Rabbi Motty Kesserman - Pre-Shavuos Divrei Hisorerus at Kollel Mevakshei Ohr Yosef

Wow. It's so nice to see you. Such a physic. I give a to every here. This sh in a few years from now is going to have a huge beautiful building. is I hear the campaign was very much last night. It's the first of many. And one day each of you are going to say the good old days and we were in the old was so together of I thanked we finished building. Someone told me from Kabun said he had a small sh and the same people that pushed him to big to build the big sh came to him and said the good old days were so now is the good old days to be here and we're yen that are part of I was driving on the way to lots this morning and I drove by the road where last week was a terrible accident. I was on the way home from Shu last week and the road was closed and I had a tremendous assault. A few months ago in Lakewood there was a tragedy where a child was left in a car in the worst tragedies we could imagine. A few weeks after that tragedy, a Rav, a younger Rob who became a Rav a few years ago, a very good friend of mine, he wrote a letter to all the Raon in town. He wrote the letter, a very hard letter. He was begging the Raon, please, let's do something. He's trying to do something. I meet this Rob afterwards and I ask him, where does Kumtu? You're from the younger town. And this go knock on the door of some older abonum. Ask them for some ideas writing a letter like signs from older aon town. And he tells me something very scary. He says you don't understand. It happened in my sleep at night. When I go to shul every shabas I see this Eid. Sadly in the world we live in everything turns into news very very quickly. So a person gets all of a sudden it goes out tragedy in Lakewood is still a little menite and they don't write the names till they go to the families and as a person goes through the day he breathes a sigh of relief orem is not my children or hashem is not my friend or hashem is not my this shabas this tus and mamas zus and bobus cousins, uncles, sh that are going into shabas the writes a person can only have one feel in the week. I'm sure it applies to this. So this is going to be for these families that are going into a shabas missing. We go into the Y from the Y of the the Y with the greatest preparation is the Y is called alem the preparation and every person has to think to himself what am I preparing for the say the whole the last night a person could have the whole sphere getting one second of really focusing what am I doing and when that every year is a new. So each one of us is being the uniquely the has no mitzvah was so busy mitzvah all the are all the next time someone's says every single thing we do on is a mic is going to be spending thousands and thousands of dollars on but goes into and he goes and he has sudis and he goes to d or even if he's out somewhere he doesn't have a minion this year he's not holding a kesh l and this sh is not able to learn what is the avoid for zakashi a tremendous and I understand the name of the sh this is a of this zakashi [Music] imagine every shul would be a sign up on the night of and every when he walks into there'll be one of these round one of these things and in order for you to walk in the sh and you have to explain why am I happy that I'm a Jew why do I want to sign up am I interested I was sitting with groups of people this week. I was sitting in the yeshiva and I asked the boys, "Are you happy or Eid? The conversation didn't go so easy like I thought." My rebi told me at Dasha that he once said in a community out somewhere in the United States, it was a community of yidden that are on the way coming closer to the and they built a mikvah. They built a beautiful mikvah. And he gets up by this. He gets up by the habas and he says like this. He says, "When we come to Shayim, I don't know who is going to be in a higher level, me or you. You are people that grew up in American homes far away from Yiddish kite. And each of you are on the way on the way coming closer to Hashem building a mikah with such mysterious nephesh." He says, "I come from a family of many generations going back to Bianca of Raon. All my zadas, my father, my zed are a lot greater than I am. My father was greater than me. His father was greater than him. Going back to the I grew up since I'm two years old. I knew I have to learn. I have to d and which Yid could say that I'm doing what I should be doing." But he says the that I have the enjoyment that I have in this world is something that you can't imagine. When you go to aikul and you see him with 30, 40, 50 looks like a yeshiva. He says the gishmak that I have sitting by a s I've once been there sitting with a full room of he says the gishmach that I have in a shabas kesh the gishmak that I have in a y person thinks to himself the certain moments even though yim itself might be a hard not for many people not an easy but think of certain moments of yo the