Siyum Maseches Taanis

all right good morning everyone uh thank you so much it's very exciting for us uh here at ava's torah to be hosting seo massachusetts together with aldaf for the guests who are here my name is kai and poopka i have the privilege of serving as the rabbi here at ava's torah and i just wanted to welcome everyone to thank you by moshe schwed and the aldaf team and ou for for putting together this this beautiful event and a very special thank you to all those who are participating uh as well as to uh josh goldman for uh josh goldberg for uh really being the catalyst for bringing this all together for doing so much he came to our community not long ago and has been just a driving force in wanting to help out and assist and push and bring new ideas and so josh i wanted to just give you a very special thank you for uh for making this happen [Applause] and so i just want to turn uh the program over to abe schwed who is going to take us through the rest of the program this morning good morning thank you everybody popco for the introduction thank you for hosting on behalf of ou leadership mr mojbane president probably moshe howard executive vice president i would like to thank everybody for coming this morning for all those that are watching on camera across the globe i have to thank as rebecca mentioned josh goldberg for putting this all together someone who's been dedicating and sponsoring all this human usually i mentioned a few words about his brother who he's dedicated this human in the past and they see him but he'll be speaking in a few minutes so he'll give over the personal feelings the old af app is dedicated in memory of mayor benjayim joachim who's a member of the casablanca community passed away during cover 19 he was somebody a special person a family person who was involved in the community i would like to thank all the rabbanam in the community who've come to take part in this community event it means a lot to us we've hosted different types of human but when the community gets together and all the schools come together it really shows the importance they give to lima toro da fiomi and liberator in general there are a few rabbis who are going to be on the program speaking so i'll leave the directory for them just one short thing i'd like to mention today is heste and the last simmon in shulkenark says it's brought down from the baha'i and it's really i believe the source is in mcgill has tightness that have translated the torah to yvonne's to greek and it says that you're the khosh that there was darkness that descended upon the world so i think today we take the time to come together to celebrate the orator the light of torah is something which is special and meaningful by the by the border i'd like to thank ability for coming in special and old off magazine coming in from woodmere he's actually making a wedding today so it's extra special that he take that he took the time to come join us mazeltov i'd like to call upon rabbi ganak or maganak actually has a series on the old fab almost daily he says over short pieces from his his rebbe his rosh yeshiva versus can be found on supplemental clips and definitely worth checking out short pieces from his rebbe every single day robert ganeck and i go back quite a while i believe every night actually had a bracha by my hopa my father-in-law works together with our beginner at the ou kosher and elect coal opener neck to say a few words i'm wearing this white tie not only because it's a scene but after this i have to i apologize i have to run out to give a shin why you and then i have to give another shoe in queens and then i'm going to have a libertarian so i'm not going to have time to so mazeltov again this is of course finishing enemy sect as a great simcha and i just wanted to share a few thoughts with you about the about the as it ends and what some of the things i'm going to say i heard from the love when he made a scene this goes back i think was 1977 a few years um i'm a sergeant i've learned it in in maria the two happiest days in the jewish calendar ayam kippur that we understand it's a day of forgiveness kaduspojo forgives our iniquities and it's also the most says the second luchos were given on yom kippur and that's indeed one of the days where i am kipp is a day of sleep merciless because god forgave claire saul on that day for the sin of the ego so one thing that the love spoke about at that seam and i'd like to elaborate and and link it to tuba was something from his namesake his great grant for the base of levy the basal levy says that with there was a difference i'm going to time his vest and so i'm going to uh truncate this a little bit but there was a difference between lucas richonnes and lucas news that with lucha was given but with luka schneers with the second lujos the tower should be au pair was given and lucas was shown as the base of levy says those are locals i'm engraved in some way on the luchos but li hosnius the torah shibuya alpe was given and the raf said there's a difference playing on the base of levy between lucas between lucas richonnos and lucas nils luchos nios when somebody studied the toshiba so it sanctifies him as well but it it he is is what would be we would call tashmishik it's a derivative of katusha tashmi sheikh douche for example that fill in a goofy ducha if you put it in it phil and zekkel in the in the trillium bag they'd have a derivative but less significant crucia so when study somebody studies torah shubiksav he has that delivered so he's touched me said doucher but if a person studies tawashi au pair the basil lady says what is that written on that's written on the person himself and the basil levy quotes the positive cost fame allu and therefore he becomes guffic