Shelach: Aftergrowths of Shabtai Tzvi - The Aliya of R' Yehuda Chasid & Chaim Malach

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We're almost finished paras. Make sure you're well equipped. Ra balaness pocketsize edition. If you want to participate in any upcoming publications, including the please let us know. Okay. We have an amazing topic tonight. I'm glad that you chose this arena tonight. the this is the main arena. It's interesting how uh last time the president of the United States he went to the game and apparently he got so upset that people are blaming him that they lost. He's now bombing Iran, you know. So everything is uh practice. Okay. We have a very interesting topic tonight. In uh Jewish history, the name evokes great reverence. He was one of the lions of the Ashkanazim of Reginburg. one of the greatest of the balat typhus. However, a few hundred years later, there was another rebhuda. But many who are not familiar with Jewish history confused the two. The other rebhuda in many books, including the one I'm going to read to you from call him also. However, he was not. He was raudid. One of the balis wrote is the leader of the community and the builder of the in the old city of many many people have visited theul that we were there on Shabas. Many people have daven there. Most are not familiar with the history and certainly not the backstory of Rhuda. Uh this past January I was in the Kidron Valley and I went up to the top of the mountain and for the first time I went to the Kev of Rhuda. I will say when I was there the rest of my group couldn't make it up the mountain. I was there just with the guide and two Calvin Datifan appeared out of nowhere. two vicious dogs and the guide had to take out his gun at when I was at the kev of Rabbi Huda. Who is Rabhuda? And is there any commonality between Rhuda and Rabhuda? Well, not really. Rabbi Hudas came from the city of Shidlitz or Shidlavi Shidlavsi which was a city in Poland in uh near Grudna and this is the year 1690 shortly after the debacle of Shapitri and he was also called Ashkanazi and he had an ambition to herald the redemption and he led a very impress impressive contingency of Ashkanazim who they were very aesthetic. They separated from the pleasures of this world. They afflicted themselves. They rolled in the snow. They immersed in ice mikvah ice. When I say cold, I mean ice cold. And when they they barely slept. And when they slept, let's go. When they slept, they laid down on the floor on the hard floor. and they slept for like an hour or two and they were involved in all kinds of coalistic practices and this group of about 30 families as they're traveling throughout the European continent they're picking up momentum they built up the group to about a thousand people and 1500 people and since the 300 of the Bali hattois made aliyah in uh the 13th century this was the biggest aliyah of Jews in Jewish history until modern time. The aliyah of Rab Yehuda. Even though you look in the history books and even the history books call him Rhuda, that was not the correct name. His name is Rhuda. It's now the spring of 1699 and he sets out with 30 families uh from this area near Grudna. In many of the books they will refer to him as a great and a charismatic figure. The latter is certainly true. >> Same time as the >> 1699 but okay could be madak in the words I said all the books will describe him as a great and a charismatic figure. The latter is definitely true and he was a very inspiring figure. He was uh inspired many people to do chuva which he did. He gave very impassionate uh drash. Now even the ofk brings a story that he heard from the who said over from you see in the in the he says the correct name not of that one time there was somebody who was possessed by some kind of spirit or demon and was trying to exercise out the demon and the demon started speaking to Rabudas saying you think you know she the sheamus you know I knew since I was a kid I knew those she and this demon who possessed the guy said you should know that I personally when they when the Jewish people killed in the bikdash I 2,000 years ago I was among those who killed zakaranovi and I've been in turmoil I don't even have respit in ganim And that's the story that the redamskar brings. Now there were associated with the group of including Nata and he said he described it as follows. A huge kahila of uplifted Jews each god-fearing individual stood with a luster shining about him. At their head was one full of wisdom. an angel of Hashem, Rebehuda, with one intention to go and ascend to Jerusalem, the place of our inher inheritance. Remember we mentioned there were 1500 people and by the time they got there, at least 500 of them had died. Okay? At least one-third of them had died. This is the sanitized version of the story. the great aliyah of 1500 Jews, the biggest aliyah until modern times. However, if you're familiar with the uh