הרב יוסף יצחק ג'ייקובסון - אחים גלובל | שיחה מיוחדת בנושא 'והחזקת בו'

the yeshiva.net [Music] so my boy in bashem hashem and i want to thank my dear friend rav matti eichler for this privilege and this invitation the chairman of akhim global thank you so much for the schools and the privilege to be able to address this very special group of people and everybody for coming out here those of you who are here physically in the center of akhim or those of you who are here with us virtually or those of you who will watch the replay welcome to everybody i know that today's class or this evening's class and lecture sheer is dedicated in the loving memory of really an incredible human being who was responsible together with many others but one of the cornerstones the foundations of aachem global dedicated in the loving memory and they lunishmas who passed away other base just a little while ago and was interred in harassement a person who has become a symbol and an ambassador of love and respect an extraordinary father an extraordinary grandfather an extraordinary great grandfather an extraordinary husband and an extraordinary extraordinary child somebody who dedicated his life to tsar tsibur to the community of the jewish people and raj somebody who dedicated so much of his time and energy and resources to be able to help those who want to support themselves and their family with dignity those who need work those who need panosa those who want to who are freelancers who are startups who want to engage in startups or need help and assistance on every level financial help strategic help emotional help so this class is dedicated in his extraordinary memory because the work that ahim continues to do on a daily basis to help thousands and thousands of young men and women and men and women of all ages to be able to support themselves and their families is directly connected to his complete dedication and dedicated in honor of his wife of his dear wife anna and their children yankee and moishi who was today the president of akhim and the daughter haley and all of the children all the grandchildren and all the great grandchildren la riches yama vishanam tavis and thank you very much and thank you for everybody everybody who's here so as uh rabbi aikla told me that this year was dedicated especially in the week of parshas bahar at least parshas bahari neri syral we are still reading precious emmer the americans are a little behind the israelis this time sometimes it's the other way around until i think mata smash say when we're going to have shalom bayes we'll have reconciliation because pashu's bahar is really the parsha that is the foundation of the entire work of akhem global parties bharat is the parsha that deals with one of the greatest challenges of history it's been like this 3 300 years ago and it's still we still have the issue and that's the issue of inequality in the market poverty and as winston churchill once said we're talking about the british winston churchill once said he said capitalism is the unequal distribution of success socialism is the equal distribution of misery the free market is something we cherish and the free market the idea that people can generate income and generate success and generate revenue is something that the toyota not only advocates and allows but the toyota really supports it and supports it in a very profound way all the hallochs that deal with biles ownership are a testament to this and yet free market is a very precious thing but so is equality but the two ideals can't work together because free market is very good in generating revenue but it's not so good and how do you distribute it in a way that there is equality and the uniqueness of toyota and is that it doesn't have just a simple solution to this problem it's a very complex issue it's an extremely complex issue and parsha's bahar is really the foundation and tereshabiksav for the hashkafa of yiddishkait of yadus on the whole issue of how we deal with money and how we deal with the distribution of money as we will explore some of these points in the sheer now one of the keep sukim in parishes behind khof hey pasek meaning when your brother becomes poor he experiences poverty so mata yada his hand his hand wants to get support with you so you should hold on to him exactly you should hold on to him you should support him you should be makahazakim but here it means hold on to him even the gay and the social the foreigner who came to live here so that he should be able to live with you so rashid says what does it mean by exactly hold on to him don't allow him to fall down hold on before he falls why because then it's going to be difficult to raise him back up when his hand is losing grip hold on to him you know his hand is losing grip and he's falling hold on to him la mazza diamond actually decides to give us a metaphor the metaphor comes from tyrus kainen an illustration ashley doesn't always do this he does this in unique situations when he feels that the illustration the parable is going to help us understand the mass there's a donkey who's carrying a burden as long as the burden is on the donkey atta tifa's boy umami one person can grab it and keep it on the donkey nuff once it falls down it's so heavy even five people can't lift it up as long as it's still on the donkey it didn't fall then one person could come hop it and it doesn't fall once it fell oh yeah what's rashi trying to say somebody is poor somebody doesn't have money so hold on to him rashi is telling us here the kiddish of this passage the hindu of this positive is not to give sadaqa to the poor there's a lot of sukim to give sadaqah to the poor famous parishes the positive is talking about somebody who wants to support themselves the donkey is still functioning the donkey is carrying