Post Purim: Clarity of Vision after Purim

sh today is here in I'm sitting in my apartment here the day after puim and I don't know about you but I'm certainly feeling like what happened here I'm scratching my head what happened to puim puim came and came in and came out like a blitz and you feel what happened did I did I get hold of Po him or not in some ways I think maybe poem is one of the greatest casualties of all the YT that we have let me explain what I mean no one makes a mistake when it comes to PES the preparations that you made and you sit there for eight days eating your matah and certainly and afterwards you have an is so the point is taken you can put finger on the pulse you can sense exactly what the Y is all about and certainly after P you have the days of the leading up to sh and Sh has a great preparation for it the days of the and at least afterwards I know here in is you have something called seven days of Tash when we don't say meaning there's a certain fold over you walk away gradually and carefully from sh you feel the of Matan and you understand and appreciate what sh is all about certainly La when it comes to Tish there are three weeks of preparation and the week of Tish and airsh you know exactly what you're doing when it comes to Tish you're sitting on the floor and you're crying over the and you sense the Y you pick up the point and it's not missed certainly when when it comes to the whole month beforehand the month of you understand exactly no one makes a mistake about and all the different that we have you get the point quite clearly is certainly not forgotten or mistaken days of Chua beforehand and one stands them without eating you understand the Y and you pick it up quite clearly and straight after y you feel the I'm saying and also is eight days but poem is something which is almost sometimes a tragedy I know people say that meaning it goes in and goes out and you lose it t Esther certainly puts you in a frame of mind but it's such a powerful important Y and as they say in the words of the says y that yum is like puim it's unbelievably powerful prominent Festival which we have puim and yet it gets lost no it gets missed out you don't feel the mood of it completely for such a powerful y I mentioned in a previous sh thei brings out a statement of re he says that in the future all the will disappear or B diminish the importance except for PIM will stay and all the millas which we have and the writings which we have in theim and the writings of will also be less important but Mig will always stay with his prominence so what is iTab what did we miss what is there that we should take out of Pim that maybe we didn't get hold of and therefore I've called this Shia clity of vision after puim meaning after the point let's stand back and think what exactly did I acquire how did I change how did I move on did I really do what they say did I receive the Torah in meaning as against sh where it was forced upon them is there something which I missed did I take out from po what I really should have taken out and that's really the clarity of vision which I like to discuss here in this year to take out from po him something which is a real message which we can walk on and he didn't just come in go out the razam mataz and all the heus and all the balagan which we have did I really take out of poem as I'm supposed to take out of it I think the day later that's why I'm sitting here today on shush po I'm hoping that maybe we can grasp the Y and walk away from puim with something of a possession and we changed and move on all because of pin I'd like to base these few words on a sheer which I once heard from the great G he was a of he was a phenomenal person a multi-dimensional personality I can't think of anything he wasn't skilled at he was a mo he was a he was a musician he was an Astron he was an incredible poic he had all the skills I suppose we could say about he was something called like an ish an ish call everything was inside him he once made the following comment and I think it's very pertinent I think we can take that as something as a beginning of a vision which I hope will give Clarity and C Clarity exact what we supposed to move on from from and move on from in the following way he asked as follows what exactly was the fault of when it came to puim we know the gar brings down a comment of and explains as follows they benefited from the Feast of they shouldn't have done what exactly is the crime what did they do wrong maybe you'll turn around and say the gar says maybe that maybe they ate non kosha food but it's not true true because all the M all the the were all Kos they all glad koser everybody had according to what they wanted according to what they ate meaning it couldn't have been because they ate from the food which was wrong you also can't say it was because of ail of immorality why cuz we know quite clearly that there was a separate banquet was made for the women the men were in one side the women on the other maybe you'll say women were walking around maybe not dressed properly but it doesn't say that there was any immorality there so it wasn't because of that and maybe they're worshiping Idols certainly the med brings down that had furnished all the way around the rooms where the Jews were there were Idols around but it doesn't say that they worshiped aor that they were worshiping Idols we know from the previous misdem of Cl Isel that they bow down to the idol in the time of net that's true that is then but in this case it doesn't say that all it says is as follows is they benefit from the banquet of what exactly does the punishment fit the crime if the crime the punishment was to annihilate and make a holocaust of the Jews which was really what H's Gaza was which his decree was what exactly was their fault what did they do wrong and maybe we can explain in the following way andeli brought this point out which I think is very relevant we see at the beginning of the mcgilla the Gilla explains that the purpose of the banquet was really because aash felt almost intimidated he didn't feel important in that and he made the banquet for 180 days and the Milla says as follows the purpose of the banquet was as follows the riches and the honor of his monarchy and the honor and the Majesty of his greatness meaning he wanted to show that he was a great king that was the great Point behind it the vagon in his comment of the McGill explained as follows that we know that the banquet took 180 days we also know that in the previous monarchy in the time of net he had stolen from Jerusalem 1,080 Treasures from the B MDES he would stolen them and we know as follows that it banquet took 180 days sayson there were six descriptions here he wanted to show how important was there was six words which were used and the vagar