Tisha B'av 5783/2023 - Rabbi Steven Weil: Your Rod and Your Staff

so that the tissue above learning the tissue above learning is sponsored here in at ketutora by Anne and Charles Bartell by Diana and Dr Michael feintuck and family to commemorate the yard site of Michael's grandfather dovid labensmol zelik David by Rochelle and Phil Goldschmidt to commemorate the yard side of Phil's mother Lana Bassey Elizabeth Goldschmidt and by Nelly and Daniel scalar to commemorate the yard side of Daniel's mother Shayna basavram schmuel Jenny sklars I want to thank Rabbi Baum I want to thank Rabbi wein and Howard for putting together and for organizing the the tishop of kinos and on the the OU side we want to thank Richard and Deborah parkoff of Lawrence New York which in every year sponsor the learning of the kinos this morning we're going to start with the 11th kinna and the backdrop is the following think about something that happened in our lifetime in 1992 there was a study done of Americans and they asked them they asked Americans from throughout the length and breadth of the United States do you believe that six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust in something like 63 percent of Americans said yes meaning 30 percent questioned it they either said outright no it's a lie or they questioned the veracity of that what happened in 1993 1994 Steven Spielberg he had been shown a number of scripts he wanted he liked the idea of what we call Schindler's List it was a Survivor who had met with him approached him people had written up a script and he said it's not going to work it was actually the third screen right the third script that was shown to Stephen and he decided that that would make a powerful movie and a statement to the world and that film now you have to understand the role that Ben Kingsley played in that film Stern stern was a composite figure there was no Stern in real life there were two actually two people who were Schindler Union who'd grown up in Krakow in the ghetto who had been taken to plosh off to the labor camp and he was a composite figure they asked the very same question to a similar set of Americans two years later 92 percent of Americans believed that 6 million people died in the Holocaust from the story of one person now not everyone is Steven Spielberg but from the story of of one person this composite character Stern in Schindler's List when you talk to someone on the face of the globe what do they associate with the Holocaust the Diary of Anna Frank what we call the Diary of Anne Frank now from a point of view of the showa that's insignificant it's not historically meaningful impactful to us when we read it it's incredibly meaningful incredibly impactful why for a very simple reason human beings cannot fathom 6 million it's a number we just can't fathom we can't fathom sixty thousand just can't but the story of one adolescent girl in hiding on a Frank and just if I could say parenthetically when national socialism took over Germany in 1933 when Hitler made The Pact with Von Hindenburg there were 550 000 Jews in Germany and with the various pieces of legislation with the anti-jewish laws what you ended up having was about half of those Jews fled very few could get into America very few could get into England most of the German Jews who fled ended up fleeing to the Netherlands to Holland they ended up living in Amsterdam some in Rotterdam The Hague in 1940 the Germans came and took over the Netherlands that's not something that the Jews assumed when they fled there in the 30s why did they go to the Netherlands first of all you could get into the Netherlands to a much easier it was much easier to get in there than you could getting into England or America or Canada but number two is was a similar culture many Dutch understood German you had a better chance of restarting your life unfortunately and it was one of the great disappointments that we had in humanity of the hundred forty thousand Jews who were living in the Netherlands over 110 000 were killed many of those hundred forty thousand were German refugees like Otto Frank and his family Otto being the father of Anne Frank that's who many of them were and the Netherlands which had been from a point of view historically from 1571 from the time the Netherlands broke off from Spain it became a place of Refuge for Sephardic Jews the Portuguese Jews created an incredible Community they literally shaped the destiny of history and international trading coming out of the Netherlands trading in South America Central America North America Africa they were responsible for the spice trade the rum trade sugar trade all types of mahogany you name it and Jews the ashkenazin followed the slaughtered the Netherlands was was the one place in Europe where we could actually print svarum without them being censored it was the only place in Europe that a gentile could convert to Judaism without being executed it was a capital offense to converted to Judaism anywhere else other than the Netherlands and what happened to Anne Frank and what happened to the large majority of Jews in the Netherlands we never ever expected you know you don't expect different from the lithuanians you don't expect different from the ukrainians we expected different from the Dutch and it was a huge huge you know cost us tens and tens of thousands of Jewish lives so the story of Anne Frank has literally touched not Millions but tens of millions of people on the globe why because people can't relate to numbers they can't relate to those massive massive numbers and the idea of Schindler's List the idea of the Diary of Anne Frank it's already an idea that kazal had there's a measures one of the introductory midrashim to Ahab where rebecciva goes to a diaspora Community by the name of ginzak we're not sure exactly where is ginzak was it somewhere in North Africa was it somewhere in Mesopotamia we're not sure but he went to raise funds for what we call the barkah revolt the revolt against the Roman oppressions the Roman procouncils in their tyranny over the Jews we needed funds for arms we needed funds to produce arms we needed funds for many things and he starts talking about destructions of generations and he goes nowhere he's unsuccessful the fundraising then he tells the story of one man of job eov and the what happened in terms of the father having to bury his children in terms of what happened to his business in terms of the terrible terrible pain that he's suffering and wrenching him and that moved people to tears and it moved people to support the cause what's the point of that measure it's this very point and you see the method of the career the khalir is the one who takes us by the hand we would not have Tish above I'm talking about in a meaningful powerful way without the khalir and he does this a number of times where he does not talk about the macro he doesn't talk about the global destruction of the nation of the people he talks about one individual one story one life and not only does he do that but we'll see that the medieval time we're going to get to the 23rd killer story of the son and daughter of rabi Ishmael Kohinoor they do something very similar as well so let's start with kinna good aleph Tina yud aleph those who have the Missouri of the rabbi salaveichik it is Page 288 those who have the art scroll in the Arts worlds page 182. now let's have a little bit of a backdrop the longest tenure of any Jewish leader I'm not talking about modern times in modern times it's but it's been yummy Netanyahu but in in Antiquities Menasha he was the leader of the Jewish people for 55 years understand one thing about Menasha he was he was really bad news particularly the first 33 years of that 55-year reign the avodazara that was perpetrated that was established that was sponsored by the government the breakdown of the Judiciary where you didn't have Fair courts people did not feel that because Who was appointed judges people paid for it French Etc is well you have a situation where to undermine the efficacy of the base of mikdush to underfund the Department of Transportation what happens every year in Israel you have a rain or a snow season in the winter months and that beats up the roads it's not simple to get to yushalayim you've got to ascend those big mountains see today they've changed Highway one so your years don't even crack as much as they used to but at least in modern times we have like very nice roads to get there they've built a train in Antiquities it was a tough Trek up to eurosha line you're sending the mountains so they've got to make sure that there are roads that people can bring their animals bring their children bring you know that elderly can Traverse those roads as well that wagons can can make it on those roads well if you underfund the Department of Transportation people are going to not be able to make it to yerushalayim and there you undermine the unity of the nation because you don't have people making a Lia the Regal Etc so with 55 years of menasha's Reign and then seven years of Ramon his son that's 62 years of terribly terribly corrupt corrupt leadership the Jewish people sunk in many levels both vis-a-vis theological issues vis-a-vis ethical moral issues and after 62 years you can't just you know flip a switch and now everything is going to go back to the time of his kiyahu to Hezekiah the king it doesn't work that way so this young man who's the son of Amon Yoshi Yahoo you'll have in the in the Lutheran the Methodist the Baptist community people will name their baby boys Josie you know remember Wales Josie Wales remember the famous film The Clint Eastwood The Outlaw Josie Wales where's the name Josie come from it's the English of Josiah or Yoshi Yahoo so who is yoshiyahu he was a young man father died early and he was under the influence of some very great Educators some of the kohanu and they said to him you're not just the son of Amon you're not just the grandson of Menasha do you understand Who You Are you're the cyan of your great grandfather his kiao Hezekiah you're the Zion of King David of King Solomon King ASA King yehoshaphat you're the descendant of yahudah inaksha and you were placed in this position by God to make a difference not to get rich by taxing your people but to be a servant of your people to take care of your people to give your people the educational opportunities like your great-grandfather did but they can appreciate the beauty the depth of Judaism to be a nation that's a role model A light into the Nations is your other great grandfather Isaiah ishaiah Navi said and they challenged him and they pushed him and this young man you know you want to call it uh adolescent Rebellion or adolescent autonomy and Independence this young man acted very differently than his father and grandfather and under the nurturing guidance and mentorship of these kohanim he started to clean up the country what do we mean by that he did a number of things and where you get a very clear description of all of this is the haftorah that we in the diaspora say on the second day of pesach it's the story of the Jews coming to yerushalayim to observe Passover under yoshiyahu's leadership it hadn't happened for six decades because they fixed up the roads they cleaned up the idols I mean he took down all these private altars you have to understand that was an incredible business I mean I I don't mean this to be harsh because it's going to sound the wrong way I don't mean it that way go into a place like Borough Park or a place like Muncie and shut down all the Steeples I mean you're affecting a whole industry it's this red Biz business this guy's the guy by you know this guy's running the catering you know you're shutting down a whole industry there and tell the people listen come to Major schools work together as a nation don't have everyone Mark Shabbos everyone making their own Sabbath doesn't work that way well that's what he did and when you do that you clean up the avodazara because if I have my own show and I got my own private going I'm stripping him some money you know giving him you know business on the side to to to basically appease me and to ingratiate himself to me it's great you know I serve a good kiddish afterwards everybody's happy and he shut down all the nonsense all the avodas are that was going on throughout the length and breadth of the country he was not very popular you could imagine for doing that but it was the right thing to do something else he cleaned up the court systems they only appointed dayanim judges who were worthy of being judges who not only were Scholars but were people of Integrity people who didn't need money weren't doing it for for a job and people who had Sheamus Who had who had actually served under other great Diana so now if I have an issue a business issue with you if I have a labor issue with you now I feel comfortable going to the courts you can imagine and this was his mistake and and I want to say this think about us as human beings when we're in our 20s and that's a function of the development of the Mind the maturation of the Mind the world is very black and white think about a kid coming back from a year or two in Yeshiva everything is clear everything it's it's black on white what happens to us in our 30s our 40s our 60s our 80s the world becomes more nuanced more subtle and more gray and when our kids coming back from Israel they say like how can you tolerate these inconsistencies how can you tolerate these hypocrisies we I'm not saying we're always right the way we see it but we see people you know with layers we see 31 Flavors within one person we don't see human beings as black and white and although the person may talk and shul or the person may not do this but we see the other aspects of that person and we see the totality and we realize that people are not simple they're not all good they're not all bad and you have to understand and appreciate the the gray the Nuance the subtlety Yoshi Yahoo is a fairly young leader and he believes that he's turned the world turned the corner now we're going to read the kinna but the kinna that the Khalia writes uses a medrishnaika because what would the people do a use of an analogy when we lived in Beverly Hills people came from all over the world most people were not born in Beverly Hills they were they had moved to Beverly Hills and you know people became Californians there's a certain California mentality so whether you were from Cleveland whether you were from France whether you were from from Oregon you became a Californian but you know what the guys from Brooklyn never became Californians you know that phrase you can take the boy out of Brooklyn you can't take Brooklyn out of the boy you can smell them you can see them you can a mile away you know it's like a reformed cigarette smoker they can smell the smoke in the air they've got like the bionic nose you know they can smell well the guy from Brooklyn you could Point them out you can take the boy out of Brooklyn you can't take Brooklyn out of the boy that's just the nature of them well I'll say the same thing here you can shut down the private altars you can shut down the avodazara but you're not gonna take 62 years of culture and Heritage out of these people they're not like putty that they can flip on a dime that was his mistake he thought he could change him think about now use two famous immigrations that we have here to America contrast the Iranian the Persian Jews who came after the downfall of the Shah of Iran with the Soviet Jews the Jews who came we call them the Brezhnev Jews the Jews who came in the 70s here we meaning through the federations throughout the length and breadth of North America we spent a fortune of money we gave those kids free day school education and we failed miserably acculturating those Jews into mainstream Judaism I'm not even talking about being Orthodox I'm talking about mainstream Judaism just becoming part of the community you know observing seder Hanukkah participating in in Zionist activities we failed miserably with them on the other hand look at the Iranian Jews go to Great Neck go to go to Los Angeles they've done a much better job maintaining Judaism Jewish values in continuing the legacy of the Jews then we the ashkenaza community have done in America granted they came later we came either before or after the Holocaust they came in the late 70s early 80s but they've done a much better job you know why because in Persia you had a Jewish community your Muslim neighbors let you know that you were Jews and there was a Jewish Family and there's a Jewish Community Etc so even though they've been uprooted from from possibly two three thousand years not three but two thousand years of Persian Jewish history in the case of some of them in the case of others 1500 years of Persian history they've done fairly well here as Jews not so with the Soviet Jews because you can take the boy out of Brooklyn you can't take Brooklyn out of the boy these was three generations raised on the the Bible is a bunch of stupid fairy tales what rational thinking human being with a scientific background would believe fairy tales about creation would believe fairy tales about floods and all kinds of nonsense like that that's how these people were educated now all of a sudden they're supposed to become Jews now all of a sudden they're gonna inculcate 3 000 years of Jewish history I'm sorry go back to avramadine four thousand years of Jewish history they're going to inculcate Jewish valves of sadaka what do you mean sadaka you try to shake down anyone in everything because that's what people do to you and that's what the government does to you now you're going to say no you should give you should pay your taxes properly you should be totally honest in terms of how you report your income you can't do that after 62 years of communism you should give 10 minimum of your net income to others what am I the world sucker you understand you can't change people they don't change on a dime why am I saying this that was the mistake Yoshi Yahoo made so the description is the following imagine to your home it's not one door or it could be one door but let's say it's two doors so if it was two doors the image the idol half is on one door half is on the other as long as the door is open no one knows that there's an idol engraved on the back of the doors meaning the back of the door is facing inside the house or let's say you had one door half the image is engraved you know on the wall next to the door half on the door no one knows that no one can see that when it's open so when the from police come in to check to make sure do you have any idols they don't even realize what the what's behind them they don't even realize what's there that's how they dealt with him now why are we describing this because of what's about to happen Israel and we see it today we are in the midst little Israel of two Titanic forces Shia Islam which has never been as strong as it is today as a function of the mulas in Iran and Sunni Islam and we're