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What's My Mission Before Mashiach's Arrival?
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What is the Mission of a Jew as we journey through the end of days, the times known as "footsteps of the Mashiach" ? Rabbi Alpren shares To find Rabbi Alpren's contact info go here: https://www.torahanytime.com/#/speaker?l=422
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Shalom.
This year is titled my mission in
Kalisell. It's the second in the series
of Evid Hashem. Remember the first one
last week we mentioned was the master
blueprint. The blueprint of how a person
should behave as a as an Ev Hashem. This
year takes the point a little bit
further using the same references. I'd
like to go back to the sentence which we
brought at the end of the creation. And
let's refer to it again and develop the
point a little bit further and in
particular to the times that we're going
through the times of the mash. Here we
go. The pos says at the end of the
creation
almost complimented himself and said all
that I created is to everything is very
beautiful is exceptionally good.
However, the med on that brings as
follows.
I remember hearing it from Shapiro
in when I lived there where said as
follows
says the message. What is this to be
compared to to a king who married off
his daughter and he made for her a
magnificent and a beautiful home and
furnished it, embellished it and made
gardens for her and made it as beautiful
as it possibly could be. He then turned
around and said to his daughter as
follows, "Bitty bitty my dear daughter
if only this and this home that I have
made for you, it would always be mal. It
would always create the same sort of
grace and favor in front of me as it is
when I made it when you get married.
Your wedding, your marriage would always
be the same."
says the name as follows says
my dear world that I created that all
that I put inside you would always be
and the that I have for the creation
which I did as I am at the time of
creation meaning years and thousands of
years later it would always be mal as it
is at the time of creation
question is what is the meaning the
definition of
I think is something very internal
something very unique in a person it's a
favor not necessarily something
dependent I think on beauty I don't
think dependent on money not dependent
on wisdom is something internal which
draws a person close to a person
somebody else the is something unique we
must ask the following question
what is the difference between when said
that the world created was to but in
reality is mal are we suggesting as
follows I'm asking rhetorically in the
following way are we to suggest that the
Niagara Falls or a beautiful sunset or a
beautiful sunrise is necessarily Mal
it's to is it necessarily mal when you
see all the collection of birds that
there are or the number of flowers that
there are all the type of food is that
all mal I would say it's very there is
tremendous and tremendous wisdom and
tremendous beauty inside the world you
take a seed and put it in the ground and
you have an apple tree coming out
unbelievable inside the world no
beautiful beauty and the types of wood
elm and pine and mahogany different
types of wood that you have all the
different selections that there are and
the variations of food and the different
types of rock formation if you go to the
kerit in Israel tremendously it's very
beautiful is it necessarily mal I don't
know if you could say that it's
but maybe we should turn to the end of
the creation when a college turns around
and says
let us make man in our image and it's
similar to us that's the formation
that's a form meaning at the end of the
creation it's not an afterthought having
done all that there is in creation now
let us now make man let us make man as
the of the purpose of all that there is
in creation that's the necess that's the
point which we must come out everything
was but now when you come to Adam now
you have something which is mal I'm
suggesting the efforts the character the
endeavors the the purpose of a person
the personality which he puts the
character that is a mal in a person no
not necessarily the beauty or the the
wisdom behind it but the efforts of a
But in the and therefore we can suggest
as follows an hashem is someone who
follows the butin
in his image in his similarity that is a
necessary definition of
is much something quite different from
it can be but is something from a human
being which comes out that's the
necessary definition I think we
misunderstand that to is the science the
wisdom the beauty of the creation but
the mal was dependent on the human
being. That is what Moshushmill had
said. I'd like to lan add my own two
cents to that. Where's the proof of it?
Not that the med's proof, but look
carefully.
I would suggest that probably one of the
most tragic paras that there are in all
of the tora is maybe his pas for one
simple reason said it's all but in the
end it all has to go. Khish is called
nothing is what meaning diagra falls and
all the apples and the wood and the
birds and the tree everything there is
all has to go. Why?
It wasn't worth it anymore. Nothing was
worth it anymore except at the very end
of paras.
There was one savior. The survival of
the world depended on Noah finding and
we mentioned last week that the
Raman all say Noah would not have been
saved just because he was a sad to him.
That's impious. But what really saved
the world was no says Ramban. His
actions were were very sweet and
pleasant. That's what saved the world.
