Appreciating The Land Of Israel: The Secret of Holiness Revealed - Rabbi Yisroel Reisman

It's my honor to be here once again in Ursamak. I mean given the keep of speaking uh I think it's about 25 years or so now that I've been here in the summer and had the pleasure of speaking to uh to you here in in our as I'm leaving Erit Israel shortly. My topic for tonight is kadusha something that's it's very much on my mind for many people of is a sad month I feel funny is the month that I'm happy I'm here in Israel and comes I'm unhappy I'm back in so it's a bit of a a bit of a twist I hope I'm where I'm supposed to be at each at each period in time But I wish somehow Durban would have me here longer. So an appreciation of kaduca is is somewhat in in line. And for all of you are here all the time, it probably needs a little of a reminder as well what exactly it means and how that in any way creates some type of on us or what behavior it's supposed to bring out. The word kadusha itself, holiness is a hard word. And it's hard somehow to define exactly what kaduca is. But um I'd like to share with you my thoughts. I have feelings of ferit. I'm not here often. I was at Kev Rahul yesterday and as we were leaving I was outside doing what all good Jewish husbands do waiting patiently for my wife and observing what was going on at Kev Rahul. I couldn't help but thinking a hustlebustle. The number of Jews that were in Kevl yesterday just in the one hour I was there was probably more than the total number of Jews that visited Kevl perhaps in a century during most of the centuries since the I'm just very happy for Raul. A lot of yna coming and going. It's alive. When the ram came to Israel, whole Israel didn't have as many Jews as visit kevl and one bay manim day. This morning it's my last day. I was at the kaisel for basikin and after davening I was outside doing what all good Jewish husbands do waiting for my wife patiently which took me about 40 years to master and I stood there looking at the kaisle I just felt happy for the stones of the kaisle so many yidden and so alive. How many Jews visited the Kaiso for most of the centuries since the old pictures of the Kaiso being an alleyway with a handful of old Ben Jews for the most part dressed in rags who made the difficult trip to Israel to be at Kaisil and today it's so alive it's so vibrant it's uh People are running everywhere coming and going. I just help felt happy for the walls of the kaisel. The herish of Israel back in Israel is something we can feel. Is that kaducious Israel or is that just a uh romantic imagery, a happy feeling? What exactly is kadusha is kadushas kadusha trauma the kadusha of everything that we call kadesh I doubt kadusha trauma means to have thoughts about reminiscing about trauma so what exactly is it the para this week in par we read The para talks about the mitzvah of and there's a mitzvah to make it kesh. Rashi brings that even though a bakar an animal that's born first born to its mother is the garra says coming out of the womb gives a kadusha but it's a mitzvah to be rashi brings it's a garra and three different that it's a mitzvah to say to about tokar kadesh but it's kadesh anyway it's kadesh anyhow what exactly does it mean that a bakar that has kadusha anyhow it's a mitzah to be tagdish what tagdish mean you're not being magdish doesn't get more kadusha because you're magdit we say kadeshar what does it mean kadesh make kadesh how how do you make a kadeshar whatever could has is inherent whether you like it or not. What's the mitzvah of tagdish? The nitiv in a chuva in the second of m in chuva talks about five such instances where there's a mitzvah to be mikadeshare things which apparently have their own decad anyway when you separate truma says in yada olives that is if you separate truma and you think I want this to be trauma it's already trauma the same thing if you separate it you don't say anything it has kaducious truma and kaducious kala yet the garra always says that a person says zala that a person verbalizes it. What's the purpose in verbalizing it? If the kadusha of truma is kadesh anyhow. So what we have by bakar we have by trauma and kala as well brings other instances on yipper when the kayang does a gal on twoim. One is lashem. The Gomorrah says the gacha when you pick out the the paper that says on it lashem it's madish the animal there two animals one zel and one lashem and they drew lots and the one that came lashem was kadesh and nevertheless there's a mitzvah for the kay to say kadesh lashem you have a third instance where all instances of kaduca where things have an inherent kaduca and the Tyra gives us a mitzvah. No clear consequence of the divor besides the mitzvah to say but to say a fourth example he talks about the the writing of a caferra where you're supposed to be madit you say of kadusha say the names of you say I'm writing it shame shame hashem and he writes there whether it's or not but a person again he's going he's showing multiple examples where things are kadesh and somebody's supposed to say it's kadesh to say is the same thing automatically when shabas comes. But the brings to say the best says whatever the kadushesh is best verbalizes it. So suddenly we have here multiple places where the dore is somehow tied to the concept of kaduca. Now there's not one type of kaduca truma and the hashem and kadusha of the kadush of a carbon these are a wide variety of things the only similarity is that they're all tied to the word kaduca in all these examples the five or six examples I brought the nitiv says there there's a kadusha and therefore the nits comes to the conclusion that even though things have kaduca whatever they may be something more happens when a Jew verbalizes the kaduca of the thing that he's talking about when a yid says this is kadesh when the kay god says kadeshm when the person taking truma says truma and a shabis When aid makes it's the same thing giving we praise we recognize something in that elusive concept of kadusha is tied to a recognition by a yid of the kadusha that's there and then the civ writes very strongly that there's a something happens when