in the middle because we're the only ones who have a chance of preventing the Shia caliphate from emerging in taking over Saudi Arabia taking over Egypt and taking over Sunni Muslim nations historically we've always been in the middle what were we in the first half of the the history of Israel we were the so to speak the the Battleground between the Soviet Union and the Soviet Weaponry that was being employed in Egypt and in Syria and the West the United States of America Freedom democracy Western Civilization well it was no different in Tanakh you always had a great Empire we'll call it the southern Empire what was the southern Empire mitzrayim now please let's define the word mitzrayim it doesn't mean Egypt Egypt is a small country in North Africa that's been living the last four decades off of American foreign aid before that it lived three and a half decades on Soviet foreign aid mits Ryan is the northern third of the African continent mits Ryan is Egypt it's Libya it's the Sudan it's the Nile River Basin going as far south as black Africa it goes all the way down towards until you get to Eritrea that was the Great Southern Empire the Great Northern Empire is what we call the Mesopotamian Empire so sometimes it was a ram a ram today you and I would call Syria turkey at the time that we're speaking about it's Usher Assyria what's Assyria huge swaths of today's Iraq turkey and today's Syria it was a massive Empire after Usher Falls it becomes Bothell which of course is Iraq and parts of Turkey so you always had a great Mesopotamian we'll call that the northern Empire and yet a Great Southern Empire what is between those two major Titanic forces in Antiquities tiny little Israel I'm using the Latin term the Via Maris how do you get from Africa into Asia how do you get from Africa into Europe how do you get from Africa into Mesopotamia and vice versa you have to go via Maris you have to go through Israel three ways if you're an individual like avraham avinu like yaakov avinu you can follow the natural little cracks in the mountains today and all of you have been on this road there's something called Highway 60 where it goes up to Patel it goes I think it goes through xilo goes through yushalayim South it goes to Bethlehem that goes to Chevron that Highway 60 that's a natural crevice that cuts through the mountains so that's what avraham did that's what yaakovino did what happens so if you're a massive Force if you're an army you can't use that you can't get your equipment through there what do you use two choices either what's known as Dara you and I called the Jordan Valley right the Jordan Valley that's flat flat you can get through but here's the problem the Jordan Valley you cannot Traverse with that many people and that many animals half the year it's too hot you'll be scorched you'll be parched it's not going to work so what's your other option what's the only other flat area all of Israel's mountainous with the exception of the the fire the Eastern side of Israel is the Jordan Valley right and then the western part of Israel that we call today they call it the gustan we call the Sharon the Mediterranean Coast along the Mediterranean the Gaza Strip that whole area is flat and there's also water I'm not referring to the Mediterranean that's salt water I'm talking about there's there's water in that area so that is the way that a military would take now very nice that I can get from Africa through the Mediterranean Coast I can get North but eventually I have to turn in I have to cross Israel to get into Mesopotamia where do I do that or if I'm coming from Mesopotamia to get to Africa where do you do that well you're all familiar with Israel the Jezreel Valley amek Israel is nice and flat right how do you get in there where do you cross you don't you're not going to cross the Carmel Mountain Range that's too difficult there's something that to this day you see the signs when you're on the highways in Israel it says megido Junction right megido megido Junction by a show of hands how many here have heard the word Armageddon right where does the word Armageddon come from it comes from the word megido what's at the megiddo junction if you and I today were to go to the megiddo junction there's a really interesting archaeological site there you know what you see horse stanchions initially massive massive barns were built with stanchions for horses by Muhammad what we see is the expanded version of it under King akhav under now no one got particularly excited when I said horse stanchions right I mean it's one thing if we're dealing you know with our friend Mr zayak you know with special breeding you get American Pharaoh but what's the big deal of a regular horse here's the issue you know what a horse was the horse and Antiquities was your tank that was your Implement of War why would King Solomon why would king ahav have thousands of horses stabled in megiddo because that's going to be the point of the battle that's where whether it's a African nation like mitzrayim coming north wants to cut through your land or whether it's a Mesopotamian Nation once it comes South The Junction is always going to be Armageddon the megiddo junction what does yoshiyahu have he gets a message from the leader of the Southern Empire para Nicole Pharaoh is a generic term was actually um a little bit crippled you know he was it was he had a Napoleon complex he was a kind of guy who was a kid who was never going to be you know picked to be on the football team or on the basketball team because he had a hob leg and you know those people watch out when they get older they always have this agenda they always want to you know get their comeuppance their Vengeance for the fact that as a kid they were the they were left out or they were the schlemel that's what power on the hall was he was a tough tough leader he sends a message to yoshiyahu the righteous yoshiyahu who I just want to mention parenthetically also with the help of the Prophet yermi Yahoo brought back many of the Exiles from the ten lost tribes he was able to restore a number of them to bring them back to Israel to live in Israel under his leadership so he sends the following message to yoshiyahu I'm coming through your land to attack the northern Empire I have no quarrel with you but don't you stand in my way because if you do I'll squash you I will not affect you I will not hurt you I will not hurt your people but stay out of my way yoshiyahu says I don't have the luxury of being neutral in this because if I allow Paro nacho and the Egyptian or the mitzri military to Traverse Israel on its way to Mesopotamia that is also a declaration of war you know why that's a declaration of war because that's not a neutral statement that's an act ual sense to be to be Harvey with the mitzrim and he was of the opinion that the stronger Empire was the Mesopotamian Empire Usher and that he's going to get squashed when Usher takes Vengeance on the Jews and he tells no the Pharaoh of says you better get out of my way or else hear me Yahoo at this time this is the beginning of yeremiahu's role as a leader as a navi of the Jewish people he comes to yoshiyahu and he begs him to stand down not don't don't take on the pharaoh now why was yoshio so confident that he could do this there's a famous verse that we'll read in a minute in the Kina from the first that we read before shavuas of the Cosi where there's a whole description if the Jewish Nation conducts herself in line with our nature and we act in a perfected way what does the key to say not only does it say we will have Shalom peace but later on it says the sword shall not Traverse Your Land so everybody says wait a second you just said the almighty God just told us we're going to have peace what are you adding by saying what in addition are you accomplishing by saying that Rashi says shalom even the sword of Peace what's the sword of peace imagine the situation again it's not something that's a reality but just create this fantasy in your mind imagine you live in Detroit Michigan and coming through the Windsor Tunnel is the Canadian Army the massive sounds of Caterpillar diesel engines of the Canadian tanks and those tanks are now going to go on Highway 75 and they're going to travel through Detroit through Cincinnati through Louisville Kentucky on their way down to Mexico that's not something that would make us feel comfortable even if there's no battle between the United States and Canada imagine what the citizens of Detroit are going through as tens of thousands of Canadian Forces are are traveling through their City the people of Cincinnati the people of Louisville Etc that issue is what he felt since he had eradicated all the avodazar at least in his mind not knowing what was going on privately since he had changed Jewish Education he had changed the courts he thought we were on the madrega on the level that shalom and that's why he did not feel he wanted the Jewish Nation to have to suffer the consequences from the Great Northern Empire by allowing Paro Nico to go through his land and he does not listen to your miyahu Jeremiah your meow listen you know you want to give it to Russia at Qatar Torah you'll speak to Rabbi bomb maybe he'll give you a slot and you can give a sheer you want to talk to the the cola over Panacea shurin to the boys you know we're learning over the summer okay you know we'll see we'll talk to everybody newburger maybe he'll give you a slot engage yourself in foreign policy don't sit and think you can determine military policy it's not your place yeah out of your league and he has the he stands up and tries to stop Miss Ryan at megiddo Junction and it's a Slaughter the Midstream Slaughter us a massive defeat and they take the king who is leading the troops and they set him up as a matara they set him up as is a target practice as a bullseye and the Egyptian archers they're pummeling his body with with arrows to make a mockery of him the last words on his breath you know he comes to a point where he cannot even articulate anymore he's like you know look you ever have that when you're parched you can get like a whisper sound out but you can't get words out what does he say Hashem God is the one who's not meaning God meaning what the the nivuah that your miyahu gave me and I rejected the nivuah of the army Yahoo and I told Jeremiah you know stay this is not where you belong this is not where you should have an opinion you have no say in this because I rejected that it cost me my life and it cost the life of of hundreds if not thousands of Jewish soldiers that summer that he was killed the summer of that war was the end of the shemitah year it was a shemit a year now what happens right after the shemitah year the famous Mitzvah that we do once every seven years haquel this is what happens I'm borrowing from Josephus but just as a proof not not because I think you can understand it logically the point everybody comes to Jerusalem for pesach because there's an obligation of Corbin pesach and you have you know there's there's a key of car race for someone who doesn't bring a carbon Tesla so that's going to be packed Josephus describes what the city was like you know teeming with with over a million pilgrims coming from the north the south from the diaspora you're not going to get so many Jews even though it's a Mitzvah to come for shavuas to yerushalayim if you live far away it's not like today where I can get in a car or take the train if you live far away to go back and forth you just were in yerushalayim for pesach now you're going to come back you know especially during the the height of the Agricultural season you're going to come back seven weeks later it's even gets so many sukkas was like half half because the issue with sukkas was this you have a situation where it's the end Gathering so agriculturally you're very busy on the farms but on the other hand you know it's six months since pesach so most of the time you would not get huge crowds for sukkas you would get you know maybe let's say half two-thirds of numbers you get for peso one year the year after shemikah the sukkas after shmita pact why the famous mitzvahkel Nation who needs to be there after they make of dollar they build a platform they erect the platform in the Ezra's Nation the Melech in this case yoshihau was the king plays the role so to speak of Moshe rabbana and they reenact in each generation their commitment to the Covenant the meleth reads these key sections from safer davarin what we're going to read this coming Shabbos ensure the aceres the reason that we're Jewish the sections of Jewish philosophy various key sections of devarim are read and who needs to be there not just the adult population not just the kids come there they've never seen anything like it because it's the one time in their life when you have the mass of Jewish people from the diaspora from throughout Israel unifying in one location at one time so instead of the whole world coming to learn Torah to reenact mahamad harsinai to observe the Mitzvah of which is what should have happened two months later three months later the whole Jewish world did unite did converge but unfortunately for a different reason to attend the funeral of yoshiyahu who was killed by the mitzrim and it's interesting many of us know the famous phrase after pesach three of the partios that we read AKA Remos ium and Amor so you know the phrase memoir after you're dead they talk about what a halogens you were they'd say how nice a person you are while you're alive they just eat your kishkas out they make your life miserable after you're gone that's when they first appreciate you all the cynics all the people who couldn't stand this guy taking away their avodes are a change in the court system shutting down their private Steeples they couldn't stand it after he was dead they appreciated what they had only then they appreciated who he was and who was masked him that has Spade the eulogy that was said we actually have it's the fourth chapter of acha in your meow used he had 22 ideas but the way that he said them he used each letter of the alphabet it was an acrostic Olive Bay's gimmel dalid hay what was the idea that your meow was doing in the hospital he's saying we can try to describe who Yoshi Yahoo was we can try to describe what yoshiyahu meant for us we're going to use every letter of the alphabet and there is no way that we can convey there is no way we can communicate the deprivation the loss of not having yoshiyahu say the following and we're going to read it again in the Kina the 22 lines the 22 you know statements of year miyahu that the people cried over that delayed the qurban base for 22 years Josiah yoshiyahu was the one man who could have prevented could have under his leadership turned the Jewish people around but with his death with his murder at the hands of the mitzri Met megiddo Junction it was affect the complete and 22 years later we would lose our yerushalayim lose our country lose our base of miktas and become refugees and that's why we mourn one individual just an aftermath which is not in the kinna no one expected Yoshi Yahoo to die he was healthy he was in his prime since there was no succession plan who takes over yakim bad news this guy was terrible I mean the Ghazal say you know if it was a function of the leadership the base of Victor should have been destroyed right then and there but the people were not that bad the people were better than their leader I mean just two things about yahoyaki first of all you know he went in essentially ingratiated himself to to Paro Nicole and the Egyptians you know basically sold away our any autonomy when yamiyahu tried to stop the activities of yakim and spoke to the people they couldn't kill yermiyahu because he was a navi that would have been too far so what did they do they they arrested him they incarcerated year miyahu in the khatsar matara in this underground prison today it's in the the east side of you know the East part of the Year Attica in yerushalayim so he was incarcerated from his prison cell what he does is from his prison cell is that he writes a scroll a megillah that he sends to the king now what was on that scroll because I'll say it was a nivuah the first the second and the fourth chapters of acha chapters one two and four and as they're reading the first chapter of the scroll he says enough of this garbage and he forces them to burn it you know that's a great way to deal with problems instead of dealing with it you know you you deal with the symptom right you know when you have a bacterial or a viral infection you get you get a runny nose or you have coughing you know what I'm going to take a baseball bat and smash my nose because it's running the running nose is not the cause of my problems that's a symptom the cause of my problem is is a viral or a bacterial infection so that's what does he do instead of dealing with the corruption which is the cause of his problems he burns the scroll he doesn't want to hear the message from your meow now you don't have to be a Freudian to understand what kind of uh character yahoyakim was but just one statement of hazal he tattooed on his male genitalia the yud Cave the ineffable name of God this is who the man is that's leading the Jewish people and you can understand that after yoshiyahu it was a precipitous downhill collapse so let's read the quinoa inside yoshiyahu again alluding to the fourth paragraph it was Year meow himself who said the kingdom meaning what this should come from the great meaning yoshiyahu himself was somebody who was an ideal Jewish leader with the exception by the way of the Purim story this was the greatest chuva Movement we ever had in Jewish history with the exception of the Purim story so the greats meaning throughout Jewish history people have to appreciate who he was foreign he was only an eight-year-old young man when he started to seek out God Bennett who are the descendants of Khan that's mitzrayim right as they encamped against him unfortunately the great Deeds the scolios that he had for turning around the Jewish world did not were not enough amongst all the Jewish leaders who stood up to be go there and so to speak to men the breach and the fence to to improve the Jewish people who no one was like him from the time of a victory anyone who's a Victor Moshe you know that his name was not Moshe we the Jewish people have this profound gratitude to the Egyptian royal princess to bitya she named emotion in Arabic Musa or Moshe Ki mean I drew him out of the water so we call him Moshe but his mother and father named him of Victor what does that mean there was no leader from the time of avigdor no one as great as yoshio wait a second what about shmuel hanavi what about David or hamell the description given by in the gemara about huskyo it says throughout the length in the throughout the length and breath of Israel the school children were not just learned in the basics but they were learned in the areas of Tomb of the Tara Tomb of the taras is abstract it's esoteric you know think