And therefore we must answer as follows.
Everything in the creation is
necessarily but the hashem comes out
from the and that's the which a human
being has the efforts which he makes how
he behaves how he conducts himself that
is the and therefore maybe we can come
out with the following theory in this
year. The mission of a person in Clalism
is to make himself into an e hashem. The
e hashem is something which is mal not
necessarily his wisdom nor his beauty
nor his money that he has but the way he
behaves his conduct his character his
concern for others. I think that's what
the comes from the the proof the proof
is from after all
was going to but that would not have
saved him says the
savior of the world the lifeline which
came out the survival depended on
that was the point behind it all and
therefore we now come I like to that is
really what we said last week I'd like
to build on this point how does a person
possibly build himself up on that
profile in the times of the mashia In
the times in the times the tremendous
chaos and confusion and great
difficulties which are going on in the
world at the moment how do you possibly
build your profile of an EB hashem in
these times of the Mashia it's really a
continuation of the Shia from last week
but I want to develop it on a certain
theme my mission in Kal is in the times
of the before the Msiah comes how do I
become an Hashem on the basis of I would
like to turn to no
As we know was the wisest of all people.
There are tubsim in hashim which are
known throughout all the mafim all the
commentators as really being the formula
from what we're going through now the
times of the mashik tukim in the perf
and I'd like to discussim with you and
show you I believe from this these twoim
we can derive the formula which creates
an hashem and mal in the following way
I'd like to read the pos to you say it
out to you but I want you to concentrate
on the mosh the parable which is given
and the lesson which comes out of these.
Here we go.
This is the remember that is a
conversation between the who is a
andal is a here's the talking to the
please tell me you who I love says
where will you shepherd me where will
you bring me where will you guide me
where will I settle but in the heat of
the day says the vagon in the times of
great source in Kanis which is the time
of the mashik the tremendous
anti-semitism which is building up
around the world enormous anti-semitism
we know in every single country Europe
is almost a no-go place where you can go
my sister in golden green told me that
uh nearly every mayor in England in
every city is a Muslim tremendous
overwhelming uh influence of of the
Muslims in different countries around
the world United Nations who is a friend
of Israel who is the victims of terror
are now being penalized that's what it
comes out from the rest of the world
unbelievable
the tragedy of those soldiers who were
killed. And I went around to some of the
houses
of these soldiers who fell during the
war.
There were diamonds in their families,
diamonds in their communities. Somehat
exceptional people and the homes which
are broken and the orphans and the
widows which are carrying on in Clasb
and the sick and the people who are
maimed, the difficulties even though the
hostages have come out is for but
nevertheless the pain, the trauma which
they're going through to rebuild their
lives and all the families as well.
being put into prison. There's the
tragedies which are going on and we can
certainly see it's
means in the heat of the day in the heat
of exile which we're feeling now.
a wondering Jew amongst all the nations
of the world says back to the answers
back
I will tell you you're most beautiful of
women you're most beautiful of nations
go out in the footsteps of the flock and
shepherd
your little ones
to the tents of the shepherds
I would like to ask you why is it that
depict picks the whole scene of what's
going on now as a shepherd with flock.
No, he where are you going to guide?
Where are you going to lead us? Where
are you going to guide us? Where's the
going to take us and shepherd them to
the tent? Why is the reference brought
out of flock and shepherds? What's
behind it all? Three times he says the
word
why why is this marshall given the
parable given by which is a prophecy of
our times which we see at the moment.
Why is a prophecy based on the theme of
a shepherd with flock? What's the reason
behind it? Perhaps it's this. I remember
hearing from Matis
the following explanation. There is
something very I think he brought it
down from a sus.
He explained as follows. There is
something quite unique about a shepherd.
A shepherd is a human being and he's
looking after animals. How can he
possibly understand the needs of a
flock? He's a human being. He doesn't
know when they need to drink. He won't
know when they need to sleep. He's a
human being. He doesn't feel when you in
order to be a shepherd, you must be
quite unique in your sensitivity, in
your alertness, in your empathy. You
can't possibly know what a sheep needs.
You're a human being, but that's the
great quality of a shepherd. You're
removed, but you're very close. That's
the nature. He's a unique person. He's a
human being, but he looks after animals.
