Tisha B'av 2024 - Rabbi Moshe Hauer: Rav Yosef Tzvi Carlebach’s Pre-Holocaust German Jewry

e e e for spe you for [Music] for [Music] for amen foren for [Music] together e e for the our kidness this year take place in in the shadow of everything which the Jewish people are experiencing now in Israel in the shadow of the past 10 months of the Tish that started on Sim Torah as as you know we we chose and choose to to frame our discussions of kinos the personality chose to frame it this year around the personality ofo and we will speak about him later this morning chose him because he was someone who like us was in most of his life was outside of er Israel and and he was he was the last remaining Orthodox Rabbi in Germany he faced the looming threat we ask ourselves always so is this Berlin 1933 he was there in 1933 and he who he was and what he did how he approached yish kite how he approached Torah how he approach the approached the Jewish people how he approached crisis tumultuous completely revolutionary times there's a lot to learn from and we will get to that later but it's the wrong place to start we don't start in we have to start in a Israel we start in a Israel for two reasons first of all because every Tish starts in Israel every Tish starts with the bikash with the loss of the B mikdash every Tor every difficulty that the Jewish people have experienced since then we roll into this day of Tish because it started with the destruction of the B of the loss of of hasem from our midst especially today especially in our time the privilege of our time for the first time in almost 2,000 years visibly set us on our way back the largest Jewish population in the world is in a Israel almost the majority of the entire Jewish nation is in erit Israel the center of gravity in Every Which Way of the Jewish people not just philosophically not just mystically but the center of gravity of the Jewish people the bulk where the Fate the center stage of the Jewish people is in ER Israel bringing us back and it's in Jeopardy it's in Jeopardy facing threats of the kind would we say that it never say faced before that it hasn't faced in a long time in a relatively long time for for us for our view of time even our enemies they called this whole Enterprise the alaka flood starts in the B mikdash the center the focus and we have to know and we have to understand and we see it come through sharp and clear throughout the kinos not all of it which we say but the different periods featured in kinos the history of the Jewish people we we say that we don't use the word unprecedented when we speak about Jewish history we had October 7th is whatever you want to call it and it was terrible it was horrible and so many times we use the term unprecedented it wasn't unprecedented everything that we read about everything that we saw everything that we found out later about what happened then it's all precedented it's all there in earlier accounts of Jewish history whether from the time of theban or the times of the Crusade AES or the times of the Holocaust and so many times in between so we go to the beginning and that's why we don't start here we don't start in pre-war Germany we don't start with r we start with the BD and its destruction we also don't start here because while what we are experiencing here now init in this year in t pad in 2024 is indeed also different it's not unprecedented it's not even unprecedented in the United States I was at a I was at a gathering a few months ago and was was speaking to the Gathering and talking about the issue of anti-Semitism that we're facing here and um I said you know it's like nothing that we have experienced and I noticed uh that Rabbi has luin the rabbi of KJ of Kath yeshurun in Manhattan was was there in the second row he should be well an exceptional person exceptional exceptional person spirited heartful person and uh Kari he's he's well over 90 years old and I I said I said Rabbi Lin do you remember anything like this and he said I don't remember anything like this since the late 30s and early 40s so it's not even unprecedented here it's not even unprecedented in the Land of Lincoln and Jefferson and Washington it's not unprecedented but more than the fact that it's not unprecedented whatever it is that we're facing so let's look at ourselves and ask ourselves you and me how our lives are different today than they were a year ago are we not going places that we used to go are we scared okay so now there's a security guard here like all the time and ask the same question of our brothers and sisters in ER Israel ask that same question of soldiers whove been fighting for 10 months or fighting with breaks for 10 months ask their wives ask their mothers their fathers their sons their daughters their siblings is like life the same as it was a year ago if you could ask the hostages ask their families their friends for a moment try the impossible task of putting ourselves in their shoes ask those who lost relatives killed killed on October 7th killed in battle wounded drastic Ally wounded ask them if life has changed ask the tens of thousands of people who haven't been able to go back home those whose communities were destroyed to a point where they don't know if they'll ever be able to go back home and those whose sense of security is so in depth for the reasons we said to Hill him a moment ago ask them so we're here we're sitting on the floor on Tish every day we say t every day we look at the no the news but we must be honest and recognize that for ourselves more or less we go on every day as if things are normal and that's why we can't start here that's why we have to start there and that's itself part of Gus part of the definition of gals many times on Tish we've learned over the maral who teaches that there are three components to Gus the first component of Gus is dislocation that we are away from our home from Israel from our land the second component is shib malos is the fact that we are subordinate under a foreign government we don't have sovereignty we don't have the freedom to live under Jewish rule under Jewish law under the Tyra and the last is pizur is the fact that we're we're not one unit we're scattered all over the place that's why we we pray for our freedom for our sovereignty for k goas for being brought back together and to be brought together from the four corners of the earth to our land those are the three elements and one element one element which we feel every element we feel acutely but one element which is part of our problem now and today is pisor we're not together we're far away we're far away from the center from the center of gravity we're far away from where the source of the difficulty is so every part of our discussion today is going to focus on Israel every part of our discussion today is going to focus Onan AB is if not literally if not literally then somewhat indirectly but there nevertheless alas is on the house of the Jewish people when we're first to as Bas Israel we're not it's not the same as Ben Israel the children of Israel which is the disperse b a bias is where children come together on the house of the Jewish people the shattering of the home of the Jewish people we're not just geographically divided we're not just geographically divided we're divided in many drastic and difficult ways we all know that we're mourning over the B mdash because it was Destroy destroyed because of and on the people of God there's a second problem and it's a big problem it's the problem which we deal with by getting upset it's the problem which we deal deal with by lobbying and addressing or complaining about the media or about the United Nations or the international court of justice but the core of the problem the number of the problem is that the Jewish people are supposed to be the am Hashem we're supposed to be the people of God representing everything which is Godly and everything which is everything which is good everything which is Godly which is and everything which is good shared with you as well in tish's past it's not this part is not our Focus today at all though it could be what the smug wrote sa MIT G what he wrote and he said that he taught all of the people in Gus that they have to be of perfect integrity and honesty of even beyond what the requires and he said for the simple reason because we want Hashem to come and redeem the Jewish people and one day the headline in the newspaper even in the Washington Post is going to be Messiah coming comes King of the Jews restored to heal the world and said this SM people are going to look at the newspaper and they're going to say one second the Jews those people are God's people they have to say ah the Jews those models of Integrity of of honesty of goodness okay they understand it but if when the headline comes people will wonder about God why then then we're far away from ghou that's what he said then about being honest and today we can blame it on anti-Semitism it doesn't matter why but the narrative in the world is that we're not the goodly people we're not the godly people we're the genocidal people we're the apar heide people we're the cruel people statement of political strategy Israel is not a part heide Israel is fighting a war that we should be proud of and they make mistakes mistakes but isn't it something that we're not able to get that message through and don't we have to move and so said had I been there I would have said the B was burned on the 10th but they said this is the beginning of the problem the puranas the difficulty started on the 9th and so they set it to to its beginning beginning and we always explain that you know sometimes when you face something when you see a conflagration when you see a collapse that's all you can see all you can see is this horrible thing that's in front of you and that's why had I been there that's all I would have seen said ran but the Ronan took a step back and they understood that it wasn't just about this about what happened then but that it was the beginning of the destruction not that they set fire and the end of the destruction was the 10th but this was the beginning of all of the difficulty that the Jewish people would have until such time that the sh will come back to be amongst us to be in our midst and if R made that would have made that mistake at the beginning we must not make that mistake here Millennia later at what we hope is close to the end we're going through a terribly difficult time but it's not unprecedented and it didn't start on Sim it didn't start on October 7th started on Tish it started on Tish when the Vish was destroyed when Hashem left our midst when we didn't have the glory of hashem's presence which today we're supposed to replicate with the glory of the Torah but as we just said we're struggling with that as well that's where the core of our problem lies so let's begin by saying three k focused on theas on the destruction of the B mdos the first one is Kina number seven it's found in the Corin kinos on page 217 in the art art school kinos on page 158 but again in most of the kin even if you have a different one it would be usually number seven it's the language is is is challenging but not terribly hard look at the English as always to be helped it's based [Music] on for [Music] for for [Music] go ahead to number 10 to K number 10 in the Quan on page 269 and in the oll on page 174 this K has 24 paragraphs corresponding to the 24 mishes the 24 families of kayim each of whom served a week in the b mikdash in succession again a lament of over the B mikdash and the loss of the aod in the bdash the source of all of our [Music] loss [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for for okay we'll say one more Kina here in this first uh set k b just skip the next one and go to Y to the 12th in the art scroll on page 188 in the Coran page 301 it speaks this K focuses on the humiliation the humiliation of the actual place of the B mdash of that place that for for for so that's Al B has and we also have to say right at the outset Kos and the many who have died and they've died because the is not with us you know there's a ramban who says something matter of factly matter of factly in Paras when the Jewish people after that long spinning of the wheels that we had in the midwar that we had in the desert waiting for the new generation so then we started heading to Isel and the P says that after Aon H died the came and waged war against the Jewish peoplei and they took from us Chevy they took from usage Chevy could be a singular word it could be a plural word it could mean they took from us many hostages but Rashi quotes what kazal say that what was taken was one hostage that wasn't even a person who had started off as a Jew it was a hostage was a maid servant who was attached to the Jewish people that was the one hostage who was taken that's what Rashi brings from kazal and the ramban explains why kazal said that and the ramban says the Jewish people would never be overcome by an enemy there would be no losses unless we were doing something wrong if we're doing something wrong then we have victims but otherwise in the battles that the Jewish people fought when we weren't doing something wrong nobody was lost and at this point we didn't see the Jewish people doing anything wrong this was the New Generation generation without the faults of the past so what happened so kazal say it was just one and it wasn't even a member of the Jewish people and says the ran and they got her back because Hashem was with them cuz when hashem's with them when hashem's with us there aren't hundreds of hostages taken there aren't thousands of shouldn't say thousands there aren't a thousand plus more than 1500 people killed it's because it's Tish cuz the Bish was destroyed you know the said we read it in last night Hashem ended his anger so to speak he used up his anger so the famous Med the med says that there's a song to God the came into your proportion they brought destruction upon in many places that's one of the that people have been saying every day in of par it's one of the the that they say every day after after daving appropriately the gorah asks or the excuse me the medish asks r brings this in talks about someone who finally arrived in an understanding of something doesn't say what R says it was this ask m a song to it should be it should be a wailing of us it should be a k it should be a lament of God the G came into your portion and they rendered destruction upon it so what's the answer of the med the answer is this the song is because who vented his anger on the wood and the stones of the bikash and not on the Jewish people so we're happy that only destroyed sticks and stones not people but I have a Kasha what's the Kasha what's the next in they cast the corpses of your servants and as food for the birds of the sky the Flesh of your Pious ones to the wild animals of the earth it's because of the second that that Capal has been said since since October 7 so I have a question used up his anger on the sticks and stones and we were able to just March out okay it's not true and it wasn't just not true on October 7th it wasn't true at theas either tens of thousands of people died so what's the answer there's only one answer to