Tisha B'av 5782: The Light and Life of Rav Meir Shapiro - Rabbi Moshe Hauer

directly with the the um with just the recitation of two kinase two kinase which uh will do tests and kina yut 9 and 10 in the art scroll page 166 in the quran page 255 beginning on those pages they are kinase about the urban directly about what we are fundamentally mourning today the destruction of the vasamigdas about the tifaris about the glory of the jewish people which was cast from upon us from upon our heads the complete overturning of the migdash from being telltales from being the the highest instead to see the city of god lowered to the to the to the to the depths both of them both of these kinos which you would read again if you it's so valuable to read them to understand them to read them in the with with the translation the first kinah is speaking in terms of the the warnings using the terms of the the warnings which the torah gives us in the in in the framework of partial kosai and the second speaks about all the khaf dalid mishmar is kahuna the 24 shifts the rotations of the koanim who once served with glory and with honor in the migdash and how the how that all turned around before we even begin any of our discussions any of our focus which will be built today around the life of shapiro a person whose focus was on restoring the tepherus and restoring the glory of torah the glory of hashem in the world the glory that has been lost since the khurban bash we will begin by reciting these two kinase together again again [Music] so [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] in 1958 the remains of ramir shapira were brought from lublin from poland to houston yerushalayim it was a a a shocking event in a certain sense on different counts first of all to be able to even find the remains the base islam the cemetery in lublin was was badly badly damaged the cover the the burial placer of mayor shapiro was still relatively intact the ability to bring in those days in the 50s to bring from poland behind the iron curtain to be able to bring his remains towards israel was unusual but it happened and he's there buried on haram nucos you can visit his kev air there's a oil there's a a small structure a small building around it and when he was buried there rav zalman sarotskin who was one of the leading rabbonim russia yeshiva nerds israel he was the head of the council of yeshiva cineretz israel at the time azaman swarovski gave his second hespid of mayor shapira he had given the first hesped exactly 25 years earlier in 1933 during his first visit to lublin a visit which had been in a certain sense scheduled ramir shapira had asked him to come visit the yeshiva to come and give a shirt to come and visit a lecture in the yeshiva and they had made up that after some khastayra after the yamimtovim of rav zaman saruskan would come to the yeshiva to give a shear and it was two weeks after samhastara of 1933 that he came to lublin came to khachme lublin for the funeral of the very young the 46 year older of mayor shapira the lublina and now he found himself 25 years later with the benefit of a certain level of hindsight to be mosby to eulogize or really to praise because as he discussed in his words the notion after so many years when someone is reinterred one says dive he loosen one says words of praise rather than words of hespe rather than words of eulogy and he said his words of praise on her mayor shapira with a an assessment an impact assessment of what ramayan shapira had done what he had produced for the jewish world but mayor shapira as you know was the innovator of the idea of the daf hayomi of the page a day that should be studied the page of gemara a day that should be studied according to his proposal proposal which he brought forth at the kinesiola at the grand assembly of agudas israel in 1923 in vienna that the whole jewish world should study together a page of gomorrah the same page of gomorrah the dafayame the idea took off it took off in pre-war europe perhaps a quarter of a million people were studying the da fayomi then in pre-war europe and then came the holocaust and already in 1958 13 years after the end of the second world war there was already a resurgence of daffy we would today consider that resurgence a tiny tiny tiny fraction of when we would look at the impact assessment today of the hundreds of thousands nobody knows the the the the the number but the hundreds of thousands who are studying the da fa me but said already then of zalman sarozkin it's theirs it's his and not only that he said but the da fayemi has children and grandchildren because he really innovated the idea of the aimee of a daily study of something and already there he said we had the mishnayami which was actually conceived by the khaju glover who was the successor of rav mayor shapira as the rashiyashiva of khachme lublin they were yomi's there were today there's rambam and smeared halashan and vishnu and i mean you can do anything yummy if you do nach if you do all the yami's you'll have to remember to have lunch yeah me right you know it's it's the structure and the framework through which through which so much consistency in torah study is there in claude israel and the father the grandfather of it all ramer shapira look at the impact and further what was the second major legacy item of ramir shapira was the building of yeshiva he built a magnificent yeshiva the first of its kind one could say the first of its kind in history was yeshiva he built a yeshiva building in the heart of one of the larger but yet less less city-like cities of poland lublin he built it in the center of the city it was a magnificent structure that stands till today six stories large with huge place of study with dormitories unheard of unprecedented in the world of yeshivos with dining rooms dedication of the building was on the 28th of sivan in 1930 but mayor shapira in 1933 three years and four months later and in september 1939 yeshiva was taken over by the gestapo yeshiva was closed and it became it's now for the past almost 20 years back in jewish hands it's not yeshiva lublin as it was it's barak hashem it's back in jewish hands there is a base madrish there and jews use use it yeah there's a successor yeshiva called khachme lublin in benebrach there may be a couple of others a place to be taken care of the change the reason why it was so innovative was because he went from the yeshiva student having to sort of like make it on his own in different levels of degradation without being honored and mayor shapiro said we're going to create something magnificent a place of study where the student is taken care of where the student is prized every yeshiva cedra of zalman sarutskin that exists here in eretz israel that exists in the united states that exists in england that exists anywhere in the world a yeshiva that's built with these kinds of frameworks and structures and aspirations which is now the baseline which is now the baseline that's all the legacy of mayor shapira it's all the legacy of ramir shapira and so he said his here as we assess his impact we see incredible things now we'll talk about ramir shapira and there are several words of introduction which we have to have we always have to give words of introduction before we talk about a person on tisha above when we're speaking about the destruction of the basal migration how do we do that why should we do that our goal is a single goal and the goal is to do what we can to mourn over the khurban and its full ramifications and to do what we can to be able to somehow draw real real lessons of tikkun it's an important day to shabove it's a day to consider the state of the jewish people since the destruction of the base hamikdash which was just the beginning i've shared with you almost every year at this time the debate in the gemara where it was said that one of them said that had i been in that time where haven't said had i been there in the time of the khurban i would have actually said it set the day of mourning for the tenth of af not for the ninth of that now it happens that today is the tenth of ave because tishaba was nirkha from yesterday but the reason he said was because they just lit the fire on the ninth of half the mikdash really burned down on the tenth on the tenth of half had i been there that's what i would have made the fast day but now i recognize that ascalta de puranusa that when ghazal chose to make it on the ninth it was because that was the beginning of the problem and we've explained many times that sometimes when you just have a little snapshot of history you just see the story itself and all they would have seen was that the base of english was burnt down but now with a broader lens of history we understand that the khurban that happened on tish above was a beginning was a change of state for the jewish people a change from when [Music] ira like him the city of god the presence of god was prominent in the world the base hamiglah's standing was the climax of bitseisimi mitzrayim of when we left egypt when we left egypt where hakodesh baraku's hand was seen everybody saw the jewish people saw the nations of the world saw the hand of hashem from there we went to harsinai where we were taught and where we heard the word of hashem and from there with of course the hiccup of the miragulum of tish above we went on to where it's israel we went on to build the base hamikdash it was when we crossed over the yamsuf that we first spoke of that to you'll bring us and you'll implant us in the mountain of your portion the building of the migdash was the ultimate expression of the revelation of hashem as the master of the world as the force in the world as the truth of the world and then we have betsey mirosha and then we have what we'll say in the kina kinna which we will say next eventually the contrast when we left yerushalayim when we left yerushalayim with the migdashin ruins with the nations of the world saying hey eloi where is their god the rock in whom they trusted the rock in whom they took protection when amigos was destroyed because the word of hashem that he gave us at sinai was not defining the character of our behavior of our lives it's not the loss of a building the fire that took it down that we mourn it's that absence that continues that continues till this day and that absence that mayor shapira that every one of the good island we ever discussed but the ramir shapira bim yuchad specifically tried to overcome and to undo their caleb unveiled there at the amsaf when we left mitzray and we said this is our god the unveil what does it mean we translate typically and we will glorify him cause i'll have three levels of interpretation of the unveil one level is as we find in the targum there van vayu i will build for him a home this is my god and i will build for him a mignus the second zekely van value he smiled the fun of bemitvice two beautiful mitzvahs when you have a beautiful safer tyra wrapped in velvet with shiny wooden ate him or even today silver capped ate him this the spools the wooden spools that the scroll is on why do we have that why is the safe retire written so beautifully because we're supposed to glorify the rebel islam why are we in a beautiful room a beautiful shul because our mitzvahs are to be glorified the migdash is the ultimate glory read it we read it you know who like the rav ravi rose said last night a person who didn't see the base amigos never saw a beautiful building tell us the description of the building of the mishkan the care the intricacy the artisanship the mygnus was the ultimate beauty we have even without the migdash to make mitzvahs beautiful and finally i and he from here we learn that a human being is supposed to be beautiful don't just make beautiful sephrate tara don't just buy a beautiful set of arbaminim don't just build beautiful shoes and all kinds of beautiful talus bags and other adornments of mitzvos the human being is the ultimate to be beautiful to be majestic to be like the rabbi shalom to be like god himself and ramir shapira who didn't have the ability to rebuild the basa mikdash but he did have the ability and he chose to take the ability to restore a hedor mitzvah to restore glory around the mitzvahs and specifically around the torah of hashem and he had the ability which he sought to restore that those who are most connected to hashem shouldn't be nebas but should be glorious human beings should be those who are looked up to those who are held up in the most magnificent way and our mayor shapiro's work is the work which absent our ability to literally lay brick on brick in the building of the base amigdas we have to do that which approximates it to bring in a sense the glory of hashem is to learn from him there's a problem with learning about ramir shapira just yesterday as our family was sitting around at shalashudas there would be sudama sec as the last meal before the fast and i was sharing with them that it's a it's it's a tremendous tremendous growth opportunity and a privilege when we do this when i have the chance because to try hopefully to be mazakis arabim to share with a community and to spend some time delving into the life of a great person it's it's it's an incomparable experience you you you somehow find yourself to some degree going as you as you read the books about him and you study his words and what others experienced with him and the things which he did you you somehow in a certain sense try to get under his skin and you see the way a great person is and we got to talking and we went through the list of the people who we've gone through over the years and i said okay so who are the most impactful and in truth you know whatever every everybody every girl is impactful there was a there's a special it was a special little connection or relationship when we did people like mike tress and irving beunim who were [Music] laymen they weren't the khafitzhayim or the khazainesh and more of us could relate to them regular people who didn't have regular hearts and who made sure that they didn't have regular hands ramayana shapira was uh was a superstar the mayor shapira was gifted in in virtually every way you could imagine and so it might be you might think it's like an exercise here in just reading or telling stories about a wunderkind you know a wonder of someone who was like extraordinary so let's recall for a moment the last words of the haftarah which we just read the navi is tells us the person who is smart and there was nobody who was as brilliant as ramayana shapira but mayor shapiro was he was brilliant beyond brilliant you'll hear it'll come up in some of the in some of the stories he was that's not where the action is the gebor the mighty man the strong man the force of personality the force to be able to so to speak conquer the hearts of people the charisma of ramir shapira ashirba ashrae he even had certain means at his disposal not enough not a fraction of what he needed to fulfill his dreams but he had every kind of gift he was a balman nagin he was musical he was charismatic he was an orator he was brilliant he was strategic but what one praise takes pride in says the navi is haskell the adayah i see is to know me and as we know khazal translated this and they said everything is in the hands of heaven besides for fear of heaven and as it's further translated and it's not here the time to discuss extensively this where the action is is what we do with the gifts that were given the gifts that were given aren't ours our efforts are ours ramer shapira with all his gifts was the opposite of a complacent person ramir shapira literally was may miss atsuma aleja he killed himself for the sake of the torah anyone all of his contemporaries diagnosed his early death he died of diphtheria but he died because of the extent to which he put his heart and soul with masiras nephesh and with degrading himself and working endlessly in order to be able to build the glory of torah and so you may not we may not none of us may be able to sit here and compare our gifts to rab mayor shapira it's not the point the point is to compare our efforts to those of amir shapira to compare our sensitivities to those of ramir shapira to compare our actions to those of mayor shapira and even if his because of those other elements because of his brilliance and because of his charisma those actions were able to be larger and more global than the average person but we all know that what it takes is the af the average the irregular person the person of each and every one of us the actions of each and every one of us to be able to be able to uh to to move things along everything that ramir shapira did was big and bold everything that he did was that caleb was t ferris was to do something really big and there's no easier way to present this then to speak really about those two gi daily israel those two polar opposites and ramayana shapira the khafiz loved mayor shapira to his position of leadership and our mayor shapira admired and adored the chaffetz prophet was old enough to be a grandfather over of mayor shapira he was 49 years older than raber shapira they died six weeks apart as we mentioned was 96 ramir shapira was 46 not quite yet 47. they were opposites when our mayor shapira was getting close to the completion of the construction of so the building was almost ready was getting ready every mayor shapiro wanted to find and to define what would be the perfect curriculum how should this yeshiva function to create gedoli israel and like everything he did he wanted to do it right and he wanted to do it and really also to use the opportunity to make it understood that his yeshiva was not going to be his yeshiva in fact it was a given but it wasn't even really a declared given that ramirez shapiro would be the head of the yeshiva he