doucher and that's why it could be that with lucha schneiders afterwards since the chrysol when they study torah it's it became part and parcel of their personality both nationally and individually and therefore even though this sin grievously afterwards the clay saw there was never threat to eradicate the jewish people because they became kufik dusha and the love said that the quoting the mahasarita the mosque says that when moshe rabbenu died so basco came out and that could be heard in all the throughout the machine all in everything basketball came out mace mo beno um sapphira do you saw moshe rabino died the great sofa the great scribe of the jewish people and the ref said what does this pascal mean does the basketball doesn't only mean to say that moshe albano as we know wrote many different miraculously many different civilities shave it they say fazzova nowhere it's called the safaraba it's not only what he wrote on parchment it's what he wrote on the soul of the jewish people and that's that's what we're celebrating the travis shibaya towards bialpa but there's another dimension and that's what we we we know that the mishnah says the two happiest day are also of now tesla obviously describes it at the end of titus was a kind of uh ancient sadie hawkins day when everybody looked for a shirt and they asked what was the special joy of tesla so the special joy of test was the mall has a whole list of things but the first thing it least was that before the lucas before the division of the land the schwarten won't allow to intermarry because it was necessary that it was it was sanctioned was given foreign and then they also says that when they made a hailem and several uh shaved binomial not to marry them because the stoic belugas that also was rescinded on that day so what's the what you see about tesla of the special joy i think is that it also represents the unity of the jewish people bringing them together um and the faith we have in the future the jewish people that's that was represented by the ignorant tells us that the the the mesa beta the martyrs of beta who were slaughtered in the the gemara says and getting in hundreds of thousands of jews were killed the love's description of it in this remember he said it was almost like a mini holocaust actually during the khuba nabais and the subsequent rebellion historians estimate that about a third of the jewish people were killed to approximately three million jews and approximately a million were killed so it really is the equivalent of the holocaust and yet we they saw in in that that they may say beta the martyrs that the bodies didn't decompose and rot it was a symmetry even in the worst of times the the bristol covenant was not shattered and that's that's i think what these two themes represent and you know the mayor shapiro when he started the da fiomi one of his underlying themes one of his primary was not only for people to learn his idea was that everybody is learning the same thing i don't think he could have imagined that it spread as universally of course this was before zoom and other technologies but you know that it could have spread as he thought he was an extraordinary visionary he died very young but the idea was he said if one person goes from one city to another from one shuttle to another shuttle if he goes to a shia there's a continuity and his idea was also this is the unity of the jewish people and that which binds us to god together ultimately is this our commitment to the torah shibuya pair which is inscribed in all of our hearts and that's what we're celebrating today at this seal mazel tov [Applause] thank you rabbi ganeck before i introduce rabbi leibowitz i would like to give a big thank you to ben blumenthal for tirelessly working to pull this all together with all the different shows in the community thank you ben we read yesterday and rashi brings hazal actually has that yosef was telling the brothers don't get caught up in deep learning in devatora on the way back to our father yaakov avinu says to sow which means don't get lost don't get caught up in learning which may cause you to take the wrong road and it's going to take you longer to get back to our father yaakov and give him the good news that i'm still alive however the clicker says to so it's not talking about them getting lost and getting stuck on the road it means to sew don't get caught up in learning torah and you're going to get involved in a risk of the riser arguing with each other and make cause cause you may get upset and it might cause you not to have the proper focus to be able to come to the proper mascara what's needed for learning torah rebellious gives many types of children besides his old app share he gives yurim perhaps maybe we could suggest he gives a shirt if listening to all that in the car that can throw out the ian shiron the kia shiram but one thing about leibowitz is is always daites lula he's always calm always ready to say ashir as we know tonight is his son's wedding and he's on his way to say a smithfisher and why you that's how we're able to get him to come here across the bridge so thank you it's mazeltov it's our pleasure to hear a few words thank you very much rameshwad and uh thank you rabbipka for hosting and brush us all of the rabbanum thank you all for coming to this beautiful celebration of torah this morning i wanted to share with you a phone call that i got last week from someone who learns the daphyomi learns it very religiously since the beginning of massachusetts and he was having a certain struggle with masaka's tainus a very sweet person a very able person a very respectful person and he said that some of these are gareth gamaras some of these gamers that tell these stories it's not just that we feel that