explains that every day he took out a different treasure which he had captured from the B mikdash as we knowes was took over from and took over from KES he had all the treasures from and every day he brought out something else something else which was Splendid he wanted to show how powerful he was how forceful he was what it means by the monarchy of and that was the purpose of the banquet and maybe you'll turn around and say as follows the problem with kisel they went and they were impressed they were dazzled they were Amazed by the glitter by the Honor by the Majesty by the treasures that he had maybe you turn around and say that they when a pulled them out they didn't cry and they didn't weep when they saw the treasures brought out from the Bas of mdash but doesn't say that saying it doesn't say that it was their n they took a pleasure from it they were benefited enormously from the from such opulence it was opulence for the sake of opulence it was materialism for that benefit and that really was the fault said bski meaning they took tremendous Delight from looking at all the treasures if you remember the medish we mentioned in the previous year the morai ran around at the banquet telling to go home and they didn't listen they turn when do we have a chance to sit on a golden couch like this and drink wine like this and the music and everything was so fabulous in materialism and they stayed there and they took tremendous pleasure from it they were in other words astonished by the Majesty of the of the of and that was a fault sh that they took tremendous benefit from it and they were Amazed by it and maybe what we can perhaps suggest as follows is this is the Fault do you remember the expression when the spies came into Israel and the POS says we felt like Grasshoppers and we were in the eyes of the re of the residents of Canan as Grasshoppers and maybe that was the point they felt in some way amazed at what the um had what the Nations had and they were oh awakened and amazed they thought it was so fabulous and once you think like that maybe I can suggest something like this it's something like the amazement of what the the Nations had when you become like that and you see something which is fabulous and that's taking pleasure from it we know in the history of the Jewish Nation a different periods of Exile that we've gone through there have been tremendous assimilation why look at the Greek Empire people became a amazed at theater and Sport and drama and culture and we still have it today Miss yav many people became helist meing they were amazed at the theater and the culture and the sport and all that the beauty of which yett had to give which Greece had to give that was the fault the fault is that they became Greek even more than the Greeks themselves they were amazed at the culture of the simulation grew from there I don't know you you ever seen the saer which was written after the death of a saer was written which was called Divine Madness they were taken out of notes from R Miller he didn't publish in his lifetime but he wrote quite clearly one of the greatest tragedies which happened in Europe before Germany was they were more German than the Germans they became so involved in the German culture in Berlin I remember hearing R VBA in the Mira explained people were more German than the Germans in Berlin and that was a problem once you become so amazed by the culture and that was the pult which was problem in the time of they were n they had pleasure and they saw something which they never seen before and perhaps that was the fault and that's what reeli was mentioning here the haate was to be drawn in and pulled in by the enormous culture and the beauty of the culture I know myself I come from England I remember seeing there were people who be even more English than the English they should all be well and saved and everybody should look after them in but you see people even more English I remember I used to see somebody very often very often and I walked and I said and where's that tie from he said it's my tie from Oxford University he never wore a different tie he always wore the tie from was an Oxford graduate meaning you set Pride of the pageantry and the pump and the circumstance and everything that there is in you get drawn in what is the queen wearing I remember used to say people used to dress a certain way and they became so English that's the problem you become drawn in to the culture and that's what happened in Greece that's what happened in Germany and perhaps I'm saying also maybe in America people get so drawn in and pulled in in some ways it's the same as Ray mentioned people have great pleasure from the culture from the standards from the materialism from the opulence from the affence from the study from the Beauty from the culture from the sport everything which is there and they get pulled in and they say we feel like grass without this we're nothing without grasshoppers if we don't behave like them and this is a Lifeline this is really what I'm searching for and these become the values in life and that was the crime and therefore the punishment was NE the Holocaust which was supposed to have taken place when you become so involved in the culture of the non the secular world that is a problem and I'm thinking to myself isn't that really rabai what we need in our time we need Clarity of vision especially after P to understand what went wrong in pem and what must me put straight we can't be too involved we can't be too impressed to become so involved in the culture the glitter and the culture but maybe we can take the words of Rabel a little bit further I'd like to go a little bit deeper we know that the cause of all the problems when it came to pu is amalik hman was from the family of amalik and the great great problem with amalik was after the whole world was terrified and amazed at the Crossing of the Red Sea and every portion of water as you know became split and became divided up and everybody wases we say every morning in oosi all the nations of the world became amazed at clis Along Came elmination from far away who had no no no problem against Kalisa but they came to be mael to abuse and debase all the standards of K of the almighty meaning the purpose of amalik was to be in in Hebrew they called to make lad to debase the qualities of K and that was a great success of amik the mosal is given as you know Bashi brings down of a boiling hot bath no one can go near the bath why because it's boiling hot along comes on mugar and jumps in and shows it's not as hot as that meaning no one would come near clel after Camu and after the Miracles which happened in MIT came along and that's a problem they were they debased the standards of shim and I'm suggesting really as follows the following point take the first point which