built the yeshiva for the jewish people the consensus of the jewish people was that he should leave the yeshiva but he went around to visit other yeshivas to see how they did things and he made a tour of the great lithuanian yeshivas and one of one of them was the yeshiva of radin the yeshiva of the prophet zhaim which was one of the older ones created mid-19th century by the by the prophet zhaima radhan was a tiny town ramir shapira came to raven and was welcomed by the bhakram by the students of the yeshiva when he came they came to the hotel wherever it was the small hotel where he was staying and ramir shapira the article famous article which was written about it by rabbi shmuel pushkin who actually was a talmud and raden who was also eventually a rev in baltimore and he wrote an article about the meeting with him and he said that mayor shapiro said it's amazing the god of hador the person who the entire nation of the jewish people anyone who cared about torah the word of the supreme and he lives in a town that doesn't even have a railway station rodden didn't even have a stop on the railroad and ramir shapiro marveled at this and he marveled at it especially because it was the opposite in a certain sense it was the opposite in a sense to the approach which our mayor shapira himself used in order to be able to gain influence ramir shapira didn't live in a town without a railway stop ramir shapira traveled the world he when he visited raden he was back from an international period of time he had traveled throughout united states and canada and europe western europe in order to be able to galvanize to galvanize he was building a big humongous prominent yeshiva in a large city in lublin his entire attack was to bring glory and prominence and here was the shrunken man a man who wore the clothing and the cap of a peddler if a person will hide themselves in the greatest hiding places will i not see him said hashem said all the time as he preached yura shamayim fear of heaven you can run but you can't hide from the rabbi but said but sir shapira if a person will hide themselves and there'll be a hat will i not show him off to the world traveling tries to hide in this place but i rabino shalla and ruben showed him to the world rabbi shapira had a mantra and the mantra was a mishna in tinus at a time of danger you take the safer torah out of the shul out of the aramkitish and you take it out into the street and ramir shapiro used to say this very frequently he would explain that despite whatever preference he might have to be able to continue to live his life in privacy to be able to study torah mayor shapiro just loved and loved and loved to study but it was a time of danger for the jewish people and in that case you can't allow the torah to stay by itself to stay hidden you have to take it out to rochester you have to take it to the public he would say avart and ramir shapira was filled with these vert with these very very clever divreitara the gemara says famously in a couple of places in a few places that shim and huam sunni some saying sunni would darshan would learn from every time the torah says the word s that it seems to be an extra word and there must be something else that's being included with that word and he went through the whole torah from athasha and vyasa aaretz that included everything that went along with the heavens everything that went along with the words with eso vichavasi mecca to include your older siblings or or a second wife or whatever it is a step parent until he got to es hashem like hashem your god you should fear and he said what are we supposed to include with hashem who else should you fear and perish and he stopped and he left till ravi akiva came and thought as hashem the rabbis you have to also fear to me that's the simple reading of the gemara but mayor shapiro said when he got to s hashem that you have to fear god pearish filled with yirashima and filled with fear of heaven the person would go and separate themselves from the world knowing there are all kinds of challenges which are out there but then he said rabbi akiva came and he taught the rabbis we have a task to increase the torah scholarship in the world and so we can't afford to be shy to be retiring we have to get out there we have to build a big prominent building that should be the beginning of many big prominent buildings that will increase the honor of tamil and will increase ramir shapira did not sit still he could not he could not sit still when he was a young man married he wasn't his in-laws will tell the story later didn't want him to leave the house to be a rav at all he wanted him just to study tyra and he went from being a rav in galena which was a tiny town i i can't tell you the statistics the populations of the town then i am sure someone could access them i couldn't access them but golena today is a town of four thousand he went from there to be a rav in sanak which was a town which is today a town of forty thousand from there he went to pietrakov seventy thousand from there to lublin three hundred thousand and he had accepted when he died to be the rev as well not only in lublin but in lodge which was a town of literature city of seven hundred thousand but mayor shapiro would make a joke when people would talk to him about the fact that he moved from place to place he said a good rub is like a nail a rub is like a nail excuse me a rub is like a nail if he doesn't have a head you can't pull him out from the first place that he was hammered into but if he has a head then you could pull him out and put the nail someplace else that was what mayor shapiro said that was his way his way was to expand and to expand and he felt this you know one could hear this almond sarat skin in lublin in 1933 on on on the tenth day of hezbollah on the day that ramayan shapiro was was buried was eulogized and buried in lublin he said i know what people think i hear the whisperings of what people say they say ramayana shapira is like the lucha sri shainaes he's like the first tablets that akhorajbar who gave at harsinai those first tablets which were smashed to smithereens why did ghazal say they were smashed to smithereens because they were given because because they were given prominently and that prominence there's nothing better than modesty the second luchos which were given quietly just between maisha abano and hashem up there in the cloud those were the ones which lasted and so said razal and sarotsky and people will say about ramayana shapira look what he did he created this big prominent yeshiva he celebrated its opening with a big big big celebration he was too public he went from small place to big place and so they say that he he harmed himself rafzalman saratskin and he was i don't know if he knew that he was if he knew that he knew that what he was saying was what ramir shapira himself said but this is one of the two reasons that ramir shapira himself gave for why he did this he said but tell me something did the rabbi shalalam not know that the first luchas would be smashed did the russian not know this thing that you know when you do something so public it could invite difficulty russia certainly knew and he did it anyway and the reason why he did it anyway was we would say in today's terminology because the world needed a reset and if claudia israel would have left egypt quietly and if akurajbaraku would have appeared to the jewish people at harsinai quietly maybe he would have whispered the asera sadibrus to moshe rabbenu and moshaven would have come and taught it to the jewish people if there wouldn't have been the thunder and the lightning and the ever increasing sound of the shofar if there wouldn't have been the voice of hashem that went from one end of the world to the other there would never have been that jolt that the world needed to understand one second there's a god and he's here to reveal himself to you and he's here to reveal the truth and the way of life to you and even if that jolt will come at a price but that jolt needed to happen and said razalman saratskan ramir shapira did what he did because the world needed a jolt because we the jewish world needed a jolt because our mayor shapiro was coming into a world where jewish life was hemorrhaging correction where jewish life had hemorrhaged where the loss of jews to torah the loss of connection to torah was everywhere and our mayor shapira said it's because torah now whispers torah is now in a corner those who study torah they study in a steeple no not like in the old days before the first world war where everybody studied in the steeple but the steeple was a place which was humming with students of torah with teachers of torah with a massive mata with discussion of torah no now they were studying in an empty steel a couple of students who had little to eat who weren't taken care of who were not the honor of society but in fact they were disrespected and the world needed a reset they needed torah to be glorified everything that ramayana shapira did he did big knew the value of this it's a very well known very very well known story that at that knoll in 1923 i'm sure that just about everyone here has seen that little bit of film footage that we have of the khafitzhayim if there's heart there are hardly pictures of but there's that little i don't know how many 20 seconds of film footage of the prophet arriving at the kinesia godol was uncovered i don't know five years ago ten years ago i don't remember anymore and everyone's seen it when he came to that godola they had private meetings of the torah leaders of which ramir shapira was a member of the council the mayatsa's godol torah again he was the younger the youngest of them said to ramirez shapiro do me a favor we're about to have the big plenary session where they're going to be thousands of people he said do me a favor come 20 minutes late twenty minutes late khutzba should come 20 minutes late said come 20 minutes late and the and our mayor should appear listen to the it star where the hove is time came sat down spoke 20 minutes later this young ramir shapira who then was 37 years old 37 years old walks into the nest walks into the room and the stood up for who that was the moment when anointed ramirez shapira as someone who called usril would listen to and should listen to he'd already been appointed the gerebba you know frail narrow hunched you remember the film right with his cap ramir shapira was glorious he was big he was tall he wore silken garments of a rebbe he wore the the the hat the full appearance and he was striking the picture of a rabbinic figure that the sky was the opposite of but was a goddamn and he knew what was needed ramir shapira was a was part of the lineage of one of the leaders of casidus who believed in majesty he had a silver crown with gems in it he had a palace all of the rebels of regine followed in this approach the in the case of regina was so extreme that he was in fact seen by the tsar as a threat as trying to create a shadow government he was arrested he was in jail for for two years i believe in the 1830s and ultimately he he he left rougeen believed in this idea they believed in this idea of tifaris when ravi of regime left regine where did he transfer himself to he transferred himself to sadigur that was where the new home there was never another rebbe of regine but there are many other branches and sadigur was one of them when the sadiguru rebbe came to visit yeshiva's ramir shapira gave a talk welcoming him and he said that in hasidus we would have three we would have avram yitzhak and yaakov just like in kali israel we had avraham vino who was hesed in hasidus there was the bashem who was khasid who showered of his love and taught people with kindness his whole goal was to go to lift up the simple person who was suffering and to help them and to show them love and then we had yitzhak yitzhak was the second of the away sarcasidos the kaiser the kaiser vublin who was gevorah who was who who said mossar who called himself to task and called others to task and then we had regin and eugene was tifaris that's associated with glory with harmony with the uplift and ramir shapiro darshan on this and it's you know of course it's interesting some of us maybe are more familiar with the with the lithuanian yeshiva patterns and we think about the the uh the the the the vardikers and the slobkers and the kelimers and all those different schools which also reflect these different ways but mayor shapiro was firmly he was a talmud of chartkiv and shortcut was this way as well and and their glory was not just in expressing itself as ramirez appeared did in building this tremendous palace for torah which was but it was expressed deeper than that so before we tweak about that bit of depth i just want to finish uh finish a thought because the chart of arabic himself questioned whether a mayor shapira when he opened khachme lublin he said why are you making why would you make such a big celebration maybe it's better to do it quietly like the lucha sneers even the charitable rebbe asked him and what i'm telling you is written in one of the books i would tell you it's a it's a must read in the world of biographies of jewish of jewish torah leaders it's unique it's a book called it's published in english it's called the blaze and the darkening gloom it was written it's published by feldheym it was written and published in the 30s in the 30s i believe maybe the early 40s but i believe in the 30s it was published by ravi yoshua balmo who was a talmud of rav mayor shapira and he wrote a biography of him in yiddish which which was which is translated into this in the blazing of the darkening gloom and yeshua obama himself was was killed in the holocaust he and his wife and his two children were killed in the holocaust so this is a biography written from those from those days and he writes there that the church of arabia astro mayor shapiro and ramirez shapiro gave him two answers why i'm doing it publicly and the first answer was exactly what zalman sarotskin said seemingly on his own in his hespid in his usulogy of ramir shapira that the rabbanisham also knew that it might break but the world needed a reset and then he said another answer shapiro was such a guttaby israel he quoted a mishna in menoches perakud where the mishna says that on the second day on the second night of pesach we would go out and we would go harvest the omer the first measure of barley in order to bring it to the basamignas and what did they do so it says in the mishnah called there was a convention every year all of the cities near the place where the barley grew from which they would harvest they would all gather to that city so it should be harvested with a big big taram with pomp and with circumstance and when it became dark on matsayantiv they said hashemish is it dark they asked questions is the dark ready yes three times every question is this the tool that we're gonna use is this the side yes is this the box that we're gonna put it in yes each question three times over and over again will we shall we do it at shabbos you do it even on shabbos shabbos even on shabbos we should do it we should do it everything they did they did pablo the why because of the by two sims here so remember that there was a dispute about the calendar and that sidduquim said it says you do it which means the day after shabbos so they always made it on sunday when we did it whatever night even on shabbos we were going against them sedra mayor shapiro you see that when there's an argument about the tradition of tara that you have to demonstrate the truth of torah by getting everybody together and doing it very publicly and he said my creation of is an argument against those who would distort the torah who are taking away the torah this was his way but mayor shapiro did everything big it wasn't like the other gidayla and they sometimes disputed him you know that again ramir shapiro was there at the creation of agudas israel as a big big national movement and mayor shapiro felt was incredibly invested in agudas israel he was offered when he was still a rov in a small town in that in those in those days he was offered to be the rav of warsaw which was the biggest of the cities of poland and they said there's just one condition is you have to give up your affiliation with agudas israel and he famously refused he said you could take me out of aguras israel but you can't take a good israel out of me and simply he understood that even being rav in a big city when there was a movement that was there to bring together all of those who cared about torah and klaus israel that that was a much more important place for him to be and he was and he was correct a good as israel then and now constitutionally is led by something called the mayatus kidaliatara the council of torah sages and then in its first days there was a question as to how it should be constituted and there were those who said it should have 71 members like the sanhedrin and there were those who were very opposed to that that it was pretentious ramir shapira wanted that it should have 120 members 120 members like the original size of the anshay knesset the knesset in israel has 120 seats fashioned after that but that's not a torah body he wanted a torah body of 120 members and it was officially discussed and maybe even passed myself who was the other god alhador in the letters of rafchaim isa godzinski you have a letter which he writes to the to the chairman of aguras israel international with jakov rosenheim or reynold jacob rosenheim where he writes about a letter that ramir shapira had written where he was very disappointed that they weren't appointing the 120 members of the mayatas and miser says you know i sat with him and he had for me lists and lists and lists of rabbanim and