Shiur Tonight @ Young Israel of Greater Miami

Thanks everybody for joining us tonight. It's extremely extremely exciting to have Rabbi Kalish here. I want to thank Mosha and Jennifer Layfield for planting the seed. I think it was maybe a year or two ago. Ralph Gali also helping out planting some seeds and Joey Katz, who's not even here, who helped seal the deal. And Baruch Hashem, it's really an honor and a privilege to have Rabbi Kalish with us. There are some Yeshivas that they have a tremendous impact on the talmidim and it makes them a great Yeshiva. And some Yeshivas have a tremendous impact on the community in which they reside and that's an even more powerful Yeshiva. And then there are very very rare Yeshivas that affect the entire klal Yisrael and they send ripples through the entire Jewish world. And I don't think there is any place you go that you haven't heard of Waterbury Yeshiva. And what Rabbi Kalish has done is not just impact the lives of thousands of talmidim but he's impacted the entire Jewish people. And I consider myself an honorary talmid. I've never even met Rabbi Kalish before and every single word he says speaks to my heart, it speaks to my neshama and evidently it's the same with all of klal Yisrael. And it's such a special privilege to have him here tonight to share divrei Torah, divrei chizuk with all of us here in North Miami Beach. And that's it. No, no, all right. Okay. And we thank all the talmidim for also showing up and for showing such love and respect for their rebbe and that's also just part of this amazing experience. I was told that when you host Rabbi Kalish, set up another 50 seats at least because the talmidim will show up. And it's amazing, so many of you I haven't even met before, but everybody looks like such holy, pure neshamos that are here to join together to have this achdus together. And it's a pleasure to spend the evening with all of you here. Welcome to the show, welcome to Young Israel, you're welcome anytime. But it's amazing to have you here with Rabbi Kalish. Firstly, thank you to the Rav, Rav Marmor Shlita for your kind words and for hosting, for allowing myself, my family, my friends, my children are here, so I thank you, Rabbi Marmor. It's an honor. It's an honor to be here. I was saying a few years ago, a bachur came to Yeshiva who I was very moved by his sweetness. In the Yeshiva of kindness, in the Yeshiva of sweetness, he stands out as a sweet person. And as I got to know Yehuda, he would tell me about his relationship with First I met his parents, but he would tell me about his zaida with his zaida who was the Rav as well of this shul for many, many decades. And then meeting Yehuda's family, the kindness of the Rav Meish and his wife of the Lairfeld Mishpacha is an unusual kindness. The chesed that pours forth When I meet Rav Meish, it's always a dvar Torah, he's a ben Torah, he's a learner of Torah. He's a somebody who lives Torah and learns Torah, and the chesed that pours forth from that house, the amount of guys, just now I come straight from the airport together with my wife and children, that so that we would kiss but in a in a real way any need that comes up it's mentioned there's a need of a there's this need this comes up with incredible resource incredible care incredible love that flows from that home the way people are taking care of is something that's tremendously appreciated so it's an honor to be in this in this town in this this in this special place where you grew up it's an honor to be here it's an honor to share the and to sing together so thank you to my the is here it's it's a to be in your presence to be together with your family I thank you for that it's it's a common and appreciated to be in in the presence of it's appreciated every single person that's here there there's a fresh and is here then and his wife are here just a really an honor to be to be here I want to introduce I'm here together with my wife and we've been with the last couple of years we've been to sing and talk and speak and listen to many many thousands of years over the last couple of years until 3 years ago I didn't travel so much that wasn't I like being home I still like being home I like being with my family I like being in I felt I felt after of 3 years ago I felt a sense that I want to I want to go around our people I want to be with I want to meet I want to sing with you and I want to talk with you. And and it's something has been such a loyal friend to go around. The last few years he sang for thousands and thousands and thousands of Yidden. We've had rain, we've talked, we've just had Malia together and I appreciate you a lot and I'm thankful you're here. I want to share Be'ezrat Hashem we'll share the Torah, but I'd like if we could start first if we could sing together the Bardichever Nigan. I like I like tapping into this song and I'd like to express that Bardichever wasn't his way he saw Yidden. If you study the Bardichever, it's not a Sugya of exaggerated kindness. The name Reb Levi Yitzchak's name is a name very rooted in Din. Levi if if if somebody checks it out they have a Levi, Kayain and Marchesed, Levi and Mardin. Yitzchak's name is Gevurah and it's not the name you would typically think would be somebody who saw such goodness in Yidden. One would like associate it with Midas Hachesed and certainly it's in Am Yisrael. We all come from Avraham Avinu who was an Ayin Tov who saw goodness in our people for sure an Ayin Tov. And that's a Mida we're Talmidim, we're children of Avraham Avinu. And certainly a Yid sees good in others, but the Yesod of the Bardichever was not rooted in some [clears throat] sort of exaggerated sense of like try to see good in somebody. It's not it's rooted in Din. The Bardichever saw Yidden lost his mind. Yidden are incredible, we're an amazing people. If we would let go of our stuff, our own insecurities and we walk in as a butterfly to a room of Yidden we would lose our minds. We're incredible people, and Yid is a Yid is a big thing. A Yid is A Yid is the the neshama of a Yid is precious. The light of a Yid is is is is is something that's