The Yahrtzeit of Rav Yeshayele Kerestir - ג' אייר

This Torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com. Okay, good evening everyone. So today was Gimel Iyar. Gimel Iyar is the yahrzeit of Rebbi Carlebach. His name was Rebbi Carlebach. So I want to thank Yossi Badner who told me to uh to uh bring to my attention the Indian of uh today. And I'll tell you the truth, I'm not an expert in the life of Rebbi Carlebach. But one thing you can't help but observe that uh when I was accounting, anybody ever heard of him? And uh now you know, there's a major pilgrimage to I think that they said that today there were 20,000 Jews who went there. So you have to, you know, you can't help but notice, you know, my hi. What is this big attraction to his cover? Um so so I went to the store today. They have different biographies. They have the English, they have the Hebrew. Wasn't sure which one to get. I realized, you know, that if the English is a translation of Hebrew, the juicy stuff's going to be in the in the real one. Okay, anyway, I'll tell you a few things. This is not a bi- uh biographical share. I want to just just share with you one thought about why all of a sudden everyone's attracted to this particular cover. So the first thing one to know, you know, I called a few people. What could you tell me a divrei Torah from Rebbi Carlebach? And uh you know, I don't have any particular ones to share with you. In fact, he was master of his knowledge of Torah. He hid very much his knowledge of Torah. Um but it it brings over here that after he finished, he was known primarily for his kashrut. His kashrut is uh was considered astounding. First of all, his hallmark he made him a Malave Malka every Motzei Shabbos. And he that he all the preparations were done Motzei Shabbos. No left There was no leftovers at the Malave Malka. He had chickens slaughtered. And if there weren't uh enough chickens, they would slaughter the hamas. It was His wife went all out and they had, I don't know, hundreds of people at at these sudas. And besides that, his house was open like the house of Avraham Avinu. That's what he was known for. That's what his specialty was. That's what he was mefursem in the mida of kashrut. In Torah, he was not mefursem in Torah. But uh certainly he was a tremendous talmid chacham. He brings over here that he did not sleep at night. Um It says over here the way he would he would stay up all night. He would have There was a certain ger. To find the story, there was a ger from the city of Carlebach. I don't know, you know, that's an interesting phenomenon in and of itself, who was appointed to fill up a basin of cold water. And Rebbi would put his feet in it and stay up. And then when the water turned lukewarm, this ger had to change the water and put in So he would stay up all night. It brings over here that um he did not sleep more than 2 hours a night. Okay. A brief resume, some people tried to sneak into his room at night. He would bring into He had an ordering of sefarim which was dedicated to uh his sefarim. And then when he finished all of his kashrut and for the day, he would bring into his room. It says over here primarily Shas and Shulchan Aruch. But nobody knew exactly, you know, what he was learning. He He was master of that from people. But it says over here that some people tried to sneak into the room and listen. And whenever they would listen into the room, mysteriously there were always two voices. There were always two voices. Him and the Shekinah, somehow. There were always two voices emanating from the room. Anyway, in his shul he hired a maggid shiur. So he would he would teach Mishnayos be mincha and maariv. And Rebbi would sit off to the side. And you know, if you're not giving shiur, so sometimes it would look like he was dozing off. So uh one time the maggid shiur had a stern question in Maseches Keilim. So Rebbi realized, "Nu, what what's going on? What what what what's the difficulty?" And immediately he knew he, you know, he was able to answer right away in a very difficult Mishna in Maseches Keilim. Okay, there are different stories that are brought down that he taco was um a tremendous yadan in kol Torah kulah. Brief resume, that is not what he was known for. He was known for his incredible uh midas hakashrut. Um I'll read to you first what it says on his cover. So it says over here in this holy book. He has a copy of his cover. Where did it go? Now that this is your story. One second. What? No, so they have a good edition over here. Sorry. One second. Um So Rebbi What? No, it's in the back. Sorry. Yeah, this is one of This is This is a picture of some of the So it says like this. Yachid bedoro v'tzaddik yesod olam v'yashar v'yashrus darcho tzedek v'chesed. He was the one in the generation in his righteousness and his uh manner of tzedakah. Shomer v'oseh chesed v'chesed v'chesed v'tzedakah He preserved kindness. There's no way to measure his sanctity and his chasidus. Omed b'gmilus chasadim tzaddik yesod olam mefursem midas tov v'chesed. He was well known in his kindness and his uh as a beneficiary to so many people and his humility. He was a tremendous master of tefillah and many were saved through his tefillah. He clothed the naked. He married off yesomim. His house was open like the house of Avraham Avinu. And even even so, even though he fed so many thousands of people, his own household members were aniyim. Tens of thousands of people flocked him from all over the world. And he never got angry in his life. He served the Emunah his Rebbi. His Rebbi was uh Rebbi Kahana of Liska. Many tzaddikim and many gedolim would come uh to visit him. His mezakeh the rabbin with Emunah v'bitachon that he implanted in them. Even all the tzaddikim of the dor proclaimed that he in fact is uh a kadosh. And uh it says interesting, of all the things that he did, it says lechem rav avad l'sudas David hamelach al shulchan avosam v'nisochim. He had very extravagant Malave Malkas. And his kedusha was b'hatzne'a laleches. And he covered himself over even in his davening. You know, people would come to observe his davening and they they expected to see somebody davening shaking, you know, moving the whole He was very calm. Where people were taken aback, you know, this is this is And um in fact, the story goes, this story I saw. His wife served the guest cholent. And the cholent didn't look hot. And then when he Ah, it was very And when he burned, Rebbi says, "Cholent is like tefillah. You can't tell how hot it is. When you get close, you see how hot it is." So Any event. So what's the pshat all of a sudden in the in the end of days, you know, right before Mashiach comes, everybody's coming to the cover of this tzaddik who was not known for his godliness in Torah. He was known more for his godliness in kashrut. Interesting thing, I