Rabbi Moshe Hauer, Tisha B'Av 5780, #5- Bringing the Jewish People Together

i just want to give you a sense of direction where we're going i just there's one more uh significant discussion here which we're going to be having now followed by the king of tsunami which we said already at the end of dominic and uh and then just a few closing words before the kingdom for the holocaust and alien seal i also want to mention two things one which i mentioned before which is that following on the on this presentation we're going to try to stream on the same zoom those two films one 25 minutes and one fifteen minutes uh one about the ponyville and one about the project of the bateaves and you're welcome to see that we're obviously not having the usual afternoon programming here in the show that's i think you'll find it meaningful the other thing that i want to mention is that every tish above i also include to try to do something for billionaires i encourage people to give something to some kind of a stalker some kind of a good cause and i think today it's a no-brainer that uh the cause that i would encourage would be the the mice that's the institutions that the panama giraffe gave his life for which is and it's it's easy to find the information to look it up there'll be something there and i'm happy also to share anybody who wants information about how to get it there i'm happy to help get it there if you want to give to the charity fund of the school to the tissue it can go it will go there as well okay and i just would note again you'll see that a lot of fun vision shiva today is again it's a huge huge place of tyra harvard of there it's eastwood okay so we've you've gotten a flavor for the point of visual but we want to i wanna and the last major discussion about i'd like to talk about how he brought people together we spoke with a lot of people talk about his love of type his commitment to build and ultimately the way he built was by figuring out how to bring people together getting people to learn the torah and getting people to support and to encourage that partner was a legendary fundraiser legendary and you look what he did built building after building yet in that time you know between the two world wars he built building after building and then came back from the nerds he certainly built any building built he was a legendary fundraiser a famous funny story which people say which i think it sounds from also but it's a funny story people say which is that there was a there was a child in nebraska who swallowed a coin and they were trying to do that they were having a hard time trying to figure out so the he had the ability to attract friends but we have to understand what his goal was what his method was and you'll think that what i'm saying is trying to to make something hard or good whatever it is it's clear it's clear and you have to understand the person who who does something like this so well he does it because he believes in it right you can't you can't get so many people to be enthused about the terror if you're not enthused about it you can't get people to be partners if you don't see them as partners and the fun of jarov when he approached people and when he was trying to do and accomplish this with people his goal was something which he also learned from people think that a person has to be very talented to be very successful when they go and they raise money on behalf of the issue um they have to be very unsuccessful when people have mercy on them and try to help them because the truth is it's from the revenge level this is what you have to do that the privilege for jewish people to support torah should come through me i should be successful in helping them to create a relationship with the entire i should be a good shaykh to do that really his goal clearly was to bring jews closer to the time there are some easy proofs of it he would do things very frequently that were not would not seem to be good for business quote unquote for example in johannesburg in south africa where he would travel he would not speak about running he would speak like so you'd say okay that's also a good strategy don't speak about money and then people will know what it's about what himself about that towards that end but he spoke about things which would not win friends he spoke about smirk shabbos in places where there was mushroom shacks and it was tough but he was so genuine and so loving that he just he won people over and when they came closer to tyra they came closer to turn they came they came very often all the way one thing by the way very interesting thing he one argument which he had was that they were busy working on getting people to build clothes and shoes he said forget the mcloys forget the schools make sure they invest in if the kids study torah then there will be a future to the community if the kids aren't studying torah there won't be a future to the community now there are alohas about this but he conveyed it some listened some didn't listen but in the end the focus which he had on his children and that he encouraged parents to school their children helped lead to the resurgence of the south african jewish community in a in a significant way but a big big impact he had another difference of opinion when he arrived in south africa he discovered that they didn't there was nobody and he was a coyote and he was very surprised why didn't they do nothing why not and he found out that the the the rabbanam decided because there's says which means a person who's given up his face is not supposed to that's what's the bench so they said look the communities they were they