i said you know like we don't want to have 120 members this requires not just people who are torah scholars this requires people who have experience in understanding all the give and take of communal leadership it's it's a it's a much more select group and that was this position which which carried but why do a mayor shapiro want 120 it's a pure consistent he was trying in a sense to rebuild the base amigdas and if you couldn't reveal the vasa mikdash but still everything should be done with covered everything should be done with tiffaris there should be imagine a body of 120 sages of cloud israel together imagine the power the impact just like he imagined a central yeshiva for poland where everybody would come and study and be taken care of just as he imagined not a thousand separate small gamora shirim but the entire jewish world who learns torah all studying the same page he thought in large dimensions in dimensions of tifaris but i want to just close this discussion about tifares with what the sadhagura rebbe himself said when he came to lublin on that same visit where amir shapira spoke about those three prototypes and the one which he was following the sadhagareba said something which was essential to the continuity of regime something which was all ramer shapira he said you know that the navi said another year meow said hashem people will say we've said this we've quoted this process many a time and the sadhagur rabbi says it he says that he speak quotes the malbin he says people will say we have this incredible incredible building the basal mig-dash wow look at this wonderful building that we have the beit hamikdash but you have to realize you have to be the mikdash magdash you have to be the miglesh diminished has to dwell in you as an individual when regine went from the crowns and the palaces and they realized maybe they have to do things with a little bit of a lower profile one thing they never forfeited explained the sadhu-guraba was they never forfeited that the human being has to themselves be someone who represents that hashem dwells within them the pride with which a human being carries themselves is not pride it's stature it's greatness the rabbi said that's why the rambam brings the halacha he doesn't he doesn't bring the pasak and say for dvaram which seems to be the mitzvah of building the base hamikdash forever many ask why didn't the rambam bring that possum you should seek the place of his shrine and come there why didn't he bring that passage from safer dvaram why did he bring the passage of us you shall build for me a migration i will dwell within them which it says by the mishkan which was long past which doesn't govern the laws of basa bahira and he notes that it's one of the first stiklak in one of the writings of ramir shapira and he says i'll tell you and he said with the hasidis he says the reason is because the shikhna siddhisu is hashem and that's finding the building but the rama wanted to bring the pusakh which everybody knows how we darshan at pasek they'll make for me amigdas for shakhanti bisaychem will dwell in the building but i will dwell in each and every one of them and he said tal medium of there's a magnificent building that you're here that you occupy that you study in but you yourself have to be magnificent you yourself have to be a great great person this is so to speak chapter one of the work of mayor shapira of restoring the glory of the reset button of zekely van veyo which is billed for him a gorgeous palace do everything about tyra and mitzvahs with beauty and with style but then evahu but make yourself glorious make yourself great make yourself great restore the glory of tyra that way but i'm sorry i know we should be saying akina right you're expecting me to say can i keep saying when i finish i'm going to finish but i'm not going to finish without bringing it to us because you'll say okay very nice that was a good historical lecture on what ramir shapira did when there were no yeshivas now go take a drive 15 minutes from here you'll find campuses with beautiful buildings that job is done it's done okay so it's important to know if not for a mayor shapira there wouldn't be a campus for all the different yeshivas for near israel or for the base madrid of rave schlanger or for all the all the different places that are here they wouldn't be over the schools wouldn't they wouldn't look the way they looked if not for me lublin if not for mayor shapira but you see ramir shapira was dealing with a time where toro was poor where yeshivas were poor he was dealing with a time of deprivation he was dealing where the default was as he would say all the time password eat bread and drink water and sleep on the ground that battle in hera is over now they're luxurious places are beautiful with hardwoods and marble and everything so what now ramir shapiro wanted to make sure bhakram had proper food to eat that they didn't have to go scrounge around and eat peg you know stale bread leftovers eating at somebody's house who was gracious enough to include them in a corner table and give them something from their dinner you want them to have a dining room he wanted them to be dignified and today barur it's clear and it's not the time for me to show you where mayor shapira actually said things like this but he would call upon us to be dignified in plenty he would say with all that you have it shall lend to the honor of yourselves as human beings and as hashem ramir shapira wouldn't you know when ramirez shapiro was dying literally he told us tell me him tell me it was in the kind of glasses that jews for as long as for when when we were growing up that they drank the lachaim inn there wasn't plenty wasn't ex access dignify yourselves just dignify yourselves as people who are characterized by torah as ramir shapira said the mishnah for the person who has it all like rebbe rabiud anasi who had it all and he said but i wasn't busy benefiting and enjoying the pleasures of this world would he preach austerity he wouldn't preach austerity he would preach simple satisfaction that uplifts and that dignifies karishvaraku has blessed our time that we've been given the resources to carry on the elevation of torah and its institutions that ramir shapira initiated and now it's upon us what he would say to us is that we should be an evil ho we should be human beings in the image of akureshwara to let the plenty distinguish us and not heaven forbid the opposite not let us not let it distract us the two kinos which would like to say to keep us with you here at this point are are um 31 and 32 they are next to each other the first one is 31 it's found in the arts world on page in the quran um in the quran on page 515 and it will be followed immediately by the next 132 both of them speak of the contrast of the honor of hashem when it's visible and when it's present and the honor of hashem when it's when it's shadowed and lost three or four [Music] yo foreign [Music] foreign no is so um uh a critical factor of ramir shapiro's leadership was the confidence to assert himself in the face of opposition to torah personal confidence and to build claude israel's confidence when we build torah in the picture of ramir shapira following the pathway of ramir shapira when we're taking something which is not held up as the esteemed and ultimate value of quality children of the world and we do everything we can to restore it to build it up that's restoring a place for torah that's a bit of binyan hamikdash of restoring hashem's visible presence and dominant presence within the world but part of it is that on the part of the people there has to be confidence when we left mitzrayim what does it say israel yo rama the jewish people left with a high hand we left confidently in ghazal it says that when paro came in the middle of the night and he said he said leave leave leave israel said we're not leaving until the daytime hashem told us not to leave till the day time said we're not leaving like thieves under the cover of darkness where people will say that we snuck out of egypt we're going to do it in broad daylight where they'll realize what is leading the world they'll realize that we're leading we're leaving with hashem behind us with no sense of inferiority with ultimately with a sense of confidence ramirez shapira had a memory had something which he would say frequently he said it i think either at the cornerstone laying or at the dedication of the of of chakme lublin but he said it many times he said bayou venactiva ganovim speaks about being appreciative to those who aren't so straightforward and honest because then when somebody comes to us and asks us for stock and we don't want to give them we can maybe have like a pretense you know maybe we don't trust them or something ramirez shapiro said i have a different shot in boyo minoxic title i have an explanation for the past decades and that is that for all the past decades where did yeshiva students sleep where do they sleep and so sometimes we think many assume that they slept in the bassmed ridge sometimes they were placed there were situations where they schluff enough and bunk they slept in the vent on the benches in the bay in the base meadows many times they didn't do that many times they couldn't they they couldn't do that they weren't allowed by the community to do that uh they so what happened was that there were people who had shops they had stores and they were worried about the stores being robbed so when they closed the store they had a bucker they say you want a place to sleep you can sleep in my store like the heat which is left over from today will heat you until partially through the night and you can sleep in my store and that way when ganovim come you'll chase them off and they were locked into the stores and they were freezing and many times they were petrified because if a fire broke out they couldn't get out of the store they were locked into the store and they were there by the kindness of the of the storekeepers which wasn't particularly a kindness it was self-serving and they would unlock the store in the morning and say okay go right and you know and let them out and they were disrespected and he said but if not for the thieves we wouldn't have any place to sleep nobody would give us a place that was ramir shapiro's typical sharp wit way of expression and at the same time very very sharp analysis of a reality of the disrespect and this is what he said besides the dignity of torah he said one day this person who's the yeshiva student is supposed to be a rabbi he's supposed to lead a community so tell me something after being given this kind of a treatment he's going to have anything like self-confidence he's going to have anything which feels like a little bit of a capacity to lead and to guide anyone he's living here just feeling completely and totally dependent on everybody else the student of torah is the lowest on the totem pole and then somehow he's supposed to grow in to be a rabbi to be a leader and part of ramayana shapira was developing leaders in a yeshiva which did not lack for staff and for people who wanted to be part of the staff there was leadership which was given over to the bahrain they were in charge of the davening and they set up rules and they had takanos they had rules which were established there was a team of students who did that and there were teams of students who were in charge of all kinds of things because he wanted to prepare them to prepare them to lead and one of the vertlach again one of those thoughts of of ramir shapira was right we all know that we and many of of uh don't call them your sons call them your builders and he said you know even the best case you don't want to be kinder of cast children who are being supported you want to be by nayef you want to be builders and he said it not to others but he started with himself mayor shapira who as we said was incredibly incredibly gifted and talented he started off he was recognized as a as a guy and all those stories that you read in storybooks about the dialogue that when he was two years old he finished us all of those right they all say they say them all about ramir shapira about the tyrants which he used to say about the brilliance which he had and there's no i mean it's they're said by enough people his his brothers wrote his brother wrote wrote about his childhood about his brother's childhood you know no no no no sibling rivalry exhibited there and just just admiration of the strength and he ramir shapiro was taken as a son-in-law by uh by a a family of yaakov uh breitman from tarniple in in poland and uh he uh writeman was a very very wealthy successful person and his son-in-law mayor shapira lived in his house and studied tara and he taught torah and he was a magnet tamir khamen came through they came to the house of jacob in order to be able to interact with the younger of mayor shapira people who study torah in the city came to study torah from him he was very very thrilled with his son-in-law and his daughter being there and he didn't want anything to change and our mayor shapira started in his mid-twenties to say but you know i should be around in qual israel and his father-in-law said what do you need it for what do you need it for well you have to go there you won't it's not like you're going to make a paranosa in fact they they relied to significant degree on handouts and that was after after they had to prop they had to come up with money to buy the position typically it was a practice a very very unhealthy practice which was there at the time of practice which which our mayor shapira despised that uh rabbanim were given positions like the kayengatal in the second base amigdas was people who somehow found favor with the leadership of the city usually by financial means were given the position of leadership and they had no interest in this and our mayor shapiro said okay well that makes two of us i don't have any interest in that either i'll make you a deal i won't seek any rabbinic position but i will not be a verse if a rabbinic physician comes to me and his in-laws breathed easy they said we're okay because they'll come because they know that he has a wealthy father-in-law and they'll come to me and they'll say well if you'll only donate whatever it is we'll have the breitman the social hall so then we'll be happy to hire your son-in-law by uh rabbi shapiro as the rabbi and we're not we're not going to do that we're not going to do that but along came an invitation from a simple town galena a small town that didn't know from of these things wasn't a particularly religious town there was a big mix in the town of jews who remained faithful and jews who were not and they had heard of ramir shapira and they came and they offered him the position and our mayor shapira told his in-laws i was offered a position his father-in-law still tried to talk him out of it to no avail the deal was a deal he said let's ask the rabbit that we both admire the character and the choice of said it makes sense he should take it i agreed that he shouldn't pursue it but he should take it if it's offered to him his mother-in-law would not take that for an answer and his mother-in-law went and this is written by people who were present this is not a bubba myself it's written by many people who were by a couple of people who were present and many other people wanted famous stories about mayor shapira his mother-in-law went to the safe which they had in the house she took out they say i don't know whatever a huge amount of coins of gold coins and and currency and whatever it was and she put it in the middle of the dining room table she said mayor stop with an irish gayten just take this it's all yours and don't go and hermit shapiro said thanks but no thanks there's things to do for the jewish people and as we said before you take the safer torah out to i had the privilege to to to like i will not say that i knew him well at all but i grew up in montreal spring was the rav the chief rabbi of montreal repentance hershberg was a sweet sweet person and he was a goyin island who are the two most uh the three most famous students of chachme lublin are of hershbrunn whenever you met ravi hershberg if you were a yeshiva booker or someone he would say what are you learning and you would say yavamas and he would say what daf and you would say pay dollars and he would start reciting to you from the top of the pedal in your vamos [Music] and then after about 45 seconds he would say rashi and then he would start from reading you rashi from the top of the page that was a first book it was unbelievable unbelievable knowledge of tara combined with an incredible incredible sweetness i remember when another great talmud of of uh lublin came to visit montreal was rav kraisworth who was the chief rabbi of belgium and i remember my rebbe with muscle weinberg said to me he knows yerushalmi like i know ashrae right this this one and and the third one was ravozner who was who actually was the rashiva of khakhi lublin and benebrach and ravaznar was one of the paisake hadar those were the famous ones so refer sprung in in a safer which uh someone named stein stein published of shiurim and talks of of reverse brung hershbrong said there one of the your sites are shapira he said that everybody thinks about mayor shapira and they think of this incredible leader and builder of the jewish people he says it's true but he was a bigger guy he was a bigger genius in tara he said you have to understand his brilliance in torah when he said a sheer entire one he would speak in tara it was from anywhere and everywhere and it was delicious and it set the whole place a light in the learning of tyra and he knew everything he said i remember i was once standing with ramayana shapira and somebody asked him