about today if you have a Jew that really knows nashim nizikin and moeed well the gemaras and the halachic applications of those three areas of Shahs we call that person an amazing tomokum in the time of Yahoo he had had an educational system that was so good that that you had a situation where children were not only learned in Nash and ezekian and Moen but children were learned forget about adults in tumavatara so what do you mean Mimosa Vig door Lo come come over what what the khalir is saying is the following statement the khalir is saying this took over from Shaul and shmuel let's say the Jews were on a I'm making this up but let's just say they were an eight David and Malik took them to a nine malach took them to a tent okay Yahoo things were very bad because of his father achas so maybe they were down to a four and a half a five and then took it up to an eight an eight and a half when yoshio takes over it's a two it's a one there's rampant of odazara there's licentiousness there's corruption what the greatness of yoshiyahu is he may not have been his greatest David or we're not saying that what we're saying is his transformation where he took the people from where they were at no one had done that in all of Jewish history since Moshe Rabino who did Moshe inherit who was the group that Moshe LED these were primarily illiterate Pagan slaves and Moshe transformed them into an educated thoughtful sophisticated Nation that would be in Orlando no one since Moshe rabenu had taken I don't mean this literally but like a rag tag what I'm saying is people at a very very a nation at a very low level and turn them around no one had done that because what David inherited what inherited was a far far better Nation than what Yoshi Malachi inherited that's why the khalir describes him this way and again until the Purim story this was the greatest juva movement that ever existed in Jewish history until the Purim story this is the line we said what clung to him the sin of the mockers you know the ones who kept their their votazar in private in public you know we had his police searching it out but they they mocked him and they didn't like the fact that he was trying to change their world and change their life right it was it was built into the back of the door meaning what God did not extend his right hand so to speak the almighty did not protect him what's this referring to they had removed remember there was no books and Antiquities what did you have you had people studied and learned from a cloth from from Scrolls Taurus girl Navi scroll there was one scroll left in the basement that Menasha had not rid the Jews of what was it open to it was open to parshas kisavo what was written in parsha's kisado the famous Covenant that we have when the Jews entered a land of Israel post Moshe rabenu under yahushua binun they make their own Covenant the Jews under motion made the Covenant at mamad harsinai the Jews under Yeshua will travel to hargreizim and Hare Val and they'll make the famous Covenant there what does it say this is a whole series of Baruch this a person that does this and however the person that does that then the last of the twelve yakim isos now what's the word yakim it's the he feel it's the causative it doesn't say it says the ramban explaining that possock says it's referring to the melach who is responsible for the nation who is the one that implements policies that allow for Jewish Education allow for observance allow for proper courts to quote the the pasik about David Malachi that is the role of the Melech okay what's the point they said young man you are going to be in a position where if you fulfill this Baruch if not since you had the power you have the taxation power you have the government at your disposal to employ this you are going to be held responsible this is your job is to fulfill this concept and it shook him it traumatized him that they found one Torah and that Torah was open to this part of parsha's kisava and he viewed that as a challenge from the almighty he viewed that as an obligation and that is what he tried to fulfill all of his ears foreign when those from afar meaning from coming from the African continent they darkened his his beautiful perplexion as is a consequence for those Jews who rejected the juven movement who rejected the changes that he was instituting meaning the good ones so to speak the supposedly the Ally that was our friend sent this message the Egyptians annihilated the hamon the masses of Jewish Soldiers the large volumes of members of Jewish soldiers as they were going through our land the Via Maris to get to aramnaharayam which is Mesopotamia foreign because as unfortunately yoshiao made the mistake thinking that that his generation was worthy of that but it wasn't Lo shamala Jose he didn't listen to The Seer what's the Seer the navi he didn't listen to the navi your meow LA shuvacharim to back off and to let the mitzrim through him again from the sin of behind the doorposts the vision of the man from anatot who is that Jeremiah Year meow lived in today I think you guys you and I would call it uh piscazel you know the northern suburbs of yerushalayim that was part of the beginning of mate bin Yamin that's where Jeremiah lived hear me out was a KOA he lived within a fairly close proximity of the base of miktush but so the the vision of the man of Anatole Le vazos when the battle took place at megido unfortunately he was not he his Julios were not worthy of him being saved thy yoru hayorim that's the Egyptian archers they sent the arrows into his body odenu oat same his eyes had already closed you know he was about to die and they're still sending arrows into his body as we said they grabbed him and they set him up as like a bullseye for for a target practice for the Egyptian archers they aimed at him and they sent at him 300 arrows who Sadiq who adonoi kimarisihu this is what we had mentioned after they stopped sending the arrows into his body it was a Jew who was allowed to come over to him and he could no longer get out loud words he couldn't articulate but he could just get the breathish what did he say what was the ruach vasav what did they say who CeCe nof nof is of course Memphis it's one of the cities of of Egypt Ian this wonderful special man it just it's because of our sins he's no longer alive at his funeral was the fourth chapter the bitter bitter cup that we drink at megiddo ing it was what it was the summer at the end of the shemitah year we were on the verge a couple months later of all coming to you shall I am to hear him teach Torah at hakkal foreign as a function of the fact that the Jewish people had here hurray chuva when yarmi Yahoo was masked him when the whole Jewish people came together it's suspended for 22 years from uprooting the foundations from destroying the base of mignus Osos tragically my joy was transmuted into letters of labent at the time that I forgot the one who created me I thought that he would shelter me forever but I act wickedly was expelled in my shelter the base of miktush is now forsaken the next Kino we're going to do is also dealing with individuals it's the 21st Kingdom if you have the Missouri of the rabbi salaveichik it's 4 15. if you have the art Scrolls page 248 415 and 248. what is the story of this so just a little bit of background twice a year we the Jewish people deal with the Assad one is Yom Kippur much more elaborate Ayla eskara the second is what we're about to read now our Zay alevanon The Cedars of Lebanon Yom Kippur is a day of atonement it's a day of capara and we know that what Misa Sadiq is we'll have to explain what does that what does that mean the death of the righteous of tones I mean that sounds very Christian what do we mean when the Jews say mises we'll get to that but the focus there which is not discussed here in in understand the medrish of Ayla escara that we read on Yom Kippur it's a fictitious madrish what do I mean it's a fictitious it didn't literally happen you understand the first two of the ten Martyrs are who it's ready smile the kohengodo and Robin schimmon Ben gamliel the Nasi of the Sanhedrin they were killed during The Siege of Jerusalem in the late 60s the other eight that we're about to read about ready the other eight were killed when during in Def they defied the hadrianic decrees in the aftermath of the barkah genocide which happened let's say in the mid to late 130s the Roman procouncils with the support of Hadrian the emperor enacted decreed a member of decrees that would hopefully stop Judaism because as long and this was something let me give the backdrop the judeo-christians were very anti the mainstream Jewish Community they went and they went to the the ruling Roman parties and said look the Jews will continue and continue to Rebel the Jews will continue and continue to revolt what you need to do is the following you got to stop Jewish Education because then the Jews will assimilate it'll become like America when there was no Jewish Education and the majority of the population assimilates and becomes like everyone else they won't keep their uniqueness they will not keep their distinctiveness and what they did was they prohibited Jewish Education no Jewish Education that's what we'll talk about were killed in defiance of that they prohibited the smika the transmission of ordination so we know who are the leaders who we can go to for guidance who we can go to for sakalaka who we can go to to Define for us and teach us what Jewish values are Jewish principles are so they stopped all of this and these eight were killed in defiance of those Adriatic decrees but you understand that's 70 some years later didn't happen with the exception of rebecciva none of the other ate even knew Rabia smile they didn't even know Reuben montgomlio so when you get anyom Kippur in Ayla eskara that the ten have been convened to determine what happens when the Jews you know abducts a fellow Jew and then they sell him and they respond what the is it's an explicit and the Roman pro-council's response is that is what's going to happen to you because your ancestors did that to your brother Joseph you will pay for the crime that they committed now of course what is the point of that matter that story never happened literally it's an idea what the medrish is teaching us is the following sin of the generation of the Jews during the Roman destruction the sin was the sin of sinners intra-jewish hatred into Jewish animosity we call it sinas Achim and not that the were guilty of it they were not guilty of it but as the leaders of the door the leaders of the generation they're responsible for the sin of the generation and they bear the weight of the sin of the generation that's the idea of their and what we're trying to atone for on Yom Kippur it's a day when we're trying to change it's a day when we're trying to become different Jews different individuals a different community what we are trying to atone for is the sin of and by the way we're extremely vulnerable today what's happening in Israel and this is not an issue of being able to protest for what you stand for that's fine to protest for what you stand for for your positions it's when it turns into personal hyperbole when it turns into personal hatred when Jews are ripping Jews apart that's a very very dangerous time that's when the Jews are vulnerable and that's what we're being atoning for on Yom Kippur here what's Tisch above we're not at a point of of introspection and reflection and Analysis and commitments right now Tish above every one of us whether you have parents or you don't have parents that are alive every one of us is in Shiva it's not just that we're in Shiva this is before Shiva right now we're reliving the tragedies we're reliving the slaughter of Yoshi AWA Melech we're reliving the slaughter of the kohim guttle of the Nasi and of those who defied the hadrianic decrees we're at the funeral their dead body is laying in front of us the kid knows whether it started the Mater came the license to do this came from yemiyahu through the khalir through the great medieval pythonium the dead is lying in front of us right now the dead body of rebecciva is lying in front of us right now the the beheaded body of Robin shiman bengalil the fun of this is an experience of avalis right now Yom Kippur is different Yom Kippur you have a broader perspective you're not in the Heat and the pain of re-experiencing and reliving the tragedy by the way the fact that we do this and right I'm alluding to the minute ashkenaz that we have we're starting with Shiva azabatamas every one of us whether we have parents alive or not go into a modality of yudhas we're building up towards tissue starting Rush kodesh we go into a modality of shloshim and we observe the the denim of shloshim and not only that we have menagashkanas there's no meat or wine during that period from moving forward in men today we go into a modality of Shiva but before you can say Shiva you understand there has to be a loss and the law says we relive the tragedies of Jewish history why we're going to get to later why and Tisha both what is what is silica it's not the destruction of a building that's not what we're Mourning but we'll get to that with later kinos so that's what's experiencing here now I just want to one story that we cannot prove we don't know if it's historically this is it actually happened or not but this is the Jewish Legend when Napoleon and keep in mind Napoleon's biggest mistake is he had never lost a battle you know we conquered the Middle East he conquered huge swaths of of Italy of other parts of Europe he decides he's going to conquer Russia he conquered good parts of Poland but now he's getting into zyrus to Russia that part of Poland and he starts going into the baltics into Belarus and this story supposedly took place as he's moving forward east of Poland into Belarus before he gets into Mother Russia what we call White Russia where the salavatics are from brisk you have pinsk mints these great cities in belarusia from there from Robin so it's like a Tuesday morning it's a weekday and he goes through a community a Jewish community no one's working it's the summer no one's out on their Farms they're in the synagogue and they're sitting on the floor they're not even sitting like in a respectful manner like you would have in a church they're on the floor and they're wailing and they're saying he didn't know what kinos were but he's thinking to himself my eye what is this he sends one of his soldiers in and apparently there was someone in the community who knew enough French that he could communicate with the officer and he described not that we are commemorating the events of Jewish history you described that each year we go into a state of Shiva of morning and we relive and we re-experience just like say or night we relive and we re-experience you and I are in Shiva right now we're in attending the funerals right now we're reliving the tragedies right now and that's how this litfish a Jew in Belarus described it to the colonel and the French Colonel goes back and he reports to Napoleon Bonaparte and the way that the story has it Napoleon purportedly said and he was believe me to get Napoleon was an anti-semite that I it's not for Tish above I can prove that to you I can tell you the story of the of his creation of the Sanhedrin what his goals what his agenda was Napoleon supposedly said people that relives and re-experiences Jerusalem and their tragedies that it's not a figment of their memory but it's a reality people like that that does not forget that continues to relive ultimately that people will return to their Jerusalem and re-experience and relive their Jerusalem story is true it's the one time Napoleon Bonaparte said something nice about the Jews yeah I mean that was a nebula and that has been the secret to our history that's why we have survived these four thousand years just like we relive our Liberation we relive our independence we relive what shaped us and made us into a people because we never forget what brought about our flaws our downfall our destruction and that's a reality and that's the sugar so what happened think about what the Germans did when they came into Poland the Holocaust in Poland did not start September 1st 1939 when when the Vermont and then the SS enter Poland the Holocaust in Poland started in March of 1942. it was laid out in Von C on January 20th 1942 but it started in March in belgius in silver board and in Treblinka treblink I don't think started operating until June or July one thing did happen in Poland starting in 1939. when the SS came into certain cities they would ask for the rabbi they would ask for the president of the community and they would take them out and publicly kill them in front of the townspeople they didn't kill the Jews that Annihilation started in 42. but they would kill the leadership because that's important you want to break down you want to undermine a people you cut off the head of the snake that's how they viewed us as a snake you cut off its head and that's what they tried to do here who were the two religious leaders of the nation the head of the Sanhedrin the nursing and the calling you have the educational branch of the government not that it was a government because the Romans really controlled us but you have the educational institutions you have the legislative institutions and you have the judicial institutions because the Sanhedrin is the Judiciary it is the legislator and the Kahuna is the educational branch es alive and they executed the two of them now there's an interesting I think it's the small I think it's a different and on the posseck of what happens that if we afflict the orphan and the Widow the orphan and the Widow again are someone who doesn't have someone championing their cause and they feel all alone then what happens our wives become widows our children become orphans so as they're waiting to be executed says to rabi Ishmael how can this be how can this happen you know the way that we're being killed I want to know in terms of doing chuva before I die what did it what did we do wrong so the coin goddesses let me ask you to follow in question the love used to cloak this let me ask you the following question I'm sure you never ever Afflicted an orphan or a widow not not willingly but you were a very busy man you're responsible for the nation everyone in everyone in anything is coming to you is it possible that there could have been someone you know who knows in your waiting room where the secretary told them to sit and wait who had an issue and you were dealing with other issues you didn't even know they were there but they sat and they thought gee if I was a somebody if only I were someone you know he would take my case instead they sat all alone waiting and waiting responds to the coin guttle he says yes he said not only is that very possible that thing could have happened where unwillingly I was the cause of pain and hurt of a forlorn widow or a forlorn orphan he says you've consoled me now I