this question excuse me usually don't say there's only one answer to a question question but there's only one answer to this question the answer is imagine if Hashem wouldn't have taken out his anger on the he destroyed the BAM mdash there's been no B mdash for 2,000 years there's a place of the Mish there's a run of the Bas English but it's destroyed there's a different building on that site most multiple buildings on that site there's no B mdash there we console ourselves going to the retaining wall at the foot of the mountain the there's no bdd has been destroyed the Jewish people were never destroyed Jewish people were damaged Jewish people were harmed Jewish people were killed families communities were devastated but the Jewish people weren't destroyed literally but we have to be grateful M of a song Hashem could have taken out the anger and destroyed the Jewish people and he never destroyed the Jewish people he destroyed the B he destroyed communities in the Gaza envelope they should be rebuilt P he destroyed people he even destroyed families but he didn't destroy K Israel so before we go in to speak at greater length about anything let's say kinis on the people who died then and the people who died now on is on the Eternal Jewish people who have sustained so many blows and so much blood and so much loss the kin are filled with words that apply right to what we experience now we're going to say the next K 16 about Titus about the young men and women that he took on boats back to Rome to use for all kinds of things unspeakable things then and now now we'll say that's the 16th K page 361 in the Corin 226 in the art scroll and then the 17th the terrible tragedies on families describes again in unspeakable terms people having to sacrifice their children the devastation which had its own form in the time of the and has had its own form in in our time read them again understand the words to the extent we can read them in English if that is helpful and connect connect bem and now we say and [Music] is for [Music] for for [Music] you for for I'd like us to say one more K focused at this moment focused at this moment on specifically the aim the unspeakable tragedy of those taken captive one of the most known classicos of Tish is L the 36th k written by R Ali it's on page 328 in the art scroll page 555 in the kin again 328 in the artr 555 in the Coran K number 36 it was written by rud Ali a great great lover of Isel speaking about the grief of Israel missing its children and it starts with this line shali don't you inquire about the wellbeing of your captives of your prisoners was not said simply just about hostages we are we are the ones which we speak also the captives of SE the ones taken away entrapped elsewhere there's no comparison whatsoever whatsoever whatsoever between ours that simple meaning and the meaning which is being experienced now for the past 300 plus Days by by the by the by the hostages the image rightfully they and their families of the tragedy which bef so let's just say this Kina before we begin to talk in Greater earnest for [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for for [Music] okay we said six kinis we're going to take a break for a little while from St kenis I warn you in advance that this segment will be a little bit long uh but I'm not apologizing uh this segment yes is when we will start to introduce ourselves to uh the subject of this discussion is his hatred between Jews distance between Jews love between Jews as you will see this is a big part of why we chose to focus on who was a remarkable bridging [Music] personality who brought people together groups of people together who was connected to everyone he didn't heal the large but he healed it in some way and that's something to see and something to learn from but we're going to focus on this without apology and without hesitation we can never forget for One Moment In all that has transpired we can never forget October 6th we can never forget yum Kipper of T we can never forget the year before that of unprecedented in our memory in our recent experience hatred between Jews expressed openly significantly shared many times you know that if if I would have had time to think when somebody came over to me onas like Ashen to say the beginnings of what had happened if I would have time that time to have like a back and forth so like what's going on and they would have said something happened in there what would I have said what would I have thought I would have thought that a bunch of Jews killed a bunch of Jews that's what I would have thought that's what you would have thought after reading about everything that had that had happened this began with sin drastic that was even noticed by our enemies and fed into their decision it's p it's simple this is not like Torah here people have evidence of it their own Communications whether the everyone they looked they said the Jewish people they're destroying themselves the Jewish people look at that the people aren't even going to show up to the Army like the Jewish the the Jewish people are so distracted by having to manage their own internal torment and protest and everything else they don't have they're not they're not focusing on the security issues from the outside or they're underst staffed from focusing on it we literally killed ourselves we are our own worst enemies sometimes excuse me it's TI it's a day of din it's a day of din it's a day of you may have noticed in those kinos you know that we rebuked a couple of times at the end of those kinos so we talk about what happened to us but we don't talk about what we did so we need to talk about what we did we need to talk about what we did and what we're doing again cuz October 9th was fantastic there wasn't a Jew that wouldn't do anything for another Jew there wouldn't wasn't a Jew that would say anything negative about another je we were all emotion and then the emotions couple of months later subsided and then again we became people of principles not of emotions and a does not rank high on our principles when it comes to making decisions about what we'll do what we won't do what we'll say what we won't say you know unfortunately doesn't rank high and then there's the Gap I was awakened to this Gap to this kazal that draws the picture of this Gap by uh an exceptional human being who I had the privilege to to meet and spend time with his name is haay ler I heard him mention this when in y he mentioned this gamorra and it I just latched I heard him I was I had the privilege to be in maraz on the night of Y and he's a graduate of merav and he spoke there and he mentioned this gor it's a gor in G one of the goras were allowed to learn [Music] today the discussion of the destruction of the there were 300,000 people with unshed swords that entered the area called tural otherwise known as har the mountain of the king it's an area which is described substantially there in the gar in gon an area in ER Isel which was extremely populated kazal use Lang use numbers which are off the chart it's unimaginable millions of people whether it's literal whether it's figurative lots of people and which endure terrible destruction at the hands of the Romans and it describes here 300,000 soldiers bearing arms unshed swords came into orala and they were killing in tala for three days and three nights and on the other side of town there was celebrations going on and they didn't even realize there was a massacre happening on the other end of town they had no WhatsApp they didn't know what was going on on the other end of town so I read that gamorra for decades of my life and I said this is another way of the gor saying how big the city was it was so big that you could have 300,000 soldiers doing a massacre for three days and three nights on one end of the city and news doesn't even arrive noise doesn't even arrive to the other end of the city how big that city was and then he opened my eyes that no no no that that's an image that the gorah is drawing of a city where some people are getting killed and other people can still celebrate and one has no idea what the other one is going through and it seems it seems that that gamorra that little line in the gamorra is just a continuation of the theme of that gamar which is that y was destroyed because of sin and C can start with principled hatred right which is still K it's still for nothing because it's so destructive to everybody one gets nothing from it it is completely counterproductive that's K but it also comes with being disconnected the experience of one from the experience of another I would just note to you a thought when you think about Tisha what do you think about harabas the house the mountain of the temple the Temple Mount this was har the mountain of the king this was where the main population of the Jewish je people was they were no longer centered around the unifying b mikdash instead it was the place of the king mdash we say Friday night it was the mdash of the king it was moved to when he became king of a unified Jewish people when they start when they all gathered around and said okay now I can come toim right if we're divided I don't belong there unified we belong there the shifts of the center of gravity moved to a place called called har not harab just a kingdom not a Holy Kingdom and therefore it was divided we were when Hashem was at our Center and Har one half of the city was being bludgeoned and the other half of the city was celebrating and one had no idea what was going on with the other we have no idea KRA us people in we have no idea we have no idea as we mentioned before the fear the Panic that what I just did brings to people the fear of the knock on the door I mentioned to some of you before neighborhoods where people do not knock on their NE neighbor's door anytime if they need a cup of sugar they send the text it's not part of that terrible development of Technology no no no they don't want to knock on somebody's door because that somebody has two sons and one son-in-law in the army or a husband or a father and the Army doesn't text they come to the door and they knock on the door could you imagine living like that for a week for a month with a child with a husband with a father out there in a tank out of a tank running an Alleyways I mean like I don't know about you like I see some of these little videos that the Israeli Army sends I say like what on Earth are they doing like how do they do this stuff it's wild it's crazy they're fighting in a schematic way it's like could you imagine if it's your child like and we live life as usual on one side of the city there are 300,000 people with unsheathed swords attacking brutalizing not for 3 days and three nights for 10 months and on the other side of Cl Israel some of us on the other side of the ocean others in the same very little land one doesn't know what the other one is going through there's a gap and there's hatred there's a gap without hatred does anybody here hate anybody there on the other side heaven forbid but there's a gap it's in the Gap that hatred can grow right a is the word for cruel in the book of it comes as two words but estranged Rashi notes it cruelty starts with estrangement with being disconnected will your brothers go to war and you sit here can't be disconnected you know just to grasp it a drop it's not the solution but to grasp it a drop when we read that para so what did we read we read how ruen and God came and said we want to be on this side of the yarding we want to stay here we want these cities M says what how could you do that you're showing you're not ready to go to Israel you're showing you're afraid to go to Israel You're MIM too what you can't do that and either they clarify or they correct and they say no no no we'll go to battle we just want to come back and settle here this is good land this is good land for us so says okay well if you'll do that okay if you'll do that it'll be okay and what does he do he gives on that side of the yard to Ru to God and to half of masas who never even asked for it why did he add half of sh masas if they didn't asked for it the land was too big for one for just ruen and God to get it so he needed to give it to somebody else so do what plan a was give it to get divided into 12 splots and give everybody a little sliver there but what M did was he said there are two things which bother me here one thing that bothers me is that the main part of ill is on the other side of the yarding and these people don't seem to mind being on the East bank so I'm going to put somebody there who Minds cuz manasha manasha is the shavid from which which the daughters of came right who said we we need to have a portion in Earth Israel manasha was the son of YF who was the king of Egypt for years who when his father said please bury me in is y said of course was that's what described ysep loved Israel so he said these guys have an easy time being outside of Israel Ru and God they're choosing to I want to put somebody there who's going to really have a hard time being outside is so that there'll be people in who year for Isel in their portion for Isel and you know what else bothers me what else bothers me is that they're disconnecting themselves from the fate of their brothers and tribes can do that they can say we are the ruines we are the goods we are the the the labor rites we are thetive we are the this and make our own family so said I'm going to take Masha and split them in two and they'll there's no way they're going to be able to say oh we're over here and they're over there half of our family is on the other side ha lost a son Jonathan in the war I I came to to my office once we sat together for a while he gave me a picture of his son I have his picture I have his son's picture hanging in my office just on the side where only the person sitting at the desk can see it um he's a beautiful boy uh long curly pis and a beard clean shaven um and a smile in his eyes that's gold and you look at him you say okay he I tell you I don't know the details but something related to breast you know he became very very passionate neic whatever you want to call it beautiful boy was killed his wife was 7 months pregnant their second child um and kaga is an exceptional person he's an exceptional person many exceptional things one exceptional thing was that he when he was he and his wife were at his her son's uh grave on the at the moment that their daughter-in-law was in the hospital giving birth they went to DAV there when their when their child when their daughter-in-law was giving birth and Har Herzel the military C Cemetery somebody came over over to them said what's going on they wanted to reach out to them family of bereaved obviously and um and he said well you know his wife is giving birth now we want to we're ding for her and the person said oh it's such a tragedy and they got upset with him they said a tragedy a child's being born in Cloud that's a tragedy child's being born in her Israel and that's a so this man who who who is a has a remarkable remarkable life of accomplishment uh he started a movement which you might have read about it just the last couple of days cuz just a couple of days ago they made 100 protests at a 100 different intersections