we don't understand these stories is that some of them are quite troubling i don't know for those who've uh many many of us here are doing the deaf so uh you may recall a story of a holy amora who had a daughter who was quite beautiful we're not going to go through the whole story right now but stories that are very very troubling and and how do we relate to stories of agatha so i i hate to like hijack the program when we're supposed to do uplifting things i want to talk a little bit about agatha is that okay just to talk about a little bit about how we learn agatho gemara and what agarita gemara really is especially since there's much more of it coming in masaka's magilla so we we and and we have a lot a lot of agatha to think about zagato makes up a big chunk of shas uh rivaran feldman schleeter the rashiva nari israel estimates that it's about a 90 10 split 90 percent of shasta's ten percent agarta mori varabhi of chakras lita estimates a six to one ratio that seems a little more accurate but whatever it is it's mostly halacha and there's and there's a good uh a miura matsui of agata is certainly a much easier limu in the sense that there are precise definitions and and i got the deals with concepts you know someone wants to describe there are two types of personalities there's what we call a word personality and an excel personality you know in excel everything has to fit into a box in word it's free-flowing there's no limit to the amount idea and you can go in any direction so uh agata is the word personality halacha is the excel personality that everything has to fit into categories and and into boxes but i got it is also diverse it it includes stories of tsaddikim business health general life advice what to eat when to eat what kind of business to go into depending on where you live it includes theology it includes includes obscure comments and stories and and agata and almost a competition they're competing forces with each other they complement each other but they also compete with each other the gemara musas baba kamadaf tells us that two students were arguing whether the rebbe should teach halacha or agada on a given day and the rebbe said you know i'll give you a muscle it's like a husband who has two wives one older and one younger and each one wanted to appear that it wanted to uh to give the impression that her husband was an appropriate match for her so the older wife was plucking all of the black hairs out of his head so he could look like he had gray hair and he was an appropriate match for her and the younger one was plucking all of the white hairs out of his head so that he could give the impression that he should uh that he should look younger in fact when i was getting a haircut for my son's khasna on tuesday the the barber said oh i see some gray let me pluck that i said no i'm the father of hassan i'm allowed to be older it's okay that's that's fine i wasn't sure if it's a shiloh whether a man has a lot of pluck black hairs can i let the white hairs can i let the barber do that so uh anyway the the uh but you see the kumar is clearly painting a picture of some sort of competition between the two that the two are not the same the gemaran sota and mem tells us and he had many more talmudim than arabic who taught and he comforted rabbi and he told him you know the 99 99-cent store has many more customers than tiffany's you know there's a there's a reason for that but it's not because the 99-cent store is selling higher quality jewelry than tiffany's which gives you the impression that is more valuable than than agata but the gemara says he wasn't comforted which maybe gives you the impression that maybe it's not really more valuable and that was just something that he was trying to comfort him with so i want to discuss a little bit about how important it is to have respect for every single word of ghazal and maybe to describe a little bit why it is that ghazal would speak in such an unusual way when telling us these fantastic and odd stories and many other things as well so the reliability of gemara is something that we cannot question there's a beautiful say fair that just came out by the name of taras where he says that there's a kabbalah from the brother of the guru he quotes a safer shevas achim that quotes a kabbalah from the brother of the villenegon de ravina verava ashi kishagamra talwud that when ravina and ravashi completed the talmud sifted you know when you finish writing a safer one of the things you have to do is get a hassam so you look for rabbis who maybe will write a nice letter that will say usually i didn't read the safer guy who wrote it's a nice guy or at least seems to be and uh you know here's my letterhead so that someone flipping through can see that my name is on it so they they but they wanted a hammer from the mesift of the rakia they wanted us from shamayim so they the shazia taurus about that not just ascama but that this should be the definition of torres valpe they wrote the book that's going to be taurash balba the khasmu al-zaid and four angels signed on it gavriel michael rafael uriel rashetevos gemara and in fact we refer to talmud bavli most often not as talmud but as gemara the sephirah of the brother the mar writes that these form protect a gemara learner al-israel the torsh palpate protects the jewish people lomar to tell me kia and above him resides the shrina the mooncatcher rabbi and the divrei torah in madura kama osu tess says that it's makubul from the banaya saskar that a person should learn gemara before davening each morning and through that that feeler will be elevated and he says because when one learns gemara the malachim are around him already mikhail gavriel will follow real and therefore they're ready to carry his filos