The Majesty of Shavuos: Philadelphia Community Kollel - Shabbos Elevate

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April 19 1943 only three rabbanim are still left in the Warsaw Ghetto we spoke about him last night Ramana zemba and Kahana Shapiro these three rabbonim convened in one of the most frightful decisions in recent Jewish history and they only had one hour to decide they had just received the word from the Jordan rat that they were sent a message from the Catholic Church of Warsaw that they have 24 hours to get out of the ghetto and then their lives would be spared they had 60 Minutes to the side otherwise they were going down with the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto just to paint the picture of the deplorable conditions that the ghetto was in 1943 no language has ever been created to describe The Wretched conditions of the Warsaw Ghetto I read to you an article of an eyewitness account of what the ghetto was like this was written gladstein who wrote in a book entitled theological and halachic reflections of the Holocaust he writes as follows aniage I am the man who saw the Affliction of his people I am the witness and I am the victim I saw the Warsaw Ghetto littered with corpses faces distorted and swollen their eyes open wide and blood everywhere skulls crushed rivers of blood the blood of our children of our brothers and sisters our fathers and mothers no imagination no matter how daring could conceive of anything we live through writes my grandfather in 1942 my great-grandfather the last Rob of the city of sakachov was taken to the Warsaw Ghetto together with my grandmother as soon as they get there the Gestapo grabbed my grandmother's brother nobody ever saw him again that was the horror and the terror of the Warsaw Ghetto and Friends between me and you there's very little that these rabbis could do for their constituents and for their respective kihilis at this 11th Hour to make matters worse this was April 19th tomorrow April 20th was the birthday of the fury an executioner Himmler declared that is a birthday gift to Hitler the Warsaw Ghetto would be annihilated and people are running into a Menachem zemba's homes with problems nobody should ever have to hear with problems pressing on the hearts here you know zemba world renowned he was offered to be the chief Rabbi of Jerusalem which he declined upon the untimely passing of Ramirez Shapiro he was offered to be rev of Lublin and rosh hashiva of yes before age 40 of Menachem zemba was the honor honorary Secretary of the Mayes godoll in Europe my grandfather was a Ben bias Byram zamban he says behind his dining room table there was this forum shrunk a bookcase and that bookcase contained not swarim but tens of thousands of pages of hidushaitara that romanakam zemba wrote thousands of pages on the entire rambam called a commentary on the entire you xiaomi hundreds of chuvas and tragic scenes are taking place in front of the eyes of Ramana zemba here you have a husband he comes in with his wife to have a way to escape the ghetto the only thing is the woman she's scared to go she has a very noticeable Jewish nose she's afraid she'll be caught or she has an elderly parent or she just could not bring herself to leave but she didn't want to hold back her husband from saving his life and against their will they came to zemba to get a get in the 11th Hour dozens of people lining up in the Homer of nakam zemba to get divorced against their will and the husbands were crying and the wives were crying and Ramana zembo was crying and my grandfather said the Miss bayach itself was Yuri demise this is just a flavor a taste of the atmosphere of the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943. and these three rabbanim have 60 Minutes to the side whether they should stay in the ghetto together with Israel or get out and save their own skin and they convened abezden with Shapiro and Ramana and certainly this is Dinesh this is a capital case and when it comes to DNA in a franchise poison you start with the smallest one with the youngest one and they offered ravdavid Shapiro to voice his opinion first and with velvet Shapiro declares from the depths of his soul we can't help our people but if we stay with them and we encourage them and our presence will give them support will strengthen their hopes this is the only thing I have the strength to do I don't have the kayak to leave my people can we run from the almighty the same God that is found here is found outside of the ghetto hammer and Ramana are dumbfounded at this there's nothing more to say there's nothing else we could say we're staying here they informed the Jordan rat they're not going anywhere and come what may they will die with the Jews of the war salgetta I heard this story about ravdavan Shapiro from Rebel khananzon who's the head of the hurricane in America and he had a personal family connection to David Shapiro and he mentioned what a difficult time he had understanding the sack of these Israel between me and you it's very nice that these great rabbis stayed with the people but what could they do with these people in the 11th Hour what kind of support could they offer what kind of encouragement could they give could they really add anything to this wretched situation isn't the image and I were discussing