of the granddaughters of Baba Sali whose mother la passed away just two months ago and she can't be here with us tonight. Hopefully, she's going to come soon for a few minutes to light a candle and for us to do hashba for her mother who was the last child that was alive from Babali if I if I have it right. I think no others >> of our I'm sorry >> and two daughters. Oh, okay. But uh she was one of the three day one of the last pillars. Last year we played a uh a video of Abraad that she gave us for the hilah last year. So So we're going to make when when Mrs. comes, we're going to stop the music and we're going to do a hash and light and have her light a candle. And the same thing is in two weeks from now for her sister, Mr. Litzker, who helps co-sponsor the which will be in two weeks from Wednesday night, January 21st or infan. So without further ado, I'm going to ask everyone to please give your utmost attention to Gladstein with all the due to him. You're going to walk away learning things that you never heard before. I can almost guarantee you that. and Bizm later if anybody wants the link to his channel to follow Mor on a regular basis I'll be happy to share that on the chat so other people can join and continue learning from Rabi so without further ado we're going to ask to say a few words >> thank you very >> [clears throat] >> Good evening everyone. Thank you Rob for the very warm and kind introduction. It's an honor to be here. It's truly an honor to have the opportunity to speak about one of the great all-time leading sphardic giants. The spardic tradition is very dear to my heart. I just came back from Harazim. One of the reasons I went there, I wanted to go to the Kev of the grandfather of the who's buried at the foot of Zakaria. I actually visited the Baba Mayor Ra the Baba Alazar. So I feel very connected to tradition. And tonight first I want to share with you the significance of the yard side of the hula of the of being which will always be between par and now there's an amazing observation is oat The letters spell out. And then we have one of begins the period of the year of one of the main areas of a hashem that we try to work on during guarding the eyes. Guarding the eyes was one of the central principles of Abu Khira family. By the way, Abu Kater family begins over 400 years ago back in Damascus from a great sadic. The even mentions him albaz Elbaz was the first of this dynasty and legend has it that he needed to take a ride, a boat ride in order to collect sodaka to support Tyra but he didn't have the fair for his boat and he sits on his mat and miraculously the mat motors on the water. Hence the name Abu Katra the father of the mat. But then we have the great of Abi Kat. And I want to share with you something very dear to my heart. I feel very connected to the there's a tradition in the kat family from mayor from the baba mayor that the day that was born he was born y adar the day of the passing of the who passed away on that very day their was born it's like one sadic doesn't pass away from the world until Hashem brings another as if the is the continuity of the great safaric tradition of but what's very interesting the next great of Baghdad the Beneskai you know the Beneshai's father rebel did not have children he was the leading rabbi in Baghdad. But there was a certain sadness that encompassed his life. The father of the Beneskai was not blessed with children. So he sent his wife to travel from Iraq, from Baghdad to Taflat in Morocco to get a bra from the Abirakov. And the Abirakov blesses the mother of the Beneskai that she should be za to have a child who will illuminate the world in Tyra. And sure enough was born. So you see the is like the bridge the continuity between the and the benes. That's the golden chain of sparic jewelry. The the and the beneskai. So tonight I want to share with you three important points. I want to share with you the historic literary output of the yakov. I want to share with you as I mentioned the historic role in sparic transmission and the historic protection of the airaov. I want to tell you a little bit about the airaakov sparim. I think we have on the table here. Rabbi I don't know what what if it's for sale. Someone already put a bid on it. >> No no you can open it up. Want to open it? >> It's okay. We'll start with is the classic work of by the way the word gamatria abu that's where he got the name from then you have the safer makavan is another safer alorah from the you have a safer gins hame gins hamel 27 perushim in the puk ber Elohim. So the entire cafer is explaining the first inerious. You have a safer big sad gumatria yakov Abu Kher. You have safer dores to darash gamatria. Yakov Abu Kher. You have safer magic. A commentary on chapter 119 in Tahillim. The entire safer is a commentary on the 119th chapter of Tahillim. You have the safer shuva. You have the safer leaves. I think I saw another one here. Yep. Yelovim of the Abu Kat family. This is one of the 13 works of Ra. I would if I would uh check out this one. Then you have Shabases which is the cab of the safer. But I want to share with you the historic protection that the Yakov offers the Jewish people. Many are not familiar that in 1945 >> ladies in 1945 at the end of World War II, the Nazis were primed to invade Egypt. They're in North Africa. They're primed to invade Egypt. Actually, the Nazis had a plan that in 11 days they would take over the entire Yeshiva init. The Nazis had a plan that they were going to bring buses and vans throughout the going to take the exhaust pipes, turn it inwardly, and they were going to gas all the residents of Isis in a matter of 11 days. In 11 days, the Nazis were going to exterminate all the Jews in land of Palestine at the time. Now, the Arabs knew that the