were all the shams they were all describing the shadows so we can't have them and they said what was gonna he's gonna smoke a cigarette right and then he's gonna get up and he's going to use the same mouth in front of his roof disagreed vehemently and he said a mummer is a person who chooses to give up the faith you know just like that in our time the the troubles and tribulations and trials and the things which people have so again there's a very significant literature we don't consider them like and he says i will tell you exactly the opposite but you take that coin and you give him the chance to do him and then later he picks up the cigarette he says i can't put that cigarette between the lips that just sit through his skin you know it's it's a question it's sort of like the ava equivalent of whether the cup is half empty or the cup is half full you look at the problem and say therefore we can't have anything or do you look at the solution and say look what can grow from it didn't like to get into brass tanks he wanted to lift people up he would say humorously he says you know i travel a lot and i see what people go through and lots of people have a hard time traveling he says this is the way it works for me taking off is great i have no problem landing is miserable my throat gets caught and everything i hate landing he says it's the same thing when i speak i like going and lifting people up and talking to them about big ideas to come back and to remember and say oh i have to ask the money for the yeshiva i hate that point i can't stand it so they want to lift them up the tunnel is the world's most legendary fundraiser also famous and everybody who has to raise funds uh in the rabbinic world hears this very very early in their career that the pun of israel himself used to say that when he knocked down the door of somebody's house he would pray that the person wasn't home you know just it was a hard thing but the way he he he did was he didn't do it he lifted people up and that was a big big big piece of his method i want to tell you a story a beautiful story he came to south africa and he heard about a man who was there he was a very wealthy person and a very philanthropic person however he refused to give money for anything oh he wouldn't give for torah he wouldn't give her religious things he gave money for lots of other good things you know for charity but he wouldn't give money for any holy crap and he was a little shady a jew came from lita but he had turned away so heard this he was very very sad he was very upset so he went to visit the person he says i have to heal this person from this crap he called him up he's going to have a meeting with you but he was smart he says i guarantee you i promise you i'm not meeting with you for money i just want to meet with you nothing about money is that okay fine you can come so the pawn of israel comes to him and he says where are you from he says i'm from a small town of israel said you're from zhibik he says when i was a child there was a period of time when i studied in jibig right before he went to towson he was a little boy right i told him when he was 10 years old he left home so what are the period time he's planned he spent it in in he says i knew that you they eat legitimate there were such special jews in for example i remember the shoemaker who was such a special jew every morning he was the earliest one to show and he was the becker right you know the legendary the town vector who would wake people up and say it's time to get up for daphne he would wake us up he didn't go through the streets but we studied in the issue yeshiva was in the show and he was there earlier saying to him and i remember his i remember the tune as how he said to him kill the shoemaker the shoemaker i remember him was my uncle my mother's brother says yeah i remember him i remember his wife your aunt precious people so good-hearted honest the person he was talking to started crying he says it's 30 years that i haven't heard this too i haven't heard my uncle's tune for saying to him and the fun of jarov says ah now you remember the nephew of how knockout the nephew cannot be the first person to give to holy causes and he said he says you're you're absolutely right and he gets his checkbook he's ready to give a donation and an apprenticeship says i'm not taking it i told you i'm not coming for money and i'm thinking okay so your league will come back and it says i'm not taking money for from my issue one gift to another issue he gets another issue i'm not taking money from my issue and um and the ending of the story the way the way it's written was that after he had given money after he said that from now on he's very open to giving probably causes then eventually he accepted a donation for the foundation as well so what's the story it's clever yes he wanted to bring people back he wanted to bring people close and it's you know i tell you the truth is that those those will be the best fundraisers in the world they you know i remember hearing once from someone who gave that when i was in the kylo and preparing to go out into the world so we they had someone came this little program a very great fundraiser came and he said he said he said i don't get it you know like people aren't curious and people aren't fundraising i'm i'm fun i'm here with this is the only mitch from the tires for people to put on tillet if i i'm able to tell someone about the value of torah and i can get them to support torah that's not getting them to do a wonderful mission and it's again for some people it might be their defense mechanism to enable them to do the