the sugya isn't there a Mitzvah that when you only have one cup of water and two people need it you drink it yourself doesn't your own life come first it is a historical fact that many godila many admirim who had the opportunity to leave and save themselves from the horrors of the Holocaust while thousands of their tamidam and hasidim were gassed or cremated they took advantage of the opportunity many of the hasidus in today are only due to the fact that the rebels took advantage of the opportunity to save their own skin while the rest of the hasidos was destroyed in Europe but they were able to rebuild there's a future for cloudy as well today they're yeshivas today they're they're courts of casidos today because these great rabbis took advantage of the opportunity that they were given the punavicharav oice 1941 the Jews of panovic they're taken to the pajanist forest they're murdered there how many rabbonims survived the Lithuanian Holocaust none there were no survivors except for the pun of a turab kahnemann was saved because he wasn't there because he was in route from Palestine to the United States fundraising like the punavichuruv knew how to do you know they say how do you know there's no life on Mars because if there was the pun of a Torah what a fundraise there OV missed the Holocaust his wife Robertson faga all the children were killed except for one and at the hakamas matseiva for the panavita and benebrock the Russia Shiva of panovich got up with and he said you should know that the soul of the Panama knew no rest no respite he was beleaguered he was plagued he was haunted his whole life everything the part of ichirov ever did was to somehow assage the guilt that he had sheets he's the only Rabbi who survived the Holocaust why did he fundraise everywhere boy schools girls schools yeshivasiakovs what motivated the man the man was on a mission says the razovski shalom he didn't want to feel I saved myself but my ship went down many godoilim on the other hand demonstrated Supernatural laughs Inner Strength who had the opportunity to save their lives and their families and not only did they not save their lives they returned to the horrors of Europe he was in America he was in Yeshiva caravadas I will step down you will be the next Russia with Usher was procuring visas for many of the tamidam of varanovic said I ain't staying I'm going back why are you going back my children your children my tomidum had a stopover in London They begged him you're going back they're going to murder you on the spot said I cannot abandon ship and I am very proud to say and it's also extremely painful that my great-grandfather my ultise the last rough of the city of sakachov was offered by the agodas Israel of America a very prominent position in America Chief Rabbi of America to save him and his family and he said I'm not going a faithful Shepherd doesn't forsake his flock and this is the Fateful decision by the way tell you a little bit what happened to hammer he somehow made it out of the ghetto he was taken to a forced labor camp near Lublin and he lost his entire family and with great monsieura snafesh that was April 19th he made it out of the Warsaw Ghetto it's now araf pesach 1943. and the hammer big matzas together with a certain doctor and they sneaked the matzus out of the camp on their bodies they were caught and they were beaten mercilessly two years later pesach 1945 Hammer made an announcement even though he was Gravely ill completely emaciated he will not be eating hamates for eight days which meant he will not be eating for eight days they said Rabbi you know how to do this you have to preserve your life if stockhammer said believe me I know the halacha but they're 2500 yiddin in this camp somebody has to declare to the world there's a yamta for pesach there's an Indian of hummus we have to eat matzah and I'm Gonna Be the One and miraculously stockhammer when eight days without eating and survived pesach 1945. the end of the war while the inmates were rounded up they were put on a cattle car and they're headed west the Russians bombed the tracks with stockhammer's track was bombed he was mortally wounded and on the 13th day of er 1945 hammer returned his Holy Soul to his creator three days before liberation tells me you know I really did not understand the sack of these what could they offer these poor souls these emaciated bodies these walking cadavers of what benefit would it be to them to have three rabbis in the camp he said Daniel I never understood this until you read an article your grandfather wrote my grandfather describes what life was like in the Warsaw Ghetto in the death camps and he asks what provided us the secret mysterious strength and endurance to continue breathing recently at my grandfather's lavaya a man came to anion with all of his children and he said I want you to know why I'm here because your grandfather saved my father's life because so many times in the death camps my father wanted to run to the electric barbed wire and kill himself and your grandfather said no you're not allowed to do that we're going to survive three is going to protect us my grandfather asked what gave us this mysterious strength y [Music] if not for the torch of Torah that provided me with light with hope with aspirations for the future I would have given