veli had said veli mentioned that they were to benefit from the culture from the materialism from the opulence of what a had in his Palace for 180 days each day he bought something else was amazed at what a had but there's a certain outcome from that and the outcome is as follows that you begin to think there isn't much in CL in the toha and it's called a zilzil and that's really amalik when you see something which is fabulous and impresses you so much and makes such an impression on you by the nations of the world you think less of the Kusha of the to kadesha and that's what happens the hardcore or zilzil the hardcore debasement came from M but I'm suggesting in our times maybe we don't have something called the Mitzvah of M I know the I think had once said he believed that trky was an and if he had the chance he would have gone and killed him so he said but we must explain what that means we don't nowadays have something called killing Amal but we certainly do is the impression and the atmosphere and the standards abam Mali still lead us to in some ways to be m to make less of the greatness and the Kusha and the Holiness and the great majesty and Splendor of the to kadesha and that's what happens when you're so impressed with the nature and the culture and the values of the secular world what happens is it's a fraction I don't know it is put but it's something to do with amik you think less of the tah and that's what the problem is the great Rim freedlander the wrote a beautiful M about this and he called it the words are so beautiful they're on a mic he said there's something called which means reallying smudging of the Frontiers blurring the borders it doesn't become clear anymore you see something by the nations of the world by Greece by Germany by America by England and therefore you become unclear it's not clear it's not it's not sharp enough the division between the nations of the world and the toha and because of it I'm saying also it's a fraction also of you become to you think less of the K and that TI that blowing that smudging makes an enormous impression on our future on our values and how we view what the toosha has to give us I think that is the problem here our our blotting is to make sure that we're clear we're sharp we're acute we understand exactly this is the nations of the world and this is the glory and the Splendor of Cl Israel and if we don't get that clear we can make enormous mistakes in our life and I think that is our and that I think is the lesson the clarity of vision after poem we must be very sure this is the nations of the world this is their materialism this is the pageantry in London this is the American sport the American scene what we know of all the different standards which we know of this is literature this is music this is from the secular world this is from Yovan this is from Greece this is from M but one must be very very clear there's something far far greater and far more elevated and far more enlightening and far more inspiring and that is the toosha and that's what we have to recognize if we don't get that clear Clarity of vision if we come Tish Tish means we're blurred we're smudged we don't see clearly exactly what are the borders the Frontiers become very much faded and they're foggy we're dull we don't see clearly what exactly is the Splendor of the Tesha I remember I was once coming out of the Mir yiva I was driving in a car and I turned onto sh Han right next to Thea as I was driving past I saw the great G walking along I stopped the car and I offered him a ride and I said can I car the W anyway he said certain he jumped in the car and sat next to me we drove down pass by zil and passed by shovi and as we drove on past all of a sudden the police came along and pushed us all to the side all the cars were pushed to the side of the road we had to stop at the side of the road and what was clear was happening was there was a delegation of great poit itions of dignitaries who were coming past at that time it was James Baker if you remember I think it was the Secretary of State of George Bush if I can remember correctly and his car was driving past so the police have pushed aside all the cars at the side and the the whole procession pass with all the police and the sirens and everything and James Baker's car came my past and then I was sitting next to MOA as the car of Mr Baker passed the mosha turned around to me and said to me as follows as his caret you've never been as close as that to the AI auma to the height of all uncleanliness such a beautiful comment meaning I the politicians with their beautiful dress with their police around them and the Simons and everything in reality he called it the have the father of all uncleanliness of all tumor of all of all Despicable things meaning he made it quite clear to me don't get blurred don't get smudged don't be impressed by all the dignitaries and the police and all the Army around them that's not what that's called the have such a beautiful point to make he was clarity had Clarity of vision if anybody had Clarity of vision that would certainly and that's the point to be very clear and sharp exactly what represents by Torah and what does it means by the um I think that's what we need that's how we walk away from PM I'm suggesting that's a Clarity of vision without any Tish tush without any blur without any blurring any smudging of the Frontiers and that's a purpose of this year mitem before we go any further I'd like to explain to you what is the meaning of the definition of amalik in our terms for that we must turn to the writings of the vam in the safe Accord Evan schl Evan Scher are different writings of the voran in chapter 11 per Alf the voran mentions as follows CL are called Rous tuua the first of all produce the nature rash mentions it at the beginning of Rous Rous Tu the first of all produce the Von mentions as follows we know quite clearly that there is a great deal of wastage when it comes to wheat as follows there's something called the straw which holds up the wheat then there's something called that that's the T there's something called the M which is the chaff which is on the wheat and there's something which is very close to the wheat which is called the subin the bran you have straw you have chaff and you have bran and then eventually you have the wheat inside the vagon explains that from the family of ainu there was a great deal of wastage he explains as follows the straw we refers to the family of asov we know that when ysf came along he was the fire which would burn up the straw against asov the T the straw refers to ASA the chaff refers to ISM he was also a family of ab is came from aino as well so he's called The Cha there's also we but it's closer to the wheat itself then you have something called the bran the bran is