up to shamayim the rambam nakadama to the parish in schneider writes that mesut that with the passing of ravina ravashi the talmud was completed anything that happened afterwards was just to try to understand what was said earlier um we don't add to the talmud we don't subtract the tablet we come across a disturbing story we cannot say oh it's just a story it doesn't really matter don't let it bother you don't let it be something that you focus on it's probably just something silly because people were thinking in an ancient way in ancient times no every word of gemara has to be taken very seriously and if we don't understand it we have the humility to say that wait a second maybe i'm not really getting the full depth of what ghazal are trying to convey in fact the noddibi yehuda in his dress shows in the jose go so far as to say that that if something appears in the gemara it's like the asera sadibros to us it should be as authoritative as yasser sadibros so the rambam in the park says how do you learn i got a galata parakeet is a whole paragraph about a gothic it's 20 blood in a row about of avagarito gemara i remember when mourinho of shakhtar shalita used to say a weekly sheer in brooklyn i didn't attend this year but i would get the recordings he used to say a weekly share in brooklyn on gemara and they were learning the sacha sanhedrin so they got to daft sadie they got to pay tests sadie wherever perez starts and he said okay so what massachusetts are we doing next and the whole cover that said we put in all this time waiting for years for you to get to the agar tag and now you're just going to jump ship and you're going to go and uh what do you mean what massachusetts he said i never heard shirum from rafael of gun on peru alexa how can i say shir which was itself is an interesting uh comment so they convinced him to say shiraman and parikhalik as well so that's where you have a lot of discussion about agatha and ram says that there are three groups of people in their approaches to agatha there are people who are unintelligent people who are not sophisticated in their thinking and and they they understand i got it on the simplest level and because they're not sophisticated they don't see any depth and the rights the members of this group are ignorant and you can only regret their ignorance their very effort to honor and exalt the sages using their own meager understanding actually humiliates them meaning what they're saying is oh ghazal are so smart because ghazal are telling us and then they'll just tell you what it says in the shooting shall develop in the simple reading and you're saying that's that's not an honor to the sages khazal weren't telling you what it sounds like it's saying in agatha you have to plumb the depths of agatha they're dishonoring the sages by saying that this is what hazal were telling us they're just telling us pithy sayings that's not what hazal were here for so it's it's a disrespect of the and then the ram says there's a second group and the there are those that uh that think hazal were literal but they're cynical and they hold ghazal to be fools i mean the first group says ghazal were literal and and it's so wise and if we don't understand that we're fools but everything that they're saying on the simplest level is so wise the ram says that's wrong but worse than that is someone who looks at what ghazal are saying also understand it on the simplest level and say gaza we're a bunch of fools how could they think like this that's also terrible that's even worse they hold themselves to be philosophers says the rambam they have no understanding of philosophy the rama was a man who knew something about philosophy and then the ramam says there's one tiny group of people and he says it's somewhat cynically the group is so small i don't know if you can call it a group meaning it could be that the group is a group of one and his name is ramosha bin maimon there are people who recognize the greatness of ghazal and understood that hazal speak with riddles and parables which is how truly great thinkers often express themselves so ghazal didn't mean it on the literal level when they tell us but in order to learn nagarito we understand we have to understand what exactly it is that they were trying to do the rambam would constantly refer to throughout him the safer nagarita that he's going to write sadly he never did write it so we don't have the rambam safer it would have been wonderful if he did but had it that he didn't have the time or maybe he decided not to i'm not sure why but why would ghazal hide the real meaning of the gemara meaning if we believe that they're telling us something very very deep when they teach us then why is it that they wouldn't just tell us what they want to tell us so the rambam writes and the ramkhal writes also similarly in his maimura nagados that for fifteen hundred years the tara shabalpal was transmitted by word of mouth and then we started to worry that people's memories weren't what they used to be we become uh weaker in our ability to remember things so they started writing it down which works okay for halacha because you can write down what the is you can write down the even the analysis of does not work as well for agatha because the concepts of agada are not meant to be understood by everybody and had only been taught to an elite few up until that point the dilemma was that if they write it down it will be distorted by the masses if they don't write it down it will be lost the solution to write in code and make sure that only those who are worthy of learning should be given the code to the the key to decipher the code so soma agata is really not meant to contain esoteric wisdom and really could have been conveyed with ordinary language