backstory and the history, there was a a poisonous issue, right? Um among this group the poison began with somebody by the name of Mahalakim Mahalaka Mahalak was a traveler who would travel to Salonica and not only would he travel to Salonica but he was a follower of Sha Ditvi. not only was a follower of Shaiti, he was a student of the false prophet who was known as Baria Russo. Broia Russo was a very handsome man, beautiful man, and that's how he's described. And he was a false prophet there. He's the leader of the Turkish clan of followers of Sha Ditvi. By the way, even today in 2026, there's a discipline called sadianism. There's still mystics and philosophers that study the ideology of Sha Ditvi, even though he converted to Islam in uh 1666. In any event, this was like a weed of poison in the group and he greatly affected uh Rabhuda. Now after he studied in uh Salonica and in Turkey, he uh inculcated all of this sadium ideology and he brought it back to the group of Rabbi Huda and his ideology was in 1666 Shapiti converted to Islam and just like Mosh Rabenu after 40 years he was hiding out in Midan and then He revealed himself after 40 years to redeem the Jewish people. And after he redeemed the Jewish people, 40 years later, he took us to the brink of uh Israel. So too, 40 years after he Sha will return and again redeem the Jewish people. This was the ideology of Malik. In fact, if you look in the say forum, okay, tonight's sh is a little bit off the beaten path. If you look in the sham of the in the back there's a little compendium called a raman and there he brings certain information about certain that was left out of the and in his entry for lem he says he doesn't understand why the safer le was not put into why was it not issued that it should be burnt because records this kind of ideology that 40 years after he's going to make a comeback by the way without getting into too much detail that philosophy has not not died down that there's a concept you know something happens and then 40 years later something else is going to happen okay it's still prevalent in any event this was the ideology of Malik. He was called Malik originally because he was a traveler and then his followers called him Malikim the angel but he was considered an insidious uh follower and poison among the groups of Shaiti. Now friends, who was the greatest rashiva of the time uh of in in the times of andala and he was the rashiva in the time he's the abbezin of Prague he's of Frankfurt and he calls his two bestim their names were raifer and he says I need you to debate Malik I need you to refute him cuz he is disseminating his sadian wisdom and I need you to uh somehow uh dispute him and refute him. So they went to Malik and Malik who Rabdin in his appendages the following three letters to his name Shin which stands for shame rashimov Malik uh offers all of his cababalistic proofs to his ideology and these two talim they have nothing to say they don't know what to respond they weren't so familiar with the original text they weren't familiar with his arguments they come back to the rebi reb from and he was upset that they didn't have an answer for so he told them listen I need you to take off time from the sh I need you to take off time from your limuim you need to study this cababalistic information and you need to go back and refute now writes that the rashiva himself didn't do it because he was completely unfamiliar with any cababalistic wisdom rather the rashiva and god at the All he studied was ge. You know the expression ges rashi tyus. Sometimes people say you know what what does this person know? All he knows is garashi tyus. That's all you need to know. You don't need to know anything more. So rabua gave special dispensation to his tamidim to study this information and they were able to recognize that all of his ideology was false. And they provided some kind of reputation. Raakov Mden in his safer, a very amazing safer called toyas hakn which is a historical account of all of his attacks on anyone suspected of sadianism which by the way included many many people many great rabbis many great rabbanim that you're familiar with. Rabyakov Mdin did not hold back any possible suspicion he had if somebody believed that Sha was Messiah and there were many strands of it. people who originally believed in him, people who believed that even after he converted but there were certain seeds of positivity in him if you had a smattering of any acceptability of Rabaken called you out and or he would record how his father called you out and Rabyakden recorded all of this in a tyras hakno where he records this whole uh this narrative again. Yes, this is the builder of the shul that many of you probably have frequented in the old city of so there is a safer I think this is one of the an amazing it's called which usually we have a series of shirim from the safer this time of the year as we approach shiva for