a burden but the burden is about to fall off so rashi says if you wait if you delay it once the burden falls it's going to be very very hard to bring it back up once the person cannot find the means to support themselves anymore then it becomes extremely difficult it's much more money and much more energy to be able to help them out to be able to bring them back to where they were or just to be able to give charity to them because then you just have to support them rashid says with the traders saying allow a person the dignity to be able to continue carrying their burden to be able to support themselves based on and fascinatingly the rambam the national god of the great eagle and hill saiyan turned this into the classic aloha about the eight levels of ztaka the rambam says in his inimitable beautiful language there are eight levels eight gradations in sudoku one beyond the other and the rambam uses these words oh so rear for the rambam the rambam could have just said the first one and i know that it's the greatest because he says there's eight levels so damon could say milor is showing i know it's the greatest because he's going to do seven levels afterwards why does the ramen have to add my leg but that's what these are his words the great level of there's nothing higher than that really there's nothing i don't think you have a better mission statement for athen global to translate somebody who holds on to the hand of a jew who is experiencing poverty and you give him a gift or a loan he could pay you back or you take him in you invest with him you create a partnership with him you give him a down payment you give him some seed money or you provide him with a job you provide him with a malacca with a trade with an opportunity with a training with a company with an employer in order to strengthen him so he doesn't need to become a burden on the community he doesn't have to start walking around the people and saying please i don't have money i don't have food i don't have i don't have the ability to support myself in the family he has to start borrowing valsen is not you giving money to a poor person as charity that's a geval deca mitzvah you give money somebody who doesn't have and you give them to support themselves and their family shouldn't go hungry the kids should have shoes they should have khala for shabbos here the kiddish is something else exactly you hold on to him the exacto they shouldn't fall he shouldn't need to fall on the ground and then everybody has to come and pick him up because he's wounded he doesn't have anything no you hold on that he could remain on top of his game he could remain on top of his life story he could continue taking care of himself being why because you held on to him he needed some seed money he needed some advice he needed somebody to help him out of bankruptcy he needed somebody to provide him training he needed somebody to give him opportunities to give him offers to show him the ropes to network to give him a connection to help him with his startup or if he's a freelancer to give him opportunities to find for him a place where he or she could thrive to invest these are the words of the rambam written 900 years ago the rambam says there's nothing above this again he could have just said this is great this is the first level he says there's nothing above this because everything else is on a different level and i'll explain to you how i understand why the rambam adds these words the rambam continues is another seven levels of stuck what are the other seven levels very briefly the next level this is eight what's that level seven the lower level is if i give saduka to a poor person and he doesn't know who he got it from and i don't know who i gave it to classic martin besse i give it he gets it he doesn't know who he got it from i don't know who i give it to that's level seven what's level six i know who i'm giving it to but the poor person doesn't know who he's getting it from it's more dignified that's level six what's level five level five is he know who he he knows who he's getting it from but i don't know who's who i'm giving it to what's level four level four is i give it to him he knows who's giving it i know who's getting it but i give it on my own before he asks then there's level three i give it to him after he asks i give him he knows i know he asks and i give him what's level two i give him with a smile with a geshmach but i give him a little less than he needs he's still struggling and then the lowest level is i give him but i give him with a sour face you know what i mean i show him the door he feels the barak sha patrani that's the lowest level so see there's something interesting what the ram is telling you the number eight is not just the first level it's of a different level of government it doesn't go into the same you see the lowest seven levels it's basically i'm saving you i'm saving you i'm helping you i'm giving you charity either you know who gave it to you you don't know i know you i don't know i give it to you with a smile i don't give it to you with a smile kevaldi but it's of a different genre the first level ain't my layman is i'm not saving you i'm helping you save yourself that's a whole different category kevaldika giveaway a difference i'll tell you a story i heard from the balamaisa there's a jew his name is rabbi yosef talushkin joe taloshkin joseph toluskin he's a famous author in the united states he wrote many many books he wrote a book on jewish humor in a book on jewish literacy uh he once we were once flying together to south carolina on a conference by the federation on jewish continuity so we flew together on a little airplane so we were sitting near each other so joe taloshkin of joseph tolushka told me a story story that happened with his father