The Soul of Israel: The Legend of Rav Elimelech

[Music] Shalom everyone this is rabbi Katz and you're listening to the soul of Israel on the land of israel calm on the land of israel Network we are Adam beautiful beautiful Tuesday morning here in the hills of Judea like my dear friend are a fold of blessed memory would say the rolling hills of Judea today they look really rolling with its majesty and splendor I don't know something in the air today friends I wish I could give a visual through in an audio you have to use your imagination as best as possible and we're in a very special time of the year as well as we are thirty days into the month of Adar to the target of the holiday of pouring within the month of Adar it's actually less than 30 days it's about 24 days much of cause isn't like that and there's just something different in the air so I'm so thankful that I have someone that always reminds me of flourish Adar Emporium all year long with me this morning rabbi re Abramowitz because you remind me not to take life too seriously and that's a compliment appreciate I mean it I really have these glasses that I try to wear every Monday they have no lenses in them just because it's Monday I call it for myself in a verdict Monday the verdict was a yeshiva where they would do self decorating things to not take themselves too seriously I find it to be therapeutic it reminds me that like so do I need to explain why you are a person in my life that reminds me that I shouldn't think like booth is appreciate that I think since the last time we're able to have a show together we we spent Shabbos together on the farm my wife and I were we went out to the farm for Shabbos brought our children and we had an amazing peaceful biblical of sorts Chavez together and iiia I can't wait for all our view our listeners to partake in that as well and please God we know we need your prayers to make sure that that'll be 80 it was it was a huge joy for me yeah shana for Jeremy and his family I just sent you a picture yesterday did you get that I'm not sure it was one of my happiest moments on farm you see you sitting oh sure sure I did see and re promises to wash each of your feet when you come and visit even if you come into 300 masses re will spend a few hours watching washing each of your feet as a pretty net tradition of our father Abraham it's an Abrahamic tradition right so today in the Jewish calendar is a special day and it's a day of what we refer to as the gates are open kind of a day today's the 21st day in the month of a tire and it's the yard site is the anniversary of death of a huge huge saint of a big Sadiq who just eat by just even mentioning his name it gives you the shivers and it does something for you and we're referring to the great Hasidic master the rebbe reb le MELAS of lesions his his merit should protect each and every one of us the rebbe reb le malik of lesions is a mystery we know a lot about him we have a lot of stories about him we could tell you when he lived his brother's name his children name his parents name who his teachers were um what his deathbed was like we have a lot of details about him and yet his character and his existence in this world is shrouded with mystery his sainthood was unparalleled I once heard in the name of the great Belzer Rebbe the first bells arab-arab Shaolin Belzer he said that he once met a Jew who had met the mother of the nominally Mela and it gave him great excitement that he met a Jew that met the mother of the nominally Malik and they asked him why did you he's like he met the mother he met a Jew that met the boy he met a Jew who met the mother of the nominee - right what's the big summer story of a street sweeper yeah he met some once removed right this is like three times removed right not even that he didn't even meet someone that knew rebuilding my life someone that knew the mother that met I think you or he saw the mother of ribbon lamella he was so excited it made him so happy and the question is why so he said had I not have met someone that met the mother of the nominee melis I really wouldn't have been able to assure that the nominee Melissa was came into this world humanely and he wasn't a legend or a myth fear angel is Leo I say yeah yeah and he had a mother meaning the fact that he had a mother that birthed him into this world brought such sympathy to the to the to the bells are a bit because the the stories but the normally Malik's are from another world they're another roof is sainthood and his relationship with his brother Robert resolution is something else just to give a brief I wanted to talk about him today because I feel like it's a very important important year now a holy holy Jew to connect our souls to this static and specifically this specific story and a prayer that I want to share in a second that I bear really malice of Lashon sck he is buried in a town called visions in Poland have you ever been there all right have we been there we didn't go together I was you mother if we haven't been there than Oh cause he didn't do any separate trips okay I was just there twice once when I was 16 and once last two years ago the reputable America the John's just I'll just tell you guys in an incredible story when the Germans makishima made their names be blood and erased for forever when they were beginning their there what would you call it 1939 their crusade yeah their crusade so I think it was either late 39 or early 40 that they reached the town of the Jean sck and they were destroying and mastering everything in their sight and they got to the Jewish cemetery there and they got to the kever of the nominally Mela and they had Jews go to the they wanted a rip phenomenally man the remains out of the burial spot I don't know if they wanted to make a highway there I don't know what this story was and when they had and the Germans freaked out when they realized that when they opened up the grave of the anomaly - the body of the nominee melis who had died in the late 1700s we're not talking 1940 was full as if he just died two minutes ago actually even with heat and read in the face immediately closed it up right away they didn't mess with that and after the Holocaust a huge monument was then you know placed on the area on the burial spot of the anomaly - the name of the Americas from another another calibre of righteousness of holiness his book the normally malice was a book that aceton would only learn I'm talking that not everyone but that the real real seceding would only touch that safer Friday afternoon before Shabbos after they went to the mikveh after they immersed themselves in spiritual cleansing waters