Shoftim - Trusting our Sages

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with the Shems and they're running assistance in the Roma imma she's real fifty seven seventy nine 2019 this week's partial partial show of Tim and I'd like to share with you four it from time Friedlander in his brand-new book sips a time wand of arm this is the piece on this week's Porsche exciting for me hope it's exciting for you and show it to me show trim the tour begins our parsha with the obligation for us to appoint judges over us to a point those who will keep us on track keep us on the track of the Torah and we have the idea that were to follow after the words of our sages to follow after the words of our Torah scholars those who truly seek to know the will of God truly seek to know what it is that a Shem expects from us and I just share with you a bit of what replying Freelander says and also a bit of a story which I came across just yesterday it was just in the maja magazine about three weeks ago and I had three months ago sorry and I actually spoke with the people that had happened to I wanted to hear it firsthand because it's an amazing amazing story about a munis Cohanim about having faith and trust in our spiritual leaders in this case it was behind can--yep ski door authority swell and so i want to share with you that story also want to share with you it's connected to that story one of the many things broccoli I'm working on in my business it's a special song about a very very great person whose name was Zak I'm who was involved with Hatzolah and my lifeline and many other amazing sudden and very very very much trying to make sure things were done tremendous amount at Stuckey was a very wealthy person and everything to be done without people really knowing about it and he had amazing I'm gonna Stockholm you'll see from the story will get there but he was somebody who had tremendous belief whatever haha great girdle said something to him if he had a Rebbe who said something to him he'd listened without thinking twice I'll start actually with a little story about him I heard from his son Andrew many stories from his son involved in writing a song about this trip his family is his father is great-great-grandfather little story he he actually would fly just he would fly to Eretz Easter all the Land of Israel in order to get a brocco to get a blessing to get advice from great tsadikim he was very close to her pumpkin EF ski he was very close to Rome Italy with a left go it's another great good dialer my verities rubber of newerth north orange abisko Xhosa and one time he he flew all the way towards his job leave us through you to Lefkowitz in order to get a bra on a certain business venture get a blessing and he came to hurt cicero and he went to speak to the scuttle he came just to speak to him to get a bra and the girl said to him the great Sadiq said to him it's not a good idea I don't think you should do it and instead of getting a blessing he got Direction not to do it and whenever the girl would say he would accept without any questions and that's how he always did things with his business slow mo and I'm I say he was quite wealthy and so it seemed to have worked for him anyway okay so that's just an introduction to talk on an idea that that that Friedlander speaks about time for than there it's not so much related to specifically listening to the personal direction from Sadiq in which is also true which is really what the story's going to be AB about but generally understanding what is idea behind it why do we have to have a moon ask a common why do we have to listen to our sages what if they're wrong what if they're mistaken we still have to listen to what they say right because I'll say buzick says let's just room another my Sheikh you look all your moon is small don't turn right or left from what they say Rashi tells us because I'll say even if they tell you that your left foot is your right foot or your left hand is your right hand and your right hand is your left hand you must listen to them even if they tell you something what you think is the opposite of reality still we are to listen to them what is the idea behind that besides for the fact that as we've seen the story there's something called Ruach Hakodesh they have divine inspiration but what is the idea generally speaking of Emunah stockelman so it's such an important idea like to speak about it he says like this a Munna who you say Deus elevators a sham reasonable talks about the fact that there's an idea of a mullah just a moon with this idea of a Munna it's the idea of trusting in Hashem believing in a sham but have economy Rajas selling I'm gonna see if here Habakkuk came and he told us what is the foundation of the entire Tyra what is that one mitzvah which pretty much sums up the entire Tyra it's that the righteous person lives by his faith in Hashem okay about kadesha Adam you already heard Eric on a hiatus Hashem in order of a person come to the correct path in his service of a sham so I'll click a communist a common person needs to have faith in our sages in those who study the Torah and those who seek Hashem will shame if we should we all realize sit there huh meet this I would assume that they will explain to him and provide him teach him the correct path and serving a Shem know you talking to called equity happy seismic if you say none of their Calypso she I mean it can't be that every person just does whatever they feel like doing when it comes to their service of Hashem it doesn't work that way I