irreplaceable, the light of a Yid. And the nekudah of the Bardichever was that he was mishtaynen from Yidden. He was amazed. And he would see Yid, and then the Yid would see in himself what the Bardichever saw in him. So, the mile of a song without words is people can think what they want, and that certainly is everybody's right. I like praying in this song. I like praying for good eyes. Both to see myself, what that means as a Yid, that it means a big thing, a Yid, Nishmas Yisrael, and to see it in others. To daven to Hashem to give us good eyes. We're an incredible people, and irreplaceable. They're different. They're different on hargashos and different mailos. Every base medrash, every house, every place, every community of Yidden have different beautiful things to offer, but there's something beautiful in a Yid that's irreplaceable. I'd like to sing We'll sing the Bardichever song together, and then Be'ezras Hashem we'll learn some We'll Be'ezras Hashem we'll learn Torah together. 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In parshas Beshalach this in this week's parsha so Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu, tells Am Yisrael Kodesh we've gotten out of Mitzrayim after decades of torture we've gotten Hashem took us out with the makos, Hashem has taken us out of Mitzrayim, Mitzias Mitzrayim and then in a shocking turn, Hashem tells Am Yisrael to head back to Pi Hachiroth to very place Pi Same, which was the place of of avdus, the place of shibud, the place of stuckness, Pi Same. It was a stuck place, no eved, nobody escapes from there, the place that expressed our our stuckness in Mitzrayim and we got out, it became Pi Same became Pi Hachiroth, became the place that marked our freedom, the Ribono Shel Olam took us out from those metzarim and we were we got out, we were benei chorin and we're in the midbar and then Hashem tells Klal Yisrael to head back, yashuvu, return back in a chiddush nifla, go back to Pi Hachiroth, to that place that represents that that speaks about your freedom from avdus, go back there. And of course this was to draw and and serve the purpose of Paroh sees nevochim heim ba'aretz and re-attacks Klal Yisrael and there's there's another ship with Miss Ryan. We're now sitting and power attacks claw Israel and the mission and speak about what is this that Hashem said go back to Miss Ryan. We're out. We had to yes Miss Ryan. And there becomes like a second you see us Miss Ryan. So much so we have two days. We have the first days of Pesach and we have show Pesach that's from Miss Shala. Korea the second part of you see us Miss Ryan. What is this? Go back to ship wood. Go back to Miss Ryan. Everything we've escaped from everything Hashem took us away from and we're sent back to Miss Ryan Lush. And it's certainly something we have to think about. But the from Miss Ryan is is a it's our it's our year. It's a year that yearly we have to think about and connect to and relate to our own Miss Ryan and you see us Miss Ryan our own our own our own party of every year the party of and the and our people and yearly we have to study what it's saying what we're hearing what we're being taught that that's ever present and we have to study what's this second Miss Ryan the return to Miss Ryan and leaving again. So I'd like this is not the only place that it's that it says it like this but I'd like to speak from the harem. The college says says I'll better said it's not the only place it's said." This is where I'm quoting from, and this is where I've seen it most recently from. And the Khidushei Rim taught as follows, the possuk in Shir Hashirim, the possuk says, "Moshcheini acharecha narutza." Possuk in Shir Hashirim. And there's a famous There's a famous I want to just say a vort. Rebonim wasn't looking to say something cute. Rebonim was absorbing Torah. Rebonim demanded of me and you when you hear a vort, like the Kotzker said something sharp, he wasn't trying to say like like a sharp thing. They weren't saying vorts. And when you hear something from Rebonim, Rebonim demanded of his talmidim that when you study Torah, listen to what Hashem's telling you. Hashem's talking to me. He's talking to you. When we read the Torah, be present to what the Torah is saying. Hashem's talking to us. Did you notice that I I'm going to make a I'm going to go Yael, I'm going to make a crazy guess. Reb Martinez going to speak this Shabbos. Is that true? Okay, one. That's a good guess. The rov's going to speak. Let me take a wild guess the rov's going to speak on parshas Beshalach. I wonder you hear I'm going out on a on a on a my mission on a limb to guess that the rov's probably going to share from parshas Beshalach. Mecha tasei. Why is he going to say Beshalach? Maybe there's a better vort now from from Lech Lecha, from Devarim. The Rebonim what does sound like it's a shtick, it's a rabbinic It's not Study our people. What happens by Am Yisrael, what happens in shuls, Minhag Yisrael is deep. Minhag Yisrael is Torah. Minhag Yisrael is Kedusha. Why are Rebonim quite Why is guess that the rubs going to speak in Bashalach? Maybe this week will be a good word. Maybe something more relevant the last hostage came home to Am Yisrael. Maybe it'll be something more in in a different parsha. Maybe lights coming at us. Maybe there'll be other rabbonim speak in that week's parsha because we understand Am Yisrael understands. If call Yisrael's reading parshas Bashalach, then it's talking to us right now cuz that's how we understand Hashem's Torah. If God if one Yachid's learning something, it's talking to them. If Ganz Klal Yisrael is reading, if all of Klal Yisrael is reading parshas Bashalach, Klal Yisrael's reading it, so then we if we're making a sheva brachos during the week, we're going to assume that in the parsha that Klal Yisrael's reading, Hashem's talking to me. There's something about my simcha that's in Bashalach. That's what's happening. It's not a shtick. You know, it's the way Zalman it's not it's not a chab. Like maybe speak from this see if you can No, we learn Bashalach learn that way. But be emes learn that way Zalman