but even that ghazal sometimes hide in in in unusual language and write cryptically now why would they do that they're really esoteric stuff if you ever see the book the juggler and the king rabbi aaron feldman the reshiva nari swell wrote a an expansion i guess of the vilna gone's commentary to very few certain i got it i got it to gemara's so uh so he uh there are some of those i got it no one in their right mind would think is meant to be taken literally there are demons juggling fire over a river or something like what what does that mean we don't know what any of those things mean but sometimes the agatha kumar sounds like it's saying something that's realistic and and yet it's written somewhat cryptically so why would that be so there are several reasons that this would be first of all ghazal wanted to teach their students that wisdom is best acquired through effort and this is such an important episode a person cannot possibly compare their understanding of gemara when you just read the translation of something versus when you work through you know sometimes i'm running late for the daf in preparing the duff i try to prepare the daf in the morning before i give it and you know sometimes i wake up late so i don't have enough time to prepare to prepare the duff so i'll cheat i'll quickly uh grab a messifta or an art scroll or something and and i find it takes me longer takes me longer because i can't focus because it's supposed to be so easy my brain isn't on i you need your brain to be activated in order to be able to learn that's when you're really processing information if your brain isn't activated then you're not really learning a lazy student is not going to follow through on the wisdom of agatha anyway so ghazal said you know what let's make a small barrier and therefore the only the people that are determined enough to work through that barrier are going to be able to understand the agatha and therefore act on that agata second there's very often an additional layer or many additional layers of meaning some of the interpretations are simple and straightforward enough but ghazal were teaching us much much more and maybe that's why they they couched these simple teachings in complicated language third even with the straightforward message ghazal sometimes are able to add in rafaldman's words overtones of meaning which couldn't be expressed by an ordinary statement rabbi feldman gives a beautiful example the gemaran bracha staff base says that a person whose father owns a supply of figs should sell them as soon as the market opens up for them and not wait for his father to sell them business advice you have figs and you have people who want to buy figs good go sell the figs before all the people who wanted to buy figs you already bought them you know what is it that uh there's a new recipe in one of the popular cookbooks that calls for figs all the kosher supermarkets have to you know have to stock up on figs so you want to be the person that gets to sell them to all those people i remember when susie fishbane wrote her first cookbook when i first got married you know we were i never heard of orchestra sauce but it became like the biggest thing because we needed it for one of them for one of the recipes i remember just seeing a bunch of aimless husbands going through the aisles of the supermarket i don't know what is this stuff where do we go so i i remember one i mean i'm sure she's a wonderful lady one one husband turned to me as we were late on a thursday night in the aisles and he said i hate susie fishbein but so so they're they're all everywhere so business advice sell the figs be the first ones sell the figs is that really what what are telling us the explains the father in this case is a rebbe the son is the talmud the figs are pieces of torah the opening of the market is when people are interested in learning and the gemara is saying if you are a son meaning you're only a student you're not yet a rebbe and your father is not there your father is not present and ready to teach but the market is open there are people that want to learn torah go and teach that torah don't say i'm not ready to teach the torah because who am i how can i teach i still need a rebbe to to learn torah from azerbaijan used to say every year at the kin they have this quote if you know aleph go teach aleph if you know base go teach base whatever you know go and teach it don't don't hold back ghazal could have just said it in those terms they could have said whatever you know go teach if you know aleph go teach aleph but why do they say that there's a fig and why is toro all of a sudden a fig a fig is a muscle to torah because there are always fresh figs on a fruit tree there's always something new there's always a kiddish to learn from from a suggy you go back to a piece of gemara you go back to usugia you'll always find something new and something fresh well the the search for torah is a marketplace in in in the words of ghazal a marketplace is an exchange you want to learn torah you're gonna have to give something up you give up some of your personal comfort sometimes your sleep sometimes it's it's a financial sacrifice we give up we're most are nephesh in order to be able to learn torah a is a father all of this teaches us so much more than if ghazal would have just said you know what go teach some more torah as rafaldman put it a plain statement exhorting a novice to teach his wisdom to others even while he needs a teacher himself could not possibly be laden with such potency of suggestion and and fourth by using similar metaphors for simple teachings as they do for the more esoteric teachings ghazal are familiarizing us with the system of how they express themselves we will then be prepared to