very very close to the wheat itself it's very close to it and the vagan explains as follows there were four five categories of what we mean by the sub by the bran and they are represented by the a they are members of the Jewish Nation but in reality they're strangers to the nation they're very close you think they're actually Jewish they're part of cladisa but they're called the a r and the gon explains as follows there are five categories of the a r in clis the Von explains he says as follows the five categories are all listed at the beginning of saer dorim says Theon explains in his commentary on the the following refers to those members of the a part of who make tremendous they cause tremendous problems in reality says the Von that's where the spies were spent out when the benur went to the Wilderness of por that's where the spies were rent out meaning they spoke about is the first category of a members of Isel who are in reality they are part of but they refers to tius tifus means people who are caught up with tremendous tyer tyer desire and immorality they're caught up in that they're also members of BAL of of clis Lon refers to people who appear to be white they're charlatans chameleons they appear to be very righteous but in reality they're not that's also a refers to B people who search only they make borders means to make an area this is one this is one they divide they make division in the CL Isel they make partition they separate the nation the these are people who are caught up by money five categories of a but listen to this Rabbi says the as follows the first category which are those who are B who course great B says actually in what an awful situation we actually have says members of a people who are part of kis but they really amim is not some outside says people who cause tremendous they M completely they debase completely all the great standards of Holiness and sanctity and Splendor of toha and they debase it all and that really is hardore amim it's inside people who cause tremendous and that is the nature and that's where comes we see people in our nation who are part of the Jewish Nation but they cause tremendous arguments and and they talk bad about people mainly they division which we see unfortunately the great tragedy which we see in our nation as well that's a point which is a frightening thought how startling it's not that Amal is outside clis it's inside the nation itself and that I'm suggesting ra is where the real TSH where the real smudging comes on when people make an argument when people say in reality they amim they're inside the cloud is inside the nation and that's where we need cloud of vision we need to see very clearly what does it mean exactly the Kusha the Holiness and the sanctity and the Majesty of the torosa and be clear exactly these are the nations of the world and this is a clis and that's where the cloud of vision is needed I'd like to out to you I was thinking three different areas where we can see Clarity where we can avoid the smudging avoid the blowing I thought of three areas L where we need Clarity of vision to make sure we understand exactly what does it mean the nature of the Jewish Nation three different areas but before I do that what I'd like to do is share with you some words which I remember hearing from the great Mash I used to hear him I had the tremendous privilege to go and hear him in the b in when I lived in and also I heard many of these points also from his my Mo which would give in the Mira every other week in the Mira before we go into these three different areas where I'd like to show you I'd like to share with you a definition of a human being the way R VBA understood it if you get this point then the clarity will become much quicker and much easier to access much easier and explain to what Maba had said actually these words which I'm saying to you also appear in the very beginning of Al the second volume the writing the book of RBA he explains as follows we see in the tah different types of human beings we see something like adish Adam we see aah we see an a we see we see yob we see ysep we see mosha we see these are great great personalities and great sadik inel we also learned that there were certain types of people like Cen and Lon and asov and Bam and Lon and these are people as well these are and there are two types of people you can pick up quite clearly in the learning there was somebody told sik and somebody called but then R makes a beautiful point and said but none of these personalities are called Odon there was only one particular person in the toha who is called an OD and we don't find that until we come to the safe ofes thei Ezekiel the prophet was called in the second chapter stand up why was called an and made a beautiful point he mentioned as follows meaning if we are going to have Clarity before we come to after puim and we must what is the definition of an ad who is an Adam and all these other personalities were not called Adam but was called Adam for the following reason Rashi mentions there was certain one particular point which he saw the most incredible Vision he saw the he saw everything by the he was shown an incredible vision of exactly what happens in shim and the same time says Rashi he was also a boss of Adam he was a human being meaning as follows an Adam is somebody who has tremendous tremendous views tremendous opinions he's tremendously wise but at the same time he's a human being meaning somebody who is gifted and shown tremendous tremendous insight and prophecy but at the same time he acts an is a humble man like a human being remember the same definition is also said by mosu when he went up to the all the what is aadam doing here you're right he was a human being but the same time he had tremendous hog a great person and RBA mentions as follows the reason why was called A benam is for the following reason he had tremendous he was shown tremendous things at the same time his Midas his character personality and his development as a person he was tremendously humble tremendously humble and that is the definition the difference between a great man in the and a great man by the is as follows you find many many people by the Nations who are tremendously powerful unbelievably wise great people in the world great great composers great scientists great writers great musicians they're tremendous in their SE their SE is very high but their behavior doesn't necessarily match that way and that's the point in the to aosa you're required to excel in the two areas your your your Insight and your Enlightenment is very high but that's what were in their behavior they were very humble and modest and that is a definition of an odam if we can get that definition clear then we will reach tremendous Cloudy of vision I'm suggesting after poem in this