be emes. Be emes learn that way. It's parshas from the time I started reading Reb Boruch's Torah and being more honest to my own inner story. So when I'm learning Torah, when I learn the parsha, I I learn me. I'm learning I'm learning with my story. And not forced, you will see Hashem talking to your story. When I grew up, my rebbe would say shmoozim, I couldn't believe it how often it was mamesh the thing I was thinking about. To the point it would be like like is there ruach hakodesh in the Beis Medrash? Maybe maybe. But it it was it was strange. I'd come to a sheer and the rebbe was mamesh My rebbe would say things that was mamesh last night. So, he's reading my mind. It was only later learning reb Aaron's Torah more and other other things that I came to realize that that's when you learn Torah from a rebbe. He's talking to Hashem through your rebbe. L'drashei Hashem Elokeim. He's teaching Torah, of course. But, of course, any person goes to a sheer. Any person comes to study Torah can expect he's learning Torah. And Hashem's talking to us. Our creator is talking to us and telling us exactly what we need to hear in the Torah. But, of course. And reb Aaron was learning Torah and demanded of his talmidim and lived this himself that his Torah wasn't a cute vert. He was He was connecting and hearing the dvar Hashem and asked and demanded of Yidden to learn Torah in such an eifen. To ask, "What's Hashem saying to me?" And he would ask big talmid chachamim, "What did Hashem say to you?" They'd want to farher was a tremendous talmid chacham, but he would ask talmid chacham, "What did Hashem say to you?" He wanted to hear, "What's your chiddush? What did you hear? What was said? What was said? What did the pasuk say to you?" I was on the way to Chicago and I was and I was I was getting to see my son and and my grandson, baruch Hashem. To see my grandson. It stood out in the parsha that Yakov Avinu saying about his grandson, he's like a son. That sugia, like things opened up. Things became more clear. Things became I was more more interested, wondering more, and noticing much more. Come with your sugia. Come with your sugia and learn Torah. Hear what Hashem is saying to you. So, Rabbeinu said on the pasuk Mashcheni acharecha narutza, he said as follows. He said that a Yid is saying to Hashem, a Yid is saying to Hashem, Mashcheni. Ribbono shel oilam, when I feel you want me, Mashcheni, pull me close. Rabbeinu said if you one learns the sugias in Kiddushin daf kaf beis, there are two ways to be kind of a baal chai with Mashiach. There are two ways to be mashiach of a baal chai. You could bang it, hakasha b'makel, you hit the baal chai with a stick. And it runs, and the person is kind of a Mashiach because the animal went machmasai. The animal went because of him. That's one way to be kind of a baal chai. Or keriva b'chiba, if you call the animal and it comes, that's another way to be kind of a baal chai. Said Rabbeinu, Hashem could do Mashiach in two ways. Hashem could do Mashiach that Yidden go through tzaros. Hakasha b'makel, he gets smacked, and the Yid says, "Hashem, Hashem," and we run after Hashem. That's hakasha b'makel, that's one way of getting close to Hashem. But he said there's another way, keriva b'chiba. Call and it comes. Like what Rabbeinu is saying is that the greatest way a Yid serves Hashem is when a Yid recognizes that his avodah counts. It matters. One of the greatest things I learned from my father and and I'm spending I'm spending I spent a lot of my life learning from Avi Mori and and I'm spending tzadik b'misa Chaim Chaim learning his Torah. And one of the things I could say, one of the one of the greatest things I feel privileged to have learned from him is the value of the Yid's Torah. He said many, many sheer in a week. He said a lot He gave many He spent his lifetime learning Torah and teaching Torah. There were a couple of decades two daf yomi's a day teaching 11th grade for for over 40 years. He was a teaching He was a rosh yeshiva of a small yeshiva of Cairo. He was teaching Torah his whole life. And I saw when he taught Torah, he was saying Torah in the front. Some people would come to the sheer often there were brilliant people asking brilliant questions, but then there were people sleeping through sheer. There were people who would ask questions It was like frustrating. And I saw My father did not like leitzanus. And to ask him is is that guy like like he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he 14 years the Yid said I slept. So why do you keep coming back? It's meshuga. He came to a sheer We're busy people. The Yid would leave his family and for 14 years make a tase. I'll tell you why he kept coming back. Because my father was machshiv It's a big thing a Yid came to learn Torah. Big. Huge. It was It was like It's It's a light Sheinko Who said maybe his light's the biggest? This Yid pushing himself to come learn Torah. He was machshiv. The Yid said then I finished shas three time and I know well for the next 21 years the Yid told me. But he slept through 14 years of sheer. He came he was dragging. A Yid's trying to learn Torah. He considered it leitzanus to ask Is it is the Yid How strong does he understand? A Yid's going to learn Torah. What are you talking? He dragged his body from his house. It's a mashiv Torah and going to learn Torah. You mamish let's not to appreciate. He sells a big thing. He came to learn Torah. The shivus to the end. The greatest draw bachrum recently have have articulated something to me that I could relate to my own avodah and maybe you could relate to also. Guys have described if a guy is missing for weeks on end we say he's missing sheer he's not going. That's one tzar. A guy Guys have described a deeper tzar. I dragged myself to sheer. The chevra is like on fire arguing and I don't feel anything. I don't Big tzar. Real real people. Real stories. Real It's a big tzar. A yid wants to understand and be present that is avodah his prayer his Torah his thought on Torah. His chesed matters tremendously. And said rebbonim what we're saying to Hashem is mashcheini. Bring me