decipher more difficult teachings when we're ready for them and finally sometimes a simple piece of advice from ghazal is really just that it's straightforward advice but since they always teach kitsara in an abbreviated fashion as the gemara tells us in the beginning of they try to phrase things in a way that there are additional layers of meaning as well so in conclusion when it comes to learning agaretta it is very important to have the requisite respect for ghazal we should utilize the various swarima nagarita and also sensitize ourselves to their different styles that the way the martial interprets nagarata is different than the way that uh that ben yohyada interprets the nagadata and that's different than the way vilna gone interprets nagareta but taffyomi is fast-paced it's quick it's one diff after the other and we often don't have time for the benyo yadas and for the gruds and for the and then and to really to really go into the depths but we must never have the arrogance to assume that we know what ghazal meant or solemn that we are morally superior just as the daviyomishir doesn't lend itself to an in-depth eun understanding of asuya although if you have a little extra time each day take advantage of that to learn the deaf a little bit better that day just because you're not going to be able to do it every day doesn't mean you can't do it any day and it's something that we should uh try to become committed to and if that's true of of our learning of the halachic sections of the gemara that we know when we those who studied in yeshiva recognize when we do daphyomi that we're not quite doing it in in in the kind of depth that we know gemara can be learned in if that's true of halacha it's a thousand times more true of agatha but the key is we should continue to learn taurus hashem day in and day out grow in our knowledge utilize the aldaf and all of the other beautiful uh calendar gave us to be able to understand his torah and be able to come closer and closer to the ribonucleon wish everybody a wonderful day and i apologize that i have to run out now but mazel tov on the scene [Applause] uh good morning everybody um first i just want to say you know in one word like wow how many people are here from englewood um but uh you know my parents are here they came from uh florida last night and um my sister and my brother-in-law here my sister's big birthday is today that's how she's celebrating um but my name is josh goldberg i want to thank you all for coming today and you know this is really a appreciation and a real happy occasion for the community and the community of englewood is a special place um i wanted to introduce right now rabbi reichman and rabbi reichman i was going to say i see him on the atvartura on the seam you know i i'm fortunate enough to see what i recommend a lot over the summers when i'm here and you know on thursday nights they used to have must-see tv well on shabbos afternoon rabbi rachman is must-see torah the davar torres and the da fields where richmond does on chambers and shabbos afternoon are beyond compare and it gives me great pleasure to welcome him to us this morning thank you all very much for coming and uh i want to second all the thank yous that have been mentioned thank you to rabbi schwed to the ou to aldaf to ben blumenthal for all of your hard work uh of this morning and of course to josh and to the goldberg family and the uh these words of torah and this zikri harabim helping all of us grow in our devotion to torah and love of torah isaac so just to end quickly ends by discussing tu b'av the 15th of av and the gemara asks why is the 15th of such a big celebration a time when all the eligible young ladies would go out and dance in the vineyards and the eligible young men would come and thousands and thousands of shidduchim would would take place and the gemara gives six possible suggestions for what's so special about the 15th of it may have been the day when the sanhedrin decided that tribes could intermarry it may have been the day when the tribe of benjamin's ban was removed and people started to marry with members of the tribe of benjamin after the tragedy of pilagus bhagiva it possibly is the day when iravan ben avatz officers were removed from the roads and people were able to go back up to ushalayim it was the day of the haruke beta that they were allowed to be buried or it's it's the day of a seal it's the day when we complete the mitzvah of cutting the wood for the mizbayach because now the weather is changing it's not a good time to cut the wood and i once heard from my reviewer of moshe wolfson where he asked you know if the gemara gives six reasons it sounds like that's not the real reason like if you have a reason you say the reason we know the reason for purim we know the reason for hanukkah but to bob there's so much ambiguity maybe it's this maybe it's that none of these dates really are so clear in tanakh that these dates happened on the 15th above it's sort of like there are all sorts of good things that have happened throughout our jewish history iravam's guards were removed tribes could intermarry when did it happen may say midbar stopped dying up must have been the 15th of av but we really don't have great sources for that so what's perhaps maybe the real reason for the 15th of of and we also find that there seems to be a special connection between women and the 15th above the mishnah mentions hanbinosi this is when the daughters of you shalom go out and they go dance in the vineyards why is this somehow connected especially to the women so rav wilson explained that really the source of the fifteenth above the real celebration of the fifteenth above is the celebration of the goola now we know that tish above currently is a time of