Nazis were coming. So the Arabs would broadcast on the radio, "Jews, we're going to soak in your blood. We're going to violate your wives. We're going to murder your children." They were selling mank on the street. The Arabs were waving Nazi flags in the windows. And the Nazis were about to embark on an invasion in Egypt of at Elamine. And there was a sadic in the land of Israel. His name was Rabutkak Alia. Rabbit Kia would go from one kev to the next. He would bring a minion and he would donate one kev. He would deter and a different tana and in meron and in Taria and he went from one sadic to the next. By the way, the aakov had four children. One of the children is buried in Taria today. you could go to the son of and he's going from one sadic to the next and it made a big rom in the Israel until finally comes into the sh he's very confounded he's very confused they asked him rebi what happened he said last night I had a dream and came to me and he said you know you're going to why don't you pray at my grave and I didn't know who he was so they said rabbi who came to So said his name was Jacob Abu. He said, "You're ding at the graves of all that. Why don't you ding at my grave?" So the rabbi said, "Do you know who this is? This is the great progenitor, the patriarch of the family. He's buried in Danur. You know, at the end of the life of he had a big to go to Israel. So he comes from Taflat until finally he's near the city of Alexandria and he falls ill and he realized his end was coming and he tells his that he's not going to survive too much longer but he's going to pass away right after Shabbat. They said why right after Shabbat? He says he has many tunim to make on Shabbat. And sure enough on Sunday Rabak passes away and he's buried in Damor and the city of Alexand Alexandria was saying you know he should really be buried near us. I'll tell you a little story. You know the Maldin, the Malbish, he mysteriously passed away in Kiev which was not a Jewish city and Raisant came to his Leva and he gave a hespit on the Malbum and he said the Jewish community is bewildered. Why is the Sad the great God of the generation? Why is he buried in a gentile city? Rais Salanter said we don't know the reason but you could be sure that Hashka has it that he needs to be buried here for some reason we don't know about like Mosher Rabenu who's buried Mul B opposite the Aadar of B because all the Jews who died because of Balar one day they're going to be they're going to return to the Jewish people and Mosher Raenu will be lying there and when Mosher Rabeno is he will bring all All the Jews threw the midbar back to Israel. Says salant the malum needs to be buried here. But we don't know why. A couple years ago, I discovered the reason why the Malbum is buried in Kiev in the biggest Jewish cemetery in the world. You know what it's called? Babiar. When the Malam passed away and was buried there, nobody knew why he needed to be buried there. Later it turned out there are more Jews buried in that area than anywhere else in the whole world. So when the day comes and all these sadikim are resurrected the malim will lead them out. So too was buried a little bit off of Alexandria in Damor. We didn't know exactly why until 65 years after he passed away. He passed away in 1880. And in 1945, Rabit Alia realizes that it's not enough for him to dive in at the graves in Israel. He needs to go dive in at Yakov. So he makes his way to where? To the chief military office in the land of Palestine in Gaza. And he goes to Gaza. And the general of the British army is stationed in Gaza. And Rabbi Kafia says, "I would like to go to Egypt." Egypt. You can't go to Egypt. There are British soldiers stationed all the way from Gaza to Egypt. The the British occupied Palestine at the time. And Rabi is explaining to this British general how important it is for the future of the Jewish people that he goes to the Kev of the rabbi buried in Damor and inexplicably the general said, "Okay, you're going to take the next train out tomorrow, be at the train station at 7:00 a.m." And Ra Kia had a conflict because he needed to deno would not be over by 7:00 a.m. But he figured a miracle would happen. He gets to the train station 7:15 and something broke down. The train was waiting for him. He gets on the train and the train leaves Gaza and comes to Alexandria. From there comes to Damor. And at Damor many Yidden from the area join him and they pray the entire night. In the morning saw a ray of light come out of the of the and he said I know and then he gets word that the Germans suffered a decisive defeat at Elmagne. Many miracles happened at the time. One of the miracles was the Germans were very thirsty. They tapped into the water line and just then the British ran salt water through the water and the Germans drank the salt water and they became extremely thirsty and they had to retreat and Raml had to go back and they never entered the land of Israel and legend has it and our tradition is it was in the merit of the Airaov whose yard site is tonight. So aside from his historic role in the transmission of Spardik jury from the to the Beneskai and his great literary output their protected the Jewish people if there are Jews today in the land of Israel if there are yeshivists in the land of Israel if there's in the land of Israel if there's jewelry in the land of Israelit Raenu and you could be sure that if you come tonight to connect with the sadic to get then you too will connect with the great lifegiving powers of this sadic and his and his and in the merit of us all coming together this evening the of the saddic should protect all of us and all of our families and all of our children for many many generations. And it should bring Claus the ultimate Yeshua. Amen. >> [applause]