close. Allow me to know that you want my avodah. Because when I feel kairi you're calling to me you're saying you want me acharecha narutza. I'll run like a tiger yes to you Hashem. It's interesting the Graz medayek mashcheini is a lashon yachid. Mashcheini drag me acharecha narutza as we will run doesn't say arutza. But of course when kol yachid veyachid not Hashem Am Yisrael he wants Am Yisrael. He wants Am Yisrael. Am Yisrael means me and it means you. It's not a theoretical it means me and you. You. Me. Am Yisrael us. Mashcheini. Kol yachid veyachid should know that he's wanted, that he's essential, he's a void that counts. Then I root says the people when every Yachid V'Yachid knows he's a void that counts and he's wanted, I root said the entirety of our people run after Yachid. We'll run, we'll run through walls, we'll run, nothing will stop us. I root said Is the shot Yitzi'as Mitzrayim explains our Yitzi'as Mitzrayim was Hashem and Hashem saying I want you. I'm interested in you on this road. Now go back in with the idea I want you. I want you. I'm interested in all the knees and all the markers which said I am Israel Hashem's interest in us. Call Yachid V'Yachid, people saw in their own service, they saw in the common the specific misery tortured them. Which ration I am before. So every year that I had my I want you. Now Hashem said go back. Let's see I root said And this time by Yamsif there was a of Israel. We ran into the Yamsif. We were willing, we jumped in the Yamsif. I could manage with a moment of Hashem. I root said we had this the second time, the second year was a of Israel of my of bottom, of my of closeness of tremendous tremendous care of it uses the word bottom a lot. The points out associated with Yamsif over a few times he shows examples which it specifically speaks about bottom the care of that I am Israel expressed to Hashem. That we ran Hashem after the rooster. And this this call this realization we dive into Hashem and gain it. We ask Hashem let us be sometimes it's hard to sense this. Sometimes this is the God was itself. We feel all of us all of us could struggle there's such a struggle my entire is it worth? It's interesting specifically we're working Hashem that we're working on this growing and there was a day like I think about when my father decided to go to Yeshiva. He went to camp and he was in a mixed Yeshiva and and Reb Volsky and other Dekim convinced my father to go to a different Yeshiva and he was like celebrating he's coming to Yeshiva. There was Mish to celebrations. With our great Australia we have a big people today we're trying to get this boy in to get her in. Could she get into the school? Is it possible that seminary? We have to we beg Hashem we must follow and gain it. A year could could could the girl get in? Could the boy get placed? His her this is irreplaceable. We can't do without. We're just celebrating this week that that Israel was busy we were saying till the end of all our schools on Shabbos our Yeshivas on Shabbos and worried for the one year it was me I saw I was the hostage and you were the hostage. It was a given an entire people were stopped from one. It's not about numbers. One can one one person and we can't go fighter. We don't have extras in our people. We're we're working Hashem that we have it. should have his shmoneh esrei, her shmoneh esrei, his tfila, his chesed, his Torah, our Torah, my Torah, my own learning for 4 minutes, for 3 minutes, for a minute 50. It's not a scholastic race. Each Yachid v'Yachid's Kiddush Hashem, each Yachid's sincere avodas Hashem is chashuv and irreplaceable in our people, and wanted, and necessary, and a light that we can't do without, a light that our Elokim wants. Mashcheini, b'emes b'emes, b'emes we should have. We don't know, we have no we have no idea. I was speaking to a Yid today who's involved in the mental health field. So, I told him people that are in fixed, sometimes chinuch could be like fixed people fields. And this avodas Hashem, we want each each bochur to be a huge, to be a talmid chacham, a tzaddik, a chassid for sure. But we also have to admit and acknowledge we don't know the tikkun of each neshama, we don't. And we're allowed to shoot for and push and encourage for sure. But each neshama to know before, we don't know so this person davened beautifully and said Shema Yisrael with sincerity and ehrlichkeit, it's big. We we we don't know we don't know the scorecard. It's not kol Yachid v'Yachid, each person, their avodas Hashem, their sincere service of Hashem, Mashcheini. So, I want to hear there's a song that just will sing Mashcheini, but then you'll all sing together a different version that we'll all be able to sing together, but I want to be mispallel. On this well sheshi, Mashcheini Hashem. On this week where he sent us back to Mitzrayim to have you see that after we experience and we experience Yitzi'as Mitzrayim all our lives, the sense that we're wanted, the understanding, the deep awareness that our avoid accounts. And when we experience and as we have experienced that and roots will run. Nothing will stop us. When a person grabs this and lives with this and knows the truth of this, I and roots will run after you. That's valuable. It's precious. We'll run up to the mountains through walls, through mountains, over anything. Nothing will stop us. 