He knows what they need. That's a
tremendous finger on the pulse, you
know, tremendous sensitivity to be aware
what a flock needs. That's the nature of
it. That's quite quite unique here. That
is a nature of a shepherd. And
therefore, perhaps we can suggest as
follows. Schlama Hamelik in his prophecy
of the times that we're going through is
suggesting as follows. In order to
survive the golas, you need to be a
shepherd like with flock. You must have
the caring, the sensitivity, and the
understanding. And I think that is the
nature of the mal the comes out of the
way you behave towards others the abas
the the the care the alertness the
sensitivity that you have the empathy
that you have you're removed you might
be well be removed but you're on the
ball you're touching the point you're
sensitive to the needs interesting
described as hashem he is my shepherd
he's moved completely he's as we say in
hal mz ken he sits by of is he comes
down to see he's very high but he comes
down to see what's going on
he is totally removed but he's there in
the kitchen he's there in the he's there
where you are you're walking down the
street when you're driving on the high
he's there for you he's removed but very
close up and that's the reason the
definition I think of a shepherd a
shepherd is a lever of caring I think
that rais is a profile of an everem the
not necessarily it's more than there's a
which comes out and that is but
in the image of in the form when you're
mal when you have caring for other
people interesting if you look in the
beautiful Mim of the alter from Kelm
look at the first 15 or 20 m of the
alter they all talk on one theme on the
theme of
be caring and understanding to other
people one of the mim I think right at
the beginning the alter says as follows
why was it that mohenu was chosen to be
the mashia of Israel in mitzvah what was
so unique about Moshau. Nowhere do we
know that he was the greatest saddic.
Nor does it say he was the greatest. But
it was one thing about Mosha Rabenu.
This boy of 12 left the palace and
walked the streets of Cairo crying his
eyes out. He couldn't bear to see what
was happening to Clalis. He cared. He
was a royer. He was a He was a shepherd.
He cared. He saw an old woman carrying
something which was impossible and he
shifted the burden. He helped people. He
cared. He cried tremendously about what
was going on. says the medish to Mosha
because you left the palace the luxury
and you went and cared for my people I
will leave Shayim and speak to you per o
I will speak to you mouthto mouth for
that reason Mosha was chosen to be the
shepherd the the leader of khalis
because he was a shepherd he was a he
was caring he was that nature he was mal
and that was the true ease mob was
called eashem the mal
it's interesting if you look there were
two women who non-Jewish women
completely removed from Kalisrael who
became the most famous perhaps and the
most illustrious women in the whole of
Kalisel all because they acted like a
roy like a shepherd. Basia the daughter
of power came out and saw the child in
the in the cradle
and she had on him and she became the
surrogate mother of Mosher Rabenu. She
looked after Moshu. She cared for that
reason she was chosen to be the mother
the surrogate mother of Mosenu.
Interesting. The med brings out that
Mosha had 10 names. Why do we refer to
him as the word Moshe? Because Basia
called him Moshe.
I drew him out of the water because of
what Basia did who was a shepherd. For
that reason, Moshe was called Moshe and
not all the other names. Avda and he was
given. He wasn't called that. He was
called Moshe because of what Basia did.
Second woman, a non-Jewish woman, also a
princess in the palace. Woah. W left her
father's home. She could have stayed in
the palace. She left it and went with
her mother-in-law, Normie, and then
turned round to her and said as follows,
"It's impossible for you to go down in
the field and gather the wheat in with
all the the crop." You can't do that.
