The Lifesaving Segulah of the Ben L’Ashri - "Never Give Up" - The Tzadik of Ra'anana Yahrtzeit Event

Shiva for me to be here this evening. It's really like a great dream. Thank the rashiva and the rebbitson for hosting this very important evening of amuna dedicated to the memory of the saddic ranana and the wondrous toyra of the sadic ranana about four years ago I started a project of collecting pieces from the safair from who's known as the sadicana my connection with the salanana goes back four generations. My great-grandfather, my father's mother's fatherhood vulman who was the last RV in the city of Sakachav was a kabus of the talikana in Sakav when they learned from the shame Ishmo Za did not survive the war and we don't have any remnant from our zeda we have no we have no memorial from him so we felt that as a tribute to our great-grandfather father to publish the work of the Talik Ranana would be a way to memorialize the memory of the zeda. My grandfather, my father's father, the son-in-law of the Sak Chabarav, continued to write to the Sak Chabarav for many, many years. I'm in possession of dozens and dozens of letters from my grandfather to the Saddic Ranana. And my grandfather helped support the Sadic Ranana. My grandfather was a RV in Pittsburgh for 70 years. He was a Talmud of Raan Za Muik of Raan Aim Za. And then my father went to visit the Talik Granu when my father was 17 years old. And by that time the Sak Granu was already a sagor. He was already blind. And when my father came into his hut, he literally lived in a hut. He lived with a dirt floor. that Salad Ranana with only white in his eye with no pupil come out in his eye looked at my father and said you look like your grandfather and what did theana say to my father? He had sent my grandfather he had sent my grandfather many copies of his far. So he asked my father nu did the za give out this farum is he giving out this farum is he publicizing this in it says in America it says in batteries okay because is not blessed with children his or his legacy So he would reiterate no are you giving out this farm are you giving out this far. So I would like to think that the publication of these is a fulfillment of the wishes and the of the saddic of raana. And of course one of the big draws of the safer are the various and various associated with the safer. So that sadic wrote in the hakama that anyone who learns from his should. So actually we gave the safer to a certain kum in Brooklyn and right after he got the safer he got a telephone call that he won a big yusha but it didn't work out. The yusha didn't work out because he checked his and he turned out in the he was a descendant of the rama. So even though he didn't get the he said he was he'd sittered with knowing that he's a descendant of the Rama and now whatever it says in so it definitely worked for the shayim but as rashiva said over more than anything what has electrified with the writings of the ben is called where the sacrana gives he promises he'll pray for you to help you out in this world and in the next world and we saw with our own eyes in this yeshiva kadesha a Yeshua A braha that really electrified Clalusra. But who exactly was this Saddak Ranana to give such a braha? What do we know about him? Dash Shiva said over at the suda throughout the life of the sakranana he learned with superhuman husmada. He was born in 1896 on Shuis from a young talid of a yak of Marai vulgar to when he was 15 years old in the yeshiva of the shame is throughout his life until he was a z he learned the nra he could say over verbatim the lion rashi until the okay we've heard about many sadikim who are great masmid you've heard about many great masmidam if I could say over also the rashiva mentioned by the suda nra that during siberia the tagan was afraid that they would make him work on chabas so he took the saw and he cut off a piece of his finger and he said even though I know like the rasha said and I'm a co and I I'm going to have to do the I'm going to It's not avoid so I don't have to desecrate even one shabas but did you know that sadicana said that before he wrote anything in his safer he first consulted with a to get his rash and only then he put it in the safer and as far as I know did not say overman said he has reliable sources that the saddic granana has gilo elyohu on a regular basis. In fact, many people would ask him shilas and the sad ranana would say one second wait until I'm a sandic at a brisk I'll ask a leoh and I'll get right back to you. During World War II, the Saddic was in a forced labor camp and then they forced the group to dig a pit 2 m long, 2 m wide and then in the pit a barbar and they made everyone take off their hat and they the Nazis threw everyone's hat in the pit in the pit and then they came to the Sagana and they saw that under his hat he had a yamaka so they said you're the rabbi of the city said yeah they threw the sadana in the pit which should have been enough to kill him and he was still okay. Now the Poles were fighting with the Nazis and the Poles killed one of the Nazi horses. So the Nazis ordered the Jews, "Now take the dead horse, throw it in the pit on the rabbi, kill the rabbi and seal up the hole." And the Yidden started crying, "No, we can't do it to the rabbi. We can't do it to the rabbi." And the Nazis said, "Then we'll kill you." And they had no choice. and they're stalling and they're, you know, they're batus and they're waiting. They're waiting. And then as they're a meter away from the pit at the last moment, the kamadan came running in and said, "Why you fooling around with the Jews who were in middle of a war and the Kamadan ran away and the Nazis ran away and when the Yidden saw that the coast was clear, they pulled the Saddic of Ranana out of the pit. Listen to what the Saddak Ranana said. He said if theam saved me saved me to bring Yeshu to Israel. Listen to how he typed the says why to be hashem. Why? To be able to ask to to be to petition to be misin so that Sardi believed that his miraculous salvation from the fires of the Holocaust