said as Derek Halima but it's a sham Hamidah loner harkaman when it comes to to rising to loftier levels and spirituality our sages gave us a precise instruction Marah copied arkem on the homeless alleys of evidence of sham and it's only with their path then we're able to rise up in our service of Hashem Hannah Terry I mean Allah know you say this with sake maha sake and it's for this reason the Torah gave us very powerful foundations being in Z and when it comes to this matter she like called equity far as the turkey rots and leave over loose enough we can't allow the tire to just be explained by every individual according to how they understand it doesn't work that way Vanessa avi new comment mrs. Vittoria McCaskill said Salado Mesa Munoz a common we have a number of different Commandments in the Torah to strengthen for ourselves our faith and our conviction in following the words of our sages and that's true for the sage in our generation we don't just have the holy books that were written by great scholars and tsadikim of previous generations but we had so the commune scholars in our generation who know who we are and who speak to us and guide us based on our current circumstances actually mr. cetera Mahaska scene is there a mr. zahary Ramla hot sex one of the mitzvahs in the terror that strengthened this idea is that we have an obligation to follow the majority which means that you can have a number of different opinions about things when it comes to the Torah what is a sham expected me well it's a sham believe will accession believe is right for me or what do I believe is right that sham wants me to do right so you can have multiple opinions about that there are many different great sages and scholars so we have a mid suit to go after the right to go after if we have a number of different scholars to disagree we follow the majority because of Akeno with beer ha Mitzvah the finnick writes in regards to the explanation of this Mitzvah I mean sure she mitzvahs ocean it's the veena Kezia has a king detain oh this is an amazing thing this obligation which is to follow after the Robin to listen to our sages to go after the majority is something which is command to us in order to strengthen the foundations of our belief she learn in study new karma Turkish are too clueless a governess I mean Mikasa if you would have just been commanded to do whatever we think the term means that's why these best as we can understand it collectively I'll call Eklavya come install your mic to you nice and shiny the Xenia blending okay no everyone would say their own opinion as to what at her expense Buffalo color I'm autumn Yara be be Huff coy bootylicious Lhasa in your habitat is the V dot I so if that was the case if we didn't have this obligation to go after the majority so then each person would make a decision based on their own experience based on their own understanding what's the right thing to do and that person would have to do that thing based on their own understanding well hash of should be fierceness of in local Buddhist right ha ha ha Meem but now that the Torah obligates us and says we must follow the majority opinion of those Torah scholars who understand the will of Hashem yes Tara Acosta cool ah no you may know God Abba it's an amazing and foundational idea why do we do it this way why do we follow the majority of our Torah scholars because we need one Torah we need to have one set of rules that we all follow Judaism looks needs to look uniform needs to look the same it has looked the same for the last three thousand eight hundred years partly for this reason we have arrived we have a majority of sages who say this is what is the right thing to do and we followed that okay the aim line losses made item via Hema you can't budge from their opinion with Hema sustained omits for some Amish Lehman sister L when we fulfill that which our sages tell us to do we are fulfilling the commandment of a Shem by feeling will you have enough America hamamelis ms kalila if let's say you happen forbid the majority of sages make a mistake and they don't align themselves with the true will of Hashem a lamb here Cartersville Elena the scene is on them and not on us and interesting okay and he says in the Hampshire excuse me as he continues he says that the the truth is that even if they make a mistake we still need to follow them one of the reasons is because that's the rule we need to be able to follow no matter what and I could for who set up within the rules that sometimes it's gonna happen they're going to make a mistake and we still need to follow them in fact he brings I'm not gonna read everything inside now because I also want to tell this important story he brings that there's a Gomorrah it's in Bubba Mathilde effluent tests and the Gemara this there says that there was a certain story of the Ezzor said of sackalo he said a certain halakha decision but the majority sages said not like him they argued with him and a voice came up from heaven and said the halacha is like revelry as there even though he's a DA see I couldn't even though he was a singular person the voice said that he was correct that he had aligned himself rapidly with the will of Hashem and the sages heard the heavenly voice and they said we don't care what the heavenly voice says lavish a miami the terror is not in the heavens we have an obligation the Torah says hurry Robin we go after the majority we hold this way it doesn't matter even if early as there is right we still hold that we're correct and we're going to go after