up we had with us the rabbonim of Warsaw rubdavid Shapiro stockhammer many and during those dismal and abysmal Knights they would say over gemara's Bal pair they would say over teaching they would say over ly the Gomorrah that these precious Jews remembered and recited by heart served as the ner tamid Eternal Light to illuminate these downtrodden hopeless Souls told me when I heard hope and the spiritual energy and the transformation that you didn't felt when they heard these rabbanims saying over Torah tars about gamaras in the gehenam in the Purgatory itself now I understood why those rabbis felt they needed to be there what they could do for these survive the potential survivors and I believe that I am here today because of that fateful decision that ramanakam zemba from David Kahana made to stay in the ghetto and give to these yiddin by teaching Torah in the most impossible situations I am here today my children are here today because of that because of that Supernatural strength that these Israel displayed you know we say every night in marav we say an expression this expression is not an allegory it's not a metaphor it's not poetry it's meant literally what is the Torah to us it's not a luxury it's not a good deed we say it's literally our life it is the essence of life and stripped of all Earthly benefits but if we have the Torah we have life we have life itself that's the first element I would like to discuss tonight and that's what a culo brings to the community as the centerpiece of the community even if you don't go in the kylo you pass by your coil you have the following message the Kyle cries out like it says in mishley the coil cries out what is life for a Jew in this world what is let's talk about a little bit of a more upbeat aspect of the Torah most people you open up the Jewish magazines today which is very dangerous very dangerous you would think that Judaism is all about eating High caloric carbohydrates that's the main objective of being Jewish especially when it comes to shavuas you would think the main avoida is consuming cheesecake and cheesecake is quite important why do we eat dairy Angeles actually it's it's very interesting the first reference to khalav anshuas is found in one of the earliest we shine them the kalbi but he says it's not just Dairy because the main source of eating dairy Ash Lewis comes from the pasta shirim age honey and milk are under your tongue is saying the Torah is so delicious it's so delectable it's so sweet that it's a taste it's a flavor of the combination of honey and milk so we have milk to commemorate the delectability of the timer and therefore the Cowboys suggests that we have honey as well the Torah is so delicious it's compared to honey focuses on the comparison between Tyra and honey in another way as well always yearned for the mashiach he was a koyan and he felt that when mashiach would come it would be incumbent upon all the kahanam to know how to do the avoida in the basement and he wrote a safer called where he describes practically how do we do the avoida on the base of McDon and in the introduction to likute tries to explain why is Torah compared to honey why honey says a mind-boggling analogy says even though honey seems like a rather innocuous food item honey is actually the most powerful food known to man you're gonna love me for this one is there any way that a Jew would be allowed to consume Trace meat no come on there's you can't come up with a Heather for that if we can the sweetness of honey the power of Honey is so potent that if bread Falls in Honey and it spends enough time there it actually is transformed into honey itself and what if a piece of Hazard traif would fall into honey and stay there long enough according to most poison the meat would dissolve disintegrate and be transformed into honey and you'd be allowed to eat the trafe meat you heard it here first Arab shavuis 2021. that is why tairos compared to honey here you have a guy here you have an individual have the best of character stop shaking your heads yeah yeah and they're an angry person they're an arrogant person they have desires but that's before they started becoming engrossed in Lima but once the Jewish mind immerses itself in the honey of Torah honey is so powerful it has such a potent ability to create sweetness that you could take the most rough and tough and Gruff person if the person immerses themself in Honey in the Torah they become transformed we're going to read in perkyobas the Shabbos the Torah is the person nakshata doesn't mean It prepares the person it conscious a person a person can have bad qualities bad character bad personality traits by immersing in the thyroid could completely transform a person to become a different individual a different entity it captures the person that's the analogy of Divas mentioned that he's a descendant of take the first letter of the tyraq Daisha no base taste the take the last letter of the Torah limit so far so good take the middle two words of the rash so the middle two letters the shin of darush the dalid of darash so so far we have a base and we have a lamid we have a shin and we have a dalid what's the middle letter of the Torah of and above says I'm sorry for you take the six endpoints and middle points of the Torah devash honey and milk you want to know