understand so what happened page 415 page 248. arzay halavanon why they called The Cedars of Lebanon by the way what are the Cedars of Lebanon that's the structure of the base of miktush these are the this is the basic makers because what's the purpose of the institution of abasamiktush the purpose of the institution of the mikdush is to con it's an institution that conveys the knowledge of God correct it's where we come to know the ways of the Almighty who better is a living three-dimensional base of mikdush then masters of the Torah ballet sin the mission of gamara why are they referred to as ballet tracing sort of cook has a line where he says the following if you and I are attacking each other let's say it's MMA right or UFC my goal is to get you down to defeat you right to hit you to attack you if you and I are arguing about a point and it's about my ego or your ego it's not the shame shame it's about our ego then it's all about you know me winning but if the purpose is what's the truth to determine what is the MS if that's the goal then if I come up with a thesis and I think it's a true thesis and you challenge you challenge my assumptions you seem to poke holes in it so my job is to defend the thesis if I think it's a true thesis that's Bali trace and shield bearers my goal is not to is not to attack you it's not to one-up you my goal is to defend the truth that's why they're called Bali tracin what's the difference between mishna and gemara mishna is the data that's the data of the tarshabalpa the facts what is gemara that's the analysis that's inductive reasoning that's linear analytical thought process that's application okay so these were might what does it mean Mighty and strength and see it's Rose as we say in perkiavos what does it mean that these were ghiborim what it means is these were people who were incredibly in control of their instinctual nature what enabled their intellectual Perfection and borrowing a term from the rambam and the maroon what enabled for their intellectual Perfection the Cena quanan was their psychological their emotional perfection these were extremely extremely moral people refined perfected people the description the rambam gives to you in hiljos deos that is who they were and that's what enabled for their greatness they toiled they toiled in a very pure way and their blood was spilled like water the nauseous giveura these are the ten and we'll see it was many more than ten we're actually going to spell out eight of the balajamasara and Yom Kippur we spell out ten but here we're going to spell out eight these are the ten that were executed by the Roman government it is for these that I cry to any negro again crying you know the Rev used to quote the rambam in helgas and just to just to build upon the point that we said in the introduction it says that someone who is Miss Abel yosemide Horizon tea page someone who is too excessive in their morning they've allowed their emotions to get the best of themes they're not functioning rationally why the rambam says it's Min Hugo show alum every one of us although we deny it I go through my whole life trying to deny it but if when I'm honest with myself we were all born to die we're all going to die whether we die at 40 60 80 100 that is the nature of the Human Condition from the time you know after the sin of Adam and kava we were born to die and it's a tragedy when anyone dies every human being if they've led a life thought of sensitivity so that human being is a living safe for Torah and we mourn it and there's a time for aninos there's a time for Shiva there's a time for shloshim and then there's a time when we take their loss and we take their memories and we use it as a catalyst as a springboard for how we lead Our Lives you know when we think of our parents when we think of our grandparents we think of the role models they were to us and what they've done for us and how it's made us who we are and we use we use our life as their continuity as their legacy but a person who has excessive excessive morning that's a when T page means a person who's controlled by their emotions that's a person who may be in depression and may need pharmacological help may need a therapist but what about here what does it say we never get over the loss of the slaughter of Rebecca the slog the burning of rebeccanina bentarajyan the execution of Rabbi Elizabeth Shamu in front of his family when he was making Kiddush on a Friday night every year we come back we're going to read it in the 23rd kinda each and every year we come back and we cry and that's it to quote the phrase from your miahu not only do we cry we get others to cry with us we mourn out loud we scream we moan we mourn why what about because go back to the other language of the random the nature of the world some of us die it may be from cancer some from cardiovascular disease some from other reasons okay it's not minha gosh to be wrapped in a safer Torah and burnt to death for teaching Jews Torah it's not minha goshalam to be taken to the Grand Coliseum in caesarea kesari and have iron Combs rent your flesh cut open your nerves break your shatter your frail bones when you're over a hundred years old that's not minha go shell Olam that's sick that's a Corruption of all morality that's a Corruption of of anything that's that is defined by human ethics that's a Corruption of humanity and for that we don't get over that's not something we can get over that is something we come back and we cry again and again and again and we relive and we re-experience again and again that's what is a theme that comes out in these kinos and that's what we're experiencing now he may I'm sorry even mentioning this even talking about this um that's a paraphrase from what Mordechai did when he heard about the impending Annihilation and genocide of the Jewish people throughout the Persian Empire now what is azak not just that I am crying I evoke others to cry with me the most precious of the Jewish people clay hakodesh what does it mean there meaning their very personas transformed it wasn't like a regular human body they were transformed into that's how perfected they were they were our crown they were our pride and joy all their intentions were pure kadashim these were the holiest of the Holy but yet their Slaughter was a horrific vicious Slaughter you do go around me richon the hair of barura the two the the Nasi and the coin godo neither of them wanted to see the other be slaughtered each of them would rather preferred to die first and watch their their peer their friends be slaughtered he's the lottery ends up that he's the first that will be slaughtered this is why he cried we talked about that that was what the Rev was alluding to he wasn't sad that he was going to die he wasn't afraid to die he was sad that what did he do what sin did he commit that he didn't know that he would like to do chuva for that allowed for such a horrific you know a guillotine you know a decapitation like this foreign so the descendant of Aaron the coin god of your smile he was crying over this natalus rosha we took by the way how can a Cohen do this pick up the decapitated head what about you know Thomas mace it's the answer what's the obvious answer to this question this is a mace Mitzvah there were no other Jews there this is a mace Mitzvah and not only that by definition he is becoming tummy mace because he's in the same room of the decapitated dead Nasi rebelio natalus rosho he takes the the head he puts it on his lap ahora this pure precious Menorah what did he mean by that what did he mean by that this is the Nasi the head of the Sanhedrin who is articulated who's been teaching the principles of Judaism enlightening Jews throughout the throughout his life Pinto like that he was here one second and now he's gone Pito nickname I apologize I I skipped so enough the coingada puts his eyes towards the dead eyes of Rabbi shiman of his mouth to his mouth he calls out and he says this mouth that was so great in Torah peace home immediately like like he was here just a minute ago now it's gone he's left us nicknus our love and he was killed with such a Misa mishuna such a terrible horrific death foreign you know the background and we're gonna when we read the 23rd kinna we'll see this genetically continued through the generations an incredibly handsome you know like those women's magazines Cosmopolitan they would have had a picture of him on the cover incredibly handsome man the daughter Pro Council in a sort of erotic disgusting way you know she was just enamored with the good looks of the coin guttle and she asked her father I would like a bust for me to look at you know and get excited about so they literally they peeled the skin I mean this is horrific they peeled the skin layer by layer off of his face and they're going to take that skin and put it on a bust that she can look at and get her excitement over I mean this is the death of the coin guttle Siva La half s rosho hamela the melody here doesn't mean that the Roman Caesar it means the means the pro-counsel VES with a with a sharp razor kiamba Oro um from ishaiah Navi and it was fulfilled horrifically through this kind God Russia opposite the Executioner who's peeling off his skin as he Gale him come to fill in Mitzvah when he gets to the part on the forehead where the villain was worn Vinnies he didn't cry out from pain because he would have been crying out from pain he would have been crying long before this but he yells out and at this point he realizes he'll never be able to wear the miniature safer Torah that we call the till in charrosh that special shame Hashem the miniature seafret Torah that we wear on our own body in service of the almighty he won't be able to do that and literally the the the the Earth shook from that cry mode so the Heavenly voice the bicycle says may his Merit stand for Generations I have to tell you we who read the 21st kinna every Tish above you know I just have in mind when we put on filling what an incredible exclusive is to be able to wear a miniature safer Torah on our own body on our own mind that our mind should be driven by these values of Hashem the knowledge of God what an incredible Mitzvah that is in an opportunity and blessing we're given and you see how the coin God will appreciated that now when we say if we don't mean the next we mean 60 some years later 68 years later comes Rabbi Akiva okay you know the description of Rabbi Akiva what does it mean in okerharram he's incredible analytical mind you know I have the blessing of listening to the recordings of rabbi salaveichik I have the blessings sometimes of learning with people you know a ravaran Khan a review boxed there are certain people their mind is so razor sharp there are many people who have very good minds and they organize things well and they know the data and things are clear but when you get a those of you had the chance to learn by refarnus you have a mind that is so analytical that is so clear that that has a certain linear analytical ability just the Torah becomes three-dimensional the Torah Comes Alive it it's no longer words it's just it's profound the rev the Rev had that ability to do that with his mind and his ability to communicate that was review Kiva he could literally uproot mountains he could uproot mountains with his mind and he would take what was garbled what was confused what was gray what was a cloud and he would grind it up and come up with the finest of flower that was Herbie Akiva and what did they do to him as Bizarro misarkim the massrek you know this was not a one-time thing he was an old old man and every day and they forced the Jews to sit there in the in the cotton many of you have been to that Coliseum they would take these iron Combs that would wrench his flesh wrench his flesh break it up crush the bones you know we know the story of the very last time they did it because he expired he died but they did this for a number of days these were you know there's a reason hazal referred to Rome as malcosa Rashad the evil empire before President Reagan we had that term we're you know when you think about what they did in the aftermath of the barkah revolt it was so horrific the Romans themselves did not allow records to be they didn't allow this to be recorded this is not a history they were proud of you know when they defeated the Jewish people the first time in the war that started in 66 up in gamla and the Golan Heights came through the Galilee the three-year Siege of yerushalayim from 68 to 70. the final battle where the Jews committed suicide in 72 in Masada they had their own chronicler Josephus flavius he was the chronicle they were proud of this the war against the Jews the Jewish Wars what happened after they get feedback there is a genocide let me repeat that again it is a genocide we don't even know the introductory claims that there was 800 000 Jews who were butchered and slaughtered by the Romans okay imagine what eight hundred thousand people was at that time in history that was the large large majority of Jews living in Israel I'll use an analogy if you're polish you pronounce it posed none if you're German you called Posen that was the city the famous city where rebe Akiva what made it famous Rebecca Egger was the rub of Posen okay he was the guadal hador so in 1943 Hitler the head of the SS the head of the Gestapo he takes the various officers of the SS who have been engaged in the annihilation of the Jewish people on the European continent the head of the SS in Lithuania where there's no Jews left because in 41 they went town by Town Village by village with the help of the Lithuanian free army creating mass Graves there were only three communities where even a ghetto was but they had all been murdered vilna shaval and kavana but but the Jews of vilna were taken out the panari forest and murdered there in the what happens when the Soviets controlled that part of Lithuania they built the storage tanks for petroleum petroleum storage takes so the Jews were murdered there there were 90 000 people murdered seventy thousand of them were Jews in panari forest in these these petroleum pits those of you who've been to kovna there were a series of forts that when the Russians could when it was part of Cyrus Russia they built around the city and most of the Jews were taken out to the ninth Fort and murdered some were taken to the seventh I apologize some to the seventh that's where Rebecca and Wasserman was killed most of the ninth Fort were taken out and murdered in Chapel so there's no Lithuanian jewelry there's no Latvian jewelry they were taken out to Romulus Forest about six kilometers from Riga they were marched there from divine's dog this bill they were taken and murdered they killed off all the Jews in Latvia one of the very few Latvian Jews who survived was Mark Friedman's father our own Mort Friedman who's a who was a member here who is president of aipac his father was a Latvian Survivor they killed them all off by the end of 41 they had to bring in literally thousands and thousands of Jews from Germany and in Austria because they needed slave laborers they couldn't use the Latvian Jews because they were all dead they're all murdered so they brought in Germans and austrians my great aunt is one of them she ends up that one of the ways that she survived is she was the cook for a man by the name of Edward rashman you ever hear of that there was a it's a it's not worth seeing but it's a fictional story based on his life it's called the Odessa file you ever hear that movie The Odessa file he was the commandant of kaiservault Camp outside of rigalatvia and it had other subcamps Salah spills and so the Latvian Jews were dead in honor of Hitler's birthday they had annihilated they were not a lot but all the Estonian Jews in 41. the Polish Jews had all been killed by late 40 by by mid-43 I apologize it started in 42 but but already by the spring and summer of 43 there were no polish Jews alive the only ones who were alive were Jerry weinreich's parents they were slave laborers in the lodge ghetto and a few polish Jews who uh who who they were babies who were being raised as Christians that's the only ones who survive they were all dead they'd almost killed off all the Dutch Jews and they take them to a place called westerborg westerborg was a uh a train station there was a camp it was basically you were you were held in westerborg for usually about three to seven days on Tuesdays from westernport there would be a train that would go to sobibor where they would murder the Dutch Jews and on Fridays would be a train that would go to auschwansen to birkenau where they would murder them so they were all killed the French Jews under Vichy they didn't take those who were Native French anyone who was not native French meaning Germans polish Jews who had had fled to France the French who supposedly stand for egalitarianism Liberty and fraternity the people of Liberty and fraternity sent their Jews to Auschwitz so they they were dead the Italians after the revolt against Mussolini and the fascists the Germans came in many of you seen the film The Garden the fincy cantinis all the Italian Jews were sent to Auschwitz the Greek Jews already in 42 had been sent to Auschwitz the only ones alive in Europe at this point were the Hungarian Jews the Hungarian and some of the Slovakian Jews so Himmler brings you know brings the various leaders who was the head of the Lublin section of Poland what was his name uh Stan the Mossad got him in South America I'm forgetting that the butcher in Latvia you know the one who oversaw Lithuania all the heads of the SS and he gathers them the leadership they need imposing or the Polish call it posenai this is October of 1943. he says the following to them we have done the holiest Act we have done something that history will thank us for the next Thousand Years but it's an event that we can never tell or talk about for a thousand years of course referring to the annihilation of the Jews of Europe and he says we have to eradicate we have to remove every trace of what we have perpetrated and at that point any Jew who was alive slave laborers they were sent to panari Forest to burn the remains of the ninety thousand seventy thousand then were Jews who had been buried in panari they were sent to Romulus the same thing in Latvia they were sent to Bobby R when during the osirisyamechuva in 1941 during two days 33 400 Jews from Kiev had been rounded up and been shot to death in the Ravine that we know is baviar they were sent to Treblinka in fact the last remaining prisoners of Treblinka and that's why there is a Revolt in Treblinka their job was to exhume and burn and remove any trace of the 892 000 Jews that were butchered were gassed to death in Treblinka the same thing in Belgium and the same thing in sober now they weren't able to do this and every little village in the Ukraine every little village in Lithuania that they weren't able to do but the major sites they removed and they removed all traces all remnants of the worst crime in the history