host my foot pretty sure that was the window of time for that safer amazing huh that's the only time where they were holding many of them that's like that that's their thing that's when they that's when they went to the safer the nominally no we don't hear these stories about others farm it's something else his book is very hard shred it also with mystery in the prints that we have you'll find many many many different stars placed all around the text like in places that you don't understand you might think it's a publishing you know mistake but those were stars that the nominal image himself had placed throughout everything an asterisk if I knew what that word meant I might be able to say yes it was just like no stars the Stars yeah you know I don't have one right next me but I'll show it to you later okay in any event that the anomaly MELAS just shared the Astoria to about his life he took himself variously took his experience in this world one of various mention seriousness and his debate could the levels of cleaning to God that he reached with his service of Hashem are unparalleled to anyone he was a student of the magid of miss rich Abdul Bergman's rich who was the successor of the Baal Shem Tov and an interesting story which will explain how far he took his service of God is as follows the peak of the prayer services on Shabbos is the Musa fiducia where we say Catherine ELISA crown they will give you master of the world it's a moments like a mini moment of what we do on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur when are about that Hashem rsk's godly service involves crowning the king as king we get new logic a terminal ha they will everyone the whole world will come and Crown Hashem his King and place a crane a crown atop upon his Adam well we have a little bit of a taste of that and the kedusha service of mussaf where we say catherine ilaha that's when you dive in the missiles fired which that's been a source of mine from home what would happen everyone noticed that whenever they reached that spot of Quetta the nominally Mentalist always took out a I mean back then the watches were like uh nun chains right didn't wear watches on their wrists they had like a little clock on a watch on a chain every time they reached the cat their point the night my mother would grab something from this pocket they'd pull it out and he'd look and he checked the time now this was not just pretty bizarre this was extremely bizarre from someone like the nominally mother who was known for his duvet cos for his adherence to every word of the law and ever in the spirit of the law that daf cahier at this peak this high moment he's taking out his watch and he's checking the time so they won I don't know who had the hoods but actually approached no one else can ask him but someone didn't Cedric - well it was a shot what's going on over here so he said his father's he said you're probably wondering why I keep on looking at the time at this high moment he said it's it's just he says it's clear to me as daily but that at that moment the sweetness of love that exists between Amy swell and God when we say cat there yet notice hashem elokenu there's no greater sweetness of love that exists in the world there's such infinite oneness that exists at that moment that I know that if I let myself get caught in that moment I'll expire so what do I do I look at something that confines me within the confines of this world which is time so I look at something that kind of like a tanker ship anchors me because if not I know I'll expire this is the kind of person we're speaking about it's another kind of person I'll tell another story I just heard yesterday the nominee MELAS was one time in the presence of his mother while he is either his child or his grand daughter was also in the room and he noticed that his granddaughter kind of put her hand like what smacked away her mother's hand like a little kid was a little bit a tantrum and the night when they might have said you're you know basically to the kid you realize that you're taking your hand and doing going over a mitzvahs are safe in the Torah a commandment in the Torah which says mitzvahs loose I said which says lo tuck you know lot and mikay McAra VV mom what do you mother if you hate your parent you shalt die right so the night when they might have heard from his mother at that moment she said what you think you think you were different when you were a kid and he said Theresa are you serious did I ever hit you away when I was a tot when I was an infant she said yeah so he took his right hand and he placed it into the stuff and he said this hand that did this this cannot exist anymore and when he pulled his hand out a list of it was it was completely burnt up in charcoal and then the story is that he put his hand back into his coat and his capita and when it came out it was normal again and in my mind a minister says don't think for one second that this is the same hand I was born with because the hand that I was born with was capable of hitting its mother I had to get rid of so to speak get rid of that hand this hand is not that hand so you see when I say that the more stories we have about the name and the malice the more that he's shattered with mystery and his teachings are shared with mystery as well because the whole book of the nominally manner is speaking about the role mainly he speaks about the raw the pits addict plays within a miss realm it's funny they say in casitas that the normal America's the safer of tsadikim the tanja after Rabi the how bad that book is the safer of Bane on him and the coup de Marana define him like the middle middle ground the middle and then it says that the safer of regime is the coup tomaron it's talking it always talks about the people that are following up and you know it down into hanim but as holy as he was rebel if it's like if it would say about himself then he feels bad because he must have had to create a new department in Gehenna never existed before for people like him so we're speaking of someone that's just it's it's it's very very mysterious whether you believe every single aspect of every single story or not what you can come away with is this this is the stuff legends are made of and like behind replying sons who have said whoever believes every classy dishes tale is a fool but if you don't believe them you're evil okay so choice is yours you know so anyway what I wanted to just share and actually pray with each of you is a famous prayer that they're played that the denominator wrote I actually said it this morning and I learned the last night with some of my friends and those of you