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Rabbi Ya'aqob Menashe ztl Levaya
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Rabbi Ya’aqob Menashe (Ya’aqob Eliyahu ben ‘Abdallah Faraj Hayyim and Rahel Manasseh) zt”l, founder and spiritual leader of Midrash Ben Ish Hai, was laid to rest in Eretz Yisrael on Har Hazetim on the morning of Tuesday, July 28, 2020, due to complications from COVID-19. On Monday afternoon a socially distanced crowd packed every parking spot in the oversized lot at the Great Neck Synagogue to remember the life and legacy of Rabbi Menashe with hespedim. This is the livestream presented by the Chazaq Organization and TorahAnytime. Past classes from the rabbi are available here: https://rb.gy/qe0s64
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okay you know the heat and the
temperature is only surpassed by its
name
each and every one of us
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can you hear me
videos at this moment
years ago
so many people who they must be on in
the most
positive and extraordinarily
inspirational way
to understand our deepest deepest
condolences
by defending children
and grandchildren
i think it's highly appropriate
to have to be a leviathan
it would be in the nine days not just
because it's coming of sadness
and tragedy the lesson of this
exactly the lesson that each and every
one of us has to hear
you're all learning people gathered here
and people who are
distant from terrorism and dispose
you'll understand that we're not only in
the nine days
586 bc by the babylonians
american thousands explicitly because
was that they were
violating three most serious availables
in the entire torah
zara with helio sexual morality
he was dominant but at the time of the
second base peter
there was nothing of the storms
absolutely they appear to be friends at
the end
and as we all know very well every
single one of us
excuse me they were really sad
the third generation of jews who are
through
all the orthodox
that's
for the three
he sent us into a dollars that still
hasn't completely terminated
one understands how to absorb the proper
lesson in the right mood and frame of
you just think about the most precious
couple that we have lost
first now there are
they were so fine they were so into
worrying about each and every person and
being your walking
breathing kids are sharing each and
every person
that's what made them be able to
encourage so
many people to bring so many jews
come out to turn up the mitchells
and you should be able there to inspire
connoisseurs to help us
realize that
precious
times
tremendous love compassion patient
sensitivity
reach out to every last jew there isn't
that you that can be saved
and be able to receive the unbelievable
call because sparkle has for him in the
mullet hotline
thank you over there um
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didn't expect it to be this way
we believed we believed so much
dear family and when i say to your
family it will not
mean only
the children i mean each and every one
of you coming here today
because rabbi menachem truly made
everyone
part of being amazing family
and even though it's months already that
have been passed
since he became sick
and almost there's no chance
it feels to me that it's something that
really
we cannot accept cannot understand
we still want to say the healing for him
we still wanted to have a chance another
class
how we're gonna greet him when he's
gonna come back from the hospital
one of the major signs that this time is
coming
is that that's less and less
hashem mistaken that somebody came from
us
and once we could ask 20 minutes
but there was also no generation that we
had so much storage
so many people are learning to have
become rabbis
that there is no replacement for what
they do in this world
that no one can do what they do
but they have a major power that no one
could replace them
do you really know anyone else like
unbelievable coming personality like
rabbi yahoo menacing
even if you have a heart
made of iron you are going to dissolve
do you know anyone else who has such
leftish
dedication for torah for every single
jew
you know anyone who did so much
to continue the rich unbelievable legacy
of the safari tradition iraqi
traditional
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their eyes are already black they're
tired they're full of tears from waiting
to see
how long it's going to take until we are
going to heal
from unfortunately hospice along the
diseases that are going to be and the
sicknesses that are going to believe
and we know where we're standing today
but
our eyes will come out to see when he is
going to wake up from his
terrible disease because he took it on
himself
because he was kappa
i believe for so many
do we understand what a tremendous cry
and voice that something made in the
heavens for the last three months
could you just believe and imagine what
rebellion
all the millions of angels that were
created
all the millions of tears of so many
people and especially
but in the end it's who i you need
and that's what it called the generation
we're in a very difficult time we're
living but it's an opinion
it doesn't have to be this way who can
how am i going to do it i want to share
with you
