Tisha B'av 5783/2023 - Rabbi Moshe Hauer: Sara Schenirer's Vision to Revive Klal Yisrael

tears to see a situation a difficult situation a problem which will go out of me as Hashem will Define a little bit a little bit more sharply a little bit more clearly but to see it and to weep and to weep over it of Nayak Weinberg himself failing to find the page to read it but himself uh Rabbi who used to work with him was traveling with him once and in the middle of the night he hears it in the middle of the night he hears crying screaming coming from the room next door and he runs in is everything okay was sitting on the floor and he was saying uh last will to his students to as many students was to say that they should take 10 minutes every night to think about the terrible terrible desecration that thousands millions of God's Children of the Jewish people are disconnected from his Torah take 10 minutes to think about it and to think about what you're going to do about it and then take 10 minutes to think about the pain of the shrina about how feels about this and then to see what it is that you're going to what you're going to do about it and one of his students said most poignantly and most beautifully that his story and the same precisely the same thing could be said about Sarah schneer was what Yehuda said to Yosef before he knew that it was Yusuf in the beginning of parishesh when he describes to him how attached yaakov was to this binyaman the only son that he had left from his wife and he said and how will I be able to go back to my father without that child how could I do that how can we go to my father how can we go back to him without the child his soul is bound up with his soul and this talmud said that rev Noah felt that about every Jew how am I going to go back to the rabbana and say I don't have that child isn't coming with me that child isn't with you he cried and she cried Over All the Jewish girls Jewish women who were just abandoning faith wholesale in droves so she cried so she took it to heart she took it to Heart we cry over because yeshuahu cried the people who made a difference have no office had no position they were not acclaimed leaders of the Jewish people when they started they just cared they saw what everybody else saw but it hit them and they felt it so now we will save this the first two keyness and they're just about crying they're just about realizing what we're missing that in the comfort of the space that we are in gathered around talking having interesting conversations because it's too hard to just say the Keynes and to cry the word goes then we're far away from Earth Israel that in a sense today Eric's Israel is far away from itself it's not it's not a city which is attached that only a fraction a tiny tiny fraction of hashem's children are even aware and in the game of what it is that we're thinking and what it is that we are considering and mourning over so we will begin again with the first in the art school page 162 and in the Quran page 237. [Music] um [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] is also believe it is foreign Israel is [Music] foreign to 111. 211 I'm sorry which is on page 182 in the art school and page 289 in the Quran [Music] um foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign holy [Music] thank you our discussion today to some degree is about the hormone the destruction of the home the destruction of the Jewish Home which occurred in a very significant way in the beginning of the 20th century the destruction of the bias when we refer to the Quran abayas of course we usually speak about the base hamidash we understand speak to us about the smallmouths the little migdash which every Jewish Home is supposed to be the migras which was of all the Jewish people which was modeled after the tenth of Surah yumeno that had all the signs of imigdush and it's not just a an abstract idea remember as well how when the Jewish people left mitzrayim so we shifted the carbon pesach and we we put the blood on the doorposts the Gomorrah asks when you bring a carbon you're supposed to put Blood on the mizbayak and the Gomorrah says that the mezuzah is the doorposts of the house and the mashkrif were like misbechrist they were like the mizbayak the migdush started with the safest place for a Jew on that night of pesach the safest place for them was the Jewish Home the two kinis that we're going to be reading after this 30 and 35 one of them emphasizes bias bias bias that's kinna number 30 on page 300 in the art school in 509 in the Quran and the next 135 in which has as a refrainev's on the destruction of your entrance ways on the doorposts and The Souls of your of your of your young ones let's understand and what we're going to do in these words in introducing these kinos is we're going to try to introduce the problem to induce the problem that Sarah schneer had to come to solve I would like to read to you and forgive me for reading to you but I'm going to The Words which I'm reading to you are words either of hers at times or of some of the most most meaningful appreciations of Sarah sneer from people who knew her there was a woman named Judith Rosenbaum Judas Judith Judith Rosenbaum who um who was a young woman from from Germany a student of the German School who came to to to be a teacher in the teachers training program of Base Yakov and Krakow and and she she wrote appreciations both of Sarah schneer and as we'll see later later of Dr Leo deutschlander that are that are incredibly beautiful incredibly informative informative and and uplifting so I'm going to read to you a few lines from this appreciation which she wrote sarash nearer told me that she was indeed a dressmaker she had many customers when they came to her for fittings she found herself philosophizing about them she watched them as they looked critically into the mirror as to dress they knew what they wanted they very particular as to every little detail of fashion or workmanship but the little dressmaker mused after the fittings were over and the ladies had departed did they know what they really needed she envisioned them beautifully dressed in body but spiritually in rags and tatters if she could only help them to see where their real happiness lay as she went about the little town she found no kindred spirit among the women the older women seem to be withdrawing into a spiritual world of their own the younger long to be modern untutored in Torah and with the smattering of modern science in the Polish gymnasium they seemed to feel that Judaism was merely a useless restraint a Fetter a shell that obfuscated and that must be burst to let in the light she felt that only because of ignorance were they ready to lose their Priceless heritage to exchange pure gold for mere tinsel I felt I must help them she said to see that they were ready to give up not a shell but the very substance without which they and their dear ones would perish but I was without education I lacked the gift of speech to convey my convictions coming home from work I used to meet my brother returning home from the Yeshiva he's discussing something with a friend the discussion gets more lively and more heated they enter the living room and my father joins the discussion they're now pitting tamurik argument against argument knowledge against knowledge and they understand the meaning of each other's phrases my sister who's a pupil and a Polish gymnasium which was a high school is reading a book she seems very much interested my Mother's Hands clasped the senorena Bible lessons for women in Yiddish I go to Mrs G across the road she has six daughters of the eldest one she never speaks she left the house two years ago when she had gone they found a letter from her forgive me mama she I cannot bear the narrow home anymore I have gone to live with my friends she married without the second daughter the fourth and the fifth are in constant touch with her they worship their heroic sister they wish they could follow her only love for the poor shaken heart broken mother makes them pretend that they belong to her but they're still the youngest our excuse she is twelve she's not yet aware of all the conflicts and Sarah schneer together with Mrs G look at the sleeping SQ this one we may be able to keep her eyes still shine with that glow and Shabbos comes in how can we preserve that glow how can we open her maturing and searching mind to the truth and beauty of the Torah where is the magic key to open up our Treasures for and all the others of her age who are still their parents true children but will soon awake from childhood's sleep we'll hear the trumpets that are blown in the streets and marketplaces returns home her thoughts are of eskil she knows there are thousands like her and we pass through the yellow days I believe that the paragraph that I'm about to read to you is perhaps the most poignant paragraph and one which is most frequently quoted in the story of Sarah schneer we pass through the owl days the trains which what run through to the little stibbler excuse me towns where the rebels live are crowded thousands of hasidim are on their way to them to spend the yamim with the Reba every day sees new crowds of old men and young and young men in the hasida Garb eager to secure a place on the train eager to spend the holiest days in the year in the atmosphere of their Reba to be able to extract from it as much Holiness as possible Fathers and Sons travel and those who can afford it make this journey several times a year thus they are drawn to gear to bells to Alexander to bubb to all those places that had been made citadels of concentrated religious life dominated by the leading figure of a Rebus personality and we stay at home the wives the daughters with the little ones we have an empty yumtive it is bear of Jewish intellectual concentration the women have never learned anything about the spiritual content that is concentrated within a Jewish Festival the mother goes to shul the service Rings faintly into the fenced and boarded off women's Gallery there's much Crying by the elderly women the others look on them as beings of a different century Youth and desire to live a full life shoot up violently in the strong-willed young personalities outside the shul the young girls stand shattering they walk away from sure where their mothers pour out their vague and heavy feelings they leave behind them the Wailing of the older generation and follow the urge for freedom and self-expression further and further away from the shul they go further away to the dancing tempting light of a fleeting Joy and when the father comes home from the rebel he's too dazzled to see what will come out one day into the glaring light revealing a breach that has gone beyond repair while the men Bend and sway in the Rhythm the tradition has created and their heads are held Aloft into almost Visionary Heights the girls go dancing skipping dreaming on in their own way along the path of a world which is wide open unfenced and pitiless their paths and the parents paths may never meet sir's mind is troubled by that picture she sees how fathers and daughters are strangers living in different worlds how the happiness of family life is Shattered by the breaking away of the maturing girls that's a description a description of a reality I mentioned to you once before a few years ago when we were talking about that he wrote a a book called Shame Olam Shame olum Shame Allah means an eternal name an eternal Monument we're going to say those words in the after this afternoon after we say every town is Seaborn I'm going to give him in my house and within my walls a hand a monument and a name wrote a book shame Olam short book and the purpose of the book was because what ishaiah says in that prophecy that we're going to read this afternoon is so said Hashem to the sarisim to those who were not able to have children and they wonder about what impact they will leave upon this world so therefore I will give them a shame oh love I'll give them yadav Hashem Allah to those who is observed my Shabbos they choose that which I'm interested in bebrisi they are pulled by Covenant so that will be the ad Hashem right we call it the museum energy Israel or the memorial unit so it's called the avashem for all those who didn't didn't leave any children because they went up in smoke in 1933. he didn't see the world go up in smoke he saw the world disappear in a different way and he wasn't just writing this book for those who didn't Merit to have biological children he wrote the book as well for those who did but as he says this advice that Hashem gives that with a dedication to Shabbos to Torah to what Hashem wants which is what writes about in the book about how to up one's game in these areas says it's not just for those who don't who don't have biological children but it is also for the alpha revoice you know what our favorite voice is thousands of multitudes which means tens of millions which is a lot that are perhaps even more even more saddened they have children Hashem that have no future in the Jewish people they've turned from the pathway of Hashem is it's he says it's it's more devastating they're not having to begin with and he writes about this how this was so common place so commonplace and he says this person who has children who knows if they're going to follow in that path like we've seen she come upon Him many children depart from the way of the Torah and they're adulthood for all kinds of reasons they don't listen at all to the teachings of their parents who guide them in the Derek Hashem so he says a person certainly has to try their very best but the wise person anticipates they shouldn't rely for their future on their children alone to me I don't know about you to me this is the most depressing thing to read he's describing a situation which is like no Jewish future and here's the it's a do something yourself keep Shabbos invite yourself strongly interior and you promised some kind of a monument it's not a strategy to keep the children it's not a strategy to bring them back had what to say about that but he looked at a generation where those strategies seem to be just coming out coming up empty that was the situation of that world in 1903 there was a a conference a conference which was held in Krakow the conference was a rabbinical conference it was convened by someone who I had never heard of till I started reading up on this his name was with Aaron Mendel hakoim he was the rabbi in Cairo and he made a rabbinical conference in Krakow he was the rabbi in Cairo he was not of North African origins he was an Ashkenazi Rabbi who would have been just as much at home in Poland where he brought this Rubina conference but there were communities of people who traveled at that time there were people who left and he was a rabbi in Cairo and it seems that from his seat he wrote his own account he wrote swarim and he wrote included in them as an account of this conference and what it led up to it and what happened what transpired there there are at least three different Works written about what happened at this conference accounts separate accounts competing accounts so to speak about this conference and he was certainly struck by a phenomenon which was seeing what happened when all these men came from Eastern Europe for reasons to try to find some success in business to find something and they came to Cairo and he saw what was happening and he realized and he cried he felt that something had to be done and so the rabbi of Cairo convened a meeting of rabbis in Krakow right so I guess you're not supposed to wait for somebody else to do it you're not supposed to wait for somebody else to do it so you convene the meeting of rabbis and Krakow but you probably also didn't hear of many of the rabbis who were at the rabbinical conference in Krakow because it ended up being a very sort of like mid-level conference and there was a leaving rub of Krakow who was there who was a higher level but he went there basically just to make sure that they didn't do any damage to make sure that they didn't do any damage so I want to read to you a little bit about what leads into this conference this conference is again is in 1903. Sarah schneer would not begin even any practicalities of education for girls for 14 years after this okay so here's the invitation the kokair the invitation to the rabbinical conference you know from my Beginnings I've been sort of like a quiet person who tries to just do my own thing private discrete I don't make my voice heard them in prominent places I know I know that I'm not really worthy worthy of it relative to the great lights the godolador the leaders of the generation it is to them to the arzay halavanon to the Cedars of Lebanon to them their voices are the ones that should be heard this is the way to go this is what should be done they are the Shepherds they are the guardians of the vineyard in order to guide with their it's a their sheep to them it is appropriate to stand in the breach what am I but he says I've just observed the suffering of our people when I see and he describes now his own vantage point when I see pisram Israel when I see the scattering of the Jewish people their wanderings on the end of the Earth in distant lands I see how they remove from themselves their sense of responsibility the old Torah Mitzvahs the Yoke of Torah and Mitzvahs how many multitudes of the Jewish people wander every year overseas and it is when they travel there and they come to a place without any clear path most of them remove from themselves their ornaments from the ornaments the crowns of our Sinai meaning our holy law they remove from themselves the relationship to Torah they cut the bonds of faith to to the one that would to the nation that would gather all the nations they look with neglect with derision and with a high hand they transgress all of the Mitzvahs of Hashem they're children that follow after them don't even realize that they're part of the Jewish people how can our eyes not ache how can our hearts not be pained on these innocent little lambs the question that we know them as they sat securely that that they were faithful to the Jewish people but because of poverty because of the pressures they left them they left them with broken hearts they traveled overseas they take their lives in their hands in order to make money for their households to feed their hungry children but when they come to make that money they leave God and they go from one thing to another I've seen this happen many limbs are being cut from the Jewish nation and the greats of our people are silent when I see the Troubles of Jewish women and their humiliation how many agunos are crying and weeping over the husband that they married in their youth who has now left them and left their children and they've traveled a great distance in order to be able to bring home a living but once they travel they actually turn their back they rebelled