a simple question on the parsha it was we were learning it was parshas i guess excuse me most precious me cates or or or or uh or yeah just me cates he says and it says that they that the ha ish nehores the man the master of the land asked of us right when they were still speaking of the isif as someone who they didn't know asked the person to remember shapira why is he called adai neharets adain is plural masters of the land he should be called adinar it's the master of the land great question simple grammatical question senator of hershberg ramirez shapiro said to him it's a taz in reish i involve in yeredea and our first bonus was astounded and he looked it up and i looked it up and it's a thousand right here there right resha involving safer torah the laws of writing is safer tyrant and the rule is you know you're not allowed to erase the name of hashem but if you have something which is part of the name of hashem like a prefix or a suffix but it's not really part of the name of hashem then you could right so right eloka you can't erase l-o-k could mean god of of is not part of the word so maybe you'll be able to erase it so that's the discussion and the ta's and the ta's says el okay is part of the magnification of the name of hashem and he says like you have by yeah if it says reverse pong said he like he was astounded and he didn't just know that he was astounded had a signature line the way he signed his letters one who signs with a heart filled with longing due to the love of our holy torah he loved the torah he loved the tyrant people who love the torah learn the torah people who love the torah like anything that you love you remember it better he loved the torah he was unique because like others who we've talked i shouldn't say you know utterly unique because like others who we've talked about on these mornings he was a combination and he put aside to some degree that love that passion of tyra to do to for leadership i'll read to you a little bit from a beautiful writing from review de leib geffen who is also a talmud of chachme lublin who was who survived went here at israel and was a an avbesdan in one of the towns of earth's israel he says the greatness of ramir shapira came across the the title of the article is the hamas the gon the great one of thought of spirit and of and of action he says it came apart it came out in his spirit and in his actions israel in the history of the jewish people there are all kinds of images of great of the spirit and people who were great people of action from generation to generation each one was was different the first one would be the head of the community and the second one would be the eyes of the community the head of the community would be the one who would give counsel to the community the thinker the eyes the eyes penetrate practically seeing every place they work together and the two of them together produce a leadership for the jewish people the one who thinks conceptually and the one who perceives and acts the gun the thinker is someone who's somehow elevated and removed from the people he has somehow access to the subtleties of the ivory tower etc original thinking he can resolve every difficult conceptual difficulty answer questions and find solutions to the questions of life the genius of action is the person who is ish raf paalim the person of activity who creates and builds things in the life of the nation he stands out be it sirosa the things that he creates sometimes out of nothing his arm shines his arm shines and lights up the room and lights up cloud israel if you go and through the pages of the histories of the jewish people and of its sages and of its scribes in recent history we will see how few there were who excelled in both of these these things together we were wealthy in people who were great of spirits we were wealthy with people of great action but we were poor in those who combined the two of them together and the one who one who did combine the two of them together was ramir shapira it's an ironic ironic speech and the reason why it's an ironic speech is because mayor shapira spoke actually derisively about being the eyes of the community as opposed to being the head of the community he said eyes just observe they watch they watch and they think the head contains within it the brain and from the brain you say to your hand to go do this and you say to your foot to go to that he said it will be pathetic and ramayana shapira said this in an address which was one of the addresses which brought ramayana out as a leader of claudius he said it as a young man in his 30s to a big gathering of rabonim in poland he said history we will determine if we will just be the pathetic eyes of the community the enema who watched what was happening analyze what was happening but could affect no change in what was happening it's not enough to be eyes eyes have to be part of the head rashem and we have to make something happen we have to be able to achieve real change but mayor shapira was there functioning in all of these realms you know that ramir shapira if you look at his letters i want to also just acknowledge i i mentioned before this the the book by rabbi baumel hashem you come to mo ablaze in the darkening gloom which i recommend highly uh to the english speaking english reading there's a a a person named david avram or avram david mandelbaum whose father was a student of chachme lublin who has made it his life's mission to study and to publish everything possible about ramir shapir and khachmi lublin um i have a half a shelf literally full of swarm uh of his whether a biography called ar hamer whether he has a volume on lublin and its founder he has a two volumes on during the war whatever was left of it went to shanghai and he has published a volume of facsimiles of letters over mayor shapiro a big fat beautiful volume of facsimiles he also published two volumes of the talmudic torah vermeer shapira and two volumes of the drushes of ramayu shapira and i'm probably leaving some things out but he's made it's his life work to life's work to collect under mayor shapira and um and if you look at the letters the facsimiles of the letters of ramayana shapira which are available in many books you see that for us extended period of time and he had there are two significant stationary pages that you'll see over mayor shapiro one frequently is one which has an image of it of the building that's a lot of the letters of mayor shapira a lot of lesnar mayor shapira have as the letterhead rabbi mayor shapira member of polish parliament because her mayor shapira was a member of the po polish parliament and uh it's because there was a a notion the way it was divided was that there were jewish there were jewish members of parliament to represent the jewish community in the sin of the in the polish sin and ramir shapira because of his outstanding ability to communicate and to relate in a way which garnered respect of everybody and to speak even he learned as he had to to speak in in the vernacular he was asked to play this role he didn't like the role he didn't like the role but there's a chuva published a volume of chuvas a remarkable volume of chuvas called arhamer and simon gimel is his correspondence with the khafiz khayim about the safer likute halachas of the wrote which which was a like what the riff he distilled the halachos from seder kochim from the gomorrahs about corbonus right the riff which we have in the back of our gomorrahs does that for the things which are practical without away him did it for sh with his hoping for the guru and there was one person maybe there probably there was more than one but not so many more than one there was one person who read it cover to cover and wrote notes to the prophet about questions which he had in the likute and that was ramir shapira and in the arhamear he publishes the correspondence which he got from the prophet and listen to what the khafiz khayim so honored brilliant sage known to all in his greatness and in how uplifted he is a true god-fearing man ramir shapira and he says after greeting you with love i reached i received your letter your pure letter with your very valuable notes on the safely coute alohas i'm grateful to you on your important notes i'm so happy when i see that great people like you look at the safer it should be a merit for me as well i would love to answer you on your eyes um in in my own handwriting but my eyes are weak and it's very difficult for me to to to write and and uh he then sends a letter which uh responses which he dictated to his son-in-law who wrote it for him but he writes a shem should strengthen you strengthen you the torah for torah and for your legacy shame to be able to dwell in peace in the tense of shame which is into in the in what we're sitting in the base agnesis in the bay san madrish to learn and to teach the holy torah the hashem and hashem should give you the strength lavod to do your work in the tents of yetis which he means in the halls of government the simcha slave kobane israel and i love him to bring joy to the hearts of all of the jewish people who are so hurt who will stand with them if not the great leaders of the jewish people so the the was blessing him for the two prongs of his life in the tents of shame and in the tents of jeffers and he was encouraging him something which a mayor shapiro did not enjoy in fact he stepped down from it after six years or so and didn't didn't want to to continue in that role but again it's it's an example an example of ramir shapira and the different kinds of leadership which which he was called upon to do and what was our mayor shapiro's version of leadership so he had a a beautiful vart in the derek of ramir shapira beautiful you all know that the the there was a code word which the leader who was supposed to redeem the redeemer who would redeem the jewish people from israel was supposed to share what was the code word pocoid pocadeti right yaakov will remember you and you'll take my bones out with you so there was a messora a masora which was safeguarded in claudia israel that the leader of claudius would come would say paco pakadati that double language remember i have remembered he's the real leader so what's the idea said ramir shapira that the jewish people in mitraim had two kinds of suffering on the one hand we were enslaved we were in bondage the jewish people's material life was a shambles we were oppressed we were impoverished we were suffering everything terrible was going on and then there was something else which was going on it's true said ramayana shapira that ghazal tell us that we held on to our language we held on to our names we held on to our clothing we had some remnants hanging by a thread of our cultural connection to judaism but our spiritual lives were also in a shambles and he would quote the vart avoid which was said by one of the [Music] one of the uh great hasidic masters wherever right where it says that it's the posix says their cries rose up to hashem from the work that's the simple shot so the way rav mayor shapiro said it rebelled insane said if i would have cupped my ear to listen to the cries of the jew and mitzray him i would have heard two cries i would have heard him crying about the slavery and the physical privations and all of that but i would have heard his cries missing god and the service of hashem even more than that that al-shavasam the cries about the rabbi shalom are higher vital than the cries and the complaints about the work so that's a hasidus of art but he also says goes on to say he says and when maestro abano took the jewish people out of israel he said the sign that i'm taking out of mitzrayim is when i take you out of mitzrayim tabdoona you're going to serve god on this mountain which means that i'm redeeming you both materially and spiritually maisha abaenu took the jewish people out of their tsaris and he uplifted and he elevated the jewish people and so cedric mayor shapiro that any true leader any true redeemer of the jewish people has to address both the material suffering of the people and the spiritual suffering of the people there's a safer zikarran not a safer zikarran actually it's called the safer hayovil which was published in the early 30s in honor of mayor shapira ramirez shapiro was still alive i think it was on the occasion of his 40th birthday or something like that maybe a little later i don't know exactly it's a say for hayevo it's a book of tributes there are many such books of tributes published they're usually to people when they turn 75 or or after they've passed away or something like that when they retire so a bunch of people come together and write words of torah they could publish there they write about the person about his work this book was written when ramirez shapiro was still alive again i think maybe barely 40. just as a sign of the times the person who put together this book who was a talmud of mayor shapira did not remain from do not remain from in the in a journal called yeshurun they they publish a collection of letters of ramir shapira pleading with his student to come back to come back to the yeshiva to live in his house to you know to to restore him to the there but he was not successful this was the person who put together the book about ramir shapira the first book of arthur mayor shapiro in that book about ramir shapira written you know while he was alive so someone writes about ramir shapira in tarniple which was not when he was still single or not when he just got married but he had left to go to galena then he had to leave galena because of the first world war he came back to tarniple and there was the middle of the war and there was a demand from the russians that they provide laborers and they were picking jews as laborers off the streets it would sound sound familiar and ramir shapira the young rav went himself and negotiated that don't pick us off the street will provide you with laborers every day and he went and he raised money to find laborers to provide the laborers every day and that stopped these street snatchings which were happening there in tarniple and then this person writes about this rav who had tell me them around him and who was studying tyrann was doing everything he could but he was at the same time doing this he says when he really gained hearts was when the work details one point didn't come back and they said uh what's going on and they didn't come back for one day for two days for three days and then they had a new order and the the front was getting closer and they said we you need to provide us with a thousand workers we're gonna have to take a thousand workers gonna come and we're gonna take everybody and nobody wanted to go everybody was afraid the workers didn't come back and the threat was that if they didn't come by themselves that they would send the kazakhs in that they would that that would be terrible and what reversed the course was that ramir shapira himself took his talmidum took his students and went out to go as a volunteer workforce and when he went so then people people followed and they followed him this double leadership recognizing that it's not enough to uh to lead on on on one end and lead with the other and and not with the other one has to worry about both sides about the torah and the gemini ramir shapira six weeks before he died said a hespid a yulji al-khafitzhan who had just died then and it's a remarkable hospital and in there he says a beautiful beautiful vart beautiful void a memorable vart it's the famous gemaran bhava basra where it says that on the day that avro avinu died um all the greats of the nations of the world stood and said woe unto the world who lost its leader and woe to the ship that lost its captain sir mayor shapiro asked like many asked a classic question a simple question which one is a bigger deal the captain of a ship or the leader of a world you want to start off and say woe to the world woe to the ship that lost its captain and woe to the world that lost its leader okay i get that that's moving up but to go from the world that lost its leader to the ship that lost its captain why go in that direction explain to mayor shapira the coin of phrase the captain of the ship is in the same boat the difference between the leader of the world and the captain of the ship is that the leader of the world can sit himself with some level of his own personal security he's got a reinforced bunker and he's okay and he's safe and he's out there leading the world and if somehow he's not able to leave the world in the world the world has lost its leader but the captain of the ship when he worries about the ship he's not worrying about them he's worrying about himself too it's he sees it as his own problem he's on the same boat and that was avraham avinu he said they looked at avraham as the leader of the world but not as a detached leader of the world but as someone who saw himself as experiencing the same challenges the same difficulties the absolute empathy which the prophet had for his generation that was what ramir shapira was praising him for and he was praising for the quality which he had himself this was the quality of the passionate leadership of mayor shapira which was that there was empathy in there there was also confidence in the leadership of mayor shapira in the same aspect in the same eulogy of the what does he say he says was the humblest of people i remember him getting up there at the knessia godila and saying why am i speaking here and he says you know salah but he says i'm maybe it's because i'm an old kaid i'm a cayenne a kind is supposed to be honored and i'm an old client so therefore i'm honored and the was very genuine very very genuine in his humility but said mayor shapira i saw this person who at the with his kessar kahuna was so