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First of all, it's a beautiful the Shabbos song the Mikdash Hillul. Yidden are always thinking about the Beis Hamikdash, thinking about Eretz Yisroel. But I want to express that Carlebach and his brother Chaim, the two brothers the two brothers, so we were zocheh during COVID I don't know Florida knows much about COVID, but during during during COVID, so we were on Zoom together. It's interesting. Today, like people say after this, people thought we'll all do Zooms. Zooms don't work. It's not a thing. Like, the guy said it often, let's Zoom. It doesn't work. But it's interesting when that's what you have, it's perfect. It was like unusual see after the Shema, we were together many many days, over a thousand people. Many many days, well over it. Sometimes there were thousands together. It didn't make sense. And there was siyata d'Shmaya the Torah the tefillah that it was like an unusual togetherness. Crazy siyata d'Shmaya. A lady told me a lady from California the lady said that she has a nephew, a very yeshivish guy a shmucky yeshiva bochur and he said to his aunt, "You have to hear my rebbe, this Yisroel Kalisch. Simcha Kalisch, he's unbelievable. You would love him." He he said to his aunt, "And during COVID, he hears Dan Kalisch mixed up this lady with Simcha Rav Kalisch from Eretz Yisroel." And she hops on the Zooms and she sees the backs and she doesn't look like my nephew's type. And she listened for months straight. We I we had some siyata d'Shmaya with this lady. She like, "What was happening? I met a younger man in Chicago, went through a lot in his life." He told me that in name Chaim did the year told me that he's a choshev he's a rebbe he's a big he's a big he's he's somebody teaching a lot of Torah Marbitzei Torah. He said that it saved his life. This he had said it saved he said I was at a very low time in my life. Said I could say he was crying when he told me it saved my life. Chaim would sing every year of Shabbos L'cha Dodi Hashem we were no longer boxes like we mamesh we were all pulled into the same room. Out that song whenever sings L'cha Dodi Hashem Dodi I think about the year of Shabbos I says that Chaim and would sing together L'cha Dodi Hashem Dodi. So I'm going to ask these brothers Shlomo's older than [clears throat] Everybody's invited to join in but let's sing L'cha Dodi Hashem Dodi. You took this mic. 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In Connecticut people would be here so we else could be outside there's a foot of snow. So I'm sure there's still snow each time people sitting. I'm sitting here I'm thinking the guys are here that's quite warm outside. A lot of places people could be it's appreciated that everyone's here we're singing sharing the great Torah this but I do want to talk a little bit about snow. I do want I'm just coming from a foot. So I'm going to speak a drip. I'm going to just speak a little about snow. Moments that you remember the the white stuff that falls. I appreciate being with you at Mo Laser Center a lot. I appreciate you here. I appreciate the mats of you made in your house. When you light a shalom on I then thank you for being here. Hashem promises Avraham Avinu that when they be in Mitzrayim, ba'avod navinu es arba me'ot shana. Va'achar kein yeitsu berchush gadol. May or then Hashem promises we're going to leave wealthy. Achrei kein yeitsu berchush gadol. By the Brisbein of Sarn, Parshas Lech L'cha, Hashem promises Avraham Avinu that we'll leave Mitzrayim. The bonim of Avraham Avinu us Am Yisrael, we're going to leave berchush gadol very wealthy. And there are two kiyumim, if you will. There are two, it's confusing, and needs thought, and Sforno speak about it. We become rich twice. One, in last week's parsha, where we borrow millions of dollars. We borrow money from the Mitzrayim. Vayish'alu ish me'esh u'meir'eihu. We borrow money from the Mitzrayim. And then later in this week's parsha, by the Yam, by the Yam Suf, when we become much more wealthy. We became wealthy the first time, but in a fabulous wealth by Kri'as Yam Suf, with the vanquishing, with the death of the Mitzrayim, we become wildly wealthy later on, much, much wealthier. And they need thought, why we become wealthy twice. That that's something we should and could think about. But Menachem, what I want to say I want to say over something from the Chidushei HaRim that I think is is is really important. And the K'tav v'Od Chochmah says He asks He asks a question, why do we borrow the money? Hashem promised us wealth, such an unusual wealth. Borrowed money? And the first kiyum of the promise, Hashem says b'matos u'minayichu, the murder brochos, that my nation is learning, I ask you a favor, Am Yisrael. We just wanted out of Mitzrayim. We wanted to leave. We weren't thinking a lot about money. We wanted out of Mitzrayim. And Hashem says b'matos u'minayichu, I have a favor to ask. Please, could you borrow from the Mitzrayim? We had chein, the Mitzrayim fell in love with us. After being our voaden for decades in a lower class, the Mitzrayim went wild from us and lent us tons of money. And that was the first kiyum, and Hashem says, so like Avraham Avinu, you shouldn't mind me that Avadim hayinu and kiyum b'hein. V'acharei kein yetzu v'chush gadol, like kiyum b'hein. So, borrow money, why winter? It's a pella. Why was it borrowed money? Why did we borrow? That's a fun not see a good kasha. Why should it be borrowed money? Why should that be a kiyum of yetzu v'chush gadol, money that wasn't even ours? A good kasha, Ralpher, stark kasha. Why should the money be borrowed money? The kasha is strong. The Nobody has a I don't want a monopoly on a terrace is what to think about, that the money of our richness was first Later it became ours, but it was already a kiyum of Avraham Avinu v'chush gadol. That's so interesting. Money that we had a return, we owed to the Mitzrayim. B'yishalom, we borrowed Such an interesting came of African American. There's a Camaro about the camera. It's a Camaro about the camera. The Camaro about the camera says that when somebody has a field, has a property and they have stones on their property and you clear and go off your property, you're not allowed to take the stones from your property and put them on the camera. You're not allowed to do that. You can't throw the stones. I have a guy that I manage don't like him so much. I struggle with him. There's a guy I I I I can tell you which house this is. When you're driving down Boyden and you make a left on Cook Street, the second house on the right. The guy yearly does there's a foot of snow there's like like 20 inches right now in Blue Ridge, Connecticut. And this guy I didn't see him this year do it. Give him credit. He's a guy. Maybe he's done shufer. Maybe he's done shufer by now. I've thought of knocking on his door and talking over with him. I