Shavuos: Women's Role In Kabalas Hatorah - Agudas Yisroel Los Angeles Event

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com good evening everybody thank you for coming um I really had a h it should have taken about 10 minutes but I think my 10 minutes are up just like to introduce first Speaker tonight I want to thank a for organizing this event and I want to thank glad of Rob FIS Mor the fs towns very well known Spoken Here in school before and I'm sure everybody will be enriched by the wonderful words that he will have to say to be followed by ra donor D of London um I want to thank them both for coming here and giving the Los Angeles women an opportunity for gaining from their greatness thank you very much thank you good evening everyone it's a great honor to be here tonight I actually just landed uh not just I was here at least a good 20 minutes already and we're here it's a week before yam a week before and perhaps for this venue maybe the thought entered your mind maybe this year maybe in the past sh that's like that's like the men's y right what exactly is our connection to to the Y of so I want to tell you about a Brisa that took place a historic Brisa took place place about 70 years ago it was a bris for the grandson of RA who is also by the way the grandson of the G and this bris was like a who's who of all the is you had individuals there the grandson of the the grandson of the the grandson of the V the the alter of naric the alter of slabodka and the grandson of the alter of K if you were son somebody you were at this bris and who shall we say he knew how to stir up the pot he began to do so and he posed a very controversial question you should know this story he said I want to ask you in the last 100 years who was the most influential individual for the Jewish people and I know what you're thinking you're thinking it was the alter of n the alter of K the AL of the and I'm here to tell you you're all dead wrong and the people at the bris they're they're getting very uncomfortable they came to enjoy a bagel and this Rabbi is you know like irking them people said outrageous people the people asked s to sit down this is a Sim why you starting up with all the guests and he said more the one who did the most for clao in the last 100 years never learned to blot gamara so they took the cane and they wanted to yank him down and he said I'll tell you one more thing when I tell you the name you'll all agree with me SAR a few days ago I was in Coco at the location of the very first bakov actually I have a family connection to SAR my great-grandfather was the last rub of of the city of sakov and S came to stay in my great great-grandfather's house in sakov to introduce the idea of starting the basak she slept in the same room as my grandmother in fact my grandmother's sister was on her way from s to Cal to attend she got into the first bak and then the war broke out and she had a turn around recently I heard that raron Cutler made a similar statement the raron Cutler said all of toyra in America is because of one person Ritson VLAN so I was a little bit incredulous rarin said that I asked around that raran say that I don't know you know I asked people in Yeshiva nobody ever heard that where who said raran said that I don't believe these stories you know when I was a kid I used to go to Victor Miller I used to walk I grew up in flush I went to raill raill would say 90% of gum stories never happened and even this story that I'm telling you R Miller didn't say that either so I asked around did raron Coler so somebody in the Swarm store I went into the Swarm store the local swarm store Ari in the Swarm store said it's in the book I said which book he said the biography of reiton VI Kaplan do you have the book I didn't have the book but I know the author the author is the late wife of I called up the reiton I said REITs and Liu did rarin Cutler say this she said something like that I said what do you mean something like that she said rabaran said that you can't build Tyre in America if you don't have girls who want to marry somebody who wants to go into long-term learning I said is it in the book she said I think so I said what page so she said I'll call you back she called me back 20 minutes later page 344 R knew that for yishai to flourish in America there had to be Advanced learning and that would only happen if there were Kim and there could only be Kim if people would marry Thea and then I remember that when I was a kid rev Miller made the same type of statement but rev Miller went a little bit back in time and rev Miller said all the Toyah that CLA Isel has today is because of one person and this person saw a diamond in the rough she saw complete ignoramus and she encouraged him she said if you go off to Yeshiva you can make something of yourself and this individual became in a certain sense even greater than you know there are many R TOA both in the beginning ofra I'm still in C right now so it's was just by the Malala Muk you know Malala Muk says VRA starts with an Al ends also REM to the 10th of reached m in a certain sense that even didn't reach the says even the even access to the Shon where did he get it from Rael but then R lost