a very short statement that i see over
here
that we can read in the book
that that was
the these were the words that he said
in the levia of his rabbi
abdullah
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a broken heart we need to break our
heart
and to hear for its
that that is no more with us
a blower right that he wants to make a
fire and there is a piece of wood over
here maybe combs but there's no fire
so you're gonna work the whole day the
whole day you're gonna
never
take this unbelievable and we also want
to dedicate ourselves
with fire to love each other just like
a real learner said so love everything
every single jew and then
now
the family understands it's very hard we
don't want anyone to
suffer any sort of uh comfort standing
out here in the sun
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at this point
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early that it's hard to
feel like i'm living again just recently
with my
mother-in-law a couple years ago
and it's
but this time our whole family was
okay strengthened
and everything
and we don't understand things right now
why
i started a little bit
i was heaven
late last night came in early this
morning
just a little bit about my father
my father many years ago he was a young
young man
he started actually working in a
company a company which is world uh
across america
and he was gonna be on the top of the
company
he was always in a god fearing home he
was disgusting individual all the time
and he decided it's not what he wants to
do
he left it he went
he studied
and eventually he left
with years and years and years of giving
years and years of spreading
the children have
during the week and we're half of them
people
come they'll come for shabbat they'll
try to strengthen them
people today till today they tell us we
are
who we are today because of your father
my father as we know
he cherishes
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he loved them and therefore he knew them
many many things growing up when i was
young
and
closed-minded or whatever the word is
and things he said it
can't be or nobody in the world does
that
and i grew up i became more
worldly and i thought these things are
pronounced
these things other kingdom
as well and he's someone that
grabbed onto it i'm not gonna say the
if name remember the names correctly but
there was
a big thing that said about a very very
short center in
the airport of greece it's a very very
harsh everybody
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they know what they have to do
and that was part of his main
attribute of defending hitler
my father allah i don't know if i knew
too many people
he didn't care what anyone had to say
he didn't care what his friends had to
say he didn't care if he was going to
lose congregants he didn't care
if he's going to lose out on
opportunities because of that
if this is what he was told that the
right thing is
this is how his father told him this is
the way we do it and this is
how he felt
seeing what is the other person
thinking maybe he doesn't think
i think maybe i'll change what i do my
father
never did that whatever the
cost was whatever the price was
he stuck to what he believed to be
correct and that's what he did
first of all first and foremost you want
to say
thank you thank you
even in hard times
we saw at the end of our gym
we saw
instead of the arabs carrying
the smelly things they usually carry it
says that they were carrying spices
and it says that you shouldn't suffer
with the smell
and the rasheed asks who cares you think
he cares he's a young boy
he's going to a different country
because his family says his father is
he's lost he's lost what am i going to
do now and you really think he cares
what is in the wagon with him
for the different answers
you're right you're going through hard
times but look
you're going through a hard time but
something is unusual
something is clearly
above nature i'm showing you when the
hard times don't
again i'm with you and we've focused the
entire one my father in many different
ways
was telling us now we know his time has
come
but with us
i would like to thank everyone on the
board can i thank everyone because
they're reading a lot of things
and then your father is a fighter and
those they mean
every single one it has an effect that's
gonna be answered
who knows what you say
with those things
i would like to thank the greatest
exciting dog for getting us
a lot as dark and for any time setting
up
everything here i would like to thank
my family my sisters
brother-in-law's
penny my stepmother for everything that
they did
i could really say
they made they made nordstrom crazy um
now i would like to thank
you that a few the first person i would
like to thank
i'll read what my sister wrote that i'll
have myself first and foremost
dr roberto romani dr ahmadi
came to visit our father
in the hospital
how to spend the last four months
visiting my father every day even more
advocating he personally advised him
more than others
he did so much it was daily on top of
everything that was
going on in the hospital
and parenthetically it was not my
father's i thought it was not
his nation we didn't know
he did so much he's gonna know about
there's no one