great sadness but ultimately tish above is gonna become a great yomtov it's the time when mashiach will be born viatsa hoter migueza yishai tishaba is a time of great celebration ultimately when the geology happens and tuba of the 15th of is going to be the climax of that celebration the tour tells us that through the athbash each day of pesach is connected to a subsequent holiday aleph the first day of pesach is the same day of the week as tough as tish above the second day of pesach the same day of the week as shibuyas the third day of pesach the same day of the week as rosh hashanah the fourth day of pesach is the same day of the week as yom kippur and he doesn't give us a date for the seventh day of pesach but the seventh day of pesach is the same day of the week as tuba of and that's really the climax just like sri shil pesach is the climax of pesach tuba of is the climax of the celebration of the gaoula we know that on pesach we eat three matzos and we have four cups of wine the three matzos correspond to the ovos and the four cups of wine correspond to the imahos wine is a source of emotions of feelings and so the women who have the bina yasera the added wisdom but also a special strength of emotionality of emotions they are represented by the four cups of wine right now we don't have the gela we don't have the full redemption but it's the women they are the ones who have the feelings that they can feel the goola they're the ones who most appreciate the simcha of two ba'a'av and that's the real joy of tuba'av the joy of the gu'ulaha siddha and so to complete the masata tanner abanon we learned in abrasa when the women would go out and dance on subahav yafyafel shabahan mahin wrote mahayu omros the beautiful ones would say shaina isha leofi han mahayu omrose those who had a wonderful lineage would say look to family life a mother a woman is going to be the source of children of a family omros those who weren't so beautiful and didn't have such a great lineage what would they say him get married for the sake of heaven hashem is destined to make a big dancing circle for the tzadikim yoshi he's going to sit in their midst each one will point with his finger shinham as it says we said on that day he nailed we've hoped for him he saved us zashem kivinolo this is hashem who we have had our hopes in him nagi love and ism let us be happy and rejoice in his celebration ezra can act mentioned so beautifully to ba'av is a time of love and it's through ah this israel that hopefully will merit to see the big celebration of tuba'av the makhan of the tsadikim and the gula hasidah the menu thank you rabbi reichman um i'm excited to introduce our next speaker rabbi akiva block and a lot of you know right by block uh for those of you who are online robert locke is the rabbi kiles cashier the show actually started with five families and robert joined 11 years ago it was not the founding member but in his time it's grown to 250 families he has over 15 students who are messiahim massachusetts this morning rabbi black please give us good morning everybody um i can't be moses very much on all the wonderful divrei torah that have already been shared i just want to offer a word of hakarasa tov of commenting on yesterday's parsha point out the primacy and the importance even at the time of the establishment of the very first diaspora jewish community that that community be a place which is a makham torah and for a civilization for a society in hudsonarts to exist torah must be its foundation and i want to be makritov first and foremost to the members of our da field habibura who have me so much each and every day we've been commenting to each other so much since we learned it a couple of days ago oh havrusa omisusa it's so true how much life and how much are provided to me and i know to all of us with those with whom we study torah every day and of course by extension my colleagues and my fellow members of the englewood community thank you so so much for all you do uh together with all of us continuing to grow englewood as that kind of makham torah that we can all be proud of and akash baruch who should bless us to continue in that holy work and of course to aldhaft rabbi schwed uh and to the ou and to everyone involved in creating that virtual makham torah if it's the case that vessel shall follow yosev goshna in a geographical sense bismanenu onu in the times in which we live the society and the civilization of social media and the internet needs to be a making torah as well uh so kala kavod and yashar for all the wonderful work that you do in creating that malcolm torah for all of us and beyond and my bracha to all of us really is again to paraphrase massachusetts may the seeds that we plant here today and every day as we study the daf day after day after day continue to bear fruit sweet and beautiful and holy fruit and may our malcom torah continue to grow and flourish and maybe be the beneficiaries of all that fruit in the days months and years to come [Applause] okay thank you robert block um so first i have to say i have to thank rabbi schweithen the aldoff in case some of you aren't familiar you know aldoff is the number one downloaded app online for any torah learning whatsoever there's close to eighteen thousand downloads a day since the inception at the last cms there's over three million hours of learning on the app just appreciate that for what the aldaf and what the ou has done for learning [Applause] i just want to end with a short message and then the hadron with everyone's permission i'd like if everyone that is messian from the community would come up and do the hadron with me when i finish my message today is about the importance of a circle the circle has been known since the beginning of recorded