of humanity that they perpetrated but never a word shall be said of this that is exactly the attitude the Romans had in the aftermath of the genocide of the Jews of Israel now please understand that Roman genocide in the aftermath of the barkah Revolt was the worst crime ever perpetrated against the Jews in our history until the Holocaust what I'm trying to say is if you and I did not live today let's uh let's make up that you and I lived somewhere in Europe or somewhere in North Africa or somewhere in Iraq in the 18th century in the 16th century in someone approached us they woke us up in the middle of the night from our sleep and they asked us the following question what was the greatest tragedy in Jewish history so today the answer obviously is the showah but if they asked us that before the showah no one would disagree laceman de Pauling no one would disagree the greatest tragedy in the history of the Jewish people was the Roman genocide of the Jews in the aftermath of the Barca revolt and that is where the Romans get the term that Ghazal ascribed to them the evil empire they slaughtered men women and children I have you know my problem is I don't have cassette players anymore I have a lot of cassettes at home I have hundreds of cassettes of Rabbi salovich I just need to find a tape recorder that can actually play them you have somebody you have one that works good so there's a share that the Rev gave to the balabatim in Boston at the maimonides school in May of 1970. and he was talking he says you know look at the gemara it describes the 24 000 students of redby Akiva says they died of ascaria so what do we assume ascaria we translate as diphtheria the theory is a pulmonological disease the Rev says that was Russian Sagi Nahar it was euphemistic language because the Jews cannot write down and record this history not just the Romans no one can record what happened 000 students which is another way of saying throughout the length and breadth of Israel from the northern Galilee down to the southern Negev those 24 000 students of Rabbi Kiva did not die of diphtheria they were amongst the eight hundred thousand they were the ballet hamasora they were the baliyama Sora but they were amongst the 800 000 that were slaughtered by the Romans in the aftermath of the Revolt in the Roman genocide and I found other acronyms subsequent to hearing this from the RAV satsal M Aramaic is a sword so it was a euphemistic way of saying that they were butchered they were slaughtered by the Romans and in this in the aftermath of this comes the hadrianic decrees against the again that was catalyzed by the judeo-christians and by and by the Heretics Alicia benavuya amongst them now comes the slaughter of the leadership of the Jewish people those Jewish leaders who are going I'm talking about religious leaders when I say leaders I mean religious leaders who are going to defy the hadrianic decrees fortunate are you fortunate are you that you will no longer it's it's like a different quality of human being your very body you know we said before they're clay hakodesh your very body is at the time and we'll see was 70 years old it was an incredible yerish your mind it was a person who used to fast all the time because of the Taurus of cloud Israel nerag he has executed the age of 70. if the hands of the the the cursed Wicked ones do to get executed remember if you don't have smika if you don't have the transmission of ordination to the Next Generation then there's terrible ambiguity there's terrible ambivalence who is the leadership of the Jewish people you don't know because any quack I mean think about what rabbiakovile did in the aftermath of the the Black Death at a Bubonic plague they instituted smika not not the real Smith I'm talking about our modern smika what was the goal someone gets Mika you know two things about them you actually know three things about them number one they actually understand and have knowledge of Judaism and if you ask them a question they can give you a thoughtful appropriate answer they know the and they know how to apply the number two they're not they're not a psycho they're emotionally and psychologically healthy and number three they're not a quack this is not the Kabbalah Center that's looking to manipulate you and play on your weakness and your frailties and that's very important because in the afternoon math of the Black Death you had all kinds of people claiming to be Jewish leaders in claiming to be the ones who will help rebuild the Jews from the devastation and they had to Institute a speaker so that you won't have amaratsim and you won't have manipulators and you won't have Disturbed people no matter how bright they are claiming to represent Judaism that's our modern ordination or speaker the real Smith that is a person who's a master of Kala torokula it's different than our ordination much more difficult much more complicated much deeper and you're going to lose who has who's entitled to be called a summer who is entitled to be called a rabbi because one of the decrees in the Romans would have never thought of this on their own this decree came from Jews who wanted to undermine Judaism this decree came from Arabia Alicia benavuya or from the judeo-christians who who knew this is the way to undermine the mainstream Jewish community and this is the gemara at the end of the first paragraph of Sanhedrin masecta Sanhedrin because the Romans said not only will we kill the massmir and the samur Not only will we execute the person that gave ordination the person that received ordination we will destroy the clo the town that the ordination took place in he took a number of young men from out of the Town into the hills of the Galilee and he gave them smiha somebody ratted him out to the Romans whether it was one of the judeo-christians whether it was an apostate Jew someone ratted them out and the Romans came to kill now they're all young who is in that group IE Mayer why is ready Mayer getting smiha from rabihood of binbava because if you remember in the aftermath of the 24 000 students of everykiva being killed in the Barca the post-genocide or the barkova revolt what does Rabbi Akiva do he goes he goes to the South and he takes five young men Pious righteous wunderkind bright outstanding young men rabbiosi bengalafta rabbi shiman I Rabbi Mayer and Rabbi Allah were about to read he's actually executed by the Romans but read the Yoshi bakalafta he's the one who writes the Seder Olam so that the masora of Jewish history is recorded thanks to rebiosi rebbe mayor Stan mishner Caribbean the essence of the Tarsha balpad is recorded through rebe Mayer ribby Shimon so if you believe that the Zohar the essentials are goes back to him he's the one who records the esoteric knowledge the Kabbalah he's also the author of The sifri and the cipra the mid-russian foreign he is the author of the Taurus kohanim the midrashim and vayikra did I leave anyone out we said so the point is that through these five men Judaism survived rabi Akiva had every right after seeing his 24 000 students slaughtered and butchered to die a broken depressed die of malaise as a broken old man he didn't he started from scratch with these five young and Judaism survived through these five now ready Mayer was probably the greatest of the five he was the youngest people couldn't didn't call him Robbie they couldn't respect him as a Robbie he looked too young it's funny you know when I I was a ready at Frisch I was the 12th grade read fresh and we were recruited to be the rabbi in Detroit so yeah whatever they had other candidates yeah probably because of my wife Yael not because of me they took me but they said you know this guy is so young he's so much he looks so yeah I looked young at 28. you know it was I think 27 or 28 looked young at that age and you know and he looks so young how can you know how we're in our 80s we're in our 70s how are you going to look up to a 27 28 year old so one of the guys says don't worry about it when we're through with him he'll be as gray as we are don't worry about it you know Debbie Mayer he was young and they couldn't they didn't see him you know is that a second time so that people will call him Rabbi you know they'll know that he is one of the Bali masala so so as the story is recorded in masaktus and hedrin the Romans are coming after them and the Romans are looking to slaughter them all they're young they they have enough Gap in space between them in the room they can run away but they don't want to abandon they don't want to leave the rebbe rebi who would have been Bubba who's frail who said yo today 70 years old look between Botox and plastic surgery and Viagra at 70 years old you're a spring chicken you know you can become a new father you can be anything you know today at 70 years old there's a time when 70 was 70. and put it mildly in a time already especially you've been fasting all the time for three years 70 was 70. okay and and he can't make it and he says to them the whole reason I'm risking my life the whole reason and doing this is so that there be a future a continuity to yiddishkite that the Missouri will continue you have to leave let me go you have to flee you have to escape and you have to continue them sorrow they flee they escape and review is brutally murdered now we have the spot there's an oh hell with uh it's very nice it's um what do you say how do they make like like the the material on um on like a tombstone this isn't the tombstone this is on the oh hell it's like plastered the gemara of Sanhedrin that tells this story is there now twice in my lifetime the Muslim Arabs in in the Galilee you know these are our supposedly they're supposed to be citizens of Israel they're supposed to have a respect like we respect them they're supposed to have respect for us so twice they've destroyed the oh hell of rabihood it's been rebuilt and re-established so the oh hell that you'll actually see if you go through the Galilee is very new the reason it's very new is we had to rebuild it when the Muslims with their disrespect destroyed it you know like like what they do in Shem the cover Yosef all the time but there we know where he was killed in in those mountains in the Galilee between the towns what does it mean he was an incredibly man of impeccable Integrity what does that mean he went above and beyond whenever it came to anything he went above and beyond the law at Sadiq is someone who observes the law correctly properly appropriately someone who goes above and beyond and that's who rebuhuda bin bhava was foreign it says he would gather together to people to learn in the gate unlike today you think about New York City what if you're if you're in the leadership of New York what do we want from business perspective you want people to come in the Lincoln Tunnel come through the George Washington Bridge come in the Holland Tunnel and you want them to experience 42nd Street you want them to experience Soho you want them to walk Fifth Avenue and walk Madison Avenue and Shop the streets on Madison Avenue right you want that you want them to be shopping in SoHo not online on Amazon but to experience do you you want them to eat the Chinese food in Chinatown you want them to taste the Italian food you know in in Little Italy that's today in Antiquities it was just the opposite you don't want to expose the innermost parts of the city because then people can come and attack and they'll know where to attack and how to attack what would happen in the morning they would open up the walls or the gates of the city the shaare Haier and the business people would take their Wares take them outside the gates of the city and they would set up shop there the court would conduct its business there there would be a place where the bacon would be what was the point everything took place at the Gate of the city because you didn't want Outsiders and strangers coming into the city so all the action was outside at the Gate of the city so he would go there that's where the people were makil kihilos ion Shara in the gates of Zion to get people to defy the hadrianic decrees to get people to continue Jewish Education that's what he would do okay okay Yoshi the dough rage for safer Torah emo well what does it mean is Yoshi vidorish you don't have books and Antiquities what text do you have you have Scrolls we've said it before you have you have cloth you have the the Scrolls of the navi the Scrolls of the Torah that's what he would use to teach they envelop him with a safer Torah they take kindling wood to start the fire so that his body the Torah will burn with him and in their sick cruelty instead of him burning to death quickly they took sponges of wool and they soaked them in water so it would slow down the fire slow down the burning so he would die and even slower more horrific painful death why were the Romans doing this this is to make a statement this is what happens to anyone who defies the hadrianic decrees you think you're going to do this now by the way this totally backfired what do I mean by that instead of the Jews being scared to death from the horrific murder of Yehuda benbava the horrific murder of Elizabeth you know what happened and this is an incredible this is a positive to being a stiff-necked people the stiff neck people we said rebia kiva's death should not be for naught he's going to be our role model we're going to follow in his footsteps and we're going to be makio kehilos pizzion Shara let their death not be for naught uh you know we say what do we say David Miller and that was their rallying point that was so to speak the flag that they bore and there was an incredible Revival despite the slaughter despite the murders and it only started to subside post Hadrian first under review who actually is able to re-establish the Sanhedrin and then to even a great an even greater degree under Marcos Aurelius antoninus who had a clandestine relationship with rebby Mayer's greatest student review Huda hanasi rabi Rabbi so so big then It decrees ultimately ultimately it enabled Judaism to survive the Minnesota not only to continue but actually to have one of its greatest growth spurts in our history and we'll talk about other examples of that as we go on next yes that's how they equate the Romans to Sodom and Gomorrah sir think about you know the the vicious German Shepherds you know think about these pit bull terriers the drug lords have if somebody doesn't pay they seek the pit bull terrier on the people and they eat them alive that's what they did to rabi yeshiv of her sofa there was a Heavenly voice that went out there is nothing of the Torah what does it mean the shamra was the shamra mean it has two meanings one is it means there is no area of Judaism that he didn't study and really have a con a very capable controlling knowledge of the shamra the other that you know like we say in in this week's coming Parsha what does Rashi say s the observance of the Mitzvah shmira is the learning the understanding the method the the axioms the postulates the system the methodology of the mitzvah so there's a c in the shmia so one is the learning another idea of the shamra is what to ensure that the Jewish people would observe think about what happens in the aftermath of devastation and let me use the analogy of our world today if you if you exclude the Orthodox community you have close to 75 percent intermarriage I mean it's horrific it's something that's our worst nightmare that we're living through right now in American Jewelry how did that happen in 1952 there was three percent intermarriage of American Jews how did it go from three percent I I don't know what the full percentage if you pull out the Orthodox is 75 so maybe it's it's 60 some percent how did it go from three to sixty some percent you know how because you have three four generations of no Jewish Education you have Jews in America that become products of Western Civilization that are at The Cutting Edge of Western Civilization that don't have barriers to entry that you have a gentile community that for the most part likes having a Jewish son-in-law right whether it's true or not the reputation about us is that we support our families that we want our children to be more educated than we are that we don't have a high percentage of alcoholism or spousal abuse I mean that's the reputation we have I'm not here to say it's true or not true we all know there's alcoholism in the Jewish Community there's spouse abuse in the Jewish Community they're Jews who suffer from from these flaws just like there are Gentiles but then that's a perception so you have a world where we can make it in every Dimension and aspect and we're accepted in every Dimension and aspect and Judaism is lost outside of the the Orthodox Community we're losing our people it's a tragedy it's an indictment of us of us being irrelevant and not having an impact on anyone outside of our ghettos like Teaneck and the five towns and people say lakewood's a ghetto t-necks together people say muncie's a ghetto the five towns together they're all ghettos and shame on us it's a terrible indictment of us but I'm trying to explain how did we lose the majority of our people that's what would have happened here these people would have been lost they would have become citizens of a greater Roman Empire their Yiddish kite would have been lost had it not been for this Defiance of the hadrianic decrees and what does it means the shamra means the following that he ensured that areas that people were weakened think about in America do you know anybody who kept sharpness until like the 1970s a few people you get a couple of guys they they they make it their life's Mission because we're all buying Italian suits even if you don't buy an Italian suit you buy a German suit you go boss they'll have shotness even good American suits today have shot in this so so you get people observing sharpness observing sharpness other areas that were not observed how many people you think went to Mikvah the mikvahs were disgusting they were decrepit you you shivered you wouldn't want to go in not because the cold because of the because of the algae and the filth and then you had people that made an issue of Mikvah they made an issue of Mikvah so that we're going to have nice mikfas that are respectable that our women can feel proud and observing the Mitzvah can feel good about themselves and feel in the mitzvah will encourage young women to do them maybe then their mothers will follow in their footsteps this is what it means he didn't leave any area of the Torah the shamra that's what he did those I don't know the examples that he did because we don't have it recorded but I'm using modern examples to appreciate the kind of things he did to a generation whose whole foundations were undermined who was on a road to assimilation that's Arabia was and that's what we lost if you want to know about look at the gemaras in Magilla and Sota about him you don't see him very often in a mishnah or the coded in the gemara and the prices there are certain people