the majority now there was a great sage who at the time met Elisha the prophet of Leo and avi who appears throughout history even until estate our people who have had Gil Amelio seen Elijah the prophet and so the times of the Gemara so somebody saw him and what was Hashem doing at the time in the in heaven I was a sham sang what was going on when he sent out this voice that Eliezer was right and the sages said doesn't matter if he's right we hold that we're right and we're gonna go after the Robin and Elio told them Elijah told them Hashem was saying he was joyous and he was saying it's honeyBun hi my children have vanquished me my children one and what's the idea he explains that I mean what does it mean we won over a coalition bar who the idea is that a college bar who set up in the system that the system to correctly be able to continue to be uniform and that Cloughley still should be able to follow properly the instructions of the sages even if they make a mistake still that's what's right that isn't the right thing to do hurry Robin we go after the majority of our total Torah scholars that's how important it is for us to understand somebody like FM can he excuse life today as long as soon you should be well somebody like Russia Feinstein who was passed away in the 80s these people dedicated their entire lives and dedicate their entire lives to understanding what it's a Shems will and when they say something on the simple level they're saying something which is there they know from their lifetime experiences no crime is a man in his 90s I believe he knows from his lifetime experience in Torah he spends entire life every single day every waking moment involved entire answering questions for Claudius well he knows what a shams will is so when he says it and we have other obviously other great good dynam who agree with him so on that level it's he understands what a shams will is so we have to follow his his command on another level like I mentioned there's a concept of raha Kadosh of divine inspiration here's where we come to the story which is an amazing story and an involved Jean was a crime as well the story begins that a certain young lady her name is Raquel hailey Fuchs I'm telling you the name because it was printed in this article and actually spoke to her husband show today and Roy halee so she it was very close to the Zach crime family she considered Shlomo's a crime to be her uncle and she knew this story batch alone is a crime that when he was young in his early days of his business before he had had made a lot of money and before he had become very successful so he had an idea for a particular business and he thought that that was going to be the idea that would make a lot of money he brought the idea to a certain girl I don't remember who it was and the girl said don't do it don't get involved in that business idea he was very gung-ho strong about he thought was the right thing to do the gunnel said don't do it as soon as he heard what the girl said great Sadiq the great sage immediately if the girl says something that's what we do he didn't get involved in that business venture he went out to get involved in other things that were successful years later it was Ana's gala Muslim afraid out that those who got involved in that particular business venture lost everything it was a lemon it wasn't a good business venture somehow the advice the Gullah whoever he asked knew perhaps okay - or you sense something was wrong with it he followed their advice and and he was successful now one of the things about the story which this woman mentioned or Haley is that he didn't know he didn't know at the time you thought he was giving up a lot but he was doing what was right so she knew this story about him she was not feeling well one day and very she was doing very unwell and she went to the doctor and the doctor told her you're pregnant you're 18 weeks pregnant she had no idea she was pregnant her baby was only 11 months old she didn't expect to become pregnant and she went to have a scan of the baby to see if everything's okay and the doctor told her that not only is everything not okay but the and there is not enough amniotic fluid inside the uterus in order to take care of this baby this baby the lungs will not develop arms and legs will not develop these people will come out right now it's being sustained because it is connected through through the through the cord through the umbilical cords was receiving oxygen but as soon as it's born the baby is going to die he had much experience with this type of case so they were going to schedule some tests for following week to see what's going on what the story is there's also a risk shawl told me there was also a risk of a certain type of infection that was common in such cases anyway in the meantime before the tests happens so they have a Robbie's name is Ravina you should lime and he took shuttle to work on Kanaskie they wrote out the whole entire case the story exactly what the doctor said exactly exactly the whole situation and they asked him hime what to do and I'm read through the entire entire page both sides and her crime said to them the doctors don't know no don't know what they're talking about the baby's going to be fine all you need to do is Darvin that's all he said so they left and Shaw was very excited very happy to hear this information this statement and I must I must add it's very important and you all told me this was a very important point that before they went interrupt crime before they went in Turpan