that my father smiled big from the
hospital and doctor of money
and his dedication and what
and we really really want to thank him
for every single day with
we felt we had someone to trust in the
hospital
secondly dr ivana sitter
rabbi gary michelle connect us with
was always kind and compassionate
compassionate
she gave advice she advocated for us
and visited my father
regularly next doctor
moshe wurtzberger for hours of advice
and information over the phone
his colleague we connected us with his
colleague dr
ryan bernstein
he was the one who initially guided us
to send our father to the hospital
and he answered questions till the very
end
dr mayor akita will have to learn to
suggest that we speak with him
he gave us time advice and no question
was too silly with the whole heart
dream visiting calling non-stop
with ideas mostly like to thank dr
hooverfeld dr davor liftman dr young
hiluwitz
and the chaplain jacobson
with the whole heart
this is very very hard for us
your mother now
they should be able to show
not the personal salvation but the
complete salvation but
he said
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drinking um please make sure you have
sunscreen if you're standing in the sun
it's unusually hot please take care of
yourself
um
i appreciate your
but all time know is since this morning
the day is not the same
underneath a shepherd
please look at my family i'm very good
his lightness
we did achieve a lot of things
that did not hit it wouldn't be possible
he was a friend father
and leader for us
i'm sorry i wish i could've done
something but maybe great
uh i don't want to take much of your
time
all i know is now i have to deal with
my father's departure
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i don't know how i'm gonna do it but
with that action
i shouldn't find a way to show them
i'm not breathing early
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said earlier
very after two time fortunately we have
to experience
was a great person plus bishop
is the time
is not merely to talk about the miles of
the person
but just like in the base i mean
the goal is to appreciate what we've
lost
so that's truly the motivation of the
hespit
there has been a time
when we appreciate what we lost
the truth of the matter is
i was not intimately close
my connection here probably a very very
close affiliation with sam and already
obviously family
but the truth of the matter is we don't
know him we didn't have to be within his
thoughts
to really appreciate who were having
national waters
he was a person on a mission
told her a minute every minute
was a way in how to live a life
he had goals he had a messiah
his whole entire life was dedicated
to our sparkle in the cloud
i'd like to share with you a very
powerful message
which i believe depicts the life of the
nifter
it was sad already a little bit but i
think it's so beautifully
and eloquently described we know that we
stay abroad every single day
the
what does that mean you picked us you
didn't pick us there's a very beautiful
yalking shimoni
and the dramatic expounds on it the
purchases
the offender says that the nations of
the world went to ankara
and they were jealous why did you give
the torah
israel and hashem said a very cryptic
answer he said bring me your
let me see where you come from and
that's what they took a sentence
we all know that kahuna the three
kahuna mr lineage malcolm sister lineage
right it's available for everybody what
this tone is further with another
interesting
israel didn't know it was in the torah
they didn't they fulfilled we'll take it
on why
how and he says
and he plays on the ward
to our forefathers who kept the misfits
now says referring to yaakov i'm from
youtube
accepted the torah and that
has been transferred for generations in
the
dna in the kitchens of claudia
well we say as your book
we're referring to the othos they chose
the torah and that was disseminated
and transferred throughout the
generations
it's in our dna it's in our kishkis
it's who we are the nations of the world
don't have that egos
because fargo says look at the ecos look
where they came from
i think for sure when you think about
rabbi menace
as his beloved son said this sorrow
it's all about this soda
picking and continuing
his mission the beautiful messiah that
he
gave over unadulterated
no compromises on the siren that he
found
that he understood what's in his kiss
and i think that explains everything
that explains his whole
hunger he learned from the dna of our
almost how to
deal with the missionaries how to
understand and deal with difficult times
difficult nicionos and we remember so
vividly
but he lost his beloved robinson who he
adored
in the prime of her life
how he was the cabal in diablo
how he was steadfast in his moon
how strong he was
because that was in the kitchens he was
part of his makeup
it was part of his essence
i actually remember remember now going
many many years maybe before most of
people here
but he's still single with the talmud
for a couple of years we were in the
same search together
and he saw greatness at that stage in
his life
determined a hyphen a mensch
an exalted person you know that he was
poised for greatness
i remember when ashley was an army
shifter