and I apologize for the using this term but I want to convey what what he was we call them retailers Give an example were not great orators they were incredible but they were not great orators Rabbi salavechik is the exception to that rule you sit and listen now today no one can get away with that because we're all ADHD as a function of the iPhone and a Samsung but you listen to I listened to the shoe in the Saturday nights in Boston you know he had people coming from MIT and Harvard and Tufts he had people with no backgrounds he had big tummy he had a very eclectic audience and you know what his competition was the movies in Howard Johnson was his competition so it's a Saturday night you know people are tired already it's not like it's Saturday morning where they just woke up and got out of bed it's Saturday night after a long Shabbos in Boston in the summer Shoppers gets out pretty late it's north of here latitudinally he gave a hummus here I'm telling you and I never attended them live I'm just listening to a tape a cassette recording until my tape recorders don't work anymore yeah I listened to these cassette recordings you feel like it's a symphony you feel like it's a it's a philharmonic you know with with 18 clarinets and 14 saxophones in the Timbers and you feel that there's the string instruments it's incredible and there's the tuba the trombone the French horn the bass it's a symphony listening to him that's that's the rare exception the rare exception okay not every Russia Shiva is a ravaran Khan they're not what did they have they had someone who played the role of the maturgaman who the wholesaler the mass of talmouth the metrogaman was a retailer would take their ideas take their words and articulate them and stimulate an audience and remember there were they didn't call it ADHD but in Antiquities they're also where people with ADHD would stimulate an audience of people who didn't have the same background who didn't have all the tools to appreciate it from the godolph from the the Tana himself and would make the Torah come alive and would engage the students and would it cite the crowd and get them thinking and wrestling with the questions and with the issues that's and look at this description of him I'm just sorry getting to the place foreign you know what it was like when if a bird would fly over when he was teaching the Torah when he was presenting the ideas and the concepts and and stimulating the audience if a bird would fly over would be burnt up it was like fire it was Dynamic you know would I use the word of Philharmonic they used the word it was fire it was passion it was exciting that's yeah Sadiq Rabbi Elizabeth we mentioned when was it it was Friday night yo mayor of Shabbos he was saying while he's saying that's a very old Min hug to say those sukim before the actual bracha of the ansha Genesis it goes all the way back at least to the time of the time we see that here while he was saying that paragraph surrounded by his family at the Shabbos table they took out the sword and they they they stabbed him to death was stabbed to death you have they enumerated Six Wives you could have like these and like these meaning that's where hazal get up to 18. don't think it's just the eight names that we spelled out this morning many many others who we did not spell out were murdered were executed in defiance of the hadrianic decrees josefinekalashara they murdered them every which way possible no serious the remnant of the scattered flock of Israel has been devoured has been torn apart by the Lions of the forest Rome foreign this was this was an ultimate sacrifice that the Jewish people made losing this their Slaughter was not just a murder it was a Corbin and again what is the idea of mises so you can feel free to disagree with this I'm not saying this is the only explanation when you and I lose Arabia Kiva let's let's assume we lived in that generation there's a huge huge sense of Aquarius that we feel since we'll never be rebecciva we can never replace him but we at least owe it to his mysterious nephesh that we have to continue his legacy and if we view that we have a chip on our shoulder that we have a certain destiny to continue his legacy and not let his death be for naught that itself is a caparu what does it mean it means we've changed we've become something better than ourselves just just take a step back you know the Rev used to talk about think about when rebeccan and vasserman and the kavnagero in 1941 he was taken out to the seventh fort with his talmudum and murdered there speaking in the late 40s who should be the ones from Israel who is the head of the greatest Yeshiva in Poland the Yeshiva Lublin was the safer of his he was the kosher Clover gone he was the one who replaced with mayor Shapiro as the Russia Siva in Lublin Hashem brisker had a grandson a cousin a first cousin of rabbit his name was I think his name was glickson mass of Thomas used to say his mother was abrahim's daughter so it was literally like whether it was the end of the Shabba so it was just shortly after the Shabba brachas the Germans came into Warsaw and they took him and his wife they tied each of them to Automobiles and then they drag raced through the streets of Warsaw that's how they murdered the rub's first cousin and his wife they're a young married couple he says this was he would have been one of the future the students of baranovic students of Elijah the students of tales the students not the slobodka branch that moved to Israel but the Slovak branch that remained in the suburbs of kalvna think about the shares of Plato Yeshiva Riviera and Cutler who more than anyone is responsible for the rebirth of Torah riviakov kamenetsky rev Ruderman who established near Israel established what he did with khaim Berlin these are the shares of Plato that survived and look at what they did could you imagine if we had the full compliment of who the Great White Russian Lithuanian what we call the litfisha Russia Yeshiva that were the heart of Torah and what about those those boys see Poland never had the kind of quality yeshivas that you had in ilita in in white Russia and Lithuania and under he was a short cover of under mayor Shapiro most of those boys who went to Yeshiva they came from polish hasidisha families he did something that the polls never did and the galicianas never did they never created a serious educational institutions it was the Hassam sulfur did in pressburg get a serious Yeshiva there in that area under the Hassan sulfur in his tal mediums influence you did you had it in Germany under the Oracle near under reverse he had it in Lita but not in Poland and not in Galicia and you know who to change that who stemmed that tide was what mayor Shapiro with yeshivah was an incredible Institution because it provided a dormitory for the boys it provided a hot meal for the boys I don't care how smart and how good many of us are because many of us let's let's be honest many of us when we think about our Jewish learning we're late blossomers we we blossomed later in life either you got into learning in Arch Israel when you were 18 or 19 years old or you know as you got older you know you had different perspective on life or you know you got over the fact that they probably started you too young on gemara and you got turned off to gamara because they were you know throwing it down your throat in fifth grade you weren't ready for it developmentally whatever but many of us are late blossomers how many of us are superstars at the age of 11 or 12. so I had one son who I could say that about all my kids learn okay all my kids learn very seriously but that was a superstar at 11 years old come on they might have been a superstar in sports trivia that they may have been but not in uh the masora not in the roshonim who got into blin you had to take you had a no depending on what year whether it was 200 or 300 blah with rashitosis cold that you know this the pin test you know you had to know this we don't know this this is that's you're talking we just are not trained at that age to be that good we're not we might get that later on in life we're that good but not not at 12 years old not at 14 years old not at 15 years old not a 13 years old that's where these guys were did you understand what the goal of Yeshiva was to produce the future leadership of the most important Jewish community on Earth Polish jewelry Polish jewelry in the early 30s had 3.5 million people in 1939 when the Germans entered it was 3.3 million but these products of the Yeshiva Lublin they would become the Russia they would open up yeshivas throughout Poland they would become the rebunim of Poland they would become the rebunum for that matter they'd be imported to Germany to Hungary to other parts of Europe they would be the future leadership of Claus Israel they would be the balayhamasaura that was all annihilated in America no one had television in the 1930s in America what you did was if you wanted to see the news you went to the movie theater there was always a double feature and look in those days you got something for your money you know it's not so anymore but there was a double feature and in between the two movies they showed movie tone news that's how you would see what was happening in America what was happening in the world you watch the movie tone news at the movie theater in Germany Hitler there was a whole um a whole presentation of that at Yad vashem about five years ago about how hitther took all the equivalent of the German Hollywood and he basically co-opted them and they played a major role in in the indoctrination amongst the population of national socialism they were very evil they got paid a lot of money they got ahead they got great honor for doing this and in the meantime they poisoned a generation of Germans so in the movie tone news of Germany they would have sick stuff terrible stuff you know they would have these pseudo-scientific experiments showing how basically a Jew is like a rat Jews have similar noses you know there's an area nose look at the spine of that area a Jew has a bugle they have like a hunchback look at the fat gut of a Jew you know you know in in when these genes get into your blood they're going to poison pure Aryan blood you know all of that but one of the most famous German movie tone news was when they take over the Yeshiva and Lublin remember odilio globachnik one of the world's greatest thieves and one of the world's greatest murderers who heads the Lublin District he is such a freaking Thief that after a while they the Nazis themselves remove him because he because of his his Wayward ways they come in to the Courtyard outside the Yeshiva Lublin and they make the Jews they oversee it it had the greatest sifriya the greatest base medrish in all of Poland when people died in their will they donated their sparram to the Yeshiva Lublin it was an incredible base of mattress today you know we thank God we have a really great printing press we have all kinds of slow women so we all we there's a lot of beautiful it was it was very expensive it was incredible nobody had but they metrics like that in the 1930s so they take it all out and the Nazis make a bonfire they're burning this thing it's a massive massive bonfire and this is what they show they show the Jews crying over it and they were proud of this because with the the shutting down of Yeshiva Lublin they now have stopped the future of the Jewish people of Poland this is before anyone's being killed right this is before the the genocide but they've shut down the the very faucet they've shut off the spigot that produces the rabbinical leadership the future the spiritual leadership of Claus Israel they've shut it all down and they celebrate with the bonfire of the burning of the most important library or base metrics in all of Poland these are the core bundles may it be fitting may it be pleasing in God's eyes that something like this should never ever happen again we should never suffer this again the loss of our baleha masala ahmed's Birkin koshlos strengthen the weakened knees of your people foreign portion of Jacob that remains mushia-based Sarah save us save us in our time of Dire Straits let's please put an end to the days of our mourning and to the light the light of your Torah that's been snuffed out with the death of the balayamasaura may we have that light as a path of how to lead Our Lives next also talking about an individual we're going to skip to 34. the the 34th kinna page 541 in the art scroll page 320. just to explain for for 10 seconds what I do is I have I keep like the list of what the kinos we learned in the previous couple of years so the ones that we didn't get to till the end of the previous years I try to do at the beginning so that way for people only stay the first few hours each year at least they get different Keynotes every year that's why that that's the logic behind the order but we will try to cover at least we'll try to cover at least 17-18 kinos over the six hours okay again an individual so I want to go back to the haftura of Parsha skullen remember the story of yahuwash there was a woman that I think probably Shakespeare uses his model for Lady Macbeth a terrible shrew of the Bible her name was atal Yahoo Italia or atal Yahoo is the daughter of Jezebel of Isabel and of achov she marries the Melech Yehuda she marries the king of Judah so now she's no longer the princess from the ten Northern tribes a shrew like her mother Jezebel now she's the queen well he dies with his death She's in power what does she do she starts killing off every Last Descendant of the davidic lineage every cyan of David and she starts killing off the kohanim see this and what they do is they take this little boy Jehovah and they hide him they hide him to protect his life after a while the people cannot handle the terrible terrible evil of atal Yahoo you know through passive aggressive she didn't fund the construction or the the maintenance of the base of mikdus the base of mikdush is a building that's used by many people all the time it has wear and tear she lets it fall apart she doesn't fund the Department of Transportation to prevent people from going to Jerusalem for the Regal because the roads are in bad shape she does a number of things that we'll call passive aggressive and the people actually catch on to her after a while and they execute her there's a revolt and they kill her the cohengodle forgot what his name was does anyone remember the name of the coin godo who was the Regent he was like the mentor for yahuwash he he takes care of yahush and as long as he's alive the navi says safer malachim says yahuwash is guided and steered in the right direction and he repairs that's the story the whole collection of funds he does better kabayas he repairs the base of mikdush he repairs the highways so that now people come to the base of mcdush and they learn from the Sanhedrin and they learn from the kohanu he does incredible things as long as that Cohen is alive once that Cohen dies now he doesn't feel like he needs to be mentored by anyone he doesn't have all reverence he's a very powerful man he's a popular man you know he can do what he wants and that kohane is replaced by his son Zechariah when we use the word zacharya it's not zacharya Navi from the bayashani it's not that zacharya who's one of the 12 prophets who is one of the engineers of the second base of mikdash who gave us the midos you know to how to build the second base of mikdosh who is the famous eschatological Visions many of his author as we say throughout the year and Chavez khanika the eschatological wars of Gog and Magog you know the preachers every Sunday morning to get up gag and Magog write the wars you know and every they give different descriptions of who it is the Soviet Union is it Iran is it is it North Korea that's that's the famous one of the navient of the bayashay we have 14 prochim in his in his nivua which is part of the treasar the 12 Minor Prophets we're not talking about him we're talking about the same name but a different person he is the Cohen goddal he is the navi during the time of King Jehovah and as things are becoming corrupted meaning inappropriate of odazara an appropriate Judicial System where you don't have proper people being able to have their cases heard in court laxity in this laxity and that impropriety in this impropriety in that challenges and what happened they couldn't handle it because zacharya obviously hit a few raw nerves he was obviously correct in what he was saying and what do they do apologize for the crudeness of this analogy but you know in baseball there's something called hitting for the cycle that's when a one player in the same game hits a single a double a triple in the Home Run that's called hitting for the cycle this was a sin for the cycle they murder the Cohen godo who is the navi of the generation that falls out on Shabbos in the base hamiktash now if you're going to sin that's a way to sin but but on a more serious note can you imagine can you imagine you murder the coin goddal anyong Kipper in the base hamiktas and you know what the worst part of this was the nation was not shocked Olam Kim and Hugo no Hague problem with us by the way being exposed to the news the way it's presented in modern times you know this horrific murder there's a horrific rape there's a tragedy you know and then we get to the sports and then we get to the Oscars and then we get to the weather and then we get to you know the the commercial for the candy bar and the commercial for for the beer and the commercial for the Vodka you know it's all one thing right the horrific murder the sports the the Oscars the beer the the vodka and the candy bar it's just it's there's no sensitivity there's no sense of being shocked and seeing that we have to change as a society this is this is this is preposterous this is this is this is sick doesn't mean most of them wanted him killed but like no one did anything okay you know it was a mistake she probably should have done this too bad and then they all went on with life you don't do that but they did and there's a consequence there's not only a consequence to the sins of commission but there's a consequence to the sins of omission look at what this says 34 so again it's page 540 and those have the art scroll page 320. the day of my oppression from the word it weighed heavily on me and my sins geometrically magnified literally means they doubled what was the magnification of the sin as we said when we murdered we took the blood of the Prophet where in the courtyard of the base of mikdush of God and they could never ever clean up that blood it was never ever you know that that stain they couldn't remove and that's on many levels but but physically they couldn't remove the stain vilosia so the way that the gemara describes it it's like there was a boiling of blood on that spot in the basement didn't it wasn't quiet it never subsided as a function of this this is a quote from the the mourning the suffering of the Jewish people