whole in the smudge Frontiers what is a great man in our terminology what is a de how would we Define someone who's a great man in the toosan not the way the Great scientist great Runner great Sportsman great politician great Diplomat a very wealthy man that might be somebody who's reached Great Heights what about his personality and his character traits that he had there is a gamar inin the G brings down in D PES as follows the almighty says as follows I had tremendous desire and love and affection for people like um Abu Abraham turned man and said we are dust and Ashes he was shown he was the most original thinker in the world but he and said I'm I'm I'm dust and Ashes I'm nothing turn what are we we're nothing at all no D the great King David who was called the greatest mascul the great understanding the man with great discernment I'm a worm meaning they were some tremendous things but their behavior was so modest and humble in their ways is that a beautiful definition and that is a definitive of greatness but we find says in other nations Nim was shown tremendous things and yet he rebelled against made the tower against look at Power who is I to him the king of atah who worked together with he said I amim mean these people were given tremendous Privileges and great distinction but the behavior didn't match and that is the definition of an Odom I'm suggesting our smudging of the Frontiers when we leave puim has to be Clarity what does it mean a great man by the um by the nations of the world what does it mean by a great man in the torha his personality is very great he's worked on his himself I was thinking to myself when I Was preparing this sh it's interesting the Y site of comes out on Tanis Esther there's a definition someone had tremendous understanding in to yet his behavior was so incredible modest and his humility was phenomenal I remember hearing a story I had a friend when I used to live in yam who turned around to me he said he was once walking on the side of the street with mosha and a car passed by and the car window dropped down and someone called out mosha mha I think m m says I'm here I'm here someone was calling his son he said m m MOS thought he was calling in MOS MOS to him he said unbelievable humility of the man he felt nothing of himself and yet he's a PO that ISU matches P meaning we see the Great of a human being in the to that's an OD here someone like someone like someone like Aid and that's the greatness of a human being and that I think is the most important definition to make a distinction between the nations of the world and the Splendor of the Majesty of of Torah there should be no zilzil in our mind of what it mean the greatness and the Splendor and the importance of the tah kadosha a mik in our terminology is when we look at other people in the world other nations and other diplomats and we think there's some greatness inside them the what does it mean to be great in the toak for that I would like to bring you certain examples I don't want to spend too much time showing how the loness is and the debasement of the it seems to me in my time in our times here politicians use their whole Forum in order to bring down the other side we don't have to talk about that just concentrate on what's good about it rather than pushing down the other people you'll realize from the points which I'm bringing from the three areas which I'd like to discuss with you from these three areas you'll see the greatness what is it means by to you'll have no Tish tush you'll have no smudging there'll be no blurring when you realize these three areas what does it mean and that's I'm suggesting that is how we blot blot out that is our clar of vision that we need our Clarity will come when we have these three areas clearing the first one I'd like to suggest is as follows in the to hakos you have something called the purity of a deed something which is done in the most beautiful way with tremendous genuine Integrity behind it all meaning when someone acts with human sacrifice and does something lishma when someone behaves like that then there is tremendous importance there's something called a purity of a deed which you see in the toha something with done with great self- sacrifice and done for sh sh for the right purposes I was thinking maybe it's something like this every morning when you come to DAV the Real Purity of the thought comes out as follows if you can say or the sentences from until until with great with care that is called because then you come to if you can say these words with purpose with understanding and sincerity then you can come to D later but you need Clarity and purity of thought when you come to say it that will bring you to say DAV properly if you can say these words carefully about the greatness of the almighty and that's what is all about if you can say these words with great clarity Char ity and great devotion then you can come to DAV probably as well but let me give you some examples which made such an impression on me what does it mean to do something with the purity of a deed a few weeks ago I was asked by a friend if I would become a witness under the an aid under the for a friend and I went under the and as I was standing there by the the W who was M turned man to me and said to me are you an aid are you a witness for this wedding I said yes I am he said if that's the case then you must do Chua before you become a witness I said okay I'll do CH no he said not but chuaa real real repentance I was shocked when he turned around to me said my father was also a w he was a great w from from France R rotenberg from Paris he said to me as follows my father insisted in order to be an a you have to do Chua not cha chaa complete repentance I stood there I shaked a little bit and he said do cha I said to now you can be a witness that's purity of the deed no you in order to be a witness under the you have to be completely pure and genuine to do that I thought to myself afterwards I went over to the B thank you for letting me be a witness under your I did CH I hope I did CH standing under the let me give you another example which is a beautiful case I think where it say to appreciate something which is well done something which is really genuine something which is very beautiful we see in the gamar we see in the Milla sorry this is a come which I saw by the great Rim Schwab which is a beautiful point which we see in millas esta we see in the mill Esther that at different points in the Milla Esther follows exactly what M tells her to do let me give you an example shim mentions this is here something which is done with great self-sacrifice and Purity we see in the Milla as follows that M told Esther not to say where she came from he said to her as follows in Bas Esther didn't say where she came from told her what to