It's too embarrassing for you. Normi,
the great influential woman,
I will go down for you. You stay where
you are, mother-in-law. For that, she
cared. She was interested. She was
looking after. The same theme, the
royer, the shepherd, the caring, the
alertness, the sensitivity. I think that
is the nature of
and when we act like that it's more than
just it's and that's the quality which I
think which is needed and that's the
reference I think for the mosh for the
parable of when he says
what will be the prophecy of is a
prophecy about a shepherd with flock
being caring towards others
and that's why Moshe was chosen And that
was the greatness of Basia and us as
well. The quality of Evan Hashem is that
the coas the interest the caring behind
it all. I remember hearing
in the hespert of um uh Kriskio
Mishkovski who was one of the great
Mashk Ben. He gave a hespert for a
Gersian Adelstein one of the Shiva
Panovich and he mentioned in his hespert
here in Matish a beautiful point. He
said that he had asked Gersian why was
it when when Gersian gave a hesit for
all he [snorts] mentioned was his
qualities and his uniqueness
he didn't talk about anything else and
he asked Gersian why is it that the only
spoke about le's qualities
[sighs]
and gersian answered him and said as
follows you know why because le held
that the most important quality in our
times s before the Mashiach is the
quality of caring of understanding of
uniqueness between
isn't that the prophecy of of he's
saying that
be a shepherd for somebody else be a
caring person for somebody else he said
Gersian used only that reference for
because that's where that was a problem
our time the difficulty that we have is
the relationship
maybe that's the point of as well the
second was described and we're still
living in the shadow of the mid the
second BD that's the quality which is
need the level of caring and that's the
the and that's the which is coming out
there's a mishna in pas
base I think it's
the mission says as follows
had five he turned around and said to
him
go out and see
which is the best quality which a person
can choose for himself. Sozo was one of
the time said and
turned around and said I think turned
around and said and
different ones came out
different qualities until
the last one turned around and said what
you need most of all is a good heart a
good heart said to his what said is the
most important of all because all the
others the and the is all included in
the definition of a le Listen
to these beautiful words. The shortb
I believe he was one of the masid of the
when he had died in the shortba said as
follows. What did Ben Zach mean when he
said go out and see Zach lived at the
time of the B at the time of the
destruction of second B mikdash he knew
it was going to be destroyed and he
realized from here on we're going into a
long golus a long exile so when you go
out when you're going out into exile
which is the quality that you need most
of all you need a le to that caring that
mal the ability to be caring that was
the caring understand the empathy the
you're removed but you're not removed
you're you're there you're on top you're
you're finger on the pulse you're there
involved with somebody that I'm thinking
is the that's the necessity of that's
the
the you need you can't survive in god in
exile if you don't have a le that's the
meaning behind it all
there is a m of one of the beautiful
musim says as follows the t is of a
person in has in this world is to be
something like a tino a pipe a pipe
means free flow whatever you have to
give over to somebody else whatever you
have pass on what you have maybe that's
the meaning also the said when we say
my purpose is to revive you and you
revive me everybody revive everybody
give something else there must be a pipe
a pipe means a free flow to give over
whatever you
commented on that mimer of as follows.
There can be two problems with a pipe. A
pipe can have a blockage and a pipe can
have a leakage. Matis mentioned in the
following way. A blockage means you gave
everything but you didn't give
everything over. A blockage means you
held something back. I'll give you an
example. You go to a wedding and you go
over to the say maz and walk on. That's
a blockage. You didn't really give a
mazle. You you like said it and moved
on. It wasn't. What you really should do
is look at the or the kala and give them
maybe a hug and an embrace and say in a
beautiful to them. That's what's called
a blockage means you didn't give it all
over. You didn't say everything over.
You just said maz is not enough. Maz
enough.
If you're saying something to say
something with all your heart, not just
to say mazo. My father Oliver Shalom had
a wonderful sense of humor. My father
used to say sometimes when you say good
chasers to somebody you get what's
called five sausages. You ever squeeze
five sausages? It's limp and is frail.
Nothing to it. You get five sausages.
Used to say I got f I didn't get a
straight of hand. I got five. Just a
limp hand. There's nothing to it. It's
not that's a blockage. You didn't give
everything over. When you're giving
something over to someone, you must give
it all a free flow completely over. A
leakage said Matio is as follows.
Supposing you gave a wonderful donation
of a million dollars to yeshiva. A
million dollars. But in reality, your
intention was that there should be a
dinner in your honor and a plaque
maiden. That's a wonderful gift, but
there's a leakage because you took
something off for yourself. It wasn't
really a complete gift. It was something
which you a leakage which you took for
yourself. That's not the full free flow.
That's not a free a free flow is when
everything is given over. You open your
home up to and everybody comes and sits
at your table. It's a beautiful thing. A
beautiful thing. But if your intention
is to be known as precidious, a profound
name of about it's a leakage. You took
something for yourself. When you took
something for yourself and you didn't do
it all over, it's a leakage because you
took something off. It wasn't really the
whole thing. That's the nature of the
pipe. The everything must be given over
completely.