were so that he was so to speak appointed. But what's the meaning of this sugula that whoever learns from the that the sadic will den for you and bail you out in this world in the next world more than other of more than more than gar more than rashi what's the meaning of this benra here we have to understand it what's the heav what's the wus Mishna in what I think is the only story a story a misa that has in all of his writings tells a story of the taz the taz a woman came to the taz she says says, "My child is dying. Please, you need to dive in for him." So the T says, "What do you want from my life? What do you think I am?" Danish. The lady said, "I don't know. You're making a mistake. I'm not asking you. I'm asking your Tory." The TA says, "Good gaz, I hereby give to you the Tory that I'm learning right now for your child." The fever broke. The child had a sha says says every piece of Torah that you learn has the inherent latent capacity to revive the dead. So why don't we do it? How come we're not able to do it? If it has the power, if it has the latin potential, it must be that even though it has the capacity, we can't necessarily access it. We can't activate it. There impediments. There's something in between. There's something stopping us. But the taz was able to access it. And the taz was able to give it over to this woman. But dear friends, do you think tora only has the capacity to be mason? That's the only has doesn't every word of Torah encompass all the blessings of the world. So if we can't access it and we can't activate it because there blockages and there impediments and maybe there's certain preconditions that are needed for us to learn the Tory in the proper way. But like the Taz the Bahri made a deal with those who learn his Torah that if you learn his Torah and their preconditions you know that the same way it's not enough to learn Tyra. Imagine somebody learned Tyra but didn't keep the Tyra. He's in the mitzvah of and if someone learns to and doesn't teach it he's also inraimmade these are in the of the writes in the highest of is so thatana strikes a deal with those who learn his tyra. If you learn my Torah and you say it over to others, so you're fulfilling the preconditions, I'm going to help you out a little bit. I'm going to remove the impediments. I'm going to remove the obstacles. I'm going to help yen access the shea of that's already in the Tory. The braha is there already. That sadic is not creating the braha. that sadic is helping us access the gift of. So tonight is a celebration of the great the rashiva and the rabbitson experienced. Tonight is a commemoration of the life and the saintly ways of raisit kako and hobberman. But perhaps most importantly, tonight is a celebration of the kayak tora the power that Tory has of every word of mishma gum rashi and maybe when we learn the benma we are given extraaya to access the braha that's already there. Just to conclude, you know, there's a challenge in life that everyone experiences in some way or another, in some area or another. It's called the challenge of giving up, of dispondency, of hopelessness, of yosh. We all have areas in life where we're sometimes we're mish. We say it's not going to work out for us with family, maybe with health, maybe innas we say with a certain yates. I'm not going to overcome that yet. I'm not going to be able to be successful in this area. When Abraham Ainu went to rescue his nephew light, which seemed like an impossible situation, the Tory says he took with him 318 men. Rashi said, "No, he didn't. He didn't take 318 men. He took one person. His name is Eleazar. But Eleazar is Gamatria 318." So just say straight he took Eleazar. Why this ciruitous route he took 318 which is Elazzar says when Abrau went to rescue light this was a hopeless helpless situation. He's going to have to fight the four kings. The four kings just defeated the five kings. You know what most people would have done? Throw in the towel. Yosh. How is Abraham able to overcome Yosh 318? 318 is one more than Yosh is 317 says Elzazzar is 318. How is one over when you realize alazar that the is with me is a is anam loves each one of us more than even we love ourselves and if we realize that Yeshua Hashem there's always hope there's always a possibility of Yeshua the could always bring Yeshua wants to bring a Yeshua and helps us rise above yos. How often in life we throw up our arms? How often do we feel that the hope is there's no hope? But then we remember created this world may exhal from nothing. And if the created the world from nothing, he could bring a Yeshua from nothing. The entire existence of Clai Israel is above Yosh. We come from Abraham and Sara. It Abraham and Sara wasn't highly improbable. It wasn't unlikely. It wasn't statistically difficult. It was downright impossible. And here we are here. Here we are. Says that this shows that Claus's very bedrock is built lalum and hayosh. My zeda, my grandfather Har Gladstein was pulled out of the crematoria. He was saved from the ashes of the Holocaust. And after the war, they interviewed him. They said, "Rabbi, you know, you saw the murder of your nation. You saw the brutality of the Germans. You saw the devastation of your people. Rabbi, did you ever lose faith? Did you ever lose your belief in the Tory? And my grandfather responded, "Did I ever lose faith?" "Yes, I lost faith in man. How could human beings become animals and barbarians?" How could a civilized society shed its conscience? How could the United States of America and other democratic countries turn the other way and ignore what was happening to the Jewish people? So, did I lose faith? I lost faith in mankind. But never for a moment did I lose faith in my God. Never was I may is never mish. Tonight we've gathered to celebrate a shum yosh Yeshua Hashem. May all of us who've come tonight to hear Dim from the Russ and the Rebson. They should have bashim and see tremendous nasa from Elahu and all the tamidim. May all of us who have gathered for the 49th yard of the saddicana Yeshua and to the ultimate of the Amen. I