Vayeira: "To Bring The Many To Merit" - The Fascinating Historical Account Of Rav Yaakov Culi

this tour class is brought to you by torahanytime.com everyone I want to share with you a very important thought that we should seriously consider impartial we read the Shabbos the negotiations of avrah mavina with the ribana where Abraham avinu is bargaining to for Hashem to save the city of sudim and avrah mavino tells perhaps there are 50 sadikim in the city half tisba will you wipe away and not beer the place if you look carefully at this pasok there is a word which is extra there's a Superfluous word says in middle of the city what's saying the word foreign of what relevance is the word I want to share with you the answer that is found in the safer amudi arazim written by the mccobel rabies Margolis who brings down that he heard from the admir attacker alfandri who said in the name of raviacov Cooley now before I tell you what the answer is let me just share with you the following so this past Sunday night I was speaking in golders green and I finished the venue they asked me to speak about motherhood a topic that I know nothing about but bar Hashima went very well and I'm coming in I'm on golders Green Road and I'm walking down the street and someone stabs me says Rabbi Gladstone I've been meaning to ask you this question for a long time I don't know the guy from a hole in the wallacham how are you say rubber glad scene I need to ask you you know I just feel like something is uh Missing in my life and and I'm a good man I'm a good I'm a good guy I do what I have to do I dive in with a minion three times a day I learn every day so at that point I and I ask him okay you learn every what do you learn are you learning the right things you know people ask Rob on him all kinds of shylists often they forget to ask some of the most important questions what should I learn I said you learn gemara every day so yeah I learned them every day you learn halacha do you learn more sir I learned monster I do I do I follow the Halal I raise my family properly but you know I'm looking for a challenge I'm looking for something a little bit more I feel assert and lacking so I asked them the following do you teach anybody is do I teach look I'm not a revi I'm not a Rob I'm not a Russia Shiva teaching is not my thing I said you know what teaching is a madrega that everyone needs to strive for everybody needs to aim at and it's a madrigo that's really A Cut Above sometimes we're we're at at the current moment but it's a level that we all need to strive for the concept of being mizake isberg writes in his biographical notes on robistro cilantro now when we start with cilantro was in the peak of his his youth when he was sort of reaching his full potential and he's going out into the world and trying to make a decision what his path in life should be what will be most favorable in the eyes of Hashem and at first where we saw cilantro said you know to get closer to the river often a person has to go into solitude meditate Focus Hashem to learn to Davin and to limit interactions with people this way a person could avoid all kinds of time and all kinds of all kinds of mishaps and pitfalls and perhaps this is the better approach in life to sort of become a recluse and to to be miss boynane and miss miss boydade and stay away from society at Large and then we'll be spelled cilantro upon further analysis realized this is not the way that Hashem desires especially with someone with ability and capacity and talent as he had that the revolution wants a person to be out in the world engaged with people involved with people's life for the purpose of being mizakis arabin bringing Merit to the multitude because after all right even if a person would go into seclusion and reach the level of is not really that interested in a person reaching the level of Malachi asharis you know why because revengeum already has thousands and tens of thousands of Malachi asharis but the Revolution was interested in is a person who could go out and be mazaka as sarabim and and sometimes when mazaka saraba means limiting one's own growth and one's own development for the sake of the seabor and I suggested humbly that if a person is doing what they need to do perhaps the next level and the next step that a person needs to take is to go out and to teach and to be mazakis I'll give you a very beautiful marama says hey said don't start up with me I would ensure that Torah would never be forgotten I would take five young boys teach them I would take six young men teach them but teach one boy boracious one boy shemais one boy viagara one boy bar one boy davaram one boy's Ryan one boy my one boy Nasha one boy nazikim and then have them teach it to each other so Masha asks you know why doesn't he just teach all the 11 boys or even better teach one boy kala tarakula and then let him teach it to call Israel was aiming at was to elevate his talmudim not just to the level of alloy maid but to the highest madrega of Torah and the highest madrega of Torah is being a malamed when a person not only learns when a person teaches their Torah knowledge is on a different level it's coursing through their veins it's part of their system when a person has to give a sheer give over convey to others that's the highest level of Torah the highest level of connections Hashem is giving over to others rights that nobody really knows for sure if they could reach a level and could a mass midslice enough to Merit ilamaba because after all everybody has a various inside the only real guarantee we have to make it to the next world is it for mazakis haramim if we bring Merit to the multitude that is a merit that sort of overcomes any possible mishaps and pitfalls that a person may fall into in this world let me share with you now the answer that Rebecca of Cooley gives to this question of why the Tarak Dosha says but to really appreciate this answer I want to share with you some fascinating fascinating