do you must not tell where you came Esther listened very carefully to what M told her M was one of the members of Sanhedrin Esther followed exactly what M said who was giving the orders M was given the orders and Esther listened very humbly to her later on in the Milla when Esther was told to go into and she listened carefully she went into we see something very interesting in pad Z listen to what happened here Esther turned around and said to all the Jews she told M to gather all the Jews together then the POS says all of a sudden Esther is giv the orders and this great man from the San hedrin listen to this woman Inside since when does Esther give orders said most beautiful Point Esther had done something with great purity of thought great Purity she done with M neish Esther now was on the daa to give orders to M that's what happens when you are on the level to do something of such a high level of self-sacrifice when you can do that Esther even gave orders to a member of the San hedrin meaning that purity of the deed lifts you up to such an incredible high level of Purity and kadus Purity indeed she was prepared to go in she went into M went in that shows the great Purity which was behind Esther no beautiful point you see that you must be clear you can't have any smudging when it comes to something which is done so with such purity of thought and such great deed I don't know if you've heard the hesper the funeral oration which the Wasa of the miva in in Brooklyn Elia brudney Scher the Rob there gave a hesper for with Mattis Salomon and this is really what the whole hod is about he said one particular point he said he was amazed by for one particular point he was overwhelmingly concerned for every member of the Jewish Nation there was no distinction there was no division there was no separation everybody in clis was very important for him and where brudney went on he doesn't know that anybody like that someone at 2:30 in the morning at 6:00 in the morning whatever it is if someone is in need he was there for the person tremendous self-sacrifice to mtis yoh had he then mentioned a beautiful point he said there was a certain incident several years ago I think it was in the time I'm not sure of Rabin when he was prime minister in Israel r bry mentioned as follows one of the decisions was made by the knesset that they would give back land on the Gan back to to Syria they would give back land when mtio heard about that he said he made a certain can lake lake Which is far away but he was so concerned what will be with the residents on them on the Gand what will be with them he was so concerned even though was miles away he didn't live in Israel he lived in Lakewood New Jersey his concern was phenomenal and that's where you see you must realize the purity of the deed is tremendous in clis and that's where the AUM comes out the great great hogas and the humility meaning the purity of the deed is there you must recognize that if you don't recognize that then you'll have tremendous Tish tush you'll be very confused and smudged what does it mean by the and the Splendor of the ofis you must be clear on that last week I decided to myself I must go to the bris of SCH Thea in H I must a man of 88 has a child I'm sure the bris will be fabulous I wasn't in any way upset I went early in the morning at 6:50 and I there in Yeshiva and the place was absolutely packed at the time of the bris but let me tell you what happened at the bris this man of 88 was blessed with a child after so many years of waiting for a child be honest with you I don't think the Sim was in any way just his Sim he made sure that this Sim was a Sim of honor to the almighty that he answered his prayers and he was concerned really with one particular point the great tragedy and the chus and the war which is going on and Contin we were daving for cl Isel at each point me meaning at every opportunity when a young man who has a child a young man has a child so he makes a BSE when this Autumn God of 88 makes a b his whole thought his whole Direction his whole thought was on one point his mindset was what's with clisa what's with the nation of Israel people are at War people They al moners the seek people in Cloud Israel he turned around and said the Gabi turned around just before the bris was taking place he said the Wasa asked as soon as everybody here in the hall in the yes there must have been over a thousand people and people outside as well it was a phenomenal atmosphere said as follows I would ask everybody the minute you hear the child crying I would like everybody here in the hall to say the to say for all the meaning a child is crying and we know there's a moment of tremendous and ask for say the everybody screamed out the it wasn't a Sim just for it was for all of K his concern for all of Ka came out when he said honor has it was for all of the people who are sick and people are caught at the end of the turned around and said as follows this is what I want the purity of the deed was so phenomenal but three her man and said as follows it's not possible for everybody to come over to me to say mazov I don't want everybody to crush there'll be a crush I would like to say as follows I would like to thank everybody for coming to my SIM and then he he said as follows if there's any person in this room who needs a hasem should give him a if a person a couple needs a child Hashem should go to a child if someone doesn't have Panos he should have Panos if someone can't learn properly he should set in his learning if someone doesn't have good whatever you need he went through all the lists of needs of everybody would needs something and gave a to every single person it was a phenomenal occasion the care and the concern and we were singing of the songs of Claris swell of um uh we seeing all he directed the whole mood of the Sim towards the needs and the difficulties of clel and that's tremendous purity of the deed I'm saying exactly like matis as well exactly the same as Esther when a person could do something with great Purity that RAB Bo say there's no Tish tush there's no smudging there's no bluring of any Frontiers you see someone coming out with tremendous hogas and the humility as well you're thinking of other people you're thinking of the almighty and you're thinking of Cl Isel at such a Time the purity of the deed there should be no smudging you don't find that by the nations of the world you find that by CL the M the sacrifice someone like who said someone like comeand and said he himself is God you find that difference that difference must be very clear you have to be very sharp and understand clearly this is nations of the world and this is there should be no te K in that the second area which i' like to bring out is the whole concept which we find in clis well which I think needs