what the Torah is you want to know how delicious how delectable the Torah is how sweet how much satisfaction how much inner Joy how much happiness the title offers us it's like constantly indulging in Honey and milk now if I were to ask you every morning we wake up and we make a bracha on the Torah we started what is the nature of sataya what type of blessing is people would say I don't know we always make a bracha before we perform a Mitzvah before you put on a Talus you make a bracha before you put on to fill in you make a bracha before you take a Lula Vanessa you make a bracha before you sit in a sukkah you make a bracha what is the nature then of you would expect it's a blessing you make before you perform the Mitzvah of tamatara says the lavush no you're making a big mistake because gazal say what's the reason why in the times of the Corbin Bas they were so few tamide there are so few learned people foreign because the gemara says nobody could really figure out why did Hashem allow this to happen to them and they asked the rabbis the rabbis didn't know they asked the Angels the Angels didn't know they asked the prophets the prophets didn't know only God himself was able to say they weren't making breakfast you know hey Pals this is not rocket science why why couldn't anyone figure out go to show you'll see people are opening up the sinner they're saying Asha yatsar they're saying and then they're going straight and nobody's making what's so complicated over here nobody knew they were making better sataya says they said Las Vegas with so much cavana they said was so much Havana but they missed the boat they made a fiddler they thought when you're learning Tyra you're doing a mitzvah it's like you're shaking a Lula Vanessa it's like you're saying it's like you're sitting in the sukkah so they made a bracha over their learning as if they were being Makaya malitzma but is it's a blessing that you make when you get enjoyment in life when you eat pizza you make a bracha when you eat steak you make a bracha when you drink Snapple you make a bracha because one is not allowed to take enjoyment from this world without making a blessing but wait a second there's no enjoyment by shaking a little of an essay the gemara tells us there's a principle that we are not considered to get joy from the actual performance of a midsummitsa doesn't give us a certain physical happiness we're doing what God said it's a responsibility that we have to execute nevertheless says the lavush that's when it comes to 612 midflies but there's one Mitzvah in the Torah that the Mitzvah is defined by the following principle Hashem says I want you not to learn Torah there's no Mitzvah to learn Tyra I want you to derive enjoyment from the Torah I want you to derive happiness from the Torah I want you to derive inner satisfaction and Joy from the learning that's the Mitzvah that's the nature of the Mitzvah that's the qualitative nature of the mitzvah just to learn Abba Daddy where'd you go tonight well just like in the time of the Romans where our lives were threatened and we risked Our Lives to learn Tyra even though we really didn't want to and just like in the Holocaust we risked Our Lives I went to the coil tonight to learn boy was it difficult and I was sweating the whole time but I did it like I shook a Lula Vanessa there's no such men yaakov Rocco you know where I went tonight tonight I went to I to derive grid happiness and joy where'd you go you went to the Phillies game you went to the Flyers no I went to the Kyla the color what were they giving there was a barbecue in the color no I was learning in the Kyle learning is the greatest happiness learning is the greatest joy learning is the simcha of a Jew the parameter of the Mitzvah of talmatira is such there is no mitza to learn them it says to get an enjoyment from the learning this even has halaka ramifications that if somebody made a nether if somebody took a vow that they're not going to get enjoyment from Brewing the only thing is it's Rosh Hashanah and Ruben's the only guy with the shifer can you blow ruvain's shoifer on Rosh Hashanah you took a vow you're not going to get enjoyment from ruvane you could blow Revenge because blowing a chauffeur is not considered enjoyment you're doing a Mitzvah God said to the Mitzvah do the mitzvah but if you took a vow you're not going to get enjoyment from ruvane and you need a Gomorrah that Ruben has you can't borrow his gemara what do you mean what kind of enjoyment am I getting from the gemara I'm just learning I'm just doing a Mitzvah no the Mitzvah of talmatara is a Mitzvah to enjoy the milk the honey the delectability the the way the Mitzvah is qualified it's a midst of deriving pleasure in fact I'm sure everyone is familiar with the Monumental words incredible words you should Rejoice with all of the good and says what is truly good in this world what is the epitome of good what is the quintessential goodness that we have Ella Torah Rejoice with all the good says if a human being would sense the sweetness the enjoyable quality of the torahim um a person with insanely pursue the Torah um nothing else in this world would have any value if one would stop and recognize for a moment the great happiness the great joy the simcha that comes from learning Torah they would blindly run after it and