shankite of sitting with a family doing the shank of a the same shank of a pur and a ye has to look into a mirror and the greatest of that we have today the world out there as much as we'd like to live in a different planet the world out there is very excited and the only way we could go against that excitement is if a a child feels in I am the happiest person where does my get is what's what is what where's my father's every child knows what's exciting to his father at the barbecue it's going on vacation or my excitement is this is something might not be easy when a person's young a person has go to any z and ask the z if you have a choice of reliving your life. And you got you have two choices. Hashem have eight children. You could go back to having two children. You could have the great best vacations, the nicest home. Would you give up your family to do that? There's a ye my hilly hills. My my neighbor, his father of Schlimmer Hill, Steven Hill, he once spoke and he said to he said an interesting thing. He said there was a time he was moist nephesh at the height of his career. He was moist nephesh and became a balch. He became a balcha. It was very very difficult and it was so difficult to have panosa. He was living in moss. It was very very difficult. He went to the and he comes to the rebre and now I have nothing. I'm suffering. And the Reb took off his glasses and he said there were tears coming down the Reb's eyes and the Reb said, "It's going to be so good." And he said at a party when he was sitting with his kinders or and he said, "This is what the Reb meant. Each one of us is making life choices. I go to the minyan every night. This speech I can't say in the minan because this speech is not but every single boy at the minan 14 years old is making life choices that when he's 80 it's going to affect his life. I once heard from a boy at the mñana of pelica thing this boy said I was the cool kid in my family. I was the one my brother was the my brother was the neb. He was the yeshiva guy. He had all types of words of describing what his brother was. He says, "I was it." All of a sudden, years started going by. I was the older brother. My little younger brother comes back from Brisk. And all of a sudden, one nicest after another. And some takes my younger brother, the most greasy guy in the world, and he becomes his Aiden. All of a sudden, he's living in the nice house. He's living the life. And I'm the neb. And this is each one of us makes life decisions. Each one of us making life decisions. Where do I get my every ye that's part of this? And I give you a your children know they hear that tati goes to the k early in the morning. You don't realize what you are what it means to get up early in our society. Every Eid when a person's going to have a moment a great Saddic said in our generation when a person comes to his own family he can't be an on but he has to tell his children the the I have when I get up in the morning the gishmach that I have I've spoken to many people many people discuss should I stay up at night I shouldn't stay up at night and all of a sudden this the whole night it's only four hours and if I learn if I sleep at night I'll learn in the afternoon said if cla does a mimic join KL again that's a personal decision but I've never met a ye at 4:00 in the morning that said this was the worst night I ever had the gave us spirituality gave us any Eid that sits and learns this night of at 4:00 in the morning he will feel a special feeling bench each one of us our children are growing to much better yeshivas that we went to that gabarashem we have much Raim that we went to of this of auain one of the great mashim and clas in the modern Orthodox world there by Jonathan Saxs and he said a story he said a story that changed his life he said he was a young boy and he came to Q gardens I've asked people who this reb was he writes there was a rebard he says he came before Pes and the Reb said could you come to me for the sake He comes to this house by the seda and it was just his saddic. He called him a reb and his wife. All of a sudden in the middle of the sed he hears a baby crying. He hears a baby crying and he hears the reb says I have to go back. I go the reb goes to the back and he hears the reb singing to the baby. The reb puts the baby back to sleep and he comes back to the satan and he says he didn't know what it meant. Then the reb was singing And he found that afterwards that this Reb and his reb she was one of the ladies who they operated on the tremendous show in Alz and at that time they said they'll never have children and here was this Eid singing and he said that tune is his whole life he hears that tune. Each one of us has to sing a tune to our family. So the mention we should be to come giving us such we should be to have a connection to the we should be z to realize the tremendous gifts gave us the spiritual that has is something that money can't buy to come closer to of your