many years already we pointed out that shiva batamos is a fast day for theel and theel is the origins of the the mashik. So this safer has a very different perspective on the narrative and the backstory of andal. He writes that Malik found a receptive audience in Rabbi Hudass. He brings a historical record that Rabuda himself on one Shabas Kaidesh made an announcement that he's going to give a drasha and he declared openly that Shaiti is Msiah. Not only that, when the rabbi reprimanded him, he uh said he will not be paying any attention to what this rabbi says. So, Rabie Huda, even though, by the way, Rabak never decisively called Rabudah a believer invi. But he definitely called out this Malik who is one of the prominent members of that original group. And you know there's an expression if you want to get a an insight into somebody who somebody is you know you're trying to find out say you're you're looking into shukim you want to know who is this guy who is this girl you can't get all you need to know is who are they friends with who's their friend who do they sit next to inul they sit next to him you know exactly who the guy is this is the person they usually hang out with you know everything about the So this allowed and did not accept the reports on and this was considered a very indicting uh uh detail. In fact, as recorded in the safar, the two of them and would spend many ashallahudas for many many hours until speaking about uh that individual that the now people didn't really know who these people were the abund suspicions against Malik. They didn't know information about about he was a very genuine passionate speaker. When he would speak he was yo and he was many people to do chuva. So the Rabanim sent word to the expert of the time and that was none other than the was the the world's leading you know he had the sense of smell. He could smell you out whether you're a secret follower of Sha Ditvi. He could just tell he he he could tell by the way you daven the way you learned that he was a follow follower. Now you should know the original these were very pious individuals in the classic of Muser Kavayashad he brings a few stories of that he heard in the name of so for example in paras he brings the following story I always like to say when I was a boy remember I would go with my grandfather Tashul to Raul David Shaw and you know you come to the beginning of the shaw you take out a kish take out a sther so as yeshiva I would always go to get a safer what what are you doing with the safer what are you do what do you plan on doing with the safer said you know going to learn when exactly do you plan on learning that we're here at a davin so okay maybe Bengav in other words the only time you could really learn is is Bengavra but some people make it like a a career that they all during davening they polish they they go through blot they go through sugos they they make sumim so the cavayosha writes that even somebody who has a great desire people always ask me you know sometimes people come over to me he's like why are you why are you calling people out that learn by sash aren't there worse things to aren't there worse things people could be doing so I said I don't know this is one of the things that I feel very strongly about but I I remember once I was invited to a sem of a guy during the nine days and I knew he only learned the during during says you're not even in the midst of anyway. So the so the kabayasha says like this he heard from who heard from that the Ramban had a talmud who was so engrossed in learning he didn't even sleep and when he ate you know he ate you know with the safer in front of his eyes and he couldn't even daven he was not able to davin because of his and the ramban told him you need to eat when it's time to eat stop learning while you're eating. And when it's time to sleep, you need to sleep. And when it's time to dive in and you dive in, and the will protect you that nothing bad will happen. Um, and the Tama didn't listen. And the Tammed continued to learn during his eating, during his sleeping, and during his dabing. Shortly after, the Tammed had to go to the store to buy something. He got back to his house and a marauder was in his house violating his daughter on the table that he always learned and the Ramban came and the Ramban said, "Told you so. Told you so. You you were so into learning you forgot to say you didn't listen to me." So this is what happened to your daughter. That's a story brought in the kavayasha in the name of Yehuda. Kavayasha brings another story. He says sometimes they have people they go they take a job you know overseas and they're working there for weeks for weeks for weeks and it on the way back somebody comes and takes all their money. The those marauders who took your money were created. They're not even real people. Said they're created from the sins that you did during the course of your travels. Anyway, these