humbled i saw that with the kesser malhus with the crown of leadership of kingdom that he was able to stand and to stand firm and to stand firm when things needed to be standed that would need needed to be stood firm and as we said before this was part of what ramirez shapiro said we can we have to build people that will have the confidence to recognize and ramir shapira led with confidence he knew that he had something that he had the word of the torah and he didn't hesitate whether it was in the rules for baking matsus and the communities over which he was around or whether it was in these magnificent global projects which he was determined to bring forth and to carry forth in all of them ramir shapiro stood with confidence when we think for ourselves about the things that we need to do in order to be able to make a difference in whatever is our dalat almost whatever is our area empathy the goyal couple the first level of being able to be helpful to anyone to elevate anyone is to care about that person is to care about the difficulties that the community faces but mayor shapiro wasn't just about building a yeshiva he wasn't just about getting people to learn torah he wanted to relieve the suffering of the jewish people he was keen to notice to empathize with the suffering of the jewish people he knew that there had to be a confidence that you could do something about it and there had to be a a an optimism and that's the last note of leadership on ramir shapira optimism i want to share with you two selections from others words of hespid which were said on rab mayor shapira one is the hespa that was given by ravihill yaakov weinberg in berlin there was a chart cover based madrid in berlin and revere jacob weinberg who was a student of the eastern european yeshivas who was and was also the rector in berlin of the rabbinical seminary he says first of all just at the beginning of the hespet he says something beautiful he said this man who was so joyous and brought such joy to everyone who he encountered who never caused anyone anguish has now caused for the first and last time terrible anguish to the jewish people his loss is such a source of tsar such a source of anguish from the person who brought joy who brought joy to call israel and he writes and he says as follows he was a young man but he was filled with a thirst for activity to do in his mind there were all kinds of programs for the benefit of the jewish people he who with his spirit and with his optimism so many projects and so many ideas he had and he had the capacity to scatter the clouds of despair that had risen up and covered our skies to allow a new shine to be seen he has been taken by death and with him our comfort and our hope has been has been taken in the cities that he visited i skipped that skip ahead a little bit in the cities that he visited there was a festive mood the poorest of people brought their puke meager coins to donate to his yeshiva they just they were so happy just to see his face that shone like the sun to hear his sweet voice it was enough for a mayor shapiro to place his hand on the shoulder of a jew for that jew to be completely dedicated to him with all of his heart oh said jacob weinberg the heart of a jew how hard it is to gain you and how easy it is to gain you the true leader of the jewish people knows the pathway to the heart of the jew who was the son-in-law of the gara-reba and a leader of aguras israel writes as well wrote as well in a hespid which was given 25 years later was given at the time when ramir shapira was again reburied in yushalam and haraham nukhos and he writes about this about this and there are two things i want to share from his from his husband he said one was that ramir shapira begged the leadership of the ago they said leave me for a little bit of time from all of the communal work and let me focus on building lublin and will produce hashem hundreds of people who could do everything everything that i do with you let me produce a hundred more mayor shapiros and he writes how when ramir shapira and again there's so many accounts of this and because of time only sharing like a fraction of what's there and what's written about how ramir shapiro with his power of optimism of magnetism of empathy of confidence again this is not morning charisma this is someone who galvanized the jewish people he says that he would speak at those conventions and then he would go step down from the vemma and they would start singing and dancing the crowds there gathered it would start singing and dancing but mayor shapiro has written about him from the earliest days that he would just he would break out in england when they were learning and they came to a a climax and something and he would just close his eyes and think and then start singing a song or may shape your composed beautiful nigunim and they would sing them right right there we sing that everybody sings that simple fortune is the person who doesn't forget you whose strength comes from you and they would just sing together and he created an optimism an optimism in claudia israel a hope a positivity a positivity in cloud israel that they wouldn't that they would recognize that they would embrace one of the students of ramayana shapira or one of the contemporaries i should say rather mayor shapiro writes in that safer hayyovil that in that honorary volume to mayor shapira he writes how he was next to her mayor and after a mayor gave one of these russia's one of these speeches that so to speak brought the house down that just everyone was so enthralled and they applauded him where mayor shapiro stepped down and he said honey those foolish babylonians he quoted a passage from the gomorrah the gomorrah says that the babylonians are foolish that they stand up for the govarabha for the talmud but they don't stand up for the safer torah and the whole reason to offer arnor the talmud is because of the torah and what the mayor said is you know everything i'm doing here is i'm trying to increase the honor of the torah and here they are they're applauding me could they just focus and just i just want them to give honor to the torah i just want to give them them to give honor to the torah this was his avodah and the the proof of it was that he caused himself the greatest shame and the greatest disgrace traveling around america like a beggar like a popper until he found his way till he was able to to to get there killing himself compromising much of his own honor in order to be able to elevate the honor of the tyre but he did it he did it he led by empathy by understanding he led by confidence and he led by optimism we are going to continue with two kines one of them is kina lamed gimmel ahmad 34 it's on page 320 in the art school it's again it's kinda number 34. and the focus of the kinah is the horrible agatha of the agoras of gitan of the blood of zakaria the navi the cayenne who was slaughtered because his messages were not received well by the jewish people the next one we'll do which will remind you of the page afterwards is kina yud alif al-yashiyo which was on yoshio the melech the king who was righteous and came to lead and to turn the jewish people back to torah from avodah zarah and then he himself was lost this is ramir shapira ramir shapira together those who led the jewish people who saw the difficulty who like the captain of the ship felt that the problem was theirs were empathetic who confidently led with kasir malchus and especially with ramir shapira with his optimism and with his spirit lifted the spirits of khloe israel and created a world of hope for us so again me [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] page 182 in the art school and page five the 289 in the quran hi kai [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] me every every tish above like every um kipper we remember the asura ruge malchus we remember the ten martyrs now the story of the asar arugu malchus which will be the next kinah that we will say king of 21 isaiah albania which we say every every year is a story which stems from we all know the story that occurred during the time of the romans the romans destroyed the second base amigdas and what uh tell us the second base of english was destroyed because of because of hatred between jews self defeating hatred and it has its roots in the story of joseph and his brothers where yosef was sold by his brothers and it's that story that serves as the way the roman brought the case against the asara ruge malchus against the ten martyrs who were a replacement for the ten brothers of yahsef it's there in the kinis of tish above and it's there in the avodah and the muslims of yamahipurim and the reason why it's there is because it's a fundamental flaw that we have as kali israel that we're divided that we're divided that we're willing to write off if not literally sell off portions of our people yaakov yaakov avinu could never be consoled because he knew that every one of his children would be part of the future of the jewish people and it's that inability to be comforted over that that stands as the glue of cloud israel it bears mention of course significantly that on heir of tish above friday in eretz israel large populations of vinay israel found their way into shelters missiles dozens of missiles i don't i'm not up to date on the exact numbers and i'm not up to date on this the news this morning but the the fear the threat the need for soldiers to fight for the jewish people and the fact that large numbers of jews are facing are facing such difficulty including jews who and people who escaped the fighting in ukraine to come to earth israel and now to have to have to have missiles it's a it's something which has to weigh on our heart on a day when we're supposed to be thinking when our messiah and our derek tells us to be thinking about the unity of the jewish people there's a void there's a thought which i've had the privilege to repeat many many times from mayor shapira there was a man named mendel bayless a jew who was the subject of a blood libel in russia in the early part of the 20th century and he was being put on trial he was being put on trial for ostensibly for murder murdering a christian child and that the trial was a trial of judaism the trial ended up being a pretense like many times where there had to be a v there had to be a debate about judaism and its values judaism was put on trial and the rabbi of moscow rabbi mazza was supposed to defend the jewish people and mayor shapira at the time was still rav i believe he was still in galina i don't think he was even yet in sonic which was the second rabbonus i think he was still reverend galina and he wrote a letter to ravyakov mazza and he said when you're there in the court defending bayless they're going to ask you from talmudic sources like they did in the days of the ramban and the inquisition and they'll say that we know that in the talmud it says that atem adam that the jewish people are called other the nations of the world are aren't called adam right the gomorrah says it we had it so i'm learning the video we had it in gamlil says that a non-jew will not be metame the entire room or the entire hospital whatever it is in which he is because the din of toomas oil that the tuma spreads throughout the room is for adam kiyama oil and only the jewish people are called adam everybody knows that the human being was called adam so this talmudic passage is implying that the jewish people consider those who aren't jewish to be less than human no wonder that they would slaughter them for their matzah this is a question which you will face said ramir shapira and i want to give you an answer and he said the answer i would suggest you give is the following so there's a jew on trial in russia you know that the hearts of jews in poland in england in america in morocco anywhere where there's a jew who knows what's happening their heart is beating in sync with the heart of mendel bayless he says if you were putting on trial a uh peasant from some ukrainian village who would be involved in the court case who would be in the courtroom his mother his sister maybe some friends a neighbor you know that the whole jewish people is in your courtroom he says there are different words for people in hebrew ish will usually pluralize as anashim even ishim adam is a name for a person what's the plural of adam there is none there is none the best we do with it is children of man but there's no plural for adam he says the jewish people attempt adam you're called adam which means there's no plural when it comes to the jewish people everybody is like part of one organism and that's what you're seeing here in this trial we all see ourselves as part of one whole atem kriyam adam doesn't mean that anybody else is subhuman what it means is that it's uniquely the jewish people who are able to forge this kind of a bond able to sense this kind of a bond of unity of an organic unity that exists within their nation that they're all one that's what mayor shapiro said when jews are struggling or suffering or bombs of missiles are falling every jew everywhere else feels it together that was the image that we've shared at different times that there's a prohibition against creating a division in the community you know what the prohibition is it's a lisa there's one which is don't be like kaira to make argument but there's another one which is even to to divide in customs to make different customs and to divide yourselves and that's the prohibition of leicester to do right low cisco to do don't make yourself into agudos agudos into groups and groups separate groups you know what the simple meaning of the plastic is don't tear your flesh don't rip your body apart the prohibition in dividing the jewish people is a prohibition against dividing a body cutting a body we're supposed to be one and ramir shapira really really zeroed in on this as part of his goal as part of his mindset by virtue of this story of this torah which he shared from galena you imagine that it had a life of its own one might say in light of what we learned earlier and discussed earlier that it was a strategy you know if you get everybody to do something then it'll be stronger it'll be more powerful it'll be more of that reset button for the people but what is clear is that dramer had it as a goal of its own to make sure that the unity of call israel was experienced many of his plans surrounded this idea even was an idea of bringing together all of the greatest torah scholars to bring them to one place and to rally the community around that place but of course the most notable the most notable was his legacy idea of the dafyame ramir shapira who didn't have he and his wife were not zoho were not privileged to have biological children he used to say that he had two children he had a son and a daughter lublin and the da me and he said with the typical always sharp sense of humor of our mayor shapira he says one of them costs me a fortune and the other one doesn't cost me anything in fact the dafyemi makes me money my people they started a thing that people would put in a penny in a pushka for every duff a penny for me lublin right it's like he said i have two children one of them cost me a fortune and one of them and one of them makes me money when he spoke about the da fiemi he spoke about bringing the jewish people together yes he wanted to energize total learning but he wanted the jewish people to learn together and he said and these were the images which he drew and he drew them they're often quoted and he drew them repeatedly whenever he spoke about it he said you know hashem created adam rashid quotes hashem took dust from every corner of the earth and he brought it together to construct the body of uttamarishon who was created from the dust and he said why did he do this he did this because that human being indeed has to be fused from every corner and especially claudia's thrill claudius trail no matter where we're from whatever our places of origin are whatever our customs are the body of claudia's drill needs to be taken from all corners because we have to come together all together in one corner and he said i never realized this properly until i opened up my gemara one day and the gemara says from when do you read kriya shema and the gemara has a question and the question is the tana where is he standing when he says from when do you read krishna now what does that mean where is he standing right the simple shot in the gemara is you're starting with an assumption that you do read krishma and you're asking what time right where do you st where are you starting from that you're saying what time and the gemara of course gives the beautiful answer the gemara is starting from aposk which says when you get up and that's the way they built the bridge between the written torah and the oral torah to make sure that the oral torah you don't unders don't think that it's starting from scratch it's starting from the written torah that's the simple shot in the gemara but ramir shapira in his inimitable style said where was the tana standing where's the one who's learning this standing and i realized that the mishnah was written in eretz israel that the gemara was written in bothell that rashi and toasters were in france and germany and spain and the rush in germany and the rift in north africa and the marsha and the maram in lublin in poland the rashas the goin in vilna the gemara is an international piece of work the kumar is everything together when you open up a gomorrah and you just follow the things you see where the jewish people traveled and they traveled with a book with a mishnah with the torah they left there at israel tagolos everywhere they went they went with the same torah and everybody it became a an augmented a building upon itself