in Earth Israel and none of those intersections did they block traffic they wanted to have I don't I don't know if if they ended up having it I imagine they did 100 people in a 100 places protesting for Unity everybody at the protest is smiling they're holding up signs which say in one form or another doesn't sound like we'll get much traction what do you think who was he V kak was uh a r in Germany didn't start off that way run quickly through his life his father was schlomo Salomon carak he was a RV in a small Jewish city called Lubec he was a first generation RV his father-in-law was a RV there were abon him in his wife's family but not in his own he was the first kak his father was a farmer prosperous and fr farmer and he became a RV there in Lubec he went to be a r and a m and an educator and um and uh he had a very large family very large family many sons and daughters if I'm correct maybe eight sons and four daughters or nine sons and four daughters very large family and a huge proportion of them became Ron there's like a carb dynasty of rabbis but it started with him it started with the father of R and remarkably all of his CH many of his children wanted to follow in their father's wanted to follow in their Father's Footsteps and did so with great distinction although many of them died or were or were or were killed so carak was raised in Lube Lubec there was no Yeshiva there was no Yeshiva in Lubec the carbs had a man his name was morai gimple who was a single man he never married he lived with them in Luc and he was the school for all of their children from young to old he was their Rabbi and taught them and evidently taught them very well and uh and and they learned as well secular studies that they learned in a school and um andak he he left home and he went to Berlin to go to university where he studied a whole bunch of disciplines including physics and the Sciences um and uh Literature Like a real real man of letters and at the same time he was unofficially uh studying as well in the Riner seminar in the in the famous hildesheimer seminar in Berlin so Yesa in Berlin and he was not a formal student there but he studied there he always studied Tyra but he was he studied the sciences and while he was there as he as he graduated and again we could talk about his Proficiency in the science is he he wrote a paper parallel when when when Einstein was working on relativity he wrote a paper to explain relativity okay he didn't he didn't beat Einstein to the punch but he he he delivered it to the masses like a real like a full-blown paper which had which was was wi widely in a very very prominent journal and this was like he was a serious serious scientist he was a student of Max plank right famous famous German professor and um in March 1905 5 he graduated to be qualified as a high school teacher in math and science Summer come loud on that very day Ephraim K who was the principal of the leml teacher Seminary of yush was a school in Yim of Kes of religious and secular subjects he arrived in Berlin he was looking for a teacher in math and science on that very day seated in a Jewish restaurant he noticed a group of young men eagerly surrounding Joseph congratulating him on his very successful completion of his studies he says wow I came here for a math and science teacher and there's a from the position to Joseph but it was a position which was very controversial why was it controversial because the Lemo school was inim there was a a a uh decree so to speak against secular studies being taught in and so the school was in should he go or shouldn't he go why should Joseph San of the highly revered rever Solomon C on holy soil furthermore there simply was no significant Western European presence in y at the beginning of the 20th century how would he adapt to an alien cultural environment up the circle of his Torah teachers friends and colleagues in Berlin with whom he had established close spiritual ties he turned to his father for advice with love for Torah and mitzvas and you hesitate and then he said even if I had a son in Yim who was a beggar I would thankes on my knees each day for showing me such kindness additionally he had the endorsement of the faculty of the hild stop he went to to teach at a school which was in to teach secular studies his goal was to imbue them in t mitzvas teaching them secular studies that was his that was his first stop there was an article published in their israelit which was a a strong or periodical in Germany which uh was written in condemnation of this school in Israel so RAV uh not RAV he wasn't a RAV yet so wrote an article back to the israelit a long article long article H it's published in the back of a volume called correspondence between you don't could I try to fill you in on information which you might not have cuz you are a bit far away and he explained that it's true that there was a a group of rabbis who put a on it but the rabbis of Y didn't put a on it in fact when five or six of the ashkanazi which was sign Arian Oru disin Etc that that strand that did put them in but they lost they wanted to put them but they lost and it was a big city who was the rav of at the time was rash salant had a bit of a relationship with Sal I don't know if we'll have a chance to get into all the details but he visited on a Friday night after the of and he was of he was not uh there there were famous R who were more strong and extreme than he was and there were certainly many who were who were less quote unquote about him and it's written about him than many other toar it's after two years of teaching there and rash salant wished him well and said I hope you come back soon get married right that was that was part of the issue get married and then come back soon and and teach here and said who was there next to him just like nowadays where he was the god of he had a grandson next to him who was helping him understand like the conversation and said you know andm said to him it's very important that they should have people who are y on members of their community that they shouldn't go to that school they want to maintain their way they want to lay down their values in a certain place they want to plant their flag in a certain place okay that's fine but there are others to come back here and to be able and to be able to teach there in the article amongst other things and he wrote about something like that because there were many who were like who had no options the to have an option when there was as as a result of that being impoverished and and and other things there was widespread defections as well from from that Community Yim of what you have for yourself cuz really all that they were trying to do was they were trying to build that which was the model exactly in Germany of putting them together of being able to in that uh in that school and in that place that spoke very harsh and in condemning terms of another group in CLA Isel which were the mrai and again articles in the israelit and again rabak wrote many times as a person with impeccable credentials as part of the Auda but he said You know here you have another group of people who also they were making choice to go about trying to increase Torah and connection to Torah in a way that's not my choice he said but it's their choice and it's a serious choice and it's a responsible choice so like we want to uphold our way because there hate let's uphold our way let's go and promote our way but why does upholding our way mean that we have to say that the other way has no place and has no room we want to build our community around how we do it fine but why does that mean that we say the others have no place and have no legitimacy and this happens in our time and at all times from one side to the other from one side to the other in this side they're singing in this side they're crying in this side they're doing this and this side they're doing that like two different worlds and the other one can't exist andak worked to make sure that it did exist I'm going to run through a little bit more so you just understand the Stations of his life and how he did this so he came back from is okay now this is I I still have to get confirmation of this but his daughter Miriam uh Gillis carak or carak Gillis who survived the war she left earlier and she was in a Israel and she dedicated she was a scholar and she dedicated a lot of her life to studying The Works of her father and published many valuable books she records and she records that when he came back he couldn't get a job as a science teacher in the Jewish school in Berlin because he had taught in the LL School in yush which was in which was was in so for the first year he couldn't teach in a Jewish school uh he did get into the Berlin R rabiner seminar remember they encouraged him to go and they knew him and they he got into the Berlin rabiner seminar and he was a full-time student he was not a full-time he was a a student in the Berlin Rabin Seminary he became there he got SM during those years he was teaching in in a in a non-jewish school he got SM uh he was a fix in Berlin teaching teaching in Jewish schools and then his father was was nft his father passed away and uh he moved he was asked to come to Lubec to become the rabbi in Lubec which was where his father was the rav and he was the rav in Lubec for a year when he was the Raven Lubec he brought with him somebody we had met in the middle a middle that excuse me I'm sorry I skipped skipped such an important part of his life I apolog olizee terrible terrible Omission so in between in around 1914 um he uh or or a little bit later the Germans had in World War I had conquered areas of uh of Lithuania of Poland and Lithuania and they they brought in German Jews who were then again they weren't then it wasn't part of the program to destroy the Jewish Community they wanted to somehow work with the Jewish Community this was the first world war this was pre Hitler so they actually brought in as an adviser on Jewish Affairs the brother in Poland of Emanuel kbak was the adviser on Jewish Affairs who work closely with the gbba to help with managing the government expectations in terms of in terms of having secular studies in the and he managed that with the G and then probably because of him or because of a different member of the family rosbach was appointed by the German Army to be the Jewish uh in charge of Jewish Affairs for the education in kova kova which was which was a very significant City in Lithuania the part which was under German control and he there uh established a gimnasia a school it was became known as the kbak gimnasia it lived it outlived you know his presence there till the Holocaust and it was a school with first for boys then for girls you know both with hundreds in the end more than a thousand students teaching Torah and secular studies embraced by the community so much so that the the Yosef Le BL who was the Riva of TS and the r the rash of TS asked together with Leo deander to create a system of schooling for them and it became the system of schooling in tels in pavage in kova it was called yav it's still today in Cleveland you have yav schools that's because of that's carrying carrying carrying that yav Seminary carrying carrying that name it was established by him because they knew that he would be able to help a community that needed to have something Beyond just the study of of of Torah alone what the traditional had done and to do it in the way of Tyra and they looked to him fascinatingly there's a letter from RAF cuk in the letters of RAF cuk it's letter number 363 if anyone is interested to look at it it's a letter which he got from a certain R who wanted to come comes here at Isel and was inquiring about options for his child okay there was no Neeses yet so he's asking so he says look the gimnasia which was the sort of like the secular high school he said according to the way it is right now if Cook was an optimist the state which it's in right now we have nothing to do with it they actively uproot every root of amuna and they they work to extinguish any spark of faith in the hearts of their students okay so that's um that's uh this is R cook writing okay right so he says we can't have anything to do um this is the experiment [Music] of of Na ISM torn from from from Jewish sanctity he says it's an experiment with the souls of our people to see how a heretical nationalism what it raises we know from the beginning we know from the beginning that this is an experiment which will not succeed they have simply they've chosen for themselves New Gods this is R cook writing about that he says the seminar leim in Y which is referring to Lemo he says it's better clap relative to the gimnasia but there as well the roots of Holiness are not deep enough that we could expect it to produce prees fruits which are holy and and and worthwhile the streams the current of the new time require a much more powerful Spirit more than that which that Seminary gives but I don't know it as well and this is important to know why because this Seminary had a really big problem the founding principal of the Seminary LL was the donor was in in Europe the founding principal was someone named Ludwig Frankle who was the son of Zakaria Frankl Zakaria Frankle was one of the founders of conservative Judaism non-orthodox Judaism and Ludwick Frankle was very complicated he was he looked many there in the faculty looked very very assimilated and was I mean he wrote a book called yush and he said we don't need Yim anymore right now we're able to go out and bring the message of Yim to the to the world and he came as the Headmaster which was a big problem but the Bashi the r of made it to deal with him that he it has to be a school which is friendly to Faith so it was friendly to Faith but its roots were not deep and R kak himself wrote that it was a disappointment to him the level the depth of it and he worked to do his part in order to make it more and he writes fascinating theories back in the early again this is in 1906 he's writing this and it's it's relevant one one which is less relevant one which is more Rel he says first of all he says the the the in Isel it's too easy to be Jewish right this is in 1906 he says it's too easy to be Jewish and people don't therefore have the passion for Mitzvah that you have to have when doing Mitzvah requires like a real decision a countercultural decision he said as as as Rach said there was no more Rich seder l PES than in the Morano Cellar because everything that they did was an act of commiss commitment of principle of defiance he says here there in Israel it's default Judaism and that's a critique and that's an issue which remains that remains to this day he also said and this was said from his said then again the the religious community the was very very poor extremely poor and he said there's no hi Mitzvah there's no Beauty around Mitzvah and that's I think something which has been has been healed all around uh in in a very very good measure but ra RAF cuk goes on and says he says you know what we need here we need here what Toni is starting to offer which was a school that started in Europe and moved there and he says through expert teachers from Germany he says they've already brought