against bhog Dubai's nurem they rebel against the wife of their wolf of their youth and instead they Embrace others strangers the daughters who are abandoned travel from place to place they grow without any education from parents and in the end they will violate their own dignity the sons who are abandoned grow wild they're going to end up with the shade of they loyal they're going to end up with the bandits of the night this fire is going and consuming at the edge of the camp and yet leaders of our nation are silent they didn't know what to do they didn't have what to do this was the Kokiri this was the call and in that conference their participated as well a a RAV well I also have not heard of maybe you did his name was he was a robin Krakow he wasn't one of the leading of Krakow he was a robin Krakow and he was one of those who wrote an account of this of this uh of this of this conference and he writes about his own uh presentation his his words The Words which he used the words which he shared at that conference My Wish now is to speak about a proposal okay this is the first thing I was reading to you was the invitation to the conference these are the minutes so to speak of the conference and this is this Rabbi from Krakow this junior Rabbi from Krakow who was speaking he says it it goes without saying that the proposal is novel but the issue it is addressing the problem that's coming to solve is not new at all it is part of the issue that we discussed yesterday with regard to the education of boys because I want you to know that when we speak about him it's not to exclude daughters daughters are also of course our children and not only do I feel that concern with the education of girls in our time is not any less of any lesser importance from the concern that we have to have about the education of our sons in fact its need is even greater let us recall let us not forget the daughters of today are the mothers of the future they are the ones who are going to be the Mainstays of their households for their husbands for their children the wife's influence the mother's influence is Legion however to our sorrow daughters even amongst the God-fearing are being educated with foreign foreign moods and foreign ways they read the literature of every nation they learn all kinds of studies except of the Jewish people except of faithful Judaism from the spirit of the spirit of Torah the purity of the faith of the Jewish people they know nothing books which go against modesty and ethics and good character poison them with their ideas and their words people who speak of in lofty terms about every nation except the Jewish people that's the literature which they are Reading literature which is derisive of the Jews they they find the glory of other nations the stories of of pride of their Mighty ones the crowns which they tie on the heads of their stages but do they hear anything about what happens amongst the Jewish people the fathers that don't want to send their children to schools that were in many places at this time already there were compulsory education laws that people had to send their children to schools and the common struggle was to get the Crader which was the school for boys mostly almost always to be recognized by the government one way or the other but the girls they didn't have such an equivalent they went to the government schools in fact some even viewed it as a strategy to preserve the khadarim they said they won't have enough spaces in the schools you know people sometimes like try to think about the strategy to get more funds from the government here and we'll say well won't open any of our schools and then we'll send everybody to public school they want to vote for them so they'll say could you please open your schools up again and take care of them that will we will be able to have them educated so they said you know we'll send all our girls to the schools they won't have room for the boys and they'll say okay we'll let the khadarim continue because we don't have room for them anyway but there wasn't a thought there wasn't a thought he was complaining there wasn't a thought about education for the girls and he says so some of them who are more careful they'll hire private teachers to come and teach the girls in the house because they won't send them to the school but then they don't pay attention to what the private teacher is teaching and what he's commenting on was evidently many of those private teachers were doing exactly the same they weren't observant they weren't faithful and they were teaching the kids quote-unquote liberating thoughts rather than maintaining their face and the fathers and mothers they're too busy just managing and surviving to pay any attention and so he says I propose that this Gathering should express its opinion that it is a major obligation on every father and mother that they should not bring a teacher into their home to teach their child unless they know that that teacher behaves properly according to the laws of the Jewish people and even then they should be supervising The Works which they are studying with them to look to make sure to teach the daughters knowledge of Torah and mitzvos and from the history of the Jewish people and to teach its faith and this is exceptionally important in this time because of ace lashem okay this is a phrase as you know a Biblical phrase it is a time to do for God they have violated your Torah so there's a question how to read this one way is you've got to do for God because people have violated your Torah but hazal say that when it's a time to do for God sometimes you have to break a law of the Torah in order to do for it what's the most famous invocation of that was when reviews started to write down the Torah shabalpa what was supposed to be the oral Torah and wasn't supposed to be written but he saw that the generations were going on it was being forgotten he wrote it down there are other things which Ghazal tell us that they were they allowed because of this and he knew that he was introducing a novel concept because women technically girls weren't taught in Jewish schools and there's a mishnah which speaks which speaks rather strongly and negatively about teaching Torah regularly to Jewish to Jewish women and so he was suggesting something which was Radical and he invoked this verse Hashem says this I find absolutely necessary in our time this way the the women of our people will have a love for their people with knowledge of Torah we can hope that pure emuna will come into their hearts and they won't favor these these negative things we can hope that they will also be careful in the Fulfillment of Mitzvahs and their actions will follow the spirit of the Jewish people their sons and their daughters they will raise for Torah and and mitzvahs he goes on and he says I started to go on and I wanted to talk about a bigger problem a problem which a different one of the robotam interrupted him he spoke about that it wasn't just that they weren't gluing Mitzvahs or going to schulon Shabbos but that the girls of the Jewish people were being swept up in a slave trade that swept the country that swept the continent and it was a horrible horrible disgrace but they interrupted him they didn't want him to uh to to speak about it when Rabbi Leo Young of the Jewish Center in New York City who is a hero of the building of Base Yakov internationally we'll talk about it more later we'll talk about it more later when Rabbi Leo young created the foundation to support base Yakov it was the foundation for Beth Jacob schools and for the protection of Jewish Women that was what was named the problem was so real and widespread and there were all kinds of efforts that were being made about it and he wanted to raise it but they didn't even want to discuss it publicly ah and so he goes on to speak about how this this situation has developed and he makes his he makes his proposal he makes his proposal after many many painful words that we're not going to take the time to read that there should be a um a uh a supervision within every city called shomer Israel that makes sure that people who are alone in the city are taken care of to make sure that the young women are not taken advantage of to make sure that that wives whose husbands have traveled away are looked after and when it comes to to to to to young women to teach them to teach them language to teach them their faith and to teach them a trade which will be good and healthy for them so that they will not suffer from from poverty other such things and then he says time has come that we have to teach our daughters Torah through this day we'll come to kill my Mitzvahs we see the weakness of the Fulfillment of mitches with daughters more even the daughters of the most religious families because they have no idea about what Judaism says and if somebody will ask me from hazal would say a person who teaches his daughter Torah is teaching him something something negative I will say that this was just this was in the old days where the woman just did domestic work she stayed at home downstairs the home was strong this was before what he what we can call the urban habayas and therefore they said you know the home is secure the home is a warm nest of Jewish values they learn their faith they learn how to conduct themselves as Jews they're nurtured in a positive spirit but the home doesn't have that grip anymore at all everything in that matter has changed and so he says we have to instead build schools for women for young women to be able to be taught so the presiding Rabbi says this Rabbi has spoken important things about habanos I want to I want to suggest make a motion or suggest that somebody make a motion that in every city they should establish schools for the daughters of the poor and of the wealthy together there they will learn prayers they will learn they will learn denim that are necessary for the wife life of a Jewish woman they will learn as well the vernacular in order in order that they should be educated in a Jewish environment they shouldn't have to go to the doors of strange schools but a a participant who was there who was one of those who wanted to make sure that they didn't says this they want to bring into the Jewish people for young women it should not be and the proposal was defeated proposal was defeated 1903 this um tells you a couple of things first of all it helps us to understand the context of what was going on it's a horrible story what was going on it also tells you that search near didn't have a brilliant idea a new novel idea it was an idea that was proposed by others before her so why did she get to make it happen because she cried you know the the hazal asked we once had a Godly door his name was Maisha Rabino I think everybody agrees that he was a guadal adore God will call hadirus and there are certain things which you know didn't teach the Jewish people until somebody else sprung up and brought it up Shani the daughters of sloth two two things around the daughters of sloth and gazelle asked the question if that was supposed to be Tyro why didn't my shravena say it sometimes that they're people who Merit to be the ones to bring something about there's no one who's in charge who's going to take care of everything we're a people one might say one might suggest that the Torah includes those stories specifically even with my srabenu who's the navi to perfection because it's there like everything in the Torah to teach us for Generations what the Gomorrah calls there's room for regular people to do big things to get started on big things we can't always wait and we have to understand as well and I say this very seriously is that that also have a task and it's a tricky task to fulfill and the task is to some degree also to like hold the nation together and when when things are sometimes new and radical it's hard for them to go and jump out you might say well that's what leadership requires leadership requires multiple things it requires multiple things and sometimes it's best if someone comes forward and says you know shouldn't we be doing this those are you can and let it start and let it take but thousands and thousands of souls were lost I don't know why Sarah schneer's tears were more effective than this Rabbi from crack house tears and he was not but the rationale which he said was the exact rationale that was later made famous in a footnote of the in the safer like wrote a book which was a substitute for the Riff the riffra of Alphas who digested the halachas of every masecta that was halachically relevant in North Africa in the back of the Gomorrah it's printed so he did it he didn't do it for many masekhtas which are not relevant and did it for those because as you know always wanted to learn the halachas for mashiach as well so he did it for kochim and then he went back to do it on other masektas and one of the Mercedes which there we don't have the refund is Sota because Sota is a halacha which is a migdash ritual which is not relevant nowadays so he wrote and there he writes in a footnote on that mishnah discouraging regular talmouth Torah for women and he writes okay and we quote this was by all accounts a strictly Orthodox Rabbi vanira the Africa this was true in the times that preceded us he says people lived around their families the chain of transmission was strong where children continued in the ways of their parents as the possuk says then we could say you don't have to teach them textually they'll pick it up they'll pick it up by osmosis by just knowing they know how to keep Shabbos they know how to keep how to keep kosher they know how to Daven they just they watch and they do avocado that tradition has weakened the gamot many times they're living separate from their parents and especially befrat when they're learning other things they're learning the language and the works of other nations to reteach them the written Torah which many say is not included in that mishnah even then um and the ethical teachings of like puke office the safer Menorah which is a savior that gathers together many statements of hazal on topics of various various issues and subjects of virtue foreign you have to do this because otherwise they can completely leave the way of Hashem It's tricky to figure out exactly when this was published because was publisheda but some you know the first ones were published in the early 1900s but the last ones and this may have been the last one one of the last ones were published in the early 1920s when search near was already up and running that he that he that he wrote this and then he wrote this but the same language is found the same ideas found of Heim Eiser radzinski another one of the godalia's man wrote a letter uh in a strong letter in support of basic of urging base Yakov everybody the same rationale what's the rationale in two Hebrew words The Jewish Home was no longer able to do its job it was no longer able to do its job because the streets were open the society was open and people had to have something that captured their imagination it wasn't just enough to say hold on stay and it will be it will be okay I just want you to like hear this if if it's okay it might be repetitive every person says it in their own way but this was like a chant a repeated a repeated chant from different gud islandskin was was the Raven lutzk and he he became a very important figure in there it's hiswell especially he came here at Israel he was he was very he was Elite a leading a leading uh personality amongst the the Yeshiva World inherits Israel and he has svarim three volumes many are familiar with his foreign people use them they're very very nice for him he also has three books of drushas of speeches that he gave called and in the first one he has two I'm just going to quote you sections from one two of the drushas there may be 19 drushas in the book about the issue of women and women's education and the 17th which is called I'm just gonna again read to you a little bit um a little bit of his description of the problem of the problem I'll tell you the framing of the essay is that he has a question and the question is it says when avravino came and he traveled there to Israel it says hello which sounds like Annie implanted set up his tent but it's spelled in the Torah with a hay which is ahala her ten so hazal say he actually set up Sarah's tent before his own sora's tent before his own and he wants to understand like what this what is this what does it mean and he develops an idea beautifully in his style that we know that hazal tell us that avram were involved in teaching people Torah and a belief in Hashem and values avra was teaching the men and Sarah was teaching the women so when it says she had a tent it doesn't mean that they lived in separate houses her tent was her was her school was the place where she convened the women and his tent was where he convened the men and he says so he set up her tent first so that they should work on the women's education before the men's education okay that's his that's his suggestion and later God willing vashem's help we will come back to why but for now I'm going to just give you a snippet of his setting up the question so he says so we really have to wonder why did avram put her tent before his if they would ask us this question what should we make first in the shul the lady section or the men section will answer clearly the men section the men diving there three times a day women some don't come at all even though prayer is a Mitzvah the Ariza that the rambam says is my grandma it's not considered to be a the the rise of this was not time-bound we're not going to get into Allah discussion here on Tish above but prayer should be a feature of everybody's life even women who didn't traditionally pray formally with the order of the time-bound schedule of philos they still were taught they should be they should pray or maybe they come during the high holidays the ones who are extra diligent they'll come to the house of Hashem and Shabbos when we do birha saharash an onion would come every Shabbos so you know in fact we have many shouls he says that don't even have a lady section and nobody worries about it that it's a problem because it's a supply and demand and so if we ask tell me something a school for boys or a base Yakov that terminology was already present by the time he's giving this essay which one has precedence everyone will say we have an obligation to teach our sons Tyra we don't have an obligation to teach our daughter's Tire according to the strict rules of the of the possuk right of hazal we don't teach them formal Tyro we even have that mission and saita which says kind of some negative things and once upon a time they didn't teach daughters at all now oh there's a Heather there's a header to open schools for girls as if it's a Heather he says they did it because they had they're going to go to school anyway make sure that the school is somewhat