I was thinking maybe we could embellish
this point in the following way. What
does it mean
of anem of aid? Maybe in the following
way. You know, I think our minds work
something like an icon on a screen on a
computer screen. I mean as follows. You
know on a computer screen there's like a
little cube at the top. You press the
cube and the icon and down comes a whole
file. A whole file comes out. It means
once you press that point you have
something a whole file comes out. That's
the nature of a computer. Our mind works
in a certain if I would say something to
you something you would open up a whole
if I would turn around to you and say
you immediately think of chauffeur you
think of dabing maybe think apple of
honey maybe you think of the whole idea
comes out to you. There's a theme which
comes out to you. If I would turn around
to you and I say to you uh then the
whole concept of sneez comes to mind to
you. Was it dress or behavior? Well,
what does sus mean? I think the same
thing really applies to also with a
person. If I would turn around to say I
want think about your mother or your
mother or your father or your Bobby or
your zeta I mention the name. Once you
mention the name then a whole file comes
out a deus comes out in your mind.
That's the nature of the mind. The
nature is you suddenly say something and
it opens up a whole impression in front
of you. I would like to suggest you
can't do this with a stranger because
you don't know. But if you're talking to
somebody who you know, you should have
an icon in your mind of who that what
that person needs to hear. Ayer who is
sensitive to somebody else when he sees
somebody else he's alert. He's aware
he's empathetic. He understands what the
person needs and acts and his behavior
is a that's the nature of it. When you
you see somebody, you hear something,
there should be a certain fire which
opens up in front of you. Let me give
you an example. What happened to me?
I went this last year to Lakewood, New
Jersey. Traveled with my wife on LL to
go to America for PES. And I as I found
my seat on the plane, I went to sit down
on the plane and the man next to me was
an Israeli man about 75 or something. As
I sat down in my seat, he turned around
and barked to me and said, "Don't you
dare put your arm on the armrest. That
armrest is for me." Initi said
do you know how you sit on the plane and
the armrest is for you or for me where
you put your arm he made it don't touch
it don't you put your arm there and he
let me have it m let me have it barking
my wife was sitting next to me said you
have a real problem there and I did have
a problem there I was about I'll be
honest you to punch him on the nose you
know what do you mean this is just and
then I voice I think I had seata
I stopped myself in the middle I didn't
say anything to him and I thought as
follows I don't know maybe the man
[clears throat] lost a son in Gaza. I
don't maybe a son is fighting in Gaza.
Maybe his wife just died. I don't know.
Maybe he's going to a makeup treatment.
I don't know. Maybe he himself has a
great problem. People don't usually
behave like that. I thought to myself,
he's barking cuz something is wrong. And
I stopped myself. I had tremendous. I
think it was a I stopped and I sat for
the whole of the flight a sardine 11
hours. I didn't move. I hardly put my I
didn't touch the armstress. There's some
there's something behind it all. I
thought to myself, there's something
behind this man. Why a person behaves
like that? There must be something
wrong. And I tried to behave as best as
I can. Remember at the end of the trip,
I said to him, have a good trip. And I
think he smiled at me, but I obeyed his
orders. You don't know. You don't know
what's going on with a person. You have
no idea.
Sometime later, I remember just in the
summer, I was sitting in Breezels in
May. I'm having a cup of coffee and the
man opposite in the next table turned
around to me. He said, "Do you speak
English?" I said, "Yes, I do speak
English." He said, "Where do you come
from?" I said, I originally come from
England and now I live in Mamemed
Shemeshesh. I said, where are you from?
He said, I'm from Detroit. I looked at
him and I could see there were tears in
his eyes. He looked very low. He looked
very depressed. I turned around to him
and said, "What's what's the issue with
you?" He turned around to me and said as
follows. This is what he said to me. He
said, "You know, I had a wonderful
marriage. I was married to my wife for
45 years and we loved each other and
then she died of covid my wife and I
felt I couldn't live by myself and I now
have come to live in Telster a second
marriage it's not so easy not so easy I
heard him out you know a difficulty a
problem he had and I I tried to listen
to him and I tried to give him come you
don't know what people are going through
no it was very difficult it's not so
easy a second marriage to adjust I had a
wonderful first marriage here the point
no be a little bit more sensitive be a
bit more alert where the person is
coming you don't know you don't know
what a person is going through and
therefore I think the nature of
is be alert await a little bit more a
little bit more alert to think of who is
a person a person doesn't usually bark
like that person doesn't usually think a
little bit further what's going on in
the person
I'll tell you something which happened
to me where I made an awful mistake and
I realized it when I wasn't alert enough
when we first came to live in Israel we
moved into a certain area and I didn't
know a soul there and I went to Davin in
Shaw
and when I came out of Shaw I said good
morning to people I said good morning to
this person my name is Yahus an Alpan
and I went to one person I went to and
as I said my name he said he grunted at
me and I thought what sort of answer is
that and I did the second morning I
think the third morning as well after I
gave up I said I a gruntter who what
type of person how do you answer a
person I introduce myself to me and I I
was I wrote him off you know how you
wrote him off write people off in your
mind you That's not a person I want to
mix with.