all [Music] 24,000 say Miller all the to that CL is has is because of one is RA so if you want to know who does sh belong to say it's printed in the new first and only then because without you have nothing to start with that's the foundation that's the very basis I want to tell you a story I haven't said the story in many years I don't know why I'm in Los Angeles I'm in the mood of this story don't ask what that means 20 years ago 25 years ago reya's Ritson Ritson Margalit she passed away and there were hasp in America and one of the rabim said over the following story at theid for the story is about the of re and his so the father of the prospective kala comes into Thea toz and he says I need a very learned boy for my daughter so the rash says a his head and shoulders above everyone else said great tell him to come over tomorrow night R if you look at the pictures of him he was a very striking young man and the father said make sure he puts himself together for the for the date and he knocks on the door and he sits down with the father and they start talking and learning and Ru is a very pleasant conversationalist and they're talking back and forth half hour pass an hour Pass 2 hours pass 3 hours pass it's 11:00 p.m. and the poor girl still waiting inside of her room they didn't call her out yet the father looks at the CL father says you know you can't go out for a walk at 11:00 p.m. come back tomorrow she's fuming what what were you talking about you you forgot that he came he didn't come to meet you I'm sorry it's my fault we got carried away he's such a big to we got caught up in a conversation he comes the next night there talking talking talking this sugya that suya 9:00 10:00 11:00 it's midnight she's still waiting in the room she said what's wrong with him he's not a mench he came to see me he should have he doesn't have a clock he doesn't have a watch doesn't have there's no clock in the house after a half hour so stop talking I'm not going out with him the father begs you don't know what you're giving up on he's M bu give it a try it's my fault that I shouldn't have brought up the subject she said I'll go out on one condition I'll Manas you don't talk give him a piece of cake give him a coffee and I don't know say you have a Tinus debore or something so he comes in the third night and uh the father puts out a piece of cake puts out a coffee he's being antisocial and after eats the the cake he makes an Al and the father doesn't make an Al so he said why didn't you make an Al said I didn't eat it this is exactly how it happened it's 11:30 p.m. she's livid he she says try somebody else you know I'm not marrying a Kusa I don't understand what's going on I told you don't even talk to him so the Father Tell tells this young man I don't know maybe try another time he comes back the next night and the father is is white-faced the father is mish embarrassed she says b she doesn't want to talk to you she's not going to look at you forget it's not happening so says can I just speak to her for 2 minutes the father said what there's nothing you could tell her what it's over sorry believe me I want it more than you do this is not happening he says I just need two minutes with her somehow Aaj YF convinces the father to have two-minute conversation with this girl 2 minutes later they come out mle they're engaged the exactly what happened the father asks him what did you tell her and when I heard this story it really brought tears to my eyes said I told her you give me and I will bring you that was the you know he he built a Mal in Sons that's that's what marriage is in CLA is that's what a bias is in CLA is that's the role of the Bas the understanding that we're building the understanding we're building eternity the understanding that it's about going so what is Tyra you know we live in a world where everything we see everything we read everything we hear is antithetical to the true value of Tyra I want to give you a little mush what Tyra is so you have a guy he's sitting in an office in Manhattan in a skyscraper in a very comfortable office and he's sitting back in his recliner and the air conditioning is going and he's in a very comfortable setting and he's drinking cold water with ice and he even has a lemon in it and somebody passes by his office room and he starts crying my merciful friend have mercy on me the guy thinks what do you need you need oxygen are you about to die no Peach Snapple peach Snapple can I please have Peach Snapple have mercy on me what would you say guy's out of his mind have mercy on you you're entitled to drink peach Snapple say could you please do me a favor I'm spoiled I already have water but I'm really in the mood of peach Snapple you want to bring me some Peach Snapple otherwise I'm going to fire you but not have mercy on me imagine if the boss would say did you remember when your grandfather was in the holiday Holocaust my grandfather risked his life to give him a piece of bread so please bring me Peach Snapple it's insane you're invoking for peach Snapple that's a luxury you don't ask for Mercy when you want a luxury but what a what about a guy he's in a desert and he hasn't had a morsel of food or drink in 71 hours