religious but to have a to have daughters come before the sons to have presidents for studying Tyra we never heard of such a thing but Avro Vino came and he turned the whole thing around and he goes on to bring other precedents for this maishrabino where does the expression base Yakov come from who gave the turret to the Jewish people he said Israel so shall you say pleasantly to the house of yaakov and say with toughness to them first speak Hashem said first speak to basiakov the house the bias the one the woman the women and then speak to the men so it's the same like avram avinu her tent before his so we have to ask ourselves what are we doing instead of asking avram avinu this question we have to ask about our terrible complacency that we have when it comes to the matter of the faith of women not only do we not give them precedence in teaching them in the way of faith we don't even worry about developing religious feelings about our women at all there are religious fathers that the matter of their daughters religious education doesn't take any space up in their heads I'm translating it the way he says it and with these they said it's not a question of which one comes first the daughters don't even register they're not included at all in fact there are fathers who are so particular that their children their sons should go and study in in the yeshivas or go and be with with him but then they send their daughters to General Public Schools or the schools of those who are assimilating and there they teach them to respect every Faith except the Jewish faith they teach them every language except for the Hebrew language they teach them about the mighty of every nation except of the Jewish Nations these women are literally they're just they have no Jewish Spirit where were they supposed to be able to get it from many times these students actually despise where they came from and they despise more than anything their own parents and all that is sacred to the Jewish people even those who were not educated in schools which would plant hatred they're not much better off because what they others learn in schools they are learning in the streets in the gardens in The Orchards in the theaters at the circuses because our street is a secular Street lacking in content certainly in Jewish content everywhere you encounter non-jewish culture that is foreign to the spirit of the Jewish people anybody who doesn't teach his daughter the knowledge of Hashem anyone who doesn't teach their daughter Jewish content that will serve to protect them from the Terrible influence of the street they are teaching them tiflus soman went further he said let's not talk about it as a header we have to take the mishnah in a sense and turn it on its head and we can have halach discussions about why this isn't reform it's clearly not you want to say it because of uh of uh is okay the only problem is you know that you have to teach women to keep and women say in davening every morning birha Satora why do they say birha Satora if they're not commanded to study Torah and so this is a question which is discussed in the basis because they're obligated to study Torah to know what to do and if they happen to know it already so then maybe they don't have an obligation like men do we don't have an obligation just to study what we don't know once we know it we don't have to study do we have to study tireless man we have to study deeper and deeper and deeper conceptual so that's not a mitzvah for women but women don't have to study to know what to do and by the way one of the things that you have to do is you have to believe in God that's a mitzvah and sometimes it takes study to believe in God study amuna to study the story of your people so everyone and rev Hirsch who was also as we're going to discuss later decades decades ahead in terms of the fact that there was there were Jewish schools created for men and for women for boys and for girls in Frankfurt there's a whole Yiddish literature for women that's been around for hundreds of years teaching them Tyra in Yiddish okay so they didn't teach them exactly the same with the same text the same ways but there was the senorena the Tatum but these are all there different structure then was there before it was a radically different structure than was to produce they can learn whatever book teaches it works it works when it doesn't work so you use an alternative which is done and family and when it when that became Bridge of course it was novel of course you had to turn to people who struggled with it and said you're doing something completely no new and there was a World Congress of benos thorough a movement for Jewish women movements for Jewish 3 1924 to some degree locally in Krakow in 1919 Ola the great assembly of aguda which took place in the same Year Ms Robinson grodzinski of hayam Isis rabbitsim the rabbitsin of the Gera rabba she's sitting there Amadeus with a number of other I don't think I think she didn't even go Orthodox woman has a world organization of Orthodox Jewish women it has not been long since we first established benos in Poland and already from aspirations the daughter of Israel who knows the Jewish sources in every corner Community will regard our Congress with suspicion and fear and see it as a deviation God forbid from Israel evolutions Ace Latin to the ideals and aspirations of religious women even though no one has appointed them to do so they take upon themselves the right to Sages the language you would expect fresheners pathway at all at all at all at any stage she was a zealot huge Gathering she didn't just recently we heard of a women's Congress where certain things were said and written about the aguna question that we Orthodox women would never have dreamed the plight of the unfortunate and her moral Improvement it will be a great day when we come together to collectively consider how to improve Jewish life and return the sanctity to Jacob's tent it will also be a great sanctification of hashem's name before the eyes of the world that our Congress is taking place at the same time as the second World Congress of agurath Israel the honor and esteem of Orthodox Jews will be strengthened when at the same moment as the sons of Israel declare and ringing tones their faithfulness to the god of Israel the daughters of Israel Proclaim to Orthodox jury we are with you during the great days of the month of hello this year we will fulfill we will go with our sons and our daughters Hashem that line by the way was one which was used in the words of Rabbi Mendel of Krakow who said We are following or excuse me no I think it's no maybe it's from Who said We are following Paro who said now only the men should go and servashi remember when we wanted living only the men should go and serve Hashem so she is quoting the same pasak earlier and she's saying Hashem are coming and they're going to be celebrated by the Jewish men as well as by as well as by the Jewish women there's much more there's much more that's that's rich there's much more that's uh there's much more that that's difficult but this is the focus the problem the problem defined Urban habayas the inability of Jewish homes to transmit Jewish life within them the need for new alternative structures to support them to bring women together to strengthen each other as the general family of the world was being weakened the family life in the world was being weakened this is not an old problem it's a contemporary problem it's a contemporary challenge we still need solutions to these problems we have no walls on our houses anymore there's no such thing as going anywhere where one is private and and and protected when the when the rambam wrote that a person has to choose to live in a community and in a place that enhances their values he says if you find yourself in a place where they don't let you so you should go out to a cave you should go out to the to the to the desert right maybe you won't have cell service there right that's you know that's that that's right the world is is complex and so we have to find the same way they did in their time that if they're going to be going out there they can't just hear hazarai they can't just hear the stuff from the outside the opposite now we especially have to give gripping and meaningful Torah and connection to Taurus that's the problem the problem is the destruction of the base the destruction that started here with the destruction with the failure of the Jewish home we'll now say those two those two kinos first Kino number 30 ma'one page 300 in the arts school page 509 in the Quran again it's late it's it's labeled lamid numbered lamid in most versions of the of the kinos and again the refrain is the vice foreign [Music] foreign [Music] 35 Kingdom number 35 on page 324 in the Quran it's on page 549. [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign see a love Cafe so we've seen the problem and we have the vague outlines of a solution vague outlines of solution is Jewish Education for uh for young women how does it get done how does it get done effectively how when you're dealing with a population where there was such there was there was no Rich history of teaching of Education where do you suddenly get to create schools who's gonna build those schools who's going to educate within those schools this is the movement that uh that that had to be created and we're going to in in speaking about the solution we're going to divide our discussion of the solution into three segments one part of the solution is going to be the captivating Torah ideas the second part of the solution is going to be the warmth and passion of Judaism that you hear coming across was so missing for Jewish women and the third is going to be the movement the what would become the legendary movement the incredible incredible power of dedication that created the movement the famous story a story which she herself made famous in her own writings and her own diary and and personal writings that that she shared um where she tells the story parts of which Snippets of which came across already in what Judith Rosenbaum taught and we're going to go back to her writings in a minute but she writes about how she was brought up in her home how members of her own family were not interested in yiddishkaits the society around her was not she writes in some of her published writings and some of her diary writings she herself she was interested in intellectual things she went to plays and she was unhappy with what she heard she went to uh her cousin said come with me to this group this youth group that they're having a gathering on Friday night she just she wanted to have company she went and she found them turning on lights on Shabbos and and saying things which were very negative and she writes about this and she has friends and she's she's thirst near love nature loved nature and a big feature of how they created the mood and the movement of of the base Yak of seminarian teachers was in the summertime where they would go for for a couple of months to the countryside and they would study outside in nature and they would learn and they would take walks and they would enjoy nature was very much a part of it and she would go on trips with friends they would go on trips again this is already and this is the early 20th century Young from Jewish women going on trips right that that that you know we might not send our kids on right and they went off to the mountains and she's there and she's admiring like she wants to make an awesome Assa gracious and her friends are laughing at her my friends are laughing at her and this is her story and she's bothered by it and she's dreaming how she could make a difference we read before some of her Muses some of her dreams and then on August 19 first 1914 the Great War broke out right she didn't call it World War One for obvious reasons the Great War broke out and not long after that we were forced to leave Krakow it was this move that led to what is now called base Yakov this is her own writing along with many other refugees from Krakow we settled in the great city of Vienna Ten Weeks had gone by since we had arrived and we had experienced many difficulties for almost two weeks we wandered the streets it was almost impossible to find an apartment in the Jewish quarter Vienna was like a pot on the boil teeming with Jewish refugees from all over Galicia who had left their homes to flee from the storms of War as parenthetically including my father-in-law Rabbi baumgarten and his family they went from myelits in Poland to to Vienna because the war broke out because this is what people what polish Jews Galician Jews did finally we managed to find a place to live in the sixth district on whatever the name of the street is but then another worry set in it wasn't a Jewish neighborhood it was an hour's walk from the shifshu and I'm the famous School in in Vienna and I knew of no other synagogue in which to pray where would we attend services okay so she was one who wanted to go to school my landlady seeing my anxiety gave me the good news that there was an orthodox synagogue on stumper gas yes that synagogue would be the Cradle of the movement that is now base Yakov on Friday afternoon I walked there with a prayer book and a Hamish so I would have them for the Shabbos Services the shamas explained to me that it hadn't been necessary to do so since women who didn't carry on the Shabbos were provided with prayer books there okay so she's being exposed to a more formal shul in Vienna Austria in sort of Western Europe than she's used to from what she had in Krakow I was filled with joy this meant that I was among Jews even in Vienna there were Jews who didn't carry on Shabbos it was that same Shabbos morning that I first went to the stomper gas to pray before the toe reading I saw the rabina appear on the pulpit that was new for me what's going on I asked a woman sitting next to me it's Shabbos she responded and the rabbiner will speak about the significance of this day riveted to my seat I listened with great Fascination to the fiery spirited words of the rabbi in his sermon he depicted the greatness and Sublimity of the historical figure of yehudis yehudis right is one of those stories in the apocryphal midrashim above Hanukkah who was most and decapitated the Greek General through her he eloquently and passionately called upon Jewish women and their daughters to act according to the model of this Jewish heroine it's a shame I've forgotten the beautiful thoughts and points of that sermon and what I do remember I lack the eloquence to convey on paper there's one thing that I can't forget even as I was caught up in the spiritual description of the character of Judith it occurred to me ah if only all those women and girls in Krakow were here now to learn who we are and where we come from it struck me that our major problem is our sisters know so little about our history which alienates them from our people and its Traditions If Only They Knew of our Holy Martyrs or had the slightest grasp of the heroism of our great men and women things would be entirely different that moment gave birth to a variety of schemes which grit with great grandiose aims Judith Rosenbaum you'll permit me just because of I want to do it because of her eloquence I should call it Reuben grunfeld where she was her husband she she married Diane grunfeld who was one of the dionum of the London resident and she was a lifelong incredible educator some of you may have read her exploits during the war is a book called Shepherd where when London was being bombed she she presided over a whole community of kids who were living amongst non-jews and and had a Jewish school really really amazing story an amazing amazing woman so I'll read to you her words on a Shabbos morning in one of the shoes in the 20th District the rabbi ascended the pulpit to address his congregation it happened to be shabboskanaka and he spoke with the Maccabees their strength steadfastness and loyalty to the name of God his thoughts were clear and deep his illustrations and examples convincing and fascinating in the women's Gallery a stranger listened Spellbound she experienced the Revelation what was it that was so new so striking in his speech that made her breathless with inner excitement here were the words she had been logging to find here was the truth of Jewish teachings the Beauty and the glory of Jewish history were laid clear before the listener in a manner that could not fail to interest here were words like Sparks that could Kindle until now she had been groping in the dark not knowing how to set out to accomplish the task for which she felt the burning desire now listening to Rabbi Maisha Moritz flesh of the stumper gas she saw her way clear before it would be simple she would only have to magnify his voice to pass on his word so clear so convincing to all the women back home who are unaware of the fact that such truth existed like her they would be dazzled by the light and then be guided by it their desire for learning that until now driven them away from home would then be satisfied the idea presented to them could not fail to impress them deeply and thus they would be led to respect Jewish life and so cling to it Sarah schneer wrote down with painful loyalty every speech every lesson she heard from Rabbi flesh during the years in Vienna when she became as constant and most regular and conscientious pupil and the thicker the volume of her writings the more impatient she grew to go back to Krakow to share the treasures she had gathered of motion flesh more its flesh was a student of Hershey's School of a school of his ways teaching of his way of torithat it is outstanding to consider the profound impact of reverse on so many tracks you know the the community of ravhurst so to speak today in a certain sense struggles right the Washington Heights Community is small and aging and its youth have moved by and large at the Adas Yeshua and the kaj Washington nights is thriving but the kha community as such the yakish community with its menhogim is uh is not thriving in in its Locale its children are thriving as part of the general Jewish world they're thriving as part of the general Orthodox World there they are they are they are of tremendous impact and the impact of reverse in creating so much of what we have really needs to be just considered because it's it is it is outstandingly prominent in the story of basiakov as we will see first you've seen already what what sparked the light in her was a new way of teaching that she heard which was the way of teaching of reverse and this is in 19 14 1915 in the beginning of the Great War listen if you will for a moment so the proceedings of the rabbinical Conference of Krakow that we read to you from before from the next session from the next session from Galicia it's a famous name that was named of the hafla he had many grandchildrenheit from from baradashin said I want to follow