biographical information about Rebecca of Cooley rabiakov Kuli was born in the year 1689 to his father of Mahar Kuli and raviakov Kuli was the grandson of Ramos was responsible for two very important works the safer get poshott and the safer Ezra as well as other svaram but interestingly these Farm were put together by his grandson ramjakov Kuli now raviakov Kuli is best known for his Mayon Lois maybe you're familiar in many schools they have the English translation of the mayam loes of Rabbi Arya Kaplan one of the most brilliant Torah Scholars of the 20th century what's very interesting about the English edition of the ma'am Louise is the name Lois was written originally in ladino ladino is um to Spanish as Yiddish is to German Latino is like a hebrew-sized Jewish version of Spanish and amazingly Rabbi Arya Kaplan translated the mayam LOE is not from the Hebrew it wasn't written in Hebrew it was translated into Hebrew in the 1960s he translated it from the original ladino and ravia Copeland writes that the reason he chose ludino to translate is he felt the Hebrew was very ambiguous and Incredibly this Genius of the Arya Kaplan learned ladino and he was able to translate the name Lois into English from ladino he writes that at first it was somewhat difficult to understand Latino but then words like judicimo in Latino he easily was able to recognize that the word Judy jimo is the ladino Spanish word for Judaism and another word of interest is Mundo which is senior master de la Mundo Master of the Universe well um one looks at the Mayhem Lois and one wonders about the scholarship of rabiac of Coulee it seems to be a work of collection of midrashim and some light halachays and agarita and one would then think maybe raviaco of Cooley was um a scholar of the Agoda a scholar of the midrashim but we don't necessarily have uh an insight into his level of scholarship into the more complex areas of Taira halacha and pelpo but incredibly I was not aware that rev yaakov Coulee was actually one of the great Disciples of one of the all-time great svadicuda roseness who lived from 1658 1727 reviews that's what we all know what is not as well known is that review the Rosen has passed away on the Nissan 1727 and during the Avalos his house was looted and the manuscripts of Mishra stracham were stolen was the one who pieced together fragments of parashus drachem and Mission even if you look in the mission element you'll notice that there are hagois these footnotes written by raviakov Kuli himself he is the one who pieced together the fragments of the mission alamallah one of the great commentaries on the rambam parashas drachem one of the most complex Farm ever written on the Hamish for an individual to piece together such works it obviously requires Torah scholarship of the highest level clearly he was an all-time giant an all-time giant going and learning and pilpo Mission one of the most complex clearly we're dealing with one of the Olam someone who when it came time to write his life's work surely could have written something of a more complex nature and it then is a wonderment why rabiac of Cooley would write a work like me I'm Lois it seems to be something for the masses something for the unlearned perhaps but not something of the highest level of Torah scholarship and it's it's somewhat of an enigma until we realize if you look in the shame on the safer Ezra who which was from khabib the grandfather of cooling gives us some insight into the motivation of raviaco of Cooley into writing this forum and he writes for shamati mikadushas I heard about the sanctity and piety of Cooley and his his diligence and Tyra I saw the Swarm that he published from his rosiness the author of The mishna lamelach how he put together Mission he put together parishes drachem how he put together his grandfather's work get pashat but then says the foreign hastily and he wrote with proficiency on Shazam playskim like you see in the safer mayam lawyers do you know why he wrote the Mayhem lawyers to be mizaka the rabim says you know what I say about him Ashraf fortunate is he the ashrae halkai fortunate is his portion in life surely he could have wrote works of maybe higher scholarship but he gave up his maybe Prestige and fame to bring the multitude for righteousness like robisro cilanter he understood what the revenuesome wants in this world is greater than somebody elevating himself the highest Madre goes being mazakis arabin and in fact I just saw this evening in the haktam of the mayam lawyers himself says he may wonder why I didn't write works of Greater scholarship he says I wrote it to be a mazaka sarabim and therefore this shot that I'm about to share with you Roy lamish amram is so fitting to the one who says it says rebiankovino understood that even if their Sadiq him in Sudan but if they're Sadiq him in their own dalarama is focused on their own avoidas Hashem focused on their own growth they will not save the city because that is not sufficient Merit for them to pray to protect the cities however maybe we could find 50 sadikim who are integrated with the city and connected to people and who can have an influence on people and Elevate people and be mazakis harab him because when you have Sadiq and that could Elevate other people then that is somewhat of a of a protection then we can anticipate and hope that maybe maybe one day the people will turn around since we have people who are interested in elevating them and bringing about their spiritual welfare who better than rabiac of Cooley himself could appreciate the value of being mazaki saravan could say this beautiful Insight someone who dedicated his energies he was able to complete the commentary of Mayan lawyers on the entirety of saferacious he was able to complete it on the majority of safer shemais more than 1100 printed pages and unfortunately he passed away at the age of 42 in the year and not only the zuchos you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com