The Beauty of a True Torah Life: Eulogy for Rabbi Yisroel Belsky - Rabbi Zvi Belsky

[Music] we were to ask my father now in the ulema ms what what is what do you want from us that's what does he want from us we might surmise that he would say I spent my whole life teaching people I spent my whole life bringing raising people up bringing people up that they should understand what I understood but now I can't teach you anymore I can teach anymore but you can still learn my Tyra and you can allow yourself to being influenced by my ways become better because of me that will give me pleasure in the LMS I've done Seagal said at the end of Shiva their Messiah famous Messiah have done Sega spoke and she with her with us and he said an unbelievable thing the kids are alpha says that the madness an iam that we give on Purim is oil le le knishmas my Charbonneau that's a statement kid sir I'll show fact I've done Sehgal the shame reversal the one who wrote to show you our love is the prank can you have ski he said does my mitzvah even show up in my shrub in whose bank account of nits kiyose you have a bank account with a trillion dollars put in a penny it doesn't even show up second my share Bain who needs a new Shama my share of anal my Shravan who needs an ela neshama dr. Perez octave don segal two things first of all we see from here that in the nucleus of a person forever the endless shear of Nicolas that a person needs four element MS there is no shear there's no limit the second thing we see is how precious a mitzvah is to a person who can no longer do a mitzvah even less reveille No so it certainly there's absolutely no question that if we accustomed ourselves to some of the ways of our mother my father would be a tremendous healing a shaman for him first I'd like to share with you a brief list of some on August of my father and we can try to emulate in a certain each one of us in our own way and following that I'd like to share a fundamental lesson of my father's life which was touched upon in him in the before first of all number one the last thing that took place in our house always and the first thing that took place in our house was my father sitting with the Gemara at the kitchen table no one in my family ever remembers anything happening past that than anything happening before the house my father gave tremendous immense time attention tremendous respect to the most forlorn unkempt people people who had no future and I want to emphasize it's not easy people who we know nothing will ever ever ever come out of them he appeared to them he nurtured them he was Mahabad them together with rubble hi my mother and this was taught to them by both of our parents I just want to share with you a short story my aunt my father's sister told me and she was growing up in Ross tree in Williamsburg there was she was a teenage girl and there was a knock on the door she opens up the door and there's a bent-over african-american a black man and he says I'm hungry and she was frightened it looked fry a frightening man she closed the door said one minute and she locked the door so her mother was in the kitchen he said what happened so she said there was this black man he came he said he's hungry so she's he says and you let him go without getting him something to eat you just let that happy just hungry person quick you should bread wrapped it up in a bag and gave it to the girl outside he was still there and she gave him the bread that's the henna that that they grew up in a common sight in the house always was my father in the kitchen with his sleeves rolled up with a towel around his waist washing the dishes number four when he went to a bris always always took back some food some cake some food bagel a sandwich for my mother number five after my mother had a child every time my father would before she came home for the hospital he would do a home improvement he would paint the walls of the house himself there was no money but he would hire someone to change the linoleum change a carpet of one room he would always surprise her with some improvement in the house number six he was there achieving the Shiva that I went to for 14 years he knew a lot more than older abiam combined that I had at least not in the talking about the Robin first grade second grade third grade never once did I ever hear criticism of revient never once did I ever hear him saying oh you the Rebbe said wrong shot which I'm sure happened many times in every one I never heard him ever I never felt slighted myself but he was tremendous Hawkman never ever felt questioning the rabi's authority number seven never once is not something that I necessarily we can emulate but we none of my siblings ever saw my father sitting on the couch it was always a tremendous purpose and he was always busy he was always doing things occasionally when the workload gets so 24-hour workload was so overwhelming he would call a town mid and he would go on to go away for a day and go on a hike