it's very very moving story very moving story the story is his father's name was taloshkin he's he had a zadah some of you probably knew jose was here was a ravenboro park he wrote a saifa called taras mayam he was a big expert on mikvoyas missing taloshkins but he had a father absolutely was an elder a simple earlier thing and he worked as an accountant he told me my father was one of these people who worked his entire life you know he never took anything from anybody he woke up early in the morning he dive in he put in a full day of work he supported his family with simplicity but with dignity as an accountant one of his clients was the secretariat of the laboratory the secretary of the bhava bhavachireba he was one of the he was the accountant that did the bookkeeping the bills whatever he did he tells me in the mid-1980s his father suffered a stroke a serious it was a serious stroke and he was in the hospital he lived in brooklyn in new york he was in the hospital a stroke victim and it was devastating you know obviously he was just in the hospital and he tells me he gets a call he gets a call from who from one of the laboratories secretaries a jew named rabbi yudul krinsky so zangasund rikunski tells him that the lubavitcher would look over the invoices at the end of the month and he's looking over some of the invoices and he tells rabbi krinsky there's a discrepancy here yes there's a discrepancy between something is off so right currency says i look into it that ever says why don't you ask me to check it out and maybe he can reconcile it for us so krabi currency calls joe toluskin and he says i want to come over to the hospital to show it to your father so joe tells me he says rabbi jacobs i tell rabbi krinsky didn't you tell the rabbit that he's a stroke victim he had a stroke i don't understand are you going to go bother him in the hospital with some bill that you have so the buddle tells him that heaven knows that he had a stroke that ebba was notified right when he had the stroke did everybody knows so he said so why didn't you tell the department he says listen did heaven knows he had a stroke that ever asked me to go ask him i'm not going to go ask that ebb he had a stroke you forgot we you know house doesn't do that so joe tells me he says i felt very like you know that he worked he worked by the way by the rebels office for so many decades and how could you know how could you forget he had a stroke the buddha said listen the never asked me to do this let me do it she said to come to the hospital he said he comes to the hospital with the bills and he gives it to the telus starts looking at it and it wasn't a complicated thing it was a very simple thing and it was hard for him to speak but his eyes light up and he says i'll show you the mistake i'll show you the mistake and he caught the mistake and he reconciled the discrepancy and everything was wonderful and joe taloshkin tells me on the airplane he says you will not understand how much life that gave my father because he was feeling so useless he was feeling like such a for the first time in his life he's just macabre he's just passive the first time in his life he felt so unneeded so useless you know he worked every single day like he felt like he has to contribute to society and for the first time he was just debilitated paralyzed he said i was upset i did have and then i suddenly realized i suddenly realized that that ever could have figured out the discrepancy in a few moments maybe a few seconds up to the number [Laughter] he didn't want my father to help him with the bill he wanted my father to know that he's needed and he says you should know that that helped him so much come back to life and he said he got back he got out of it and he continued to function he continued to live for quite a few years and when he told me the story i understood something even a poor person who gets all of his money from dhaka he has to take part of the money that they give him for zakah so you have to make sure to give him money that he should be able to get stuck and i thought to myself why why i don't understand instead of having the poor man give tzedakah take that money and give it directly to another poor man no when i give you tzadak i can only give you bread and i can only give you cereal and i can't only give you water and milk and vegetables and potato no i also have to give you extra monies that you should give to dr why the answer is because if a person doesn't give the person feels less than human we don't only give because i have so let me give i have extra giving is innate to the human spirit that's an aid to the human condition of zainab a person innately needs to be a giver not only a taker so if you want to help a poor person i can't just give you charity i also have to give you the dignity that you should feel that you're giving something you're not just taking and therefore i have to give you extra money to be able to give stock shlaima tolushkam was suffering that day not just physically obviously emotionally he had to feel that he can give that's what the rambam is telling us when athen takes a young man and helps this person not just take but give the person wants to give the person wants to give to themselves the person wants to give to others so that says that person to be able to help them establish themselves on their feet give them that independence give them that dignity dr rambam ain't come to the world of stake [Music] and it's an interesting thing with this inequality that the free market legisl the free market creates parshas bahar first of all introduces a lot of alohas from shmita to youville to all the halachas of freeing the earth on your evil and sheikh and loans interest-free loans and seductive et cetera et cetera that's from a legalistic level