thought I haven't done it yet. But this fellow for years I see this guy. He has a snow blower which is wonderful. That um he should have all the snow blowers excellent. He has a snow blower what the guy does is he takes the snow from his property and blows it to the middle of the street. It's like a pellet. I want to bring about the camera. Let me follow the mission of This guy takes his snow. You're supposed to with the snow blower you're supposed to face it to your property and you take it from your sidewalk to your grass. My neighbor Schmoel Gross, he's a he has a schmuck machine. He he cleans us all off. But of course he faces the machine. You take the snow from the sidewalk onto the grass. This fellow takes the snow from his property and puts it in the street. Like my mish making dangerous for all the cars that come by us. That's selfishness. He takes from his mom mish he's he doesn't know he can learn about the mish spot the value dome. Go ahead and don't know Tater. And this guy has to learn he needs to he needs to teach him. Probably I should knock on his door but I didn't see him do it this year. But for many years there could be somebody else knocked on his door already. I don't know. They learned from him already. But the fellow the master the Gamora says you're not allowed to take from your and put to a rabbin. Because it's not you're not allowed to do that. The Gamora says my said there's a story with a Hasid ached. Who sees a year a Hasid Hasid's walking and he sees a year taking rocks from his property and putting in a rabbin. And he says to the year why you taking rocks from the that's not yours and putting it into your house. Imagine I would knock on the guy's door. And I would tell the guy that why you taking the snow from that your property and putting it into your property. That's what the Hasid says to the year. He says what empty head empty one. He calls him a raker. Very interesting very sharp language. He says empty head. Why you taking rocks that from that your property and putting it in your property. Leg leg over. The year laughs at the Hasid. He says what are you talking about? I don't know what you're talking about. You're foolish. The year the year has to sell his property and becomes a wanderer and trips on his own stones and a rabbin. And he said I am right I said the Hasid. The Hasid was right. What's what's happening in the Gamora? What's going on? Why is he right at the time you it makes sense what he was doing from his property through What's happening? It's before the the of obvious writes this openly. The way we understand money it said it's interesting the Torah says a man's true money you own it. It's yours. Plus I own my true money. I thought you have to give it to the coin. What is money? Says the Gamara this is money. Doesn't mean you own it. It's my money you're not allowed to have any pleasure from true money. You can't eat it, drink it, sell it. You have you have a right to pick which coin gets it. So why does it say this is my money yet it's yours? It's very misleading. Money sounds like I do what I want with it. It's not mine. It's the way it sees money. This is how we see everything we have. I'm amazed how he plays so generously his talent. But he clearly sees money. Money means he decides who gets his voice but it's meant for others. When gives us money we view it as a big cotton. Lent to us and we get to decide where to use it. It was given to us for others. That's how we view money. It's my money it's yours. It's not different than anything else you own. Oh you can't use it. Just means you have a right to decide where it goes. That's how you view money. To the point the said to the why you did that's not your money. Where Where you put it that's where that's what's yours. Your money is yours. How you use it that's what's yours. Your right is to decide where it goes. You're handed it by Hashem, the right. This is our view on possessions. They're precious and important. Money is crazy valuable, precious. Precious. Money. The older I get, I get much more into money. Money's so important, very. Money's so good and important, precious, precious. Money is incredibly precious. Money is such a gift from Hashem. You could use it. You could You could buy your your son a nice shirt, good pair of pants. Could buy something for your wife. Money is unbelievable. Money's a big thing. Hashem gives you money. I think the more negoshim a person is, the less they appreciate money. Cuz I think when you're very, very negoshim, when you're very gashmiistic, so you're very A person's very into physical, so they they're very into body, and they see money as distant. The more we see ourselves as nishamas, our body's amazing, a gift from Hashem, and our money's amazing. Money's tremendous tool to use for beautiful things. And a Yid sees money toivis hana'ah, that it's put by us to decide where it goes. Could use it for beautiful purposes. Says the Kudushei Yerim, the first time we got rich, it was lent to us because that was Hashem in his kindness was teaching us our attitude to money, that it's it's a pikadon by us. So, it was given to us in such an eifen, that was the chesed, Hashem says the Kudushei Yerim, that we got ruchush gadol in the way you're supposed to get it, that's a pikadon by you. So, we were able to relate to money. Of course, subsequently, the Mitzriyim died, and it became ours bizas hayam. But already the attitude to this mamon was something that's a pikadon by a person's place. Finally, I'm the one holding it and get to decide where it goes. And the generosity of our people, the kindness of a people that understands money. That understands that money is a gift from Hashem. Tzadikim appreciate Am Yisrael appreciates and people use it wisely to build a beautiful base knesses. To support a kallah, to support their mishpachas, to buy nice pants for their son. Chesed Na'ar person could buy for his mishpacha. The Gemara calls people who work. The Gemara Bava Metzia people who calls yedim who work people asikin in good ma'asim kol hayom v'kol halayla. People incredible ba'alei chesedim. That they're