hard work of fundraising but even then it won't work it's this is the chance to bring people together and there's one thing which is very critical to know about the fundamental and that was he was an incredibly unifying personality at a tremendously fractured time in a very fractured place when my mother should be well asked me who i was speaking about this dish above so i said i was speaking about the plan of a giraffe and she said ah i said you know him now they overlapped my mother was in their teeth in the 40s and part of the 50s and and she said i didn't know him personally but i heard him many times aponomizer was that person who every part i've called you sir loved and respected and when i was preparing for this i dug up you find the the obituaries of the puna bishop and the religious newspapers and the secular newspapers all with total admiration all of the admiration everybody admired him and as i said to before i skip over some of the more difficult stories that not to die to speak about so much on tisha brook but when the pawn of israel was campaigning to have those kids those holocaust orphans the alday tehran and others come to him to his institution it was there was a cool tour camp which was going on that energy show about those children there were those who wanted those children specifically to be brought up without religion it was a very strong counter movement to the you know to the shettle attitude you know jews who were from and people said you know look look how far that got us and we're gonna now be strong and there were major major conflicts about who would be able to raise these children what families were these children from would be able to continue them and the pandavas around was right there in the middle of it he was not just arguing he was building the institutions that could house them so i'll just tell you two anecdotes which are emblematic in a certain sense of the unique place that the fun of israel occupies one was the following there was a fellow his name was kellerman and now mistaken yosef kellerman joseph kellerman was involved in the aliyah noah in the youth aliyah which was the agency that brought kids over israel already and he was involved and that was uh an organization with which there was much tension and he was a ruthless he was a jabotinsky revisionist and um he was a complete supporter of the pundits not that he sent people to his institution but the institutions all had to be inspected and when he came to the pune of israel he said it's going to be fine why was it gonna be fine many times people found fault especially with these institutions they weren't teaching the curriculum that they wanted the kids to learn so they could be as productive citizens or whatever it was he didn't even look why because in europe when the pundivision of was the resident honeyfish this killerman was part of a group that was trying to do work to save some jewish lives and um amongst their own and he heard that there's a jew in the father there's a the bone of israel is a capable person and a person who likes jews and they came to the pan of israel and they said they need money to redeem and to save jews they came one of israel was a shiva long beard and so on and they came secular you know striving secular revisionists and the thunder said sure and he took out a check and he wrote he signed the check and handed over to them and they looked at it and it was blank amount was blank he said you know you didn't fill in me you forgot on the amount he said no how much do you need we don't know yet how much we'll need this is you write it for as much as you need i'll tell you this is the balance which i have an account don't go over the balance but it's all yours as much as you need and you'll let me know because that's what the problem is did for us strangers not religious who came because he cared about jewish lives it's the fun of israel to take care of these children they're fine there was a woman whose name was it wasn't her original name it was an israeli eye's name she was she was rachel i think she was the wife of a man named it's like when was the first president of the state of israel he was not an observant jew and she wasn't either although she came from a hasidis family she was a childhood fascinating family but she became secular and she adopted the name who did why who was the inspiration for the name someone named alexander yanu you've heard of him yanaya milk king who slaughtered israel he had certain uh governmental successor so to speak but he slaughtered and she named herself so to speak adopted his name and she was very active in the us the building was dedicated i believe in and to the dedication ceremony of the building came the president of israel and his wife they were scheduled to come and many people in the neighborhood were quite upset this was the enemy right and first of all they're not big fans of the state they weren't you know proto-zionists so to speak they weren't they were anxiety they were zionists and this lady was part of the group that they had been fighting you know this culture account for fighting over the children and from those rough welcome people went to the hazarish and they complained leave it alone knows what he's doing i was an issue wouldn't wouldn't have done it but the giraffe was a magazine he was a uh a bridge builder he brought people together he helped grow tyrannos israel because of that ability and he had a vision he said the same torah that says says no one will be permanently pushed away from the jewish people if you believe in god and you believe in the torah then you believe that