I think it was about a month later. I
was going to England on a plane. I was
going to meet my mother. I'm going to
see my mother in England. I sitting on
the plane and behind me on the plane
there was a man who was singing Zamir of
Shabas in most beautiful way. And I
heard he was a little daughter. He was
talking to his daughter. I heard about
the way I heard it was must be a seven,
eight year old girl. And he was singing
zamir. He was telling stories, giving
quizzes and he was incred. I felt
unbelievably embarrassed for one reason.
I don't think I ever spoke to my
children in the way that he spoke. It
was delightful to listen to him. I got
up. I turned around. It was him. It was
a gruntter. I looked at him. I thought,
goodness me, you know, it's him. He
looked at me and gave me a big smile.
And he turned around to his daughter and
said, "Oh, this is me. This is so and
so, my friend from Davening." I thought
to myself, I'm your friend from
Davening. [laughter] You're not my
friend. He introduced me to his daughter
with a big smile. I looked at the child
whereby the child had irons all the way
down her legs completely. She was about
8-year-old irons on her legs.
I said to him, "Where are you going?" He
said, "I'm going to a hospital in
England. Every two or three months, we
have to go to the hospital called Great
Orman Street. I knew the hospital in
London for children. I have to go every
so often to see my I felt awful.
Goodness me. Had a sick child and he was
and I I thought to myself, how would I
how can I write somebody off like that
as a sick child?" I decided when I came
back from England, I'd like who is this
person? I found out he was probably one
of the greatest in the area. He gave
many shim in the community. He was a
tremendous he was a fabulous father.
People told me he was a tremend
he was a gruntter because he had no
kayak when he to
exhausted. He was an incredible sadic.
People said a tremendous
I didn't realize that. I didn't think I
didn't take it far enough. I didn't
realize. I think that's the nature. I
was wrong. The empathy is need. You
don't know. You don't when a person
grunts to you, a person barks to you,
you don't know what's behind it all. You
have to in some way look a look try and
find the icon. Try and find an icon
which will give them a different
impression in your mind. No, something
more than that.
I was once visiting Chicago and I was
fortunate to stay in the house of a
great scientist a great called Dr.
Grier. Dr. Grier. I stayed in his house
and Mrs. Grier, she was giving me
breakfast in the morning. Mrs. Greer
happened to be also actually the
daughter, don't you remember the story
of a factory owner in Boston called Mr.
Foystein where his textile factory had
burnt down and he gave all the insurance
money to his workers. Unbelievable kid
hashem. This was Mr. Foystein's
daughter. And Mrs. Greer was the
daughter was giving me breakfast in the
morning. I was benching. And when I
finished benching, Mrs. Gria turned
round to me and said to him as follows.
What do you mean when you said
I never saw a forsaken? You mean you
never saw a sad forsaken? She said to
me, I've seen a seen a sadic who doesn't
have what does it mean? What is the
meaning behind it? I said to her, what
do you think thehat is? She said to me
as I think this is what it means.
Beautiful thought. She said as follows.
Do you remember with Esther? Esther
turned round and said,
"How can I possibly stay here in the
palace?
How can I see the destruction? How can I
possibly do do nothing? I mustn't do
nothing. I must do something.
How can I see this such a thing and not
do anything?" She said to me, "That's
the meaning behind it all. When you see
somebody whose nails up, you must do
something. Either you dab them for them,
give a help. If you can't give anything,
at least give a do something. You can't
be mal and do nothing at all. You have
to do something to be somewhere
proactive. You can't just say it doesn't
exist, doesn't nothing's there at all.