supporting and supporting a mishpacha with easy chesed. But that's how we understand the Yid understands money. Not the place of Mitzrayim which is stuck, which is an ends, which is a something you have 100 you want 200, 200 400. No, a Yid never had a healthy attitude to money. A tool, a gift from Hashem with such an that could be utilized for kiddush Hashem. And the Vayishlach that it was lent Am Yisrael. Amazing. Amazing chiddushim chiddushei ha'Torah was to help us in understanding the purpose of gifts. Of course, that's all part of Yitzi'as Mitzrayim. Mitzrayim is a is a place of stuck. Things don't have meaning. May Hashem it's not limitless and Yitzi'as Mitzrayim came along with such a beautiful, such a freeing attitude to money. That it's all it's accounted by me. Meant to use to connect to Hashem. I'm zocheh nassi Torah and I'll and I'll close with this then we'll sing. And I want Menachem Blisko to sing together with But I want to say that I'm sorry to be by many weddings mayor. Baruch Hashem is chos that I go to more weddings than most people I know. I go to a lot of weddings. A perk of the job. Baruch Hashem, I have a lot of friends that age. And and I I have this chos to go to many weddings. I'm fascinated at the making of the wedding. At the moment of the wedding, you take out a ring and the halacha that ring is not allowed to be expensive. Has to be cheap. And right before kiddushin, chossonim are crazy what's going on. It's like from the holiest moment possible. Neshamos come to the weddings because it's not like a chiddush. Neshamos go to the holiest places. Usually Gan Eden, wherever there's like a lot of holiness, neshamos go. It's obvious. Neshamos go to Neshamos come to the wedding, of course, obviously. It's a place you see in the coming together, mishpachas. Of a man saying I'm going to emotionally and physically take care of his wife. The coming together, it's the holiest the the chosson's tish. I'm very proud in yeshiva the chosson's tish are holy places. Very holy places that it's not like a place to write a shtick. That's not the chosson's. It's a place to to say divrei Torah v'yiras Shamayim, to sing. I love the chosson's tish in yeshivas. A very holy moment. Singing. The the people who run wedding halls, every wedding hall hires a nervous fellow, a wonderful guy, who's more nervous. They see me, they're like, "Oh, no." And I try to let them know we're going to do it. We're going to try to do this timely. We're doing a chosson's tish. The chosson's tish is holy. The moments of the chosson's tish is mechilas avonos for the chosson, for the kallah. The Degel Machaneh Ephraim says for the chosson, the parent the parents the kallah, Kol them and everybody who joins in. There's not like cute to get a mock in the frame since it's no others. Big daddy can tell you then who are struggling in the young took a dose here to go to a fish. If you don't know the fish just go. Go to a wedding instead of the fish. It's a very holy place. Very holy man. You're preparing for the hooker. A corner for Indian is bigger than the Indian. Very holy times. It's It's If you watch a husband he's like dragged and pulled a lot. The nervous guy is run, come, go, pull. And while this is all going on the like the holiest things in the world happening. But that's [snorts] how that's how holy things are the Hester are hidden. And beside that that's how it is. But very very holy every minute by a husband. Right before the hooker. This holy moment. That's condition husband and wife should send with a sham. Right before the guy shows the ring. And the officiator looks at the ring and he says Buddha. So worth a penny. What's happening? So I'm going to tell you the reason always understand we're deep people. Always think, ask, wonder, don't just settle. So the official reason is if it's an expensive ring we'll worry she's going to think that it's worth more than it is. Maybe she thinks it's diamond and it's really cubic zirconium. Did I say the word right? >> [snorts] >> That's what it's called. But maybe she'll think it's it's real and it's not. So we don't want to make toys. That's the reason. Now I assure you there deeper things. We could think of other plans. So make everybody do $20,000. Condition. The whole The building [cough and clears throat] a home a year issue. a home manage the making the holiest from the holiest moments in this world on a penny. We can't afford to do a product penny. It's like funny to me. Product the whole question is like very it's where the penny show the Adam and look at it and say yeah penny. >> [snorts] >> We can't afford a little more we couldn't figure out another solution. And the Indian is the Indian it's the Indian of the whole world. That's what could do sure is that on a penny on a drink on a little of Nachman brought this light to the world the power of my aunt. Don't think it needs big thick mad on a penny. The whole world a person could sit down with we're here together with product. Nice cup of water nice see this product little bit of two years shared by two years sing two years encourage each other two years talk together. On a little the whole world is a attachment to a sham. On a drip you don't need to add you know the whole condition a whole bias a whole being of of condition comes from one penny from a mad from a drip. The value a sham gives us and we can we can manage connect a sham. I like thinking about this on small things train yourself a little things that put them penny penny it's where the penny. The grass last moments on this earth he was holding his palace and he was crying and saying I'm leaving the world that for a few grace. You can manage serve a sham and he was feeling his citizens. It's why the issue of a guy like getting very thick strings schmatta. I like also buy a pair of sits with the thinnest most measly strings. Once in a while grab them and say pruta. From one penny, from a drachm, mamish ma'at, a little bit. Person a little bit and it's kinyan mamish, connects to Hashem, it's eternal, there's no little in ruchniyus. And the side of our world is from a pruta, from a drachm. A person