that are familiar with Jewish music one of the greatest singers of our generation a very very very very special special Jew I've known personally I perform with them before his name is Avraham freed approximately 25 years ago on his album one of his albums he came out with the song called odd their ABBA and I'll sing it soon and basically it's a few lines from a prayer that the nominally Mellis composed but before we say that prayer together I hope it's okay we're doing a little bit different style today I wanna shits another story you're a real great ok ok now listen Hashem gave us the Torah the first book is only stories many starts telling us Commandments rain song so how he created the world so the story is as follows at one point a group of Hassid him of the normally Miller were standing outside his house when out of the blue a bunch of very dark dark not dark tall people came out of nowhere and started walking in to the anomaly - house but no one none of the seceding of the nomina manner that witnessed this could make out any of the faces they just saw a bunch of very tall men going into the nominee - house and they waited for a while and when these people came out all they were able to see were the images of a bunch of tall men but they couldn't make out any of the faces and these tall men came out went into a wagon and left very strange but assumed the witness this went into the house of the Naima Lehmann and he looks at them and he's like you're probably wondering what just happened over here right so he told them a following he said I've come to the realization that it's so difficult for a man to concentrate with all the prayers that he has to do due to life constraints and harness and I I don't have the time to sit for 3-4 hours or even an hour in daven I feel so bad I was feeling so bad for a maestro that I was gonna take all the prayers and make one concise prayer out of all of them that would include all the Cavanaugh's in them so that that way people wouldn't feel guilty that they're not able to finish everything and people wouldn't be distracted while they were in the state of prayer so do you want to know who those people were that just came right now those were people men of the great assembly on shakiness ithaca Dola those were the people that formed the prayer's now just to give our listeners a little bit of an explanation we're speaking about people that lived about eighteen hundred years before the story took place they came to me and said to me Maya your Cavanaugh's are good but please please don't change anything you can't change anything you got to figure out another way to have compassion and ami syrup but don't change even one word of the prayers some anomaly my mother said I listen to them and I can't with the following prayer now the following prayer is called Fela leaf nee had to feline it's a prayer before it like instead Navin II and if you look in most see dream it's actually in most see dream I'm sure it's in your sitter aria home what's called Fela leaflets Fela and in this prayer of normally manically he made for you and I to feel less guilty about not being able to be that concentrated he goes into the depth of what we're really begging Hashem we're begging a Shem to live lives of giving him Nahas and we're asking a Shem to make that I would you say feasible just to make our daily life feasible that that what we do in this world brings you novice now he ends off the prayer which is really supposed to be an aid for each and every one of us to feel that we could stay connected and I'm gonna sing the song first and then we'll discuss it it's very short this is the song I was referring to before from Avram freedom tan Betty bein home shanira cola huh my last holiday no please mayor will and place into our hearts that each and every one of us when we look at the other is only able to see the good points and not the blemishes vision a dahab air color ha discover Drome vedera taaha Shah Jahan dots lean Monaco Valhalla belly banal Shawn Cena Mercado havedo Carly though and when we speak about our friends no matter what we're saying may it always be the straight path and what's wanted before you and no hatred should ever come into our hearts and should never be spoken about about one person to another god for being with the closet Queen so noble me a vine I make I love for you be something that can't be moved can't be touched Kasia and go Livia doula laughs honor her like only you know Shana hey Rocco now hustle of everything we do should be to bring you na ha ha snack us means pride it means making you feel good in a very holy way what would you put other word would you put not house prideful comfort yeah that's good comfort Nastya cool now Castle hey that's what that's what I believe in Mecca was John see how he ends his prayer before prayer it is his listening to the people that came to visit him from the time men have the great assembly saying listen don't change any that's felis but do your thing so I want to invite each and every one of you to find that prayer and to go over it this week to read it one day if any of you are interested in us emailing the prayer please email me Land of Israel calm or argot Land of Israel calm will email you that prayer both in Hebrew and in English but I just wanted to really share my heart about the nominee my love today on the day of his passing which we know that the days of the passing of the great Saints we may have been very painful down here in this world but in the higher worlds it was a day of great celebration where the soul was reunified in an unconcealed way fully revealed way with their master master of the world up in sham i'm so these days are very very big days and the week that it happens if an even if you know we're recording on tuesday but if you hear this on wednesday or thursday till Shabbos this week is filled with the energy of the holiness of the great sadiq Ribeira may eliminate illusions and may we merit to live those words that in our hearts we're not capable of seeing bad things and our friends and in our hearts we would never be able to then come to a conclusion but under any circumstance it would be okay to speak ill of one another and that alone should remind us every single day that we bring gnosis to our parents to our Abba and shaman to our Father in heaven have a beautiful rest of your week and may we all celebrate every moment of having a privilege of being sons and daughters of the king [Music] the Land of Israel Network presents the Israel inspired a retreat wrote Hodesh Aadhaar bet a three night event by the Dead Sea 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