your maj something pass something happens doesn't change the is a whether you're or not happens to be in the he has a piece I'm trying to explain what exactly happens when you make but something happens I read to you from the language of the he says printed and a printed sther [Music] It's good that someone should be shame when they print it. And he says that that it does something. The recognition of kadusha does something. What does it do exactly? It does something that makes a person more connected to and says familiar for the fact that what that means is telling us that when something is the recognition of the elevated status or some special status of something that's kadesh makes it more makes it more makes it somehow it's may the it's fer and any of these things it's p it does something kaduca is an elusive spiritual idea but something happens when there's a recognition of it something happens when there's a hakara and if it's recognized by past something happens the kayang says something more happens. It doesn't change any particular there's no ramification on the carbon but something happens that connects the person to the thing that has kaduca this rule the is talking there about a very practical shil about things that are printed in a way that we know they'll be thrown away schuls today are piles and piles of of papers that are printed and distributed in shuls and and they're printed knowing they'll be thrown out. the homework sheets and that's it's a truth in which he establishes a that these things are allowed to be thrown out not you put in a bag you can throw them out because kaduca is connected to why the yid makes it the connection to kadusha is what gives things kadusha something written with the knowledge it'll be thrown out is allowed to be thrown out and he adds a person shouldn't say but This is Kadesh. If he's going to throw it out, tell him. If we're talking about kadusha is the point that I want to make tonight is is that we we're at a loss in what it takes to appreciate kaduca is. But we have here a concept that if a person connects to kadusha is if he verbally connects to kadusha is to anything that's kadesh it's something else it's something else that connects it's you want kadush to be on you it has to be something that that a person recognizes that a person takes has an awareness of and when a person has an awareness of it then it's pile this is the idea regarding kaducious I don't remember which he says if you look throughout speaks he keeps on saying keeps on describing he keeps on saying that a person should say it. It connects him to it. The debt to kadusha connects a person to kadusha. It's wonderful that we somehow take for granted to be able to be here in Erit Israel. But the recognition, the appreciation, the connection is something that that elevates a person helps you more if you if you stop and you appreciate it. American bakim today it's a style come to Israel whether it's beneficial for their learning or not we leave for a different discussion I think the jury is out but one thing the bakim come not enough of them I hear to be in kaducious it's a thing to do I meet I asked them you were to last time was Kaiser last time you came and we went together what too much of amassment to go to the kaisel Yash was the genment of the dar and he didn't go 30 days without going to the kaisle he didn't go 30 days even when he was 100 years old I hope to emulate that the idea of appreciating the name al yash the family name al yash came from a za who wasn't Israel and had to leave Israel because of a hunger and he was mabal on himself a li that he's going to go back the appreciation of Israel the the connection to Israel the understanding of it is the debor to speak about it Israel to speak about Kalisro in a in in a proper way it means something can only become all right for someone to get to be a dian that went back to can only be okay maybe myer I don't mean only that's totally invar but you can only be ma that's born in Israel is not you're not it's kadesh until it gets a it's a dinner it's a didn't iner maybe it's a dinner burial it's a to be buried in so I want to tell you something in 1982 I lost I lost a brother and our family for the first time had to decide where to have kurus for the family. My father came from Europe and there was no there was no set place in his family and he chose a place in America. So at that time to buy kaka I had to decide at a young age do I want to be buried there? I want to be just I don't want to be buried. I want Msiah to come and we all hope to be the generation that doesn't need it but but so I had to decide. I spoke to my rabbi. I spoke to her said I'm aik all the time. The one hand is on the other hand says you're being it's sending dead bodies to Israel. Send live bodies to Israel. Don't send them. He said all the time I don't know. It's interesting when he became ill towards the end of his life he said to me I know you're thinking about and you're not going to ask me about this topic he said I decided I'm to be buried says such a strong lion about being you don't go when you're alive you're going you're buried dead bodies you're shipping there is I'm not talking about where to be buried I'm talking Israel the appreciation of Israel the the the connection to Israel the idea being what do you mean is who's to be embarrassed has a mileit and everything maybe learning has a maybe there's a there's a sense and appreciation of the things that we can do the things that we could connect with. You have to talk about kadusha is you have to reflect on kadusha is you have to appreciate when we walk these streets that is they weren't hidden Israel till till our generation the the my grandfather after whom I'm named never imagined that his grandson would see an Israel that has millions of Jews. as wild as dreams. That's two generations back. The appreciation of what a kadesh has given us appreciation. A lot of tuming about problems with the government and the army and the yeshiva bakim. Maybe we should talk about the fact that for 75 years the government has supported Kungalite. Maybe something good about this whole