on the previous the rabbi from Krakow on his discussion I suggest that the rabbis have themselves to compose or get others to compose with rabbinic supervision books in the vernacular for Jewish girls that will include within them stories of great to the Jewish people the history of the Jewish people books which bring dignity to the Torah to Mitzvahs in order to inspire the readers For the Love of Torah and the Jewish people and it should be done with good language with clear and elegant language and those should be the textbooks for art for for our children and so he said and so the rabbi of Krakow supports this suggestion and he says it's a good suggestion and I think it's very needed in this day but let's not fool ourselves and let's say the truth because the God-fearing rabbis that we have in our time in our country we don't have the skill to produce a book in the language of the Nations that will fit and meet the spirit of Judaism at this time we don't have the skill to edit such books besides the only people who can succeed in producing A Book Like That are those people who are filled with love and yearning for their Nation and and its scriptures that are able to express it with warm passion with Expressions that come from a pure heart and I doubt if we're going to be able to just find these people around amongst regular authors but I do have a proposal for you Krakow 1903 there was in Germany a man at Sadiq hasid massive person Pious and everything that he did wise in every realm of wisdom his name was the eye of best and the rabbi of Frankfurt with the breath of his mouth he defeated evil with his works and his well-known letters that he wrote in German in a clear German he accomplished so much to infuse a spirit of Life amongst our children amongst our brothers who live in South Germany there he uplifted the crowd the flag of Torah and fear of God he produced Works in a clear German a translation of the Torah with beautiful commentary he wrote a book horev that has been translated already into Hebrew all about all of the mitzis of the Torah his words are inflamed with passion his letters that he wrote the famous 19 letters their words which are Eternal as well the Sadiq rev mayor Dr Lehmann right who his books he wrote historical fiction and many other works he wrote many Beautiful Stories in Lush and ashkenas these rabbanim are known as so what I suggest is that every father who educates his daughters in the spirit of the way and gives them an ability to read read the language he has to buy their children these books in German and the fathers and the teachers who teach them these books and that way they will find it though the books of reverse the stories of rev Layman they should be translated to as many languages of different countries that we live in as possible that was his proposal what's the solution the solution is Hirsch I told you once maybe twice on Tish above that one of the people who is undoubtedly most responsible for the fact that we're sitting here was of shraga favel mandalovich who basically created the day school movement in this country mandalovich came from Hungary from from from pressburg wherever you call it Bratislava from from work which was not friendly to to new things and he was studying in the Yeshiva and he was concerned about what we've been talking about the problem the defections from cloud Israel and he heard that there was a man in Germany named of shamshan full Hirsch who had succeeded in finding the language to inspire people and so he sold his shoes he sold his shoes to buy a copy of fall of Hershey's works I I've shared with you before and I know I've shared before we used to have in our shul a precious member of our school Dr Aaron siegman who was a talmud entire Vedas and he told me that if I will showed him the book of rasham foreigners that he had bought with his shoes and that's and he used that to teach and his teaching when he taught in Torah Vedas and vesmerish Elion and inspired the people who went out and fanned out over the United States to build day schools it was fueled it was fueled by reverse in 1876 RAV Israel salanter was visiting Berlin and he was struggling with what was going on in this way and he had a meeting with Russia falhirsh they met and they talked about this idea of having good works written in the vernacular and there was a RAV naftali Airman who was with him and he cleared his throat and he said if I may say so those books have already been written they're the books of fall Hirsch and refsham stayed up for several nights with Israel Airman who was able to read the German and at that time ravisrael solante was not yet reading German so he could read to him the books and he wanted them to be translated into any number of languages you understand who these people who were mentioning here are the movements which they created in order to be able to have Judaism survive salanter right who his thinking and his way fueled the Yeshiva movement the mussary yeshivas which include slavatka and Mir and tells and all of them and basiakov and the day school movement in the United States all right what would we say today powered by shamshin Rafal Hirsch by that way of learning by that way of communicating by that way by that way of thinking and if Samson thought Hersch was not just an inspiration through a talmud she was not a very knowledgeable woman in the general sense in terms of deep singing this was an Awakening to her sureshnir and she in the first years of her teaching taught Hersh and more Hirsch whatever she learned whatever she could get her hands on she had a correspondence with the granddaughter of shamshinifal Hersh with which she literally got on the wrong train she was going to a different city to discuss opening a base Yakov school she ended up in the wrong part of Germany and she gets hosted by the granddaughter of shamshinifal Hersh whose parents have a in have an in and she becomes a great founder of Base Jacobs schools in Germany she spends a few hours Wisconsin with with Sarah schneer but she also becomes a source of sending writings of Allah because she needs more she needs more that was the Torah that was the stuff that would that would do it and we have to remember that besides speaking about the richness of Torah ideas the notion of women's Torah education was already very well established in Germany created his school he was creating his school in a context where Jewish kids were going to just secular schools compulsory education even if it wasn't compulsory the opportunity of Education was one which was being taken by a community that was assimilating very very quickly and so part of His Brilliant Vision was to create an alternative create a Jewish school and what do you mean create a Jewish school for boys an out of Jewish school for girls they were all going down the same tubes and they all had the same expectations it was a world thereof shared and common expectations Andrew fall Hirsch said with confidence we mentioned before he writes it in his pirush al-hator in parashas akev in Shema but he also writes and I hear a quote from a different more obscure Source people forget that Khana and devoro most certainly understood khana's prayer in the Voris song they also forget that the rescue of future generations of our men as well as of our women depends on our success in winning the devotion of our future wives and mothers Hearts to the sanctity of our people the only way we can hope to sway their hearts is by teaching them to draw spiritual nourishment from the original sources to prefer on their own yes and Shakespeare and this with God's help we have been able to do if you wish to provide for your future do not forget your daughters that actually is the title of an essay which was published by ravichiel Yakov Weinberg don't forget the Jewish woman it was delivered in I believe 1924 to an Agoda gathering in Covenant and he writes very passionately about the subject he says no part of the Jewish people has ignored the woman like Orthodox jury in Eastern Europe it's it's hard to imagine how this could have happened we just don't value their role enough to invest in their education and he goes on and on about this but he writes then as follows listen to what he writes about German jury with which he was familiar he ended up of course being the Rector of the rabbinical seminary in Berlin he went from Eastern Europe to Western Europe he says in the great assimilating movement in Germany the one who led the assimilation was the Jewish woman and when the rabbi of Frankfurt of shamshan fall Hirsch wanted to save a Judaism that was going down the tubes he first sought to in fact Engage The Jewish women it's only that way that you can understand his Great accomplishments she was for him the greatest support in the work of saving jury the Jewish woman the students of Hirsch fixed that which was destroyed by the daughters of Mendelson the latter destroyed the Jewish Home the former built it Anew they built Jewish life in Germany and they maintain it and protect it there it seems to me that the most pleasant experience to a Jew in Germany is Friday night in the hare di shul in Frankfurt right in the in Frankfurt I probably couldn't call it the karate school anymore but it is pleasant and moving what is most Pleasant and most moving is not just the service itself it's when the daughters of Frankfurt The Young Ones gather after davening to learn the Parsha with Rashi someone who saw this who sees the religious passion with which these young women are learning hummus with Rashi and how hard it is for them to then end the lesson with their teacher who tells them that it's time to go Kiddush that person Gomez she says that person understands the strength the stubbornness of the stubborn ones of Frankfurt that all of the taunting and all of the hatred of all of the people around them doesn't let them budge women with this kind of religious Consciousness no other nation has in the world and you won't find it in any other in any other City today Tisch above is the yard site of a person whose name is not well known not well enough known Rabbi Dr Leo deutschlander deutschlander means German his name was Dr Leo deutschlander and he was the partner that made Sarah schneer's movement become a movement he made the base Yakov movement his yard site is on Tish above today is his 88th yard site he died I believe at 45 or 47 years old and he like Sarah schneer did not have biological children Dr Leo deutschlander was a student of the her school he was orphaned when he was very young from both of his parents he studied in in the Hersh school he studied Tyra he studied in the universities he wrote textbooks on on on on literature um Schiller Etc but he he was part of the leadership of agurith Israel in those days I go to Israel's leadership you know it's professional leadership so to speak its Bible about the leadership came from Germany and it's it's gedolia Torah came from Eastern Europe which is it a phenomenon for itself which we will not discuss in in Broad terms but but a little bit more specifically a little bit later in the uh on the at the classical gadola of 1923 exactly 100 years ago where Amir shapira announced the dafayemi uh uh also created something called the Karen hatoru karenatora means basically the Torah Foundation and the karenator was tasked to be able to fund and strengthen yeshivas and schools and originally its mandate was to build the yeshivas in schools for boys as this was happening Sarah schneer was starting to get traction search near came back after the first world war she was all excited she was going to teach to her she gathered together all of her peers and her friends she got 40 of them in a room she gave them a lesson and it fell flat they weren't interested she didn't have the eloquence she was sincere she was serious but she spoke like the coffee not like full Hirsch Hashem fear of heaven love of God wasn't fancy span of History it wasn't borrowing from literary devices that capture the imagination in the same way although had beautiful beautiful Michelle beautiful Parables that he that he composed that that that that influenced people a great deal but he influenced people by his sincerity and SARS near it wasn't Landing and she tried and it wasn't landing and so she said okay plan B I can't work as was alluded to before with people who have already tasted all of this stuff and they're already really drawn in like that SQ right that little child that was described in one of the earlier stories of her neighbor across the street she's still young she hasn't tasted we're going to work with her and she started a school for younger kids and she started a school literally a in an apartment 25 kids and it was small and it struggled and then it grew a little bit more and it uh and it uh and it continued and it continued to struggle and um in 1919 it was noticed already by the community of Krakow and the local aguda of Krakow adopted the school helped her with funding and in addition they built a few more they built a few more schools so it started to grow a number a little bit more The Big Break came in 1924. when Leo deutschlander who was now charged with this Karen hattora of agura to try to build this Foundation to raise money and disperse money for building of Torah he heard about Sarah schneer and he went to meet her and saw what she was doing and saw that it was a critical piece of the future growth of space Yakov and so he um he um he adopted that as well he adopted that as well and he took made it his business to try to help and see how to have it developed so allow me again to read you a little bit from the writings of someone who was brought to Poland to participate in training base yaakov teachers by Leo deutschlander another person raised in the hersheyan tradition Judith Rosenbaum rabbits and grunfeld the spark that was kindled by a daughter of the Hasidic tradition was fanned by the methodical manner of a man who had been educated in the best schools of modern European training who had picked up what was best in European culture and had blended it with the Jewish stories of his mind he was deliberate in his plans there was nothing abrupt or impulsive about him he was by Nature by Nature a reconciler of contrast and his guidebook was to heal him there was no harshness in his disposition wherever there was beauty or goodness he discovered it and held it up to be admired and the valuable achievements of modern culture he saw the reflection of the torah's Eternal truth and as such he acknowledged it and borrowed from it thus he could speak to youth thus he could Rouse and satisfy all those who felt the ghetto to confining thus he could Fascinate thousands of intelligent Jewish girls in Poland Whose desire for intellectual Freedom had grown to formidable dimensions and who were in danger of being lured away from Judaism by The Phantom of philosophical negations he could understand their questions and difficulties spoken or unspoken he eased their problems by his blessed smile he analyzed them in his academic manner he threw a new light on them in his generous artistic vein he solved riddles by the blend of his wisdom and his harmonious personality there were many eager girls who had loved Sarah schneer but needed him to help clear their minds they would never have found their way without him he linked them to the intellectual World At Large and made them stronger on their own ground he himself radiated Harmony discipline and Order system and Method were introduced by him he enforced them in his own entirely undictatorial way and while examinations were held in the seminary in an atmosphere of eye and respect he would leisurely walk along the corridor to the examination room and address pertinent questions to the candidates in a sociable almost soothing way he spent two or three months of every year in the Seminary all of a sudden he would appear and walk into the study room like one who had never been away he smiled his own smile seemed to know everyone's everyone and everyone's troubles deutschlanders lectures on to hillim The Book of Psalms were of intrinsic value for the formation of the hashkafa of his students these lessons took place during the hot summer days in a clearing in the woods the bells of the grazing cows were an idyllic accompaniment to the serious contemplations that were unfolded there the lectures were were always anticipated with festive eagerness a symphony of thought and a structure of lofty ideas which the Beth Jacob girls had never encountered before on the wings of his interpretations of tehilim their minds soared high and led to the understanding of the unity of religion life and law before rabov which was the location of these seminars they had merely been obedient to Parental Guidance warmed by the warmth of their home atmosphere and alerted to the call of emergency to help in the saving of the Jewish heritage it was deutschlander's specific art which revealed to them the fact please listen to this sentence the Torah was the fountain and Source book of every noble thought that ever animated the minds of the Great the origin of every humanitarian Endeavor and social progress one more time it was deutschlander's specific art which revealed to them the fact that Torah was the fountain and Source book of every noble thought that ever animated the minds of the great the origin of every humanitarian Endeavor and social progress to give his disciples this Insight became increasingly essential at a time when Jewish girls bereft of Jewish knowledge were Charmed by world literature captivated by humanitarian slogans over awed by the propaganda talk of atheistic intellectuals who would throw catchphrases at them and compare the great free Unchained mind with the narrow fettering commands senseless and outdated of the Jewish tradition how many of the best and most intelligent girls had been led into the alluring world of irreligious camps away from so-called obscure confines as they were persuaded that they were going to exchange The Guiding Light of the free humanitarian mind for worthless relics of antiquity European Europe was then in a period of liberal humanism and western civilization was considered by the Eastern youth to be the highest culture the world around them was darkened by inhumanity the Sinister Mark of the tsarist regime the contrast represented by Western literature was hailed as the voice of humanitarian ideals its leaders as torchbearers of mankind were glorified by the idealistic girls whose Souls were thirsting for something Noble to look up to today after The Tragically obvious debacle of Western European civilization the wellnai total collapse of humanitarian values and the easy way in which the beastliness of tyranny was accepted by the so-called enlightened world today the problem would not have arisen today the lure of the non-jewish civilization has lost much of its attraction because we have seen our little