together under the tutelage of the earlier generation of of gim of that place r h and ra hildesheimer they're able to engage with the world with a tremendous passion devoted to their faith and to their fulfillment of mitv they bring them together and therefore that's the solution ruk saw them as the solution the same way Raga movich as we've discussed in years past said I'm going to take rers to build a day school movement here in the United States because refers is the one person who managed to turn reform back and it's the the same reason why Rio BL went to the German Jews to do the same thing and was the it's the it's the same reason which recurs over and over and over again and you know what that is that's the ability to bring them both together the same Rak was with later be sent okay so I I would Define it as like as uh having had multiple stages in his life in the first stage he went and he taught secular studies in a community that was dominated by the old ISU and he was mostly Pana amongst the people to his right he was in then he came back and he was put as the face of the ger Army to impose a system where there would be Torah and secular studies and so he necessarily engaged with that community in kova to do it for them and then instead of imposing it people turned to him and said could you actually do more of that here and there ended up being a 100 Schools based on the model that he and Leo deander built that was stage three but there's stage four stage four happened decades later when R calak was back into the rabanas after he was the Raven Lubec for a year he left Lubec to become the Headmaster of a school in of a very large school in Hamburg his passion was which we'll talk about in the next segment and then he was summoned to be the Rabin Alona which is a neighboring Community there were three communities that were traditionally bound together Alona Hamburg and vatc and he was he was the rav of Alona which was a smaller community and from there he went on a trip he went on a trip which was called Masa Kor the turn the the journey for the Torah for Torah funding and it was a trip which was taken by the Western the aura arranged of Western European Jews to see the world of yeshivos and the world of East European jewy not just yeshivas butus of East European jury I've I read to you something from this last year when we talked about sarir and we talked there then again CU SAR was also the same thing it was a revolution in to continue the generation which came from German Jews she was a student she was a she was polish she was from kraal but she was exposed to the teachings of Raam RAF H in Vienna during the first world war and she brought staff from sh H they're there at every part of the Revolution it's a remarkable thing it's a remarkable thing a school of K which doesn't even exist anymore really in large in large measure uh or has is s severely not it was the father of all the schools of that we have functioning in thriving today and he went with a bunch of people academics and others rabim on a trip in Eastern Europe to see the yeshivas where he fell in love with the world of the yeshivas and I want to just read to you a few words from the account which he published of this trip this summer trip an educational trip a trip of experience visiting places of Torah alel pilgrimage service of hem what was going on here exactly this event of Karan Tor brought together 20 people from seven different countries of 15 different academic areas of expertise and economic areas through Czechoslovakia Galia uh uh the Czech Republic wasn't Czechoslovakia Gala Poland L Vina which is Vienna and vilna it was that and much more it was a brilliant idea like everything of Great Value it fulfilled its its promise and Way Beyond what it expected it was a it was an absolute novelty in Jewish life Brothers going to visit and meet their other brothers it was symbolic it was a symbolic Gathering Together of the exile of meeting and of getting to know of achieving a a togetherness and he describes in beautiful terms what it was like he describes it's like the kala waiting for her to show up at the bin you know like waiting to see each other like long lost relatives East and West we came to know and to understand and they got to know us we came to hear and they heard us in the end it was impossible to separate do the people of the West want to know the people of the east or do the people of the East want to know the people of the West it was a conversation between East and West between those who had been separate from each other for such a long time and then he writes to get to know always means to get to know yourself through somebody else that's what happened the Fuller Jewish life that we in Western Europe are missing filled us being able to forget oneself in learning being engrossed in learning a passionate involvement in Fila we carry those with us from there as now a holy yearning for our own lives the rabbis that we year so much to to meet them they were seeing them became an experience of Love of love that allowed us to be able to see so sharply to understand to agree a curiosity that became something very internal the Enchantment of seeing something different that touched our hearts that made us all as if we were all Yesa of gur members of the luin Yesa or of Bratislava cers they all soaked up something into them we got to know each other and then we had to separate that was the way it was and this is deeply deeply real deeply symbolic he became a champion of a way of life which was different than his because there was a meeting that was not a meeting of it was a meeting of connection of connection he was people from one end from one end to the to the other this was his his space doing uh doing both so I want to to to uh to just take you one more step in the gor so that we can understand this meaning I I it's nice to tell stories it's nice to tell stories it's nice to learn about such a person it's nice to learn about the possibility but we have to drill it down to the principle that makes it work okay so we have one principle and that principle which he says is you know you have a way Champion that way but that doesn't mean that that excludes somebody else from having a way as long as that way is you know valid with Torah now again of course I could always say the reason why I don't hold that way is because I say that it's invalid but we all understand that there are certain basic rules of of uh of uh of of uhor that there's some space within there and that you know that's that's one thing but let's I'd like to take it with you a step further a mindset further serious mindset further there's another piece in the gor in G that gor of it's a famous famous story it's the story of R Ben Zak and aspan and vpan you remember what happened you there's a Siege to Unbreakable Siege but the good news is they have lots of resources they have enough to be able to withstand a very prolonged period of Siege and they'll hold out but they were Baron in y what are Baron right we always don't find a better translation than Whipper Snappers they were people who did not like the idea of a holding pattern they wanted resolution and they wanted it quick and the baron went and they destroyed they burned a flame all the reserves of Yim in wood in Grain and oil so it forced a confrontation you can't just stay here in a holding pattern and just mind the ramp parts you know you're going to have to either surrender or you're going to have to go to war which they wanted to go to war Rak did not want to go to war R Zak's nephew was the head of the baronin of yusan and he invited him called him in he said you're doing the wrong thing I need to get out of Y and I need you to help me and he helped him and they smuggled out Zak in a coffin as if he was dead they smuggled them outside of and he comes to see vaspian and it's a complicated conversation some of you are very familiar with the gor because of time I'm not going to go into every detail but every detail matches this understanding okay so you you'll look at it now so so famously ingratiates himself to this person he comes to him he calls him a king he helps him understand what's happening in the future the man is overwhelmingly impressed with r Zak he only upset that R Zak didn't come earlier R Zak said to come earlier I would have had to destroy yush right I'd have to do that I had to I had I want to pres you want me to go and make conversation I don't want to destroy I want to I want to preserve the the jar of honey so to speak as he says over there in the gumar okay so he says but I'm so impressed with you and while he was there he was indeed made the king he was indeed got a note that the king had died the kesar had died and he was being summoned back so he said but before I go and send somebody to replace me I want to tell me what you want I grant you three wishes and theor says took away from him his wisdom he should have said don't destroy yush but he didn't instead he asked for the sages of yav yav where the Sanhedrin was was now relocated he asked for the dynasty of R Gamel to be preserved and he asked for a doctor to heal R the who had been fasting for 40 years to avert the so the gor says like what was he thinking so what he was thinking was that if he'd asked for too much he wouldn't get anything fuba F it's a principle if you go for too much you won't get anything so he asked for Less so tell me something was he right or was he wrong who made him not ask for it maybe the person would have said yes but hasem planted the future through R we know R Zak was the H of the Jewish people he was the one who continued from the students of Hill it was all about that's why we bench lul seven days on sukus because of rakak was the rock of the future of the Jewish people and Hashem made him think a certain way and you know what that way was that way was that it's not all or nothing R Zak's three requests were that it's not all or nothing think about it there are three areas of strength of the Jewish people when we were at strength the crown of kahuna the crown of malus and the crown of Torah the crown of kunun was now almost irrelevant the Bish was being destroyed R Zak accepted that the Bish was being destroyed so he said I want you to preserve for me the crown of Torah y I want you to preserve for me this glimmer of hope which has arisen which is the dynasty of re G Hill was the godor and for the first time they transferred his leadership to his son why so Rami panu explains that they did it because they discovered that hillo was a great grandchild of DAV and they realized that they hadn't had a king it was the second end of the second B they hadn't had a king for who knows how long of the Jews but now the leader of the Jewish people was actually just as B was being destroyed was a glimmer was D's Dynasty is back and so they gave it as you see in P they gave a generation after generation to ra and shim Andi andilo the younger right it was all he he said we have it back preserve for me that dynasty and what was the third request the third request was a doctor to heal R what's the what what what's that doing there it's not a big request it's a small request what was it it was a huge request it was a symbolic request and a practical request the Practical request was he wanted rtic to get better but the symbolic request was he was telling Rak to stop fasting why should he stop fasting he said stop fasting like stop fasting you know there's a story in SE B is per B where DAV had a son with Beva but his marriage to BV was complicated Andi rebuked him for the for the marriage to Bach and he told him son that the son that he would have with B the first son would die and he had the child and the child was very sick and David fasted and he fasted and he prayed and he fasted and he prayed and he fasted and he prayed and he fasted and one day they came to him and they said he or he figured out from the way they were talking to each other they didn't say to him straight out that the child had died so said bring me lunch bring me a change of clothing there was no Hil too young they said what's going on when he was sick you were fasting and now that he died you're you're eating and D said when he was sick I was praying that he should get better but now it's over and I have to move on okay so let's not speak for a moment let's avoid for a moment the issues of grief but that's the story of I said you fasted for 40 years you put in an immense effort that we shouldn't come to this point but we're here it's done Bas of this is destroyed it hasn't been physically destroyed yet but it's going to be destroyed I need now to plan for aoic for the future he's going to stop fasting he needs a doctor to heal him I've given up on the crown of kunun for now let's go to T and what was don't be theim don't say All or Nothing don't say my way or the highway you live in a world there are different parties there are different complexities you can't have everything necessarily live with it taught us how to live with it and this is the explanation of a very very basic question that one has to ask oneself why what's the question the gor says in that H had many students I'll read to you the gar 30 were worthy of having the Divine Spirit upon them like Moshe 30 could stop the sun in its tracks like yosua and 20 b in him and 20 average the greatest of his students was y v the smallest of his students was r Z but don't worry they said about Z that he didn't leave mikra Mish he knew knew all of the he knew as it says the big things and the little things what were the big things he knew the story of The Chariot in which we read on Shu morning or which we sleep through on shu's morning right the depiction of The Chariot ofes of the vision of hasem and the small things were the discussions of and in the G he knew it all says the gamorra if that's the small one you could imagine what the big one was so tell me by when he learned Terra birds that flew overhead got burned up that's the gamar so I have a question for you who was the greatest student of H who was the smallest student of who was the successor of whatever it is whatever it is was ma from Hill so can I ask you why should his successor be the smallest of the students shouldn't it be the best of the students certainly not the smallest good question what's the answer to the question the answer to the question I would like to suggest to you is is in the gamar itself because the gamar uses the expression guttle and cuton twice it uses the expression about the GLE of the students and the cuton of the students and it speaks about learning GLE of learning burning D G and D coton a big thing and a small thing the big thing was y's Chariot that the mishna tells us most people can't learn you can't learn it it's not for you and if I may I will read to you from the language of the rambam in H after he teaches pares after he teaches the mystical secrets that most people can't learn he writes a says the four who entered to study this they couldn't all get it even though they were the greatest of the Jewish people and I say the only people should do this are people who have already filled their themselves with the with what we would call the meat and potatoes of Torah