once saw a comment of the Kotzker. It's brought in the sefer L'vush Kodesh. In the end of days, before Mashiach comes, there'll be very few people who learn Torah properly. Very few people who daven properly. There'll be a little but there'll be a lot of baalei tzedakah. So it could be as part of And and uh the Kotzker says in fact, the geulah will be will come in this chosam tzedakah. Like it says, Tzion b'mishpat tipadeh v'shaveha b'tzedakah. So in the end of days, when, you know, Klal Yisrael needs more than anything this chosam tzedakah. After all, that's what the Kotzker says. The observation is the the other two amudim will be very weak. So maybe that is why somehow, you know, if we don't understand, but the the mazel of Klal Yisrael is to flock to this zechus, the zechus of tzedakah v'chesed, which is will be the most prominent zechus at the end of days. But then I saw a Gra. Very interesting Gra. Phenomenal Gra. By the way, Rebbi Elimelech of Lizhensk says, the Sfas Emes quotes it, that until the Arizal, the world stood on Torah. And from the Arizal on, the world stands on kashrut. Well, I said, "That's not niskaabel in Olam Haba Yishuv, you know, the Olam Haba Yishuv is the time of Torah connected kulam, from the time the Torah was given on Har Sinai until the, you know, until the end of time." There's an incredible Gra. And the Gra also may may give us insight into this phenomenon, this flocking to, you know, Rebbi was known as the godol in tzedakah v'chesed. So I forgot, Aussie, you said your uh His wife's family was helped with the build up the makom over there. They're from Carlebach. From Carlebach. You can see him after the shiur. Yeah. So in the There's an Avos U'vanim. Let me tell you the Avos U'vanim. I'm not going to tell you the Gra. So it says like this. We know one of the three pillars of the world is gmilus chasadim. It says in Hoshea, ki chesed chafatzti v'lo zevach. The world was created with for chesed. Ki amarti olam chesed yibaneh. Then the Avos U'vanim says a story. One time Rebbi Yochonon ben was leaving the issue is following after him and they SEE THE SAY THE WAY THEY ARE IN THE sky it's gone. What are we going to do? Don't sweat it. We still have another what is it like it says the other one. We find that was also said. So it's always bothered on this lesson like this. If you look at this if a person wants they should do two Tyra and like it says the with and Tyra you'll be a tone. So why when they pass by the does say don't worry. We still have a son. He should have said don't worry. I know we don't have a void we had and Tyra. What about Tyra? Why do we say don't worry we still have no but the other one. Says the other one and the other one and the other one and the other one and the other one and the other one. But after the was destroyed says the first we don't have a void of course we don't have a void. And we don't have Tyra either. How's that? The other one says no other one there's no Tyra. Once we went into we have no more Tyra. What do you mean we have no Tyra? Look at the shelf sure looks like there's a lot of Tyra. It says in there used to be 600 of the other one. Look at the other one only only have the other one. What happened to the other 596? 94? They're gone. The other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one. So there's no other one there's no Tyra. The only that we have left is what? That's what it says the when the destroyed and they cried don't sweat it cuz we still have what about Tyra? We don't have Tyra. I but we learn Tyra. What are we learning then? I think the other one like this. This is a different way of saying it without saying like you know there's a tradition of that the world stands on from the time of that result. Okay, that's your tradition. And the other one in the end of days there will be the other one but not really the other one the other one the other one but I think there's another way to say it. This is the the way the other one would say it. Say like this. The other one the other one we have Tyra and when we learn Tyra it's the biggest in other words what's the bigger Tyra or the other one Tyra is the biggest the other one is bigger than the other one the other one if a person is learning and they could do instead of course you have to learn unless it's the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one never changed. And who's greater a great the other one or a great of course the great one is is greater. The other one writes when the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one. Right it says fear God and who else? So says the other one the other one was trying to determine who else in this world is most similar to the other one. Could have said about me the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one said the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one the other one. But it's like this. It's like this. If you wanted to know there's three that the world stands on. There's only one upon which the world stands that has not been diminished with the other one the other one the other one the other one. And what is that? The other one. Tyra is mostly diminished. The other one the other one when we we have whatever we have of Tyra is real Tyra and if you learn it's the biggest the other one but still there in one sense the other one is greater than Tyra not overall but in that it's the one that never was downgraded with the other one the other one the other one with the other one the other one Tyra most of it was downgraded most of The other one is in its pure form and therefore maybe that's why the other one the other one will come because it's the one that stands as sturdy as as what the way it stood when the other one the other one stood. But be that as it may here we are at the end of days and we see this phenomenon of flocking to the of this that means embracing the other one and the other one of the other one. And even if we were not to go there but certainly we should learn from his holy ways of devotion to other especially the other one. That you know the other one the biggest you could do in a way is the other one. Why? Bigger he says than um than in lending money bigger than clothing somebody. He says because why do we do that to emulate him? The most pure way to emulate him the closest way to emulate him is the other one. Why? Cuz what does him do? He brings us into his home that's this world. He gives us to eat he gives us to drink. In other words if you would sum up what is the of is the other one. So right cuz brings us into his home and he gives us all of our needs. So when a person does which was the other one characteristic so we hope that the of this is making for all of and we should learn from his the other one You've just experienced another Tyra class brought to you by Tyra anytime.com.