from all over the world unifying the jewish people he says now imagine we pull out that gomorrah we take out that gemara and here's a jew he's a jew from poland and he's learning today's daf today's daf whatever today's daf is today's daf is subba stuff flamin bays or whatever it is he says and he gets on a boat and he travels across the ocean right from poland to new york and he arrives there weeks later every day on the boat he learns the death and he walks out of the blue into a shul in new york and there's a group of people who are sitting there and they're learning the same duff and immediately he's part of the hevra he has something to speak with them about that was the image which he drew you know to to to give yamiche for for several cycles were always very particular to be exactly on the page right sometimes it could be difficult you know they have to tish above it's a little difficult but everybody has that difficulty the day after tish above right but otherwise right sometimes a page is shorter a page is longer you could go slower you could go faster but we realized quickly that we have to why because that's exactly what happens somebody shows up from boston they looked up on the computer they found the daviami shire at a convenient time and they come and you're gonna they're gonna come and you're gonna learn the daft that they learned two days ago it's not fair you have to make sure that you're up to the right death so that the people all over the world who come and travel from place to place but this was his image his image was to bring the jewish people together and if there's nothing that and there is nothing that brings the jewish people together like the torah unifying claude israel and the torah there was another big benefit of da fa me of the project of da fa me and that that benefit was that not only did it unify the jewish people it also unified the torah you know that in the zayar akaresh it speaks about pieces missing from the torah like jews missing from the jewish people like limbs missing heaven forbid from a body these are all whole organisms and you know the famous rem is the famous hint that israel stands for yesh shishim reba isis there are 600 000 letters in the torah which there aren't literally 600 000 letters in the torah literally the way we count them but the idea is that the same way the torah you have to have all of it so to klaus israel you have to have all of it and there's a value of the unity of the torah and there's a value of the unity of the jewish people when da fiomi was conceived was very excited and when it took he was even more excited because as you know the khafiz was mitsape yeshua he yearned for redemption and one of the great projects of the we mentioned earlier and we discussed at length a few years ago when we learned about the prophet above was that wanted people to learn the halakhs of the bash he had his suitcase packed he yearned for mashiach he was waiting anxiously for the coming of mashiach and he said that if we truly yearn for mashiach and we want mashiach to come we can't be caught flat-footed we can't be unprepared we have to learn it and so he created texts on it but who learned it a few people in the in the in the in the kylo and the kibbutz and radin a few people someplace else so the wanted very much to to promote the learning of koch and in in the da fi me he saw that here that those corners of the talmud of the gemara the whole seder kachin would now be studied would be studied significantly by large masses of kali israel and he told ramayana shapira when he saw him when her mayor shapira came to visit him in radhan that that all of these all of these masatas these forgotten masatas will come out to greet him and say and thank him for restoring them for bringing them back to the jewish people as part of the program of learning of khachme lublin he conceived of a yeshiva with four divisions one of the divisions its task was mastery of seder kachin and in the beautiful beautiful inimitable style of ramayana shapira you know what they had in hachmey lublin that's been lost on one of the main floors there was a large model of the base hamikdash it was built by a carpenter artisan you see there are many pictures of it that are available you could look it up i'm sure easily and see it it was a room size right not a room as big as this but you know a nice size room and there was a degen there was a model a wooden constructed model of the vasa megadosh why did he have it there well there was a pedagogic purpose because you know when you learn those gamoras and you want to figure it out you know in his days they didn't have the the color art school pull out you know of the model of the vasa amigos and even that's only two dimensions right they they went and they looked but it was there also because of zapier yeshua let's look at the baits amigdas people would come sightseeing they would come to me lublin and they would come and they would look at this model of the of the bass amigdas okay others have been have been built since then but it was a complete innovation a completely creative thing and one which expressed this one which supported the learning and of which mayor shapira was very very pleased and very very proud i would mention parenthetically that this model of the best was mentioned by razalman sarratsky in the very first thing that we that we said that we mentioned today which was the eulogy which he gave in 1958 when the remains of ramir shapira came to to to yerushalayim to haram he said i don't get it how did this happen how could his remains be brought from communist poland now come here to to to be brought there to israel this time this never happens and he says well we know that ramir shapira had a yearning for the base of traditional love of eric israel in fact as as is recorded by many of his students that in hello of 1933 when our mayor shapiro was very very filled with concern about the future of europe because of hitler's election and rise to power he began in his building which was barely three years old okay this is the this is the courage of this person to start thinking about transplanting the yeshiva lublin to earth's israel and he started learning he started a shir in zroyim in the lochus of the which were dependent on heirs he said he started learning with people in that elo he had tremendous yearning all of his life for earth's israel but now he translated cedra zalman zarutskin a man who yearns for it's israel a man who built a model of the base amigdas for people to see hashem gave him special the special privilege that his remains would be brought here to where it's israel in the end of masaka sota it says the same line twice it says it about two different people it says had a mission of restoring covert attire so we need to understand what's covered at torah what's covered how could you say about two people who lived some generations apart that when each of them died kovaratura was bottle if it was bottled from the time of gambling then it's also bottled in the time of ravi akiva there's nothing more to do there's no more coverage rashi explains that there are two forms of kavaratora and this is extremely extremely central to what we have to think about when we think about kavanaugh torah this tisha buff i'm we'll start by saying it in a way which is general which is interesting but then try to zero into it when the gemara says when rangamil died kavratura was with god right this is a submission it's a gemara in megillah you may recall in the beginning of the second peric of megillah where the gomorrah says that until the days of when they study torah when we studied torah we stood like moshe abbaynu stood modi like mushroom stood on her sinai assuming amod means literally they stood when they studied torah and it makes sense the word of hashem it says if hashem is speaking to you should stand but in the days of ram gamlil people got weaker and they weren't able to have the stamina to do that so they started learning torah's sitting and says the gemara that's what it means when we all died was god what does that mean what kind of covenant is that that's a demonstration of honor you stand up for the torah you build a beautiful ark for the torah you build a beautiful yeshiva for the torah you don't let the students sleep in shops you don't make them beg for food and give them small things you make sure they're nicely dressed you build a yeshiva that has a laundry inside right like at the hotel where they say leave it in a bag in the blind they had an in-house laundry it was intended reportedly it didn't last for long but it was intended the buck room would put their laundry by the door and it would be back there fresh the next morning a yeshiva all right that's honor of the torah but then says rashi there's a different honor of the torah and that was the honor of the torah of rabbi akiva what was the honor of the torah be akiva vekiva wasn't a prince like reverend gamaliel who was familiar with honorifics ravi akiva was a poor worker right everybody knows about ruby akiva he was a poor worker he was a shepherd hand whatever it was that he married a wealthy woman but they were living together in a barn with straw but the kiva didn't know from that kind of honor you know what honorable knew excuse me was shown he was direch alcohol kites for kites he extrapolated from every little protrusion artistic protrusion on the letters of the savior terror tela tilium show hallows piles and piles of of the torah said rashi was that he took every word of the torah seriously if it's there it's telling me something and if it's telling me something i need to know what it is telling me and that's honor sometimes we feel like we can fulfill the mitzvah of giving honor by getting a nice chair right we'll make sure we'll get our parents a cup of coffee we couldn't care less what they think we couldn't we don't bother to share with them what we're what we're doing what we're going through what we're thinking about but we got them a cup of coffee and it's a form of honor it's gratitude i appreciate they brought me into the world i'm going to show them respect but respect of the person to care what the person says cover a torah is velvet is mahogany is silver is marble is standing up is big buildings it's kavratara but you want to know what the real coverage is is that i honor it because i cherish it and what it says matters this year we lost haggai in hagoro people think that rakhine kanievsky was cute because of his foreign such interesting things right all right who wrote a safer a big fat volume on egla arufa lovren kanyeski who wrote on those little volumes in the back of the message available like nobody even turns the page to those things and he wrote books on them he wrote on every obscure thing and rachael ganeski did have a sense of humor it's well known that he had a sense of humor he was very very clever but you think he was doing that because he was clever i don't think so i think he was doing that because there were corners of the torah that had not had enough light shut on them and anything which is in the torah is valuable you need to know it i don't know about you but i don't learn that way and it says start says the landmarks that it's still nahara gadol nahar paras and so on and so forth i say to myself this geography thing this biblical geography thing i never really got it i'm just reading this puzzle and i'm going to the next one and when it speaks about a hin or or uh or or something like that and okay if i remember i'll look and i'll see like what's uh somebody did something about what's a hymn and forget about the sun and the moon and the stars anybody who has learned with me daffy me or any she or knows that's when i hand over this year to somebody else ramir shapira like rokheim kaniesky covered everything cover everything take a look at the era mayor this is the one that he published he wrote a safer he wrote a safer a beautiful saver on flemish that nobody has because the galleys were destroyed in the first world war they were literally at the printer they were destroyed he wrote a safer called hamer which he published after the cornerstone was laid for khachmerwin before the building was finished it's a small safer of chuvas i don't know how many seventy something seven seventy something two of us i think the second last chuva in here those who learned that fiery will will appreciate this was that he got a shyla from a kabura in germany that was learning daffy i mean let me turn to it because it's so ishmac yes it's a seminai in hay 75 out of 76 and it's the leuingnam kharidan with hashem in berlin habira in berlin okay only jews with the integrity of yakis would ask this question they said we pledge to learn daffy me we're at the end of the masekta and there are only like 10 lines on umr alef what do we do it's not a whole page now i don't know about you but that's the day that i make a kiddush you know you can see him we only have to learn a few lines right you know where were yaitza they wanted to know if they were fulfilling their vow of learning a page a day of the gemara ramir shapiro said that they did that it was understood that this was according to this according to this program okay that's a benign easy it's so easy the chuvas are all over the place from heter agunos to a chuva chula yugimo which is filled with astronomic calculations and again he learned everything and he took everything seriously he had covered hattara when he said we should learn the daffy me it was partially cover every corner everything which it says in the torah matters and hold on to it can i tell you a precious just a precious precious story over mayor shapiro ramirez shapiro was once traveling in europe to raise money and he had to travel from england to france and he was in a rush so he took a more he took a less stable boat ride and he was traveling with somebody and it was quite a ride and they were tossing and turning and scared and you know like the the person with him was saying vidui and ramir shapira said i have an idea let's go through shas and discuss every place where it speaks about a boat and they started from the beginning of massachusetts and he said they went through all of shas every place where the gemara discusses with a boat a story that happened on a boat every place he said they only forgot one boat the talmud said we only forgot one boat we forgot the boat that we were traveling on successfully distracted us from the boat that we were traveling it was this was like it was it was like her mayor shapiro style every word can so you'll say that's guinness right it's brilliance i can't mimic his brilliance and i can't mimic rokhan kanyevsky's brilliance so don't complain that we don't do that but there are corners every corner of torah we value the torah we need to we need to to to notice it we need to care what it says ramir shapira would say a story this was also part of his standard daffy me speech he said a story that motivated him forever and motivated him specifically around the da fiemi so when he was a very little child he came home one day he walked into his house one day and it was israg of pesach or the day the second day after pesach and his mother was sitting his mother was sitting at the table and she was clearly clearly upset sad and she was mumbling to herself and she said such a small carbon for such a big torah such a small sacrifice for such a big tyra such a small sacrifice for such a big torah and ramir shapira mayor shapiro said to his mother mommy what's wrong and she said you know that we hired for you a teacher a malamate was supposed to come from another city to come to work for us to be your malamate you had outgrown the local teacher of torah and we hired him and he was supposed to come the day after pesach and it's the second day after pesach and he's not here and i'm worried i was talking something somebody said to me well maybe you didn't pay him enough so he's not coming maybe he got a better deal and i'm kicking myself that maybe we didn't pay him enough i mean what would be the big deal it's such a small sacrifice for such a big torah so mayor said to her okay i understand but mommy it's only like the day after israel he he can he can still come which indeed he came that night the rebels showed up that night and his mother said one day that you don't learn you never get back you'll get another day but you'll never get that day back the day that you didn't learn you'll never get back and romero shapiro used to say this story he says that's why dafyami every day we have to make sure every day we have learning with it but just to conclude as we think about this for ourselves the honor of tara so we've solved the honor of torah in terms of big buildings and velvet covers we saw the honor of torah that it's not non-prestigious for to be a student of torah it's very prestigious it's prestigious to be a torah scholar even for a professional to be a talmud right that's torah brings with it prestige and we've covered that base in that sense torah is honored but the words of torah and honoring them by making them the charter for our lives by giving honor to the torah as the word of values that's a problem internal to the community that values torah and external to a broader jewish community and to a broader world the values of the torah are not in style in the larger world the values of the torah to try to teach them to many of our young people who are exposed as well to a world of values outside is uphill it's revolutionary we find ourselves apologizing for torah values as if we're somehow on some kind of a moral low ground like we're less caring that the torah is less caring i am the torah is the ultimate goodness the ultimate pleasantness the ultimate value it has to be understood it