learning to know what's forbidden what's what's permitted even though called these the small things because they said is is this nevertheless person must fill themselves up with them first why because they're they make a person's mind clear they are the great good that gave to settle the world in order to have the world to come and everybody can have them is not something unimportant the Doon is that which everyone can have and when it says was it doesn't mean that he was the smallest of them all it means he was the accessible of them all he was the one who made it you didn't have to be on an extreme was Birds got burnt up when they went near near him probably not just Birds was worried about the that would teach the M says who stopped him from saying everything from the tum ofm never stopped could reach everybody and that's why he was the successor of hillo because to continue Tyra you can't just reach some you have to be able to reach all and only could have five with five different directions with five different mid with five different things that they thought was most important to do and most important to avoid five different things they all came out from and those five people made sure that the Jewish people continued not that a pocket of the Jewish people continued so people say there's a famous statement attributed to Gim that the last guttle to come from Germany was the ire who was the rebi of the rebi of rers who was the rebi ofel H and so so for he was the last gut is on every bookshelf when you learn when you learn when you learn you have you don't have from any of these other people that you use for that he was the last guttle it's true and then they had R who was C and H who was C just like was CAU in and we're here today because of them we're here today because of them everyone's everywhere because of them cuz y Ben was self-destructing so the tarov said we need them and secular Zionism was self-destructing and ref cook said we need them an American Jewelry was nothing and or Shaga F love it said we need them and there was no for women in CL Isel and they were homeless and SAR said we need thema I'm a big fan of extremes what I would have given to be able to go on that tour of luin and gear not to visit the cemeteries and the empty buildings never did that it's not that high on my bucket list to see Lin functioning to see G functioning see to see in v in Ren to be in the mirror and tells give anything if not for them we also would have nothing but it's the them who said them and them who recognized is it's all mine none of it is yours and said some of it is mine and some of it is yours you know what the recipe is for sin the recipes for is the recipe for is it's my way you have no legitimacy here your approach is wrong I can prove it to you wrong I read an article that explains why you're wrong that's the recipe for the recipe for Unity is for East to go on a tour of West and to come back and say there are things there that I don't have have and I want to bring them back so desperately do you know that R literally brought a souvenir with him from slabodka his name was RA rabinov he brought him back to Lubec he said I want to have a Yeshiva in Lubec I'm the r in Lubec I want to have Yesa Lubec he brought back a Lithuanian guttle to be the rashash Shiva there in Lubec and when he left Lubec he brought him with him to Hamburg and then he brought brought him to Altuna and then he brought him back to Hamburg and then after Hitler Rose to power at some point they bet a tearful farewell everywhere he went I need that flavor here we don't have all the answers he saw things that he didn't have in others and he said I don't have it all it's not Kish it's not all mine that's is it's only my way I I told you was going to be long I'm sorry now I'm apologizing so I want to tell you one more thing to think about about the current situation and then I want to move into the one more thing I want you to think about is that did something astounding in response to our okay you can agree with this Theory or you can reject this Theory I just think it's astounding what Hashem did Hashem made part of sim October 7th that there there will be 200 hostages taken and those 200 plus hostages have families loved ones friends and I have no idea how those families survive I don't know how a person sleeps at night wakes up in the morning thinking about a child a spouse a parent of theirs in the hands of monsters I don't know how and they have one thing that matters to them and that is bring them home now how can you not you have to bring them home now at any price and then you have other people who do not have family members who are hostages and they say one second gained his freedom in a hostage deal together with a thousand other murderers who went out and murdered and look what he did like are we crazy oh we believe the hostages should come home right now no conditions no exchanges is right you know if we can give you some cement we'll give you some cement but we're not giving you murders we're not going down that road again who could possibly think that it would make sense to go that down that road again so how do you hold you understand that Hashem created an argument which is irresolvable it's essential impossible for the two sides to see the correctness of the other for each side to see the correctness of the other and and by the way that's what we're fighting about now amongst other things sin can't see the other person's position this is a case where it's understandable actually that you can't see the other person's position but what about all the other arguments that we have okay so I want to move on to now you might say maybe we should say a and then move on to we could have a break no but this is is when we remember although interestingly on yum we mention it on Tish we don't mention the fact that it's for the 10 Brothers of Y and and for that which is the original of the Jewish people where brothers sold each other into slavery but that's one reason if this was a focus on we should do that right now the but remember is also distance I'm sorry is also distance just the Gap and harus are also not just RAB AKA and RAB and but as the gor teaches us the that nobody could be in their company in the world to come who are they papus and lulos did you ever read about them are they sages in the mishna and the Gara nope and their names don't sound like they were from the most Hamish a crowd even back then those are very assimilated names but what happened was that there was a a princess of the governor that was harmed and what did they do they blamed it on the Jews and they were ready to go and do a pug rum against the Jewish people so papus and lulana said why are you upset at the rest of them it was the two of us and they took it and they absorbed the punishment and the Jewish people were SP spared they gave their lives for the Jewish people and because of that they har malus that's what they're called in the gamorra nobody could be in their company and you all know because it's been said and repeated many times that raitz in 1973 during the yipper war told his students every Israeli soldier is the everyone everyone will read about him in this K he said every day I read I said when will I have a chance to to fulfill this from this we learn it's brought in it's from sources in but it's brought in all everybody a person when they say should say I'm ready to give up my life that's what is was said by people who gave up their lives you should love hem with all your soul you're ready to give up your life so every day when you say shma you should say I'm ready to give up my life right okay now compare that to a soldier who's going out to battle who his Commander says to him um Daniel before you go write a letter to your family write them a note you don't know what's going to happen I don't write a note to my family however important it is I don't have that experience of even Imagining the m nees and so to bridge the gap between people on one side of the ocean and the other people on one side of the of the Tor and the other let's quickly talk about [Music] 10 people who gave their lives we do it very very briefly but we must do it I must find it and we must do it yeah here 10 people who gave their lives a man named a young man named Zakaria habber a father of three children left behind his parents his parents made Aliyah uh he was a talmid in harion reportedly the the turned the lights on in the morning turned the lights off at night he wrote in manuscript of safer which I saw which is Taste of something on everything on every subject uh he got two degrees in agriculture at the Hebrew University in rovot and started a doctorate he had a whole method of growing crops under drought conditions he was honored with a postumus doctorate this this year after he was killed after he was killed in battle he didn't have to go to battle he was a reservist family older he didn't have to go to battle he went for CLA isra two feet away from me on shabas morning we sat here for over an hour when man cson spoke about his brother elhanan he could have been speaking about himself but he's alive to tell the tale Alan cman son who picked up his got on got on his uniform picked up his gun said to his brother if you're ready in 15 minutes you can come come with me otherwise I'm going and they went and they spent hours and hours better part of a day in B Under Fire bringing a hundred people out of saams back and forth and back and forth and back and forth until alhan a father of several children was killed there in bayug malus schl rashnikov you ever hear of him I doubt it I went looking SCH ratnikov was 20 years old yes he was Russian his name was Dimitri he made Aliyah alone at 14 years old and hadn't seen his parents since he was adopted an Israeli family he adopted being a Jew being a caring Jew someone wrote that they said in once you're you're you're a lone soldier he said no I'm a soldier like everybody else I earned to be part of my people like everybody else yonatan ler I told you about him already the son of the son of hagay the son whose second child was born two months after he was killed Daniel Perez son of dear friend exceptional exceptional human being R doron Paris the head of mrai internationally Danielle and his brother were fighting on October 7th meters away from each other without knowing that the other one was there Danielle was in a tank his brother had picked up his gun left his fiance and driven Danielle was stationed there his brother Jonathan went there Jonathan was having his ey for that chabis he was getting married he got married a few days later Yan was was wounded Danielle was missing they went ahead with the wedding I'm sure you've saw about it or read about it it's well known months and months that they didn't know that he was alive months and months by the way of parents of a hostage who said the government should do what's what's best somehow transcended amazing can't expected of anybody government should do what's best and he was a Danielle was a kman he was a lively kid and his parents saw that he when he went and enlisted in the Israeli Army he changed because he now defined his life as doing for the Jewish people you know I've I've shared many times a remarkable Insight from rautner that he said doesn't start with that's the theological part Hashem is our Lord he commands us he is the one and only that's what we believe about him that's also is I'm part of the Jewish people that has to be part of it and these people undertook to be part of the Jewish people and he wrote that when he went to Poland in high school and he saw what happened he realized and he coined for himself a phrase as me if not me then whom and he made it his personal responsibility to give his life for other Jews which he did Ben man grandchild of olim 22 years old he wrote one of those messages I'm writing this message to you on my way to the base if you're reading this something has probably happened to me as you know me there's probably no one happier than me right now I was just about to fulfill my dream I'm grateful for the privilege to defend our beautiful land of Israel and he goes on and then he says if God forbid I fall captive alive or dead I'm not willing for a soldier or civilian to be harmed because of any deal for my release I did not allow you to conduct a campaign or protest or anything like that I'm not willing for terrorists to be released in exchange for me in no way shape or form please do not twist my words I'll say it again I left home without even being called up to reserve duty I'm filled with pride and a sense of Duty and I always said that if I have to die I hope it will be in defense of others and the country the they will come when I will be one of them seven eight U Shani his message before I went into the army I asked myself what do the people of Israel need the most for me right now I had three answers they'll build a large strong healthy family to lead a significant project of settlement of the land of Israel or to strengthen the Army the protective shield of our country good will prevail he died on S 22 years old with a wife and a son Amit bunzel he fell on December 6th 22 years old this is a pivotal moment in history he said and it has to end in complete Victory I'm proud to be a soldier in theah is Shabbat Shalom Ys Mali Galia some of you may have seen the film we produced on yikon which tells his story again shining young man he wrote about yumikon that its purpose is not to cry over what happened and how people were Heroes but to understand that each one of us has the ability to do what they did to do what they did to Define ourselves in terms of don't forget don't forget those towering personalities of and don't forget the don't forget the is on is the 21st K it's on page 248 in the art scr K and Page 415 in the Quran [Music] for [Music] for [Music] fore e fore for for you may we're going to say as well the next K which continues with and including the the unfathomable which is discussed here in the which is discussed in parents giving up their lives of their children for AAR rather than commit and um I think we should say this one as well both because of it bringing the tragedy A Thousand Years closer than the story of RAB aiva and because of this explicit right the many parents who sent off their children to give their lives for cl Israel we read about it here in this story it's hard to swallow we read about it in the newspaper every day about the Isel portion should have them in mind 254 in the art scroll 425 in the number [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for for [Music] am okay so that was B is cried over the bem cried over am is the over the over is over the those we cried now over the base Israel over the unity of the Jewish people the non-unity of the Jewish people within the Jewish people and now Alem on the nation of God Ander and we say during we say the holy city and its environments Environ has been shamed and plundered and all of its Treasures are hidden stored away all we have left is the T we don't have the bdash all we have left as theti our task missing a bash is to build a beautiful mdash of if the B mdash was a magnificent structure stunning the