forget about anything else that exists in this world the enjoyable quality of learning but I want to share with you one more element of Tyra yes we know it's our life we know it's been the life of a Jew for 3 300 years since that fateful day when the replenisham spoke to Kali Swan harcina you know it's an interesting thing in it says that the nations of the world come to Cloud you saw and they tell Claude swallow come on why are you still busy with your Judaism with your talmud with your Gomorrah shuvi shuvi hashulamis return return you Rose suvich return to us we'll give you power we'll give you position we'll give you prestige just join us and what's the response of clay as well to these attempts of the nations of the world we tell the nations of the world what could you give to us in can you rival the dancing at the camps you know we tell the nations of the world so you've even felt said stubbornly for 3 300 years what are you going to give us we're going to become the president of the United States we're going to become wealthy we're going to come rich you know what you have to compete with you have to compete with the awesome experience of harshinai that powerful experience of harsinai you know in the United States dropped the atom bomb hiroshimo Nagasaki there's actually an interesting phenomenon that if anyone was standing in the vicinity of the atom bomb the blinding light of the energy of the nuclear energy of the of the atom created a phenomenon called nuclear Shadows that means he had a guy standing like this at the bridge the blinding light of the atom bomb seared an image of that person onto the bridge and you could go there today and you could see the guy who 80 years ago was standing there and he seared his images seared onto the bridge nuclear Shadows the awesome experience of Kabbalah satara is so powerful is such an eternal happiness that it is seared unto the soul of every Jew so that 3 300 years later we tell the nations of the world what could you offer us you think we would ever Exchange in that awesome experience that rendezvous there's no competition over here but I want to share with you one last nakuda when it comes to Lima we've heard many times over this Shabbos God says if you follow my statutes life will be good it will rain it will rain in May it could rain in the middle of May you'll have rain at the right time your stocks will go up your portfolio will go up you'll be happy you'll be successful which Rashi says it doesn't mean if you keep the Mitzvahs because the next phrase is you'll keep the midsize that if the Jewish people are engrossed and work and toil and Tyra life will be good and the question is how does Rashi know it means that we have to toil and Tyra maybe it just means if we learn Taira where do you see anything about toiling in Torah who says we have to work so hard granted it means Beyond just keeping the midsummice you have to learn the title who said anything about amilis potato over here so famously rozovsky said as follows it says in you will go in my midspace go implies from level to level to level you will raise yourself up and while Mitzvahs are very important and has it is wonderful and sadaka is incredible and Fila is vital there's only one way to elevate yourself and that is working hard and learning Tyra and if the past success you're going to go up you're going to elevate elevation is only possible I want to share with you an astounding vilnigon if I were to ask you categorize the various types of missiles we have so we would say there's between you and God and between you and your friend the grower reveals that there's actually a third category of Mitzvah that I personally I wasn't aware of this and I think this is a very modern concept that there are actually three categories of myth slice not only and there are actually three categories of aveiros and the grub race bases would review his learning every 30 days he would then climb up to the top of the Mast of a ship and he said he would talk to himself he would say Rejoice O soul Rejoice my soul rap Jesus will talk to himself you do it why can't he do it he would say to himself Rejoice Rejoice so the gemara asked why was ripshas focused on his own joy in the Torah after all when we know that when a person learns tar he upholds the entire world so shouldn't he have had a more broad intention more broad cavana that the whole world is rejoicing in my Torah and the gemara says the following words which one would mistakenly Translate when you start learning you start to learn for yourself but that's not what the words mean the word does not mean in the beginning as we're about to see says the village there are three categories of mitzvahs there's going between you and God there is between you and your friend and there's a third category of mitzvah between you and you know them so let's get some examples what's been Adam lamaka in prayer you're communicating with the Almighty I said the other pillar of the universe but the most important it's been Adam because God gave you a soul and that Soul has endless greatness and endless potential so how do you actualize your greatness how do you bring out your abilities how do you bring to the Forefront the latent endless infinite divine nature that every soul has been imbued with how do you become something how do