gives a dollar to tzedaka, gives a dollar to somebody else, pruta. Person mekadesh his man and learns for 5 minutes. I asked my son, he's part of a kolel, I begged him, not in the shmiras hasdarim stuff, nothing, please no, please no. I don't want two chavrusa's guilting and you walk in you're both shamed, stop, stop, stop, I don't care you're an hour late, 6 hours late. Sit and each other hug, shmooze for a few minutes and decide to learn a word of Torah. Say, "Maybe we should learn Hashem's Torah." And believe guilt, laughs, took pruta. You know what it means? Two yidden learn Hashem's, maybe learn for a few minutes. Imagine? Imagine mamish, maybe tell me really, should we really learn? Two yidden sit down, they learn Hashem's Torah, imagine? I mean it really, they should learn Hashem's Torah. From a little bit, from a ma'at, from a drachm, person connects to Hashem, pruta, from a pruta the whole bayis, we're sitting here from a pruta. From a penny, from one, from one little penny in the hands, but he mamish means it. Sometimes you do too much, he hands her a thousand dollars, maybe only meant 999 of it. And a pruta, mamish, can he give her a pruta? Very surely only you should give an isha pruta. Mamish hand an isha, shalom bayis, this year he should hand an isha pruta. But mamish mean it, you'll hand it with belief shalom, but mamish with your entire metziyus, here's a pruta, I want to help you. Two people band, two people come together, and then to Hashem, maybe you'll sit down, you'll sing a zemer, but mamish, maybe you'll learn a minute, maybe you'll give a dollar to stocker from a crude demeanor. So, all of us should be this attitude to money that it's a gift from Hashem and it's meant that we could that we could choose where to use it and how to use it and use it in beautiful ways. And he takes it and uses it and connects to where he is. It's worth It's worth It's worth everything in the world. The time is now. The choice beautiful attitude not an ends. And that they view others view money as an ends. It's not how we view it. It's a It's a blessing. Person then could choose it and use it in a beautiful way. Take that product. Could be the kind of donation. Could buy your children fish for Shabbos color. Tell my guy can really buy your children fish for Shabbos. Crazy. Guy can really can buy his child. It's crazy. He can buy his child a nice coat. It's a crazy world. Amazing asset. Guy goes he managed to buy his son a coat. That's the biggest biggest asset to give your child to buy his kid a coat. Manish makes a blessing. Hashem gives somebody money he can buy his child something. I say I want to say on the layer of the mishpacha that with all their assets that I watch how they are to you. I watch you this man. Mother to his to his son. That's That's the biggest asset the deepest the most profound asset. So, Hashem should be all of us. Let us all be there. To the gifts that he gives us all the gifts. Whether it's the kind of gift or the kind of gift could be a beautiful voice. All the gifts Hashem gives us. The ultimate gift had a very big symbol that he was good looking. He used his good looks to be the kind of gift. All the gifts Hashem gives us should be the kind of gift by a person. They're such good usages. Such a free. That's exactly what we learned on the way out of Egypt. That our money is a covenant meant that has a use. It's the opposite of a place of stuck. The money was lent us. What a beautiful way of getting rekhush gadol. That might be the biggest rekhush we get, explains the Rebbe Sherira. That of course it became ours also of course, but but the attitude that it was lent us, that it's a covenant. And now let's sing a little bit. But I I I do want to close to we sang the birchat the Torah last time but we will all stand and we'll have to end soon with the birchat. First let's do one more song. But that you didn't have to hold hands. For you didn't have to hold hands during the birchat niggun, I find that weird and I promised my kids I wouldn't be weird. So we'll we'll get back to the birchat and we'll hold hands. Well let's do which song? You always like chalom aleichem. One more song that we'll sing together. >> [music] [music] >> Shalom aleichem. >> [music and singing] [music] >> Shalom aleichem. >> [music] [singing] [music] >> Shalom aleichem. >> [singing] [music] [singing] >> Shalom aleichem. >> [singing] [music] >> toilet great great power >> [music] >> Okay. all of this >> [music and singing] [singing] [music] >> You better remember my house. Yes. Yes. I have a plan. >> [music] >> I want to be eliminated. And it's going to be a two-hour >> [music] >> Well, >> [singing] >> it's crazy. So, I don't know what the Sabbath is. It's 12 hours. >> [music] [singing] [music] >> Anytime you come >> [music] >> I think you're going to be a Muslim. >> [singing] >> You have to be a baby You have >> [music and singing] >> Try to be the biggest star in the world for me. Yes. The biggest star in the world for me. No exaggeration. The biggest star in the [music] world for me. >> [singing] >> It doesn't doesn't stop. You have to be a cool kid. That's [singing and music] what we live. You have to be a cool kid in Florida. Maybe so. Maybe we can go to South Florida. >> [music and singing] >> They're really sweet brands. >> [music and singing] >> I swear I swear >> [music] >> I swear >> [singing] >> I swear >> [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music and singing] [singing] [music] [singing and music] [music and singing] [music] [singing] [music and singing] >> I'll be there. with all [music] my heart. >> [singing] >> I'll be there. with all my [music and singing] heart. I'll be there. >> [music] [singing] >> with all my >> [singing] >> I'll be there. Be there. >> [music] >> with all my [singing] heart. >> [music] >> I am >> [singing] >> so glad. I'll [music and singing] be there. >> [singing] [music] [singing] >> Oh, yeah. >> [singing] [music] >> Oh, yeah. >> [music] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] >> my life. >> [music and singing] [singing] [music] [singing] >> What percentage of the last four