can he have ski to ask his advice to tell the situation Ravena told him whatever up time says you have to accept before you walk in there that whatever he says you're going to do that's how it works with no crime you have to do whatever he says if you're not ready to do it every whether he says grow your grow your beard down to your to your bellybutton whether he says whenever he says that you got to do you got to do it so before they walked in Sheol said I'm gonna do whatever he says he was ready to do whatever research so he's very excited about what crime said he got home his wife was beside herself she said what do you mean I'm not gonna put in any efforts no she Douglas I have to find out what's going on if there are things that we can do to help the baby how can I just leave it as is no tests so nothing crime said no I'm going to do exactly what he said there's a tremendous amount of pressure from the family from this side that side for the doctors the doctors were saying you should abort baby's not gonna live at best the baby is going to be very deformed they listen to her climb the climb and said the baby's going to be fine don't listen to the doctors they canceled all of the tests he said not to do any tests there were certain things that needed to be checked once a week to make sure that she didn't get any infections she did do that test and each time she would go in there they would say again there's no amniotic fluid it's the baby that they were go on and on and on and see what's gonna happen negative reports and it was a very difficult time and rahael II kept on reminding herself about about what had done with his business and a monastic AMA he had faith trust that coach Barker would not guide him wrong through his great scholars through his great sages and she kept being mikaze terms of strengthening her a moon of strengthening her belief strengthening her trust and I asked Sean I said like you know this story sounds like an amazing story I'm not up that to the end yet but like I want to know okay what can I take home from the story and he said I want you to know that we are regular people we're not told me he's a CPA he's he's an accountant he's guys necessarily sitting in learning art or people but that's not that's not his main occupation and regular people but they had tremendous tremendous I'm gonna saw him they did exactly what her crimes said and but I think was 28 weeks into the pregnancy it seemed like she was going to give birth she went on bed rest and it's very early three months early and she ended up in the hospital for five weeks before she finally gave birth was there in section and she woke up from the c-section and she heard a very faint cry the sound of a voice of a baby because her baby not only was a baby able to breathe but miraculously she was vomiting for a nice she was the of earning and Domenic and daven in for a nice remembering over and over again the story of that crime she's diving for an ace and she got her niece not everything is perfect right at the beginning but all of the disastrous projections of the doctors were incorrect the baby had developed normally the baby didn't need to be the baby was premature two months it was needed to be in the NICU but everything developed normally and Bar Hashem the baby now is seven months old and the name is Alexander Fleming was named after Zack I'm Alexander after Scholes grandfather and replica I'm Kenny have ski was the Sonic when they did the bris it was on time can you skis lap and it's a beautiful touching story and the power of the story is a few few things that I take out of the story first is the amazing insight an amazing vision time can you ski had that's not the highest level of the story to me the fact that this couple was able with their the physic of their rough and with the with their own inner conviction and with the memory of a story about eruption is a crime they were able to strengthen themselves to have be tough and have a muna and know that Kailash for who is going to take care of them it was going to work out and it did they went back afterwards the the doctor the original doctor who had made the the negative prognosis and they showed him the baby and he said he said this is the first time in his entire life and he's been doing this for many years and that he saw this this a baby come out from that situation whole and normal and it was an ace it was a true miracle and I told him and I believe it to be true they also wrote that an article that it's a tremendous it's so important a story like this where you see there was a monastic common there was be talkin there was trust in Hashem there was feel amazing Phyllis asking for miracles and it works it works it's important to know that if you have that true be talkin and I'm gonna crush beaucoup you have a lunatic on you trust in the sages who seek and understand what his will are whereas will is so then you can experience miracles I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me that I should help us to strengthen our munis how come strengthen our trust and faith in those sages the stage of the people of Israel who their whole life is involved in trying to understand neshama shem should help us to indeed seek after the robbing the majority of them great many people who are trying to serve Hashem properly should help us to be able to follow in his ways all of our days some should be moussaka us with miracles all the time thank you so much for listening a wonderful 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