but there's two other points made in parish's baha'i that are foundational and have come to define the sociological uh velt and xiaomi of the jewish people the the perspective the social hash of israel number one in the halachus of parish's baha'i you have the word brother i think ten times maybe more but at least ten times it says the word it keeps on saying your brother your brother ten times why why because the trade is teaching us psychologically how we have to look at each other we're brothers there's an old joke about a chimpanzee who was sitting in the zoo and he was reading two books the bible and charles darwin charles darwin's the origin of the species so the zookeeper the one who took care of the zoo the man took care of the zoo as the chimpanzee why are you reading these two books he said i'm trying to figure out am i my brother's keeper or am i my keeper's brother the idea of a brother cayenne says hashem am i my brother's keeper i'm responsible for my brother that's cain what does yousef say is i'm searching for my brother yes says a brother searches for a brother i want to be here for my brother doesn't say hashem i care for my brother take care of your own business i have my own problems akhim is built on the words of yosef beautiful void from cutler of lakewood he once said he told this to me montreal he heard it from one friday night he came to montreal there was an oink shabbos a butt and he said this vert it says impartial hey lois is going to do when somebody dies you shouldn't scrape off the skin from your body which was one of the signs of grief lice is guided so the hammer says in your vampire gimbal lice is going to do is lysaso a good is a good don't splinter claudius at all into different groups don't create much like a sin in cities of prague usually when the khazal explain a passage it's somehow connected to the theme of the passage here the pirush of teresha biksav and the pirates of tereshabal seem completely disconnected from each other and hummus licenses don't scrape over the skin and in in in the gemara in your vampires don't split the jewish people into separate disconnected fragments what's the connection lace is going to do mean don't scrape off skin so ghazal sometimes give another peter but it has to be disconnected this is the morales question in gurari guraria and the homicide parachute i think so the cutler he said something beautiful he said it's really the same thing it's the same parish it's just the premieres of it because it says in your xiaomi mesa nadarim that all the jewish people are kaguf echada like one body so when you separate yourself from another jew what are you doing you're not just separating yourself from another person it's like hashem you're amputating a part of your body because all the jewish people are one goof a one like one body so lysis go to do means don't scrape off the epidermis don't scrape off the skin off your body it's the gemara why goodness of goodness if there's a jew i disconnect from endless with imha i don't i wanna i don't wanna be connected to you i can't deal with you i loathe you i hate you i despise you i don't want to be connected get out of my life what am i doing i'm scraping off part of my own body i'm detaching myself part of my own body that rizal said that before governing in the morning you should say arena he says something beautiful he says it says embarrasses emma that's our parasite this week that kobal mum if a behemoth is about mum lawyer you can't bring it la yala you can't bring it up as a carbon or rats in left and why because it's blemished if a cayenne is about mummy can't serve in the basamitas if a behemoth is a balm if he's blemished you can't use the behemoth as a carbon so it's a magnetic says what is darwining so when i dive in i'm going up to hashem carbon it says in kabbalah say foreign so when i dive and i'm going up i'm coming closer to hashem but if i'm detached from another jew if i say you're not my brother i hate my brother i'm a balmoon i cut off limbs of myself he says can't become a carpet you can't be miley yourself to the abundant shell island so that result says before davening you say nami now you're another mashallah now you can come to the rebel initial islam because hashem includes all and when i tell hashem imagine somebody comes to you and says mati i love you but i hate your children because you don't love me you don't love me if you love me you take care of my kids if a yid comes i love god then you see another jew or him never i'm not talking to him hashem says no no no no if you love me if you really love me you love my children if you don't love me then you don't love my children so if i come as a balmo i can't i can't hashem says i need everything i need everybody it's all or nobody don't tell me that one child you're not inviting to the cast and if you're not inviting a child don't invite me don't invite anybody else we're all connected we're all one we never separate ourselves from each other that's the kiddush of parshas bahar kiyama kahika i have to thank rabbi for pointing out this faceboos to me this week's parachute parishes bahar tough reish mem alef so semester asks the question what does it mean what's the image i'm saying your brother became poor um his hand is losing the grip on his life meaning he's not being successful exactly hold on to him what's something very powerful he says the fact that mata that his hand is weak he doesn't have the ability to support himself it's because his money the money that he needs or the wisdom that he needs is with you it's with you it means that you have the power to hold on to him again is with you and he explains as follows we say in benching every day is who's talking about the world not everybody ate now some people in australia are sleeping talk