doesn't have to be apologized for but in the world in a broader world and including in a broader jewish world the word of the torah is not the word it's not the one that's celebrated there's what we can do to fix it out there but first and foremost of course we have to fix it in here and we have to make sure that we are torah people who honor the torah people who honor the torah don't pay its token tribute and then go on to something else they say i want my life to be shaped by the torah and the famous words of the hassam so far so fair emoji the karabakh the king should carry around the torah it should be with him and he should read in it all of the days of his life said so fair that doesn't mean that he learns that every day of his life he reads something from the torah what it means is that what he reads in the torah is the story of his life that if the torah says you're supposed to do this somebody looked at his life they say that's what he does the torah says you should be a sublime person that god created man with selimelli kim in the divine image they'll look at him and they'll say yeah i see what that means that's what it means nasa adam nemer babur nas about you could i shouldn't you you should be sublime you should be sacred shouldn't be vulgar even if everything you're doing is permitted is completely kosher you have to be sublime you have to be higher kadoshim to you yeah yeah yeah i see that i see that guy i see that i see that as a as a holy sublime people that's kavra tyra that's the stage of that's the regime that's the sadhagir rebels it's not enough to be in beautiful buildings you yourself have to be a beautiful porch portrait you have to be sculpted like a celem kim sculpted like someone who's there who's created in in in the image of in the image of god that's the ultimate covered hattara we're going to go now to say the kinah arzay halvani it's a story of the jewish people of the sages of the jewish people who were called upon to look at a specific passage in the torah and ask where jewish life fits into that possible the torah did we really honor the torah that we honor this piece of the torah and it was one which was about the interpersonal about the jewish people not living up to what we could be seen the gomorrah says in gittin that the reason why the second base amigdas takes so long and the first place was only 70 years is because the first place amigdas was about actions that we did wrong actions you could fix the second base amigos was about it was about character it was about our insides our kishkas it's cray-son shall ahrenim as opposed to pardon shall we shine him as opposed to the fingernails the outside of the early ones it's the inner it's the inner remember asaf showed that he had split hooves but he didn't chew his cud that's what the gain of illness teaches us it's easier to be an external and to be transformed internally and that's the real kavanagh the real honor of the torah is not the outer trappings it's struggling to understand to realize and to actualize every part of the torah in ourselves and one thing is for sure that the constant and chronic argument and division which is there in quali israel amongst the faithful those who those of us all of us we consider ourselves faithful is that failure is that failure that it's a torah which isn't integrated into our lives it's a value system which hasn't elevated the right things if it did we would have mended if we grave true covet to that torah that's for mayor shapira adam we're adam we're one person for goodness sake that if yami unifies us in stadiums if we manage to occupy the same stadium you should read the story this kinah it's in the art school on page 248 and the quran on page 415 say it feel it and and and take it to heart i said negro [Music] foreign [Music] um and foreign oh so uh the mayor's children we have spoken of his goal of elevating quite a torah shaking up the world to restore torah to its most honorable place represented by yeshivas we've spoken about his leadership the kuda the pakista the ability that he had to be empathetic to be confident and inspiring in taking on issues not being willing to be the theoretic the eyes instead of the head the those who watched the story unfold and instead of instead of changing the history we talked about his vision of the unity of quality thrill into one entity and evaluating a true valuing of everything in the torah that the torah should forge and should define who we are what we are what we what we look like we spoke about how rav zalman zarutskin said 25 years after he passed away and more than almost 65 years ago that we could see the impact we can assess already the impact of mayor shapira the children and grandchildren of the things that he did mayor shapira didn't have children for a mayor shapira [Music] had children he had children in the way he viewed his students i'll tell you a story it's a funny story it's a story of the wit of ramayana shapira but it's a true story in every sense there was a young man who came to learn in he came from one of the polish lithuanian yeshivas and he came to hachmey lublin he heard of hakhmur lublin for whatever reason he came to learn in the yeshiva from what we would call a litvisha yeshiva and he was there for a little while and then he wasn't feeling well he had a fever mayor shapira noticed that he wasn't around or one of the tell me them told him that he's not feeling well mayor shapiro said oh let's go visit him and ramir shapira took a few of the boys and they went to his dorm room and they came to visit him and they come to the dorm room and knock on the door who's there their mayor and here's a trembling voice inside and they open the door and the boy is sitting in his bed looking like death scared he has his eyes are are like this he's like holding the blanket like he's trying to hide he said are you okay so he said i thought i was he says what's wrong he said the resheshiva is coming to visit me with other students he says you know this is not the first yeshiva i'm in that happens when a student is on his deathbed if you're coming to visit me i must be dying so ramirez shapiro said he says it says that was in your old yeshiva here our students are like our children a student you know if he's dying you go to see him your child if he's not feeling well you check in he says that's we have to know that here you are like a child there was a book which was published about ramir shapira in 1943 by binyamin mintz the name of the book is mayor ba'ava it's about it's just the story of ramirez appears life and his death it's called mayor ava okay mayor with love okay now when a book like that gets published in the 60s in the 70s you know in america you get it mayor ba'ava that's the name of the book rav mayor shapira just showed ava everywhere i mentioned to you earlier this morning the the i i told you a little bit about the hand on the shoulder that reveal jacob weinberg said in his hespit listen to um to uh to what ra pliskin describes happened in radhin from the moment that romero shapiro showed up his appearance in yeshiva brought about a a transformation beyond any imagination suddenly there is an energy of life when he walked through the door in a moment he succeeded to capture the yeshiva with the lightning speed he went into the breath of the yeshiva and his students he knows them all already he speaks in learning to each one demonstrating knowledge truth life life that he shared with with everybody one of his students and this is in the book uh the book which was published about him in the 30 in 1930 a two student of his from galena tells the image of the small yeshiva he made in galena and of one night during the period of him during the period when of shema by bashar mishpatim when pious people will fast and will stay up learning and learn extra and it tells this picture of the bass madrish filled with boys at their tables their faces are shining satisfied it was a micro lublin he took care of them they're learning there's foreign they're immersed in learning they're talking to each other and learning everyone is explaining his thinking to his learning partner this was the preparation for the shear of the roof and then the door opened and the rav appears to tell the shear to his students suddenly the crowd is quiet the voices go down like a machine that suddenly ground to a halt and when their rebbe stands it's as if they're seeing pineal shrine with open eyes and the enjoyment is main like of the world to come that place where sadiq sit with their crowns on their heads join enjoying basking in the radiance of the ultimate radiance there was a special special appearance of kedusha when he sat there and he just started and said zuk te lagamishna the mishna the holy mishnah says and he would start and he would teach and he would capture them in their words and everything was sweet and as they learned they learned and they joyed and then it describes that they finished the sheer and he went back to his room and then the door opened again opened again and with his soul bound with their soul and he understood that in the interim someone had come to visit them in the basement rush was telling them some stories about what had happened elsewhere and there was a mood of sadness so he taps one of the students on the shoulder and he says it's partial isro kabbalah torah let's go and with a simcha he had them dancing around the room they came together saying at once the the notes of that tune storm around the hands wave the dance is with joy and with glee until the the floor shook everything shook it's as if they themselves were dancing together with them one of the one of the constant refrains of ramir shapira was his [Music] be careful with the children of the poor because from them torah will come forth he wanted and worked to make sure that everybody had the opportunity to learn everybody had the opportunity to learn to grow into a godly israel he would tell the story of a young man in his community ephraim in galena who came who would come and listen to the classes and he was a poor child from a poor family and sort of came hung around outside when it came time for the testing of the boys he was able to answer every single question and ramirez shapiro said i have one question for you i have one question for you that i don't think you can answer and that is why you are in this lower class why aren't you in the higher class and ramirez shapiro said it was because he was a child of a simple whatever it was a simple worker and he wasn't paid attention to and this child learned and learned more and elenu the child ended up ended up because he was from poverty ended up dying young died right after rosh hashanah habben yakir liya fry and it was one of his refrains this precious son of mine ephraim there's so many things here that are so sharp and pointed years ago five years ago we spent this time talking about ravi sakhar shlaimat the author of the chivas mishna sakhir and the emharponem sumer a remarkable unique person also was masquerader mayor shapira and his hospital mayor shapira he said the following he talked about a time when he spent time with him at one of these vic places where people went on vacation in marion bad they were together and they spent a lot of time talking and he said ramirez shapiro shared with me his heart and what he shared with him was he zarud be careful about the children of the poor because from them will come torah and he spoke about the situation where positions that people would be able to have as rabbanim as rebels as teachers of torah were positions which were given to people who had connections if you had connections you had protection then you were able to get a position and he said tell us be careful with the children of the poor because from them will come tyra to reserve it for those who feel that they have it coming to them torah won't come right the gomorrah says rashi explains part of it that the idea is that if a person thinks that it's just their right or their inheritance they don't work hard on it and the person who doesn't have the connections and doesn't have the inheritance is not going to have the incentive like why should i why should i excel i won't be able to get any kind of a position anyways and this was remember the story of how he took his first rabbanus that people would pay for it or with connections or rabbit mayor shapira was invited he was self-made he wasn't a child of poor people but he didn't gain the position because of his financial standing and he understood that torah had to be earned and when he brought boys in to the yeshiva he wanted them to be able to have that opportunity you know that may lublin was created as an elite institution and the official requirement was that to get into blind you had to be tested on 200 pages of gomorrah pretty much by heart at least the give-and-take of the world by heart to get in not that you would emerge with that and be a proud graduate to get in you had to do 200 pages well in fact hershberg when he became a senior student he was in charge of giving the bahinas he was in charge of giving the tests someone told me a story on heir of shabbos on air of shabbos on thursday night someone knew that i was going to sweetheart marriage appear told it told me a story that they themselves experienced that they met a person in a far away place he was an officiant in a shul somewhere on long island and the person had a galatiana pronunciation he spoke that way he taught he was teaching that way and the prayer he asked him for his life story and this person was a student of chachme lublin he was he he had come to ramir shapira as a child before bar mitzvah and he knew ten pages of gomorrah and ramayana shapira said to him [Music] you know nice try but i don't let in boys who are that young and i don't let in boys who who only know 10 pages of gomorrah you have to you're not advanced enough and you're not old enough to be here in the yeshiva and the boy pleaded and our mayor shapiro said yes and he said this man he said he's he he spent the war years in a pit under the ground you know with the with the with the shrubs over it you've heard these stories we have people here in the city who spent the warriors like that he said he what kept him alive in the war was when he would see things growing on the other side of the of the bush and when he would think and remember his his uh his time in in and those 10 pages those 10 pages the the the care there are way too many stories for me to tell you i hope you get a flavor of the kind of love which he showed for people and for this talmudian for the students he as well was especially this way about teaching young women teaching girls you understand that he's talking in the 20s we're talking at the very beginning of formalized education for girls in the part of the world from where he was and our mayor shapira and again i've seen this in many places he says the same vert over and over again it's a very cynical vert but it's a cynical vert of the cynical thought on the time he says when paro wanted to destroy the jewish people he's what did he do he made a decree said all the boys who are born throw them into the river the daughters keep alive right so why the daughters keep alive so we have all kinds we have rashi he thought that the leader of the jewish people would come that marisha appears that simply he wanted it to be the end of the jews he said the boys had a yeshiva system so in order to stop them from being jews you had to throw them into the river the girls they didn't do anything for them so even if they left them alive they wouldn't continue to be jews that was the way ramir shapira decried the situation that had evolved in claude israel where once upon a time when communities were tighter as the khafiz khayim wrote the the home education was sufficient to breed loyalty and faithfulness but things changed and the efforts put into jewish women and the strength of the bond and the commitment of jewish women ramir shapira elevated to the to the highest to the highest value to the highest value i want to share with you a an epic russia of ramir shapira that could be said about many when we we have many of them we don't have nearly enough it's a real real loss ramir shapiro published in the as the introduction to the safer arah mayor he published the address which he gave a condensed version of the address which he gave at the cornerstone laying of yeshiva in 1926 and there are two pieces here that there are two separate pieces that are worth considering in this context of this discussion he brings hazal um all my life i read this pastor he's a hattera and the pure one shall sprinkle the impure one by the para duma by the ashes in the water of the red heifer one per right one to heart sprinkles on one tummy ad shalom until i learned from the storehouse of yavin that one pure person could sprinkle many you could do wholesale cetera mayor shapira the storehouse of yafna what's the storage of yavin so he says yavna was that academy that ravioche asked for the jewish people were falling apart we were falling apart spiritually and therefore you were shallam was under siege that they saw english was going to be destroyed ben zakai goes out he goes out to negotiate and he says give me yavana and its sages yavana said ramayana shapira represented what he understood we don't have a base amigdas the base of english is about to be destroyed but among us what remains what we have left what will seed the rebuilding of the jewish people is just the torah and so give me avna the sages of yavna the sanhedrin that was there in yavna the gemara in the end of massachusetts brachas says that they were they were they were going and the honor of the torah was recognizing that yav going to be the basis and there