you're gonna hike gear out and come back Shabbos sometimes we didn't see my father the entire week he was busy in the early in the morning he left the house he didn't come back too late at night after a few hassanis but Shabbos was special Shabbos was a treat to the family Shabbos was warmed families spent together it was just uplifting always we always looked forward to Shabbos my father's own words he wrote in a letter about a new gadget the new device that was made in order to circumvent Shabbos my father rode Shabbos is wonderful Shabbos is bliss there's nothing in Jewish life comparable to preparing for an experiencing our older Shabbos nor is there anything in non-jewish life that comes close to Shabbos the limitations of Shabbos are what characterizes it and what endow it with its sweetness and warmth and majesty the author I'm a Shabbos laqad shall I see bein even eating what they say him number nine at the Shabbos table does Mears entire where accompany the the sweetest warmth imaginable often with tears as we heard before and many things number 10 every portion that came out my father tasted it and he lavished immediately tremendous praise on my mother after Sudha at number 11 after the Sioux the Shabbos after dessert my father would give that Safari I'm always meant for many many years and this is an amazing thing he would learn for five minutes he gives farm to rally around the table I remember and I'm thirty youngest in the family I'm number 11 I remember these are the storm that I learned around the table of five minutes Friday night and Shabbos Dave whitish through the zoo Terrace militia which is Hilda Shabbos way high of them safer sherry Schuler being a Yuna mercele she saw him safer huh Fitz Khayyam the whole safe you know the whole safer to Hill him and love it's time again a second time that's what we learned five minutes at the end of every Shabbos through that number 12 after the Sioux the Friday night he always took us to the second Street a few blocks away with my my grant his parents lived he would sit with them talk to them schmooze with them say Tyra seeing eat make brought us and I'm sure my mother got a chance to relax the kids were out of the house right after the Shabbos sudha on Shabbos challah muddied you wanted my mother to be able to sleep so he would walk with us two and a half miles to the other end of Prospect Park - there was no many times there was a free admission to the Botanic Gardens and he would show us around and walk us a few hours give my mother time to relax on column late Friday afternoons the long Friday afternoons either day very often as well and finally my father gave approximately 80 percent of his income talking these are some practical customs ideals that we can strive to one degree or another but beyond that is a fundamental lesson that people need to understand because some it like it was mentioned before my father knew so many those Huffman's everything he was so transcendent in his knowledge of all the Huffman's besides Tyrel a new science but he didn't actively pass on anything to his children except for Tyra it's known that the Rambam knew all the hoffmans he was a doctor he knew all the hoffmans but there's children he only passed on Tara the focus on Toya and only Tara and my father followed their Imams and Hogan this my father was smitten with doTERRA with his rate BAM he used to say that he would sit in front of my shed like a little child and all he wrote after he akka kamenetsky as Rabi mulac was nifty said from now on the rest of my life I'm gonna have to think about every decision what would you Bianca have said when you were talking about his mush Kia had enough their sheer mercy so high in Kaplan he would go off into a trance and he would start thinking their Mala Mala Kelly Kim and Reuben my father wrote somewhere he would just listen to these words about moving beneath the ancient eyebrows of eruvin DeRusha shiva his piercing eyes danced and sparkled with subtlety and each carefully chosen phrase of his was permeated with depth and analytic insight he filled the mightiest of scholars with awe and spurred them to greater heights of achievement for the then he writes compared to him the pseudo-scientists who claimed themselves the exclusive right of scholarship were mere school boys who flaunted their meager knowledge and search of recognition think of how profound that is someone who was so erudite he knew so much he knew Tyra every subject of Tyre every science every possible Gaelic of Hawkman he knew but he was so attached to his erbium it was a giant but sitting on the shoulders of giants he reviewed my father reviewed every moussaka and chassé 30 40 50 times but he never reviewed the science that he knew he saw it once he remembered it he had a traumatic memory ma half T surgically I miss you hussy never stopped reviewing my father words they say over the story of Hill House Walken and he didn't have enough money then he couldn't pay entrance