Tyra needs to be magnificent it needs to be stunning if the B mikdash was the place to which everybody pointed to which everybody traveled the center point of the Jewish people so we have to make Tyra the center point of the Jewish people if the would be as expressed in his prayer for the B that everyone would realize that that's where God is found then the T of the Jewish people should be that everybody should realize as we are going to read in the T this as we read Monday and we'll read Thursday right you'll guard it it'll be the wisdom your wisdom in the eyes of the Nations that's our task when we don't have a is to build a out of the and it has to play all the roles that the Bish played for the Jewish people we're the Tyra we're supposed to be the people of the Tyra am Hashem the people of God as we said earlier in the name of the smug exemplifying in everything which we do God and we have a problem we have a problem that our Tyra is not admired it's it's not admired outside the Jewish people people and too often we do things where ourti is not admired inside the Jewish people so what do we do so here again I want to tell you the story of who true to his background was passionately dedicated to being able to hold up the wisdom the truth the virtue of the Tyra this was the tradition of which was his direct line of rail hild theimer he faced a community that suddenly had other parts of the world open to it the Ghetto Walls had come down right emancipation Freedom you could have anything so tell me when you could have anything anything do you want the Torah and they didn't because the tah wasn't attractive to them the tah had been brought down in the poverty in the suffering and the persecution the Tyra was brought down with it to some degree and those who knew still and saw the light of the Tyra knew that there was a task to bring it up to make it a beacon to make it you have every choice in the world what else could you possibly want and that was the passion of R and there's one example that's a pretty famous example some of you may have heard it if you ever heard of R carak it's usually mentioned this around him but this is a classic example as I said he was a man of letters of of of knowledge and you see it even in the correspondence which he writes or it's not just like when he's trying to teach a class even in his correspondence he's constantly referencing uh the great writers and thinkers and philosophers of the secular world as well uh he was the Raven Hamburg starting in 1936 and uh he was the Raven hurg until he was taken to Ria to his death and in Hamburg there was a Jewish Hospital it was called the H hospital it was founded in 1841 by I believe his name was Leopold H who founded the hospital as the H Jewish hospital to serve the Jewish population and Beyond and there was a condition in his donation to build the hospital that inside the hospital there was to be a SHO and that schu had to always follow Orthodox custom which it did in 1939 as things were post Crystal and things were horrible and horrific in Germany and even parts of the hospital had been taken over by the occupying forces the occupying forces by the Nazis the the um R ra kalbak realized that the sh in the hospital had to close so he decided to celebrate the Centennial of the haa hospital two years early and they made a celebration and the speech which he gave at that celebration is worth reading I have it here I'm not going to read the whole speech to you but he um he wrote with pride about a Jewish hospital about how Jews are a nation of kindness of goodness of compassion he wrote about the he spoke about the sh about faith and how our goodness derives from our faith now you know the name H because the founder of the hospital who was an orthodox Jew had a nephew who's um I I forget what his original name was it was also but it was more German Jewish name he changed his name to H hinish famous philosophical literary figure in Germany knew H backwards and forwards and H in honor of the Jewish hospital founded by his uncle had written a poem H would not have insisted that it have an orthodox Jew there he was a seriously a assimilated Jew and as you'll see it's possible one could even use a stronger term this was the poem of hinish h a hospital for Jews who are sick and needy excuse me he didn't write it in English but this is the English version a hospital for Jews who are sick and needy for those unhappy three-fold sons of Sorrow afflicted by the three most dire Mis fortunes poverty disease and Judaism The Worst by far of all the three the last is that family Misfortune thousand years old that plague which had its birth in Nile's far Valley the old Egyptian and unsound religion incurable deep pain against which Avail not nor douche nor Vapor bath the appar ratus of surgery nor all the means of healing which this house offers to its sickly inmates will time Eternal goddess ever extinguish this glowing ill descending from the father upon the son and will the grandson ever be cured and rational and become happy that was what hrh wrote in honor of the family of the Jewish hospital and this is what wrote in honor of the 100th anniversary to come of the Jewish hospital our faith is our joy it will give us the strength to overcome the world around us and this time time of the Jewish love for humankind is celebrating 100 Years of Victory to us this is a proud witness of faithful faith that being Jewish is the peak of our joy elevated singular and ultimate it's longer raak the notion of being embarrassed of one's Judaism of considering it a plague was the very opposite of who he was of everything it is our Eternal Joy right that's what was we were singing and dancing around before we entered a 10-month news cycle fortunate our Good Fortune to be a Jew and you can't just say it it doesn't work if you just say it you have to show and demonstrate the beauty that is there in the Tyra that becomes your mission because otherwise just because I'm Jewish so why am I happy because I'm Jewish it is as people used to say mistakenly to their children it's hard there are challenges they forgot the tell them how rewarding it is they didn't show them that they wouldn't trade it for anything they just spoke about the kite and Rak wanted to show always just the beauty and it was his mission and his goal to show the beauty of Tyra he showed it by personal example he was an outstanding human being a kind human being incredibly committed human being and we're going to talk about about that inem in the next and really the last major segment but Torah itself Torah and its values Torah and its study Torah and what it tells you to do to read you a little bit more from his journal of his trip into the world of Eastern European jewry and to the yeshivas they tried in these four countries that we did to confuse some of the Jews with seductions and threats they try to influence from the inside the masses to give them the kindness of a new life of freedom and Enlightenment to to make them bearers of the flag of a foreign culture in their schools and their modern shools you can find some remnants of this but in these places these were isolated instances a foreign substance a foreign culture secondary without a deep influence a historic caricature a warning to trying to find satisfaction outside of your Jud Judaism opposite them stand unified the God-fearing the faithful The Undefeated those with the tolerance and the patience that wins even where the afflictions left serious serious impact where we find neighborhoods of poverty of hunger of crippling disease of economic crisis of begging above all of that hovers a Divine Spirit an extra measure of Soul a yearning for something greater an awareness of a true of something of an inner truth they look beyond the present to a certain future and the key to understanding this to understanding the ability of this determination above all of this above a shiny civilization and social Promises of the assimilators it is one in all of the land those lands and you know what it is it is Torah and its study young and old wealthy and poor they're all learning they're learning all the time with dedication they live in the tanak and in the writings of our sages their lives are filled with the Echoes of scripture their language their Yiddish even their more refined German of the checks it's filled with vernacular which comes from the talmud they all learn and soak up the sources of Jewish wisdom not from some distilled uh versions secondhand that we feed sometimes with little teaspoons in our schools no they get it from the flow of original Jewish knowledge that is broad that is sustaining to us Hebrew Hebrew is a foreign language like German to the Frenchman something which we have to work hard to obtain there it's mamalin the farmer speaks that language even with imprecision without trying without righty it's his natural language with which he puts the child to sleep Torah there is not a lesson in faith it is the knowledge of life it is the Rua it is the Living spirit that flows through all it uplifts the soul they think through it new thoughts new ideas New Concepts it fills the heart it fills the mind it is the staff and the Leaning stick for life it is creative it is cultural it restores the soul it's the measuring stick of individual value it lifts up the person who Bears it it is a sign of Shame for one who ridicules it and puts aside it breaks any division of class any rungs of the latter of society they are all transcended by Torah by Torah engagement by Torah knowledge and he goes on speaking about Torah as part of the culture of how it uplifts how it is the language of the Jewish people rosak was a master teacher of Torah it came from a thirst and a love of Torah that he developed to some degree yes he developed it with his mamad in his father's house he developed it from seeing how Torah uplifted his father and how his father uplifted the Torah he also we have I have a uh a uh a speech which he gave on his graduation from the rabiner seminar from the Yeshiva in Berlin which took place which was given on the fourth of T 1914 the yite the graduation day right makes sense beginning of the summer and was also the yite of Rael Hilder who was the original founder of it and he writes he was the valedictorian and he says it's the time to leave it's a moment of Joy mixed with sadness a sense of satisfaction after after finishing a very deep and profound period of learning and at the same time worry about the responsibilities that lie ahead from this Bas medish from this house of learning and study a house that in every hour of every day they explored and studied the of always there's no base matters without something new without a new insight without a new understanding a place where within it the soul and the spirit create new worlds from this Factory of creativity we now who have finished our studies here were about to go out into a world where there's nothing new to the place where there's nothing new Under the Sun from peaceful Tranquility that was our portion when we were studying in the Yeshiva we're moving out to a world without rest without Tranquility that daily changes are happening in it all the time who would make it that we would be able to carry with us the atmosphere that we received in this house house to to light by its means the darkness that's there outside to carry with us the spirit that we received here so we can influence others outside with it through our activities what the O moid was for our forefathers in the desert what the bigdash was for our nation at the time of its flourishing that's what the B hedish is for us during this period of our prolonged go if not for the Torah your Torah which is my joy I would be lost in my sorrow the same way the pillar of the cloud in the daytime and the fire at night led the Jewish people in their travels in the desert so to the Torah of Hashem Shields our people through the most difficult periods of our bitter GS that's clear obedience to the word of Hashem rejecting all seduction to the contrary following the spirit instead of earthy desire living in the world of AES above the secular Pursuits a world of love self- sacrifice and purity of Life instead of the roughness and cruelty of the world around it that's the victory of the Torah of hasem and that was the victory which he pursued nonstop you saw before from his life that he was an educator he taught he taught before he became a RV he taught before he had smik he taught during he taught after he became a RV for a year and set about to build a school in a Yeshiva there he left to become the Headmaster of a school he traveled to Europe in in during the first world war to build school after school after school and when he went back to become a RV he became a RV who was a teacher to teach Tyra to build the schools in his community to have an investment in it but to have schools for adults to teach Torah he taught gorah there's an essay that he wrote in 1936 called hasham the public the popular we would call it the popular sheer and he writes about restoring learning to Jewish Community to every Jewish community that Torah brings life and he wrote about how you know of course there were always shum in the sh and it was there you go for a few people who have nothing else to do who sit there and The person talks they fulfill the obligation of having the hour of study and they're bored and he wrote about a riveting opportunity where you learn with excitement where every page of gamor is there to draw out of it the discussion and he gives practical ideas about okay you know people who are coming just for the hour you want to be able to somehow Shield them from some of the technicalities of the give and take and give them a chance to see the conclusions and the the the concepts and to draw them out but he was completely focused on this his sh were attended by hundreds of people especially after the Nazis came to power his shim were crafted for the knowledgeable and for the ignorant for the Orthodox and for the non-orthodox when he became the r of Hamburg he had there's a letter which is published in one of the books he got from someone in the community who said RAB I I'm a stanch reformer says but I've listened to you I've heard you with somebody like you I might actually I might actually come around and he included a a check for a th marks to give to a charity of his of his choosing and it was it was normal rev ybak earlier when he was the raav of Aluna before Hitler came to Rose to power he was offered to be the chief Rabbi of Berlin Berlin was the largest city it had the largest Jewish population I think it had 130,000 Jews or something like that he was a r of a much smaller town of Altona he would have been the chief Rabbi of Germany fundamentally uh and it was a reformed dominated community that offered this Orthodox Rabbi to be the chief Rabbi of the whole Community they were even planning to build another large Cathedral Sho for the rabbi to preside there that should be there if the Orthodox Rabbi to preside there in the end he didn't take it the position because it was it was clear that they wouldn't have given him while they wanted an orthodox Rabbi they wouldn't have given him the independence to