exponentially magnified because what happened it was that blood on that spot we couldn't remove it we couldn't clean it it was like a tempest boiling until when until the chief butcher who is RAV tabach who is the chief executioner that of course is the word hazal used for nivuzaradan nivuzaradan was the General stayed in the capital he stayed in in Iraq in Babylonia and he sent zaradan and his troops and his Colonels and they're the ones who defeated Israel until the the chief butcher comes into the temple on tishabov boy he sees the blood boiling he asks what what's the story ask the kohanim there this is sort of strange what is this via knew they answered him aims that they lied they said you know what this is this is uh some of the blood that was spilled from one of the corbanos that we slaughtered this morning okay so he says that that's strange he says what what kind of animals do you offer as a Corbin well there's three kind animals there's the bovine species there's Lambs there's goats so they tried chaffing you know calves goats Lambs and this is not similar this Blood that's boiling doesn't look like goat blood doesn't look like lamb blood doesn't look like Ram blood doesn't look like cow blood doesn't look like bull blood doesn't look like heifer blood doesn't look like calf blood doesn't look like any of that um I said to myself this I mean this is the Jewish people speaking in the in the singular this is your sin and this is the fruit of your sin it did not subside it was like a tempest like like a tossed a sea the matter was sought out and it was found what is this they had to admit what it was this is the blood of the man of God for no sin at all for for doing nothing he was murdered he was uprooted you know what so his blood will be sought out he was murdered for naught there's got to be a comeuppance foreign so what does he do he first starts taking the kohanim ous he starts killing the older kohanim yashisha means those who are elderly by the hundreds and the Young by the tens of thousands by the way you see here the asymmetry the elderly by The Hundreds the Young by the tens of thousands this is a theme you're going to see many times in the kinos this is very important and I'm going to give you a couple of examples those who hate us the most important thing the sickest thing the most important for them is the murder of the young is the murder of the youth because the youth and the young that is the future we're going to see this in the 17th kinna we're going to see this many places you know the Rev one time he mentioned he met with survivors a very few survivors of vilna one of them was a ravaran Khan's father the the that Rabbi Khan incredible incredible very few people survived Wilma I have a cousin who married he was a German Jew who went on the Kinder transport and he fought for the British against the Nazis and he liberated a few Jews and one of them was a woman from Vilma and he married her she became my cousin very few survived in general from Lithuania but the commandant the SS leader who oversaw the villagero he had two loves in life he loved playing classical music on the piano and he loved murdering or butchering young Jewish children and they would bring to him he would play with one hand he'd play Mozart he'd play Chopin play Bach with one hand and in the other hand he had a pistol and he used to shoot as they bring him Jewish infants and Jewish children I mean there's a there's a sickness to that specifically the children and I'll give you what we've quoted this before but the one who told this to me was the famous gavriel Bach was the assistant prosecutor of Adolf Eichmann eventually becomes the Attorney General of the state of Israel it was a Supreme Court Justice in Israel a German Jewish Survivor immigrated to to Israel credible man and I would say maybe four or five of the most interesting hours of my life were interviewing him and he said you know claimed that he what was his defense it should be those who gave the orders that should be put on trial but why should he be acquitted and why is he innocent not because it's a mistake to say because he said I was just doing my job that was not his defense his defense was more than that he says I took I swore I took an oath of loyalty that I would fulfill in my duties as a government official the wills in the dictate of my country and I swore it was a solemn oath that I took and I had a solemn obligation to abide by that oath that was his defense and his attorney Robert cervatius that was the whole defense that he's not the one that should be put on trial and I'm going to get to the point of the Jewish children in a second but the chief Pro the the chief prosecutor his name is Gideon hausner I had he's no longer alive I had the blessing of interviewing his son his son Amos in his young 70s and his daughter-in-law I interviewed them about their father and about the trial and Gideon hausner said to Aiken that throughout this trial you and it seems not just you but others your defenses that you took a solemn off that you would fulfill your holy Duty of fulfilling the Mandate and the dictate of your government so let me ask you something you and your own words you in your own words have said that you killed you executed five and a half million Jews another half million Jews you believe died of starvation malnutrition but but you executed five and a half million and amongst that five and a half million there were a million and a half Jewish children what sin do Jewish children do what sin did these people commit that they that you you slaughtered them but yet you said you had an ethical moral duty to abide by your solemn oath that you swore to uphold the dictates and mandates of your country what is a greater violation of ethics and morals butchering a million and a half Jewish children five and a half million Jews to the best of our knowledge of which none of them did anything that deserved to be executed or violating your oath your duty to your country an Eichmann without pausing without hesitating without flinching said that is obvious it would have been a greater moral violation for me not to fulfill the solemn oath that I took to uphold the dictates of my country was but that's not why I brought this up what I have been claimed said he would not have killed anyone would not have done anything with had it not been that he had a responsibility to fulfill his solemn oath okay the prosecution and by the way that was the moronic stupidity of Hannah Arendt she came up with this term the banality of evil it was a thesis that was so corrupt this is a woman who was the lover of of Martin Heidegger who originally was actually a Hitler sympathizer he's the only professor at the University of Berlin who didn't give Rabbi salave chicken a plus you know it was an anti-semite Heidegger and he was a Hitler admirer but you know when things turned then he turned she was his lover this woman Hannah Aaron you know and she had this book The Banana the phrase the banality of evil she just had no clue just stupidity and arrogance in the way that she dealt with that with Eichmann and with in general with how to understand Germans so Gideon I'm sorry gavriel Bach said to me he says many of you are familiar with two things first is we just went there this this March to the the peers outside of Copenhagen in Denmark the rabbi got up and this was I think Shabba shuva after the Shabbos Russia it might have been even Rosh Hashanah no I'm sorry it was it was Rosh Hashanah he got up because he couldn't speak honestly and openly but he says this Shabbat we won't be having Services here this Shabbos we won't be having Services here in the great synagogue well our services will be by the seashore now imagine rabbi getting up and announcing to all the minyanim here in Romer we're not going to be having Shabba Services here at you know at ketutora we're going to go have Shabba Services we're going to dive in by the the bridge you know where George Washington crossed people would be scratching their head saying what is he talking about what's going on well that was the whole point in word secretly spread that the Nazis intent is that the following week they plan on rounding up the Jews and deporting them from Copenhagen I believe I have to look up my my notes but I believe it was something like over 7 000 Jews were transported by Danish fishermen Rabbi malchior was the rabbi the grandfather of the rabbi malchior who's a member of knesset they transported them to Sweden to melmo and saved the Copenhagen Jews they saved their lives man went crazy he was Furious now I've spoken to he's he's really probably the preeminent American Holocaust historian Professor Michael bernbaum Michael burnbaum lives in Los Angeles he's the one who created the museum in Washington he's the one who created the memorial belgets he started for Steven Spielberg he's the one who started survivors of the showa Michael is an incredible treasure to the Jewish people and Michael said that that it's really it's not clear whether the head of the SS and Copenhagen knew about the plans of the the Danish to save their Jews it could be that it was at a point in the war he just didn't want to fight he didn't think the Germans were going to win the war he didn't want to make this his his Battleground if anything this guy saved him work now he doesn't have to round up the Jews there's there there is a theory that he knew that that the Danish were trying to get their Jews to escape to help their Jews escape and flee that is one Theory one theory is that he didn't know anything and it was really an incredible Act of of hasid of kindness of compassion but one thing you see the Danish didn't suffer and the head of the SS didn't suffer for standing up and protecting the Jews so ice cream crazy over that which is shows the theory that Eichmann was infested and is passionate about the annihilation of the Jews as Hitler was but here is where the real story comes in and this goes back to the Jewish children the SS in in in and I say cursed the French for this French police separated the adults from the children they ship the adults in 1942 to Auschwitz and they locked up and when I say children I don't mean High School age students I'm talking about little kids babies toddlers as well as other age children they lock them up in drone seed drawn seed was where they deported the French Jewish townships in dronsi and they left them there for a couple of days till the trains would return and then they shipped these kids without proper water without proper food they ship them Passions so the commandant of Auschwitz his name was Rudolf Hurst you know it's h-o-e-s-s but with an umlao over the O It's pronounced his house like er and he's caught after the war he's I think it was a Polish tribunal it was either a Soviet it was in Poland I'm not sure it was a Soviet or a Polish tribunal they put him on trial and he's condemned to execution while he's on death row he was hung to death actually in Auschwitz in Auschwitz one they hang him to death when you go to Auschwitz you can see where they where they hung him but while he's on death roll he writes an autobiography about himself now keep in mind you have to take with a huge grain of salt a biography that this guy's writing about himself because obviously he wants to make himself look good look on innocent Etc but there's a lot that we can glean from that biography and he writes the following hold on just one second he writes the following he describes there's two times that Adolf Eichmann visited Auschwitz one of the times was when they killed these kids and he says I apologize I forgot the term in German there's a term in Deutsch and German that's like this if you look at my knees for a second shaking at the knees it gives it makes you shake at the knees that's the term so he describes these kids are crying and pleading with them and they're shoving the kids into the gas chamber and the kids are begging you know could we have water could you help us you know in the and he says he says we became so so sensitized he says we were usually cold or immune to feeling anything but this was all children and he describes this to Adolf Eichmann as as they're slamming the door shut on the gas chamber you know about to annihilate these French Jewish children says to him shut up are you crazy children the Kinder the the you the shekinder this is the most important job what we should kill their parents and that these are the bastards who grow up and take Vengeance on us huh he says this is the most important he says when you kill these you Slaughter these are the bastards you put an end to the future of the Jewish people are you stupid what do you mean you're shaking of the knees shaking of the knees for the children this is the most important job you are assigned to do now again we were not there we have to take Rudolph hearst's word for it but that's how he describes Eichmann in gavriel Bach as the one who tells me this you know the greatest joy or the greatest Mission the greatest sense of purpose that these people feel they have is is to Butcher and Slaughter our children and by the way you see that with the Palestinians today you hear it from the Palestinians when they kill young Jews that's the best and that is what we mourn today the murder of our children you know my father you know in terms of his Persona my father was a religious man you know he when he prayed he talked to God a lot of times when we dive and you know our mind is somewhere else or we're thinking about the next thing or this or that you know or we're running through it fast my my father davined he actually talked to God it was it was he was a sincere human being a sincere man much more than me you know grew up the way he grew up I'll know if I lived five lifetimes I would never experience what he experienced and that's true in general of of that generation of the generation of the survivors and he was in you know but he said you know the one thing because his cousins they were the ones they were little kids they were the ones on March 20th of 1942 there was a shipment from Wurzburg of the Jews of what we call untha Franklin so that's where all our family members the others they were shipped the Nazis actually have impeccable records so I got the German records they were shipped to Lublin and they were not killed in maidonic they were shipped from so in Yiddish we say the ishpitzer the Mei Shiloh but in Polish pizza and then from each Pizza there was a camp there the Jews were either taken these my family these Jews were taken to belgians they were gassed with carbon monoxide and belgians some of the Jews from these beats that were shipped to sobabor and they were they were they were killed with carbon monoxide in sobibor but you know he said can't understand I can't explain how did what sin did these little kids commit because this were sweet fine young yudisha kinder what did they do wrong that they had to be killed yeah and the pain you know when he would when he would my father was a tough guy but you know when you could see when he asked that question he was back in Winter Franken he was back in lower Franconia in Germany with his cousins you know and the pain on his face of you know just imagining what happened to his cousins and the horrific death they had with no answer that's the pain we feel again we can't fathom a million and a half Jewish children it's a number we can't fathom that but that's the pain we feel one of the pillars of the yeshivas in Los Angeles the Hillel School the Euless School his name was Oscar schonfeld he was a product of the Hebrew gymnasium in in mooncatch incredible a lion of a man an incredible man really a builder of Jewish institutions in Beverly Hills Los Angeles it's interesting he named his baby boy after his brother yeah usually you'd name after the father he said to me this is a man who with forged passports he saved the lives of some 20 different Jews he was an incredible person you know what he did the The Bravery how he risked himself to save Jews lives but he looked at me and this again this is a lion of a man not a patsy by no way shape or form a man who's tougher than I'll ever be and he says you know my father asked me one thing in his life he says you've got to look after your baby brother look after your little brother save him protect him and here I was saved you know this life that life 20-some lives and the one thing my father asked of me the one thing one request he asked of me couldn't save my brother's life you know the guilt he had he never ever got over that guilt couldn't save that Survivor guilty couldn't save his innocent baby brother's life and that's the story of the Jewish children in these Babylonians they killed the elders by the hundreds but the Young by the tens of thousands there's a certain bloodthirst in killing the Young you put an end to the future of the Jewish people the school children the parents are watching is they're murdering their children in front of the eyes of the parents it continues to boil it is not assuaged it does not subside foreign the sword of the oppressor is taking its Vengeance and in the city and it is in a state of Perplexus it's it's it's it's a state of astonishment who is this referring to God isn't referring to the almighty odia donatus referring to musaradan the simple reading of this is It's nivuzarodon he did not subside his sword his sword kept killing Joseph who does he kill now the mothers with their nursing children the amount of blood that was slaughtered during the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians is like the blood of the river of Egypt the blood of the Nile a dayam until finally looks up to heaven says to the almighty of no sir see even he even this sick murderer comes to a certain point he says God how can you allow this to continue would you is it your will God in heaven that I should annihilate there should be no sharers no survivors no remnants I kill them all the eyes at that moment the blood of The Innocent Prophet who was murdered in the basement at that point it subsided it was assuaged after the sword of Vengeance had been satiated to you God have we sinned not just have we missed the mark of khatanu but heavy universiano we have sinned in a Brazen premeditated way the haragne we've murdered your prophetanu only now only now do we appreciate the wickedness of what we had perpetrated foreign we cry out from the depths of the Grave from the depths of hell we cry out and plead with you um the fruit of our dastardly actions the fruit of of our corruption only now is have we been has it been satiated this is quoting from ishaiah please comfort the one who cannot be comforted The Tempest and storm tossed Afflicted one to you does her eyes turn towards heaven there's Sofia and for your help do we yearn in Long the next Kina is the key nurse for the showa we're going to go to the 48th Kingdom which in the rabbi salavechik is Page 626 and the art scroll is actually the 47th Kenneth page 384 in the Arts Girl 6 