resistance it provided to the satanic powers of Oppression how on the contrary and the Very lap of the most cultured nation and economic Powers they had their breeding ground a new world was revealed first to the first bet Jacob girls in Poland they were led by Mastery guidance to the real sources of all humanitarian values the curtain was lifted they had known Jewish practice in its minutest detail but had never been led to behold the great Panorama of its governing ideas that was something with SARS near herself could not provide there was a lot that she could provide and we'll see more of it God willing in the next segment but she had many people you know basiakov was not even the basic of sureshner was not a fairy tale it's not like every girl who came there came dancing there wanting to imbibe all the stuff and change the world that they all wanted to adopt the dress code the very strict snooze that Sarah schneer really is the standard that she that she held them to there was snickering there were doubts there were people who found their way out of the building to do other things of course there were life isn't fairy tales even then there were parents who were so so eager for their daughters that they were deeply worried about to have the kind of experience that could be had only in the base Yakov there to go there and the daughters to not fight with their parents agreed and went along and for them the ideas the Western ideas the enlightenment the so-called Enlightenment beckoned and you have to be able to meet that you have to meet that vision and the Torah has no problem meeting that vision that was what rasham shouldn't referral hers that was his his unique creation and ability to beat them at their own game to show the brilliant light of Torah again as the source of all great humanisms and values and I'm sure that all of you note the irony and we must hear the irony and maybe we need to dust off a bit for some of those around us why because she says now this wouldn't be a problem at all wouldn't be a problem at all ideas we're going to look to Western ideas we're going to look to those German literary figures whose poems were being read in the barracks of the SS whose Symphonies were being played at their gatherings culture no when we when we talked years ago about about revroyer and rev Schwab that one of those notes things which we transitioned was that in discussion with people the older people in the community they said it's true that in Germany towering their herits was culture and profession but by the time we came here after the Holocaust it was only profession it wasn't culture they were completely disillusioned with German culture in the Frank in the Frankfurt realistual of Hirsch they had a celebratory day on Schiller's 100th birthday and if she followers gave a class to the whole thing they didn't do that anymore because that stuff had evaporated and therefore it wasn't a challenge anymore the values of the world ah we know that we have the best but now my friends she's not alive anymore and she hasn't had a chance to see that we have a whole new world of values A Whole New World of values for which we feel like we have to be apologizing all the time because we're religious people that don't adapt these values and therefore we must be dark and unenlightened and we must again stand clear that the Torah is the source of every enlightened value that exists in the world arrogant no problem God wrote the book we didn't this is It's the source of all MS it's this philosopher begins and ends with kindness nobody in the world has a lesson to teach the Torah about kindness they might have lessons to teach the Jews about kindness because we Jews don't always study and practice the Torah it's not a testament that the Jews are necessarily the kindest and most moral people in the world it's a testament to the book that we're supposed to be operating by if we go by the book is that and there's no word in the book and no verse in the book and no section in the book that somehow missed the memo about what's really good what's really kind what's really understanding of people it's wrong that's wrong we have to know how to apply the kindness of the terror that the MS the Tai of the shalim but we're back in a place where the war of ideas and values is is there and we're on our heels it shouldn't be such a big problem we could be already close to recovering because those who preach those values are also very tolerant of those who want to destroy the Jewish people and our supportive of you know their the nine that won't vote to support the Jewish people and to support Medina's Israel so hopefully hopefully we can understand again this lesson but it was a lesson an idea which needed to be taught it needed to be taught by Big Ideas I mentioned before Rabbi Dr Leo Young The Reason by the way while we have these beautiful essays to read from Judith Rosenbaum is because they are found in the volumes that of Rabbi Leo young who created a volume of Jewish classics translated and written in English and included amongst them very Visionary was were three volumes of biographies of chapter-length biographies of great Jewish leaders through different periods and he convinced Judith Rosenbaum who he knew because Rabbi Dr Leo young used to also travel from New York the rabbi of the Jewish Center in Manhattan who took over his shul from you know who was his predecessor Mordechai Kaplan who started off as an orthodox Rabbi and became the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism there in the Jewish Center and they let him go and they hired Rabbi Dr Leo young a student of you guessed it and that school and he was an incredibly incredibly important figure one would think okay that's Manhattan the Jewish Center you know that's a certain part of Orthodoxy he was incredibly important in that part of Orthodoxy he was incredibly important in every part of Orthodoxy he was a German Frankfurt Jew he had a good of Israel in his veins he was the person who funded base Yakov who was he was the person who funded Karen he was the American person for Karen hatora and he again produced these books of of uh of literature he produced these books of of literature in English for a new generation that they would benefit from and if I may I'll just note something which he writes in a footnote to the second article which he wrote about Dr Leo deutschlander editor's note from Rabbi Dr Leo Young the major build portion of the building class of the Krakow Seminary was raised at A T in honor of Mrs Israel zangville among the guests were Frida Warburg daughter of Jacob Schiff Mrs Daniel Guggenheim of the copper millionaires family Mrs Rebecca kahoot author and Widow of the editor of the aruchh Mrs Cyrus Adler wife of the head of the American Jewish committee and Mrs Sue Golding wife of a trustee of the Jewish Center I obtained their generous cooperation by emphasizing that the gigantic education scope of bet Jacob was aided by the grecians of our poor sisters in Poland and neighboring countries the American Jacob committee which I headed since 1927 was born that afternoon the good Lord in his inscrutable wisdom bestowed this of that Priceless achievement upon three reformed women one conservative and one Orthodox they were Builders of the Krakow Seminary because he understood the big ideas of Tyra and he was able to communicate them and share them and that was critical critical piece number one of of their effectiveness of the solution to the problem the Guinness that we're going to read here are Charlie they're 41 and 42 starting on page 360 will go straight and Page 591 in the Quran and I want to just call attention for one moment for a couple of moments before reading is as you know the kinner which was written by the baliata is actually about the burning of the talmud the burning of the talmud which happened in France in Paris and it's about the burning of the Torah and there are two lines there I want to call your attention to both sort of speak sarcastic painful lines one is that why the Torah was given on such a lowly Mountain everybody knows that harsinai was not the tallest mountain and everybody knows the medrish the Gomorrah says right it's you know it's our Sinai right if you see another you see that Torah attaches itself to the humble because Hashem chose to give the Torah not on a Everest not on the hormone but on our Sinai a small lowly Mountain because Torah goes to the humble the python the ramarami Rutenberg says I have a noob shot in why the Torah was given on a lowly Mountain because the Torah is not going to be considered high and respected there's going to come a time where the Torah is not considered high and respected it's not going to be considered the source of all values my friends were living in that time there's another line which he says he says that the Torah go up in smoke because there's a new Torah coming to replace it so we're getting rid of all the old ones really literally this is the the sarcastic quote-unquote humor sad sad humor of marami Rutenberg the rebbe of the rush the Torah replaced the values of the Torah replaced the definition of the Jewish Home replaced Eternal values we're reading people here who did right in the in the uh in in in the great title A revolution in the name of tradition doing things differently to maintain the Eternal that's the trick of getting through the challenges of each and every generation and a critical piece to that one to which our existence really as a as an orthodox Community to this day to which it owes great debt to which it owes great debt is the mind-opening and Mikado teaching and way of teaching that was taught by reverse and made part and parcel of the world of besiakov at its Origins so Kina mamalev and members 41 and 42 Charlize in the art school page 360 in the Quran page 591. Imam [Music] foreign [Music] foreign foreign foreign [Music] thank you this this next Skinner we'll just go to next to the next one members also speaks of the glory translates to the glory of of Torah and the Glory of Zion of yerushalayim the glory of the hidur the beauty the magnificence of it that which has nothing to apologize or looks secondary to anything for the highest mountain s foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] okay so the first element of the solution was a solution which came from the West the solution which came from here and his teachings which he encountered in Vienna when she traveled there at the beginning of the first World War but the second component came very much from the East I read to you a bit from the words of Sir schneer herself I think that by now everyone knows that the sole mission of the basic schools is to educate Jewish girls so with all their strength and with every breath they will serve the Creator and fulfill the Commandments of the Torah with seriousness and passion they will learn that they are children of a people whose existence relies not on dwelling in their own land in the way that other nations are closely connected to their land but rather on their soul sacred ideal the Torah through which and only through which they become became a nation and it is because the Sons and Daughters of this nation abandoned the Torah and did not observe this Commandment that they lost their Holy Land the land of Israel what constitutes the power of the Torah for which we have sacrificed so much throughout the ages understand this well our Torah is not a religion like other religions it's not an institution for worshiping God that brings together adherence on a few special holidays or a guidebook for a few special worshipers our tour is not a system of laws that derives from the human mind that is a holy fire from the one God that gives sustenance to the Jewish soul arouses the Jewish heart and in each moment of Life reminds each soul to remain faithful to God's line to be totally bound up with it the Torah is binding on everyone from the individual to the collective whether one is a priest or an Israelite a learned person or an ordinary Jew a judge or a working man a prophet or a villager one let's fulfill the Commandments that home is in the field and private or in the business world and the temple is in the street in the store is in a workshop it opens one's eyes to see the divine power and nature to recognize Providence in the workings of History it teaches us to understand our place among the Nations the Torah demands from us that we impress these words upon your very heart and that we should spread its ideals in the world and teach them to your children reciting them when you stay at home and when you are away when one goes to sleep and awakes from sleep it must be the one straight line that we walk as we lead Our Lives the crown on our heads the watchwood of our domestic and public lives on the doorposts of your house and on your Gates understand Jewish women and girls for thousands of years the Jewish people lived with the Torah millions of great men and women Drew all their emotions their thoughts and values about everything in life from its Holy Fire the National Treasure that we labored for from time Eternal has always been the study of Torah the base Yakov schools have as their mission to keep the Torah alive among women and to excite the passion for Torah among our daughters the Holy Fire will burn High not when we build superb schools or assemble fine libraries no only when the Holy Torah is studied and disseminated will its Flames Burn High and hearts be warmed only when the Torah becomes the very law of our life but that can be accomplished I think only through schools authentically Jewish schools authentically Jewish schools for girls in the words of Rosendale a Beth Jacobs school was a school but it was also an organization and a club brightened up by the constant power of love and romance a hero worship and a discipline that was almost like the discipline of a secret cult all these things I guess it was okay to write that when she wrote this all these things woven original pattern into the quiet regular routine of school life the teachers were all young they all lived away from their own homes away from their parents and were devoting themselves to one purpose only consumed by a fire which had been kindled by Sarah schneer they fulfilled their task beyond their abilities they planned in schemes spending that youthful and radiant Vitality which seems to be so particularly strong in Polish Jewish girls skillfully they would weave a web capable of attracting and holding the young ones entrusted to them no other interests would interfere with their work they were dedicated to their mission like high adventurers or great artists their schools became the Horizon against which they set up their birth Jacob dream compounded a vision and reality to the children young girls who flocked the numbers to these schools the young teachers became friends as well as instructors they were important Personalities in the Polish Town vested with directing power over young Souls here among the girls the inspiration of the Hasidic life has found its way into the Woman's World it has formed its own style softened and differently molded but was of the same fiber that made the hasidim crowd around their rabbit made them stand for hours to catch a glimpse of him made them unfold all their latent powers in the elevated atmosphere of Hasidic devotion no longer was the life of the Jewish daughter empty at home she too had her community life her school Center and Club where they were comradeship and studies and well-organized activities and outlets and a spur for her eager ambitions police Yakov was not successful simply because of the intellectual and artistic and literary and idealistic words ideas explanations of tehelum had what the fiomi has also 100 years old what makes stuff yummy so successful somebody who learns to feel me is part of a club let's be clear you know whether it's the group that you're sitting around the table with whether it's the people that you know are doing next door that you walk by like with a knowing smile rolling your eyes after a day of medieval medicine in the daf or like excited by wow you know what we learned today come to barcamsa and it's the three weeks it's a club it's an international worldwide Club of people who do something diligently day after day after day and sometimes it's the material that uplifts and sometimes it's the engagement itself that uplifts and arguably the staying power day after day through crisis and the middle of sahim is the connection is being part of something and being part of something is something that can never be underestimated and when Sarah schneer set about to create this movement she learned along the way and together with her assistance learned along the way that it's not just about behaviors Mitzvahs and it's not just about beliefs it's also about belonging belonging belonging to something feeling truly truly connected I mean part of something East met West this piece the piece of belonging the Peace of Hebrew the Peace of singing and dancing the piece of passionate dressed that became part of the culture of Base Yakov all these pieces that I hope I will be able to tell you a little bit more about this was not imported this was homegrown in Poland this was homegrown this was what Sarah schneer brought to the table and yeah okay if the club is talking about Mitzvahs and so on and so forth maybe it still won't capture the imagination and there'll be a little bit of eye rolling from those who want to hear more challenging and uplifting different ideas need something that outsmarts and out literaries other stuff that they've tasted but they all they all went for and met this personality I say all by and large as Judith Rosenbaum describes even the ones who are hesitant on the side they came bounding down the stairs when Sarah schneer came back to town everyone wanted to see her everyone wanted to be around her that was the mood that she created she had her own little version here a little bit of hasidus of the Yeshiva World of Polish passion of Polish Jewish Jewish passion it wasn't just her Dr deutschlander and here again I quote with his great knowledge in a number of different fields the Judith Rosenbaum the educated woman and all the other successful Educators all stressed it was not the quantity of knowledge that shaped the base Yakov teacher rather it was her heart her character her soul her righteousness and her innerness her virtues that were decisive almost all the teachers to be in Krakow saw their future work not as a way to earn a living but as holy work passion East and West met several times this was one of them another one was when the German Army controlled parts of Poland Eastern Europe Lithuania in that first war they actually brought Jewish leaders from Germany to establish schools and school systems for a much less organized Jewish communities people came they established schools in Lithuania in Poland yavneh