truly govern as an orthodox Rabbi fully um so they weren't quite ready and there's a famous not famous but there's a known classic exchange uh around the be and one of the major changes of Reform was that instead of having the beima like where we have it in the middle of the sh which it says in the RAM and the that the Torah should be read from a beima in the middle of the sh they have the beima up front and they read from the front and many times even facing the congregation and that was modeled after Protestant churches and others and there were there was rigman be bomberger who is the wsur RV who was a very very respected person had the beima in wburg up front and there's a whole fascinating story which we don't have time to get into uh which between salant visited whatever it was there was a whole argument that surrounded this and it demonstrates the nuance of when compromise is appropriate and when compromise is completely inappropriate but that's not for now even though that's part of a discussion but suffice it to say that R salant approved of the wsur of's decision then and uh one of the main reasons why who heard this from ra salant himself 30 years earlier or 20 years earlier I should say uh turned down the SCH their job in Berlin was because they were insisting that the beima would be at the France and he wouldn't do it cuz in that context he said in wburg the vurv made one or two compromises to keep the city Orthodox he said Berlin is reform you're making a wise decision you have to make it Orthodox if you have to make it Orthodox make it orthodox if you want to make the sh you want to bring an orthodox Rabbi you want to do it if you're going to say it do it but then you're not then you don't want me it depends whether you're trying to hold on or whether you're trying to win back it's very very different and it's a fascinating question which he made a life decision as a result but let me tell you something which he wrote and know I usually give you like some maram makos which I will the the greatest book which you unfortunately are not able to get is a book called isi This is the biography of it's a superb biography it came out 20 years ago approximately it was written by his son whose name is schlak not the singer who was his nephew but harav schlak who was Mas Berlin I believe that this is one of the best Rabin biographies if not the best rabic biography that exists just the way it's written it's magnificent um it's a tease though and the reason why it's a tease is because rbak wrote I think I think his bibliography has 700 entries or something like that he wrote a ton of Articles number of small books they're all written in German all written in German and there's a big four volume German collected writings of and there's a tiny fraction which is translated into into Hebrew there's a second volume of this which he translated into Hebrew and then there are things you can find whether his daughter translated whether some others some other academics who study his work who have translated into Hebrew or into English um The Exchange about the Bea was translated into English by schneer Lyman and published in Tradition it's very very accessible uh but it's hard to get a lot it's was a lot it's a lot of work to collect his his things because it's just there's not that much out there but um one of the people who works on his writings mayor seidler published a book of his uh he uh references an essay which or more than one essay which raak wrote about why is the be he wrote and he said that a sh has two focal points one focal point is the Ares at the front and the other focal point is the beima that's in the middle because in a sh you do two things one thing you do is you worship Hashem when a person worships Hashem there's a sense of difference distance God's at the front of the room he's lifted up raised up he's at the front of the room and then there's Tyra Torah the Torah doesn't stay at the front of the room he says other faiths right the Protestants right they'll say the man of the cloth the man of the or whatever they don't say the man of the cloth but the man of the of the of of the the minister he's got it and you all get it from him whatever you know and drivs and drabs that's not Jewish life Jewish life is the T is the heart it's at the center and that's why the Torah reading takes place from the middle of the sh and that was his picture of this and that was his philosophy he every sh had to be a Bas medish and as I mentioned before his sh his talks he gave Shir gamor every night I I don't know the exact numbers because hard say but they but very very very well attended shur they started off twice a week but then they became every night why cuz what happened then is what's happening to some people now and that is that German Jews the unfortunate ones who were still there had nothing had nowhere they realized the illusion of what they had been living with all of their time all of their lives and they came back to sh and they came back to Torah and to its study when you can't go anymore to your University and to your book club and to whatever else it is Soak made a new book club he made a regular book club too for them cuz they knew where they were there's a very very touching picture of with his big long beard and his pis just interesting thing all the Y him had big pis um and and his pis and he's looking in on a chess tournament not from but in in in Hamburg in those years the Jews who were experts and were always big players in the German chess tournaments were excluded thanks to the Norberg laws and everything else that went along with it so they arranged that they should have a Jewish chest T and the chief Rabbi of Hamburg is going from table to table watching and looking being there with them but he wanted so much to give them Tyra to hold up the tower to teach the beauty of Tyra H Judaism is a plague forget it that was the very opposite of his uh of his thing and so he said every sh should be a Bas medish Torah should be admired let's say that in our time we have had a remarkable growth in Tyra learning it's a remarkable thing people learn there's more learning happening now than we can know since the time of literally it's dramatic now we have uh through through the oou we have these things of of of of sharing different Torah programs and platforms it's just like you you build it and they will come it's unbelievable I was at a seeum a couple of weeks ago of Yi myeni hundreds of people you're learning that Yi we we we did it you know Art School created their beautiful Shi they said we want to start We Want To popularize Dai could you help with your technology we said sure we'll help with the technology five people will do it hundreds of people are using it I I would say thousands but hundreds of people are using it and and and learning you know I I I was in a Sho someplace and I saw a flyer Z yomi I sent a message to the person Char Department I said don't even think it it it's amazing what's going on people are just learning and learning and learning but we have to reach Beyond there's so many people who are now homeless who want something so many people are homeless who now want something who realize that where they thought they were home is not so home not so friendly and there has to be the Jewish values that we hold up because together with the group of people who say h I'm so estranged by my non-jewish community that doesn't understand me and I have to find my way back home to the Jewish students club or to the Hillel house or to whatever else it is and that's happening big time Big Time but you know what else is happening there are thousands of people who are saying H stuff I'm embarrassed to be Jewish I'm embarrassed to be Jewish they're doing it based on CNN they're doing it based on icj doesn't matter that's what's happening so we have to not only spread the gift of learning time we have to spread the gift of being to her and figure out how to communicate that doesn't help in that realm that the soldier is walking around with a gamorra that he Peaks at when he has a chance somehow they don't see the purity of arms the Torah some hasem has deprived us of the ability so far to show that and we have to wonder why and that's what we're going to talk about perhaps in the last uh in the in the next segment but for now Al Hashem we cry over the people of Hashem we cry over the Torah that is failed that as much as we're learning it but it is lost from so many that the Jewish people as the nation of Torah is not held high that we have our equivalence of the burning of the wagon loads of of Torah by by the go by the nations of the world and unfortunately some Jews listen to them and are embarrassed of tah and its study and its practice and that's what is there for the Jewish world and that's our work now that's our work now so to specifics we will come in a moment but for now let us say the Kina we said it as well last year he said it many times sh Kina number 41 in the art school page 360 in the Quan page 591 this is the Kina which is from the time of the Bal on the burning of the wagon loads of talud and other volumes of Tyra and we we we cry and inquire after the Torah that's burnt by the fire destroyed for [Music] for [Music] for for [Music] uh be before uh trans to transition to the next discussion I would like to ask us to go back and say together kinol 35 it's page 324 in the art scroll and Page 549 in the Quan it's called drunk but not from wine um it's a a true lament and it focuses on the destruction of your gateways the gateways of the bdash and on The Souls of your little ones see love we started with bem and am is the L of the bash the L of the people of the children and we come back to that we come back to that now and let's say it focus in focus in on that loss before we try to to collect our thoughts towards towards how we How We Do Better 35 page 324 in the art scroll page 549 in the Quran [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for for love [Music] Okay so we've laid out two problems problem number one is the problem of gaps divisions All or Nothing TBA one doesn't know what's going on with the other one condemns and rules out the other need to overcome it and we also spoke about this problem of we have one BD in our time the Bish is the Torah the Torah the values that we have the values we live by that we have to build that there should be a rallying point something for people to come around to value and we're not doing so well we're not doing so well on both counts so I want to just share the carak solution you could say the kak solution was his open-mindedness was his ability to Traverse worlds to go to where Isel at the time that he went to Israel to go to Eastern Europe to the yeshivas at the time he did that to be an aist who's fond of mrai to be a toor der's person who's fond of of of of mirror and luin that could be and he could have also solved the Tyra Thing by giving brilliant shur but there's something else which was his real solution which is our real solution and that the solution was the human being the exemplary caring loyal human being that was R the I I mentioned to you this book called isi we're going to get to that title in a moment but I I I should mention to you first that this was the second biography that was written about the first one was written by his brother raak raak was the father of the other schlak kak came to America he survived he came to America earlier he was older and he was he had a Sho in New York City which is still there it's called the kak sh it was his Sho then it became shom K and became known in a different way as the kak re wrote a book about his brother The Life and Times I think that's what it was called and and it has a has a letter of approval from Ritner Ritner knew the kbak he knew the KBS partially because again he took in a refugee named schlak who became the mash one of the leading people in the Yeshiva later he knew the kak because he took in the other schak also was also a student of his the singing schlak but he knew them yet from Berlin and because spent time in Berlin and rner wrote a beautiful beautiful letter classic in his way he quotes when the book of ancestry of the Jewish people was nnas was hidden away the strength of the weakened and the brightness of their eyes became more dim the gumar is speaking simply about being able to know who was who and preserving the purity of the ancestry of the Jewish people and the GZA was because it was getting a little hairy but rutner in his inimitable Style says that G right AA is also where you put away something that you treasure and he says part of the Gus part of the Exile and the tilim of Gus is that there were families that had a certain character a certain Z holdor right the glory the radiance a certain quality and because of all the rupture and all the moving and everything which moving the world of the Jew from one part of the world to another all that that produced it caused that to be interrupted and he said there's a specific flavor of mish and that flavor of mishas carb need need to be nnas it needs to be not retired it needs to be locked in it needs to be treasured and he said that by this book there's an act of being G theer he writes as follows I just want to share R hutter's language which is so so beautiful says like a like an old story tree the family kak as a rich family in German jewelry of the L latter period stood and the same way the roots of this tree were strong so were its many branches and anyone who in their travels encountered this tree got a taste of is of a pedigree a dynasty in the Jewish people and behold the axe was waved and there hardly left any anything left from this on the day that hashem's anger went out and that Remnant traveled from exile to Exile and when the sadic leaves it leaves an impression and when that Radiance is gone all that's left is a vague impression of that and anyone who encounters a bit of the remnant of those Impressions tastes a little bit of what it means the putting away of the book of Yen and if this loving heart is afraid that it's going to be put away to be forgotten so this family has the privilege that there arose within it a sh neon a faithful servant a faithful Guardian that with his 10 fingers CH chose to preserve that Legacy and he's faithful and worthy of his task and he is preserved the safer of this uh of this of this family and he writes that R was one of the branches but the Brilliance of that family was was especially visible within him and so it's appropriate that The Treasure of this family should be maintained through through through remembering him that's what rutner wrote and if anybody wants to see it I would advise you if you do a little Googling ra schma carak the son of R carb has I think four hours of testimony of Holocaust testimony about his family and his experience and it's worth it it's it's really really worth it I mean he's such a whole human being and so I mean you you you'll say Ah that's the son of Thea see it so what is it what did he do what was it that was that was there that was different so this book is called isi why is it called isi it's called ISU the after a it's called is after a and Zar about people grabbing on to the Garment