great clarity otherwise you can make a mistake the world as we see outside and the world of the market the world of the business the world downtown is the secular world but in the toosha you have something quite different you have something called A World of kadus we know the definition of Holiness in the toyosha means something which is separate something which is aart it's not the as a secular World in order to have Clarity of vision and have no Tish tush and have no smudging you must understand concepts of kadush of Holiness and keep them quite separate from something which is secular and if you can't do that you have tremendous smudging you will feel maybe like a grasshopper you will feel like maybe amazed and overwhelmed by the secular Lord if you don't keep in mind the concepts of good something which is quite separate and we find quite clearly there are different areas where you see tremendous kadus you must understand that you walk inside a Sho that is a mock of kadha when you walk inside a Sho that is not like the High Street it's not like a shop walking into a sh is the center of the sh in that Community you must recognize that you have something a mo called K it's not the same as an office it's not the same as a shopping center it's a mock of Kusa you have something which are times of kadha which you have shabas KES I don't know if you ever read the articles which go around very often about I think a few weeks ago on on the the booklet which was given out by he mentions as follow it's a beautiful point when it came to the building of the Mishka and the Tabernacle in the midb clis were told you must stop all work when it comes to chabas why because there's something called The Tabernacle of chabas and the Tabernacle of the midor and the Tabernacle which they built in the midor there must be no work done on shabas because you have something called a time period of K meaning shabas is a mish you come into shabas with entire the time is quite different you don't talk about business you don't talk about money you don't talk about Commerce you don't talk about politics there's a Time area of Kusa which is quite different by the um by the Nations you don't have that sort of thing and if you don't recognize the N the nature of something which has a time period of good you can have tremendous smudging this is shabas and this is and if you get that division clearly there's no smudging shabas has AE like a sh is a mo of Kusha so there's a time period of Kusha take it a bit further marriage in the Jewish religion is completely different by the T kadesha John and Mary get married it's what it's a loving Tome John loves Mary Mary loves John that's the way it goes but the tah kadosha is something else it's not a it's a holy threesome there's abam and S and there's the almighty in the middle meaning you don't grow together like a straight line like John and Mary may they love each other they don't love each other that's the nature but by the Torah it's a triangle they grow together with the almighty in the middle that relationship is the relation of kin and that's why when a woman becomes married she's called ises she changes her whole status she's no longer a woman a normal woman she becomes AES she has Holiness to her one has to recognize that the relationship of marriage is not a relationship of secular like in the by the um by the nations of the world we have something called a relationship which is holy which is incredibly powerful here one must have no smudging on that the marriage is a relationship a connection of tremendous Holiness inside there you must have articles which have Holiness to them a when it falls on the floor you kiss it why simply because it has kadha these are all entirely different lifelines here entirely different by the nature of this other world you can have smudging if you don't recognize these areas kadha a time a place an article a relationship you become very smudged you don't realize with Clarity of vision exactly what it means to have kadha inside your life and that's very different i' like to share with you a final thought when it comes to Kusha which I think is a beautiful Point as well if you like to look it up it's a beautiful comment which is made by the greatan the student of the V he says it in his it's in sh the sixth chapter there in a footnote but P mentions as follows you know how many times during the day we say the the words says as follows when a person moves towards doing a which is before you even do the ACT there is a certain AA of K which comes under of that person when you Haven you haven't done it yet you didn't even say but you move towards for example or whatever the Mitzvah is before you come to do the Mitzvah there is an a of kadus when you do the Mitzvah says then there's a whole seal which is put on the of that person and you areen when you do it and that gives tremendous momentum for other actions in theu of kadus which is a tremendous thought do you know what you're living there's no smudging there that one has to realize what does it mean before you do it as you've done the act and afterwards there's a tremendous momentum which comes out it's kadha it's not and one can't have smudging one mustn't be blurred must be very clear and acute and sharp what does it mean an action which has K and which action which doesn't have that and those are the points which I like to bring out the first is the purity of the deed the second is kadus the last area which is I like to mention to you where there should be no smudging one has to be very clear this is the nations of the world and this is clarisel and the nature of amolik is to blot out it smes it it blackens in some way what could once you realize what this is you suddenly have tremendous respect and ad what does it mean the standards of K and that I think is that is blotting out and this is part of the they benefit from the suda they didn't realize what does it mean the Purity and the Kad of I'd like to take this area itself it's a little bit long but I think if you hear this point you'll gain tremendously the ambam in his safe minion hitz asks the following question right at the very beginning how is it that the Rabon were able to order certain yamim which are in addition to the T mitzvas that we have you can't add on lo you can't add on and you can't detract from anything in where did the rabbis get the license to add on any for example where did they get the r to make a y called pu from pu is after the T mitz where do they get that from and the Ram says as follows the basis and the origins of something like Po and all comes from one sentence which is in is a great nation in the world that they are so close to the almighty whenever they call to him that's the nation of it meaning that when you have a time with great Sor and you call