thing. Do we appreciate it? Appreciate it. As I'll describe what's happening now is terrible. I'm not taking away from it. But maybe we should speak out to certain Israel and Israel and Israel. Maybe we don't we don't appreciate enough. Maybe we're mumid that when there are problems we don't look at what they could do different. We look at we could do different. What can we do different? Maybe maybe it's a that we have to have an appreciation of it. There's so much good so much good to reflect on. So I started by saying that my thoughts have to do with the ideas of Kadusha Israel, the appreciation of of Kadusha Israel, the connection to Kadusha Israel, the talking about Kadusha Israel, expression of how fortunate we are uh to be here in in Suadosha. to be init. I always imagine two friends coming up the and somehow they come to the together down together every morning. So one of them they bring in they bring in a big pile of scar and they put it on the scale. His friend is next to him say okay bring in his shakas. So they bring in this pile. It's it's it's 35 times as big. And they put it on the scale. Says, "What's going on? We don't have it together. You have so much more kavana than me. You're piling on him 354 times as much as me. What's going on?" So the Malik tells him there's a that if him you get of everyone who came there about 35 40 people in so he gets the he gets so the other one says I heard of that you mean that for real he's real meant it what are you thinking say go what are you thinking Exactly. I go, you know, when there's a sale and they tell you buy what and get 35 free, you don't say serious. You they really mean that. You don't say that. You say, "Wow." Sign me up. Sign me up. So say it and what do you think? Like what are you thinking? So tell us about Erit Israel. They tell us about somebody who doesn't live in Israel. It's like you're not connected to God. It's so you're connected. How you connected? If you're not connected, you're not connected. It's available. It's available. You feel that you're walking on the streets where where the Ga Israel, the Nia Israel, everybody walked. If you feel you're walking on those streets, so you're there. You're there. If you don't feel it, you don't know it. What exactly do you have? What exactly do you have a herish feeling? Levitz came from Poland and then Polish Polish Jews had a habit of spitting spitting just when they were alive in their mouth and mucus they would spit it out. Said when he entered you he didn't spit on the ground. He wouldn't spit on the ground. You he spit on the ground. It was very hard for him to get used to it. He saw garbage on the floor, he'd pick it up. Nowadays, you'd be busy all day. But there certain hero. It's been so here they came into Davin. They came from America for two weeks or two weeks. They come and their shirt is tucked out. init you're going to the palace of the king at least you know at least here so who am I to talk I'm heading to the airport I'm going to an airplane where I don't know if I'm right or wrong but in my imagination wants me to be a delegate of kalares I was once on a plane. We were on the plane and we had to get off whatever the problem was. And people were angry. The from Yidden weren't angry. Weren't angry. It was it was after two. You had to get your luggage again. You had to go to passport control again. The whole shebang. And uh we said, "I'll meet you at Kisel. 24 miles and it's a stroll. Not so bad. Someone tell me if tonight it should happen to you. I'll say the rabba maybe I'll see you again tomorrow. But my herish is a herish I'm fortunate enough to have but only because I'm not here. The china came to Israel and he lived here. He said he doesn't miss anything from but one thing he misses his chuk affair is he had this tremendous chuk somehow you to it as man is beginning and man is beginning appreciate it when you walk the streets appreciate it when you see hidden living here appreciate it when you look at Aira know that when I was in in elementary school that was no man's land. Jordan was across the highway and uh the other side was the the the so to speak Jewish half of Jerusalem and Azabir was no man's land. That's why there was one of the first buildings that went up after the 67 war they were the new modern buildings at that time. you walk out, that's what that's what you can see. Appreciate Baraku's gift. And so even as I head to the airport, I d that we should all be the way wants it to be. But in the meantime, we're here. We have a kadesh's gift. Don't waste the gift. Don't come upstairs and say, "Oh, that stuff about you really meant it. Really meant it. You came to come to I also came really meant it. Is a place you could be kind of kadusha. Appreciate it. Have an ava. have an for everything used to say. You have a mouth to learn to say good things about everywhere. So that you're now joining me. May we all be zifa to appreciate is to absorb kadush is to appreciate every step we take init. America is becoming more and more mushim. My report from is is getting worse and worse. It's getting fancier and fancier. It's becoming nuttier and nuttier. People are totally insane. People are totally crazy. They go to the store and if something is cheap available cheaper and more expensive they assume more expensive is better and that's what they buy and hence houses are becoming fancier more and more less and less panemius bothers me when they are products here it says on a kamaya America the secular Jews here want to have everything kamaya America we don't want kamaya America we want to absorb the kadusha very all of us and I'll try as much as I could to to inhale very strongly diver and I'm afraid I'll have to exhale before I get to the states but halai the kadush is should be something that accompanies me that accompanies all of us inherits is the dreamt of it dreamt of it they they dreamt of it they they could it was elusive to appreciate like the says if you say it it's going to help for you and it'll help it'll help all of you and all it should be a good upcoming year for all of so wherever they are especially for here in Suadisha a good [Music]