are stories that are related in the kabayash from >> Rabbi. How can we 100% attribute like the fact that the person lost the money to the person's sins? Like I understand that Hashem Hashem rules everything. So that doesn't necessarily mean it's because of the sins of >> That's what said. He he said again this is uh kassid considered himself a great cabalist and this was the teaching that he gave. Now the rabbon in Europe did not know how to evaluate this and they sent word to the specifically the rabbi of Krakowshel he couldn't you know he couldn't put his finger on it you know what is this guy all about so he asked the who is an expert in the shop toys could you tell us could Express your opinion. What do you say about and the said the first thing you need to know is sadianism is idolatry. It's avoid. And then the so to speak rips off the mask of these two individuals. And says, "My advice is you need to use all of your influence to counteract all of their interests." And the the rabbi of Krakow follow the advice of he fought with them. He argued with them. So did Pinas. And meanwhile, this group of which started off as 30 families, they made their way through Europe. They amassed a thousand people, 1,500 people and they had a plan. They're going to go straight to the himself. And the plan was they're going to smooth talk him. They're going to compliment him and they're going to say what a great lambd he is, what a great po he is. And he's mistaken about who they are. That their kavano is lashim. Now the he said he didn't fall for their plan. He immediately called out to be a follower of he did not say was but he did criticize him and he criticized his level of scholarship. the words he said I don't want to say he refer he applied the Mishna innov where it says in order to be aid you have to be a blank that's what he said about okay I'll let you I'll let you uh fill in the blank that's what the said about anyway uh They continued their very acetic practices. They they definitely their dress became different than uh mainstream Jewish dress. Many of their followers wore white burial shrouds and the whole presentation was very regal. He wore white silk. He was very handsome. He had a very beautiful appearance. and many many uh people began to follow him. Now they're in Frankfurt and they come to Frankfurt and they meet the rabbi of Frankfurt and they want to get his opinion. What will be their fate and the rabbi of Frankfurt at the time was Rabo Shmu. Rabio was you know we have on the side of the gumar something called msy hash ms h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h sashas is uh ano ann annotations notes on the side of the garra that tells you whenever a garra appears where else in shas does that gamarra appear it's a it's notes to help cross reference various garas and they went to and they asked him you know what do you think about ourh plan to make aliyah again this was the single most impressive act of aliyah until the modern age. Never in history had so many Jews from the time of Ezra returned to Israel. And he the the rabbi of Frankfurt he also he wasn't comfortable with them. He told them don't go stay here serve Hashem in Europe. Don't go to you're not going to go to you're not going to be successful. And then he said, let's see if uh now you can figure out the connection to this week's para, you're not going to be successful. You know, in the aftermath of the you have the episode of the map. Remember that little story tucked away in parl where when the Jews heard that they're going to die out in the midbar, they said, "No, no, we love Israel. The fruit is so good. The people are so inviting." You know, all of a sudden they wanted this, you know, a moment before the people were giants and everyone's dying and the fruits were inedible. And when they heard they're not going to be able to go in, so some Jews decided to go in prematurely. And what say? No. and the Balmas Sash told this these words that appear in this week's para bad idea. Don't go. Now, that's a pretty rough thing to say. You have 1,500 Jews who for the first time in history, they want to go to Israel. They want to go to they want to build a bases in the old city. And he said, "Don't go. You won't be successful." and they didn't listen to him and uh the upshot was it does not seem that they were successful and uh we'll see part two of this next time but this is uh the story of Rabie Huda not to be confused with Huda Hassid who came from this area near Grudna with one of the most impressive groups of Jews returning to Israel until modern times and because most for the most part of this Malik who was follower of Sadianism it spoiled the pot and they did not seem to have the blessing of the Israel and ultimately it was not a successful mission. Okay, we'll see more of the story in uh the weeks ahead. That's tonight's share. Have a good night everyone. >> Thank you every >> stopped. Okay.