every jew ultimately has a connection and famously in the midst of all the couture comes in the midst of all of these arguments he said in a famous famous speech that he gave to this being said many times he said we have to start writing filling for the children of uh inharad and we have to start building schools for the children of nahallah those were the prototypical anti-religious kibbutzim it wouldn't allow right some of you have been with me somewhere we've spoken about the places which now hashem have schools that right i met a woman there who was said when she had it when she had a baby they didn't let her have a wrist in the shoelace only have a doctor who can come to the house not a minion not a wrap not nothing a young woman younger than me right now hashem things shift one of my one of the things that the last couple of years someone sends us a gift of honey for for uh for rosh hashanah and they send a specific jar of honey i love it it's from in harold and they're now making it with the badass but they wouldn't have let them in and you will tell me business is business but now they had a matzo bakery a shimra monster bakery which people came out to and so people would see it you were able to do it he had confidence that every jew has a connection to torah and we're fighting now but ultimately there's going to be a resolution and he was going to contribute to the resolution in any way which he could ponder is famous until this day i believe it is true until this day that on young hearts mothers the israeli flag flies from the top of the building of punishment and that's not typical that's not typical and he said they are our home they fight for us they defend us we're part of them they're part of us of course i'm gonna show i'm gonna show that that respect and get upset if people stood in the way and with all the complexity of how life has turned since then it's still there they still put it up that's still a part an expression of his uh of his of his legacy the ability to to have people come together to to connect to understand that it's all about and we're all about and we're all together to try to get to the same place to be able to have the world together unified around the torah unified around the torah this is uh this was his image and it was very connected to its history i mentioned to you before that he made a decision his own decision at the end to go there to israel instead of to go to america where he was originally being sent part of it was because he had heard from the family that was dying he lay for a day without saying anything and then he his family came and he asked them what's happening in the world it was 1933 and they reported him on hitler and his ascent and the additional fears and said one thing said legacy said that the resolution to the problem is going to be an anti-strip prophetic words of time in 1933 and if you look today at the building of the plan of yeshua in big big letters on the front of the building it says the heart cnt played by a claddish he viewed the coming teres israel not as a convenience not as a place where you can get papers we'd be able to do it he believed that it was the place where khalifa was going to come together and become holy and holiness would grow and to do that jewish people have to be together and so he was everybody's friend he said of arts this is such a vintage version of his love that it's worth bringing things this fact will close with it he says they should fall upon them fear and trepidation right and then afterwards we say sean he says that's what happens people see you from a distance and they're scared of you you have to go over it to say show me people are only scared from the distance if you come close it's resolved i've tried to share with you is the magic mixture of the love of tara and the love of jews a passion that drove a person with every fiber of his being to strengthen the jewish people and to rebuild the tyre yes he had a dream to rebuild the 18 yeshiva to bring over the people from punjabish his dream was to restore the jewish people to what we were supposed to be we're still here titus isn't and strength is to some degree because of the person who knew how to cry who's the ray of edema we're going to make this the wrap up we'll go from here straight to say see that the yearning of heritage israel for its children back and then we'll say the kinah on the holocaust of don't think it needs any more introduction and then we'll again we'll stand up to say which is the custom to sing for following us after let's see those we wish again we will we will screen the films i hope and pray that the um that the example of this person should inspire each and every one of us to mourn over what's missing to really really stop and think about what's missing what's missing and care for each other that's missing entirely in the world which is not hospitable and do more to make it that way do more to care the more to live the values that this person this hashem this living what he exemplified i hope that something from that will come of this i hope that the houses like this one which were empty of the ishmael for months but who didn't even get to be reminded of that good thing should soon be filled i mean aviation around this room again it should be filled with it and and we should said enough we should be able to be the heart center plato we should be able to go to the right sea and the disease should be finished the loneliness should be finished and the hashem which we live every day by a world which doesn't welcome his presence should be finished okay so we'll say page 6465. sienna laissez you