every time i encounter with rabbi
and his rabbinson you felt you were in
the presence of something special
wasn't ordinary it was something very
very unique
and that was his whole dna
his name was his sweetness
i don't think anybody will ever say that
he ever saw him raise his voice
the way he dealt with people the
kardashians
in all of his aspects how he
loved people he was on a mission every
single
jew was crushed to him our victoria
power excellence how he looked
voluntarily
because it's in the dna it was in his
messiah
i remember always getting texts when
there were events
commemorating the yards other than he
said i remember the hundred yard side
how proud he was to comparing the banner
to carry the messiah but in all aspects
of his life
and his middle star was his establish
such a simple person him and his
robinson they weren't looking for
anything lavish
simplicity they knew they don't take
those things with them
the simplest simplicity the pastors
the priorities in life
those who didn't know we didn't know it
it was a walking
guinness hashem
the major drama jealous rabbi
it says that ashamed toe has more
kashivas than an aaron aquinas
than the holy ark and armin akaidesh
was three days outside of claudia's
throne of midfire
but ashantov precedes a person
all over the world throughout the entire
world
that's rabbi manasseh a beautiful
shantou
he emulated the beautiful meadows of our
curry sparkle
because it was in his dna
it was in his kiskus
and we are the extensions of that
these are the times that khazal tell us
by israel dougly
should know and appreciate i'm sure they
do the richness of his life
the beauty of his life
and how much we lost it to
be the ultimate for the entire family
to be able to continue his rich
beautiful legacy
they should always be remembered through
their ways
okay
uh again it's really really hot we have
water if
you want if you don't feel comfortable
out here please feel free to go back to
review
people can take a little break or get
some water
uh
but um
demonstration
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proactive absolutely
absolutely amazing and so many other
people
out for ourselves and he would think
from an ascendant says telling you
marrying the daughter of the problem
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because she's going to be the best
person
but that's not what people want
my life has been so
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i can't imagine marrying into a better
family
how it's all from the ground up
everything is done by the family
you know and i had cheering to give
it doesn't happen if i was family
and that's how
he said this first affirmation i was
referring to the spiritual
say what is it talking about it's
talking about
that
he
what happens when it's in this world
because it gets covered by mud it gets
covered by all the
youth of this world he said but remember
it's a diamond
you can take a diamond you can put it
into the earth you can do whatever you
want to it
you can always polish it off you can
always bring back that diamond
and our job into this world is to work
on the coming designs although worth
overcoming that diamond
and therefore if you probably stayed in
ireland you clean off the diamonds
in this world
when you're trying to be judged the same
way everything is talking
about there's no time in
allah and they'll see you the same way
without watching the beautiful diamonds
that you've became
there's a there's a term constructive
criticism
russia did not give instructive
criticism he gave constructive
encouragement
any time i did something you would
encourage it he would say maybe somehow
he would say maybe this would be a
little better but if you could do more
and he saw his love coming through
as many of you know
you know when he was housed for three to
four years
during our marriage and on paper
structurally you would think that that's
not a good idea
but it was probably the best thing that
ever happened to us
and i remember how sad she was when we
left
and how amazing it was to be part of
that home
and there's a phrase that goes when it
comes to marriage
is that before marriage once both sides
to be wide open and after marriage
we should be shot
and traveling to watch the parents
and try to figure all things out he knew
a lot of things
better than me but he keeps his except
his eyes
half code he didn't criticize he didn't
say his view was better
only on very very very few patients
one time that i can remember when
reality and myself were discussing
whether or not kids crossed middle leg
world in order to constantly josh
and i was on the side that they're all
enough they could come and y'all was on
the side that they shouldn't
and then i just spoke
and he said that's dangerous and then
they didn't cost
but that is so so much respect i
couldn't believe it
and
thank you everyone for calling it's
amazing the similarities that
happened remember passed away i was
freezing cold and so many people turned
out
and hearing how that is heated so many
people turned out
instead of the testament and how much
love everyone has for them and how much
love they generated
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um
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use the coming into an event we come