you make something of yourself there's only one way to do it you could pray prayer is great you will connect with the Lord and you can do has said you will connect with your friend but you will remain the way you were but how do you actualize yourself the grass says likewise there are three types of sin murder that's right that severs your it's hard to have a relationship with the guy that you just murdered they find it very difficult to do that hard to connect with the Creator when you serve everybody desara and illicit Behavior arayas you destroy yourself on the other hand will connect you to your friend to your neighbor to someone in your community Philo will connect you to the Almighty but how do you actualize the greatness that rests inside of you how do you become something how do you elevate there's only one way to do that learning the Torah makes you a greater individual a greater Soul a greater father a greater mother a greater brother a greater sister a greater son a greater daughter a greater Jew a greater everything says the girl where do I get this from I get this from rafishes every 30 days he would say rejoice Rejoice this one's for you you made something of yourself now he understands he said if not for this day if not for this day I would just be an ordinary Joe but because of schmooz I'm not just yossi I'm reviewing listen to the words of Rashi foreign I elevated myself I became something I made something of myself how do you make something of yourself so I don't know I don't have it within me I'm not that talented I don't have such great ability says the same way we have to believe in we are likewise commanded to believe in ourselves these are not two separate lips rights it's the same mitzvah because if the almighty gave us a soul and we're a piece of him the same way he has infinite greatness so do we so then how come uh I'm still waiting for it to kick in friends it's there the greatness is there the tool to bring it out is there that's the happiness of us the happiness of sugar says cesra friedlander if we could just examine one more line of gemara the gemara has a question why is focusing on his own happiness what about the fact that the whole world is benefiting from his Torah says rep freedlander Mei Kara May car doesn't mean in the beginning when you start for starters you should think about what it does for you mayikara means primarily fundamentally fundamentally when we go to learn yes it's our life yes it's honey and milk it's enjoyable it's happiness but deep down inside of all of us the greatest desire we have is that by traversing through this world for the short amount of time we have here we want to at least make the most of ourselves and that's what I color sparkle gave us with the Tyra it is a tool to access the greatness that lays in our nisham ice you say every Shabbos every Monday and Thursday when we put away the Torah it's the tar is a tree of life literally to those who uphold her to the supporters to the Friends of the Torah the Torah is a tree of life but says this has another meaning as well picture the following scene a man fell into impassable Rapids and they're threatening to pull him under and his life is in danger and he's about to go down and there's a tree growing from the riverbank and with his last ounce of strength he is able to grab the tree picture for a moment friends how are you gonna hold on to that tree that's going to save your life well even though I'm a righty I'm gonna grab that tree with my left hand with my pinky and see if it's going to hold me up I don't think so your life's on the line that's your lifeline how are you going to hold on to that tree you're going to hold on to that tree with every fiber of your being and every ounce of energy that you have because that's the Israel we live in a world it's a challenging world there's so many things that threaten to pull us under there's so many desires there's so many challenges the eight Saharas are difficult the challenges of life are difficult the hurdles the curveballs the fastballs but we have a lifeline and the lifeline is the Torah that's our tree of life how are we going to hold on to the lifeline how will we be dedicated to the Torah when we can when we're available when it's convenient we're going to dedicate ourselves with every fiber of our being with every ounce of energy we have with every emotional fiber we're going to give it our all because the Torah is our life the Tara is our happiness their Torah is our joy the Taurus the source foreign you can't spend the whole day in Shoal davening and learning there's one day a year you gotta enjoy yourself you know why you have to enjoy yourself because you need to tell your children you need to tell your husbands you need to tell your wives this Toyo over here I'm not twisting myself into a pretzel to torture myself to learn the Torah is my happiness in life and when we're committed to the Torah in that fashion says the lavish God-fearing Jews dedicated Jews happy families that we're all hoping foreign then the Merit of coming together this weekend to really Elevate ourselves and Elevate our commitment to the Torah we have Elevate the Kara natoira Elevate Claudia Israel and bless all of us with only thank you so much for hosting me 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