khoreev schools which were school systems made for Jews as you can tell by the name they had a lot more secular studies and they did not quite succeed as we see and I learned about this a lot from from Robinson support Weinberg who who's who writes on this who's from from North Woodmere who shared with me some of her writing some not yet published and others and from the writings of others these were the the schools were effective there was a need to have a school we're not going to send them to a to General School we're going to have a Jewish school in instead and the Jewish school will provide less damaging content more positive Jewish content but by and large many of the schools did not instill the passion the passion that was the calling card of Base Yakov in fact a movement of Base Yakov started in Lithuania and it's not clear how Affiliated formally it was with the base Yakov schools but it was really like a youth movement SARS near they had developed beyond the schools and the seminaries they developed youth movements for young children for older children for women there they created a youth movement that was there to supplement for the students that they would have passion and it was called base Yakov and it drew on that Eastern European flavor reviews was a great German of hashemi comedomo he was killed in the Holocaust famous kalbach family one of the one of the great rabbinic families of of Germany was was a chair chairman of karenatora of that agura fund again it was highly structured by Western Europe to help Eastern Europe and in 1933 10 years after karenatora was established he led what was known as the Karen atora study tour I've read to you in the past perhaps little Snippets from this but what happened was that they they made a tour of many people I don't remember exactly the exact amount but a couple of dozen people I believe who traveled for the summer to Eastern Europe and they went from place to place community community in Eastern Europe to see the places the centers of Judaism in Eastern Europe these were a group of westerners coming to Eastern Europe and they fell in love they saw something there that they hadn't seen that they didn't have in their land which had exported the vision and the administrative Savvy that would build a good at Israel that had exported the thinking of rev shamsham followers but powered so many of the movements but there was something in Eastern Europe that they saw and they hadn't experienced before so let me read to you a little bit from from this account the whole undertaking was a stroke of Genius and like everything precious and genuine it achieved beyond all initial aims only to grow into that sort of historic event which is destined to have its Echo reverberate fruitfully for years to come it was a total novelty in Jewish communal life listen to this that brother's journey to seek out brothers and to see them thus the journey assumed a symbolic character it became a harbinger of keyboard scullius of the great reunion and recognition of those who belong together people who live Judaism so differently from each other coming to learn from each other the ecstatic Jubilation which greeted the guests can only be characterized as the release realization of a thousand-year-old yearning a deeply felt wish which had slumbered dreamlike in Jewish hearts in the East that someday their Brethren from the Western countries would come in multitudes to ReDiscover the pure and undefiled beauty and unpretentious greatness of Jewish life the sleep and trance centuries of Jewish history awoke for one and all into a rousing present as the eyes of the visitors glanced in eye and humility upon the burial sites of the heroes of the spirit and contemplated with admiration and astonishment their synagogues and accomplishments and behold those who came to see and recognize were themselves seen and recognized who came only to listen were listened to and understood their words responded to the discoverers became the discovery in the end one could no longer distinguish if the westerners came to acquaint themselves with the east or the easterners with the delegates from the West it was indeed an exalted dialogue between East and West separated for a long time alienated by geography and Prejudice genuine recognizance however means to recognize oneself in the opposite party that was the Crux Jewish life to the fullest extent was the very element which we were lacking and yearning to embrace embrace such Oblivion of surroundings when engrossed in Torah learning such Ardent devotion and prayer that was what we had always harbored as a sacred longing those masters of Torah and piety the rabbanim for whose presence we are aching and stand at the lookout observers turned into participants lovingly embracing the emotion of a Meeting of Minds and sensibilities curiosity became introspection longing became Bliss our hearts had been touched by the magic Rod of transformation as if we were all Yeshiva bakrim or Gera hasidim or youngsters in the leblen OR pressburg Circle that's how everyone without exception dissolved into the newly found reality the crowded itinerary did not allow for rest or relaxation or contemplation yet from the very moment of arrival we were already grown together at home so much so that the departure seemed abrupt and unfeeling to us as well as to our hosts how could you leave us so quickly they did not realize that we were not parting only journeying on to those who had found each other it was if their souls were bonded an eternal possession young and old these are rafkalbas observations of the Jewish life in Eastern Europe young and old rich and poor everyone is learning learning constantly totally immersed living and breathing the Torah be it the written or oral one obviously he was they were visiting the the vibrant centers just as their Yiddish language is interwoven and intermingled With Idioms and phrases from the talmud so is their very life pulsating and throbbing with the echo of sacred writ everyone is learning and drinking from the sources not from distilled and bottled experts and Essences which we spoon our youth but from The Fountainhead of Jewish wisdom which is always fresh and wide open rich in spiritual nutrients for us Hebrew is a foreign tongue as is German to a Frenchman laboriously acquired fragments diligently patched together to them in contrast it's the mother tongue every simpleton's talk as natural to Children's BaByliss to mature people's talk to them the Torah is not a lesson in religion but the very wisdom of Life the Living spirit which penetrates every fiber of existence and defines the structure of the soul in which one thinks and forms Concepts which fills hearts and Minds is guidance support for the whole spectrum of Life Giving creative inspiration and anchoring the soul for them tore is the yardstick of an individual's worth enabling those who hold it high and shaming those who scorn it it breaks down society's ranking and shatters the social order oh Blissful word world of the Yeshiva your spicy invigorating air makes my chest swell my pulse beat faster your Fortress of total with open doors and wide open Windows your great source of comfort to Israel who feels in your Arena the world's Agony the mendicancy of our of One's Own Earthly existence who asks about cradle or Parental Home about agent status or name and origin all differences among people disappear like useless scales as if the souls enter here naked and are united by your magic oblivious of external divisions Paradise of joy only one thing spells success study only one thing matters the truth only one common goal prevails understanding all that is good and Noble in man is called upon neither Envy nor covetousness be Cloud the atmosphere only those who study merge into harmonious resounding choir the song of the waves of the roiling Seas of the Jewish spirit in this chorus no one voice stands out yet one here is the all-conquering all humbling voice of my sharabenu of rambam and Rashi it still resounds in my ears that roaring stormy sing-sang like Breakers of sound waves upon the rock of Torah being gripped by longing for that station of Life affirming world of Oblivion of world Oblivion I could go on with the beautiful descriptions that he offers of of Life there that passion was what wasn't present generally in women's spaces and what the Seminary what basiako generally tried to create that was the Eastern European flavor that wasid whose article in the safer zikoro and in the book of remembrance for Sarah schneer is is decades ahead of its time including every you know addressing every issue of what it means to be involved in a women's Revolution that's faithful to Torah and understanding roles of one another and he writes about the difference the difference between their way between he was again who worked with who replaced Sarah schneer worked with deutschlander from Germany and he said that whatever Hirsch did was he came to a body that was almost lifeless in terms of its Judaism and he inserted into it Judaism magnificently successfully he brought it in and it came in into an atmosphere where there were many things that were different many things that made Hersh himself reverse himself uncomfortable but he came to put in that life and that overlay of Jewish thought of Torah he says here in Poland we're in the opposite we're starting from the opposite we have pulsating Jewish life and it's slipping away from us and we have to maintain it and so it's it's a different path it's a different piece we're going to push for things that don't belong there when you're trying to introduce but they're very much part of the fiber of here when it's there in a sense you feel this in the difference between the basico of educational model and what was generally not exclusively the yavana educational model which was a Jewish atmosphere to create that pulsating Jewish life and in the other it was we have to go to a school to learn things and we're going to make sure that there's Jewish content that there's Jewish content that there's Jewish meaning that will keep people connected they were both necessary for their environment but when those who experienced an environment which was had a lot of General nature with infusions of Judaism and then they came to a place which was completely immersive in Judaism and Jewish life where the rash where the noise the sound of the basement resounded and swallowed everybody up they were captured they were captured by it they were captured by it East was captured by West and in a certain sense that was the story as well which we learned here years ago about rafham and Schwab where he went I'm sorry where Wes was captured by the East excuse me by where he went East to Mir and was transformed and it's the story which has played itself out in many of the hersheyan of the hersheyan community there's something to be said there's something to be said for passion and what's especially important to be said for passion and to be said for the Jewish feeling is to understand that in Yeshiva you can say well does that work is that necessarily Siri the case in the intellectual space but in a situation of creating and educating Jewish women it would certainly be and here I want to read you a passage from the Rev from of Joshua bersalovachik a famous a two two well-known passages where he writes specifically about the difference in approaching Torah and Jewish life between men and women there's a distinction between mothers and fathers Mission within the covenantal community since they represent two different personalistic approaches father's teaching is basically of an intellectual nature Judaism is to a great extent an intellectual discipline a method a system of thought a hierarchy of values however Judaism is not only an intellectual tradition but an experiential one as well the Jew not only observe but experience the Shabbos the Jew experienced Russia he did not only recite prayers on those days the Seder was a great experiential event there's Beauty Grandeur warmth tenderness to Judaism all these qualities cannot be described in cognitive terms one may behold them feel them sense them it's impossible to provide one with a formal training in the experiential realm experiences are communicated not through the word but through steady contact through Association through osmosis through a tear a smile through dreamy eyes and soft Melody through the silence at Twilight and the recital of Shema all this is to be found in the maternal domain the mother creates the mood she's the artist who's responsible for the magnificence solemnity and Beauty she somehow communicates to him the heartbeat of Judaism while playing singing laughing crying in his famous husband which he said for the tolener rabbitsen his mikhatanista he said we have two masoros two Traditions every person he said before this you should view themselves as one hand holding on to their parents one hand holding on to their children in a chain of transmission the Missouri community of the fathers and the Missouri community of the mothers Israel the women the men listen to the Musa of your father and do not forsake Torah the Torah of your mother one learns much from father how to read a text the Bible or the talmud how to comprehend how to analyze how to conceptualize how to classify how to infer how to apply one also learns from father what to do and what not to do what is morally right and what is morally wrong father teaches the son the discipline of thought as well as the discipline of action father's tradition is an intellectual moral one that is why it is identified with musar which is the biblical term for discipline what kind of Torah does the mother pass on permit me to draw upon my own experiences I used to have long conversations with my mother in fact it was a monologue rather than a dialogue she talked I happened to overhear she taught me in the Under The Yuma the matters of the day I used to watch her arranging the house in honor of a holiday I used to see her recite prayers I used to watch her recite the sitter every Friday night and I still remember the nostalgic tune I learned from her very much most of all I learned that Judaism expresses itself not only in formal compliance with the law but also in a living experience she taught me there's a flavor a scent and a warmth to Mitzvahs I learned from who the her the most important thing in life to feel the presence of the almighty and the gentle pressure of his hand resting upon my frail shoulders the fathers knew much about the Shabbos the mothers lived the Shabbos experienced her presence and perceived her beauty and splendor the father's Touch generations how to observe the Shabbos mothers taught Generations how to greet the Shabbos and how to enjoy her 24-hour presence Sarah schneer would come into the base Yakov on Friday evening dressed for Shabbos and they sat together in a tables arranged like a Hess and they said shirashiram to welcome the Shabbos together they said shirashiram to welcome the Shabbos they danced a lot they danced with Tire libeloved purify my heart the first verse she had certain sukim which were her mantras Hashem to serve Hashem with with joy rajkin in that talk he says exactly the same thing exactly the same point remember the Kasha remember the question he had so why did they plant why did they set up the tent of Surah first right we don't educate our women first why don't we set up the tent of Sorrow first and he said that when you're planting the seeds of connection to Jewish life whether it was in the time of avram where Faith didn't exist whether was in the time of mosharabena where the Jewish people were receiving the Torah first you need to create that warmth that experience that passion that love of God and of Torah that's the framework that's the bias that's the home and so it had to start with the women and then that framework continues and continues itself it's supposed to continue itself heaven forbid until such time heaven forbid that the Jewish Home that home of Faith collapsed and then you had to start again women first information learning specifics intellectual yeah and that the men come before the women and for Generations perhaps they were the only ones who had to be formally taught but if you want Judaism to live Judaism has to sing it has to love it has to care schneer loved and cared for people you don't create a club is a men's club so it's created by Keurig coffee machines and uh whatever a bunch of guys sitting around and learning Gamora the real Bond the real bonds are created also by Crescent by Love by care which is there too when you're diving with people when you learn with people you have that I would like to make a note that's very important as we think about life in the future in that for us on this side of the Vegeta for men we have loads of these clubs loads of these social connections and opportunities you go to shul three times a day you go to shiorim comes it says khaburos shiorim women have those opportunities but in a tiny proportion to men and it doesn't make sense for it to be the same and to be even there are different Realms and different things and different responsibilities and different expertise but this piece to have more of this piece of women feeling together to be part of something I'll share with you a modern day miracle it's an OU Miracle right I guess if I mentioned I'm good at 10 times I could mention the OU ones right this is an OU miracle dafyami made us on January 1st 2020. like every cm hashas which is put on by the Agora it was so uplifting so inspiring now I started learning we made a commitment in the car back from asiam hashas Force Hashem it just it's so uplifting so amazing and you know a man you learn Gomorrah used to learning gemara you walk away from see my shots you say I'm joining and okay if it lasts for seven and a half years or if it lasts for seven and a half weeks till Kate said or whatever it is you know but you you know it's it and if it's not okay so we'll take this new program that they're doing I Rise so they're doing two and a half blood we'll find something there to be a part of a lot of women of Cloudy Soul were inspired by the Sea of mashas and I have no interest in learning the fiamey but they saw what it meant to do something day after day to come in touch with the Torah and we knew it was coming before my time I take no credit for this right they knew it was coming and then God sent the message because actually we have someone who started a calendar years ago of learning a peric of Navi the Via every day and they were making a seal on like January 5th 2020. and so Robinson Dr schmidman of our women's initiative said this is a golden opportunity and nachiomi was taken to the masses and takes two years after two years we had just in our own 10th 1500 women who had completed the Via Mexico day for years and then when the excitement was there around that I think now we're four or