about me talk about us me my family there's another question people ask this to me when people come sometimes they start benching they say azan asalam kuli you know what's happening in africa you know how many people are suffering from malnutrition in africa hashem we have no shortage of food and we shouldn't take it for granted for many generations people woke up in the morning and they didn't know if they're going to die from hunger or from a famine from a plague from a virus or from violence today we live in a time that in much of the civilized world more people are dying from coca-cola then they're dying from hunger you know that in the last few years more people are dying from obesity than from starvation it's a good value but it's not in the whole world some people are starving so this facema says how beautiful you saw it gevaldikavert it's such a nice word he says let me tell you how hashem built the world hashem built the world in a way that nobody has everything it says what to teach me yet the catholic kanye has what they teach me why there's no such a thing that there's something in the world that's not a spirit everyone has something to teach me nobody has it all everybody needs somebody else i need you for money i need you for advice i need you for wisdom i need you for your ms i need you for your midness i need you for your left i need you for your humor i need you for your authenticity even every worm contributes to the ecosystem to the food chain to the food web every worm every fossil every bone why so that fascema says because this way we figure out the truth that everybody has a piece of godliness nobody owns everything if somebody would think everything is by me you would forget the truth that we're all part of a greater oneness and that oneness is reflected in each creature and therefore each one of us needs the other you need me and i need you there's no person i don't need there's no person i can't learn from either i need you for money or i need you for wisdom or i need you for authenticity or i need you for your humor or i need you for your help i need you for your assistance every person has something unique and indispensable to contribute to the cosmic symphony it's like ballads it's like notes in a ballad every note is indispensable it's like musicians or musical instruments in a symphony every instrument has its unique flavor that it adds like a jigsaw puzzle like limbs in a body every limb every organ every cell from the 80 trillion trillion cells contributes its uniqueness there's no such a thing i'm self-contained because if i would feel i'm self-contained i would lose touch with reality anoint mulvade they were all part of oneness and therefore he says hashem created the resources that we should be able to nurture the whole world but those resources are sometimes given to a certain person or to a group of people and we have to share we have to realize we're all in it together sometimes governments or individuals are in a corrupt state and they don't do their job so azan asalam kuli the way hashem served nurtures us is not he gives everything to everybody sometimes he gives part of your wisdom to me and i have the responsibility to give it to you and then he gives you something for me and then you have the responsibility to give it to me and that's how the world works he says everything it needs every day but and that's why we say but there's a condition the condition is we have to realize that we're all one he wasn't the zanmi he was on a sometimes your food is by me sometimes my food is by you the madrid says here in men that this refers both not just money it's also wisdom it's also wisdom a whole madrid is based on it is a when the poor person meets the wealthy person and he helps the poor person mayor aynay it's in money and it's in wisdom like the gemara says and tomorrow and the madrid says they both need it i need to give you not only for you for me also mayor because the reason i have what i have is the world is one unit so he says if you see your brother is struggling with panasonic it's because this is with you the help is within you it's in me sometimes i say i don't have the power he says you'll come together and you will see the extraordinary blessing that exists but for this i have to realize that we have six minutes for maidev so in six minutes i'm gonna share with you another two beautiful insights there's an incredible incredible halacha in talmud urushalami in mesekis arla and here you see how the world of science and the world of halakhah the world of botany and taira it's all one it's all one ain'tly says the whole world is a reflection of allah it's a beautiful titan you're walking you're taking a hike with china you're learning also and you interrupt your learning voice the toyota considers you like you endangering your life because you said manoy lonza the tree is beautiful the landscape is beautiful and i ask you a shiloh rabbi what's the problem he was walking he was learning and then he saw a beautiful tree a beautiful landscape of beautiful heaven a beautiful sea and he started to be mashable there's broccoli that you make are natural phenomena you go to a zoo you see yamagatas certain mountains what's what's the messiah when you say man you're praising one of the beautiful interpretations is he says how beautiful this tree is he thinks that there's two worlds there's a world of torah and there's the world of nature and in order to celebrate nature you have to interrupt your learning the emma says anoid mulvady it's all one you don't have to stop your learning to say how beautiful this tree this tree is a continuum of learning is alberta so the whole world is a reflection of there's no separateness there's no two separate things there's the world of tyra and then there's the