26 in the the Messiah was a survivor his father had a safer called kedusha Zion his name is Rabbi bencion halberstam now um you know like the Sansa Rabbi was a halberstam the shin of Arabi was a halberstam it was a famous polish Hasidic family that produced great great leaders the halberstams was taken out together with I'm not sure I apologize it's something that someone could Google whether it was 2 000 or 20 000 Jews of live you know today it's live initially it was called Lemberg by the austro-hungarians Lemberg they built it was the Vienna of the East it was a great Jewish Center but Joseph nothing's son was there the base Joseph was a famous postsec there are many great rabbonim there were many great Jews from that city of Lemberg of Love is Polish Lamberg is the Austrian or German and leviva's Ukrainian name for the town and he was there the bub of Arabi and the father was was murdered I believe that they were burned to they were burnt alive and they were placed in a room I'm not sure if it was a synagogue if somebody wants to to Google bencion halberstam you know it'll be there about his story but but the father was killed the sun survived in the sun becomes continues he comes to America first starts on the west side of Manhattan and then eventually from the west side of Manhattan they moved to Borough Park and he rebuilt the Baba hasidus and his hasidim asked him they said look what you have lost in terms of your family the whole the majority of hasidim were annihilated in 1941 1942. you know because because what we call Eastern Galicia today is Ukraine they were killed by the s s Einstein's group in D went through that part of the went through that part of the Ukraine and annihilated everyone in 41. and whatever else was was not under Ukrainian control but was under polish control these people were deported in 1942 to belgius and they were gassed to death in belgians Belgium is is an incredible story 452 000 Galician Jews from the Western Galicia places like Auschwitz and Krakow Centro Galicia places like tarnov to Eastern Galicia places like tarnopol above over 450 000 now they think it was five hundred thousand the old numbers used to be 450 but they think now it's 500 000 galitian Jews were murdered there there were only two survivors of belgians only two survivors one his name is hayam Hershman he was murdered by polish Catholics in 1946 as he was going to trial to testify about what happened to belgians and the other his name was Rudolph redder Rudolph redder is the only Survivor only Jewish Survivor he went he somehow was when they were he was going with some Germans they had to go get some supplies to bring back to the to the camp and he escaped while he was out of the camp with these German guards he escaped they were talking to some Polish women and he gave a testimony we have it it's translated into English he eventually settled in Canada and died in Canada Rudolph rudder most of what we know about belgets is actually from Germans who work there was a chemist who was taken there to see if he could create a more efficient way of gazing the Jews to death in a more quickly and efficient way he wrote a testimony he was actually murdered by other Germans because he testified against the Nazis was going to testify and there was another one that another German guard you know talked so there's very little we know about belgians but but that's where most of Galicia was killed what was the story twenty thousand Kai Meister looked it up and he said that it was 20 000 Jews of levov they would burn to death they were gathered together July 28 1941. so that is where bencio and halberstam the father was killed the hasidim go to his son the Survivor who's trying to rebuild the bub of her Dynasty the hasidus in a rabbi Hurst he's a famous Baba rakas he's a very fine man Rabbi Herbst told me the story that unlike the kinna we're going to read next or of Schwab who put you know really months of thought in writing this the Bob of Arabic he sat down and he wrote this very quickly very briefly it's a very small kinner but he if the hasidim felt they needed on Tisha book to say something he wanted to give them something to say and this is that Kenneth Israel always remember always be mindful and the Jews should always say this kinna kochem is your voice should be Heard on High he is the annihilation that the Germans did to our people the most cruel and sick and perverse deaths and many who died as a function of there was no caloric intake many many you know why did people in my house and I'm going to be leading next week a trip the Jewish history on the Danube River we're going to be going to matthausen those of you when you go to Europe if you go to Austria you should go to matthausen it's one of the few camps that there's a certain sense it's intact yo the average life expectancy in my thousand was six weeks week they worked you to death I mean in Auschwitz the average if you were not sent to immediate death average life expectancy was 10 weeks how does it that people die in six weeks or in ten weeks because with zero caloric intake if they're giving you some basic gruel that they call soup you get very little protein you get very little fat how do you expect to survive that's how people die in six weeks they work them to death what about the Warsaw Ghetto there were 400 probably somewhere between 425 and 450 000 people in the Warsaw Ghetto not all of them were shipped to Treblinka and murdered in Treblinka close to a quarter of them and there's two Mass Graves when you go to Poland in the Warsaw Cemetery you'll see two Mass Graves close to a quarter of them died of starvation and malnutrition how anybody could survive on that nutritious intake on that kind of a diet is a miracle that anyone could survive that so they died of itsama due to famine due to to The Thirst foreign please never ever forget this never ever forget what happened to them until the time when the mashiach comes when ultimately everyone is brought back until that time we must never forget this their yells their shrieks their cries cramped into the cattle cars you think about the Hungarian Jews and the deportations of the spring of 1944. think about that for a second I'm sorry so you're being shipped from parts of Hungary you have to go through Hungary you have to go through Slovakia you have to go through Poland all the way to Western Galicia that's a three-day trip think about the Greek Jews they were rounded up in 1942 from all these islands Corfu roads Santorini you know the various Islands they're brought on to Mainland Europe taken by rail from Greece all the way to Western Galicia Poland do you understand how difficult that is you know how do you survive you know being cramped in like worse than cattle in a cattle car without any drink you know you're you're urinating you're defecating on each other the stench there's not room to sit the only way there's room to sit is when someone died so you end up sitting on a dead body the air this is what they went through and he describes this foreign the voice of their cries should always be remembered before the one who dwells on high because rum as they called out Israel they they maintain their integrity as Jews they maintain their faith to the very end Russia yeshivas to tell me damn we talked about that when the Germans came into a town they didn't start annihilating polish Jews right away that didn't start till 42 but they would take the rabbis out they would take the heads of the community and they would murder them right off the bat they took Russia yeshivas to tell me they him we gave the example of the students from varanovic who were together with him in the kavnagero the harmony in in the masses of your people six million they worked them with a horrific horrific working you know think about you know we talked about matthausen it was a stone quarry you know what it's like carrying those massive Stones up those big steps of the Quarry and then if he didn't work fast enough they would shoot you to death into the Quarry that's how they got their fun the SS the the SS would shoot you because you were you were holding up the line you're like you know like in a golf course you get frustrated because the guy's in front of you the foursome in front of you is going too slow well the attitude was if you're going too slow carrying the stones up the Quarry steps they'll shoot you off the Quarry off the steps into the into the pit into the Quarry so that they can keep the the the the so to speak the line moving fast the blood of those tender little children crying out from the ground you know tarnov is a um it was a beautiful city it was a city that of the 65 000 residents 40 000 were Jewish almost two-thirds you had every kind of Jew and turn off turn off the Center of Central Galicia garage you know you had a garished evil he had Alexander you had Mizrahi he had Agoda a good as Israel you had you had all types of Jews all types of Tunes all types of Foods and you know before the Jews of tarnoff were taken to belgians to be you know to be annihilated they took 800 children they took them out to a forest and they gunned them down they gunned down they murdered 800 children for tarmouth we go there every year we do the fidf we do a mission to Poland from Holocaust Independence to Poland of Israel and that Forest which has these Mass Graves we go to in particular this this Mass grave of 800 children of shim please take Vengeance for the death of the children and the women do not spare any of the enemies al-sarathus alphae midrashos listen to that that phrase thousands of batemidrashos and thousands of shuls Malcolm homeline who's really one of the greatest treasures that American Jewelry has had and all the good that Malcolm has done of the myriads of projects he was involved in a project which is called as two volumes it's called they recorded the history of the over twelve hundred jewels synagogues in Germany in Austria in the statement that on November 9th and November 10th of 1938 were destroyed most of them were burnt to the ground some of them if they were too close to Gentile buildings were not built to burn to the ground they were just destroyed internally one of those was a shul from our town you know the town where we lived for close to 300 years it's too close to the other Gentile buildings so they couldn't burn it down but they destroyed it and the Germans of the town of the gauconic Sullivan which is an unter Frank in lower Franconia in Germany they restored it there's no Jews I go back every couple years take some of the kids with we go back my cousins from Brazil from Israel we meet there because otherwise you know it's an empty building at least there's someone to go back they every couple years they have a program on Cristal knocked you know they redid the Mikvah they maintained to a small degree the cemetery so you know we keep going back because if not well you know who are they going to maintain it for but that was one of the synagogues that was destroyed but at least it survived most of these synagogues never survived they were burnt to the ground in credit to Malcolm to Mr homeline and to those who were involved in this project at least there's a legacy to these houses of God where Torah was learned where tilas were said where where brises took place where where communities came together to engage in rendezvous with their God to deal with crisis to deal with issues and he describes thousands of bhate midrashos and shoes were destroyed Rivers tens of thousands of Torah Scrolls and those who learned those Torres it's like a fire was sent from heaven that destroyed the houses of God and all we could do is watch era please pay back take Vengeance on those who did the destruction did the destroying amongst those Nations and amongst those perpetrators may they be filled with Corpses the heavens and the Earth should cry out not just we the Jewish people but Cosmic leaders should have a huge impactsure Torah and the thousands of cities that were strongholds of Torah that were Torah communities the various countries of Europe and its various communities those who inherited and then fulfilled and passed on the masona Sadiq the righteous the kanim the learned the hasidim those who went above and beyond those who clung within an incredible sense of conviction and faith in God and in his tradition foreign from the day that we were exiled from Jerusalem meaning through the long history of the yiddishagalas of the 2000 years of Exile there was nothing like this nothing compared to this please have compassion on us the remnant looked down from heaven at the the holy camps mitzrayim ten times those who were killed ten times those who left Egypt co-main base please God re-establish our holy base amictus which is alluding to the famous verse from Isaiah the god not just basic comfort and consolation what we have suffered we need exponential comfort and consolation Roma mainu Lift us up rebuild user and bring us to Zion and to Jerusalem is on page 620 in the nasaurus arav and in the art scroll page 386. we're Schwab as you know was a successor to Rabbi broyer he grew up in front for the mine Germany his father was a businessman he needed two of the sons to work in the business two of the sons he sent to the east to learn in the mirror Yeshiva one of those son Shimon who became the famous from Schwab he um he survived he was a rabbi in Baltimore there was a German community in Baltimore and he was he was a real role model did a good job with them rebuilding these communities these young people and rebuilding their families and then he was brought to Washington Heights Rabbi broyer lived into his 90s so Schwab did actually didn't actually take over zarov of the community probably till he was I'm guessing until he was late 60s or early 70s but he was the assistant Rabbi there and then he became a member of the Moises cadolia Torah he was the rub of the kahaladash assurance the the successor to the hersheyan community of Frankfurt on mine yeah those who are concerned with those who are concerned with God meaning the one that remembers those who are cognizant of God each generation and its holy ones from the moment that you chose us to be your partner to be your people to be your nation he scored please God take into account that which befell the latter generation the generation of the showah whoa what has befallen us literally a deluge a deluge of the blood of the slaughtered Jews to sacrifice themselves in into the deep deep Valley of Tears Elohim please God always be cognizant always remember them in the eternal life and may their memory be a blessing for us we turn to God we lift up our hands to him foreign where God where is the heavens Israel the best of the communities of Israel the best of the tribes of Israel the communities kahilo's smaller communities arim the big cities galilos the small towns the societies the groups that would get together to learn to do hasid to take care of the dead most of those the institutions educational institutions call MOA Dale all the various places where we did the work of God we learned we davened we did hasid oh that my tear ducts would be a Niagara Falls would pour out the water tehradne coming out of my eyeshadows to be joined into the rivers and rivers of tearsim over the thousands and thousands the thousands times thousands that were killed him the bodies that were burnt to death that we don't even have a cover to go to visit foreign of Terror and destruction those who were the masters of the generation those who may not have been the Masters but they are the ones who who abided by The masora Who learned the Massaro passed it on the young people the young people that were our future that would have been the future godold in the future Tamil and the Future Leaders the future husbands and wives over the various educational institutions you know in Europe not every country was the economy that good that you could afford to send your kids to school only you know one or two in a town would go to Village on their tells where did most of the kids do starting 10 11 12 years old they went to work and then what would they do at night they would come and learn after a day's work they'd come home have their dinner and they would have three things it was called mikra you know they would they would learn whatever they were learning in the Hamish or the navi the cover Mission would learn mishna is someone would teach you know they would learn mishnais and the kavershas would learn gemara so so most of the learning was done in the local you know local institution local school whatever it may be kids were not afforded the kind of education that we can give our children today so those are the midrashos the morim the moros the teachers the school children that were slaughtered the elderly the grandfathers the grandmothers the Bubbies and zadies over their progeny their young that they gave birth to that they wanted to raise rivervos tens of thousands of them foreign beloved during their lifetime and their death not Departed not separated we still remember them as damam darosh kitis Roche God seek out there has to be consequences for the slaughter of their innocent blood shall call him each every wind tossed leaf that was destroyed shows mace all of them be me Allah six thousand times a thousand one-third of the Jewish population of the Earth annihilated with it with a lightning and with an attack and a tempesta they were from the The Vineyard you know the Jewish people described as the vineyard and God is the the vine keeper there was a it was a Vine it was a Vineyard that you loved it was a precious Vineyard that you loved goal hadam you God who are the Redeemer of blood please remember how they suffered never never erase from the book that you have written remember the shrieks and the shrills the heart-rendering screams as you Loretta because they were brought to their murder de Mayhem the Bloods of the rivers of their blood demos Alpena him the tears going down their face please God never ever forget every moan every cry every shrill every shriekhtude you know the the German Shepherds barking at them please remember and please count in in inscribe in your book and the tears that were shed please keep them in your container Your Vessel at Ace Nicole El bonaluvin until there has been proper Justice and Vengeance for the humiliation the pain that they have suffered foreign in the camps of those wild barbarians pain diseases anguish of the ravaged Souls the blasphemy they were mocked the the mocking of them the clemos Baroque the humiliation that they suffered this being spat upon sayumos the beatings that they took the horrific beatings that they suffered Ravon the famine sea my own the lack of of of of water she got owned how many of them became crazy were driven to driven into craziness It's A Thon the kill shown the sadness the depression the lack of strength that they suffered as a lack of that weakness is is a lack of caloric intake a lack of sleep please God do not forget any of that is awesome