five thousand and close to the Finish Line already in the middle of towards the end of micheli towards the end of micheli you know they feel those who participate in it feel a part of something it's like a little bit of a Duffy I mean they don't sit around they don't have coffee some of them get together for us see them they get together once a week they get together once a month those are invaluable invaluable things because they connect people to people and they stimulate and if I can I'm sorry I'm always running out of time but I just want to either there's a peace which has to be said and it's a piece it's the piece of Crescent there's a a beautiful the current Beautiful Eulogy of of sarishnir which is said in that safer the Quran by Rabbi Benjamin zusman and he just tells personal stories about SARS near fascinating stories and uh and uh many of the stories are stories of of uh here's an example it was it was it was 1930 two weeks before pesach eight o'clock at night I was sitting and I was writing something for a journal a journal for young women which was published by them it was called Kindergarten it was published in Lodge it was it was a religious publication so suddenly I hear the sound the voice of Mrs schneer she's coming from the kitchen I wanted to come and open the door but she came through first and she came with a little girl she looks at what I'm doing she says Ah you're writing for the journal so good big Mitzvah and then she says I want to speak to you just about a young man who's a Tamil that um a couple of years ago he had a very fine financial situation but now now it's completely shattered and he doesn't have anything anything for pesach so Robin I want to ask you a favor she says I want you to take this money that I'm giving you and as she's speaking to him she takes out of her purse 50 golden coins whatever they were small golden coins obviously she puts them on the table she says tomorrow in shul while that young man is Davina esri I want you to put the money in the pocket of his coat when he doesn't notice you'll know you'll notice where it's hanging you'll put it in his coat now I know that doing this will make it that you're not going to have the best davening tomorrow morning but it doesn't matter this is more important she said good night Robin Yamin she got up and she left the next day she he did what Sarah schneer said and this was Derek this was her normal thing he wasn't a basico student she was a creature Rabbi Dr Leo young wrote a volume of his own biographical reminisces and and it's he says the story The Glory of Beth Jacob and he tells one story from one of his visits there in Poland okay I'm just going to skip to the story during the evening one of the teachers spoke up so he says I don't know how tired the girls are on my questioning but the series of formal examinations have left me exhausted let's meet tomorrow night for dinner with the teachers I hope they will talk to me informally about how girls live their background and foreground on their personal problems during that evening one of the teachers spoke up she was a quiet gentle soul great in enthusiasm and inconsistent self-sacrificing in the cause of bet Jacob may I say by way a further introduction that by 1927 the Jews of Poland were in the throes of a frightful economic catastrophe brought about at least in part by the cruel discrimination against them practiced by some of the government leaders as a result the average polish home of the Jewish poor had tea and bread for breakfast potatoes and bread and perhaps an occasional piece of fish for lunch and bread and jam for supper the house in which the girls lived bore all the outward marks and possessed all the inner defects of hereditary poperism many of the girls needed ultraviolet race to prevent them from becoming TBS malnutrition damp living quarters lack of warm clothing and often unheated Apartments added to their physical problems this is the verbatim story of the teacher our school is organized on the principle of a big sister relation between teacher and pupil in addition to the curriculum of any teachers training College last word in education and psychology it's our goal to gain and retain their confidence the girls should learn to entrust us with their problems to approach us freely with questions to react without formality to any startling things that we teach them it happened last year in the course of an afternoon that I noticed some girls paying insufficient attention in class looking preoccupied and throwing paper messages to each other 1927. I thought they were playing adolescent pranks and decided to ignore it by tomorrow morning I thought they would have forgotten it and so should I but in the morning these messages continued and during recess happening to look in the schoolyard I saw the same girls engaging in serious conversation I considered my duty to pay closer attention to the matter yet hoping that they would volunteer information or ask for my advice during the afternoon session another teacher reported the same situation with regard to these girls in her class without telling the principal about it I decided to commence my own investigation and when I noticed them leaving together I followed our school was in the best part of the city as I hurried down I saw the girls walking rapidly in the opposite direction they were so engrossed in conversation they didn't look back they went from one part of the city into the shabbier section passed through it and finally entered a street of evil repute my heart was beating fast but I decided I must see matters through finally they disappeared into a miserable house I stood before the gate my lifts moving in worldless wordless prayer full of grave apprehension while curiously upheld by the feeling that these girls of mine could not possibly do wrong after half an hour of acute mental Agony I heard them clattering down the stairs I decided to render the encounter as dramatic as possible they saw me and they were startled but I was profoundly relieved for in their bright faces and innocent eyes I saw nothing wrong could have happened to them however I said deliberately girls I'm going to resign my position at the school I recognize I am a total failure I was meant to be your friend and counselor and I have failed I love these pupils of mine my heart constricted as I saw the consternation in their faces they pressed around me their voices break and said no teacher we love you more than we can say we wanted to keep it secret but now we shall tell you our business last week we heard that a woman whose husband had deserted her a few weeks ago had given birth to a baby and that she lived practically unattended with her children unprovided in that poor huffle of hers so we appointed ourselves a committee of six to investigate our situation we came up and we found the mother frail and sick in bed the children hungry her two rooms unswept unaired real chaos so we decided to adopt her family since then our minds was filled with her problems one of us went every day to attend to the mother the other sweeping the room and washing the diapers of the baby the third taking care of the other two children and the other three of us not finding anything else to do each contribute one meal a day to them when the teacher finished her artless story somehow or other words failed us the story was a wonderful exhibition of the spirit of dynamic Mercy which the Beth Jacob Teachers College has managed to infuse into the personalities of its students that's the mother's Torah that's Taurasi Mecca that's critical part of the story that's a critical part of the of the of the mission that's the essence of the success isn't it interesting how the circle comes around a movement was created because men were disappearing to make a parnosa leaving their wives and their families hungry and unswept and a school is created and a movement is created and these girls go and take care of those women um I want perhaps if we could as we before we say the next kinner which is on page 278 I want to sing sing together a song which is a woman's song which men sing the zakaini legado it's a thriller which every man now knows but I know that that one of my sons when that son came out was sitting at a table with one of the great Russia Yeshiva of our time and they started singing the song and the rashiva said where did that song come from where do those words come from nice words and the boy said it's the tequila which women say when they light candles Russia Yeshiva don't know the fewest of women say when they like Kansas it's its Fila which has been said by women in a moment of Spirit of prayer when women like Shabbos candles and Davin it's uh tefila that we can't imagine its impact and it's East it's not West it's East it's this part of the magic of basiakov that that recites it so we'll take a minute and sing together that tune that praise Bezos Hashem for children for children that follow in our way [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign I love but I love massive movies [Music] foreign [Music] wow we we will do now the 26th kinner on page 278 Sakina which which Rabbi Rose referenced last night Aquino which tells of a Ghazal of a medrish where yum Yahoo at the time of the qurban went to the others and he asked them awoke them to awaken and pray on behalf of Khal Israel prayers of parents for their children and in the end of course it's a in that is this that brings us out that tells us that Hashem tells us that that will be able to come back page 278 in the art scroll and Page 469 in the Quran voice [Music] from foreign [Music] foreign name him okay um just an orientation with the time um the the next keynote that we're going to say is uh is going to be are they halvonne about the 10 hero game alphus followed by them shortly after that we're going to do the kinna of the bhavareba for the Holocaust um and so this now we're going to add the last piece and then after we do those two we'll just there'll just be a little a few minute summary the last piece so what have we what have we seen so far we we started with a problem and that there was a woman a person who felt the problem and was moved to act upon the problem to address the problem and her method of addressing the problem was the education for for women for girls and that education for girls took that solution had two pieces one was the uplifting Torah the kind of Torah that she had heard from Rabbi Moshe flesh in Vienna the Torah of shamshan fall here the Torah which helped them see that any good value comes only from has only its origins in tolerance and then the other piece the piece which was the warmth the connection the passion the Judaism of the East that filled Jewish life there wasn't thoughts but was just the passion the lifeblood of their of their existence there's a last piece and this piece is critical to understanding the Revolution and the power of the revolution and first I would just tell it to you by just giving you some numbers astounding numbers between 1919 and 1923 1919 when basiakov schools were first more than just one schoolhouse of 40 girls or whatever it was that that SARS near had when it was adopted by the local organization of aguda and Krakow and they started so open new schools eight schools opened for a total of 1130 students by 1924 when they were adopted by Karen hattora there were 22 schools with a total there were 22 new schools for a total of 30 schools with four and a half thousand by 1925 there were 49 schools 6 500 students by 1926 they were 55 a modest year of growth and there were 7 300 students the next year they added 32 schools and they were now 87 schools with almost 11 000 students the next year 27 schools were added for 14 500 students in 1929 33 schools were added and they were up to 16 000 schools between 1929 and 1933 more than a hundred additional schools were added and there were over 37 000 students in base Yakov schools that's rapid growth talk about a teacher shortage so how did they deal with the teacher shortage how did basiakov deal then with the teacher shortage so first of all you have to understand we all understand that to do something like that means that you created a movement you don't grow like that with just like like a good solid business plan right if you're apple or your Starbucks so then you grow like that because it's not just like a business it's an idea you know it's like a it's a whole thing so it grows dramatically this was a movement one of the has paid them which was said by one of them which was written by one of his tire he said that the time that time the 1910s the 1920s was a time when Eastern Europe was filled with Legends and movements and ideas right the what everybody likes to call the isms and so the only way to combat it sir schneer knew was to also create a legend and also create a movement did she go about setting it this way but that's what happened SARS near became Larger than Life the more she didn't go up on the stage the more she was the dressmaker from Krakow who was single-minded dedicated to Bringing Torah and Jewish connection to Jewish young women inspired Sarah schneer was sad on the day that they finished or they dedicated they actually never fully finished the building the multi-story building for the base Yakov Seminary of Krakow she was sad because it was a nice building and it had a kitchen and a commissary it wasn't like an apartment where people studied at the same table that they ate and she said you know people might now come here for professional School that they want to become teachers as a parnasa as a profession she wanted it just to be passion so I still didn't answer the question so they were people who became passionate they became part of a movement there was a myth there was a legend of real life Legend called sarashnir and they got excited about it and they joined so how did they solve the problem of of um of Staffing the schools very simple how old was a teacher how old was a principal I'm going to read you a little bit okay hear it and join me in feeling very very small it was gittle's turn gittle was 15 years of age he had a pair of bright black eyes that were set like jewels in her firm round and childish face I'm reading from Judith Rosenbaum grunfeld she had a melodious voice and a clear way of pronouncing her words every sentence she spoke had a ring that carried it about the room her movements were graceful and assured all this when she was only 15 years of age but she had learned the use of hairpins with hairpins you can put your plates up in a grown-up fashion and if you also wear a longer skirt than usual you can look older than yourself Kittle is sitting in the tray next to Frau schneerer traveling to a town some hours away from home on her lap from sheets of paper she is memorizing a speech that she wrote or rather that they both worked out together it's all about the Jewish woman her part in our great history her Mission and our own days her duties as the mother of the coming generations and when they alight in the town of their generation destination big posters on the walls of the Jewish quarters invite all women of the Town into the large town hall to a mass meeting to hear the two speakers the hall is filled to capacity this is an event in a cleaner stethle they all come those that are interested and those that are only curious to see all those that welcome a break in the everyday monotony and all those that hope to be able to sneer at the old-fashioned talk of two unknown woman speakers the child on the platform hears her heart beat as loud as a drum she sees hundreds of faces staring up at her and she hears herself delivering the speech she had memorized in the morning and she faintly realizes that the multitude and the situation she has to master make her speak in a voice that is not her own with the confidence and a fire that seems to have suddenly come to her from the unknown her eyes roam over the crowd she seems to master them all and when Fresh near after she has finished asked the audience whether they are willing to start a school with this girl as a teacher there's an enthusiastic response months they enroll their children and contribute to the setting up of the school gittel remains behind to be the one and only teacher while frauschner takes the next train to make her second and third trips to establish further schools and gittle and surelya and Esther they all teach each in her own School each from the same source and guidebook each in the same style and Manner and after some months they have come to the guidebooks last page their knowledge has been exhausted there's nothing left they have no books to draw from and then they come to the summer and they go and they get a refresher not the exception I'll read to you from a book the title of the book is ghouta maybe some of you have read the book it's written by Guta Sternberg she was also a student in base Yakov of Krakow he looked at us she's describing the talk from rabbi orlian the head of the basic Seminary after he left and I'm sorry I copied one page and I didn't copy the other page so you'll forgive me I thought I had her train right and her story of coming to the city also she has the same story okay the Revenge of says he wants you to finish earlier he looked at us with warm eyes he said in a firm yet friendly voice you come to base Yak of his children and you will live God willing as teachers you will learn the three thousand years of history behind us and that we must draw our knowledge and our perspective on life from our own Heritage then you will plant your dedication in the young Jewish Souls of your students you will tell them our people's entire history and our suffering you will have to answer a great many difficult questions you are responsible for the coming generations and he concluded holy children I envy you that's a movement that's what gets 15 year olds they couldn't go to teach in the cities in which they lived they have to go to cities which they didn't live in radical different not normal at one point in in my reading I think it was Naomi seidman questioned appropriately it's an appropriate question whether the greater contribution of the basiakov movement in Europe was the 35 000 students or whether it was the hundreds and hundreds of teachers those hundreds and hundreds of teachers were transformed were a new Jewish woman passionate about her yados about her Judaism passionate enough to go and be the teacher the only teacher the only Hebrew teacher in a school creating a school in a town at 15 years old it wasn't the exception you understand it was the drill that was the way they did business how does that make us feel and I re I'll read to you really there's much more but I think this will be the last reading I will read to you try to read to you from Judith rosenbaum's Judith rosenbaum's article about Dr Leo deutschlander it's not about him at this point it's about his work it's