Not like the people, if you know on the
London underground, on the subway in
London. I remember used to travel there
in the mornings when I lived in London
and they all sit there with their
newspapers up in front of their noise.
When something happens, they lower the
newspaper, take a look, and they live as
soon as they see what they lift the
newspaper. If someone comes and die, so
they lift the newspaper as if they
haven't seen. Ridiculous. Such an awful
way. They look to see and then once say
once they might be comm they lift the
newspaper up they saw it then nobody
takes any notice. Someone can fall down
and collapse or something but no one
takes any notice. That's that's not the
way it's supposed to to do something be
proactive. It's a beautiful commentary
of you know when it came to light in the
para last week in parl beautiful point
brings out when awam heard that lo was
in trouble by the kings of war the
forking and lo was captured as a as a as
a as a captive. if he was taken away as
a prisoner.
So Avon could have done one of three
things. Either he could have turn said
done absolutely nothing or he could have
turned and said it serves him right cuz
he went and lived in but a man and said
no I must do something I can't do
nothing I can't do nothing I can't take
any notice I must take notice that's the
meaning of it and that's what Mrs.
Agreement do something do be something
be somewhere active. I think that is the
I think that is the quality which is but
that is being similar to and that is
more than that is the mal the comes from
the behavior of the which comes out of a
person.
I remember hearing a beautiful comment
from Rav Schlita a beautiful comment he
once made as follows. A New York
journalist, a non-Jew, was evidently
asked by the newspaper to come to Israel
and write a profile about Israelis. As
far as I know, he wasn't Jewish. I think
it was a New York Times, I think. So,
I'm not sure which newspaper it was. And
Bref me mentioned it. I forgot what it
was. And then he came he asked he was
asked to write a profile. He came to
Israel for two weeks, spent two weeks,
and then went back and wrote the
following profile. Was a beautiful
comment. He said, "It's interesting. In
Israel, there are two seas. One is a
most glorious sea. Everybody loves it.
All the Israelis love the kinet. They
go, they swim there, they fish there.
There's cultivation. Everybody loves the
kinetic. It's a beautiful, beautiful
sea. It's interesting. Just a few miles
down the road, there's another sea which
is really called all death. The dead
sea. There's no life in the same water
which comes into the Canary goes into
the Dead Sea and it's all dead. How
come? He suggested everything about the
Caner is full of life and love and
everybody loves it and the Dead Sea is
dead. There's nothing to it at all.
maybe a few minerals you take from it
but in reality it's dead. How can the
same water in one place create
tremendous cultivation and prosperity
and happiness and the other one is dead?
And he answered as follows. He said
every drop of water that the caner
receives all the tributaries which come
in from the galan everything goes out at
the other end at the ga the ker keeps
nothing for herself. The water goes out
of the caner and goes out into the
Jordan wither. She keeps nothing for she
gives everything on. Everything the dead
see we see is she keeps for herself. She
gives nothing out for herself. It's a
beautiful point of mus. I think he must
have been in somewhere Jewish or
somewhere around in the life. But
beautiful point of ma if everything that
you have you pass on everybody loves
you. Everybody's adors with you. There's
life in you. If you hold everything that
you have, he said Israelis have to learn
that then you're basically dead. Which
is a beautiful point. Beautiful point.
And that's really the mal the quality
which is needed when a person is able to
give out that's the free flowing pipe.
You know that's the mal the is the
able to give without any blockage
without any leakage everything which is
given out that I think is the mission
which we have in the of the quality of
the hashem the ability to be similar to
keeps on giving and never receives back
so we must also be that quality the
understanding that's why was chosen
that's why the greatness of basia and
wuss was behind that also and benzakai
the l that's all behind it all. This is
the point which we're making. I would
like to end
with something which I think really only
cements and consolidates the concept of
which is saying in the
parable which is needed
the shepherd with the flock. I would
like to bring that proof that is really
the launch that we have to go into
Mashiach in the following way. I
remember hearing from
the following comment. The last song
which we sing on is the vnagon in his
commentary on explains the whole history
of Kalisell is written and inscribed
inside the events which take place in
Khadgya for in the following way. If
Jacob Aino had not gone into there would
be no ba whatsoever says the everything
would have gone to a nothing would be
there. Khalis would have lost
everything. Yakov had to take the bas
from if not there would be no no essence
of no foundation not a crumb of Khalis.