fee to the base Madison he went on top and he would say why did he'll go on top of the base mattis when it was snowing the reason is because he went lachemann a really Kim Khayyam he was in awe me pshh my Avast a lien he was standing all of anything they're rubbish my left aliens said when you're a know I've tire like that you'll do anything the oil hello has for the liberally kind of vividly Kim Kim of his revient samel hanashi Lily Kim some enough she come a little bit sorry we have to dig a little deeper those who know my father know that he looked at the world as just an expression of the tire of the ruts and ashamed when he saw an axe he saw an animal that can be a short time we're sure I'm wood when you saw a bowl of chicken soup he saw a tiny girl - there at a bodega mara talks about some Baba used to make a tofu when he saw another year then he saw another Jew he saw tell him le Kim get locate that needs to be respected and loved and nurtured when you saw Niagara Falls he saw Miami Robin will you hula hibiscus Ovid the greatest strongest most powerful waters can never extinguish the love of the varnish on for us the Rambam says that the way to reach a verse a sham is to study the Bria learn science and bring gava session right so not only is it not supposed to be astera to reconcile the questions it's supposed to bring you that it's supposed to be goof of the source of Accession so and other people invested at time trying to reconcile their view of the world with doTERRA my father saw in every new discovery that he any heard of all of them he got some how he got here at of all the new discoveries all he saw is a merely another insights into the creation of the ravine - Lila so one whom a person who knew my father had no difficulty understanding this Rambam you see the Brio all you're seeing is do vanish Lycos get locate finally I want to share with you something with ashes yesterday next to my next week's practice Misha bottom one week Pasha smushed button by the Shabbos - that my father shared the first study saw an article he said written by it Tom with Komarov and this article was written about the OLM high achievers and thereof said that in his words maybe not such a firm Rev but my father said over what he said he says the failure of the Sheba system this is the quote failure is that they don't put enough emphasis on the spiritual spiritual aspects of you this guy's like poetry he said or or Tanakh or history so my father said no the ayla hamish bottom I sure thought simplify him he's sticking to have it every key guy sure is just sorry a spirituality by Kali I was not a spiritual experience not a spiritual high spirituality is waking up in the morning living like three boenish LeMans putting on a right shoe first going to business like three banished Lama wants us living our daily lives every day one day at a time like to be punished one wants that spirituality I thought of Aramis now this week the Shira Shabbos Shira was last week precious mashaallah now comes yesterday Kabal cetera and then comes fish bottom the greatest Jew can never seen cannot seeing a greater song a more beautiful song a sweeter song than Kabbalah cetera as expressed by living every day with Ravenna Shalom Shira cabal satire image button that's the beauty most beautiful song a dual ever seen that something made some of you may have known that my father wrote in his eighth grade the entire V - they had a yearbook and he wrote that he wants to become a musician and that's Tucker what he was his entire life he lived every day like to take like to banish all unwanted that was the most beautiful song that you could ever sing my father would say there is no greater anywhere in the entire sitter of mercy compassion and imploring the rocking room of a shame we're it's the greatest expression of Rahman where's that Aveeno of ar-rahman ar-raheem rock am wale no that's the greatest double-triple endless Rahman we need for what someone has cancer someone's dying punished long give us I feel like entire that's the greatest greatest most awe-inspiring Vikash of Rock'em that we could ever had or could ever think of so it's about being attached arabe am yearning most of all for success in limited Torah never stopping through view one's learning developing an or for the tire and the camara seeing the reality of the world as expressed by the Torah and hearing 3-burner Shalom in the wonders of creation every time Misha on Marvel Holly Island our mom says when we see the creation when you see the Bria we see the binational spoke that's all he spoke he said this is the created three vanished oil by your has Shem and there to remember that the most beautiful Shira it was a beautiful song we'll ever seen is the life of us ramus bottom Cabo cetera expressed by our daily living as he it may the z-car and the memory of our Father be a blessing for him and for all of Callias for all of us thank you for being here and thank you for listening [Music] [Applause]