world of parnos this is what endangers our souls it's not two separate worlds it's one world a night mulvaney and when we help a person infuse their daily life with the dignity of having the ability to be able to learn efforts to educate their kids with tithe it's one world so here you have an example in your xiaomi for this type of unity a fascinating about arlo what's the talk is as follows i have a vine i have a vine everybody knows the first three years of a tree you can't eat the fruits you're kind of enough from the fruits it's in israel now i take a shrig i take a branch of the vine and i bend it and i put it in the earth because i want to make what's called a new vine a maverick and i want to make a new vine i take a branch osmoras rig from the vine and i put it into the earth a little further and i want it to grow from the earth okay now it starts growing with new grapes do i have to do arlon the new vine or not so the sheila is is it independent or is it not independent if it's still connected to the source and it gets its hues it's vitality from the source then you don't have to do arlo because it's just part of the first tree but if it's considered a new vine and it's getting most of its nurture from its own roots it develops itself it's called its own plant that's living from its own power it develops itself then you have to count three years of our law how do you know how it works so that bb says in the name of listen to this he says as follows if the branches of the new vine are turned away from the first tree then you know it's getting its nurture from the first tree there's no arla but if the branches of the new tree are facing the old tree the mother the bubble the mother then you know that it's independent why if i eat from you i'm embarrassed to look at you so the reborn is listen to this when the new tree is living over the old tree it's embarrassed so the leaves turn away i can't look at you because i'm ashamed but when i'm already living off myself no i'm not ashamed now i could honor you i could look at you i could say thank you you know when somebody you did somebody a favor the businessman listening know what i'm talking about you know when you did somebody a favor and they'll never look at you again because they can't deal with the fact that you help them what do they say when you do somebody a favor give them little rocks so when they start throwing rocks on you it shouldn't be big rocks it's hard for me to look at you from this came the term named bread of shame bread of shame means when i'm living off your bread i feel embarrassed i don't have dignity why don't i have dignity because i know it's coming from you the buenos air made a nature where does the mauryan say adam roize because one cave of two of mine i want more than nine of yours there's a beautiful tai cha adam writes it because it actually says that hashem is considered our friend hashem could give me everything for free but other rights have become shallow it's more precious that i generate it on my own that's why hashem made that a person should work a reading hashem puts in adam to go [Music] why because without it it's named the tree doesn't look at its source i look away from it one of the greatest one of the greatest special gifts we can give a person ania martial kim atta to be daimler boy to be able to feel that adam laumal that i have the ability by hashem to be able to create a future for myself to be able to create a future for my family to be able to be a contributor to my family to my community to be able to be not only i'm a kabul also that power to give a person to take away the suffer the shame as the yourself he says is extremely extremely profound and i'm going to conclude with a void from the belzer roof the hilah cabela's one said it says in particular i think this comes from the shalom of bells the the ikla family will probably be able to correct me if i if i attributed it to the wrong one but i think it's the helicopter strolling of bells says if you have a poor person in one of the cities don't close your heart look ahmets don't don't plug your heart and don't shut your hand open your hand give him sadaqa dey maxed give him what he needs so the bells are of this shalom of belle's asked you see how redundant this is don't close your heart okay i get it open your heart open your hand he says don't close your heart don't close your hand open your hand you could have just said don't close your heart open your hand i understand why it doesn't say open your heart because it's not enough to have an open heart you have to have an open hand also as follows sometimes there's a person who has a closed heart so you open your heart but you still have a closed hand because when your hand is closed look at me all the fingers end in the same place you see when you open every finger has a different measurement so he says sometimes people have an open heart and they get stuck but they give to everybody equally i don't care here 18 18 180 180 180 180 181 i give everybody equally he says no your hand is closed your heart is open you have to tune into what the person needs this person needs this this person needs this that's the uniqueness of him you have to understand what the person needs this person needs this measurement this person needs an aids this person needs seed money so she needs a partner this person needs an investment this person needs a job this person needs training this person needs to learn something about high tech about computers tune into the individual state of the person to be able to build him or her up so that we could be able to fulfill this great thing that the rambam says this great mitzvah bach is this class is brought to you by the yeshiva.net please help us 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