history natural circles observed such as the moon the sun a short plant stalk blowing in the wind of sand forming a circle shape in the sand the circle is also the basis of the wheel which is where modern machinery is possible in mathematics the study of a circle has helped impact and inspire the development of geometry astronomy and calculus in fact most most medieval scholars and many believe that there's something divine that can be found in circles in some ways circles are the way hashem appears to us in our life masaka thomas ends with a story about a circle as our variety mentioned there is a group of tsadikim and hashem is standing in the middle of the circle and we're all pointing at hashem or the tzadikam appointing hashem previous to this gemara on the ahmad we started about i saw from the banaya saskar of that tuba in this reference is actually 2 the 15th bit of of the aleph base the fifteenth letter of the aleph base is the letter samich fifteenth letter the letter sama another circle the message of the circles in the last two stories of the gemara but the most well-known circle in the massache belongs to the famous story the circle maker what makes a circle so special rabbi akiva said says in the circle we're all equidistant from the center are yearning to be in a circle where we can feel the other people in the circle pulling together to keep the circle together after honey's first story which we talked about how he drew a circle and davin for rain in the community in the circle the second story of honey imago on that page has also a deep connection to our lives today after falling asleep for 70 years honey is searching around to find people that remember him he starts in his house and his family and says don't you remember me they don't remember him he then goes to the yeshiva amhonia no one seems to remember him the gamora ends and says date he weakened and then he passed away the line and the gemara ends with the famous line the rabbi block mentioned earlier without russo there is no life so the group of guys that i learned with here at amastora billy gill bruce dr foyer yale shimmy simmi and asher have spent a lot of time on this piece of gemara last sunday many commentators do interpret this puzzle as a need or a plea to have a partner or a havrusa in learning without havrusa there is death without you guys without our chabura there might not be any life i'm also fortunate that during the week my javarusso mayor simcha kolotsky is actually here today and i have to thank him for my commitment to me my family and my learning when two scholars of torah listen to one another says the gemara and shabbos hashem hears their voices thank you to the avas torah staff group for bringing me in and sharing your circle the message of icha russa misuso is even more emotional to me today as i've dedicated to see him in this cycle on behalf of my brother elliot yitzhak isaac benarel it's also today i'm dedicating to my aunt roz raj zuckerman rashford schaindl who passed away last week elliott was my first javarussa sometimes studying the parsha but more often having a machloket in strathmatic baseball elliott and roz this cm is for you others say ichabrusa misusa means without friendship there is death without a friend a single friend it's very hard to live caprusor comes from the word meaning friend pirkei avos obviously we know it says without a circle of chaverum we have nothing you know having great friends in englewood isn't that hard some of the guys here from the 9am indian previously known as the grumberg minion has welcomed so many guys into their circle and every single community here within the broader angular community has that type of friendship and they provided so much of life to many of the guys here in englewood without a chevra without a chevra without a circle there is no life however the more novel approach of choniya magal was saying that without a chevra without a community there is no life i really can think of no better community to describe this approach than englewood new jersey for those of you watching online there's a major renaissance going on here in the town of england in the learning of torah there's nate's minion in multiple schools a nighttime torah center where over 60 guys learn every week and we could have arrows of hundreds more and the people here from the police officers that help with css to the coffee guys at plant shed everyone talks about how nice everyone is in the 07631 circle and they aren't lying but all of that is inconsequential if englewood does not have the robundum and the community feel that this town represents it's the schloss of the rebellium in the community that want to unite everyone together and build that circle and feel the common bond this is the greatest high that englewood and the community have and will continue to become i am personally lucky that the community has welcomed me and my family so warmly thank you rabbi pokko robert reichman rabbi blocker of again acrobat goldberg and of course rabbi casus without all of you we have nothing without the chevra without the circle of rabbis we have death we should continue to have the entire rebellion here in engle with holding hands and bringing this community to greater heights the circle that hashem sits in the middle is surrounded by our rebellion i'm going to go finish the gemara now and i really want to invite everyone up who's being messiah if they feel comfortable to join me with the honduran and then we're going to have asudas mitzvah which i hope everyone could stay and enjoy and wish everyone a wonderful day thank you so much [Applause] let's go i'm going to leave you alone i just want to be on the video unless you don't want to you ready ready [Music] foreign is beautiful