was going to be one tohar institution it would be able to be mazda anti-marbe on many who were impure he focused on education shapiro's focus was on the education of kali israel he saw the hemorrhaging which was happening all around and he recognized that this was going to be the key this was going to be the key to be able to rebuild he brings he brought a um a a a another one of his vehicle was he xiaomi which says that shimon banshetta established but a safer latino case schools for young children the tuma yeshana le clean matrix and the old tuma that comes back to a metal utensil he established schools for children and an intricate halacha about metal kalin so ramayana shapira explained beautifully what's the luck of tuma yeshana liqui matris is that if you have a metal utensil that's tummy and it gets smashed and it loses its shape so then it's tahr because it's not a vessel anymore but if you then restore it you restore the metal utensil to its shape it gets back the rabona goes there that it gets back its old tuna said ravi shapira when they learned this halocha they did it because they understood that even if something will go away from its original source what's there originally within it will stay with it to a certain degree forever it may be latent it may lose its shape but then when it gets its shape back its original things will come back and when they saw that they said we better establish schools for our children because that girsa de yankosa what we teach them when they're young will be part of their character forever and again that was the classic a classic teaching creative teaching of rav mayor shapira trying to bring this touch trying to to bring this out he understood the importance of creating enthusiasm for learning and in this he had an argument there's a letter which is published was published again in the yeshurin journal a letter that he wrote to rafshiman zelekhover rafshim and zelekhover was also a guy in islam a brilliant brilliant talmud i'm not going to tell you the stories about his brilliance i never heard of him until i read about him in this context but there are like stories about his incredible incredible brilliance and he was a rush yeshiva slated to be a russian it was a rashid they were discussing things and they were discussing they were discussing matters preparing regarding the administration of the yeshiva and um mayor shapiro wrote a letter to him um and he was a goddel in every area in every area of torah neglect so he said your your letter arrived and i'm very satisfied to see how dear you hold our yeshiva and you're looking out for the needs of the students and you worry about their future and [Music] and this is suited for somebody like you but now he says i want to discuss with you the order of learning in the yeshiva remember we mentioned before how he was searching now ramir shapira means that he was like the bali attachments except in the way that polish jews learned which was to bring from here and to bring from there and anything which he learned he was able to quote from all over the place and put things together as though there's a story about romaine shapiro when he was a child where he walked in or somebody walked in on him and the shas was out of order on the shelf and and there there was an inquiry like like why is it out of order and management said no it's in order and he started like teaching something to connect brachas to him to shabbos they're like like following the order or the order of shas that was like the brilliance however what we know and what we know is that when you do that you play a little bit fast and loose with making sure that what you're saying is absolutely accurate and of shim and zelichovar wanted to have a time built into the seder significant time to make sure that they knew exactly truly what was what what the final conclusions were and ramirez appeared this agreed he disagreed because he said the way you're going to teach them is you're going to puncture all of the exciting thinking and you're going to cut it down to [Music] to just make sure okay let's let's let's let's get it down to this now i have to tell you the way i was taught was you cut out all the pilpulum and you get down to the real thing and uh you know my rebbe zachina lovraka you know i once had the experience actually now that i think about it's fascinating fascinating connection i would it was at a theom hatorah which rabbi shakhtar zakharov used to make the cia matara of baltimore that is the guest speaker and he said from a mayor shapiro was the first time i heard it ramadan minsk rabbit said about the gomorrah inertia israel the missionaries israel and the gomorrah in bavel he said that whole thing he said the whole thing and and they honored me to make the seam and it was on masek and i said upshot and i set up shot in a pussock and my review of my weimar got up afterwards and he argued with what i said publicly he argued i mean he spoke and he said but we know that the shot is that avraham aveeno was being asked as the best in chilmat whatever it is the partial it's not for now but i thought he he he he argued and he knew i was i was very complimented that he argued with me because i was his talmud and i knew that the biggest thing to him was the truth and you know you say something doesn't matter what you gotta you gotta you gotta nail it ramir shapira listen to what he says i know your way that you push aside people which is most pleasant to the palette of the student even if it isn't a hundred percent accurate tell me them who say pilpel have a different spirit m most books of pill most works of people deviate somewhat from truth as long as the pill is sweet and it's built on foundational principles which are true on gamoras on rishonim on urushal means he says my friend this is the difference between giving a halachic response and saying a pill a pill is not to say the halacha for the you need to be absolutely accurate pupulim are not there to produce you're the man but i'm trying to build the appetite of students so for them i want them to have the excitement of pilpel and even though there were gedoli who screamed about this way of pilpel but the bottom line is most ge daily hatara and the most famous yeshivas like the yeshivas of the onim ravyakov palak et cetera venus and abbasids the night of yehudah they all made the pill as a crown for their students and for themselves and then he says again in ramir shapira fashion the gemara says the ghazal say there's a famous khazal which says when he wanted to create the world there was an argument between peace and truth right so it says he cast peace down to the ground and that's where he was able to create the world so he's cast truth excuse me down to the ground and then he was able to gain the truth said ramir shapira if you're going to have the truth of the heavens there's nothing creative that we can do down here if we want to be creative we have to be able to play with him that was what he said on the record without hesitation because he was dedicated to the future of quali israel and he wanted boys and girls to be engaged to be engaged in torah to be engaged in their study i i don't have the time to be able to go through it piece by piece but one of the outstanding outstanding drushes that mayor shapiro gave was one where he spoke about the need for the older generation to communicate with and to understand the younger generation this was him he in a certain sense was a bridge he was the 46 year old bridge between the 96 year old khafiz khayim and the students of khachme lublin he was the person who understood that he was living in a time of revolution where everything was changing and the old ways were going to have a hard time capturing the young and he did new things and he did creative things and the stood up for him so that he would do those things those creative things but mayor shapira has at russia where he speaks about avraham avenue avraham who said of i am dust and ash and ramir shapira said what's the difference between dust and ash dust is the dust of the earth in dust you plant things and they grow from that dust ash is the burned remnants of something that was ash tells you that there was something here before it doesn't tell you about the future it tells you about the past and avraham said i am dust and ash i understand the importance of being able to build a bridge between the past and the future came before avraham did noah teach effectively the people of his generation was he able to adjust out of the mindset which he was raised with to meet them where they were no he wasn't even shame benoit the says he was the calling to the highest god beings his children weren't calling him in that exchange right there avraham venus said i'm offer va'efer i understand and value the past i understand and value the future and i'll be the bridge between them the gomorrah says that there was a coin of avraham avinu and you know what it had on it on one side it had a picture of an older couple and on the other side it had a picture of a little boy and a little girl and avravino saw himself as the bridge to the same and cedra mayor shapira that's why when avraham avinu greeted malkit zedek mel shaleem who was a cayenne but couldn't pass it on and he was there as the person who understood the past and the future what did he bring out to him he brought out lechem he brought out bread and wine he says why because a good loaf of bread is hot fresh from the oven a good bottle of wine has been sitting in the cask for a long time and it has aged and avraham avinu valued the past and avravino valued the future and he understood that his task was to link the future with the past and that was the magic of mayor shapira from mayor shapira when the student that wrote the book in his honor even left the fold ramir that the young people of claudia israel were disappearing around him mayor shapira had the wisdom had the youth had the energy to say we're going to find what works you want to be true or you want to build you want to make sure that you engage the young men the young women in what torah is they should play with it they should love it they should dance they should dance with it that's building a future upon the past ramir shapira he didn't have children he did have children says on the possibilities braces they're safer told us adam this is the book of toldes adam suggests that the man told us of a person could be there safer like benazai who chose not to marry and have children because his sole desire torah noted once that it is said that the great rule of the torah is i said no it's their seifer told himself understood and we believe you know we've shared a vort before i don't think on tish above ela told us what does rashi say what does it say the next three words was a tadik rashi it says these are the children no this teaches you that the main offspring of a person are their good deeds so like you i read this rashi for decades until somebody i still don't remember who taught me what rashi is saying which is unbelievable do you know what was next contribution to the world do you know that every one of us is a descendant of nayach do you know that every human being on the planet is a descendant of nyach every human being on the planet is a descendant of nayach pine every person is a biological child of nyach that's an accomplishment and about new york it says you want to know who the children of nyach were let's not talk about his children which is the entire human kind let's talk about the fact that nya was at sadiq the big difference that he made in the world was not the biology it was his goodness i don't know anyone who has as many children as her mayor shapiro anyone who lived in the 20th century has as many children as her mayorship appearance i happen to go fairly often to the cavern of mayor shapira for a simple reason ramirez appears buried my wife's grandfather was buried on harmonics and more recently my father is buried unharmed and when i drive out after going to my father i pass by the cover of my wife's grandfather rabbi rosenberg alexander rosenberg whose cover is literally six feet from the oil of rav mayor shapira so once i'm going to my father and to my in-laws i go to this once i go to them go into her mayor shapira you know what you see on the cover of ramir shapira it's the most beautiful thing you see the most sad thing and the most beautiful thing the sad thing is you see a little sign which says they didn't have the cover of the wife of her mayor shapira so she's not here so daven for her too but on the cover of mary shapira you see a lot of stones and inevitably under a stone you see a wedding invitation you know there's a minute in club israel that if possible when a person marries off a child that they go and they invite the zadis and the bubbas people go there's a zayer and parshas pinchas that they come to the simchas so people have accustomed that they go to the cemetery to invite the relatives to the wedding and you could see in all over haram news all over cemeteries and narrative show people go and they take the invitation and they put it down under a rock on the mat and people put their wedding invitations on the might say vermeer shapiro who didn't have children i don't know who those people are maybe they don't have grandparents to go to i don't know but he was the father and his wife it was by him for everything who was younger than him and died six months after he died because naf shakshura banafshay they had children and we have to say this we have to recognize it because not everybody is okay to have biological children it's a gift from akras baruch to be blessed with a spouse it's a gift gift from a quran for a person and their spouse to be blessed with a child a biological child it's not a given it's not an assumption it's not everybody's lot necessarily but it's everybody's lot to have the real children i i told you when we learned about the crime that he wrote a safer which was saying you know all these people they have children and the children are gone but here's something which is shame eth deeds shabbos like from the torah here olam that we'll read this afternoon what we create in the world has many avenues many many avenues to create to create an impact we've spent the past four hours talking about one of the most impactful people in jewish and modern jewish life without a question one of the most impactful couples in modern jewish life they didn't have children they cared about children they built the future of cloud israel they were up for hey fair they value the past they value the future and they made a real real contribution to the future of israel we're going to we're going to say now kina isaiah very difficult tahanans imperium page 232 in the art scroll 375 in the quran if women shall be forced to eat their young imperium to value the future to value the future to cry over so many futures me the last king of which we'll do before we get up to do eliteion is the kinah on the holocaust i'm not going to i'm going to give a short introduction to this kinah ramirez shapiro died before the holocaust those of you who choose to follow up and study there's much which is written about shanghai and the lubliner tell me them in shanghai and their perseverance perseverance which was an example uh rabbi mandelbaum has a book which is also in english from shanghai to lublin or from lublin to shanghai uh which was which was which tells that story um i i mentioned to you before that in 1939 very very very soon after the germans invaded poland as they were approaching poland much of the yeshiva disbanded uh a bunch of the yeshivas i think 70 students stayed together and and uh when the when the germans came into lublin they had to surrender chachme lublin and it became a gestapo headquarters uh it became a gestapo headquarters there's a story about them taking out amongst the things there's as always there's so much that we didn't even begin to cover the part of kahmer lublin was a huge huge library of 30 000 volumes famously the germans took out a portion of that library and made a big book burning it's clear that a large section of library was not burdened some of it made it territorial some of it was saved in german archives which they were trying to create a museum of the jewish people but there are accounts of a fire of those foreign that burned for 20 hours outside of chachme lublin the after the war the the the building was first the nursing school part of a medical college until 2003 when it was returned to the jewish community of of of lina now there are men which are conducted there and they're worried sometimes even when it was a medical college in in a great sense as as it was is no more but as we saw it has come to life so many times over so many so many times over that's a tragic end there's a story which i'll tell you in one minute of a of a young man from an assimilated jewish family in vienna when romero shapiro was in vienna visiting with the truck of a rebel mayor shapiro was giving a talk outside this young man walked by he heard of mayor shapira he didn't know what he was saying he didn't know who he was he was from an assimilated family assimilated background he started asking questions he became advanchuva his name was matisyahu gelman matthew gilman and he and he became a balchuva and and he wanted to join me lublin he didn't know one blood of gomorrah and ramirez shapiro brought him into lublin he was attracted by her mayor shapiro he came to her mayorship here the church of arabia who lived in vienna told him to accept him and he accepted him ten days before a mayor shapiro was nifty he wrote a letter to his father his father was a was an aristocrat a jewish aristocrat completely assimilated and completely furious and completely furio