to the almighty PM is an example of that PM is an example of a Nation a great nation who who can call to the almighty since they can call to the almighty in prayer therefore they are called a great nation and whatever they and that's what PO is that's what Esther said to the sanedrin these are matters of fasting and crying meaning because of the prayer so CL were answered in asked a question why are the Jewish Nation called Mig they're not a great nation they're one of the smallest nations in the world why do you call a why they call God says such a beautiful point he says as follows the reason why CL because they practice charity they practice in such a beautiful way we know the almighty is tremendously who he has tremendous goodness there's no nation in the world says who practices like CL and that is the greatness that is a great distinction no nation has that level of Charity and kindness and and stalk like that is the reason and that's why we call the Mig such a beautiful point there should be no smudging recognize what does it mean the glory and the Splendor of cloud Israel the ability to do we mentioned in a several weeks ago the beautiful point of he explained as follows every single person is nothing more than just a pipe a you have certain things which you can pass on to other people maybe a parent maybe a teacher maybe a husband maybe a wife a neighbor whatever it is everyone should regard themselves as a CA a pipe to pass on to other people whatever you have you can have but maio explained on that you can have sometimes a leakage in the pipe maybe when you kept some of the honor for yourself and you didn't give it all over to somebody else or you can have a blockage in the pipe you didn't give everything over that you could give over to somebody else but the point is a beautiful point the nature of B is are to be kind to be benevolent be deliberate to give over to other people and that is a beautiful feature the of clis I remember when I used to live in HOV the great Wasa was living there at the time shapir Thea bakov I remember he mentioned once at a kidish on shabas morning a beautiful point which made a tremendous impression on me he said at the beginning of the second World War the King of England I think it was King George at the time made a declaration asked the British Nation to help in the war effort he asked for people to give money in order to support the British government because of the war effort he asked for people to make contributions and he said as follows I think sum if I can remember correctly he said £50,000 was raised from all of the United Kingdom to help in the more effort £50,000 by us we be embarrassed to say such amount for a war effort people come forward that's all they can give by us these these amounts are minimal they're not even they'll be disgrace to mention it £50,000 in a war effort that's what the nation can give can you imagine what it means by Cloud what does it mean the giving the ability to give to give over the to hand over to others that is a great quality in CL Israel there should be no smudging no no no blur of what does it mean the C of because that is the reason why we called a we're God because we have the ability of the almighty to be giving of the these are the three areas which I thought I would choose to show you there should be no the first is the purity of the deed which you find in the T kadesha the second is the whole world and the demeanor of something called kadush of Holiness and the third area is the world of which is so different there should be no smudging one should realize exactly and that is where I'm suggesting blotting that's where we need Clarity of vision there should be no smudging we should realize are one thing and that's the problem which P came out they were n they looked at the and they said who are we we are grasshoppers we are nothing in comparison to the once you start thinking like that then you're into the world of the zilz the hardcore zilz the hardcore debasing comes from amik but there is a fraction when we think less of the Purity and the Splendor and the Majesty CL when you think less then you're into a and that's I'm suggesting when you think less and you degrade and you downgrade what does it mean the standards of Jewish of of Kusha of of Holiness of P then you're downgrading CL that is and that is the clarity of vision which I think we must take out that is the meaning of in the times of Po that's what they benefited they looked and they saw and they felt and because of that they felt Less in CL one shouldn't feel like that on you'll feel very very clear I'd like to mention you know Anam Kipper when it comes to kidre and we say about all our vows all their vows should be they shouldn't exist at all you should know all the standards of the all their it'll all be it'll all be completely aned when it comes to the times of Mia I'm suggesting now grasp now the great standards of cloud Israel so one won't feel embarrassed and regret when it comes to the time of mhia when you'll see they're all bet there's nothing there in their standards what we have in the tah not to be n not to be overwhelmed not to be say something is something special not to feel like a grasshopper in front of the I think that's a problem in Greece that was a problem in Germany I think that's still a problem nowadays in England and America as well they become so impressed by the pageantry the pump and the glory of the the money it's not something we have to recognize what CL is it's interesting do you remember the episode when was on and he turned around to the people and said as follows he said laal be clear exactly are you going to Hashem or you going to Bal I think that's exactly what's going on here the ti the smudging which side do you on you recognize the kadus and the and the purity of the deeding or or have you gone to amik you've gone to the other nations of the world that I think is our Clarity of vision when it comes to after poem I think that's what our shush P should be like that is how we leave we leave PES we know where we're going from we leave yam we need sukus p is so short and it's such a balagan such a heas the rat everything gets confused it goes in and out and you lost P but we shouldn't feel like that we should feel we gain from what did we gain we have Clarity of vision we know exactly what to do and we have the clarity of understanding these points which we brought out I hope these points have helped you and you'll walk away from PO with Clarity of vision and no smudging of the of the of the borders at all mem I'm hoping to be in Lakewood New Jersey from April the 21st until May the 12th if you're interested in by coming into your community my email address is y Alpin y a l p r n RBS gmail.com y alpen RBS gmail.com I look forward to hearing from and