of an isi of a Jewish man but that PK served as the theme verse for Rak when he became the rabbi of Hamburg in 1936 and it was already a horrible time and many Jews who can get out were getting out and I want you to hear what he what he said in his installation ceremony in the big synagogue in Hamburg synagogue which went up in flames on crystal the prophet I'm going to read it from here it's easier the prophet Sees at the end of days of forboding for Humanity when Nations and cities will be gripped by the deepest and most searching longing the longing for God such anxiety such longing has taken hold of us too I'm going to read this it's very important okay so you'll bear with me in our present fear Laden situation for us an hour of upheaval and turmoil has struck and what direction does this upheaval Point wheither shall we go to God to the land of religion to the homeland of the Soul without God the world has become so insipid so empty that it would not hunger for the Bread of Heaven but where is the road the sacred path which will lead us to God of our Salvation every eye is straining to find that person unto whom one can latch on to stride with him together down the road that unknown path which leads to God and as I try now to read what is in all your eyes your hearts what you are expecting from your Rabbi what should he be to you what should he accomplish I believe that I do not air with my answer this congregation is wishing a man in whom all the infirm can find a source of strength a man to whom they can say we want to go with you because we know that God is with you what do I bring to you that I can regard myself strong enough for that task when I was just a child the rinic personality of my father became my life's model in him I saw the ideal of a man who was modest pure Noble whose heart was open to the needs of all without distinguish between the high and the low one to whom the welfare of the criminal behind Prison Walls was just as important as the honors and celebrations of the mighty of his congregation his benevolent eyes unlocked every heart to trust and to a willingness to be educated the first one of the G Israel the Torah great who I'm had the privilege to gaze that as a youngster was rezel hildesheimer a prince of loving kindness my first journey to Hamburg afforded me then a 13-year-old opportunity to be presented to your Unforgettable Chief rabbi the embodiment of self-effacing goodness later the chartered course of my life guided me to distant places first by virtue of a most fortunate professional calling to yusim where I met the legendary ra salant and then to yafo where I saw the famous RAF cuk I observed them in their Simplicity and greatness and their warm-hearted Devotion to the innumerable poor and unfortunate of the Holy cities during the war and in the postwar period I traveled to Lithuania and Poland I met the Towering authorities of jury fin finally in Berlin I came into the sphere of influence of my beloved teacher and master of davit hman the outstanding character traits of these great men were the maalot and noot the simple selfless Humanity that heals and redeems all human Frailty in their Pres pres one did not think of their genius in Torah and other fields of knowledge nor of their far-reaching activities for the benefit of the Jewish Community one felt only T so shall a true human being look my ideal of a rabbi was molded after these men if the message of Torah will ReSound forcefully from my mouth if I shall prove capable of elucidating the word of God unto you with Creative Impact back to reinforce your faith that will be with satat dhaya with Heavenly assist in most certainly will be my strenuous effort to learn much and with many to let everyone experience the magic and the peace of mind which comes with a blot gamor a page of talmud success however depends upon a supporting hand from on high what I do pledge to you in this hour and what is my heartfelt aspiration and longing is that my house and my heart will be wide open to everyone I will cry and laugh with you and bear all the anguish of your soul with you I will regard the honor of having been called to this rabinal position only as an obligation to relate toward everyone with simple men Humanity Zakaria to does not predict that those seeking God will choose as their guide a prophet or a priest or a master of the but they will hold on to an is yudi a Jewish person similarly I assure you that whoever hopes to find in me Comfort and strength may be certain to find in me an ish yehudi a Jewish brother he would do big things but he focused on being a loyal friend to be there for people carak was well-connected person there were times early after Hitler Rose to power that he tried to leave he wanted to leave he wanted to find a position elsewhere he had a very large family at a certain point he sent he and his wife sent off four of their children young children didn't send the youngest one they're on Kinder transport his wife went to visit went back his wife lot carach was an incredible human being there's a book that her daughter wrote of her letters of her correspondence she was the partner of Rabbi kalbak all of this of being dedicated to people that he did he did with her she went back she said I'm I'm going back not just to be with my husband but to do my husband's work with my husband at a certain point he realized that he was the only really functioning rough in Germany and even before that point and he traveled all over to help people he said there's nobody else who can answer sha here and he said I can't take upon myself the responsibility to leave I can't leave I can't leave that's an issue hoodi that's what he admired before things were that dramatic in that same talk on his graduation from the rabiner seminar he said this is what we know and what we have to do with hashem's kindness we've been chosen to be rabbis we have to recognize our task our obligations in order to help us picture this I'm going to bring an example or an illustration from what we just read in the previous para the like the it means you're an people will seek Torah from your mouth but it's an avod a person is an evid is a servant it's not about lifting yourself up it's not about the prominence it's not about the big things that you do it's about the little things that you do R Hoffman said that someone who doesn't know the kazal that a RAV who forgives his honor his honor is Forgiven may not be a RAV the honor of your Kahuna is your Serv itude for everyone God the big one like the small one the poor man like the mey man to stand and to serve all of them to worry about each one without withholding any trouble any difficulty any work until the last moment that's the highest and most sacred calling of a person and it's to be done as a Hashem and then that's the answer it's the answer answer to both questions it's the answer to both questions it's the answer to the question of of the gaps that exist between people when you have someone who understands that what Torah does is that it tells me to do this it tells me to be this it tells me to be loyal that's what an isih hudi is that's what a Jewish person is when you wonder about Torah being lowered and then you see this then you know that that's how Torah is raised and it's across the board it's everywhere I like to point out that we believe truly that Tyra study sustains the world and to become a great inra may require a person to have as the NV wrote uninterrupted as the ramam wrote but then we think of R kki Who was unquestionably the example of pure dedication to Tyra who had such a demanding schedule of T Tor because of his incredible goals of what he wanted to learn every year so you want to read a book about R kki what's most of the book going to be about you want to look at the schedule kki this person who's the biggest who studied T who was so demanding of himself every free moment right right I you know the The Legend was and is that when did he write his for during leap years because he had an extra month so therefore he had some Lo loose time in his schedule so he wrote wrote not completely true but some but you know a good one and he took half hours every every day to be there for people many of whom were just taking up his time because he knew okay I had to do this to become a guttle now that I'm a gutle I have to be a person and it's true of every G of every great person they were diligent they studied they studied they studyed they learned they learned they became a god of Thea and then at one point or another they became afar they gave themselves over to everybody and that's an isi that's a Jewish person there may be times for everything there may be stages of life for everything but in the end that's what Torah has to stand for that's what comes out LOD alos L alas Leos that was his model in his parents and if that's our value remember that value is not that I drive an ambulance and I'll help anybody who's sick it's in everything it's in normal interactions right it's in like walking down the street and taking out the ear pods and looking everybody in the eye they should not be invisible that's his Solution that's a solution we can learn and should learn there's lots that we could learn could learn about all our nothing to learn about standing up for what we believe in and wishing for other person for standing up for what they believe in and supporting them and encouraging them in doing so to learn learn about bridging gaps going on visits of long lost Brothers to learn what other people are what they have what they can bring to my life and what they're going through but it's day to day it's staying in Germany and being there for everybody right standing up right I'm sure when I started reading that speech you guys were getting nervous this guy sounds pretty arrogant right Rabbi man of God that's what they're looking for to to do that and then you hear what he says he says of course I want to teach you T of course I want to be the M for that I'll need I'll need hashem's help that those words will go through but let me tell you what I can do what's up to me and what's up to me is to make sure that you have somebody and I'm going to be that somebody and I'm not leaving I'm going to be that somebody hasem should avenge his blood this is the schedule it's 1:21 we are now going to say the which is a k which was said about the Crusades it's on page 455 in the Corin 270 in the art school after we say that we will say a Kina page which has been distributed which is built on that Kina but which addresses what we've had this year the K of this past year of sastra October 7th and its aftermath we will say the K of the Holocaust say a few words in conclusion about the the death of R carak who was killed in the Holocaust before we say the K of the Holocaust and uh and and uh and a rise for for Elia so right now again page 455 in the Corin to7 the Arts scol K number 25 me this K tells stories which are very similar to contemporary stories which is why it was not so hard to adapt it to today's troubles [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for for for [Music] okay so you can take the the page in hand and [Music] continue 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burnt the sh and his belief in humanity like that of many of humanity without the Ty was done he uh he later there there was there were two shoes which survived in in Berlin and one which was small one in a looking granny he was smart enough to know what what was happening he actually had the pieces of it he had it dismantled and I had the pieces of it shipped out like wood uh like spear wood to Sweden where shoe was rebuilt in Sweden that stands today did it in connection with the Layman family the family of of of Manford lman Hans Layman who were there who had a connection to him from from Berlin and if they sped it out in the sh's website it tells the story and it says that some of the Dock Workers realized what it was they saw mug and doids on pieces of wood of the furniture and they carv that swastikas on it and it had to be restored he um he helped his community confront the Holocaust when they had to wear yellow stars he gave gave them a reason to say now you are wearing the garments of a Jew when they added names you know the Germans forced every Jewish man had to add the name Israel Israel and every Jewish woman had the name Sarah he said that was the Gul MIM came because we had distinct clothes we had distinct names everything was to strengthen to give Pride he um they they started transporting the Jews of Hamburg to to the east to Poland to Ria to a death camp a Work Camp a death camp and uh every day every transport he was out there at the trains comforting people helping people but they didn't he was helpful in a certain sense maybe the Germans thought but they sent him and the story they said way they said was because he wrote reports of what was happening in the community cuz he had galvanized we said before many people came home they had nowhere to go they had no Community they had no University they had no workplace they had their Jewish community and they realized it too late and they treasured it and he made for them he made for them y he baked Matas he he he he went to all ends of the Earth and they had yum and programming and he traveled to other cities in the shabas before so so that Berlin would have something cuz they didn't have any Rabbi he was the only one he took it upon himself and he went to places during the week and he wrote to the community and to the community of exp Patriots people who had left Exile who had already left what lucky ones and he wrote and the Germans didn't like it and so he was sent with his family on a transport on the transport that he went he was in charge and when they stopped wasn't quite they weren't on cattle cars they were on passenger over over stuffed Passenger cars was from Germany they he got out and went car to car to talk to people to make sure everybody was okay that train picked up passed by Lubec picked up his brother and his brother-in-law and families and then they had a March from where the train stopped to get to the camp a March through snow was November and his brother collapsed on the way as they were getting into the camp and he made a funeral for him the only individual funeral he made during that time in the camp what did he do in the camp this Headmaster they were there men women and children and he said by far the ones that we have to worry about most are the children so he organized schooling for the children anybody who could teach anything sometimes it was 15 minutes sometimes it was half an hour he made bar mitzvah for the kids he was an ishii it was an isi until the end it's amazing so they were all taken out you know sometime they they liquidated as they say the camp they took them to to mass pits outside the city and they mowed them down and he was with them all the way strengthening K sh it's an amazing thing where an isi who's like an is like him could encounter monsters and the Monsters wi but they don't win they don't win they don't win so before we get up wait before we get up for before we say the K and the Holocaust now let's say 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