Everything went to Jacobu because he
took it from as we know most of the
which Jacob had gave to Yseph
the two goats
the is a cat the cat is a very jealous
animal the brothers were jealous of y
and that's what happened the became
weakened because of the jealousy of the
brothers once they tried to kill him
and that's what happened. The jealousy
of the brothers weakened the
isv refers to as you know the kev was a
of the idol of because of the jealousy
of the brothers they went down to and
the kev bit the the cat that's the mosh
behind it but also
the is the matter the stick of which was
used to punish and to bring the plagues
on the on on the calba the hit the staff
the matter hit the dog and that lasted
in the times of bisin the matter of moa
lasted all the way through to shine the
destruction of the first place it was
then destroyed
the along came the fire the fire refers
to the fire of tyra of desire for idol
worship which was in the first place as
we know
but the idol worship was tremendous
desire from it remember the go brings
down in Yuma that the elders in the time
of the bisha and asked we can't possibly
withstand the tremendous desire to serve
a zor please take it away from us and a
fiery lion flew out from the kesh kashim
and that is the reason why we say we
don't have any desire nowadays for zor
but there was a tremendous desire that
was called the fire the fire of our void
of idol worship burnt the sticker
the maya refers to
and Talmudi the which referred to the
the water is a water of put out the
meaning the moved on from there moved on
to the the
which came out
along came the ox the ox refers to godim
destruction of the second base of
mikdash and that's where we're up to now
we are still holding in the time of the
destruction of the second base of
mikdash which was as we know is because
of sinam the Only reason why Edom came
forward and destroyed because of even
though they learned to even though there
was there was inel and that was the
nature of the Edim
refers to Mashia. The question we must
ask really why is it that Mashia Ben is
the antidote is the remedy against the
sin of the answer is as follows. Ysef
Haya Ysef was a shepherd as we know. He
befriended the children of Bilhan Zilpa
who were the underdogs who were not were
second made children because they were
from the Shivas. He he was the main son.
He was from Ma but he befriended them.
Why? Because he saw they were
downtrodden a little bit. The children
of Bilhan Zulpa. He be Mosha Ya was a
lawyer. I mean he cared tremendously.
They tried to kill him. They tried to
kill him says
nothing at all. Forget about it.
I have no grudge against you. Do you
remember when Jacobino had died and
Yosph stood at the pit and he was thrown
in and they thought, "Oh, he's going to
take revenge." Revenge. Don't have any
revenge against you. It's all from
Shayim. That's unbelievable epitome of I
have no time against you. No grudge
against you. Nothing at all.
The Mashia was a
from Kelm said that by Jacob Shado
he kept the thing in mind. He saw this
is a unique child. This is a child who's
a lawyer. He has a remember he came and
reported to Yakob about the the sons who
were eating a and he had such business
on Jacob realized the child had
tremendous response but he was a he was
a he was caring for the brothers because
they were doing aas and he was caring
for the children of bilhan zilpa and in
the end he looked after them all in goan
he was a heed them all he looked after
them he cared for them grudges I have no
grudges at all I have no time against
you whatsoever that is a roy that's the
nature behind it and therefore I'm
suggesting that is really the
consolidation of the
a person who's caring even though you're
removed according to the Muslim a
shepherd can't possibly know he's he's a
human being no but you're removed but
you're very close up is removed but he's
very close up he sees what he's sees
what's going on inside that I think is
our mission in
the times of mash we a little extension
from what we said last week it's toma
is maybe Niagara Falls. I don't know.
Maybe the the type of fruit of the
world, the science in the world, the but
the mal is the human being with his
reaction. Where do we come from? It
comes from the prophecy of comes from
the
is the quality and if you have that
quality then you can be like
and bas that's that's the le which comes
out you need to have rais I'm suggesting
an icon in your mind. It's hard to do
with a stranger but you know look think
a minute where's that person coming from
why does a person bark why does a person
grunt I think that's the lesson you
can't do nothing like Mrs. G you must do
something something which is okay and
that's the the connect gives everything
over whatever you have without any
blockage without any leakage suggesting
that is the nature of being that is our
mission in
I wish you all a good
should we should be to be anem