about his legacy but it's not about him it's about the students of the basico seminaries it's about those hundreds of teachers the teachers of those teachers virtually all of them went up in smoke virtually all of them you look at in in this book they have sir schneer's family tree all her siblings eventually except there are a couple couple have there are a couple of great nieces and nephews who live in America a couple who live in Israel all others dead end in Plaza which was which was a death camp near Krakow then in 1939 the world went berserk a dark blood cell curtain covered the scene devilish forces rat havoc when the darkness was lifted and the curtain Rose over the ruins as we looked around to see what was left after the great conflagration there emerged among the shadowy figures staggering back to reality one that the worn and wary had withstood the powers of Destruction and was covered with Badges of heroic survival base Yakov emerged intact in camps in woods in underground dugouts in graveyards and ghettos the spark that the Beth Jacob education had kindled bestowed power of endurance and illuminated the dark path never will a human heart know nor will any writer's pen ever be able to describe how the spirit of basiakov gave strength to thousands in the agony of their last hours you have only one little Glimpse afforded To Us by the farewell letter written to the World by the 93 Beth Jacob girls who gave their lives for killer shashem their letter shook the world the story of these girls belongs to the great records of Jewish women's heroism and martyred him in our age-old history what he's referring to is a letter which was sent to America from a woman in Europe who told the story of how 93 base Yakov girls were being told that they were going to be taken to some kind of a special Barracks to be used by German soldiers and that they had decided together all of them that they were going to take a poison pill to be Miser nephesh rather than to have this this letter was sent it was sent it came to the hands of Rabbi Dr Leo young it was published in the New York Times there was there's a kinna that we used to say some years Ali Ali which used to refer to tag hattahoros the 93 pure ones that refers to these there's all kinds of discussions amongst academics did it happen didn't it happen is it a modern day sort of like legend that was created because it's like the story that the gumara says in githan about the origin tells exactly such a story in the time of the destruction of the base amigdash and and um so okay so there are academic debates I have no clue I don't know I've read all the art not all the articles I read some of the Articles the different sides I don't know if it happened but it could have happened because it was a story which expressed the ideals it is a story which expressed the ideals that created this heroism which was heroism before the Holocaust a 15 year old getting on a train to inspire Jewish kids is heroism it's masiras nephesh it's giving one's life it's all that for purity yet these who survived that Sheikh have lived on through the camps of bergen-belsen and Auschwitz although losing thousands under the boot of the oppressor yet those who survived though fewer numbers seem to have become heirs to all the moral strength of those that were slain few though they were They Carried the seed of their Devotion to the four corners of the Earth in Borough Park we have the grand bet Jacobs Seminary under the headship of rabbanique Kaplan who has vikna Eisen from varanovic was one of the pupils of the Krakow seminary in 1930 all her assistance had been pupils at the Krakow Seminary together they found the Supreme purpose of their survival in building up the bed Jacobs seminary in New York on the pattern of Krakow it has been ever since a pillar of strength in American jewelry they're about Jacob teacher training colleges in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and benebrook there too a number of crack out trained teachers have helped to Bear across the desert of time the old undiluted Spirit today there are flourishing that Jacob centers in schools all over the world their education carries the Hallmark of Stan's traditional loyalty and the pupils they turn out distinguish themselves by their uncompromising integrity in England too that Jacob has flowered into full bloom and its influence has shaped the new generation in those days before the second world war when Jewish life was pulsating with full Vigor in the towns and Villages of Poland when Beth Jacob girls would sit eyes wide open in front of their Krakow trained young teachers how could anyone have guessed that here's strength was being engendered which was to withstand the beastly powers that would so soon bring jury to the verge of Destruction who could have known then that in the Beth Jacobs schools the very ground was being prepared for which jury's mutilated body would be infused with New Life The Miraculous reconstruction of jury after the Holocaust made to a very large extent be traced back to the power of the Beth Jacob's spirit that had survived with the surviving Beth Jacob Womanhood in 1945 Continental jury consisted of remnants of families only most of the children rescued were orphans surviving parents found themselves bereft of children they were all Udi mud Salome Brands plucked from the fire and yet within 40 years our people have rallied again to new Vigor although wagon loads of our holy books and Scrolls were burnt and the smoke of the fire darkened the sky the sacred letters have as it were returned to Earth to the hearts and minds of thousands of Jewish youth who dedicate their lives to the study of those sacred letters there are today countless yes all over the globe she wrote this in the 80s places of Joyful devoted Torah and talmud learning little children react again to the age-old tunes of learning and young healthy men unaffected by the materialistic pull of an affluent and easy going Society clamor to be admitted to the accommodate means of Torah however Frugal their material condition once they are admitted to the issue vote they take to studying days and night day and night with a single-mindedness of true disciples jury which forty years ago presented a picture of utter desolation has risen again infused with new blood and animated Again by the life's purpose which sustained generations of our ancestors there is the same glow and Devotion to Torah in yeshivas that bear the names of one's glorious places tells mere gearske uponovich brisk public Vision it's work to Bean they have merely changed their addresses they've not changed their program or Spirit there's the same vibrating Torah life with its same old traditional naguni when the bakram bent over their Tom swayed to the rhythm of learning or at festive occasions their Joy erupts into the dancing traditional to yeshivas it is as all as if no hell had ever blotted out the Sun as if no perverted Fashions of a corrupt Society had ever swept the schools and colleges of the modern world the generation that in cold severaging was savagery was done to death had been recreated true to its classic image with nothing missing the grandchildren of those who sang an Imam as their last affirmation of the death camps chant again the song of their four better bears in the same tune with the same intense conviction fired by the same never fading hope for the ultimate Triumph of justice and Redemption on Earth oh some years before the garib had plenty remonstrated plaintively remonstrated that Wilson had plenty of talmudim there were no girls to be there were these Partners brought up to be coach Builders of true Jewish homes but now they were in evidence Beth Jacob within the Spanish 15 years had formed them these young women were prepared to play their part ever conscious of their Destiny to be the Rebuilders of the devastated decimated Jewish people they knew there was no time to be lost Leo deutschlander and Sarah sneer during their shorts pilgrimage on Earth they died within months of each other had done their work efficiently their disciples understood what was demanded of them the survivors after the Shipwreck at this crucial hour of Jewish history they did not look for an easy life for material guarantees or for Comfort they build Jewish homes Rising above poor sparse economic conditions they encouraged their young husbands to carry on with learning they reared increasing families and at the same time worked for a livelihood teaching at the newly sprung up at Jacobs schools an utterly new type of Torah true Womanhood had emerged from the educational channels of Base Yakov it became the dream of a young girl to marry a young man who would continue the study of Torah thus as time and enthusiasm for learning implanted into Jewish womenhood by Jacob education was passed On to the Next Generation as never before boys not only because their fathers wished them to go but also because they're mothers no no greater happiness and pride than to have their sons in the Yeshiva they regard this as the ultimate reward for all their labor of love however busy they may be they accept the extra errand proudly they line the bus routes to welcome the boys home from this man and see them off when they go back after the holiday richly Laden with the best their mother's kitchens and Care can produce they only want their sons to study the Torah this is their ambition their pride their Triumph and may even be their secret anxiety I can't read anymore I think you have the idea and I think you understand we understand that we might feel kind of silly we fill our pages with discussions about the teacher shortage about the crisis of who's going to work for the community you don't need to now you could make money selling on Amazon or working for somebody who's selling on Amazon and you could stay in a comfortable place where there are lots of Jews where are we going to get the people to be the teachers and the smaller towns to be the teachers of the younger kids to be the teachers when the pay is never going to be equal to an internet-based business how are we going to do it maybe it needs a movement maybe it needs Sarah schneer maybe it needs us to understand that like the future of Kali Israel is not the next it's not the next you know viral video it's the home it's the passion it's real human beings being educated by real human beings who care about nothing more it's Heroes and Hashem our heroism today doesn't require them to be haruge malchus to be killed by the government by the Romans it doesn't require singing an Imam in in a gas chamber it requires singing an Imam in a classroom with kids I was once at a couple years ago I was at a convention which was dedicated to this subject and a woman came over to me fine woman I hadn't met her before she said I just want to introduce myself she told me who she was she told me her name she had just moved like a year before New York City to a smaller town in New York City she told me she was a higher executive and one of the major investment firms in the city she had I don't know how many people working under her and she was making boatloads of money she moved to this new city she was starting sort of like a new life and and she saw on some WhatsApp chats that a teacher's aid was needed for a preschool she said I'll do it she said to me I have never been more fulfilled in my life tomorrow people who who have the privilege to dedicate their lives to making people's lives Jewish and different know that they have nothing to be jealous of anybody else and others could be jealous of them these people they're the heroes and how do we create today how do we create those Heroes so as we will say like we do every year for that it's on page 248 in the art school and 415 in the Quran and we're going to read about those Heroes who gave their lives we can reflect ourselves we can cry ourselves afterwards we'll sing on Imam and then we'll say the Holocaust kinna and then we will conclude before elizion page 248 is foreign [Music] foreign foreign foreign foreign on page 627. foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] him self [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] moving forward at this last point of Keynes we talk about moving forward we get up from the ground we say Elite instead of just reciting it and we figure out how we move forward we today we mourned over herban we didn't mention your Salam enough we didn't mention enough but we must please understand that all of the these these pieces the pieces of claw Israel doing the right thing and that which will rebuild the golus into gaula is clearly clearly the the addressing of what was wrong shedding tears we started today talking about the tears foreign spoke about how rebellious came became what he became because he kept crying until he had what needed to be had how the same was true of Yeshua the same was true of ravner Weinberg the same was true of Sarah sneer something which had to happen which is still an enigma why did it take so long Why didn't it come from on top but it was hers that was waiting to be born because she cried because she cared and we have to look around at our problems and cry and care we've seen from here idealism the idealism of teachers the last thing that we discussed the difference that it can make men and women both need a yiddishkite a Judaism that animates Our Lives that's not a box that we check an obligation that we take care of but something that excites us something that animates us with the big Ideas like the ideas shared by Hirsch and something that animates Us by the the warmth The Passion of avas Hashem of love of God of IRAs Israel we need to be part of something we need to be part of a movement we need to be part of a celebration of yomtov of a celebration of learning of that or the morning Minion or the sheer or the Smith or whatever it is we need to be part of something our yiddishkait our Judaism our learning our celebration of yantev needs to be our community it doesn't have to be some luxury thing it has to be some passionate thing where we come together where people come together men come together with each other and women come together with each other to sing to learn to anticipate a yamtiv to to to to to to to to rejoice in the preparation for yantev to rejoice in the experience of the yantiv to to to to Daven for our children legado legato today is a hundred years since Karen attire 100 years since East came together with West two different Jewish cultures that saw so much in each other Blended the best of both to learn from each other to create something great one wasn't afraid of the other one didn't look down on the other check that correct that one had been afraid of the other one had looked down on the other in both directions and then they actually met and they realized that rather than competing with each other and rather than being afraid of each other they could actually gain from each other and each one offered a resource that the other one so badly needed and then Cena srinam which means hatred from which you have nothing to gain disappears in the face not of avast poetic no it's the Ava of incredible benefit we don't love with no benefits we love because there's such a tremendous benefit to be had from that today is the 88th yard site of Dr Rabbi Dr Leo deutschlander he died at the age of 47. he had no children Sarah schneer was also of a similar age and she also had no children she was married briefly and divorced and then she started base Yakov and she continued base yaakov and she was married again for like approximately the last year of her life she had an another she had another marriage last year he spoke about America the mayor sapira also didn't have children and I told you then a word which to me I told you then as such and I'll tell you again it's one of the most impactful ideas that that for me in the Tyra and only later it tells us the name of his names of his children so rashi's troubled what's going on tell it to me right away right so first answer actually once you mention his name what you mention that let me tell you a little bit about Nike who is a big static but then says Rashi no icar told him the main offspring of the tadiq is their Good Deeds you want to know the real thing that Noah generated in the world was that he was at Sadiq he was ecstatic when others weren't he was a tummy when others weren't he was the one bit of Holiness and Purity and rightness and truth that was left in the world that was Nash's main accomplishment it's a Rashi but think about it is the father of every human being on the face of the planet this was not a consolation prize to you know didn't have children but he had many mice in time he accomplished many nice things no this was the father grandfather great grandfather of every human being alive billions but that wasn't his main contribution his main company released was that he was a tadiq when others weren't and he built a tava when it was needed for the world and this tells us something it tells us that those invisible people in our community who we allow to be invisible because they're not married because they don't have children I don't understand ikar told us these are people of tremendous we spent today talking about a woman who was a divorce say who didn't have any children who changed the world who changed the world we're here because of her more than and more than the altar of slavatka and more than the Arab and the belzareba and the vision it's a Reba it was our sneer they all agreed she was a divorced single woman who didn't have children when people talk about crises you know in the modern Jewish World they speak about the shith crisis and so on and so forth and I don't like the terminology personally but what can you do the real there's a real issue and I do want to color your attention to something something which for us in our work is as is a big piece of our avoda there's a box a couple of boxes of a study which we just published at the OU in our Center of research it's the challenges of singlehood among American Orthodox Jews it's not about solving the of Crisis and making more it's about the experience of being single in an orthodox community you should read it if you can get a hard copy you can read it if not it's available on the Orthodox Union website the center for communal research website and read it and we can learn how we could be making a difference right tell people sometimes that you know invisible people invisible things can be very impactful in fact God is invisible and he makes quite a difference and he makes quite a difference and I hope that that's something that we can come away with also tangible there's a lot to Come Away with we stand up stand up we should visit Hashem take some of this with us to build a better claudiusville to build a gulaima elizion is on page 390 in the art school and 611 in the Quran [Music] my name is [Music] foreign [Music] foreign