with everyone
and we're going to go here i'll speak we
all come together
we meet up outside and now it's the same
feeling you know
coming to an event but you know it's
about
my father-in-law and
i just want to say very shortly that
i had the best father in the world and i
said it always from the beginning
and justin
you know we used to always walk back
together from the midrash and back over
back
just always talk about different things
i would call them randomly asking
questions
and we would just talk about stuff and
like zeb said i always felt so respected
and i was probably it was so fun to talk
to him about anything
and you felt comfortable doing whatever
you do in this house because
it was everything was okay and i just
want to say one thing
that my review says that big people have
contradictions
because if you're a big person it's
complex not simple
and my dear father-in-law
had from the biggest contradictions that
i've ever seen and i want to share it
with everyone
on the one hand he was so strong
like manchester united he didn't budge
i begged him to say
and you wouldn't do it he said my father
says i only do all seven i'm sorry and
i've asked him for weeks i said just the
last one just cross
make an exception i love you i'm sorry
no
and to hold all the minute game with the
whole the
such a high level of every step you make
he knows what to do he knows there's
nothing in the house
that there's not an exact way to do it
not the way you would think always but
there's a way
and he was so strong he was such a
tahiti he was so strong in that area but
on the other hand
he was so pleasant and he was so fun to
be around
he could tell me anything
and it wouldn't
by him open now and say oh bye i have a
nice lot to offer the finished guy and
say oh tell me
and he would say it over in the shower
oh guys said this and that
as if i told him and then you told me
later
where the sore spirit was to see the
longer version
and then what i did when i woke up late
he would say hey where were you
you told me you loved waking up early in
the morning now where are you
and i remember i never i never met a
wedding
and
i got so close to him and i was saying
and he taught us no matter what you do
do it 100
not 99 100. no matter what it is and you
have to be strong
and you have to make sacrifices but on
the other hand no one around you should
feel the intensity to be pleasant and
fun
food anyone who is involved with this
family in this world
is involved in every step of the way
throughout their life
and i know we said this about our imam
but they're now
together and they're going to hold a big
one's hands
throughout every step of the way thank
you
you know it's hot i'm sorry i just don't
think it's time
i'll never have the opportunity again
unfortunately i never wanted this
opportunity but
let's come rabbi i'm sorry that i
couldn't
see you the past couple months these
restrictions
did not allow us to
unfortunately i couldn't ask you
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you don't want it to end i have been
there
i've been at that young before i've sat
next to the
nation i stood next to him
i watched him take this breath that you
have no idea i think he took the entire
weight burning up the world onto his
shoulders
and he's saying with a voice that if you
haven't heard it i cannot explain it to
you
it cannot be replicated character opened
it made way there was nothing stopping
nothing stopping mr bilot from going he
said
like nothing i hope there's a tape of it
and we can still hear it but something
that is unbelievable
i cannot explain but i do not want it to
end
as you went through each verse i wanted
to keep going keep going
i'm keep singing the song and then
somehow i've adapted
every single song in judaism to be at
this tomb because it's just unbelievable
and i hear his voice
have you ever said that i've been to
many parties
i've been talking about taking your
southern existence about taking us to
new york wherever
i've never seen sit on the floor and cry
cheers pouring down his eyes as he reads
half the time by a sign of freaking out
but half of people are out of the net
knesset
he's sitting on the stand by himself
tears you're embarrassed how
some of you cannot cry how can we cry
i don't know what to say i don't i won't
experience these things anymore
because they don't exist they were one
of a kind
when the nation was one of a kind his
family is one of a kind
and unfortunately they had to take the
burden of all these
the upside down horseshoe i don't even
know what that does i don't think
anybody knows what that does
and there was one time that i i missed
it i didn't go like this
and he messed up the word and he says to
me you didn't go like this i was like
because i didn't go like
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this you messed up the word how could
that be i have no idea
but here's so many words nobody does
that we fly through it
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shalom it says if you do not mean
you have a lot of things coming for you
but if you are you go to the heights of
canada
he doesn't he didn't even need that but
just with that alone
is that the tip of the mountain
i'm going to miss
your family