and he's dying of dehydration and he's about to perish and he sees somebody with a bottle of water would he ask yeah I was just wondering maybe if you don't mind if you happen to have a little bit of extra you know no pressure could I have a little water that guy is equally insane he's about to die it's his life that's not how you ask for life he needs to beg he needs to ask for Mercy if we were to study the daving says and identify what is the most impassioned plea we make the entire day of all the things that we need in life health parasa of all of the things we need in this world what do we ask for with the most imp passion pain and anguish and request we say merciful father who has Mercy have mercy on us woo we must be asking for something very important what are we going to ask for are we going to ask for health no no even Health doesn't get such a request are we going to ask for NAS from our children even that doesn't get such a request of all the things in this world the one which is considered the most basic that which we need more than anything else is the same please help me have a connection with the Tyra that is what we ask for with the most desire passion and pain because without it we understand there is nothing that deserves a request for Mercy more than life itself we don't ask for Tyra like we're asking for snappa we ask for Tyra like we're asking for water do you understand that to be in this world a world in 2024 which is so empty and meaningless and cold and directional us without the tah you know what that would mean for us there is nothing in this world that we request for more than to have a connection with the Tyra how are we going to embrace the Tyra how are we going to hold on to the Tyra you know the guy who fell into the river guy fell into a raging River and he's rushing down and at the end of the river there's a big waterfall and that's going to be the end of him and he sees this tree this tree is hanging over the River and he knows or she knows that this tree is the only hope how you going to hang on to that tree is now a time for uh Shenanigans well let me try I'm a righty I'm going to try with my left hand with my pinky or I'm going to try onehanded or if you know that this is your survival and this is your life you're going to grab onto that tree with every fiber of your being says we say about the he the t is a tree of life but only if you hang on to it not with one finger not with one hand not with two hands you got to hang on to the toyra with every fiber of your being because it's life itself one of the favorite shh is we have dairy on sh there are many many reasons for this minhag but did you know what is the first reason supplied in the rim for the Min of having deran the writes because the tah is so delicious it's to it's so sweet it's so delectable what do we say in it's like honey and milk under your tongue by the way writes you have regards from the was just at his on Sunday he says hello writes what it says about the take the first letter of the T baz take the last letter of the T lamid take the middle letters of the the and the you know what that spells say it's the is so delectable so sweet it has the power of honey so the in the introduction to says what does it mean that t has the power of sweetness of honey says an amazing thing don't try this at home but Hally honey is so powerful honey looks like an innocuous food it's the most powerful food known to man if you put a piece of bread in honey the honey will act on the bread dissolve the bread and the bread will completely disintegrate in the honey furthermore you have a piece of ham don't try this at home but it's yeah have piece of pig it falls into honey it disintegrates what do you do with the honey you eat it right it was an orthodox Rabbi we follow what he sayses honey is so powerful that it could dissolve even a d even a AA and Nas says the to is like honey you could take an individual they could be rotten to the cor they could be arrogant and angry and jealous and full of all kinds of bad characters character character traits and if they immerse themselves fully in the sweetness of is of it casers them it renders them kosher it transforms them that's the power of the sweetness of T that's the gift the ream gave us so I'll tell you a little secret Yash writes there's one other holy entity that has the power of Das that could transform a bad situation maybe a bad personality or a difficult spouse or a difficult child and sweeten them and transform them says is is gri that the owed the that through their dedication and Devotion to T that they too are imbued with this ability that they could take a difficult situation individual personality relative and they could take it and with amuna and with they could transform it that's the that is every Jew's connection to the which is but we have to make sure that if you want to have the lifegiving you got to make sure it's that we embrace it we grab on to it we hold on to it with every fiber of our being and and if we're able to do that we we should all see from all of our thank you very much for your kind attention I wish you thank you okay you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com